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"All Americans need a Bible in their home and I have many, it's my favorite book. It's a lot of people's favorite book."
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Mongolian Archer
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Saint Longinus - St Peter's Basilica, Vatican City
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auroraluciferi · 3 days
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The Confusion of Tongues (The Tower of Babel) by Gustave Doré
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Edvard Munch - Consolation (1894)
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auroraluciferi · 8 days
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conservatives and especially conservative politicians love to say "I'm not a scientist" when offering excuses to why they can't address major issues like climate change and restricting the use of fossil fuels
even a bored, mildly interested child can understand the basic, universally accepted science when it comes to global warming and more complex environmental systems - it's middle school class material in much of the country
of course when it comes to LGBTQ issues, many of these same people will trip over themselves to frame their opinion as a "natural", "biological" fact
when presented with peer-reviewed scientific data about homosexual behavior and gender transition within the animal kingdom, they immediately revert back to "science doesn't matter, I just think this is wrong"
elected officials have paid staff that can access free, publicly available data on this subject. they can also get a library card and review this for themselves.
so are you lazy, or are you just saying that you can't understand these concepts on a 3rd grade reading level?
make up your fucking mind
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auroraluciferi · 8 days
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Ernst Küsel - Cows in the Woods (1906)
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The New Way Things Work (1998) Cellular Phone
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Lee Wagstaff
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Joan of Arc at the Stake by Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard
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auroraluciferi · 16 days
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Black capped Chickadee at Tupelo meadow ,Central park.
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André Margat - Cat with its back turned (1934)
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auroraluciferi · 18 days
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Degrowth is often associated with austerity, that we have to give up all the luxuries we have. But, not everything, I would say, and we also gain something instead. So, here’s my explanation. First of all, I’m not saying, as I said, that we have to give up all the technologies. I explicitly admit we need renewable energies and electric vehicles. These are the things that we need to develop even more. So, degrowth is not about going back to nature without any kind of Zoom, computer, iPhone, and so on. But at the same time, we have to question whether we need to buy a new iPhone every two years—that’s probably excessive, and we can repair things. Or another question would be, do we really need fast fashion? Do we need so much meat consumption? I’m not saying we should all be vegans immediately. But at the same time, we can start questioning whether our level of consumption might be actually excessive, and there are some people who are actually consuming much more in an excessive way, people that are super rich. So, first, advocate reducing economic inequality because the super rich do not simply exploit workers, but also they’re quite responsible for the current ecological crisis. The top 1% of rich people are responsible for 15% of carbon emissions. So, that’s something that must be reduced. For example, I advocate banning private jets. Do we really need so many private jets? And we should probably reduce cruise ships and industrial meat production. These excessive things must be reduced. That’s my first proposal. And the second proposal is, if we give up some of those things, we will have different kinds of abundance. I argue in my book that this will be an abundance of public goods. In the U.S., for example, education is commodified, and we have to pay a lot of money to go to university, and students have loans. Also, we have to pay a lot to go to a doctor because medical care is privatized and commodified. Public transportation is poor, so we have to buy cars, and we again have to have loans and so on. So, our entire economy is commodified, and that means that we have to pay for everything, no matter how necessary these things are for everyone. And so, you need money and have to work harder, but jobs are precarious; wages are low, so you work longer hours, and when you still don’t have enough money, you have little time to spend with your family and friends, and so you’re unhappy. So, my proposal is in a degrowth economy, all those basic services and goods must be decommodified. Education should be free. Medical care, public transportation, electricity—all these things should be as cheap as possible. And then you don’t really have to work so hard, and you don’t have to worry so much about your housing, future, and applications. These are the things that can make you feel much more happy and secure. That kind of public abundance can actually be realized without constant economic growth. Degrowth is a kind of new radical abundance.
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auroraluciferi · 20 days
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Roma woman photographed by Jean Rudinger
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American Horror Story: Asylum - The Name Game
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