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@Lyubov Well the mainstream media CNN and co. are ignoring the riots so there is no information from them.

Disturbing video about that shooting:

In the movie as far as I understood all countries in the UN decided that the avengers have to accept their rules. If the avengers don't do it they will be treated like criminals. Actually they jailed couple of them Cap. America freed them in the end and went underground. Iron man accepted the Rules of the UN.

Maybe not pro-riots but abling and excusing riots. The rest is taken care of by the "not so serious rioters" on the street.

@Lyubov I wonder how that is possible?

Might be hard to integrate that for many after convincing themselves so hard and make a 180. Even Cuomo didn't seem to be able to follow Don Lemon on that one.

Seems David Packman seems to be a bit critical about some of the peaceful protestors. It's a problem because it is a gift to Trump says Packman.

So Tim Pool made a video about it. Seems like democratic run cities have more crime. Is that right? Or are there more nuanced explanations? Here is the reddit for it: https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/hfsufu/trump_keeps_claiming_that_the_most_dangerous/

Yes they do have the monopoly of force. All countries decided that together. He is not allowed to use force without their order.

I meant if he retires officially but still stays active then he will be jailed.

@Opo He will be jailed. Maybe he should become a benevolent dictator.

It's a dilemma Like this one. What would you do?

Progressive is a vague term. Conservatives build the country on hard work. Hard work generates change. Without hard work there is not much change.

It feels like their project was to make politics boring so the establishment has a peace of mind. Maybe that is not the worst thing. Who would trust the citizens ?

or get creative. Btw. is New York dead forever?

Very true but I would go further if you didn't study philosophy and have a PhD that means you don't care about the truth.

@louhad He doesn't get much love from his comrades: Žižek’s emergence as an open right-winger is particularly significant because he has long tried to pose as an opponent of capitalism and even as a “Marxist” or a “post-Marxist.” In pseudo-left circles of intellectuals and semi-intellectuals he has been celebrated and courted accordingly. https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2016/02/08/zize-f08.html

Marxism and reality didn't work out in history imho.

Zizek is a pop philospher. He loves telling bad jokes and making fun of gulaks and he sounds terrible imho.

I think JP meant the danger of this I guess:

@Opo I said if it is not possible. Things can go different ways. Many people might decide no we don't want to give the violent protestors what they want.

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@louhad Well you still have the "paradox". Which is maybe not a paradox. Though their numbers are growing, only 27 percent of all students taking the AP Computer Science exam in the United States are female. The gender gap grows worse from there: Just 18 percent of American computer-science college degrees go to women. This is in the U.S., where many college men proudly describe themselves as “male feminists” and girls are taught they can be anything they want to be. Meanwhile, in Algeria, 41 percent of college graduates in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math—or STEM, as it’s known—are female. There, employment discrimination against women is rife, and women are often pressured to make amends with their abusive husbands. According to a report that I covered a few years ago, Jordan, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates were the only three countries in which boys were significantly less likely to feel comfortable working on math problems than girls were. In all of the other nations surveyed, girls were more likely to say they feel “helpless while performing a math problem.” So what explains the tendency for nations that have traditionally less gender equality to have more women in science and technology than their gender-progressive counterparts do? A scatter plot of countries based on their number of female STEM graduates and their Global Gender Gap Index (y-axis), a measure of opportunities for women (Psychological Science) According to a new paper published in Psychological Science by the psychologists Gijsbert Stoet, of Leeds Beckett University, and David Geary, of the University of Missouri, it could have to do with the fact that women in countries with higher gender inequality are simply seeking the clearest possible path to financial freedom. And typically, that path leads through STEM professions.