• leguna (70)in #prison • 12 hours ago

  Stop attacking private prisons as a whole and start focusing your anger where it should be directed - at the government.

  Private prisons aren't bad as a rule. That's just dumb. That's just rhetoric. Yes, some private prisons are bad. A lot of public prisons are bad. Railing against private prisons…

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• leguna (70)in #social • 2 days ago

  Research to sway policy makers?

  If you imagined academic journals in the social sciences are supposed to be impartial forums offering a diverse dialogue in unbiased research, think again. Their role, explained…

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• leguna (70)in #education • 3 days ago

  The betrayal of the educator class.

  Although we can look back with hindsight and see how this Long March Through Our Institutions has been infiltrating our schools and bureaucracies since the start of the…

  $3.84

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• leguna (70)in #wealth • 3 days ago

  There is nothing that one person can do for humanity that justifies creating $100M in poverty, let alone billions.

  I had a seven year career programming household lighting computers for billionaires and cento-millionaires in New York area residences from $5M to $100M. I always googled them to…

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• leguna (70)in #politics • 5 days ago

  The "Centrist" label in UK Politics is real but will it stay?

  So, under the radar, in a spontaneous sort of way, a new label has started to appear in discussion of UK politics. The label is 'centrist'. You may say this is not a new term and…

  $4.67

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• leguna (70)in #racism • 6 days ago

  Supporting discrimination against races for doing well?

  There is a real reason to express legitimate concern about intersectionality, critical race theory, and their advocates gaining credibility in the academy. Just take Ibram X.…

  $5.03

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• leguna (70)in #sex • 7 days ago

  Perverts are now infesting the photography space.

  It's rather perverse that so many people have been cancelled over a bad joke or the crime of a Instagram post condemning arson with break neck speed while actual sex abusers like…

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• leguna (70)in #fitness • 14 days ago

  Personal victories are perfectly fine as milestone!

  I have no natural athleticism. I'm 55 years old, 30+ pounds overweight, my VO2Max is mediocre at best, and I've been out of mountain training for five years. Trying to…

  $5.39

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  • - Author $2.73
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• leguna (70)in #intersectionality • 15 days ago

  Intersectionality and Identity Politics.

  The people who are the first to call people "Nazis" tend to be the same people who actually genuinely hate Jews and pretend that Israel is an apartheid state while apologizing…

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• leguna (70)in #retail • 16 days ago

  Beverage industry to shed 1/5th in the next few months.

  Many businesses went from marginal to unsustainable during the pandemic. Now - at best - they are marginal with unsustainable levels of debt. We already had a crisis - 60% of…

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• leguna (70)in #nhs • 17 days ago

  EOL Funding and guilt tripping from the NHS.

  So, after almost two weeks of being a carer for 12 hours a day, I'm pretty used to guilt tripping, but today the sheltered housing people told me I am not doing enough. They…

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• leguna (70)in #retail • 18 days ago

  The oft confused issues of necessity and desire.

  You can't always get what you want. But if you try real hard, you can get what you need. Here ends today's TED talk. But seriously though, yet another discussion on how…

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• leguna (70)in #freedom • 18 days ago

  Critical Race Theory - Marxism disguised.

  "I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed... 'We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal'.…

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• leguna (70)in #fauci • 19 days ago

  Something Fauci actually did lie about..

  This is the lie he told at the beginning of the pandemic in the US (March 2020): “there’s no reason to be walking around with a mask.” He later admitted to the lie:…

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• leguna (70)in #cruella • 20 days ago

  There shouldn't be rules against depicting smoking in movies!

  This is very far from the worst problem in the world. But I do think it's ridiculous that many Hollywood studios have adopted rules against depicting characters smoking, but have…

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• leguna (70)in #politics • 22 days ago

  Let’s talk about virtue signalling.

  Virtue signalling is where an individual supports an opinion which somebody thinks they are only supporting to signal their virtue. Like, person A says Black Lives Matter and…

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• leguna (70)in #masking • 23 days ago

  Fauci emails are quite telling.

  Well this should put to bed the idea that the initial mask guidance was a noble lie. I would love if the whole "noble lie" explanation for public policy was generally…

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• leguna (70)in #ideology • 23 days ago

  What exactly is a dystopian nightmare?

  I am amazed that electric wheelchairs exist. They are a marvel of technology made possible by the advanced system of neoliberal capitalism we are fortunate enough to…

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• leguna (70)in #covid • 25 days ago

  It's too early to say whether COVID will become more docile and "flu-like" over time.

  There's a common fairy tale that COVID will evolve to become more docile, because that's what viruses do, or something. You know, like smallpox. It seems much more likely to…

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• leguna (70)in #social • 26 days ago

  Are you sure you want a bigger government?

  Whenever I get into conversations with progs in real life, I usually ask them pretty early on if they have any solutions to any social or economic problems which don't involve…

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