Dr Alex Cruikshanks

I often course always take homemade bombs with me on a normal day enjoying the city.

Not exactly a popular choice of first name to take on right now

Though fascinating and in support of your broader point that in the intervening period the peasants actually remain quite attached to keeping some form of communal landholding once they actually have freedom and rights, hence why they resisted the Stolypin reforms so strongly.

"Russian farming tradition, tragically interrupted between 1861 and 1928"

*over this

The answer, of course, is that most anti-abortionists aren't like French: to them the control, the antagonism to women and bodily autonomy *is the point*.

I can remember David French getting into an argument over with some other GOPers pre-Dobbs. French (who, I think, sincerely does just morally oppose abortion) didn't understand why they didn't see the decline in abortion as a success, why they were so obsessed with bans.

Which was the whole point for the reactionaries. It wasn't really about "saving babies", it was about forcing pregnancies. Reducing abortions through reducing conceptions in the first place was not acceptable to them.

I think this is an important point. While abortion did spike in the aftermath of Roe, they peaked around 1980 and had been in gradual decline ever since, to the point that by the late 2010s they were *lower* than pre-Roe.

But the decline in abortions didn't cause an increase in births...

Yup, it's the video game dynamic where he has no sense of object permanence regarding any other person. In his mind they cease to exist except when and insofar as they interact with him.

On the other hand I also gave them a variety of distinct conceptions of death.

Interesting, b/c this is also something I've occasionally been doing and I kind of went for the opposite extreme - that being immortal would give a much broader and stretched-out sense of time with quite limited tense distinction.

Though there were of course other people here before the Celts came, it's worth noting! The people who built Stonehenge and Averbury and Newbrange and Callanish were all pre-Celtic inhabitants of these islands who we know almost nothing about.

"Huh, I wonder what the political allegiance of this pub with a tricolour in the window and a copy of the Easter Rising proclamation on the wall is?"

"I would never ask them who they voted for"

You're in a pub in Northern Ireland. High chance who they voted for is plastered all over the wall.

Yeah, the purpose of toxifying particular malicious views/activities isn't to convert people who already hold them, it's:
i) to deter any waverers from going over to them
ii) to rally *opponents* against it

MrBeast: "90 People Aged from 5-95 Race To Solve The Middle East Crisis for $1 Million"

Pressing need for Dekulakisation of England

You’d think in this era of “MPs face increasing danger” there would be more outrage at newly elected Green MP Hannah Spencer being assaulted by transphobes but it’s nowhere to be seen on BBC News app even if you search her name

Attacks leave dead vs killed

Labour ended theatre censorship and the legal discrimination against children born out of wedlock, repeatedly made divorce more accessible, passed the first laws banning racial discrimination, etc

But there's always a desire to dismiss the socially liberalising tendency of Labour as a kind of modern aberration, rather than celebrate being the party that ended corporal punishment of prisoners, abolished the death penalty, legalised abortion, homosexuality and contraception, etc

It's appreciated!

Look, I get you're pissed and frustrated. But some people genuinely don't know about the situation and the extent of this obsessive transphobic crusade in the UK, sometimes because of very understandable concerns with their own shit, and really don't know all the minor details.

Honestly I think Paul's been very patient with this and sincere and sympathetic about wanting to hear from trans people, and the small number of trans respondents (not most!) giving him a hard time for not responding in the exact way they'd prefer just seem like they're looking for a fight.

Green Party say 'Hannah Spencer won't be silenced' after Manchester violence Hannah Spencer, Gorton and Denton's newly-elected MP, was ushered into a police car amid the unfolding chaos

The anti trans men who chased Hannah Spencer, this is exactly who these men are. Misogynists who just love an excuse to hound women for not doing what they tell us. All male terfs act like that. And the women are just as vicious www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...

Green Party say 'Hannah Spencer won't be silenced' after Manchester violence Hannah Spencer, Gorton and Denton's newly-elected MP, was ushered into a police car amid the unfolding chaos

Green Party say 'Hannah Spencer won't be silenced' and hit out at 'angry men' after Piccadilly Gardens violence

www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...

Not to mention that was also the era of Jenkins' big liberalising reforms!