@alexsaysstuff
Historian of the former Yugoslavia and ethnic partitionism. X-Men opinion-haver. Did a PhD on diplomacy in the Bosnian War, and currently writing a book about it. Host of The History of Yugoslavia podcast.
Paul's level of separation from Jesus (i.e. knowing at least 2 or 3 people who had been close associates of him) is pretty damn exceptional by the standards of writings about ancient people who weren't monarchs.
The number of people living in Britain between around 450 and 650 that we have anything resembling contemporary or first hand accounts of is in single figures.
Relevant to the banknotes thing:
There is a right and proper way to Be, and those who refuse are simply acting out and must be brought back in line.
Well this sucks
British politics, more than any other, has an unrivalled streak of paternalism where marginalized people are easily dehumanized as spoilt children who must be sternly punished and managed and whipped into shape.
Our advocacy is simply seen as as tantrums.
So does this mean you're *not* having a good 21st of Ventôse 234? 😜
The thing about basically all efforts to clamp down on and reduce asylum flows is that the asylum seekers have already thought of and tried everything that occurs to those wanting to block them.
I don’t think people who aren’t regularly covering the reproductive rights beat realize how common it is for women to be incarcerated for miscarriages.
🚨 WATCH: Labour MP Charlotte Nichols reveals she was raped as an MP as she opposes the jury trial reforms
"I waited 1,088 days to go to court. We've been told [by the Government] that if we have concerns about this Bill, it's because we've not been raped"
The pattern is replicated on homophobia, though it's a bit different for racism and ableism.
The idea that opposing and rolling back trans rights is good for cis women and girls is ludicrous on every level and absolutely enraging when applied in legislation and policy that obviously limits and rolls backs rights for ALL women and girls
Sorry, forgot to link source:
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Same pattern in UK polling. YouGov's last big poll on trans issues also indexed respondents' views on other social prejudices, and what do you know - pro-trans respondents were much more likely to recognise misogyny and see it as a problem, anti-trans respondents more likely to dismiss it!
"Petro-Masculinity" refers, of course, to dickish Ukrainian men who are diehard Poroshenko supporters 😜
Also this analogy just sucks anyway, because frankly I don't give a shit whether my neighbour wants me as a neighbour or not.
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.
