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common law wife guy retweeted
The Platonist: now surely you admit that it is just for the best flautist to receive compensation for his talents
Batman: very true
The Platonist: then we must consider a man whose talents lie in robbing banks
Robin: Batman don't listen to him!!
common law wife guy retweeted
Black married couples have 3.5x the wealth of Black singles... but white singles have 4.6x the wealth of Black singles, 1.3x that of Black marriages, and still married white couples have 2.5x more than white singles.
Being married is a boost that approaches whiteness, but why?
common law wife guy retweeted
Hegel: "When a father asked him for advice about the best way of educating his son in ethical matters, a Pythagorean replied: 'Make him the citizen of a state with good laws .'"
Compare with the more recent (and more limited) aphorism: "No ethical consumption under capitalism."
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Fun fact John Smith (yes that one) mapped what would be New England (he named it) and labeled Indigenous towns after English ones. Plymouth, or Patuxet in Algonkian, was named before the so-called pilgrims arrived. They named it that because they purchased Smith's map.
common law wife guy retweeted
you just never see this kind of institutional movement toward solving violence against Black people today, who still experience the most racial hatred by wide margins in every corner of this country.
The Talmud teaches that anyone who sustains one soul, has sustained an entire world. For generations, Jewish New Yorkers have sustained our city. Today, we are launching the first-ever municipal Strategy to Combat Antisemitism.
Together, we will ensure Jewish New Yorkers are safe and celebrated. We will invest in their protection, their history, and their future.
Our safety and our thriving are tied together.
common law wife guy retweeted
Will never stop talking about this. It's not even Marx and Engels, it's until before WW1. Stefan Zwieg:
common law wife guy retweeted
I would also say that this quote is far easier to misinterpret than understand in its proper context. When Marx writes that “religion is the opium of the people” in his 1844 work, A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, he does so at the end of a sentence++
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Lesbians walk into bar. Take off masks. Say they're depressed. Life seems harsh and cruel, future uncertain. Bartender says treatment is simple. Great band Indigo Girls is in town tonight. Go and see them; that should pick you up. Lesbians burst into tears, say, "But doctor
common law wife guy retweeted
if i had to start an introduction to black radical historiography reading group, this book, capitalism and slavery, how europe underdeveloped africa, and black reconstruction would probably be the first books on the list
common law wife guy retweeted
European explaining how deep a lake is: Imagine destroying Africa
