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> Feminism was about equal treatment once upon a time but from what I have seen it's not just about equality. There is always something new to tackle it seems.

While I don't agree completely I can definitely understand the fear. I don't think we'll ever see "THANKS FOR THE EQUALITY" marches. It opens up a ton of questions:

• Who decides what equality is?
  
• How much is enough?
  
• Contextualizing it as a policy reform what determines how far the government can or should go? What means to achieve equality are moral?
  
  For me I think that the differences are so big in so many places I'm not worried about those questions. I don't see a feasible way for such a drastic change to take place that I would ever need to be worried.
  
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  > Right now it's the wage gap, which is inaccurately representing a disparity in wage equality. In most scenarios I bet that a woman and man who start out doing the same job make the same salary. I know my female peers I have worked with were making the same as I was in my position.
  
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  So there's a lot of data about this that can be interpreted in all sorts of ways. From what I've seen a major contributor to the gap is Maternity Leave and parenting still being a major function of women in the household. It's the same thing that would happen if I quit my job and go hike the Appalachian trails for three years. I come back into the workforce behind the people who started the same time I did. The difference being one was for me to explore and the other is a needed task to advance the human population as a whole. I don't have a good answer to fix that, except to offer day care and other things at companies, which some of the really big swanky tech firms are doing. We'll see what data comes out of there.
  
  On top of that most fortune 500 CEO's are men. All US Presidents are men. Most billionaires are men. With your previous point that I think is about women graduating college at bigger numbers than men that should change in the future. But it hasn't changed yet. For that change to happen we have to keep the issue on the forefront. No one should get what they don't deserve, but I have to imagine there's been at least 1 woman who would have made a great President and I doubt I've heard of her. We need to ensure those opportunities exist and women have an unbiased chance to advance to the top.
  
  This also goes into STEM and research fields that are dominated by men.
  
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  As for me I'm in my late 20's. Kids aren't for me for a variety of personal reasons and that lines up with my SO. So for a long term solution to a long term problem it's the easiest cheapest way to go. I'll know more how I feel about it in a few weeks.
  
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  > As it is women have it pretty good and in some cases better than men.
  
  You'll find a lot of feminists fighting for men too. Fighting for men's rights as parents, or for changing tables in men's bathrooms, or to increase the amount of men who become teachers in grade school or nurses.
  
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  Some things that might interest you are r/MensLib which is a relatively open minded community that helps talk about these things. They aren't nice to trolls but are very willing to talk about things at a granular level.
  
  
  
  Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men is a book that is just a roller coaster of scientific studies and citations on the invisible forces in our world and how women fit in it. Whether you agree with every point or how they interpreted each individual stat it's a monumental resource and I learned a lot.

I’ve mainly just picked this all up here and there, but I am very much looking forward to reading NYT editorial board member Jesse Wegman’s book-length case against the EC, the aptly-titled Let the People Pick the President . Coming out next March.

Edit: I know of Wegman through his advocacy for the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, which is a fascinating attempt to render the EC useless without an amendment (by using states’ rights, which conservatives should love, right?). Definitely a rabbit hole of reading around that.

I would agree with you, but if you've ever been institutionalized, you'll find out pretty quickly that the dominant paradigm doesn't. The "mental illess" label, in all my experiences, is used to pretty much absolve a person of any blame, and attribute all agency to some kind of bad genetics or other.

In other words, in the mental health world, you might find that many if not most practitioners would try to convince you that yes, air density is not only the main thing that affects your car speed, it's more or less the only thing.

Besides personal experience, I'm kind of cribbing from Thomas Szasz here. He has a lot of good books, but this one is as cromulent a starting place as any:

https://www.amazon.com/Myth-Mental-Illness-Foundations-Personal/dp/0061771228/ref=sr_1_1?crid=217CB9I9L1F9V&keywords=myth+of+mental+illness+thomas+szasz&qid=1570540858&sprefix=myth+of+mental+ill%2Caps%2C227&sr=8-1

This is misleading, if not outright false.

Business is the most popular major in America by a wide (wide) margin, and most of what gets taught in economics is your standard Free Markets = Freedom conservatism.

I don't doubt it's used there, but statistics are surprisingly easy to fuck with if you know what you're doing. This book was particularly enlightening.

The thing that really galls me about the "deep state" concept is that the right wing took the original concept and subverted it. The term was coined by Mike Lofgren, and he said that people like the Kochs were the real power behind the GOP, and that the Democrats had become ineffective at a national scale. But then conservative pundits took the phrase and turned it around on the left.

https://www.amazon.com/Deep-State-Constitution-Shadow-Government/dp/0143109936

"Would brown people get that health care as well?" - Susan

> then self-interest, cooperation, gender fluidity, homosexuality, socialism, and diversity should be what they fight for.

Not to mention eating your offspring. Cannibalism is rampant in nature, so 'nature of biology', right?

P.S. Please don't eat people. There's actually a very good reason we don't do that, because it very much used to be a thing until we started getting prion diseases from it.

The book on Amazon has a preview, and it's probably enough for you to get where he's going to go for the rest of the book lol.

Yeah you got me there. It's not like an economics professor wrote a book about how debt grows faster than the growth of the economy and how debts have to be periodically forgiven with a jubilee or else civilization will collapse exactly like how the Roman empire did. Oh wait.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B014IAV9MK/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

Here you have it ;)

In August, Preet Bharara hosted Michael Waldman on his podcast. Waldman is a 2A scholar who wrote The Second Amendment: A Biography. I thought it was a really good look at the why the 2A was written and the historical approaches the country has had with gun control.

Interview starts at 13 min - https://pca.st/9H25

Dr. William Thompson a CDC employee

looks like this.

Who’s one of the authors of the peer reviewed paper “Age at first measles-mumps-rubella vaccination in children with autism and school-matched control subjects: a population-based study in metropolitan atlanta.”

https://imgur.com/a/EDJwoFz

Rationalwiki states Thompson to be a Psychologist. The CDC refers to him as an Epidemiologist.

A timeline of the events:

https://canaryparty.org/commentary/timeline-of-events-in-the-william-thompson-cdcwhistleblower-scandal/

https://www.immunizationcoalitions.org/content/uploads/2017/01/Timeline-for-CDC-Whistleblower.pdf

Here’s his official statement released through his attorneys representing him at Morgan Verkamp: (posted above)

https://web.archive.org/web/20140831050501/http://www.morganverkamp.com/august-27-2014-press-release-statement-of-william-w-thompson-ph-d-regarding-the-2004-article-examining-the-possibility-of-a-relationship-between-mmr-vaccine-and-autism/

Representative Bill Posey:

https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4546421/rep-bill-posey-calling-investigation-cdcs-mmr-reasearch-fraud

Recordings between Thompson and Hooker: (Small clips are in the movie Vaxxed)

http://fearlessparent.org/why-is-thimerosal-still-in-vaccines-recording-1/

https://youtu.be/hlxdWfTLHH0

Transcripts are in this Amazon book:

https://www.amazon.com/Vaccine-Whistleblower-Exposing-Autism-Research/dp/1634509951

Brian Hooker’s official statement regarding William Thompson after his retracted study: (1) (2)

https://www.focusforhealth.org/dr-brian-hooker-statement-william-thompson/

Not an expert but here’s an article talking about the supposed hidden data/omitted results:

https://www.autisminvestigated.com/brian-hooker-confirmed-by-cdc/

To be fair this is Based Russell, he is physically disabled and quite possibly developmentally stunted. Under no circumstances should you try to make contact with this man despite the fact that his name is public record and it is very very easy to find his contact info.

He has attempted to sue Taylor Swift, among others, into associating with him so that he can achieve his dream to have a career in entertainment as well as have prostitution legalized in the state of Utah.

Again I urge you not to contact him, not only because he's funny in his own right and contacting him will just get him to nuke his accounts again, but also because he's a very litigious man and if you fuck with him too much he might do the same to you.

Pick up a copy of King Leopolds Ghost or The Kaiser's Holocaust. Both very readable although not much fun.

Conservatism is racist Supporting it makes you a racist.

Recently I got a very interesting book called White Fragility by Robin D'Angelo. Now I do not live in the US, but I was horribly surprised how many points this book raises applied directly to me.

I wouldn’t worry about it, this guys wrote books about how the holocaust wasn’t really Germany’s fault

Go read about the capitalist mode of production was exported and forced on the world. Modern states were created by the bourgeois class. Capitalism cannot exist without a state monopoly on violence, otherwise private property could not be protected.