Philippe Lemoine
@phl43
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Technically a philosopher, who hopefully will finish his PhD one day. I write on Substack and @CSPICenterOrg . "At least he's pretty smart." ( @bechhof )
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I don't think it's possible to give less of a fuck than this guy.
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I still can't believe that a French junior high school teacher was beheaded, his fucking head was separated clean from his shoulders, in the street because he'd shown caricatures of Muhammad during a lecture on freedom of speech. This is insane.
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(Surprisingly) unpopular opinion: Wikipedia is one the greatest achievements of the human race.
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Even the ballerinas from the Opéra de Paris are on strike, but instead of not working, they gave a free representation of Swan Lake in front of the opera house.
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A French journalist asked an IDF spokesman whether they still believed there was a Hamas command center under al-Shifa Hospital, pointing out that the evidence presented after the IDF seized it didn't match the original claims made by Israel.
He replied that it was…
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Criticizing Israel online is a wild experience because it can do the craziest shit, like air strikes against a consulate or shelling a hospital into oblivion, but people will still talk to you as if you were insane for even thinking there might be something wrong with that.
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White people are significantly more at risk of being victimized by black people than the other way around. This isn't because white people are the majority, it's because black people commit way more crimes and seem to have a preference for white victims 🧵
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"The far-right blames the riots on immigration, but only 10% of those arrested are foreigners while the other 90% are children or grandchildren of immigrants and were born in France, so clearly this has nothing to do with immigration. Look at me and how smart I am."
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Les Chinois vont nous piquer 10 ans d'innovation en études de genre, c'est un désastre sans précédent dans l'histoire de l'espionnage industriel.
🇫🇷🇨🇳 Sciences Po aurait été espionné pendant 10 ans, de 2011 à avril 2021, par le renseignement chinois ⤵️
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So it turns out that the stabbing video girl didn't actually have a job at Deloitte but was only scheduled for a 2-week internship over there at the end of summer. Now she set up a GoFundMe and has already made $8,645 🙃
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Je plains les gens qui se moquent de l’hommage rendu à Johnny, sans comprendre que ce sont aussi ces émotions collectives qui font que nous sommes un peuple, plutôt qu’un simple agrégat d’individus.
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Anecdotally, zoomers seem to have a strong preference for video over text even when they're intellectually curious, which I think is really bad because text has much higher information density and as a result video is a very time-inefficient way to learn stuff.
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Americans *genuinely* believe they have better food than France. They really believe it. It’s truly extraordinary.
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It's mind-blowing how rapidly population is going to crash in some places unless fertility recovers. For instance, in South Korea, the population is projected to halve by the end of the century. There is going to be ghost towns and abandoned buildings all over the place.
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The man in the middle is Col. Arnaud Beltrame, who offered himself to be swapped for a woman kept as a hostage by a terrorist last week.
While in military school, he finished at the top of his class, which earned him the honor of holding the flag.
He will not be forgotten.
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Think what you will of Bernie, I'm hardly a fan myself, but this ad is the bomb.
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People in the West see the fact that we sanctioned Russia into the ground as a moral triumph, but I suspect that in the rest of the world, many people see that the West can destroy the economy of any country it doesn't like whenever it feels like it and they are less excited.
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Since the NYT doesn't seem to be very interested in the victim, here is a picture of him. His name was Samuel Paty, he was 47 years old and a father of one. He was killed for doing his job, something that isn't going to happen to anyone at the NYT anytime soon.
A high school teacher was decapitated for blasphemy in France—the most secular of nations—and the
@nytimes
frames it like this
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It’s kind of funny that France basically started a civil war in Pakistan and 99% of people in France don’t even know about it.
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When I was in undergrad, a girl taking the same class as me asked if we could meet outside class because she wanted to "talk about the course", so I had coffee with her and she listened to me talk about Aristotle for 2 hours. Absolutely incredible level of cluelessness.
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The next time you're inclined to say that something will *never* happen, think about what you would have said if someone had shown you this picture 10 years ago.
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The most remarkable thing about the invasion of Iraq in 2003 is not that it was criminal, it’s that it made absolutely no sense. People memed themselves into believing it was urgent to remove Saddam after 9/11 for absolutely no reason. It’s really amazing when you think about it.
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Je suis à 2 doigts de fonder les Jeunesses Pernautiennes après ça.
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I'm also in Paris and nobody is lamenting that "America can no longer be seen as a beacon of democracy".
Americans really need to understand that nobody in the world except them talks like that.
I am in Paris, I have not had one conversation where I am not asked what has happened to America. All lament that America can no longer be seen as a beacon of democracy. All in shock.
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I've already said that but one of my favorite things about Twitter is seeing a prominent academic engage in a very technical debate with someone who has an anime profile picture and get absolutely destroyed.
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This whole thing is like a Monty Python sketch.
A shooting was caught on camera at the George Floyd Autonomous Zone on the one-year anniversary of Floyd’s death. The area has seen a spike in violent crimes, including one murder, since police were chased out.
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This is your periodic reminder that colonization was a money pit for France and is obviously not what made it rich, but rather it's because it was rich that it was able to colonize Africa. Today French trade with Africa is tiny and we're a net exporter of food products to Africa.
France didn’t do anybody a favor by “letting” Algerians, Malians, Senegalese and others they robbed come live there and work like dogs. Africa does the favors. African gold, African labor. Africa feeds France. African soldiers shed blood for France in WWI and WWII, and the troops…
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Four *3-year old* children were stabbed with a knife by a maniac, and two of them are now in critical condition, but what the sophisticates are really concerned about right now is that the "far right" may exploit this incident 🙃
"It seems to me the French police, not the anti terror unit have taken charge which tells me it's not a terrorism case but my fear is regardless of the outcome the fact that the suspect is a refugee will be used by the far right."
@FawazGerges
on the attack in France.
📺Sky 501
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Okay, very unpopular opinion here, but while the university presidents in question handled this very poorly from a public relations perspective there is nothing fundamentally wrong with their answers and Stefanik should be much more ashamed of herself than any of them.
First,…
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Members of the CFA franc zone have to deposit 50% of their foreign reserves with the French Treasury, which in exchange guarantees the unlimited convertibility of the CFA franc to the euro at a fixed parity, but she thinks it means France gets 50% of their export revenues 😭
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Comment faire son propre masque en 30 secondes avec un chiffon et 2 élastiques sans même avoir besoin de coudre.
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My hot take after listening to the Tape is that Trump is the most honest politician in recent history because it's clear that he 100% believes everything he says about electoral fraud and he is no different in private than in public.
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Let me summarize how Israel's war is going: it's way behind on schedule in taking control of the Strip; Arab normalization has been stopped in its tracks and is now made conditional on progress on a two-state solution that Israel categorically rejects; it's running out of both…
Egypt: The currency is in free-fall
Black market rate: 1 dollar = 70 pounds
Official rate: 1 dollar = 30.9 pounds
The pounds has weakened by nearly 24% in the market in 2024
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In case you have forgotten, let me remind you what the IDF originally claimed was under al-Shifa Hospital.
The Shifa Hospital is not only the largest hospital in Gaza but it also acts as the main headquarters for Hamas’ terrorist activity.
Terrorism does not belong in a hospital and the IDF will operate to uncover any terrorist infrastructure.
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I'm doing my best to ignore them, because I don't trust myself to remain civil if I don't, but when I read some of the takes about Notre Dame I have to say that some people have absolutely no fucking shame. They are literally enemies of civilization.
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In this post, I make the case for optimism about the pandemic by arguing that, although SARS-CoV-2 is here to stay, you shouldn't worry about it. I make 3 main points in the post that I summarize below, but you should read the whole thing 🧵
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Voici le vitrail, dessiné sur un iPad, installé l'année dernière dans l'Abbaye de Westminster pour célébrer le règne d'Elizabeth II. Après on s'étonnera qu'on se méfie quand des mecs nous expliquent qu'il faut profiter de la reconstruction pour moderniser Notre Dame...
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Remember how we used to make fun of Europeans for cheering the start of WW1 in 1914?
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The US really looks like a huge, open-air insane asylum right now.
In an incredibly powerful moment, Police Chief Michael Shaw, urged by chanting, joins the crowd laying face down on the pavement
@telegramdotcom
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Why do I have the distinct impression that most of what therapists do is tell their patients that their insane worldview is not in fact insane?
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I know they're heavily selected on education, but it's still hilarious how Asians in the US couldn't commit a violent crime even if their life depended on it.
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The ongoing meltdown at the Washington Post illustrates something important about this website, which is that once you start following journalists and academics on Twitter, it becomes much harder to take them seriously.
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Once again, the real problem is not so much that antisemites are employed by elite universities, it's that as a result of the confusion between scholarship and activism elite universities employ a lot of morons.
Cornell University Professor Russell Rickford speaking about Hamas terrorist attacks. Shameful
@Cornell
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C'est étrange mais je n'ai pas le souvenir que, quand Fillon avait fait une visite très médiatique à Niamey en décembre 2016, votre ministère s'était fendu d'un communiqué pour dire que c'était contraire aux règles 🤔 Vous ne nous prendriez pas un peu pour des cons par hasard ?
1. La visite d’Eric Zemmour auprès de nos soldats à Abidjan suscite des réactions. Il est important de comprendre dans quel cadre cette visite a été autorisée par le ministère des Armées.
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Il faut vraiment n'avoir honte de rien pour oser suggérer que
@ZemmourEric
cautionnerait le meurtre de journalistes, alors même que, comme
@MarleneSchiappa
le sait très bien, il a lui-même été menacé de mort en tant que journaliste et mis sous protection policière à cause de ça.
Viser des journalistes avec une arme en leur disant « reculez ! » n’est pas drôle.
C’est horrifiant. Surtout après avoir dit sérieusement vouloir « réduire le pouvoir des médias. »
Dans une démocratie, la liberté de la presse n’est pas une blague et ne doit jamais être menacée.
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People in France reading this:
To counter China, the U.S. Navy needs to build two Virginia-class submarines a year. To provide subs to Australia under AUKUS, it will need to produce 2.33.
But the fiscal 2025 budget request released Monday revealed that the Pentagon is in no such state. It ordered just one…
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According to the data from
@slatestarcodex
's survey, the more left-wing you are, the more likely you are to have been diagnosed with a serious mental illness. This is also what I would have guessed based on anecdotal evidence.
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With the results coming from Texas, it's pretty clear that Biden's collapse among hispanics is not limited to Cubans, which doesn't portend well for him in Arizona.
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I guess this isn't exactly news, but watching the UK, the birthplace of liberalism, criminalizing speech that should obviously be legal is pretty insane.
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Her: "I want to hear your most controversial opinion."
Me: "No you don't."
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The fact that Russia still pays Kiev transit fees, which the Ukrainians then use to kill Russians, for the gas it sends through Ukraine, the revenue of which it uses to kill Ukrainians, perfectly encapsulates the absurdity of this whole thing.
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Once again, I would like someone to explain to me why I should give the benefit of the doubt to those people and believe anything they say, when they're not only lying all the time but are also trying to bully people into not pointing that out with antisemitism blackmail.
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Do not weep, my fellow conservatives, for after Trump there will come someone with the same platform but without the baggage and under his leadership you will make a great carnage of the Dems. It's just that Trump had to open that path before such a person could take it.
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There are people who seriously pretend that the recent surge in antisemitism in Europe is old-fashioned European antisemitism, as opposed to imported antisemitism from Muslim immigrants and their descendants. But what's even more amazing is that some genuinely seem to believe it.
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I'm not going to lie, I'm not 100% sold on this moral compass business.
Muslims in the West will continue to:
- Live, work & contribute
- Marry, have babies & big families
- Convey Islam to non-Muslims
- Be a voice for oppressed Muslims
Unless we are exiled or put in camps, we aren’t going anywhere.
We will be the absent moral compass in the West.
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The probability of a nuclear war right now is likely at least 1% and I would like everyone to take a minute and consider exactly what this means.
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A team of scientists found a shark that is at least 272 years old and could be as old as 512 but is most likely about 400. In other words this shark was probably alive during Louis XIV's reign 😮
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They will bomb people just as much and probably even more, but they will do so with kindness, which makes all the difference in the world 😌
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Beaucoup plus de gens sont frappés par la foudre que tués par la police chaque année en France, mais les mecs parlent comme si les noirs et les arabes ne pouvaient pas mettre un pied dehors sans risquer d’être abattus sans raison.
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The time is ripe for France to conquer England. At this point they will welcome us with open arms.
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Oh my God, listen to this rant, it's absolutely priceless. I feel like I'm watching an episode of The Sopranos taking place during the pandemic 😂
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Et si on profitait de ce confinement pour réfléchir vraiment à arrêter les subventions à la presse ?
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The thing about the posters of kidnapped Israeli children is that of course it's propaganda. It's not as if anyone seeing one of them in e. g. Boston could potentially find the kids, like with a more traditional missing child poster.
It's clearly an attempt by pro-Israeli…
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Say what you want on Navalny, but the fact that he voluntarily returned to Russia after being poisoned when he knew perfectly well that he'd be immediately arrested says a lot about his courage, which is more than I can say about the regime of thugs that killed him.
Jailed Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny has died, Russian media report, citing the prison service
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People who fantasize about a palace coup in Moscow would do well to consider that, in the unlikely event that they get what they wish for, they may not like the replacement.
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As I was noting recently, the main problem with right-wing activists is that they are stupid, while the main problem with left-wing activists is that they are insane.
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What is happening right now is making me far more pessimistic that mankind will always be able to avoid a nuclear war than I used to be and it's convincing me that we should make it a priority to get rid of nuclear weapons entirely in the future.
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She's clearly using "intentionality" instead of "intentions" in this segment, presumably because it has more syllables and she thinks it makes her sound smart, which is exactly the kind of things my not very bright students would do when I was teaching.
EXCLUSIVE: Katherine Maher says that she abandoned a "free and open" internet as the mission of Wikipedia, because those principles recapitulated a "white male Westernized construct" and "did not end up living into the intentionality of what openness can be."
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Je suis de droite et je n'ai aucune sympathie pour le misérabilisme, mais je dois dire que le mouvement des gilets jaunes m'aura ouvert les yeux sur le mépris de classe qui anime une grande partie de la bourgeoisie française. On n'est pas si loin du XIXème siècle finalement.
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One of the most intriguing phenomenon is that Internet racists, though only a specific subset of them, are among the people who are most genuinely interested in non-white cultures. I'm often amazed by how much some have read about obscure tribes in remote parts of the world.
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Aristotle created a system of biological taxonomy in the 4th century before Christ, so I guess you're only wrong by ~2000 years.
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God bless American midwits patting themselves on the back about how much better they are at integrating immigrants than racist Europeans because they're clueless enough to believe the difference in outcomes is not primarily explained by the type of immigrants they get.
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Sailer getting canceled for this tweet is kind of like Al Capone getting busted for tax evasion.
I don't think the target audiences for Greta Gerwig's "Barbie" and Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer" overlap all that much, so I don't see what the problem is with them both premiering on July 21, 2023.
Barbie fans aren't really into "I am become Death, destroyer of worlds."
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Le ministre de gauche qui leur explique que ce sont les classes populaires qui paient l'essentiel du coût de l'immigration, ce qui est bien sûr parfaitement exact, on sent que les mecs de Quotidien n'étaient pas prêts.
La capitale danoise attire de plus en plus nos politiques. Or, au Danemark, la politique anti-immigration est très sévère.
#Quotidien
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It's amazing how this decision, which is outrageous, not only has generated no criticism but has been widely praised. As usual, while most people pretend to care about freedom of speech, very few genuinely do. Even people who see that it's wrong are too cowardly to say so.
BREAKING: Kremlin-sponsored media banned in the European Union, including RT and Sputnik.
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Ladies and gentlemen, and everyone in between, I present to you the future.
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I'm starting to think that China's zero COVID strategy may not have been such a great idea.
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Lmao, his grown-up son just caught a cold after some Netflix & chill with a "friend", but the guy turned that into a 25-tweet long thread that is basically the COVID-19 version of the Epic of Gilgamesh.
I’ve been tweeting about Covid for nearly 2 years. But this week it became personal when my 28-year-old younger son got it.
With his permission, I’ll describe his experience & how I approached his situation, given the realities of life and the rapidly changing evidence.(1/25)
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Never apologize to the mob, just tell them to go fuck themselves and double down to make sure they got the message.
The worst part of cancel culture is when the person being cancelled tweets a grovelling apology and then all the people in the replies discuss why it’s an insufficient apology and how they should’ve worded it differently. Observing this is just excruciating
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This is your periodic reminder that one of the easiest ways to improve a society's welfare is to build prisons, throw violent criminals in them and not let them out until they're old.
19-year-old Leah Croucher was murdered because the authorities think these are appropriate sentences
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C'est terrible de voir tout le monde applaudir en choeur ce discours qui, non content d'être affligeant de bêtise et d'ignorance, se paie en plus le luxe d'être condescendant. SARS-CoV-2 ne sera *jamais* éradiqué et la comparaison avec la variole est complètement stupide. 1/n
"La variole a disparu. Le Covid, lui, a des chances de survivre grâce à tous les résistants numériques qui exigent le droit d’attraper le virus et de le combattre, comme les Polonais de 40 contre les chars soviétiques", raille
@ClaudeMalhuret
#PasseSanitaire
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This is why prison is good actually and why you should favor long sentences for violent crimes: not because it reforms offenders, but because it incapacitates them.
Most violent crimes are due to repeat offenders. At the most extreme, in this Swedish data, 291 individuals were each convicted of at least 25 violent crimes. The highest observed was 80 violent crime convictions for one individual.
Source:
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The debate about Israel is weird for me because at the emotional level, I basically have no sympathy for the Palestinians and their supporters, but I'm really annoyed intellectually by the poverty of the moral reasoning deployed by Israel's supporters.
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This war is really exposing the Samantha Powers of the world for the total phonies they are. They should never be able to talk about "human rights", the "responsibility to protect" and all that nonsense again without everyone just laughing at their face.
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This post explains why falsificationism, Popper's philosophy of science, is false. I tried to make it self-contained, because I wanted it to be accessible to non-philosophers in general and scientists in particular, among whom Popper remains very popular.
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