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[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago

If I was being honest I'd add "literally anyone whos firm has any connections to a NATO government" but then I'd be called a consoiracy theorist. But as for GCC, that's a more direct threat to lives of dissidents.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

They should definitely not allow investment from anyone associated with Trump admin, the Pentagon etc.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (24 children)

It needs A) same functionality B) ban all forms of racism, especially Zionism and C) refuse investment from undemocratic nations like GCC or China

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Put Lina Khan in charge of all these agencies.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's like nuclear fusion, always just around the corner...

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago

The Catechism of the Catholic Church reads:

The forms taken by modesty vary from one culture to another. Everywhere, however, modesty exists as an intuition of the spiritual dignity proper to man. It is born with the awakening consciousness of being a subject. Teaching modesty to children and adolescents means awakening in them respect for the human person." (C.C.C. # 2524)

People here are not serious, they repeat slogans and polemics very superficially. The nipple taboo is found across pre-Christian and non-Abrahamic societies, probably because of breasts' association with fertility. I.e

When did bare breasts become taboo in Western civilization?

Probably around 3,000 years ago. Women are displayed with exposed breasts in Minoan artwork from 1500 B.C. Some historians believe that these ancient women went topless only during religious rituals—bare-breasted, buxom goddesses have been worshipped since the dawn of civilization—but some of the artworks depict everyday activities, suggesting that bare breasts may have been commonplace. Just across the Mediterranean, ancient Egyptian women sported elaborate dresses that could either cover the breasts or leave them exposed, depending on the whim of the designer. Over the next few centuries, however, breasts become strictly private parts. Ancient Athenian women were wearing flowing, multilayered robes that concealed the shape of the bosom by the middle of the first millennium B.C. Spartan attire was more risqué, exposing the female thigh, but breasts were always covered.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Their argument is that "gender is just a social construct", without acknowledging that some of the most paramount aspects of human existence are "social constructs" (i.e language) and that gender is one of them. And without addressing why sexual taboos (like public nudity) are gendered - to them its a form of irrational injustice. But expore the social ramifications -through real and hypothetical examples- and you quickly find that it is indeed rational to treat bodies different according to their gender, and that human social psychology does have strong roots in human phsyiognamy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I'd say that if you live in literally any nation that doesn't directly border them or isnt married to the Pentagon, they haven't proven to be much of a concern at all. Except maybe to your exports. As far as "free world" gibberish goes, they aren't the ones defending the Saudi monarch from his own people.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

Big mistake tbh.

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