Cory Johnston(he/him)
@Skepticallefty
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Trying to combine good evidence-based critical thinking and left anarchist politics. I host The Skeptical Leftist podcast and cohost with @athopemarie
Regina, Saskatchewan
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The new episode is out for all viewers and listeners. I talked to
@ES_Wickham
about inflation, grocery prices, the food professor, and his show Big Shiny Takes. Check it out and go follow Eric
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@edmontonpolice
This is why we want the police defunded. You're wasting money on racist astrology for cops
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@Gritty20202
@MrLukeStorey
So weird that they claim it's socialism. It's almost like they have no idea what they're talking about 🤷♂️
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@hipsterallan
@SydneyLWatson
pretty sure you've heard of they/them before unless your first language isn't English
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My shift partner died this morning and I'm having a little trouble getting motivated to do my job right now.
We're just supposed to do business as usual? How fucking absurd
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Sam Harris apologists are crazy generous to him in ways that neither he nor his fans are to others.
They read nuance in things he says that isn't there. They let him get away with shoddy statistics. They completely ignore his bias while denigrating the bias of others.
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@prageru
You say this like it's not the most reasonable connection ever. So long as capitalism persists we will not be able to stem the tide of climate change
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Guillotines as props in a protest are good actually and all the people who are up in arms about it are wrong and need to keep their bad opinions to themselves
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@SydneyLWatson
The concept of a tomboy was nonsense to begin with. It was just stuck in some kind of weird gender binary. Feel free to be the gender you identify as and feel free to not let it restrict how you dress. We're more free when it comes to these things now than we used to be
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@peterboghossian
Why not just call a Nazi a Nazi? If they wear swastikas, wave Nazi flags, and adhere to Nazi ideology then they're Nazis.
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Got my hat and signed copy of After the Revolution by
@IwriteOK
from
@AKPressDistro
today. I've already listened to this book multiple times but it's cool to have an actual copy of it now
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I'm not sure why I insist on damaging my brain by reading the takes by right wingers when I see "Trudeau's Gov't Lost Its Mind" in the What's Happing side of my screen. What a waste of time and energy
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Ancaps aren't anarchists
Ancaps aren't anarchists
Ancaps aren't anarchists
Ancaps aren't anarchists
Ancaps aren't anarchists
Please for the love of humanity get it through your thick fucking skulls
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@loftipixels
There are bread lines now under capitalism and tons of inflation. WTF are you talking about
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@lilith_backup
@ycsm1n
Imperfect is one thing, actually unhealthy in another. Braces are good for people who have extreme issues with speaking or chewing but often are used for aesthetician reasons
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Shoutout to
@VestsCanada
for doing the good work of exposing the Canadian yellow vest movement for the racist, fascist, bullshit that it is. We need to always be exposing and countering these shitheads as much as we can.
I uploaded a new episode, "What's the Deal with the Yellow Vest Movement", on
#spreaker
#activism
#canpod
#community
#culture
#fascism
#podernfamily
#protests
#racism
#secularpod
#skepticism
#socialissues
#society
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Doxxing White Supremacists Is Making Them Terrified
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@SamHarrisOrg
@SailofIgnorance
@m3anderthal
@brigadam
@WSJ
@SPLC
Right, so basically you read an article that confirmed you're biases and you didn't apply critical thinking to it.
That's pretty on brand for you lately, right?
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Social services in Saskatchewan can look at the bank activity of people receiving assistance and they will withhold assistance if you spend money on things that aren't approved, like alcohol, and this just seems unnecessarily cruel and inhumane to me
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@WorstYearPod
@why_sophie_why
@IwriteOK
@drmistercody
@katystoll
@mcuban
@iHeartRadio
I'd call this episode in why our desire to be reasonable will always interfere with our ability to confront people who.hold awful ideas.
Cuban never once acknowledged the exploitative nature of accumulating that much wealth and the hosts never held him accountable. Frustrating
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@RationalDis
@jackinovic
Thing is, they know they're full of shit and just don't care. It appeals to certain people and that's all that matters
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@JihadalHaqq
Hell, white people need to learn how to criticize whiteness and white supremacy. It's not about feeling bad for the color of our skin but recognizing an imbalance of power in society and doing what we can to remedy it
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@SamHarrisOrg
That's some pretty black and white thinking from someone who claims not to be ideological
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@joussska
@BrandonCampbeII
@rs_toper
@localtransdad
@anarchoFemoid
@Deushuelol
@pengdangcomedy
@MrPaulBae
This person's username is Campbelltoe. I'm gonna have to find my advice on what's funny somewhere else
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@petercoffin
Right wing libertarians are so self contradictory. They're totally cool living in a police state as long ad they get to carry a hand gun and shout the word freedom over and over
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The right has called everyone and everything communist or socialist for so long that liberals have started thinking they must be socialists even though they still believe capitalism is justifiable
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@sammajammaz
Sorry but this is a nonsense take. There are people who deserve the term and there's a surprising number of them. They're the ones who make excuses for harms done under communist leaders because they refuse to see any AES states as less than perfect. The term has a justified use
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@KayFellowz
That's not what socialism is, also vaccines need to be mandatory unless someone has a medical exemption
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Despite what some people think, children aren't actually the property of their parents
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No one needs to like an artist if it doesn't suit them bit if you think that Ted Nugent and Kid Rock have a bigger impact on music or a better legacy than Taylor Swift then you're letting your views be jaded by age and sexism
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@petercoffin
@LunaOi_VN
@SpeaksAngie
A lot of folks were attracted to him for arguing with the alt right but it seems like he's just another contrarian asshole. It was easy for him to look smart when he was debating nazis but he can't actually debate the points of the left so he has to resort to personal attacks
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@JoeySalads
Once again a Republican tries to frame something as bad and inadvertently frames it as awesome
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@ksorbs
No you weren't and you never have been. You simply refuse to accept when you're wrong
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I'm finally getting around to listening to the episode of
@shtpostpodcast
with the
@IwriteOK
interview and this is so good.
If you haven't heard it yet then definitely check it out.
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@KirkegaardEmil
Are you actually putting out into the world the fact that you've been presented with myriad facts and logical arguments against race realism but you simply refuse to accept that you're wrong? Pretty strong self own, bud
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I lived that life for months just trying to find the time and place I could work and make enough money to feed my family. It's an even less sustainable model than regular capitalism
“Have not been out in over two weeks. I make more by not doing gigapps and just doing my W-2 job. Market is oversaturated on all platforms and just not worth it as I would be paying to deliver customers, food, gas and destroying my car.” ~Gary Day, viewer comment on YouTube
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@KaoticLeftist
I'm less concerned that she thinks this is true than I am that 17 thousand people liked that tweet
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Remember when Sam Harris was an atheist? Now he's caping for religious hate groups
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@anarchopac
I'm finding a surprising number of Marxists who claim Anarchism is just Liberalism and anarchists are rad libs
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@drmistercody
@jaredlholt
Moore is trash but the scientific consensus is that you'd have to consume a very large quantity of Round up to be poisoned by it. It's pretty much entirely non toxic for consumption by humans.
It's still a thick fluid that tastes awful. Don't drink it
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@BluenoserGalNS
I don't want people just to follow me back. I want to interact with them. I already have lots of co-follows that I don't get to talk to much
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@ThoughtSlime
I once interviewed a university student who started a "neoliberal club" at his school. He was having trouble getting other members
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It's ok to condemn a person's behavior while maintaining empathy for them
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@AnarchoNDN
But what if I'm afraid that the Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island want to genocide me the way we did them? Then surely my opinion is valid.
Literally an argument heard from supposed leftists
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@jordanbpeterson
I'm not a Christian but I can tell you that this authoritative tone you use is nonsense. Many Christians believe firmly in social justice. Just because you're an awful person doesn't mean every Christian is
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@SethAndrewsTTA
@ConfessionsExMu
Ben Shapiro literally is trash though. All these apologetics to associate with actual bigots is pretty disconcerting
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@sirus222
Instead of condescending tweets why not actually talk to anarchists about how to fix this problem? I agree that we need to think bigger but it helps to have people working towards solutions rather than just being a dick about who you take seriously
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It's always a little frustrating to me that so many haters of communism or anarchism have never actually bothered to learn about them.
The "do your own research" crowd has never even bothered to do even the tiniest shred bit of research about these ideas and theories
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Thinking about printing off some pamphlets and posters and spreading some anarchist propaganda.
Where should I start?
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@ThoughtSlime
In mind he'll always be the guy who somehow believes he has never lost a debate. His relationship with reality is not exactly firm
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@BoogerLeader
@KarenaAv
@bryan_gigantino
My simple guess is that there was one or two particularly foolish people who said something like that and it suddenly gets blown up to include all western leftists.
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Sharing a video from Mike Cernovich's page will earn you a quick unfriending. I'm amazed people don't pay closer...
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Believe it or not, the point of society isn't just to make a few people super rich.
We are supposed to be working together for the well being of all of us
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@mrcanuckcommie
@YellsAtCars
@NoLore
It's more dangerous to be a pizza delivery person than it is to be a cop
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If you think corporations are leftist because they support Pride then you simply don't understand why capital might co-opt social justice movements as they gain popularity. Companies do this in the name of profit, not because they're leftists
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@observeaddict
The gish gallop only works if he can get the whole thing out without interruption.
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@butchanarchy
Fortunately one can also gain friends who are more in tune with your ethical framework. It's really the only thing that makes this very difficult existence worthwhile
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A lot of people simply cannot understand how society would work without a centralized government or capitalism and that's ok. Ignorance is something you can fix.
Sadly, many of those people will loudly declare that socialism or anarchism can't work based on their ignorance
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Am I allowed to be concerned about the rise of fascism without engaging in nationalism or even pretending I think countries are legitimate?
I really don't care about ideas like treason or sedition or defending my country. I'm still very much an antifascist
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@ETVPod
@FairMindedFaith
This has always been my major issue with religious apologists. Their arguments always seem to boil down to, "it's wrong for you to reject belief without sufficient evidence but its totally fine for me to claim a positive belief despite the same lack of evidence"
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Occasionally I'll see someone waving the anarchist flag who I think it's not actually worth engaging with
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@SamHarrisOrg
@m3anderthal
@brigadam
@WSJ
@SPLC
"The SPLC now habitually smears reasonable, ethical, liberal people"
This is just factually wrong. I disagreed with their label of Maajid Nawaz but that was a one off and if you actually read their stuff honestly you'll find they add caveats and talk about influencers
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@lilbabygandhi
Do you actually understand what the abolition of the family means? Or did you just hear the words abolish family and react?
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@SamHarrisOrg
@m3anderthal
@brigadam
@WSJ
@SPLC
They don't just smear people for no reason. They always have evidence and good reasons for saying things.
The fact is, sometimes liberal people promote bad ideas that can lead people to extremism. You're just mad that they called you out for being one of those people
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@TheKavOfficial
Thank you for taking one for the team here. I'm sorry you had to endure such nonsense but I laughed out loud quite a lot while reading your thread.
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The old guys at the gym really don't seem to like my "smash capitalism and patriarchy" shirt. I'm getting a lot of glares
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It's valuable to remember that while we're out here fighting amongst ourselves about the details of one theory or another or the history of one group or another that there is a huge number of people who just assume capitalism is the normal way things work
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People who are bad at their jobs still deserve to live, eat, and have housing
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This is brutal, being taken advantage of by capitalist gig companies with no accountability and then on top of that being attacked physically by people who need your services
@LRBitisnot
Gig workers in India are being stabbed, stoned & abused. Just in the last few months there've been almost 20 instances
Of the 50 gig workers I spoke to, nearly 50% said they have been attacked on the job
For
@WIRED
with support from
@pulitzercenter
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@not_sargon
You actually have no idea what you're talking about. Privatization of industry alone shows that Hitler wasn't a socialist. Those things are diametrically opposed.
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@lackingsaint
@danieleharper
This trend of calling everyone you don't like CIA is pretty sad and frustrating. How hard is it to actually discuss topics honestly without resorting to claiming everyone is a fed?
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Just a reminder to those liberals and conservatives who still follow me, socialism isn’t "when the government does stuff". Social safety nets aren't socialism. Regulations on business aren't socialism.
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Feeling pretty black pilled right about now. Not much ever seems to be getting better and everyone fighting the good fight seems like they're losing 😨😢
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A coworker just declared to me that he hates women and then proceeded to ascribe a thing his wife did as a pattern of behavior that all women do.
And I'm still not sure how to deal with this except to ignore him when he gets on these giant rants and works himself up
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Here's a great interview I did with
@LuaBorealis
. We talk about some topics that are often misunderstood by white leftists like Black Nationalism and Landback
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"They're going to call you socialists no matter what so just fucking do it"
@BertaAdvantage
is so good
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@ikigatanyakazi
and I went for supper to celebrate 4 years together tonight. I appreciate this woman so much and I'm so happy I met her. What an amazing partner
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