To discuss your weekly readings of books, textbooks and papers. I started "Metropolis: History of the City, Humanity's greatest invention" by Ben Wilson.
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@Aevann can you pin pls. Also on an unrelated subject, tomorrow it's 7 de Setembro, Brazil's independence day, can the site theme go green and yellow for a day? !macacos 
.webp?h=8 "Top Hat (black) - Traditional. Classy. Elegant.")
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The Bible
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Which book in specific?
!catholics
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I am a protestant, I am reading it cover to cover
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A Protestant communist? That's unusual. Good luck on the Bible, it's a chore
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Communism derives from protestant and Christian principles, Engels called some of the early protestants proto-communists like Florian Geyer.
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Communism derives from being actually delusional.
"Bu-but those states only failed because the capitalist cia did this and that"
BIPOC if foreign intervention led to your states to fail, they still failed. They should have been able to prevent it, but they didn't, because communism sucks
!anticommunists
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Soviet Union succeeded and so did China, you are stupid.
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The soviet union literally collapsed and would you really call china communist, or even a better place to live than the west?
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https://rdrama.net/h/lit/post/298224/weekly-what-are-you-reading-thread/6982596#context
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He's also painfully unfunny.
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Where's the Soviet Union now?
China is ruled by the Communist Party, but its economic model is a weird version of NEP on steroids, time will tell about its success, regardless of that I don't want a global recession because of a Chinese failure. It actually resembles dirigisme much more than NEP nowadays.
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Our definitions of success are different, for you victory is is an eternal empire of slow decadence and fragmentation. For me its an ephemeral absolute empire that forever haunts history.
And Deng Xiaoping/ Xi Jiping thought is perfectably compatible with Marxism-Leninism
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𝘏𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘰𝘪𝘥𝘴 𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘢 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘧 "𝘗𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘹𝘪𝘴𝘮" 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘨𝘭𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘸 𝘰𝘧 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘯𝘰𝘯-𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴. 𝘈𝘯𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘢 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘍𝘢𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘴𝘵.
𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘺 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘢 𝘣𝘳𝘰𝘬𝘦 𝘶𝘱 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘜𝘚𝘚𝘙 -- 𝘒𝘳𝘶𝘴𝘩𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘷 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘰𝘰 𝘱𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘯𝘶𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳-𝘢𝘳𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥, 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘴 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘢𝘪𝘵 𝘢 𝘯𝘶𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘵, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘙𝘶𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘧𝘢𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘦𝘴𝘵.
𝘈𝘭𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘢 𝘣𝘳𝘰𝘬𝘦 𝘶𝘱 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘊𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘯𝘢 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘴𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘢𝘳 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘴.
𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘱𝘦𝘹 "𝘱𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘵" -𝘤𝘦𝘭𝘴.
𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘜𝘚 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘜𝘒, 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘜𝘒 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘺𝘱𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘺.
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A part of me wants to nuke the uk even tho i have family there because their laws are that draconian. The other part of me hopes they have a civil war and the Americans in spirit win
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!eurochads
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They are usefwl
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!catholics !anticommunists
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!atheists Theyre trying to do a "That wasn't real Christianity"
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That's literally the basis of Protestantism, and the feeling is mutual. !catholics
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Okay but can your Cath Latin American countries not turn commie anymore? That'd be great thanks
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The only true religion is Christianity.
The only true Christianity is Catholicism.
The only true Catholicsm was the Carolingean Franks.
My phone auto suggests this now.
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!lutherans !calvinists !mormons discuss
The Bwook of Mwormwon is beywond Cwommunyism
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What would Brigham Young say about Marx and Engels?
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"hwowl up I'm busy fwucking my underage bwides"
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Early mormons were communist, Joseph Smith redistributed the wealth within his followers
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Catholics are actually pagan neo-platonists and stoics. Augustine is burning in heck rn.
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The parts you don't like, namely the gospel, Romans and ephesians
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Why wouldn't I like those parts?
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I think he is saying that Catholics wouldn't like them in general
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