ihaveibs [he/him]

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Cake day: February 13th, 2024

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  • Doesn't help when liberals constantly resort to backing up their arguments with a single academic paper that they do not have the credentials to interpret. Just go look on r/science on stormfront.

    Academic papers are not holy divinations of God's will representing a steadfast unequivocal truth. They are written in the context of their particular economic and social system that incontrovertibly influences their hypotheses, methods, samples, findings, interpretations, etc. I have read papers that twist themselves in knots to provide milquetoast answers that avoid reckoning with capitalism and poverty, especially in healthcare and public health. However, they go along the rails of liberal ideology so they are not sufficiently questioned.

    I think even Marxists and other leftists could benefit from improved scientific literacy in that way. We could be much better equipped to talk about and fight against how the system reproduces and enforces itself through academia.


















  • Is that weighted to account for the fact there are more Republican counties than Dem? Cuz it seems like overall red areas are getting redder and likewise for blue areas, which could create the illusion of a swing for Republicans if the population of those counties is not considered. On its face though, definitely not a great sign for the blue team