Yarvin saw the “red pill” as the realization that the Enlightenment ideals he came to associate with “the cathedral” and democracy are actually a poison leading to societal decadence and decline.
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On Ballots Next Tuesday, How Many States and Counties Will Say No to GMO's?
Do we or do we not as Americans have the right to know what we are eating? Here are initiatives from Hawaii to Colorado and from Humboldt to Josephine Counties to take back our food supply.
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The Shackles Return: Why Debtors’ Prisons Are Making An American Comeback
In order to help fund their courts, judges may be threatening people with imprisonment for their debts – and more than a third of U.S. states now allow people with debts to be jailed.
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Jim Crow Returns: Millions of Minority Voters Threatened By Electoral Purge
This in-depth investigation reveals how election officials in 27 states, most of them Republicans, launched a program that threatens a massive purge of millions of voters from the rolls.
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Protesters in Hong Kong on Edge as Police Track Their Online Footprints
The pro-democracy movement has relied heavily on social media and messaging apps to mobilize protesters – and recent arrests from online activity has a "chilling effect" that "scares people away."
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Why Support the TPP When It Will Let Foreign Corporations Take Our Democracies To Court?
If a corporation’s profits or operations will be restricted by a country’s laws or the decisions of its courts, under the TPP it will be able to sue.
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The Games of #GamerGate: Unpacking the Latest Viral Controversy
As with Occupy Wall Street, the organic rise of the GamerGate movement – though sprung from an environment as politically irrelevant as video games – is creating odd alliances and surprising bedfellows.
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Government Is Beat at Its Own Game at Detroit Foreclosure Auction
With a click of a button, over 6,000 Detroit properties were purchased Tuesday for just over $500 apiece – surprising local government, which had scripted a much different ending.
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Ferguson Police Spend Big on Riot Gear Bracing for New Protests
St. Louis County police have spent $173,000 since August on teargas, grenades and "less lethal" ammunition in fears of an escalation of protests if officer Darren Wilson is not criminally indicted.
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Teens Take Climate Lawsuit All the Way to the Supreme Court
The basic idea behind the Our Children's Trust lawsuits is that the government must protect the atmosphere as it would other natural and cultural resources.
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New Right-To-Farm Laws Protect Big Ag Corporations, Not Farmers
ALEC-drafted legislation aims to circumvent local ordinances on environmental protection and animal rights.
