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(WEEKLY) Political Purity Testing

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(WEEKLY) Help Us Fix Weekly Topics

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(WEEKLY) Climate Change

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(WEEKLY) When were you wrong?

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(OTHER) How are we doing?

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This community has been around for a few months now. How do we feel about it? Are things working out? Any plans for further growing the community?

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(WEEKLY) Why are people so goddamn bad at discussion?

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(Open-Ended) I feel like "slippery slope" isn't actually a logical fallacy, people just use that as an excuse to dismiss valid concerns. You?

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(WEEKLY) What is "woke"?

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(WEEKLY) Words, Words, Words

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How to make a company not suck

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I've been thinking about enshitification recently, and I'm also working on a startup with a friend that just received funding. I've been wondering how one might arrange a business such that it won't gradually trend towards shittier products in search of higher profit margins.

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(WEEKLY) Watch This Movie

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(WEEKLY) "The Cruelty Is The Point."

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(WEEKLY) Protests

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(WEEKLY) Work

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(Open-ended) Politics posting and partisanship

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Been going back and forth on this, as personally I don't have much problem with politics posts and discussions. I know how they can get, and some of why people dislike them, but nevertheless...To not discuss politics enables the worst among us to take the reigns and drag us all over the cliff.

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(WEEKLY / CMV) I should close this community

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(WEEKLY) Division

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(WEEKLY) Activism

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(WEEKLY) One Positive Change

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(WEEKLY) Linux and FOSS

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(WEEKLY) Capitalism / Economic Systems

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(ARTICLE) Racism In D&D

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(WEEKLY) Gender

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(Open-Ended) What is fun?

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A bit of a lighter topic today: What is fun?

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(RULES) What is this community?

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First and foremost, let me say that I appreciate you actually engaging in a real discussion on Lemmy!

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(OTHER) Why make this community?

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First and foremost, let me say that I appreciate you actually engaging in a real discussion on Lemmy!

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(Open-Ended) Emotions vs Reason

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When it comes to decision-making, perception and so on, what are your beliefs about the role and merits of feelings/emotions vs reasoning?

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(Open-Ended) How would you change this Community?

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So now that we've been around for a week or so and have tried to populate things with some controversial topics, how would you like to see this Community grow and change?

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American Political Culture Unduly Affecting Canada?

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*I was originally going to post this as a response to a different thread and realized it would make a better post by itself.*

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(Open-Ended) New Political Parties?

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(CMV) "Doing your own research."

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(CMV) Political Leaders

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Moral Responsibility

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Open question: What do you think a normal person's moral responsibilities are and why?

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(Open Ended) Combating Disinformation

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(CMV) A.I.

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(CMV) Overpopulation

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(Open-Ended) What do you like and dislike about the Lemmy experience so far?

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I've been here since the great Reddit Exodus and have seen some good and some bad.

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(CMV) Political Centrism / Independents

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(CMV) Veganism

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