Mich Ciurria

A lot of adopted children are human trafficking victims. I wouldn’t trust what adoptions agencies say about children’s families of origin.

UnKoch My Philosophy Department: Reject Billionaire Donations for Disability Justice! This week, my paper on billionaire philanthropy and academic philosophy was published in a special, open access issue of the Journal of Academic Freedom, titled P…

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Too bad it didn’t pan out this time. 5/5

Although I don’t follow sports, I know that Canadians had a lot riding on this year’s Wold Series. People had carved their pumpkins and decorated their houses with Blue Jays logos. Parents made their kids stop trick-or-treating early just to see if the Jays could beat the Dodgers. 4/5

They thought they had found him in James Jeffries, but Johnson easily trounced him in “the Fight of the Century.” While this contest was especially significant, it symbolises the political importance of sports to ordinary people. 3/5

who dominated the heavyweight division after beating Tommy Burns, a white Canadian. White promoters spent years searching for a white boxer who could defeat Johnson - the “Great White Hope.” 2/5

Sports has always been an arena for political conflicts to play out in a controlled setting. At the turn of the 19th Century, white supremacists were desperate to find a white boxer to defeat Jack Johnson, the first Black heavyweight boxing champion...1/5

That was when he realized that he was ‘untouchable’ and would inevitably get into a lot of trouble from then on. (Brings to mind the ring of Gyges from the Republic).
And this says a lot about why a pedophilic rapist is President of the United States. 3/3

and because he’s famous, the pilot let him wear the pilots’s outfit, sit in the pilot’s seat, & steer the plane for a few seconds (or minutes?)...2/3

I just watched the first 2 minutes of the Charlie Sheen documentary & it’s off to a good start. Sheen relays a story about how he was invited to meet the pilot of a standard commercial passenger flight while he was ‘pirate drunk‘… 1/3

Quote from "UnKoch My Philosophy Department: A Case Study in Billionaire Philanthropy" by Mich Ciurria: We, as academics, should avoid complicity in academia’s depressing descent into corporate sycophancy.

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I watched a YouTube video by a trans woman on Julius Evola’s fascist philosophy and the comments section was full of vile fascist hatred. All the other videos I could find on Evola described him as a hero and a prophet. We’re doomed.

I got some constructive, definitely not ableist feedback from a philosophy professor at Southern Illinois University - Carbondale.

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Maybe some request for money are genuine, but I would do my research before sending money to strangers via PayPal, Crypto, and other electronic payment methods. 5/5

where they are imprisoned, malnourished, and tortured if they don't meet scamming quotas. So, a lot of those "scam likely" calls come from slave operations. Be aware that capitalism has, as one would predict, given rise to a scam economy fuelled by colonialism and modern-day slavery. 4/5

Indeed, there is a whole scamming industry consisting of hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of human trafficking victims working for 20 hours a day in fortified call centres... 3/5

People should be aware that, due to capitalism, the world is full of scammers, so you should assume that random people asking you for money are scammers. 2/5

I was just informed that my friends have been giving money to an alleged photographer from Gaza, Sarah Murtaja. If you Google "Sarah Murtaja," there are multiple results stating that she is a scammer. 1/5

The US is going down & they’re taking us with them. 🚢⚓️🌊☠️

I think he plans to invade all three - he’s made up his mind, and maybe he can pull it off. For him, countries are real estate for his portfolio. He’s going to acquire them one way or the other. Now he has the largest military in the world behind him. 6/6

In his Qantico speech the other day, he reiterated for the unpteenth time that Canada should become the 51st state. ‘You can do it voluntarily,’ he said. Which implies that you can also get involuntarily colonized - you choose. 5/6

On that note, is Trump going to invade Canada? 4/6

JD Vance recently visited a US army base in Greenland for no other reason than to tell US soldiers that Denmark can’t be trusted to govern it responsibly and that Greenland is essential to US security. The same day, Trump said ‘We need Greenland…, we have to have Greenland.’ 3/6

Now the Venezuelan government is arming civilians & telling them to form militias in preparation for an invasion.
On that note, is Trump going to invade Greenland? 2/6

Is Trump going to invade Venezuela? The US navy destroyed ‘at least three’ Venezuelan boats for allegedly transporting drugs (but probably not), and Trump has been saying since 2017 that he wants to invade Venezuela. 1/6

‘The 218-page complaint accuses Ms Owens of spreading "verifiably false and devastating lies" about the Macrons, including that Brigitte was born a man.’ ‘Macrons will submit ‘scientific evidence' in defamation case to prove Brigitte is a woman.’

What ‘evidence’ are they going to submit? A copy of Gender Trouble? The Second Sex? The only relevant evidence is in a book on gender theory.

Professors defend Charlie Kirk assassination on Bluesky \ In response to the assassination of Charlie Kirk on Wednesday, various university faculty and staff have expressed views on Bluesky that appear to support his killing.

None of these people defended Kirk’s death. None. This is just a smear campaign to get people fired.

2 news stories on a black man found hanged, deemed suicide

Black man found hanged, no foul play suspected. It’s the same story over and over, isn’t it?

Trump’s friends are fascists. Who can deny it? Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade said that homeless people who ‘don’t use the resources given to them’ should be killed by ‘involuntary lethal injection… or something - just kill them.’