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k so i wanna engage in Smart People Discussions as a Real Adult and this made me realize I need to Know Some Things in life, so if anyone can help me out with any of the following because idk how I'm gonna tackle everything I want to learn before i die :

- The Bosnian Conflict

- how do companies/corporations/whatever ACTUALLY work

- Like I know the media can't be trusted but like... how?? like what is actually wrong with reading a New York Times article and believing every word?

- also explain exactly WHY Amazon is bad, cause I know it is

- look into white supremacy in local police precincts and the FBI's knowledge of this

- Shakespeare's bisexuality??

- Thomas Day on the Declaration of Independence's hypocrisy (condemnation of slavery in slavery's day)

- Olive oil's use as lube for gay sex in Ancient Greece??

- how the Salvation Army works/how they're bad

- are there any benefits of watching a certain movie just because the protagonist is a woman/black person/ etc. Idk, even if it just normalizes those people in those roles in my brain?

- how free healthcare works (in Canada). Is it actually free? Do we just pay for it in our taxes or something?

- when I was little I specifically remember being told the Black Panthers were terrorists, but now I'm reading that they were a civil rights group/ activists??

- origin of the statue of liberty

- how was Christopher Columbus actually viewed in his day

- gay people (pink triangles) were kept in concentration camps after liberation ("Paragraph 175")? did the Allies do this on purpose after they liberated everyone else??

- US bombing of Laos

- India's culture pre-colonization (tolerance of homosexuality?)

- Elon Musk sending an un-sterilized vehicle into space and that this is dangerous

- That there has never actually been a country that was properly communist so we can't say that we know communism doesn't work

- Us vs Nicaragua??

- Origins of AAVE and its validity as a dialect/vernacular

- Joan Trumpauer Mulholland

- Hobby-Lobby Iraq-US museum scandal...

- criminalization of black people via criminalization of weed... was this deliberate from the start? what was the war on drugs and how does this tie into it

- punk subculture, riot girl (grrl?), radical feminism

- what exactly is Two-Spirit and its history and validity in Indigenous cultures

- history of the recognition of the gender non-binary/ gender freedom through the centuries

- how do i learn enough about how the economy works to form an opinion on the best economic system (cause i know i'm anti-capitalist but like how exactly do i support that)

- is it possibly to save the planet at this point? or even just delay the inevitable? if it were, is it possibly to get people to actually do it?

- use of overcomplicated language to make info less accessible (see my previous post quoting Gloria Steinem

- what complete destigmatization of menstruation would look like. more specifically, why we need it because sometimes i just think it should be on the same level as other bathroom things (like we don't talk about pooping in public because... it's gross) but sometimes i recognize that it's about so much more than that because it's not just another bathroom thing, it ties into traditions of misogyny, oppression, etc.?? am i on the right track here...

- why prison doesn't work

- but first maybe, what exactly is the prison system

- how exactly do gangs work (i read the Freedom Writers Diary okay)

- how do Canada's levels of government and judicial systems work

- Mexico's refusal to accept a fugitive slave treaty with the US

- do universities really need to be that expensive? if not, why are they? are those in charge of them really just making billions from them then?

- Mexican Revolutionary war

- the male vs female gaze

- where do our current beauty standards come from

- use of propaganda in north america in the 21st century

- that photo of 2 covers of the same issue of the wall street journal that are different because of the different demographics of the areas they're sold in/marketed to.

- Toys R Us US corporation vs Swedish union 1995

- Tovegene Khatun

- why do we have different skin colors/where does melanin come from and why? geography?

- the watergate scandal

- are there actually more gay/autistic/depressed/u name it people now adays than in centuries past? or are they just actually diagnosed now?

- brand identity scheme- companies' social media accounts presenting as relatable people in their advertising

- museum collectors stealing Idigenous artefacts, saying their origins are "unknown"

- pol pot and khmer rouge in Cambodia

- what was happing in Cambodia in the '90's (basically why were there refugees? was there a war?)

- origins of witches and witch hunts (before Salem...?)

- fall of rome

- spanish inquisition

- idi amin of uganda

- leopold 2nd of belgium/ the congo

- armenian genocide

- that yale study about women's pain being perceived as less serious than men's

- are there still people today living in southern usa who think that slavery was a good thing and with they were still in the "good old days"?

- did c sections really originate in uganda/tanzania/the congo??

- how does money actually work (why we can't just "print more")

- how does inflation work (couldn't we just... leave prices where they are? is it because as natural resources get scarcer, they get more expensive?)

- is abolishing the police ever actually going to happen and how would we go about doing that. what does it really mean/look like?

- was the irish potato famine actually deliberately caused by the british? why?? also how did it even start. and did Choctaw Native Americans actually send aid?... how?

- seneca village in central park nyc

- russian meddling in the 2016 US election?? Reality Leigh Winner

- How Finland ended homelessness

- the Haiti Revolution 1791

- how hawaii became a state. idk i just heard it was bad

- che guevara

- Tulsa race massacre and Tulsa's black businesses before it

- the only coup d'état in America; The Wilmington insurrection of 1898

- body positivity is the kind of movement that I can totally recognize is a good thing and will get behind, but I have a question... isn't being overweight unhealthy? Or is it only healthy if you're like "dangerously obese"? Or, is body positivity not denying that you're unhealthy but about loving yourself anyway, while you do or don't work on becoming healthier? Or is just about how it's nobody's business to shame your body's appearance, healthy or not?

- complexities of the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas case and verdict.

-SNC Lavalin Affair

Have at 'er my friends, any info I can get. And preferably sources too, cause Pinterest is helpful but I gotta read exact facts myself, can't take anything at face value.