Plato has basically nothing to do with modern politics.
You're going to laugh, but I'm absolutely serious here: if your objective is to understand modern politics, I would start with The Prince and the Communist Manifesto.
Both of these are short, written by extremely influential figures, written for non-academic audiences, and have some amount of relevancy to current political operations. They absolutely do not explain modern politics, but they are important foundational texts. Spend 20 hours on the manifesto; 2 hours to read and 18 hours of commentary and related topics. Avoid going deeper into the communist rabbit holes. stop there. Spend 30 hours on the prince; look for college level lectures. You can spend more than 30 if you like, but don't go for the self help guru dipshits, obviously.
Just keep in mind the target audences and the potential bias the two authors bring to the table.
After those two, I want you to read On Liberty and read up on John Locke's social contract theory. Those four works will get you a lot of milage.
A book about current events or a book about the study of politics? OP indicated they were political theory focused, so a lot of the theory was written by old dead guys; not exactly news about current events.
By the way (you're quicker than duckduckgoing) Are you able to view and export password in plain text if you want to discontinue using the firefox password manager?
I've resisted using password managers up to this point, but it's getting to be a pain
The problem is that we do not want to spend our entire life "influencing" others. The admin of Blahaj specifically made the instance in order to be a place where we don't have to deal with that burden.
If you want to go deal with transphobic fucktards and try to advocate for tolerance then you go right ahead. No one is stopping you.
I couldn't agree more (Also, for formality: I dislike you)
Anyway, this wrong loser is right: If you're not going to vibe with the place, it's not a big deal if you're not welcomed. The beauty of the fediverse is that the admin of blahaj, who is quite open about their zero tolerance of nontolerance policy, does not have the capability to ban you from lemmy.
Like, if you were dating a chick who you weren't compatible with, why the hell would you want to stick around? Accept the incompatibility and move on.
Actually, the supremacy clause of the constitution protects any state or federal law enforcement from taking place on property owned by the president (or former president). It's kinda like the reservation system- in fact I think Andrew Jackson "bought" all native land for $1, which enabled the formation of indian reservations.
"Slave drive" maybe.
I mean, they'll think it means something totally different.
I'm older than that, but it's definitely something a zoomer wouldn't understand immediately.