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Noted. I got worked up and conflated internet bro stoicism with actual stoicism. Revised: "Actual stoicism has a long and complex heritage that actually makes room for modern social and climate justice movements. You can use stoicism to advocate for progressive change, or you can use it to persuade everyone to accept inequality and sexism as inevitable. Guys like Peter Thiel and JD Vance aren't philosophers, and they don't deserve to breathe the same air as a stoic like Epictetus, who lived simply - not with billions, and certainly not with the goal of oppressing other human beings. Epictetus was born a slave, and even went so far as to say a slave that couldn't accept their status had a moral right, even an obligation, to rebel."

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