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by 5upplied_demand 7mo ago
I agree. I'm not trying to point out the hypocrisy, it is obvious to anyone watching. I am more interested in testing the limits of how people will justify actions to themselves and others. It is fascinating to see the twisting happen
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by 5upplied_demand 7mo ago
> there is not yet proven public evidence for the most explosive version of the claim. Again, there doesn't need to be evidence. The point is that a claim like this is clearly plausible and worth investigating because of political d
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by 5upplied_demand 7mo ago
Neither of these involved legal allegations later proving to be false, they were simple news story retractions (just like Fox News did Sunday with Trump's dignified transfer performance [0]). The topic at hand was a whistleblower repor
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by 5upplied_demand 7mo ago
I didn't treat it as anything. It really doesn't even need to be proven as fact. The actual thing people were warning about was untrained and unqualified people having access to this data in the first place. I can't find a st
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by 5upplied_demand 7mo ago
Can any of the administration's defenders explain to me how this is actually a good thing and not the exact thing people were warning about a year ago?
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by 5upplied_demand 7mo ago
The portion after the semi-colon wasn't relevant to your initial claim. Which was this: > There is a reason American families move away when Asian immigrants move into school districts The study shows that "American" famil
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by 5upplied_demand 7mo ago
You haven't addressed the breakdown I provided showing why those initial assumptions don't match the data. Can we acknowledge that the original premise was based on a misinterpretation of the figures rather than just delete the hi
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by 5upplied_demand 7mo ago
That's fair, but it is the same story over and over with this user. At some point, it needs to be called out.
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by 5upplied_demand 7mo ago
> It could be that there simply weren’t enough hispanic and black families in the sample to draw an inference. The study looked only at affluent school districts in California. There’s not a lot of black and hispanic students in those sc
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by 5upplied_demand 7mo ago
> There is a reason American families move away when Asian immigrants move into school districts Here, you equate "American families" to "white families." Your source (below) says that Hispanic and black student enrol
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by 5upplied_demand 7mo ago
Imagine using this logic in the 1930s when scientists from Germany, Hungary, and Italy were flocking to the US. Did the advances they helped spur actually maximize opportunities for native born people in the long run? Would we be better off
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by 5upplied_demand 7mo ago
> we are importing foreigners to paper over the fact that we have ruined our own education system. Are you familiar with any of these scientists we "imported" during the 1930s? Was that also a sign of a failed education system?
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by 5upplied_demand 7mo ago
I don't believe that will happen. The Constitution will continue to be paraded as a tool to attack perceived enemies and protect allies. We already see it all over the place when MAGA talks about the 1st and 2nd Amendments. The hypocri
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by 5upplied_demand 7mo ago
Isn't this the type of attitude that is giving cover to the types of actions the OP mentions, i.e. throwing the baby out with the bathwater?
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by 5upplied_demand 8mo ago
Thanks for clarifying. I believe I misunderstood your initial comment.
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by 5upplied_demand 8mo ago
> California can't restrict the importation and sale of items manufactured legally in other states if the item itself (after manufacture) is safe. I'm not sure about that, maybe it is based on the definition of "safe"
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by 5upplied_demand 8mo ago
> The bus is stopped for twice as long. I'd like to see your math, as it isn't just the loading of passengers that takes time. It would seem that slowing down, completely stopping, lowering the bus, opening the doors, and then
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by 5upplied_demand 8mo ago
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solyndra Your own example undermines your point. Solyndra, a company, was part of a much larger Energy Department program that was profitable for the US government. Tesla itself was k
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by 5upplied_demand 8mo ago
The Bakke decision in 1978 upheld that race could be used as a factor in admissions. Your counter-example is precedent from 50 years ago. Does that same precedent exist in this tariff case? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by 5upplied_demand 8mo ago
> the first step to improving a situation isn't "try to make everyone who disagrees with me feel bad about themselves via hostility" let me know. Is an eye-opening comment from a person who called me "insufferable&quo
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by 5upplied_demand 8mo ago
> the assertion that the administration is willing to inflict unlimited pain on Americans (no electricity, no water) to get and maintain power. The assertion was that the administration is ok with collateral damage that might further the
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by 5upplied_demand 8mo ago
You asked for statements and I provided them. Now you are pivoting to "policy" as if authoritarians would release policy papers about how they want to end free and fair elections. Please cite some of those examples if you can find
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by 5upplied_demand 8mo ago
Other people have already shared the multiple statements Trump has made, I've added some below. > “I won’t say cancel the election, they should cancel the election...” > "You Won't Have to Vote Anymore" > "
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by 5upplied_demand 8mo ago
> OK, let's assume that. No need to assume, they have explicitly stated it! > To wit, top Republicans warn GOP will face midterm election ‘bloodbath’. Why bother caring? This isn't about "Top Republicans," it is ab
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by 5upplied_demand 8mo ago
> even they are limited by what Americans will allow and we see it as they fret and adjust when there’s strong pushback. But that doesn't change their goal. They have openly stated what they want, the fact that courts have sometimes
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by 5upplied_demand 8mo ago
The source is World Population Review. The US was used as an example of a country with higher crime that needed more CCTV to be safer. The US and India are almost identical in this ranking of crime. [0] https://worldpopulationrev
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by 5upplied_demand 8mo ago
Yea, it sure seems like we are talking about different things. I've re-read the exchange and can't find the disconnect or where the hostility came from. Maybe you thought I was another poster from a different exchange? You clearly
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by 5upplied_demand 8mo ago
> This is because they have strict laws against crime and these laws are actually enforced Just before this, you said it was because of CCTV. Is it the CCTV or the strict laws and enforcement? India and South Africa are democratic countr
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by 5upplied_demand 8mo ago
You seem to have completely dismissed the factual data I provided that vehicle deaths of pedestrians have increased 48% in the past 10 years. This certainly implies that something has changed in how Americans drive and interact with pedestr
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by 5upplied_demand 8mo ago
The majority of the SUVs I see driving have exactly 1 person in them. It's ok to admit that. We can also look at the facts, which do imply a more recent disregard (if not disdain) for pedestrians: > Drivers hit and killed 3,304 peop

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