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I don't think there's particularly good alignment even on that "axis" (it isn't really an axis, because most things are not inherently one or the other.) A good example of that is the "sector wide union contrac
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Yeah, there are just so many mismatches it doesn't make sense. - Nearly all European countries have and support a very high consumption tax (VAT). In the US, nobody would be really for this (although some conservatives favor such taxes
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Consumption taxes being “right wing” is very American. In Europe most countries have 20-25% VAT.
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None of the tweets meet the “imminent lawless action” standard and so they are all completely legal in the US. Unfortunately, journalists and social media experts have been attempting to water down 1A rights by declaring basically everythin
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I am not making any argument about his corruption or lack thereof. We're talking about two specific very bad legal cases using novel legal theories that should have never been brought, with people like CNN's legal correspondent ag
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What specifically do you disagree with in his posts? You can not like Trump and agree that it was a horrible legal case, as the sources he linked obviously do. Another example is the Mackey case, where the appeals court unanimously overturn
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Sometimes “themes” are just history repeating. There’s no evidence of this. The timeline is also problematic because it’s entirely possible Acts was written first. Indeed IMO an earlier dating of Acts is pretty likely, the story is abruptly
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> Hmm - we're going to have to disagree about your confidence in the authorship of the book of John, because wikis from rational to pedia, and deeper tomes I've read on the subject, the consensus appears to be that 'we don
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> Book of John - you may be misinterpreting the claims of authorship / identity there. And 'the disciple whom Jesus loved' is probably not really self-identifying anyway We know the "disciple who Jesus loved" is
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There’s nothing in Acts that could be said to come from Josephus, what do you mean? Josephus does not mention Paul at all and has only a brief disputed reference to Jesus.
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We don’t know that for sure, and the author of John does clearly identify himself in-text.. Everyone also agrees Luke-Acts is written by the same person, and that Acts shifts to a first-person perspective during the account of Paul’s journe
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> Sorry, I'm more confortable with RT being blocked than having another Adolf Hitler screaming their own propaganda. Is that really a good example? Weimar Germany regularly suppressed and censored Nazi newspapers and publications, s
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None of these problems are new. The problems have been well-understood since the founding of all Western democracies and we accepted that trade off, as we decided the alternative systems were all worse. You can find this very debate in news
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When exactly was there “free and accurate” media? Did you mistake the restrictions on some 20th century broadcast media that originated as a consequence of government licensing as some sort of centuries-old universal truth prior to social m
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If you think the masses are too susceptible to unapproved propaganda to the extent we have to censor it, it’s not clear to me that you can consistently believe democracy should be your form of government, as opposed to some sort of rule by
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Opinion polling is largely bunk. In addition to the problem with getting a good polling sample today, questions are carefully crafted to achieve the desired results. Opinion polls are for shaping consensus, not reporting it. Consider how ba
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That's a good practice anyway. Focusing on the capability to flexibly adapt our agriculture ensures long-term survivability. Focusing on hyper-efficient extraction that assumes a steady state gives a high-output but incredibly fragile
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The precipitating event behind the Boston Tea Party was actually a reduction in taxation that made it possible for the East India Company to undercut both official colonial tea importers and also American tea smugglers.
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It's really wild. I wonder what trees we'll have left! Besides the famous case of the chestnut: Dogwoods are being wiped out, mostly gone in some areas, disease originating from Asia: https://henderson.ces.ncsu.edu&#x2F
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People forced to move because of low wages is a societal negative. High population churn disrupts communities, worsens local governance, and causes atomization.
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> which is the primary problem we now face I am actually really, really confused as to why you think that. That's not at all what the past several years have shown - we've seen over and again again individual Senators (who have
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> They can buck the President and the Party, because they don't need their money for their constituents to know them. They can’t do anything at all without convincing hundreds or thousands of other Representatives to agree with them
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Why would you suppose that a larger House would help keep the Executive in check? It seems more likely that the effect would be to dilute any individual House member's power and strengthen the party system. > the meaning of Executi
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> The “left” in terms of voters is against the genocide in Gaza and for socialist policies and candidates like Mamdani. Plenty of polls and evidence supports this. Not only are "left" and "right" vague relative terms
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I think the problem is the framing. The problem is with people, not men or women, but women get most of the focus. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2663360/ > There is increasing evidence to suggest tha
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LLMs Transmit Traits via Hidden Signals to Other Models(twitter.com)
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The library also talks about having a huge mold problem, so it would likely be positive.
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The claim is that opening the spillway decreased salinity in the Mississippi Sound and caused substantial hardship for Mississippi fishermen. They want it opened less often, not more often. There was a lawsuit against the Army Corps of Engi
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I know nothing about Landry and have no opinion on him or those statements specifically, but I'm familiar with the kerfuffle over the Bonnet Carré Spillway that allegedly devastated Mississippi fisheries, and obviously it has some im
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This isn't about coastal cleanup, this is using coastal cleanup funds from the oil spill to remediate the effects of damming the Mississippi river.

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