Goladus

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by Goladus 9y ago
Another interesting tidbit, which is a more important and relevant tidbit than anything you mention: Thiel and Hogan won the case in court. They didn't just buy a verdict. They did not abuse the legal system to bully a settlement out
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Why remove all your posts from medium.com? Why not post to both wordpress and medium.com?
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Hair braiding? Could you elaborate?
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The pure drivel is this response. I strongly object to bland appeals to authority to shut down things you don't like. There are strong arguments associated with the banning of most illegal behavior. Usually these arguments are also
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We don't ban selling cigarettes to adults, and tobacco use has plummeted since 1965. Building codes affect the general public. There is a clear and direct link between owner negligence and public harm. Building codes also help to re
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Unacceptable to whom? Is the US a free country or not?
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> Intellectual consistency would require acknowledging the systematic repression of women in western history (not being able to vote, etc), and thus, the effects of what is still a patriarchial culture as often as not. Actually I'd
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> Yeah, but as with healthcare, there are both economies of scale and opportunities for systemic cost reduction when it's paid for by taxes. How much systemic cost reduction is there, really? Are economies of scale balanced by the
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The more interesting question is whether there's a 3rd variable we're missing. You were right in your initial assertion: people talk over people. The people desperately trying to prove that "men talk over women" using s
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> Netflix streaming, in my opinion, has degraded significantly in terms of programming choices. One exception I'd say is that Netflix Original Programming is getting quite good. Narcos, The Crown, and Stranger Things are all fantas
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So, here's the deal about Colbert. The left-wing has been attacking the employment and incomes of ideological opponents with impunity for several years now. Sometimes, often even, it's just a hapless nobody and done to make an
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by Goladus 9y ago
Facts with references and citations have no place in this thread. Downvote.
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She was convicted by a jury, who presumably heard testimony from multiple witnesses. Were you there? Do you know what really happened? Do you know how to extract facts from narratives in a news article? Do you even read the news article
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Violence" is always somehow brought into the mix by conservatives. Antifa's aggression is the fault of conservatives? Sounds like victim-blaming to me. Ann Coulter is the same way, and the sheer craziness of saying a woman on
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by Goladus 9y ago
Exactly how is the culture of free speech missing? Freedom of speech doesn't mean you're guaranteed a venue at which to speak... Prevalence of coercive and even violent tactics to shut down speech, using excuses like "Freed
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In democracies, majority rules. One reason why, until fairly recently, western Democracies were usually called Liberal Democracies . It's more than just voting for leaders or public policy, it's voting for public policy in the
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There's a big difference between being anti-free speech and just not wanting someone to speak on your campus Technically true. But it's not hard to see that the motivations of the people hostile to these speakers are completely
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> Honestly, things like being racist to someone on the street shouldn't be allowed in any country Going to point out that your language is ambiguous. What does "being racist" actually mean in the context of what you think
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They don't need your empathy. They need their rights respected. Society needs their rights respected. If you don't like their ideas, it's your duty as a member of a free society to engage with with them in meaningful dialog
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As long as the person immigrating has the right color skin and prays to the right god More accurately: comes from a compatible culture and shows an interest and willingness to assimilate.
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Is this likely to be reciprocated? Not in all cases. But you still have to pick your battles. When faced with opposition you can negotiate or go to war. If you start a war, you'd better be ready to win, or else you stand to lose ev
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Here are four examples: John Derbyshire ( http://www.unz.com/jderbyshire/orlando-paris-yorkshire-and-d... ) Steve Sailer ( http://www.unz.com/isteve/will-the-zeroth-amendment-trump-th... ) Ann Coulter
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I'm also pretty sure that there are supporters of his that actually want to send all immigrants back to where they came from. They want to protect their culture and values from the effects of mass immigration from people with very di
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by Goladus 10y ago
You're misunderstanding the proposal about immigrants. The proposal is to send all immigrants that are here illegally back to where they came from. For what it's worth, while I don't think Trump is likely to be even close t
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So leaving morality and emotions out of it - why does globalization seem to disproportionately benefit the coasts? Coasts are where most of the cities are. As for where globalization benefits? This question is somewhat oversimplified.
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I believe it was faculty bias that was implied with regards to the point about disconfirmation. He did point to statistics showing that liberal bias has been present in universities for quite some time, but that until 1990 it seemed to rema
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but accepting that it's possible I'm wrong and that the crazy guy on the other side is both sincere in his competing belief and possibly correct, allows me to evolve and learn and ultimately get along with more people. As often
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I'd agree, in fact I'd say that in many cases finding the truth is not the first priority of most individual participants in those systems. That's why they're systems, and that's why concepts like integrity are so
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Here's the one I referenced: http://heterodoxacademy.org/2016/10/21/one-telos-truth-or-so... Telos, incidentally, I consider to be a very fascinating and important concept, though only tangentially relev
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This is cool, although the real trick is knowing when and how to employ methods that will mitigate the problems caused by cognitive bias to accurately identify and resolve conflicts and facilitate clear decision-making. This is the purpose

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