Helmet

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by Helmet 9y ago
I've been both sexually harassed at work and groped by strangers when out on the town (by a woman) - but yeah, I agree with your larger point. I think it's certainly more prevalent the other way around.
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by Helmet 9y ago
Do we? How do you draw that conclusion from the data? Personality disorders seem to be fairly resistant to treatment/therapy, and certainly more than 1% of the population has issues with mental health, yet they don’t seem to commit cri
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by Helmet 9y ago
Yeah, but given current exchange rates £70k is ~$100k. ~100k is nothing to sneeze at...
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by Helmet 9y ago
Not at all - I abhor racism, sexism, and homophobia. My point has more to do with our general indulgence in materialism, offensive and gaudy cultural products (such as music that is highly denigrating and much of TV), a general contempt for
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by Helmet 9y ago
No, but it's important that we control and police language and shove PC culture into your head at absolutely any opportunity and just grind and grind and grind away at any artifact of traditional culture. Case in point - see the 900 po
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by Helmet 9y ago
The deceleration in healthcare costs preceded the ACA, and can mostly be attributed to a slowdown in economic growth (1,2,3). 1 . https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25092842 2. https://economics21.org/
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by Helmet 9y ago
Maybe because it's a ridiculously vague and abstruse question that presupposes a set of ideas that libertarianism, or any political philosophy for that matter, never set out to directly answer? Libertarianism is simply a political fram
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by Helmet 9y ago
>They're all paid for by taxes. Thanks for the reminder; and to think that I've spent a lifetime just assuming that public infrastructure grew out of the ground, like grass. Look, I said I wasn't trying to change the guy&#
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by Helmet 9y ago
>This is the success sequence stuff? Look it's just not very true. Almost the entirety of various 'success sequence' poverty figures can be explained by one thing: maintaining full-time work This isn't true, and a ran
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by Helmet 9y ago
> Eluding taxes is super-unethical. Debatable - some of us hold taxation to be tantamount to theft, so we believe in the exact opposite. I'm not here to debate or change your mind though, just offering a perspective. > America ma
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by Helmet 9y ago
> Now now relax. We can have a sensible discussion without condescension. > You're in a thread about class and you're saying that class distinctions are good......You don't think those people who have experienced the bo
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by Helmet 9y ago
> Move up to the next one? Yes > Class mobility is a fallacy This is patently false. Social mobility is entirely possible, although it has gotten harder since the 1980's, but that wasn't your claim. > that was invented t
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by Helmet 9y ago
Class distinction and hierarchy are precisely the sort of social mechanisms that convince people that there exists alternatives to certain modes of living (class aspiration).
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by Helmet 9y ago
I've known many "low-class" wealthy people. Likewise, I've met some incredible snobby, "upper-class" people who were not very wealthy, mainly intellectuals and artists.
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by Helmet 9y ago
> There is a moral failing in our country where the pursuit of money is seen as the objective optimal thing to do. But it's very reasonable to look at how money changes people, and to turn away from such a lifestyle in disgust. It&#
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by Helmet 9y ago
Yeah, I agree with you there, but it seems to me that power and politics are a fact of life, like the air that we breathe or food that we eat. Maybe we can clean up the air or cook nicer things, but they will always be there.
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by Helmet 9y ago
If everyone did what they wanted to do all of the time, the world would simply cease to function.
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by Helmet 9y ago
Sort of, I’ve washed dishes for a living, bussed tables at an Outback steakhouse, worked as a line cook, stocked groceries at Kroger, and am now a professional software engineer and hobbyist artist. My favorite gig was probably stocking gro
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by Helmet 9y ago
Am I the only one who likes work? And I don’t mean my job, just work in general.
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by Helmet 9y ago
The opposite actually. Start with John Locke and work your way up to Nozick. Individual have rights and: "So strong and far-reaching are these rights that they raise the question of what, if anything, the state and its officials may do
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by Helmet 9y ago
The lack of universal voting rights, as well as slavery, existed despite what I mentioned, not because of it. The Declaration of Independence is quite unequivocal: ...all men are created equal...endowed..with certain unalienable rights... A
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by Helmet 9y ago
I don't understand how an American can manage this thought. It runs in the face of every stated ideal and philosophical underpinning of this dear republic. I'll refer you to the concept of natural rights, Locke, Paine, the Deceler
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by Helmet 9y ago
The argument your side used to take was to attack the traditional family structure, calling it a force of oppression. I’m glad you’ve come around to accept that the traditional family structure is vitally important - this is a basic truth t
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by Helmet 9y ago
Your conclusion isn't supported by your own data. The "flip" doesn't occur around 1980, it occurs in the 1970's (feel free to download the excel sheet and examine it yourself, as I did) and it's a trend that fo
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by Helmet 9y ago
I can't speak for him, but I don't think there is any sort of hidden implication. As for the problem? Well, the 72% illegitimacy rate among African-Americans is an absolute social disaster (1). No amount of school funding or socia
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by Helmet 9y ago
That's because the link between funding and performance is tenuous at best. You are going to get down-voted by liberals because you're starting to engage in "wrongthink", but, deep down, they understand full well the iss
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by Helmet 9y ago
The fact that you've normalized this is telling.
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by Helmet 9y ago
"Anti-Diversity" is a dog-whistle for a slew of brain-dead progressive groupthink, in the same way that "globalist" is, essentially, an anti-semitic slur. If you believe that your company should hire the best and most qu
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by Helmet 9y ago
> No they're not. How is it that you think the 'progressive-left' is sacrificing reason? Where do you want to start? - They actively contributed to an increased homicide rate and made neighborhoods more dangerous for minor
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by Helmet 9y ago
The "right" isn't any more or less "reasoned" than the left. You can make arguments either way. Also, this idea that finance is a cult of old stodgy conservatives is hilarious and patently untrue. Finance folks are

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