Helmet

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by Helmet 9y ago
No, no there isn't. And if holding conservative views makes the workplace "hostile", a ridiculously vague and subjective state of affairs, it's not because of the conservatives.
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by Helmet 9y ago
Christ. He isn't, and for the love of god, stop reading things that people on the internet tell you and immediately accepting them as fact. Even what I just said, that he isn't, you should go look up, investigate, and see what YOU
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by Helmet 9y ago
Any living male with a pulse is generally considered to be "right-wing", particularly if they ask questions or exhibit any skepticism towards mainstream liberal culture.
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by Helmet 9y ago
> So then every single thing that pretty much every single monopolist has done is totally fine since, you know, it wasn't genocide? What? I didn't say that it was "fine". I'm just trying to get a handle on the sc
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by Helmet 9y ago
This I disagree with. There is a sort of Nolan cult, which I think is undeserved. He is a fine film-maker, but his dialogue is often stilted, the scores overstated and the characters under-developed - and while he is a decent cinematographe
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by Helmet 9y ago
What exactly did he or Uber do that is morally reprehensible? To me "morally reprehensible" implies something quite extreme, like, say, genocide, callous violent crime, rape, etc.
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by Helmet 9y ago
Liberal arts education is essential if our goal is to have a well-rounded, educated, ethical, and cultured citizenry. But, of course, this would mean that the liberal arts would have to actually go back to teaching the Western canon, and no
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by Helmet 9y ago
What? I was painting broadly the social demographic of the people that push this sort of nonsense - it usually is uppity liberals and fringe radicals. People who actually care about their neighborhoods call the police when there are homicid
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by Helmet 9y ago
A few things - the citation is quite irrelevant when the information is true, so it's not a point worth raising. In a way - and if the Post is the only place that reported on this, then your adding credence to my argument that the medi
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by Helmet 9y ago
>Then how do you explain the successive insanely excessive right wing governments I'm not familiar with Australian politics, but as for the others, what do you mean? We have had both liberal and conservative governments the last 30-
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by Helmet 9y ago
Yes, that one. I stand by my criticism, and I accuse you of the very thing that you are accusing me of. If you want me to go in depth, I will. If anything, I restrained myself in addressing that asinine article. It opens with: >"But
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by Helmet 9y ago
>The left has not taken over anything. I specifically said that the dominant culture is left - and it most certainly is, not the economic order. Virtually every major newspaper in every major city is left-leaning, almost every single cab
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by Helmet 9y ago
>Quite honestly, in the past 10 or so years, the Republican party has made itself extremely easy to dump on. Quite the opposite actually. As the contemporary left has taken over mainstream culture and turned into the de facto "estab
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by Helmet 9y ago
I disagree. I think the "natural" state of things is definitely more conservative, and it's reflected in people's attitudes, traditions, and behaviors as they age, and their general resistance to change. Progressivism wo
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by Helmet 9y ago
> I'm having a hard time understanding why you would think this. Why I would think what? >Is the suggestion here that people who are morally sincere can't be bad (whatever their moral views may be)? No, the suggestion is tha
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by Helmet 9y ago
1 - i changed it to equate for you. 2. you did, and your illustration provided no such thing; it’s a strawman with no bearing in reality, and your very self-same argument can be used to undermine your own position... 3. what?
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by Helmet 9y ago
I don’t know what the hell you’re talking about.
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by Helmet 9y ago
Yeah man. You’re not the first person I’ve seen equate the plight and horror of slaves and slavery to the contemporary condition of the LGTB community in a modern, first world, secular society, but I can’t help but wonder at exactly how it
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by Helmet 9y ago
This is the sort of reasoning and rhetoric that pushes people like me, political moderates, away from the left. If I’m following you correctly here, because you can’t use whichever public toilet you want, you are denied a fundamental right,
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by Helmet 9y ago
You do realize that massive swaths of the population in virtually every single country in the world are not accepting of homosexuality (1)? Are all of these people "bad"? Of course not. There is simply a cultural disconnect, and s
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by Helmet 9y ago
>In short, I did not want to live in a state where the legislature had nothing better to do than fight the culture war to win votes for the next election. California doesn't fight the culture war? California is the primary exporter
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by Helmet 9y ago
>It also helps that the republicans are horrific towards anyone who isn't a straight white male There are women in all rungs of the Republican Party, from local to federal levels. The GOP has also followed the general trend of growi
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by Helmet 9y ago
> harden rent control So price controls... > eliminate no-fault eviction "no-fault eviction" is, quite literally, a made-up magical concept. A landlord that chooses to not renew your lease is not "evicting" you. Bo
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by Helmet 9y ago
For the love of god.... I'm intimately acquainted with both being poor and poor people. I have never in my life sneered at them and I donate generously to help them when I am in a position to do so. I have been poor for the majority of
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by Helmet 9y ago
> many people have strong ties to the bay area which serve to keep them there. My family had strong ties to Yugoslavia, until NATO bombed it, so we moved to Germany. We had strong ties to Germany, until it seemed likely that our temporar
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by Helmet 9y ago
> So your proposal is that the single parent work a second job in order to move to Nebraska. My proposal is that they do everything they can possibly do to better their position in life. If it means taking a second job, then they should
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by Helmet 9y ago
The above poster gave you an accurate interpretation of my position. "Change what they're doing" is far more effective than the vast majority of any government policy position. If you continue to subsidize these people by tax
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by Helmet 9y ago
We had no family here. If your car breaks down and you can't take it in, you fix it - been there, done that. I sympathize with their situation, I have personally LIVED their situation, but if they cannot afford to live somewhere they n
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by Helmet 9y ago
> The reality is those perspectives are from someone educated enough to understand economics, government programs and how the system works, and someone with a supportive well functioning family. All of which someone working a food-servic
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by Helmet 9y ago
> How? How do you move to Nebraska when you have $100/week for food? You scrounge and save up or work odd jobs and get enough to move. > How do you find a job, when you have literally 0-day you can spend without working? There ar

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