MockObject

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by MockObject 4y ago
I was showing that his description of ESG hardly qualifies as grievance that deserves downvoting. If we agree that his description was neutral, great!
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by MockObject 4y ago
If violations to improve ESG score are a poor risk:reward gamble, what are the rewards of these other violations that "happen all the time"? Are the rewards even greater than improvement of ESG score?
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by MockObject 4y ago
> ESG funds will buy more of your company’s stock if you have a higher percentage of women on boards, for example, and other metrics. This is as close to a neutral and objective description of ESG as could be written in English! That is
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by MockObject 4y ago
> Remind me again, in the US, how many white people were sold in to chattel slavery? Even an answer of zero doesn't address or contradict my original point. There's no such thing as "neoslavery". Racism was certainly
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by MockObject 4y ago
Now this is the second time you're ignoring the context of the supply of the very slaves being discussed, so I determine that you are not discussing honestly.
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by MockObject 4y ago
Indeed, race is used as a proxy for class so commonly, that there was little reaction to Biden's quote "Poor Kids Are Just as Bright as White Kids" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/09/us/pol
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by MockObject 4y ago
You quote the Cornerstone Speech correctly, which was a post-hoc rationalization, a propaganda effort to encourage millions of fighting age men to lay down their lives for an economic system that was based on slavery which, I've alread
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by MockObject 4y ago
There is bad-faith activity on this thread when a substantive comment like this is downvoted without rebuttal.
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by MockObject 4y ago
On the other hand, King's notorious speech sounds absolutely nothing like Kendi or other current anti-racists, so evidently there's quite a gap between the two stances, and it's dishonest to deny it.
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by MockObject 4y ago
This is a very inappropriate analogy, because humans are very diverse; the exact opposite of a die's faces.
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by MockObject 4y ago
> Your theory is that, for example, turning people into property based on race was not racist? If so, I don't think there's much point in a discussion here. Given that the enslaved had been so subjugated by others of the very s
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by MockObject 4y ago
Wouldn't all living people be so Caucasian, then?
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by MockObject 4y ago
Is this the reporting you're criticizing? "Want to save the oceans? Stop recycling plastic "If you put your plastic in your recycling bin, there’s a decent chance it will end up in the seas off east Asia. If you put it in lan
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by MockObject 4y ago
I really can't believe that Japanese users don't use the Gregorian calendar for most of their activity.
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by MockObject 4y ago
On a spreadsheet, they look quite the same.
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by MockObject 4y ago
I was a dutiful recycler until links here on HN taught me that plastic thrown in the main garbage stream would end up safely in a landfill, but 20% of recycled plastic ends up in the ocean!
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by MockObject 4y ago
They "packed" a court with a single justice? That's "packing"? In no other area would you ever consider the addition of a single individual to be "packing" anything. The term "packing" is being m
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by MockObject 4y ago
Nope, your recent discovery of partisanship in DC, or the strength of your personal hatred of a justice or two, still does not make their appointment "court packing".
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by MockObject 4y ago
If you're looking for awful decisions, how about starting with Wickard and Raich, or even Roe, widely recognized as weak judicial argumentation. Heller is well argued and historically sourced, as opposed to the divination of a right to
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by MockObject 4y ago
The American people do that any time they feel like it.
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by MockObject 4y ago
Heller 2008 explains how the Court interprets that.
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by MockObject 4y ago
"Latinx" also proves that the motivation is grounded in bad faith, for if someone were truly offended by the gendered term "Latino", they would surely use "Latin" instead of creating an ostentatious monstrosity
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by MockObject 4y ago
The project of identity politics is based in the elite classes, and is used to further alienate the working classes, who lack the time or interest to keep up with the quickly-evolving shibboleths, that often contradict their lived experienc
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by MockObject 4y ago
> Maybe we can all appreciate that perhaps the people who wrote this list are in fact expressing a genuine concern about language that is held by others, even if you do not personally see the concern? No, I do not believe that anyone is
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by MockObject 4y ago
I suspect we're quickly approaching the point where impotent cries of hypocrisy will no longer be considered even worth issuing. Maybe we're already there. The charge is inert, it does not sting, it changes no minds, and is slight
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by MockObject 4y ago
Just a few.
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by MockObject 4y ago
How is Citizens United a factor here? If it were, it would be the cannabis companies using their earnings to successfully legalize it in other states, and on the federal level. Perhaps we need more lobbying money happening.
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by MockObject 4y ago
It's not pedantry when the company in question should not be acting as a bank.
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by MockObject 4y ago
> Well, no, most people don’t realize US is using slave labor And they shouldn't, since the example you cited is 0.00048 of the US GDP.
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by MockObject 4y ago
Fascism isn't a fad like bell bottom jeans. It forms under specific material conditions.

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