SlapHappy

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   by SlapHappy 8y ago

   Again, you missed the point. It isn't about outrage or my stance on abortion (I'm pro-choice). It's that The Atlantic caved into the Twitter mob, and cowardly backtracked even though KDW's views were public. The firing o
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   by SlapHappy 8y ago

   Have you taken the time to investigate KDW's actual views on abortion or capital punishment? Are you aware that he opposes capital punishment? Have you ever read some of his columns? Do you know that he's the walking, talking defi
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   by SlapHappy 8y ago

   This isn't about whether you agree or disagree with KDW. It's about the cowardly smearing he endured and the fact that Jeff Goldberg, the so called "editor-in-chief" of The Atlantic, is not really the editor-in-chief at
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   by SlapHappy 8y ago

   > For decades, America has embraced a civic nationalism over a European-style ethnic nationalism Doesn't this fly in the face of the contemporary liberal/progressive critiques of society? It seems to me that race has had a cent
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   by SlapHappy 8y ago

   I wasn't suggesting that the ideologies are identical, just that they share those elements The way you worded your comment obviously made that implication - between Republicans and the Khmer Rouge, when in fact the Khmer Rouge was a
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   by SlapHappy 8y ago

   You are aware that the Khmer Rouge was a leftist Marxist government, right? Also, the “hatred” goes both ways.
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   by SlapHappy 8y ago

   Can we keep the Reddit jingoism to Reddit? This site is intended to be a welcome reprieve from the vacuous discussions elsewhere.
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   by SlapHappy 8y ago

   I think HN is better example of "brutalist" web design than most of the examples. Plain typefaces and colors, rigid lines and block-y structures. As for the bit about brutalism being "honest, unpretentious and anti-bourgeois&
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   by SlapHappy 9y ago

   I agree with you. I went mattress shopping a couple years ago and was taken aback by the prices. The whole thing felt like a scam, as people have been sleeping perfectly well for hundreds of years without all this extraneous marketing crap.