adamsea

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by adamsea 6y ago
But isn't it just your own opinion that that which I challenged you to discuss which you have definitively determined to be opinion on which the judgements we are attempting to logically calculate derive themselves from are in fact not
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by adamsea 6y ago
This is the first bit of one of those ACLU articles. IMHO it doesn't sound like anyone is being "dumped", rather, the ACLU is choosing to focus on a particular audience. Which there are a lot of legitimate reasons to choose t
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by adamsea 6y ago
Which Republicans? There are several flavors these days. Also the question would be if reducing the area of government in question also reduced the ability of that part of the government to perform it's function; if so, than a reductio
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by adamsea 6y ago
I appreciate your intent but tbh I found this confusing. I think perhaps we want to talk about two different things and have been trying to squeeze that into one conversation.
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by adamsea 6y ago
Eh, I suggested talking about "... the immoral and unethical (and probably illegal) behavior of the current President of the United States ..". But look man. A part of me wants to back you into a corner, rhetorically. But honestly
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by adamsea 6y ago
Thanks for the info on that. :). What if on January 20 there is disagreement about who the President is? I actually don't know how that works.
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by adamsea 6y ago
For sure. I was just trying to be sneaky and point out that we pay taxes for our "entitlements" so even though it's an accepted term, I think it's an inaccurate one and implies things about the programs people call &quot
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by adamsea 6y ago
Fair. But, I think we're kind of losing the thread here. Let's just pretend the post that kicked off our conversation said "Yes, because much of what trump is criticized for is bad" instead of " ... objectively bad&
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by adamsea 6y ago
Ah, well, parent post said "So you want to "flush out" about 50% of the American electorate? " I thought that meant parent was saying about 50% of the electorate voted for Trump but I could have misinterpreted. OK yeah t
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by adamsea 6y ago
Good point. I don't know, I'd like to learn more! I mean we aren't that different from other animals, especially our fellow mammals. And we're all part of nature and life. And it definitely seems like many animals have v
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by adamsea 6y ago
Fair. It is quite off-topic. Though, I am not the one who introduced it into the discussion ... I am a bit confused though. Big corporations support all sorts of things - arts foundations, politicians who pass policies that will help the co
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by adamsea 6y ago
OK - then I challenge you - how would you describe the moral or ethical status of racism? Can we draw any moral or ethical conclusions about it at all? Seems like this "what's the proper way to use the word objective" discuss
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by adamsea 6y ago
Curious what motivated folks to downvote this. Both points I made are pretty straightforward facts.
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by adamsea 6y ago
Curious what motivated folks to downvote this.
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by adamsea 6y ago
> It might just be a misinterpretation of your joke by the quiet intern > or you forget about a sensitive demographic of people when proposing an idea. Both of those can be true, I imagine. I think the general idea is, though, in Amer
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by adamsea 6y ago
1. 50% of the voting electorate did not vote for Trump. 2. The parent post said "flush out the views", not flush out the people.
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by adamsea 6y ago
Let's put our thinking caps on .... We have laws that represent our current consensus of good and bad. They can change over time. We also have cultural beliefs that function similarly. So, when I say, racism is bad, if someone says, &q
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by adamsea 6y ago
> ... and even raise money for organizations whose stated goal is to destroy American way of life ... Curious. Examples?
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by adamsea 6y ago
What is entitlement spending? These? "Social Security and Medicare are sometimes called "entitlements," because people meeting relevant eligibility requirements are legally entitled to benefits, although most pay taxes into t
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by adamsea 6y ago
The very concept of consent or rape (as moral and ethical concepts - which is why the article uses the word “coerce” instead of “rape”, I bet) are difficult to apply to nonhuman species because they’re not human. [EDIT: interestingly I thin
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by adamsea 6y ago
That’s an understandable conclusion to jump to but IIRC the article said they thought the males needed to form peer groups because the male dolphin mating strategy is, to quote from the article, for a group of males to get a female dolphin
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by adamsea 6y ago
FWIWI think it’s reasonable to infer a number greater than 10% (I’d be greater than 30% but want to be conservative) based on how the NYPD has behaved over time when it comes to its own accountability under the law.
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by adamsea 6y ago
LOL sorry for the length on this comment : )
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by adamsea 6y ago
With regards to long-term life outcomes, that's an interesting question. It'd be cool to see some studies. I don't disagree with your implication that the teaching process the author describe might short-change learning the c
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by adamsea 6y ago
I think you're missing me point. Most likely you'll be correct. But if all the votes aren't counted yet - like what happened with the Bush/Gore election - then the Supreme Court or whomever makes these decisions could le
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by adamsea 6y ago
Agreed. Well, I'd say both. Trump is dangerous, but we're lucky he's not more competent. And the politicians who enable him are terrible. With luck we will begin repairing what we can once a non-incompetent/non-hateful&#
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NY Times: American Catastrophe Through German Eyes(nytimes.com)
8 points by adamsea 6y ago|3 comments
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by adamsea 6y ago
He is arguably a minor celebrity because of the number of followers he has and level of influence. Come on - if the New York Times is writing about your blog then you're obviously, anonymous or not, a "public figure", though
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by adamsea 6y ago
My point was the irony. Damocles wanted to sit in the hot seat, until he found out just how hot it was. Scott Alexander has been a semi-public figure (popular blog, shares pieces of personal information and parts of his name, his location,
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by adamsea 6y ago
What if votes are still being counted? What if so many votes are lost because of screwups that it's hard to know who won in certain counties? What if Trump lies, as he does, and says he won in places where he didn't? Also I'd

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