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by alentist 5y ago
> And the use of the term ‘expedition’ carries orientalist associations ?
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by alentist 5y ago
> Only someone that doesn’t understand what censorship is would say this. Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information, on the basis that such material is considered objectionable, harmful, sensiti
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by alentist 5y ago
> When you're the default, you have representation in all media Not true. > there's no reason to believe that the character is anything except the most common case in society Not true. You are simply throwing out baseless as
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by alentist 5y ago
> Every poll of Americans and religions shows Christianity as by far the most popular choice. There is simply no way to square your idea that nonreligious is the default when over 70% of Americans identify as Christian.[0] GP is talking
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by alentist 5y ago
> Your position is a very strong affirmative for the current status quo. Non sequitur. > You don't want anyone to be able to enact change. Non sequitur. > If your goal is to never be critiqued because you can't stand to b
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by alentist 5y ago
Non sequitur.
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by alentist 5y ago
HN readers care about lots of things. That doesn't mean they're all on-topic. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than
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by alentist 5y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23110664
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by alentist 5y ago
That's clearly not what I said.
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by alentist 5y ago
Are you referring to the Index of Economic Freedom in the second paper? 1. The data is freely available and you can check the methodology yourself: https://www.heritage.org/index/pdf/2016/book/methodology
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by alentist 5y ago
Those are not mutually exclusive.
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by alentist 5y ago
Are you implying they're socialist?
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by alentist 5y ago
Are you trying to cite Singapore and Hong Kong as countries that are socialist?
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by alentist 5y ago
Economic freedom reduces poverty. https://rd.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9780230114319_3 > Compared to those that were less free, countries with higher economic freedom ratings during 1980–2005 had lower rates
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by alentist 5y ago
I'm not sure where to begin, and frankly I'm astonished you think any of it "makes sense". To start with, do you know what a tragedy of the commons is? Second, why would "individual freedom being prized so heavily&q
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by alentist 5y ago
> As you noted it’s a tragedy of the commons—-because unquestioned individual freedom is prized so heavily in USA, some dog owners take advantage of it without appropriate precaution, and those people tend to do things like call the poli
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by alentist 5y ago
You say you "don't care" about the origin or the discussion around it, yet you're arguing in a thread about precisely that?
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by alentist 5y ago
> That's like saying "The child was murdered by a Black man," vs "The child was murdered by a man wearing a hoodie and a scar on his left cheek." Why do you think the latter is more "to the point" than
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by alentist 5y ago
> Multiple accusers had credible accounts, media did scrutinize their accounts and determined that one wasn’t credible while others were. Like?
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by alentist 5y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27295778
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by alentist 5y ago
> Remember when this claim was made about a now sitting SCOTUS justice? Remember, indeed? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27299548
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by alentist 5y ago
Economic freedom reduces poverty. https://rd.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9780230114319_3 > Compared to those that were less free, countries with higher economic freedom ratings during 1980–2005 had lower rat
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by alentist 5y ago
You need to provide a reliable source for your fantastical claim that "capitalism’s death toll far exceeds 100 million". You're trying to deflect because you don't have one.
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by alentist 5y ago
I asked you for a reliable source for your claim, not more fantastical ranting. In the meantime, you might want to look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grea
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by alentist 5y ago
"Woke" ideology is indeed the spawn of Marxism, and it's disingenuous to pretend otherwise. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Marxism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_theor
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by alentist 5y ago
> capitalism’s death toll far exceeds 100 million, it achieves that much in a few years Do you have a reliable source for this fantastical claim?
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by alentist 5y ago
There were also real Communist agents. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venona_project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Fuchs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_and_Ethe
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by alentist 5y ago
What exactly is "horrifying" to you about not wanting to live in a crime-ridden community?
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by alentist 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deniable_encryption
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by alentist 5y ago
Your claim is undermined by migration from more-equal-but-poorer countries to less-equal-but-richer ones.

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