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by asabjorn 6y ago
The firing seem related to a conflict between CRT morals and normative western moral systems. The ethics researcher in question seem to subscribe to the Critical Race Theory way of looking at the problem, "it's not a question if X
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What is your favorite alternative?
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> But it's obvious to any thinking person not living in a poisoned media ecosystem that all of these election fraud claims are baseless and ridiculous. If so, the facts around it should be freely discussable like the Russian collusi
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Declassified evidence and interviews of the FBI agents in charge of the case corroborate that they thought Flynn was innocent, and actually tried to close the case in January 2017. [1 - contains links to declassified evidence] FBI managemen
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Declassified FBI documents indicate otherwise. Flynn actually notified FBI of all meetings with Russians and debriefed with them afterwards. There is much that is puzzling about the judges treatment of this case considering: 1) The FBI agen
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> I'll flip the question around. Had Trump won, would the Democratic party be publishing content like this with the same lack of evidence? I think you know the answer to that. After his win in 2016 we had Russia collusion claims abo
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The problem with how academic and science work is currently structured is that there is an oversupply of labor at basement-dwelling compensation. Post-docs work for decades before getting better opportunities, and people are cheap labor in
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I agree that all voting locations should be open, and I see now reason to close voting locations because of Covid when Home Depot and Whole Foods can be open. I actually don't see why we can't utilize government resources to open
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I am talking about the "last-mile" problem of securing that the mail carrier getting the ballot into the voters hands and securing that the ballot gets from the mail box to the counting location. At a physical voting location you
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by asabjorn 6y ago
I think Republicans are ok with there being no mail-in voting. At least 50% of the population does not trust the large-scale move to mail-in-voting, so considering that people can stand in line at Home Depot and Whole Foods the loss of elec
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by asabjorn 6y ago
If someone can stand in line for the cashier at Home Depot and Whole Foods, they can also do so at the voting booth. Mail-in voting has no tracking of the voter receiving the ballot and if a filled out ballot is counted. It also has no veri
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by asabjorn 6y ago
That is incorrect https://www.facebook.com/antifautrecht/
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In the end money is worth nothing if no one does work for it. Low income workplaces are demonstrating the issue with UBI: people were angry at business owners for taking small business loans to keep doors open and employees preferred unempl
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I find it absolutely ridiculous that this is being voted down. news.ycombinator.com is not what it used to be, or maybe I've changed. I guess this demonstrates the tactics that is highly unfavorable to help people make up their own min
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by asabjorn 6y ago
> didn't ignore it - was responding specifically to text/headline of one of the other articles Why did you move on from the comment most relevant to the topic of the fact check? Fact check disputed evidence of absentee voter fr
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by asabjorn 6y ago
> So... no evidence of fraudulent use. First link has plenty of people convicted of voter fraud using absentee ballots: https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/docs/p... > 28 million
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> the president is constantly claiming things without any evidence backing up [to those voting down: these are convicted cases of voter fraud. If you are in favor of fact-checking these cases demonstrate the core question: who deserve th
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by asabjorn 6y ago
On #1: I continued researching after the interesting evidence from parent. To anyone interested this is an overview of multiple studies of N95 usage and it’s efficiency in stopping covid spread [1]. TLDR; The results for flu studies show no
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It’s a claim from Douglas Murray. Recommend the video. The opinion on it being a bad idea to try to eradicate hate is in the question of who is worthy of such power? When you try to eradicate what you think is hate in the way google is you
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Douglas Murray said it well [1]: TLDR; the problem is that the tech companies have been flooded with people of a particular political kind after their political factions lost. They went to Facebook and google bringing strong convictions wit
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by asabjorn 6y ago
You accuse me of misrepresenting while doing it yourself and provide outliers to justify your point: 1) N95 effectiveness: Edit: parent seem correct that it protect others against sneezes as long as it doesn’t leak out through sides due to
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That is absolute nonsense. Did the 7 states that never locked down or the ones reopening weeks ago actually do so without it turning into the dire scenario the models predicted? Wasn’t the self directed mitigation’s and targeted quarantine
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by asabjorn 6y ago
Your criticism does not make sense at all. I wish you addressed my questions and criticisms of your argument instead of bringing up new points, but I'll address your new points as well. > Another misleading assertion is the idea tha
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> My point was that NY shouldn't be a "totally different conversation", but that we should look to NY as a cautionary tale WRT potential outcomes without sufficient mitigation. The fact that hospital capacity was not overr
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He is responding to your comment about the New York scenario. The original justification for the shutdown was that we would run out of hospital capacity. New York always had ample capacity in hospitals, and the USNS comfort and Javits cente
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Follow standard CDC procedure [1] and research cause of death for every death. [1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/misc/hb_me.pdf
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> It's pointless to respond to the statements of anyone supporting Trump in his employ as a primary criteria for his employ is on its face the willingness to say anything he wishes. Innuendo is not a valid argument against evidence
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by asabjorn 6y ago
Can't reply directly to Ikiris: It seems unfair to ask me another question without addressing my reference to Dr Birx statement. She is the one who's credentials this claim rest upon. Edit: reply to Ikiris child comment. Innuendo
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Suggestion to parent from someone that agree: find some evidence to counter claim or support another story. Share this evidence and direction to better path, and then each individual will choose if they want to put together the evidence to
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He is saying that as Dr Birx on the coronavirus task force says [1] the government classify all coronavirus patient deaths as ‘COVID-19’ deaths, regardless of cause. This is due to a highly unusual CDC guideline that stipulates this, and it

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