camelite

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by camelite 6y ago
It's closer to 50/50 as to who takes your preferred media outlet's word for it that any given individual is a sexist jackass.
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by camelite 6y ago
"the silent majority of the defeated" That's great writing.
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by camelite 6y ago
Of course he doesn't. His existence invalidates it.
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by camelite 6y ago
The commenter you are responding to is positing the hidden mandate of the Fed is to inflate asset prices on behalf of the already wealthy. So to say the feds stated mandate is contrary to that is to say nothing.
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by camelite 6y ago
Nonsense. Money isn't getting into people's pockets because the political will isn't there. If it was an influential Bloc screaming for assistance, they would get it, and the details would be worked out later. Where there&#x2
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by camelite 6y ago
I get the pandemic being priced in now, but surely that implies a pas point in time in the past when the pricing in happened? Ie at some point or over some period, somebody looks at the looming global pandemic and goes "fuck! Sell eve
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by camelite 6y ago
> There is no smallest positive infinitesimal either. There is in the surreal and hyperreal number systems. I got that from skimming wikipedia though....
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by camelite 6y ago
It's proof by contradiction. He's responding to somebody saying that Bezos is not a monster (because) he is just responding to market forces. But if you follow that logic, neither is a contract killer. But a contract killer is a m
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by camelite 6y ago
seems like a More Women In Tech group, despite not being explicit. homepage is 26-3 images of women vs men, when an accurate representation would be something like 8-2 in "favor" of men.
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by camelite 6y ago
Well this isn't the ebola epidemic of 2014 now is it? Rules that apply to countries with extremely deficient medical systs don't apply to the richest country in the world.
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by camelite 6y ago
Nevermind the supposed sources, op's sarcastic criticisms of the WHO are all entirely on point.
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by camelite 6y ago
You don't see me claiming that the global death rate is 10% though, do you?
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by camelite 6y ago
Firstly, the German study analysed one small particularly hard hit town, so how you are extrapolating this to "people" in general is puzzling. Secondly, there is a very wide range of reported fatality rates, with myriad factors k
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by camelite 7y ago
I'm an English teacher. Sign me up too?
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by camelite 7y ago
> There's not a lot of papers saying nice things about a mafia oligarchy state unless they've been paid to do so There was one, called "The Economist in the year X" for all X such that whichever combination of oligarc
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by camelite 7y ago
It was written in 1945. People didn't need to be reminded that the left can be intolerant too, and that the principle of intolerable intolerance you are so keen to apply to the right applies more to your behaviour, because you want to
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by camelite 7y ago
It's really bizarre the lengths to which the author goes to weave the "criticism by outsiders" motif into a critique which ostensibly targets a born-and-bred Appalacian. Three full introductory paragraphs about the guy who sa
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by camelite 7y ago
There are plenty of issues the WashPo, Atlantic & NYTimes are absolute garbage on.
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by camelite 7y ago
> Yes, which is why the salaries for such positions are often so high. The demonstrable lack of financial repercussions for failure, which you are arguing is justified in some cases, belie this causal relationship. I'd echo Taleb an
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by camelite 7y ago
> If you start blacklisting every single C-level that was ever involved in a controversy, the only choices you're going to have for your board of directors are going to be people that have very limited experience making executive de
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by camelite 7y ago
> These nations can't simply commit a bunch of crimes, get rich, change the rules, then expect to be protected from past actions. They do it all the time. When will the Chinese Communist Party pay for the famine which killed 2-6% of
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by camelite 7y ago
> The basis of the theory of trade, frankly the whole point of trading at all, is that some people can make or get stuff more cheaply than other people, and that by "trading" those items with people who need them for stuff we w
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by camelite 7y ago
> You can add those quantifiers if you want, but jlawson's argument is still an obvious double standard. Add? Put them back where you took them from, rather. You can claim that until the cows come home and it will still be true that
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by camelite 7y ago
> And that's why you're simultaneously arguing that speech cannot be violence but also arguing that it is a violence No matter how many times you elide the modifiers before the word violence (before, "a call to", now
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by camelite 7y ago
It's fiction imo
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by camelite 7y ago
> If you remove price, it will be something else besides price, such as a lottery, how politically connected you are, or something else. The main driver of price is not "demand" imagined as how much people willing to pay for a
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by camelite 7y ago
Kevin Drum is banging his "It's the lead, stupid" drum on this: https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2019/03/ecuador-phase...
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by camelite 8y ago
The only thing approaching an answer to the question you were asked was zerohedges Syria spin. Care to expand on that? My belief is that mainstream us new sources, including the most august, have been guilty of Iraq-level pro-war journalist
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by camelite 8y ago
Newsguard aren't experts, their results are trash.
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by camelite 8y ago
I'd had that study in my mental lexicon of "gender bias studies that aren't total bullshit" for a long time until recently. Seemed like a pretty black and white way to isolate gender discrimination. Turns out it - or rat

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