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by cirath 9y ago
I don't think they are downvoting as a disagreement in this case. The answer seems self serving and less about fostering discussion about the information presented so much as self-aggrandizing. It read, to me, like "I don't s
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by cirath 9y ago
That idea is not new, either -- we just have a collective propensity to forget hard lessons. >Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charit
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by cirath 9y ago
Woah now, let's not make any wild leaps here. The Roman Empire was fantastically multicultural at its high points and its low. The United States has never been homogeneous, no matter where in its history you find yourself -- the low or
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by cirath 9y ago
> The ageing mill towns of East Lancashire, UK, still enjoyed a culture of trust and respect for your neighbours such that you could leave your front door open without fear of theft. That is a strange line to include there, as I am not s
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by cirath 9y ago
I almost didn't want to type this, because not really sure if trolling or if typing this out doesn't count as pointing out the obvious -- but the implication is that Shen is a victim of the Chinese regime.
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by cirath 9y ago
> It is a risk that ruling by executive decree entails. The problem is the gross disconnect between Local, State, and Federal interests. Polls have support for the Paris agreement well into the majority, beyond the margin for error; were
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by cirath 9y ago
> If the US was able to survive the loss of the Vietnam war and the Bay of Pigs where many people who bet their lives on the US died after being abandoned by them, the US will survive this as well and American credibility will be just f
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by cirath 9y ago
> When did American exceptionalism turn into "It's too hard so I'm going to do nothing"? That's been a painfully common refrain in the current generation of political discourse (though the generational line is di
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by cirath 9y ago
The early predictions were based on the early polls, and the later predictions were based on data after election results started to come in. A lot of the States that ended up swinging were on the eastern half, so the rapidly changing outloo
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by cirath 9y ago
> The explanation is that the polling data was simply made up. You don't feel like you are oversimplifying a bit, and applying your own bias? Any pollster knows (and I realize you may ignore this point due to that opening bit) that
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by cirath 10y ago
That is kind of a false statement, though. If he were to say that Freedom of the Press is no longer protected, the press would be very angry with you -- but I don't think it would improve your image of being against the establishment.
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by cirath 10y ago
Obama's inability to get much done can be, objectively, attributed largely to an obstructionist Congress. While not wholly to blame, it certainly both slowed his agenda, and often caused him to gut key provisions from legislation in or
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by cirath 10y ago
>CNN for sure did not cover these issues proportionately to their gravity. This is a very reasonable statement, but ultimately does not encapsulate the rhetoric that has been levied against the media by Trump specifically, nor his more a
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by cirath 10y ago
Trump is a more long term threat due to the long term fallout and international perception of the United States as a result of his actions. Yes, his Immigration related EO does not affect nearly as many people as the rhetoric would indicate
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by cirath 10y ago
The linked Reuters article said their polls showed a 90% chance of a Clinton win, but the polls across all boards proved to be unreliable after the fact. What they did that advanced the idea of unbiased journalism is twofold: First, they re