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>Name one time in history the people on the side of censorship been in the right. Germany's current censorship of Nazi imagery and holocaust denial. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strafgesetzbuch_section_86a#:~..
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>And yet despite three Democratic presidential terms since 1992, the average American is way poorer and sicker than they were 30 years ago. I'm not advocating the neoliberalism on the 1990s, I'm talking about the modern day Dem
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>People like Hillary Clinton have never voted consistently in the interests of people who voted for Trump. Examples? I'm not a Clinton fan personally but Clinton and the rest of the Democrats have consistently proposed and voted for
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I mean, I grew up in what is now trump country in a rural area and heard the term 'hicks' and 'hillbillies' as self-descriptors and descriptors of others but I now live in an urban area and never hear those terms. Its ju
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I guess if that's the conspiracy theory driven world you want to live in, that's your right but thank you for perfectly illustrating how the "split" is largely in the imagination of rural voters.
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The "split" isn't north vs south though, nor is it based on slavery or the Mason-Dixon line. Our government is dysfunctional because the main structure of government was created before the industrial revolution. The writers o
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>That's what really bums me out. Both pro-crypto and anti-crypto have become such cults that even as a curious person it's hard to make sense of anything anymore. No matter what side you're on, there's little room for
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> Virtue signalling is a real thing. You see it often with things like land acknowledgements[1][2], for example. Of course its a thing. It discredits you because its a term conservatives have been trained to use when they don't like
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> People were sure a lot safer before meth and heroin were decriminalized. I'd love to see some actual data on this. > No other country allows people to just sit on the sidewalk and smoke meth and shoot heroin and break into cars
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Schools are funded through income tax and property tax generally. Where did they lose the 3,500 students to? Some other school?
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You should take a hard look at the criminal justice system of those 'actually progressive' countries because they look a lot more like California than they do Texas. They tend to spend their money on the social safety net and prov
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Is there any evidence that the SF Unified School District short fall has anything to do with either the pandemic or population decline? California has population decline because its such an attractive place to live, which I know goes agains
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> Based on the rest of the comment, you are not listening to what I'm saying, nor are you offering anything to back up any opinions. I'm listening to what you're saying, it's just incorrect. > Specialization and l
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Hell, reddits' interface is so terrible and slow that its a basic requirement to get an account solely so you don't have to use it.
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Perhaps you shouldn't form your opinion of the world based on 'news'. I live in Portland and don't feel in danger, and our homicide rate is one of the lowest for a big city in the country.
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> Studies, surveys, anything at all to back up your claim. Sounds like there isn't (use of absolutes in your statement was probably the problem). Most people are generally capable of reading that as an opinion absolute statement. Li
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Portland is significantly safer than most big cities in red states.
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> Is there any evidence of that? How could there be any evidence of that? > Seems there are quite a few who support them as-is and many more who want to see minor reforms. Sure, that's the not the same thing. Many people reflexi
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> The real question is how can we attract and retain officers that want to do the job? Maybe the job just doesn't make sense in modern America? If police as a concept didn't exist already, no one would create it. If you broke i
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>One would imagine that many if not most police officers support some kinds of sensible reform but probably hesitate to support "defunding" their wages and have their and their colleagues jobs cut, which is what "defund&qu
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I think there's really a collision between your conspiracy theory view of the world where getting inoculated is equivalent to being 'tagged, tracked and validated" Vaccinated people can get sick and transmit the virus, true,
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The court really has nothing to do with whether or not something is well-established. The judge who blocked the mandate is an ideological, inexperience trump appointee. I'm talking about 'well-established' in that it's b
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The difference is totally irrelevant. >Unvaccinated people are not suddenly shedding and dangerous, in the way a naked person is shedding pubic hairs everywhere. Unvaccinated people are inherently dangerous. The change is that we now hav
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My thought is that anti-science folks are telling each other that the media and scientists are saying that mainly because the evidence that the COVID-19 vaccine is safe and effective is overwhelming. They need to move the goal post to &quot
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It's common-sense in that the large majority of medical professionals agree that those measures are a good idea. Those ideas are non-controversial amongst experts.
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I was just establishing that you don't have a philosophical problem with an Authority using coercion to achieve a goal. Vaccines are safe and effective so I wont get into what conspiracy theories you believe about the COVID-19 vaccine.
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Choices have consequences. I have the choice to stop wearing clothes to my job and the consequence of that choice is that my job would fire me. The ability of the government to establish vaccination requirements is long established. It&#x27
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Is being told to wear clothes or get fired coercion? Do you find that acceptable?
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Unfortunately the US has comically weak enforcement of labor laws. I've experienced and heard many examples of this from over the years including managers asking employees to clock-out and finish their work. While that is illegal, the
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It's not hard if you've ever been in a union. I'm in a union and while wages are important, its the peace of mind knowing my boss can't fire because she's having a bad day or force me to work unpaid overtime that I

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