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by divided 4y ago
When you hear hooves, think horses not zebras. All throughout history viruses have spread from close animal contact with humans. Including—and I cannot stress this enough—a novel coronavirus circa 2002 that spread from bat to intermediary h
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by divided 4y ago
Right, what I’m saying is we know <1% of virus types, and it’s reasonable to believe we know <1% of coronavirus strains. The bats don’t need to be at all near the market, the theory is an intermediate host was in the market. A bat cou
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by divided 4y ago
To be fair, there’s no trace of it in the lab either /s Double zoonosis? The virus jumped to us and then to dogs, cats, tigers, hippos, pigs, etc. 29 known species! An unfathomable triple zoonosis that happened many, many times (thousa
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by divided 4y ago
Fun fact! There are just 9,110 named virus species as of 2021. But there are estimates that mammals and birds may have as many as 1.7 million undiscovered viruses. An older source says there were ~200 some known viruses that could infect hu
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by divided 4y ago
I don’t believe anyone is saying it’s needlessly complex, but Occam’s Razor isn’t “the second simplest explanation is usually the correct one.” On one hand you have the market which housed animals that throughout its history some have had a
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by divided 4y ago
The evidence clearly points in that direction, so yes. Supreme Court rulings notably trending towards increasing Christian freedoms at the expense of others (reintroducing staff-led prayer at school, allowing businesses to discriminate agai
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by divided 4y ago
I respect that, although I wish I could claim to be a zealot. I hope you have a good day, too. I like to work in facts, so I gave a short list of government actions I’m aware of (I could give many more) done by Republicans that restrict fre
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by divided 4y ago
OK sure, I'm all in favor of more accountability. But I also think it's absurd right-wing media portrays the FBI as a Democrat controlled and biased organization. According to a (likely poor quality) poll, when only considering Hi
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by divided 4y ago
I could easily back it up: The right has over the past 6 months used the levers of government to make it illegal for women to get reproductive care, banned books on LGBTQ and race from school libraries, removed elected officials for espousi
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by divided 4y ago
Comparing intolerance of intolerance to just plain intolerance is a false equivalency. It’s a bit like saying the abolitionists and slave owners were equally destructive and bad because the slave owners were intolerant of black people while
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by divided 4y ago
Interesting data points, but in isolation polling seems to be a rather poor method for determining this. More conservative viewpoints are also associated with higher stigmatization of mental health conditions[1] and one indisputable measure
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by divided 4y ago
Although I think it's fair to characterize the left as favoring collectivism, I don't think it's fair to characterize them as following government rules any more than the right. Typically speaking, the left want government ru
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by divided 4y ago
You state this as if it were a fact, but how did you come to this conclusion? Presidents don’t determine the type of people who join the FBI, stay for decades, and work themselves into leadership positions. Presidents just appoint one of th
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by divided 4y ago
Fair enough, although if you doubted its authenticity, a quick search to verify it is trivial to do. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/words-mccabe-claims-firing-p...
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by divided 4y ago
I’m glad you brought up Andrew McCabe, because we have public knowledge about his party affiliation! > “I have considered myself to be a Republican my entire life,” albeit “a moderate Republican,” McCabe said. “I’ve voted for every Repub
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by divided 4y ago
You’re telling me you believe the heads of the FBI have been registering as Republicans for 85 years and been appointed to the role by Republican presidents all as a long running scheme to lull Republicans into believing the FBI was not the
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by divided 4y ago
Even in your argument against the FBI you give a reason for having them. Yes, they missed 9/11, but they have also prevented unknown numbers of terrorist attacks. They are also largely the ones called in to investigate serial murderers
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by divided 4y ago
Right-wing has tried to portray them as politically biased against Republicans, but the evidence doesn’t bear this out. Since 1935 there have been 16 directors or acting directors. Only one of those was a registered Democrat and he only ser
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by divided 4y ago
Wait until you hear about all the crimes committed by law enforcement at _every_ level… The FBI is often involved in some of the most serious crimes (serial murderers, sex trafficking, organized crime), so getting rid of them sounds a bit l
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by divided 4y ago
Oh and the hyper-partisan part was you were taking a statement and contorting it into something no one was saying. This is strawmanning an argument so it becomes trivial to argue against. It’s very, very often used to contort political posi
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by divided 4y ago
To be clear, black people having the right to vote wasn’t the original deal, either. Was them achieving the right to vote disenfranchising white people? That’s the problem here. Yes, black people achieving a say in how they were governed le
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by divided 4y ago
This is an extremely good point, thank you for recognizing it. In the lead up to WW2, Nazis in Germany appealed to the ailing rural population by telling them the Jews, Marxists, social democrats, feminists, and intellectuals were the reaso
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by divided 4y ago
> Many in this thread are saying things like “if LA county has more population than 40 states why should we listen to those states?” I think this is a highly uncharitable rephrasing of what's being said. This sort of hyper-partisan
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by divided 4y ago
> What if 60% of the population wanted to slaughter the other 40%? That's right, I too can come up with wacky hypotheticals that won't happen and presuppose a lot of other important variables don't change. This was my poin
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by divided 4y ago
Yes, I’m aware of Quebec’s history (and other provinces/territories threaten it these days). But the same thing happens in the US and having a Senate hasn’t changed that. That was the original point, our Senate/Electoral College i
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by divided 4y ago
What's so special about squiggly lines drawn by politicians generations ago? You realize there's no divinity in the division between South and North Dakota, right? Even back then these territories were being divided up to maximize
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by divided 4y ago
It’s fantasy because it’s just not how the world works. Territories aren’t just up and leaving Canada because there isn’t a body like our Senate. I cannot think of any territory within any developed nation successfully leaving the country.
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by divided 4y ago
Interesting, but I’d say your case study is a much clearer explanation of the downsides to unfettered capitalism (especially in regards to infrastructure) and money in politics than it is of political power apportioned by population. Tradit
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by divided 4y ago
This is an interesting concept. Put the vote multiplier on the backside instead of the front. The Wyoming rep gets 1 vote, but the California rep gets 1.8, etc. This would allow for smaller bodies for more effective debate and you’d give sm
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by divided 4y ago
Ah yes, the 3/5ths compromise and its relevance to today’s world. Basing one’s political beliefs on apportionment of power over the fears held by 18th century politicians feels ripe for bad takes. There are many, many other divides tha

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