drak0n1c

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by drak0n1c 7y ago
Interesting that tax reform was credited as the main reason for increased taxes paid by one of the largest conglomerates in the world. The corporate tax rate was lowered from 35% to 21%, but Google's bump from 9% to 18% might be eviden
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The federated security you describe holds as long as the Electoral College holds. If elections are decided by popular vote, just one or two hacked/corrupt county-administrated systems could decide national elections.
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Newsom tweeting in outrage at rising gas prices soon after signing gas tax hikes is interesting. Aren’t higher gas prices good for the environment and one of the reasons voters wanted him?
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Mueller clarified in his final hearing that he misspoke when answering Lieu's earlier question and stated that the OLC policy you describe was not a deciding factor. Video is embedded in the below PBS link. https://www.pbs.o
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
Mueller clarified in his final hearing that he misspoke when answering Lieu's earlier question and stated that the OLC policy you describe was not a deciding factor. Video is embedded in the below PBS link. https://www.pbs.o
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Conservatives are not offered the opportunity to review or edit articles about them beforehand by these same outlets. The standard is to reach out for comment, not for permission or editorial review.
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And only a tiny fraction of adults in the US are on Twitter at all. That is why it's unnerving to see politicians and corporations so readily bend over backwards to appease Twitter. This is a big reason for the polarization on both sid
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
The slurs in question were repeatedly and brazenly used by Maza in his past attacks on Crowder, and thus were part of the impression in Crowder's response. Context matters. Otherwise, if simply uttering or referencing homophobic slurs
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
There were multiple emails from journalists at supposedly neutral reputable outlets asking the campaign to check and edit their articles before publishing. Also in an email Donna Brazile of CNN agreed to forward the debate questions to the
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
Crowder was harangued by Maza for years, Crowder responding by doing a mocking impression of the self-referential non sequiturs that Maza would proclaim amidst his criticisms seems like fair game and not homophobic. I don't see how it
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
Advertisers didn't care for over a decade until partisan agitators such as Media Matters and Vox methodically cherry picked screenshots of brands next to maligned youtube channels, and then contacted brands threatening to publish names
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
Charter schools and home schooling are viable alternatives, and if done well they have decent results as far as college admissions and career opportunities go.
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
For those who have pricey prescriptions, look into pharmacy coupon databases like GoodRX. Some drugs are 95% cheaper with these private coupons (pharmacies do not advertise them), and sometimes cheaper than buying them through your insuranc
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
Pagan Viking society entailed many sons going on trading and raiding expeditions, sometimes never to return. It was not uncommon for both father and son to leave on the same trip, and young men were often recruited or enslaved by passing sh
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
Good point about ankle cartilage, here is a detailed study about how ankle cartilage is different: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5154419/
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There are lawmakers - both GOP and Democrat - who are in favor of recognizing social and app platforms as public squares. Such regulation would limit arbitrary corporate deplatforming.
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China has been violating WTO rules for decades and faces no repercussions within that framework.
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Hopefully tariffs and sanctions convince them to back off. This kind of commercial censorship is arguably a trade infringement that can be responded against in kind.
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Like any invention, not everything that can be invented has been invented. The current culture war has only been going for around 5 years. Things can change and new divides erupt all the time.
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It's not an invention or arbitrary term. The more traditional usage of the word player for much of the 20th century was to mean someone with agency and control over their own life and surroundings. The usage evolved (narrowed) with the
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
Given the recent data on racial admission percentages [1], it appears that out of all the demographics non-elite non-legacy whites face the hardest time getting into Harvard, due to half of the already below societally-proportionate spots b
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
This Perfect Day, by Ira Levin. Story of a man's repeated attempts to escape a benevolent automated dictatorship where everything is controlled and everyone is kept sedated. The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein - The moon is
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by drak0n1c 7y ago
The article "Postmodernism vs. Science" published in Scientific American provides contemporary context: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-unfortunate-f... Stanford Philosophy provides a more deta
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Elite Ivy League universities are where post-modernist theories of all-encompassing privilege hierarchies were initially formed and propagated. Unfortunately, dogmatic belief systems that may be relevant in the bubble in which they form are
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She makes rational adults uncomfortable because her childhood has been spent by her activist parents on being a political shield.
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Many of the people in your stats simultaneously hold other conservative or centrist values that both parties supported 15 years ago, like being strict on illegal immigration, crime, and late-term abortion. A large number are proud gun owner
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I'm sure you're also a fan of Baruch Spinoza then - he was expelled from his Jewish community for having very similar thoughts about God, however he never converted to Christianity. His books were also put on the Index of Forbidde
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Peter Singer criticized the ban, in the article. Is he “on the right”?
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>Short term they should be held in humane conditions, trials should not take months and instead take weeks at most, families should not be separated. It's not rocket science. Take some of the money you're burning up every day a
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Local police are often prevented by Sanctuary City policies from aiding the enforcement any form of immigration law - and they get away with that due to immigration being scoped as a federal policy. Unless there is an immigration omnibus bi

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