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by guildwriter 10y ago
"Saudi Arabia has long been at war with al Qaeda and its extremist affiliates. In August 1996, bin Laden called for jihad against both the United States and Saudi Arabia with the publication of his first fatwa. The 30-page “Declaration
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The amount of effort it takes these days to build a truthful picture of the situation is exhausting. Depending on the source of the article I have to do anywhere from 3-5 different kinds of searches to confirm if the assertions are actuall
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>Well, to paraphrase your next sentence: "that these people exist in the Democratic party is impossible to deny, to tar and feather the entire Democratic party as this way is how we get to the binary world view." That's fa
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That's fair, let me go into more detail. I know a lot of people who fervently believe that Trump is the second coming of Hitler. If you dig around on Twitter it won't be long before you find this sentiment practically everywhere.
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Some Mexicans are willing to do what it takes. Don't overgeneralize. It's not like the entire population of Mexico is in the US right now. Races and nationalities are not homogeneous. Is there a segment of the population blamin
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If you can only talk divisively and dismiss the concerns of people who don't agree with you, then you will continue to harm the unity of this country. Even if we don't agree with one another, we still should be able to live with
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People have been screaming that the Republican party is the Nazi party since the days of Reagan. So far history has held this up to be absolutely not true. Forgive me if I'm a bit incredulous and give Trump the benefit of doubt until
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If he adds more, then that's a different situation. Right now is all I know. I'm not going to assume the worst until Trump actually displays a pattern of behavior. One of the things I noticed is you passed over the people who ar
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You realize that the sunk cost fallacy proves what I'm trying to say? Most people really struggle with that sort of thing. It's one of the reasons why behavioral economics has taken off in recent history. People are not perfect
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To take the metaphor further, the really strong antibiotics have a chance to destroy the kidneys, making you a permanent dialysis case.
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Who said I thought he was obviously wrong? The point I was trying to make is that the likelihood of him getting the response that he was looking for from this audience is unlikely. Which is why I pointed him towards an audience/speak
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The argument that it's clearly targeted at one individual religion doesn't stick that well. If that were true there were a lot of countries that are predominantly Muslim that were left off the list. https://en.wikipedi
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I'd say this is deeply unfair to people living in communities decimated by meth just as I would say it's deeply unfair to people living in inner cities. This is not to say that drugs alone are the problem, but that there are a mu
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There were already many different large scale protests across the nation several days ago. Those took months to organize and set up. Logistics alone makes another immediate large scale protest unlikely. The exception is unless there is c
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"I would genuinely enjoy someone explaining how dismissing the right-wing as sexist is any different than dismissing all of feminism as sexist because there exist sexist feminists." You just said OP is demonstrating othering and s
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So one of the things I've learned as time has progressed as a software engineer is that the more time I spend programming, the more I realize how incompetent I am. The amount which I do not know just seems to grow and grow and grow. F
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by guildwriter 10y ago
I can't suggest an interview or documentary, but if you want to keep tabs on how conservatives/republicans/midwesterners etc. think, I highly recommend reading this blog: https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/
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This is being exacerbated by the increasing factionalism within the US itself. I'm starting to understand better and better why Washington warned us of political parties in his farwell address "Without looking forward to an extre
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That's a good way to sweep data like this under the rug: (Left percent is Clinton, Right percent is Trump) White men 31% 63% White women 43 53 White women college graduates 51 45 White women non-college graduates 34 62 White men colleg
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Sentiments like yours do not help the current situation where everyone is talking past each other. Demonizing and labeling people like others is not the solution. Characterizing the motivations of 60+ million people as racist is the epito
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Still not as many as Russia did during the same time period. Stalin alone blows that total right out of the water. Mao and the Khmer Rouge are right behind him. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_killings_under_Commun
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You specifically called out the US Military in this case and now you're applying your comments to the entire US. Which one are you actually criticizing? Broadly speaking the US does some shady shit no doubt. Last I checked though we
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Are you seriously equivocating the US Military which has specific RoEs and people who deliberately target civilians as a means to achieve their goals? That argument does not pass the smell test. Iran has been sponsoring and supplying if no
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Here is a link to the paper: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adhm.201600717/ab...
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Blood-repellent materials: A new approach to medical implants(source.colostate.edu)
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My opinion on that time was that it was a mixed bag as far as the mainstream media was concerned. I definitely do not recall coverage being one sided at all.
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I can't speak to other states in the nation, but I don't think this is a problem that is isolated to tech specifically within CA. One of the things I learned from my time in an ultra-liberal high school in the Bay Area was to kee
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I don't think it's a tech problem so much as it is a design/culture problem. If you look at the most popular forms of social media and what is considered popular, you see that low effort content is what draws the most views a
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The Indian government is set to endorse Universal Basic Income(businessinsider.in)
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To lend additional credence to this article, GWB in 2006 alone read 95 books that year: http://www.omnivoracious.com/2009/01/george-w-bushs-reading-... That comes out to about two books per week. If you look at t

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