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by hackyhacky 17d ago
> They could be spending eight hours a day in the Kindle app reading classics Have you been around kids recently? I think we all know what they're doing on the phone, and it's not The Great Gatsby .
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by hackyhacky 17d ago
>This book cannot prove anything, other than one person's opinion on history You've misunderstood the purpose. Fiction was not ever intended to achieve scientific goals, i.e. to discover the truth about our universe. It's
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by hackyhacky 18d ago
> I do not support groups that aim to overturn election results, So you don't support Trump, who has tried to overturn the 2020 election results? You don't support Reform UK, who have expressed an interest in bypassing democrat
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by hackyhacky 18d ago
In at least two senses, yes: 1. It is owned by the public. The public has a right to know how its tax dollars are being spent. 2. Certainly there is no expectations of privacy in a jail cell, as the jail administrators and guards can enter
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by hackyhacky 18d ago
>and will be disenfranchised under Republican voter ID requirements. Can you explain this further? A person who can legally vote today, but in the future cannot vote because of election restrictions, will be disenfranchised. You are supp
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by hackyhacky 18d ago
> My criticism of the left has nothing to do with the "incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result." That's not what I said. You are criticizing the left for disliking el
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by hackyhacky 18d ago
> Please reread the definition of hypocrisy. Okay. Hypocrisy: behavior that contradicts what one claims to believe or feel You claim to be opposed to authoritarianism but you actually support authoritarian right-wing groups. Seems pret
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by hackyhacky 18d ago
You can't just say "whataboutism" whenever someone points out your blatant hypocrisy.
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by hackyhacky 18d ago
Republicans tolerate democracy when it goes their and do everything to undermine it when it doesn't. See exhibit: Trump
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by hackyhacky 19d ago
> they never won a majority in a free national election. They legally won a plurality in the Bundestag, which is sufficient for Hitler to be legally appointed chancellor, which made everything that follows legal. Like it or not, the Na
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by hackyhacky 19d ago
Incredible sense of deja vu. I feel like I was just having this same conversation with another user who has the mind of a 13 year old child. > The point was you thought IDs for voting were not free I guess you choose to dwell on this par
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by hackyhacky 19d ago
> He is Jewish, not White. You are aware that it is a cornerstone of antisemitic thought to consider Jewish people to be not white?
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by hackyhacky 19d ago
Were you pleased with the functioning of Germany democracy in 1932?
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by hackyhacky 19d ago
> Yes leftists are the least likely to know AfD supporters. Can you please tell us about your first-hand experience with AfD supporters? > The most openly antisemitic groups in Germany are leftists, so, I don't want to ask them a
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by hackyhacky 19d ago
> Your point was states do not give free IDs. No, it was not. Either you are deeply confused or responding to wrong comment. > Stop moving goalposts. This is not moving goal posts. This is precisely the point. Voter ID laws will disen
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by hackyhacky 19d ago
> Sometimes I think if Charles Manson started a startup We like to think we live in a meritocracy, but the fact so much of success is based on personality, manipulating people, being charming and persuasive, tapping into others' ins
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by hackyhacky 19d ago
The word "bigotry" actually has a meaning. Trying to equate "unjustified hate against a person for their skin color, ethnicity, or religion" with "distaste for a set of chosen political opinions" is a hoot.
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by hackyhacky 20d ago
So in your view, illegal disenfranchisement of voters is okay as long as it's insufficient to change the results of the election? By the way, Democrats did not win that election, as Georgia's Republican governor can tell you.
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by hackyhacky 20d ago
Can you please name any currently sitting national politician in the US who is advocating for authoritarian communism?
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by hackyhacky 21d ago
> It's possible for anyone to judge another person by the color of their skin instead of the content of their character or their actual traits. It might be helpful if you understood the definition of "racism" as used in t
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by hackyhacky 21d ago
> I reject the notion of "structural racism". That's not about civil rights, it's critical theory masquerading. It's a destructive ideology. It's clear that you didn't read past the headline of the arti
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by hackyhacky 21d ago
> But there's nothing like them happening today. <rolls eyes> https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-president-and-c...
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by hackyhacky 21d ago
> You say you think a lot of my acquaintances are racist, without even knowing who I am, l Nothing personal. The fact is that a lot of people are racist: that's the basis of "implicit bias" which I gather you did not bot
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by hackyhacky 21d ago
Have you read the news lately? The president has given up pretending to obey the law. He's torn down the east wing of the White House (which does not belong to him), he's issued Executive Orders that contradict a plain reading of
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by hackyhacky 21d ago
If your friends are not making unprompted bigoted statements, all it means is that they are tactful. I hope you can understand that bigotry is more subtle, in comparison with your grandparents' generation when it was more socially ac
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by hackyhacky 21d ago
Bit of a false equivalence there. The modern right wants to replace democratic rule of law with enlightened despotism focused on eliminating perceived racial, sexual, and ideological impurities. The modern left wants universal healthcare an
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by hackyhacky 21d ago
You did not answer my question. To be clear: if you think you haven't met a racist in decades, you're probably wrong. I call into question your ability to accurately diagnose racism.
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by hackyhacky 21d ago
> Not all is as it appears on the surface or is reported to be. Are you literally asking for a moral re-evaluaion of fascism?
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by hackyhacky 21d ago
> Let me guess, you mostly mingle with white people? It's a different story among Latinos, Asians (toward blacks and other Asians), but especially among African-Americans. Fascinating. I've found the perfect example of "wh
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by hackyhacky 21d ago
> Would your grandmother's fate be better if instead of kindness she would be spewing vitriol? "Spewing vitriol" is loaded language used to smear people you disagree with. The fact is that during the Nazi regime, some peop

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