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by iammisc 5y ago
> This would mean throwing out a lot of the more epheremeral complaints "I feel unsafe if there is a man in the bathroom." Why? Let's fix that part, then. Because there are going to be scary women too. You realize having a
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by iammisc 5y ago
> There is someone else who thrives on calling things “fake” when they disagree with his opinions… Is Donald Trump a scientific journal?
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by iammisc 5y ago
> But with all respect, you don't in fact know what I think. That's fair. I shouldn't have said that. Re the blog post... it cites several books and scholarly texts, and mainly chooses which ones to present. Now of course,
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by iammisc 5y ago
> except for reproductive science! People claim this with little evidence. At my conservative Catholic school we discussed contraception in great detail. More than my public school classmates. We learned about all the available options,
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by iammisc 5y ago
This is going to be an extremely heterodox opinion. Please be charitable. As far as I know I'm the only person other than my wife with this opinion. I don't get this from anywhere. Then again, I don't read very much sociology
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by iammisc 5y ago
> Odd that there are so many EU countries at the list of most happy countries when EU is not good at anything Putting words in my mouth. I never said the EU is not good at 'anything'. But it's not as good as America in ter
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by iammisc 5y ago
You're not wrong, but the democrats championed gay marriage as well. I don't see how you can deny that.
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by iammisc 5y ago
I'm not sure how to respond to this comment. The comment I responded to asked for examples of things the federal government nationalizes, with the support of democrats. You seem to believe that a policy being championed by a republican
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by iammisc 5y ago
I mean... duh. I'm just pointing out the general trend towards nationalizaton. It's not just a matter of democrats. Republicans do it all the time against their own values.
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by iammisc 5y ago
I used to be a management consultant, so I have a lot of experience and a lot of insider knowledge. Management consultants automate away the explanations a CEO or executive has to give. They can just point to their superiors and inferiors a
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by iammisc 5y ago
> I think Thomas Sowell said once something along the lines that the black schools in DC at about late 1800s-early 1900s was OUTPERFORMING those of the white schools in the region. If one is to look at the present day schooling in the sa
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by iammisc 5y ago
> unless there are numerous private schools in West Virginia that charge $4600 or less in tuition, which I would not expect. There seem to be quite a few: https://www.privateschoolreview.com/tuition-stats/west-virgi.
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by iammisc 5y ago
> In a lot of European countries, a robust social safety net is the great equalizer. You don't get locked up to work in order to afford healthcare, food, etc. - and are thus more free to take chances. That is a great explanation in
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by iammisc 5y ago
Americans glorify hard work while undervaluing efficiency. For example, I often hear fellow Americans brag about how many hours they put in or how intense their work is. This is true all the way from the blue collar trades to the most white
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by iammisc 5y ago
Environmental Policy (EPA). Family policy (gay marriage, transgenderism, etc via the Supreme Court). Healthcare (Obamacare). Education (no child left behind, the dept of education). Higher education (federal backed guarantees). We can go on
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by iammisc 5y ago
The US was envisioned as a union of separate countries, like the EU. The EU is sliding towards US-style centralization.
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> are you sure about that? Yes. Whether it was the California missions or the Jesuit missions of Canada, by far the missionaries were better than the other European authorities. Perfect? No. Better... Yes This is a good article detailing
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by iammisc 5y ago
Public schooling was created because the government was threatened by catholic parochial education being widely available. Catholicism has fewer cultural proscriptions than what the predominant waspy culture wanted. For example, Catholic sc
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by iammisc 5y ago
The indoctrination is so obvious when statements are made with no justification or even any attempt.
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by iammisc 5y ago
Trump was unstatesmanlike... Sure I can agree. But his opposition outright lied and they knew it.
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by iammisc 5y ago
> likely lied about taking hydroxychloroquine seeing as how no evidence or independent confirmation that he was on the drug ever surfaced. White house physician said he was on it. Also studies are mixed on it's efficacy. The ones sh
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by iammisc 5y ago
> mentioned HCQ he turned the whole thing political. Trump first mentioned it as a possibility and investigation and that he was taking it after consulting with his doctor. That's it. The media made you think otherwise. Telling the
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by iammisc 5y ago
The vaccine is empirically way more dangerous than every other vaccine commonly given. I did the vaccines but I don't understand why we can't be honest about it.
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Probably the fact that iana and icann are based in the states.
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by iammisc 5y ago
Sure I get that with the DEA. But this started because of pharma companies according to the comment I responded to. Are you saying they can jail you? I mean I'm sure corruption runs deep, but do you have any sample of doctors jailed fo
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by iammisc 5y ago
Scary that professionals trusted to make life/death decisions are so easily swayed.
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by iammisc 5y ago
GP said > John Brown didn't write letters, he burned down plantations. That's a clear call to violence imo.
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Doctors are professionals. Part of the reason they're allowed to prescribe is that they have supposedly taken courses and proven themselves to be of such sound judgement and knowledge that we can trust them to gatekeep extremely techni
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by iammisc 5y ago
So destroying public property is not violence now? Okay... thanks I guess.
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by iammisc 5y ago
Are you advocating for the violent destruction of government property? Is that allowed on hacker news?

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