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by ifyoubuildit 5mo ago
> You're missing some very important context If we're talking context, isn't there more to include? Like why those protests were happening in the first place? Did the hostile government cripple your economy first and poten
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by ifyoubuildit 5mo ago
> I don't believe you The Trump admin has pretty low approval ratings. If some very hostile country bombed the US, is your default assumption that the folks who despise Trump would somehow support the bombing? You could probably fin
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by ifyoubuildit 6mo ago
I'm all ears if you've got someone that we can put in power that won't rat fuck us when it comes to privacy or civil liberties. Bonus points if they aren't just slightly less bad than the other guy.
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by ifyoubuildit 6mo ago
Did you miss this one? > Something reasonable to say would be there are vaccines that have a net benefit, and you should take those if that applies to your situation.
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by ifyoubuildit 6mo ago
Generally safe is meaningless in this context. That's not a reasonable way to talk about entire classes of drugs. All that matters is for a given person with a given medical history and context, does the specific drug have a net benefi
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by ifyoubuildit 6mo ago
No, all I have to do to make it clear is say "I'm not opposed to vaccines as some kind of principle, ideological or otherwise", and then you can either believe me or not. That's what anti vaccine means, despite all the e
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by ifyoubuildit 6mo ago
You can at least draw a somewhat tortured connection between "anti vaccine" and opting out of receiving a specific vaccine (for logical reasons, with your doctors approval, though are they even a real doctor if they approved such
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by ifyoubuildit 6mo ago
"Antivaxxer*" here. I'm not injecting peptides for a similar reason - I'm not convinced the cost/benefit works out. That said, the issue for many is autonomy - if you want to put novel stuff in your body, go ahead.
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by ifyoubuildit 6mo ago
> it can be ok to kill people who disagree with you once it reaches the point of war How does this work out when we are the ones that decided to start the war? Does saying the word "war" suddenly absolve us of the crimes we com
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by ifyoubuildit 6mo ago
Yeah, does sending them back to the stone age buy us anything good? 90 million starving migrants with an understandable axe to grind with the US? Or are we just going to kill them all and become the monsters we claim to hate?
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by ifyoubuildit 6mo ago
> fanatical death cult Why do you believe this? Their recent actions don't seem to back it up.
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by ifyoubuildit 6mo ago
Any guesses on how long that will take, what it will cost, and the odds if it happening at all?
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by ifyoubuildit 6mo ago
What exactly are the problem and the solution?
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by ifyoubuildit 6mo ago
Your first link says 28% support it, so somewhere between 28 and 37%. I do wonder how many of those people could find Iran on a map, though I suppose you could ask the same about the people who are against it.
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by ifyoubuildit 6mo ago
Would you say you fall into the hardcore trump base category?
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by ifyoubuildit 6mo ago
> ignoring the spicier broader debate of if the whole Iran campaign was the right call or not How spicy of a debate is that really? How many people outside of the admin and the dwindling hardcore trump base actually thought this was a go
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by ifyoubuildit 6mo ago
None of what's happening today could have happened without everything that came before it. The blue team carries plenty of blame for not fielding better candidates. If nobody is buying your bullshit, it's a little weak to blame th
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by ifyoubuildit 6mo ago
Do you have some reasons for hope for the cynics in the crowd?
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by ifyoubuildit 6mo ago
You haven't really made an argument of your own. You've just made a claim and presented no evidence. "Simple as that" is neither argument nor evidence nor rationale. This is no better than the people who fall back on &qu
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by ifyoubuildit 6mo ago
Wow. I guess I'm surprised it took this long for banner ads to reach TVs. I think I have my next startup idea: a physical ad blocker for this thing. We could even have multiple styles: yellow sticky note, duct tape, painters tape. And
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by ifyoubuildit 6mo ago
> Do either of us think the current US admin is above causing a few million to appear in a bank account somewhere, in exchange for secret cooperation? > Especially when the calculus is between stick (Israeli assassination) and carrot
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by ifyoubuildit 6mo ago
OK, so take this back to your boots on kharg island plan, where this "no they" only has the option of bombarding our troops. Are you saying they also have the option of ... Getting a few million dollars in personal benefit somehow
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by ifyoubuildit 7mo ago
I mean they seem to have made it clear by their actions. They're in an existential situation, so its not like there is any reason to hold anything back. If your opponent is trying to turn you into Libya, then whatever you do just has t
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by ifyoubuildit 7mo ago
"Their only possible reaction would be to bombard troops there, destroying their own export infrastructure in the process." Right, so if that's their only possible reaction, isn't that a bad thing for everyone? It looks
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by ifyoubuildit 7mo ago
Yeah, I guess I zeroed in on the YouTube part and missed the one parameter part, which I'm not really qualified to speak to. I happen to think audio/video (basically lectures and dialogues) is a fine part of the toolkit for learni
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by ifyoubuildit 7mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mearsheimer One of your "YouTube analysts" is a professor that developed one of the schools of realism, so maybe that's why he's using that "buzzword". E
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by ifyoubuildit 7mo ago
> I’d suggest that any medical theory that relies upon a vast global conspiracy to hide the truth about 5G cannot possibly be compelling. Except some vast global conspiracy isn't the only way you could arrive at 5g having some delet
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by ifyoubuildit 7mo ago
Both present themselves to you as experts.
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by ifyoubuildit 7mo ago
You're a lay person. You know there is a thing out there called 'foo'. You've read things that compellingly claim that foo causes xyz symptoms. You also know that some people that have obviously palpable disdain for you
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by ifyoubuildit 8mo ago
> Ignoring that most, like Trump, just outright admitted it So if trump said it, it must be true? The rest of what you said could be translated to: "I believe it was such a good idea, all the rich and powerful must have done it&quot

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