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by jaldhar 4y ago
Jennifer Putin declares Megan Zelensky is a slut and no one should sit with her at lunchtime. But seriously female aggression is also a thing though not as visible when men will readily engage in violence on women's behalf. Another th
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by jaldhar 4y ago
The Sanskrit word is Yavana but yeah etymologically it is from Ionian.
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by jaldhar 4y ago
Pour encourager les autres.
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No fan of the NYT. (or abortion) but I applaud this move on the grounds that the word is actually foetus no matter who says otherwise.
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by jaldhar 4y ago
Yeah he will. I like Trump. I voted for him twice and would do it again but let’s face it the man likes to be in the limelight. When - not if — truth.social crashes and burns, he won’t be able to resist tweeting again.
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by jaldhar 4y ago
You can absolutely be a protected class. Just lobby the government by organizing a group of like-minded people and … oh wait.
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by jaldhar 5y ago
The article was all over the place. Let's start with the title. "India's vital atheist philosophy" suggests this is a continuous coherent tradition. In fact the article describes several different persons and tendenci
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by jaldhar 5y ago
Are we still talking about BLM? Because I regret to inform you it has already gone away. The city where I lived published their provisional crimes stats for 2021 and it looks like murder rates have gone up. Most of that is gang related a
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by jaldhar 5y ago
The banner wavers have moved on to the next trendy thing and people are still getting killed. What was achieved by annoying HNers?
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by jaldhar 5y ago
No 70% are from demographics that qualify for affirmative action and other aid from the government. (Categories that are themselves subject to political manipulation.). That’s not the same thing. How then do you define “lower”? Ritual stat
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by jaldhar 5y ago
That is specifically about food. OP was talking about jobs in general. If you survey Indian history you can find examples of castes or individuals taking up new professions over time. Take “rulers” for instance. How many dynasties have
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by jaldhar 5y ago
Well that doesn’t accurately describe the state of affairs in historical India so there’s not much more I can say.
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by jaldhar 5y ago
Sorry only just saw this. We do not know 100% for sure but the historical consensus is the Gita is several hundred years younger than the latest stratum of Vedic texts, well within the era of classical Sanskrit. And the Vedic language (wh
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by jaldhar 5y ago
You'll care when the government says you have to care. The whole idea of "protected classes" should be anathema in individual rights based societies but it actually seems to be growing. Hmm.
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by jaldhar 5y ago
Why would that be? A caste is an extended family. It certainly can be an instrument of oppression but it doesn't have to be and for most it isn't. Are you one of those Americans who think any expression of e.g. White/Souther
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by jaldhar 5y ago
There never was a varna system. You are just repeating Arya Samajist fantasies that anachronistically project modern ideas back. For instance those same grhyasutras that mention not marrying sagotra also mention the rathakara as an exampl
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by jaldhar 5y ago
Why is it either/or? Immigrants often get a leg up in "working in a different society" by taking advantage of kinship based support networks. The have nots of global society try to attain social justice through tribalist not
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by jaldhar 5y ago
"shaved head". Right there is the sign that you're bullshitting. Except for some South Indian temple employees and possibly elders who came over with their grandchildren nobody does that (and believe me I've looked for
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by jaldhar 5y ago
"to transparently convey what the original scriptures say" All translations are lossy. So why not read the original? Granted, Sanskrit is not easy. But it's not insurmountably difficult either especially for a person of In
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by jaldhar 5y ago
If someone wanted to do a talk on exoplanets but weren’t allowed to because they also had views on phrenology would that be cancelling? That’s a more accurate analogy than the one you’re giving.
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by jaldhar 5y ago
This is a fascinating comment to me as a window into the unexamined assumptions of a liberal mind. (Well, I don't know your politics but I think its safe to say this is typical of what American liberals think.) > There is no unborn
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by jaldhar 5y ago
No actually I’m arguing that “crowd sourcing law enforcement” isn’t a novel government tactic at all. Argue for or against this law on its merits but it hasn’t enabled anything that wasn’t already a problem.
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by jaldhar 5y ago
We crowd source law enforcement all the time. See my other comment about tip lines. The places your typical American considers exemplars of Social Democracy such as the Scandinavian countries are literally entire nations of Karens. That’s
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by jaldhar 5y ago
Yes, related to their area of business. What is “cold” about making profits to you? Personally, the locus of morality is my religious/ethnic community. Businesses should focus on making money so they can pay people who can use that
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by jaldhar 5y ago
Abortion actively causes harm to unborn children. What this shows is that harm reduction (the principal moral foundation for “leftists”, “progressives” etc. according to Jonathan Haidt) is inadequate as the sole foundation for an ethic.
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by jaldhar 5y ago
I agree with you on this specific issue but may I point out it isn’t really a new thing. For instance, every police car in my town and probably yours has a phone number you can anonymously call if you have information concerning a crime in
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by jaldhar 5y ago
Worst. Elite sequel. Ever.
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by jaldhar 5y ago
Politicians are overwhelmingly from the credentialed class. See https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2021/01/08/the-... for US data. I expect the skew towards college to be similar in othe
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by jaldhar 5y ago
Uh Hitler was very popular. (To be precise he was more popular than the other guys.). The problem people have with Hitler isn’t that he was unpopular. Really the amount of projection in some of these replies is incredible. All I’ve done i
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by jaldhar 5y ago
They are the same in the sense that both privilege jnana over karma for liberation that is all. They are different in that Advaita Vedanta gives some scope to karma (Indian) Buddhism gave none. Buddhists themselves reduced the historical S

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