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by jlawson 5y ago
I wish there was more clarity on what this rule actually means. I can see how this particular comment would get a side-eye (though I think it doesn't stand out among the others in this thread), but when I look through my recent comment
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Confounded by the fact that succesful companies are located in growing areas (or move there), which is where immigrants also want to go. E.g. San Francisco. I want to see this with some serious attempt to reduce the confounding. Also it doe
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Accept that there is no source of info you can just believe at face value. You need to collect information from across your infosphere and intensively de-bias and cross-check it. It'll take a lot of effort. If that's not worth it
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Consider what he would have to accept if he faced the truth: That his incorrect beliefs directly caused his wife's death. Not surprising he'd perform basically any level of mental gymnastics to avoid that. Ego-protective delusions
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The practical/empirical argument would essentially be to extrapolate out what the world will become like if we spread X or Y normative belief/practice. You can argue that one will lead to a preferable world than the other. Of cour
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I think you're confused on what the word 'actively' means.
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Absolutely not, that's not how it works. You won't be denied tramua treatment for a gunshot because your doc told you to stop playing with guns. You won't be refused heart medicine because you didn't stop eating bacon wh
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I don't think attempting to block decoupling is a "rhetorical device". "Rhetor" means teacher. A rhetorical device is a way to explain, communicate, teach. Blocking this was is an attempt to prevent explanation, c
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As formulated, the resistance to D-decoupling is simply a refusal to discuss issues, or a blocking technique to prevent certain things from being understood. It's in the same bag of tricks as screaming to stop someone from being heard,
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I am looking at who is hired and admitted. Whites are underrepresented at these institutions, like Harvard and Google. Being discriminated against in hiring by the government and most major academic and media organizations is being discrimi
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It's not just about money for the journalists themselves. Visit a journalism school and you'll find very few students there looking to maximize their earnings. It's a lot like other fields such as science or arts. People en
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It's not in our nature, it's in the rewards we desire. We desire the best mate possible. No industrial or computer advance has (yet) provided any of us with better mates. Mates are as scarce as they were hundreds and thousands of
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It's not photography specifically, but one of Japan's most revered historical figures is Fukuzawa Yukichi. In the 19th century, he spent many years traveling through the West, learned English and Dutch, and wrote a lot of books in
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by jlawson 5y ago
You invented a lot of stuff here. I think you didn't do it intentionally; it's classic argument-hallucination, so I'll help you see where you are confabulating: MotoH never said that anyone had "secretly" taken over
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You're moving the goal posts and assuming your conclusion. "baseless, sweeping antisemitic conspiracy theories are bad" was never the question. The question is whether cultural Marxism as a concept is in fact a "baseless
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Yes I have experienced racism, of various types and many times over the years. The fact that I understand why it happened doesn't harm me. Does it make you feel better to believe that the bad things that have happened to you are due to
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Title appears to be inaccurate. It removed the word "liberal" which is before "majority" on the original article.
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I feel like people pushing your beliefs never actually argue for them. All I ever see is guilt by association: Attempts to link ideas you hate to people you can label with scary words. It's not a move of convincing, rationality, logic,
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The Twitter account you linked is suspended. What was that about tech not being totalitarian?
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You've got the class relationship with immigrants backwards. Poor people are more likely to be victims of low-level crimes than rich people for a variety of reasons. When criminal immigrants come in, it's poor people they victimiz
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Yes they do have that right, if the company has no substitute, and if doing without it is a substantial impact on life. For example, the power company. The telephone company. A sole ISP with no local alternatives. A company that owns an imp
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Simple example, but racism is simply a form of genetic ingroup preference. Can you imagine, perchance, how groups who practiced ingroup preference would, over time, come to outcompete and ultimately defeat/destroy/dissolve groups
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Because owning something means you have the right to trade it and sell it. Most workers, if they came into ownership of such shares, would quickly sell them to a few people who would build up many such shares: Capitalists. You can't de
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>"the virus 2 microns. too small for masks to capture." This is literally true; it's just incomplete given the relationship with saliva as you noted. The solution here is to reply and spread more true knowledge. You can ci
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Robin Williams got Lewy Body. I guess he decided to take the same door you're looking at. I would too.
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No, you're confused. Those are suspensions. We're talking about removing the blue check mark or denying it. This happens to people who aren't morally-approved by Twitter for moral reasons. For example, the blue check was rem
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The world must be so simple and straightforward to you when you can just throw millions of people in a slur-labeled category and then treat them as non-humans deserving of unlimited suffering.
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While there are many factors, an essential one is that someone in Twitter finds you morally acceptable. If Twitter thinks you're not morally good, they will actually remove a blue check which they previously granted (e.g. they did th
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Before, the voices I heard were people in my life and my local community. The media was just the media ; they'd get put in their own box for analysis and skepticism. Twitter's great power is controlling peoples' impression o
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Not being obese has basically nothing to do with "working out". It's all about diet. Nobody worked out before 1960 and nobody was fat (and lots of people were poor). Nobody in India is fat and nobody work out and they're

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