jtxxwl2

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by jtxxwl2 6y ago
>Either people who get away with it undetected in the very short term are so good that they manage to suppress all evidence completely and it never comes out (which seems an implausible binodality in outcomes) Why do you think that'
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by jtxxwl2 6y ago
If it is possible to carry out election rigging conspiracies in the US, then how can we be so confident that no such conspiracies were carried out by people that viciously hate the former president? Surely if it is possible for conspirators
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by jtxxwl2 6y ago
>this time the people who believed the possible-but-highly-unlikely outcome, "Trump actually won", ended up donating lots of their money to the people who believed the much more simple and plausible scenario: "No, he didn&
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by jtxxwl2 6y ago
Yes, and examples of evidence might include that some election facilities were administered by people with a seething hatred for one of the candidates, and election observers in some areas were prevented from being able to meaningfully moni
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by jtxxwl2 6y ago
It's also kinda like how Al Capone might not have ordered the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre, and we'll never really know for sure, but most people conclude that he probably did, even though no one could definitively prove it
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by jtxxwl2 6y ago
In a bench trial, the judge is supposed to weight the evidence presented, and issue various different degrees of relief based on whether it meets certain standards in totality. For a case where the plaintiff is asking the judge to overturn
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by jtxxwl2 6y ago
>No, they aren't Have I been mislead? If it is possible to carry out election rigging conspiracies in the US, then how can we be so confident that no such conspiracies were carried out by people that viciously hate the former presid
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by jtxxwl2 6y ago
>But if the evidence is not available, then there is no good reason to believe it. Based on this statement, I am guessing you are an American, and are therefore accustomed to all relevant hard evidence always being available. What you ma
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by jtxxwl2 6y ago
My understanding is that people in those other countries have not been lead down such a path, even though they know that sometimes people get away with stealing elections in their countries. I believe they use reason and inference when judg
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by jtxxwl2 6y ago
One theory I've heard is that the magical soil in the US would compel the riggers to confess and/or provide evidence of their guilt to the courts and to the general public, rather than lying and/or concealing that evidence. I
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by jtxxwl2 6y ago
>Or a participant in some sort of fantasy vote-rigging conspiracy. This is even more relevant outside of the US. In the US vote rigging conspiracies are impossible for some inexplicable reason, perhaps related to magical soil, but outsid
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by jtxxwl2 6y ago
>The root of the problem is a lack of self control So make it easier for people to control their own behavior, if you want to make a dent in the problem. Teach them how to be in good shape by actually making them do it as adolescents. Te
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by jtxxwl2 6y ago
How about locking the soda and sugary snacks away with the cigarettes, instead of having them in your face (and your children's faces) in the checkout aisle? How about putting warning labels on them like cigarette cartons instead of ca
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by jtxxwl2 6y ago
Is working for Walmart something you would aspire for your grandchildren to be doing as a career?
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by jtxxwl2 6y ago
>If a dog is fat it's somebody else's fault, if a person is fat it's their fault. I don't really care whom you blame, I care about the results. Our society could do much more to stop people from being fat and unhealth
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by jtxxwl2 6y ago
So, lots of bread and circuses. Are they healthy? Are their grandchildren and great-grandchildren going to inherit a civilization that they would want to be born in to?
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by jtxxwl2 6y ago
I am not sure why you think the audience had tribal hostilities against him. These people were not klansmen, they were young British aristocrats whose parents were overseeing the deconstruction of an empire on the basis of the enlightened p
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by jtxxwl2 6y ago
I saw that video somewhat recently. I believe what the audience probably learned is that Buckley was not terribly effective at debating in that format. I am not sure what they learned from Baldwin. I don't recall learning anything from
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by jtxxwl2 6y ago
Jefferson wrote that while owning slaves, so I'm not really sure why that quote would give anyone the impression that American culture was built for blacks.
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by jtxxwl2 6y ago
>It is not a question of 'special effort' it is more of the question of why descendants of slaves were not viewed as part of the civilization, why there was such push against integration. Well, why would you expect anything els
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by jtxxwl2 6y ago
>he mesmerises the audience by telling them what it's like to grow up black in America not even knowing you're black, until one day, as a young child, you catch yourself in the mirror and realise you aren't the person your
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by jtxxwl2 6y ago
Of course there are specific individuals that are focused on one or the other, but there are also specific individuals who span both concerns. Significant examples include the secretary of health and human services and the surgeon general,
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by jtxxwl2 6y ago
Thank you for illustrating my point.
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by jtxxwl2 6y ago
>Obesity alone means ~40% of the population of the US And that is in large part thanks to the government and its public health experts, who we are now, I guess, supposed to believe have our interests in mind, even though, by letting 40%
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by jtxxwl2 6y ago
Public health experts, in the US and other western countries, deserve no credibility due to their handling of the obesity crisis. There are clear and obvious steps that governments could take to end obesity, but public health experts have f
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by jtxxwl2 6y ago
Of course they work if people obey them. That's not the point.
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by jtxxwl2 6y ago
>Long term side effects like after the polio vaccine in the 70s always occur IMMEDIATELY after vaccination. Have there been any long term double blind studies (e.g. 20+ years) to actually verify that this is the case? Or is this all base
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by jtxxwl2 6y ago
You are assuming that the 34 million with diabetes are in the workforce. Based on the age distributions of people with diabetes, most are probably retired or disabled.
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by jtxxwl2 6y ago
And I bet you think the public health experts that sat by and watched 70m Americans get obese are just the people we should turn to now, don't you?