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by judah 10y ago
>> "Leftist" by American standards in 2017 is, again, not leftist by world standards" Yes, if your standard for leftism is Joseph Stalin's Soviet Russia. But that's like saying, "The right by American sta
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You're right, but the end result is the same, and is ultimately good: encourage male-female marriages, encourage stable homes for raising families, less taxation, and a smaller government.
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>> "the second is about anti-discrimination laws." You are merely changing the language to avoid admitting the reality of a government infringing on religious liberty. The government forcing religious people to go against th
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>> "A citizen's freedom of religion ends when the next citizen's rights begin." What "right" are you talking about here? The gay couple's "right" to force a particular person to bake them a
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>> "I listed out several plainly-worded, well-known, evidence-supported societal issues based in race, religion, and gender and your response is to simply call them "perceived wrongs." Yes, because you perceive them to
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It's not hypocritical to want a small government and also want less taxation. These are harmonious goals. Governments may wish to encourage male-female marriage (moms & dads => children and healthy environment => productive f
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Here are two recent examples where government meddling -- one in healthcare, one in marriage -- ended up infringing on religious liberty. Healthcare: The Little Sisters of the Poor, a Catholic charitable organization that also offers healt
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>> "I can only conclude that some people have a radically different idea of "freedom" and "smaller government" than I do." Small government conservative here. It's actually pretty simple: Small gover
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Paul Graham just tweeted a link to this Stanford article that explains the left's problem with defaulting to ad hominem, rather than rational debate: http://news.stanford.edu/2017/02/21/the-threat-from-wi
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>> "I agree calling everyone "racist" doesn't help but at least it gets the message across." By that measure, the best way to expose people to their subconscious bias about abortion is to call them murderers o
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I don't deny those have been used against the left. (Although some terms, like shill, aren't left or right wing, and godless could describe an atheist whether conservative or liberal.) The difference is cadence. Do conservatives l
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It would be good to examine this assumption. A ripe, and quite fair ground, might be the 2 recent Women's Marches. - The (leftist) Women's March (for abortion, LGBT rights, etc.) - The conservative Women's March for Life (aga
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I'm on the right, and I can answer your question. The problem is that you're defining terms wrong. To you, "If someone disagrees with my ideas on gender equality, they are sexist." It's like me saying, "If anyo
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>> "Bear in mind that no real left wing policies or media platforms exist in the US" Newspapers in the US are overwhelmingly and verifiably leftist[0]. Out of the 46 major newspapers in the US, 41 of them endorsed Hillary Cl
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I've heard that before: that conservatives slur leftists with ugly labels as much as the left slurs the right. I don't think that's actually true. If it is, I'd love to be proven wrong. What is the right's equivalen
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It's spot-on to me as well. What Buckley accurately described in 1950s universities and media has become mainstream today.
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It's not, "Liberals are mean." It's, "Leftists often dismiss diversity of thought with personal slurs." To the left, virtually every opponent is a sexist, islamophobic, xenophobic, homophobic, intolerant, racis
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Jew here. I wouldn't be offended. I'd thank the person, then find someone who could use it. And if the person knew I kept kosher but still offered the bacon, I would laugh it off and then donate it. Being easily-offendable is not
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> "She kept her flock just sick and miserable enough they didn't escape" Where's the evidence for that? I read Hitchens' utterly biased hit piece on her, I didn't see real evidence, just accusations and edit
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Facebook on the whole hasn't done much to improve the world. (It's greatest accomplishment in my mind is keeping geographically-separated family in contact with one another.) While this manifesto was a little over-the-top, and pro
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She worked for over 4 decades (!) with orphans, poor, the sick and dying. Four. Freaking. Decades. It's not right to say, "Mother Teresa was not a good person because [minor thing I disagree about]." Her views do not cancel
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It's because people want to feel like they have a purpose. It's the same reason you see Hollywood actors being outspoken political activists. Because if they stay out of politics, they're "only" insignificant entert
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You've misinterpreted what I'm saying. Again, the article stated a simple truth: the DSS are "some of the oldest surviving documents on earth." That is a factually true statement. The parent commenter objected to this st
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Right - the DSS isn't the oldest document, but it is among the oldest surviving documents. This is what the article claimed: the DSS are "some of the oldest surviving documents on earth."
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You're mistaken. We have carvings that are older than the 2000+ year old Dead Sea Scrolls (DSS), but it may be inaccurate to refer to cave carvings and inscriptions as "documents." But even if you classify stone and clay carv
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No scrolls found because they were stolen: >> "Although at the end of the day no scroll was found, and instead we ‘only’ found a piece of parchment rolled up in a jug that was being processed for writing, the findings indicate be
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Love the ambition. Bring some transparency, reduce fraud, use technology to reduce cost where possible. Great idea, hope it works. I'm skeptical it could reduce healthcare costs significantly simply because of the massive effort requir
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Can you elaborate? What does service workers give you for your web audio project that doesn't work without service works? I'm curious because I have a HTML5 audio web app that works great, except when running on mobile in the back
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Christian Heilmann (formerly of Mozilla, now Microsoft) recently interviewed[0] AMP developer Paul Bakaus. It was a fantastic interview, as Heilmann grilled Bakaus on some of the issues raised in this thread. [0]: https://www.chr
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>> He assumes that it is a bad thing to not require work. And that's probably a good assumption. There's wisdom behind the old adage, "An idle mind is the devil's workshop, and idle hands his tools." Experienc

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