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leftyted
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> Modern pop music is becoming trashier by the year. ...said everyone in every time period. There's good pop music being made today. But most music being made in any period is bad. If you look back in the 50s, 60s, and 70s, there&
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"The academic culture in China is such that cheating and lying is widespread" This statement doesn't "blame the culture". In this sentence, culture means "a set of behaviors". The sentence doesn't s
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If you're saying "Chinese people are predisposed to cheat and lie" -- that's racist. If you're saying "The academic culture in China is such that cheating and lying is widespread" -- that's not racist
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> It isn't debatable because we know hiroshima and nagasaki had no bearing on the japanese decision to surrender. Not only is this debatable but it is often debated. Your post is absurd. In your mind the Holocaust is morally equiva
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The analogy of JavaScript to addictive drugs should be comical but instead I'm starting to find this "JavaScript derangement syndrome" stuff just goddamn tiresome. If you're not visiting websites that rely on JS, you
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> Today, a person’s success (because our culture has been reduced to basically only valuing popularity (visibility) and wealth and not intelligence or moral rectitude) tends to grant them degrees of social immunity and prevent the approp
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> Its not easy. Does some one have a better way to deal with this. The argument made by the article is that each of us ought to be able to choose our own way to deal with this. But, instead, we are denied that opportunity because publis