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by leftyted 6y ago
I'm sure people said the exact same thing about the Syrian military and police that stayed loyal to Assad. 9 years later...
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by leftyted 6y ago
I think you're right. But I also think that "anarchists" are actually after the stage where people "form themselves into groups with rules and laws and enforcement". They don't really want anarchy, they want
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by leftyted 6y ago
The problem can't be solved through education because, at the bottom, the disagreements have nothing to do with facts -- they have to do with values. Educated, rational people disagree about values. That's not to say that we alwa
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by leftyted 6y ago
All economists can do is project current trends into the future. Economists do not have -- to use your analogy -- a good theory for predicting when there will be a rock in the road. When economists act like they have such a theory is when
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by leftyted 6y ago
Your rhetoric is simplistic and unhelpful. Isn't it funny how little attention is paid to terrorist attacks that don't happen ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_thwarted_Islamic_terro... https:/&
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by leftyted 6y ago
> Left discourse (think Chomsky) is extremely rare and almost never accepted in the media. It must really baffle you that Chomsky signed this letter.
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by leftyted 7y ago
> There is a reason that the courts have something called 'burden of proof'. Definitely. > When an individual worker does something a large company doesn't like and they fire him, the burden of proof in my mind is on th
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by leftyted 7y ago
You're playing the game that Marxists always play, which is to claim that no one understands Marx except you. It's a silly, silly game and totally played out. Piketty's summary of Marx is accurate as far as I'm concerne
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by leftyted 7y ago
> How does this refute OP's point? They're really just pointing out how absurd it is that a study on wealth inequality and class fails to even consider the Marxist perspective. Genuine scholarly negligence. I don't know ho
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by leftyted 7y ago
> It's worth noting that Piketty has an astonishingly basic misunderstanding/non-understanding of the marxist analysis of capitalism despite the titles of his books. He hasn't even read Capital. I like his politics relativ
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by leftyted 7y ago
That doesn't even remotely follow from what I wrote. But thanks for your very helpful link to wikipedia.
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by leftyted 7y ago
I think tattoos and piercings are stupid for the same reason. Dental surgeries can make you look normal and improve function. Pacemakers help you live longer. There are things that regular people can do that will survive their deaths. Mos
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by leftyted 7y ago
Because you're going to die and your body is going to decay and those extra inches mean absolutely nothing.
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by leftyted 7y ago
> “I think that’s something that’s so powerful too — people will always be three inches taller or whatever you made them,” Debiparshad said. “They’ll die and be in their casket and decompose three inches longer. It’s very permanent.” Pos
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by leftyted 7y ago
It's obvious to people without extreme anti-American bias. Also, maybe don't throw out terms like "strawman" when you bizarrely transfigured my innocuous comment: > The 30,000 US troops stationed in Germany and the ex
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by leftyted 7y ago
I didn't say that. I said that, without the US presence in Germany and without NATO, Germany would have to spend more on defense. I don't understand how anyone can disagree with that; it's obvious. The German government cer
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by leftyted 7y ago
The 30,000 US troops stationed in Germany and the existence of NATO are significant factors in European countries spending so little on defense.
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by leftyted 7y ago
Denying that we can make worthwhile distinctions between different ways that people die is absolutely nonsensical. If a serial killer murders your father, we're going to react differently than if your father dies of a heart attack.
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by leftyted 7y ago
A virus isn't comparable to people hijacking planes and flying them into buildings. For one thing, it should be easy to prevent the latter whereas it's far from clear whether there's much we can do about the former.
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by leftyted 7y ago
So...does that mean ugly people are going to be star actors too?
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by leftyted 7y ago
There's another side to this story. Americans demand this kind of action during emergencies. The widely accepted idea that the government is capable of protecting us from events like this is tacit acknowledgement of the government&#
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by leftyted 7y ago
Sounds like the government is correctly rationing tests. My sense is that the vast majority of the healthy population shouldn't get tested even if they might have the virus because the infrastructure doesn't support widespread tes
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by leftyted 7y ago
This has nothing to do with any of the things I've posted in this thread. I do have a choice. I could buy a car. Many people own cars. My point was that a pandemic (or similar event) is a good argument for owning a car. I'm a
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by leftyted 7y ago
> It's actually not. It's a good argument for actually diversifying our transit options so people have real choice. > If it is easier to do a mix of walking, public transit, etc, then there's no single point of failure.
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by leftyted 7y ago
(A bit off topic) The current situation is a good argument for owning a car. I don't own a car -- I take the subway to work (about 25 minutes each way). But it seems dumb to use the subway at this time, which means I have to work from
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by leftyted 7y ago
Saying that covid-19 caused the crash is like saying that the assassination of the archduke caused WW1. The accuracy of these kinds of statements depends on how you define "causation". If you follow this down, it turns into a de
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by leftyted 7y ago
Regardless of how it sounds to "any rational person," it's quite possibly true: https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2612/can-poor-air-quality-mask... In the short term, decreasing economic activity could
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by leftyted 7y ago
> I have absolutely no idea but Is it possible to have a short term decrease in emissions change the weather like this ? no
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by leftyted 7y ago
I particularly liked this compilation of lectures. Eco is great if you're interested in "postmodernism" without the (sometimes deserved) reputation for gleefully desecrating the classics. Different historical perspectives a
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by leftyted 7y ago
The article provides an example of what you're asking for: > "To be perfectly honest, and this is awful, but to the young, watching as the elderly over and over and over choose their own interests ahead of Climate policy kind o

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