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by leftyted 7y ago
On some level I agree with you but you omit the fact that liberty must be limited. What we're arguing about is how much it should be limited.
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I agree with you that the title is dumb.
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by leftyted 7y ago
Attention and acclaim (and respect and admiration) are perfectly fine motivators. "Cult of personality" seems "editorialized".
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by leftyted 7y ago
> If Mormons want to oppose same sex marriage and women in leadership, that’s up to them - but don’t get upset if it’s mentioned in your obituary when you’re literally the head of the church. I've been reading a book of Umberto Eco
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by leftyted 7y ago
There's two arguments here, 1. whether the claims are factual and 2. whether the Times is "forcing events and personalities into a narrow, pre-conceived frame that bore little relation to the reality before him". My post focu
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by leftyted 7y ago
I think there's a pattern here that's quite clear, in all parts of the paper. This article is certainly interesting: https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/14/media/new-york-times-criticis... One Times e
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by leftyted 7y ago
Good journalists have to believe in objective truth and the possibility of impartiality. There may be no such thing as objective truth or impartiality. If that's the case, then these things are delusions that are required for good jou
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by leftyted 7y ago
It's not what's "the most attention grabbing tidbit" -- that's what tabloids do. It's ideological. As the piece says: > [The journalist] forced events and personalities into a narrow, pre-conceived frame t
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by leftyted 7y ago
Very interesting, thanks for the link.
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Having studied a few languages, I don't agree with the idea that "another language is an entire other way of thinking about the world". That's not how it felt to me. There's a linguistic-philosophical debate over t
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by leftyted 7y ago
Politics can't have anything to do with "love" or "being nice" or "inclusivity" or "diversity" or "social justice" or "the clear & radiant truth" or "we- the good peo
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by leftyted 7y ago
Google is not a group of people who decided to associate based on their shared values. That was always bullshit, and I'm unsure why anyone took it seriously. If you fell for it, that's on you. Google should never have talked abo
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by leftyted 7y ago
You seem to be suggesting that we can't account for the large amount of uncertainty inherent in complex systems. That the only thing that exists is "our best guess today". I think that's crazy. We absolutely can accou
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by leftyted 7y ago
The thing about (simple, repetitive) manual labor is that you can think about other things while you do it. There's something liberating about working a full day while being able to think about whatever you like. You can't think
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by leftyted 7y ago
The idea that a female character with negative traits is evidence of misogyny is silly. Stoner isn't misogynistic and this isn't an appropriate way to read novels. The writer argues that Stoner's attitude towards Walker, a s
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by leftyted 7y ago
I think you're projecting. I don't think that a single one of these protest movements has to do with global warming. I don't think they're linked at all. People saying they're linked reminds me of people who argue
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by leftyted 7y ago
> That being said once you've been a whistleblower, even for good reasons, sadly, it is probably harder to find another job in your previous area of expertise... She got a job at Stripe after leaving Uber. I expect that she chose t
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by leftyted 7y ago
English Law (which is where the American system came from) is ingenious. It is the crown jewel of liberalism. > These are peoples lives, why is this system gamified? Why is it not a truth-seeking system? Which systems aren't "
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by leftyted 7y ago
The degree to which you reduce everything to power is the degree to which you impair your ability to think and speak. This is because thought and speech are faculties based on the ability to draw distinctions between things. In exchange f
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by leftyted 7y ago
The fact that so many accept the maxim "life is political" is terrifying. Life is not political but we can imagine a life that is political and I doubt that kind of life is worth living. Politics is necessary to structure the r
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by leftyted 7y ago
The post doesn't engage with the article, dismissing it as "blogspam" and claiming that the author is a "anti-renewable campaigner". It also pushes the claim that all scientists agree about the consequences of glob
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by leftyted 7y ago
Control-f unarmed. Nope can't find anything.
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by leftyted 7y ago
You can't imagine a situation in which a government is justified in using force to suppress protesters. It's hard for me to view that as anything but a failure of imagination. Your perspective also demonstrates over reliance on
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by leftyted 7y ago
The full question, from the article: > The year is 2040. There have been riots in the streets of London after Britain has run out of petrol because of an oil crisis in the Middle East. Protesters have attacked public buildings. Several p
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by leftyted 7y ago
The article points to a specific instance in which, it argues, the NYT has misled on climate change. Are you disputing that instance? Or are you okay with the NYT misleading if you think it's for a good cause? I think this is where a
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by leftyted 7y ago
I think you're dead-on. The cringe analysis is mostly subsumed by in-group/out-group analysis. > (I think this part explains a lot of the popularity of Trump despite scandals: Some of his fans know or will acknowledge he'
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by leftyted 7y ago
I think it is a "deeper emotional experience". But I'm skeptical that this is anything new. Today we (or at least me and Alan Moore) look back at the 60s and 70s and think "wow a movie like Easy Rider was a hit. How ti
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by leftyted 7y ago
Did you make it to the end of my post? > You can still think Assange is right (or at least important), but he's a deeply flawed person and it's not all propaganda. Anyway, I agree with you that the release of the "collater
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by leftyted 7y ago
> If it has no evidnce and no substance as it seems no to, the rationale behind it is of academic interest alone. Maybe it's pure malice? Maybe it's jealous rage? Maybe it's delusional? Maybe it's propaganda? Maybe it
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by leftyted 7y ago
I do think it's likely that, assault or not, Assange behaved in an unaceptable way toward these women. He has often been quoted mentioning that he has children all over the world with various women. Surreptitiously removing a condom

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