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by maldusiecle 6y ago
The forcible conversion of Jews in Spain was in fact one of the first points where Jews were treated as a racial rather than religious category. There's a bit of detail on this in the Wikipedia page for Limpieza de sangre: https:&#x2F
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by maldusiecle 7y ago
> > First, it takes money. Healthier diets... generally cost more... They note that the unprocessed diet they fed participants cost 40% more than the ultra-processed diet. > And yet, a paragraph later: > > Lots of families in
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by maldusiecle 7y ago
There are people who talk like that. What's your problem with it in particular? I don't find any of its sentences especially difficult to parse.
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by maldusiecle 8y ago
Do ebooks cost a similar amount to print books? If you limit what you're buying to recent bestsellers and the like, sure. But many ebook sellers, including Amazon, routinely have massive sales. I've bought ebooks for $2 or $3 apie
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by maldusiecle 8y ago
Do you have citations for any of this?
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by maldusiecle 8y ago
The idea that evangelical Christians are about as dangerous as the "followers of Eris" seems like quite a stretch. I don't see Discordians bombing abortion clinics. Even as recently as the 80s, when The Last Tempation of Jesu
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by maldusiecle 8y ago
It's true that the music-consuming public is less sophisticated nowadays--for boring reasons, unfortunately. Before recorded music became dominant, if you wanted to hear it, you had know to play it (or talk someone else into playing it
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by maldusiecle 8y ago
This entire comment rests on confusing the meaning of the word "classical." A rich person who listens to modernist composers like Boulez or Webern is still listening to "classical" music, as most people use the term. Cla
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by maldusiecle 8y ago
The other thing to note is that Spotify will send you lower quality audio on the mobile vs. desktop client. When I last moved, I plugged my phone (running Spotify) into my receiver to check that I'd gotten my speakers set up right. It
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by maldusiecle 8y ago
This feels a bit off to me. Most of the people I've met who are really passionate about fighting discrimination against LGBT people have also been very interested in fighting fatphobia (discrimination against overweight people) and abl
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by maldusiecle 8y ago
Not employees, representatives. These are things which employees of Gab have said in their official capacity representing the company (for instance, on Gab official social media accounts).
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by maldusiecle 8y ago
I'd encourage anyone convinced by this comment to do some research into the antisemitic and white supremacist comments which representatives of Gab have openly, publicly made.
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by maldusiecle 8y ago
> I think you've just demonstrated why many people believe fake news. A lot of them are set up to look like regular news sites. You're reading my argument backwards. I'm not saying you should trust any website that looks r
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by maldusiecle 8y ago
I'd agree not all of the Guardian's opinion pieces are trustworthy. This is true of a lot of news sources. I'd consider the ability to distinguish opinion pieces from factual reporting as one of the easy-to-learn stylistic di
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by maldusiecle 8y ago
Don't look at the founding date, that's completely irrelevant. Look at the Daily Mail homepage. Does it look like a news site, or does it look like a tabloid?
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by maldusiecle 8y ago
If you can't tell the difference between The Daily Mail and The Guardian based on stylistic cues, I don't know what to tell you. It is true that stylistic cues won't tell you everything. The rest, unfortunately, is a lot hard
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by maldusiecle 8y ago
You don't need knowledge of evo-psych or "memetics" (whatever that means) to distinguish most sketchy sites from reputable ones. It may be tricky to distinguish more carefully-assembled fake news sites, but most of these bogu
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by maldusiecle 8y ago
Man, believe whatever you like, but it's pretty obvious that there are a lot of people who were in Chan's miserable situation--indentured servitude, endless hours, extreme poverty--and worked hard and weren't able to become,
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by maldusiecle 8y ago
This is the flip side of an experience that's more and more common when buying on Amazon--there are a lot of sellers peddling poorly made or counterfeit items for a quick buck. It's a crowded marketplace, and it's mostly crow
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by maldusiecle 8y ago
It's not a gender politics thing. You didn't just "question" her, you directly insulted her--"marketing to me, nothing more ... the bar has been lowered past the floor now." You'd have gotten the same down
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by maldusiecle 8y ago
> Support your artist by seeing them live. And dance. Not actually a solution if you're not living in a location where lots of artists tour regularly. You don't need a label, distribution, or management fees to upload releases
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by maldusiecle 8y ago
On one hand, none of this kind of stuff was ever on the front page, and many users never went far beyond the front page. On the other hand, there was a substantial minority of users for whom that kind of content was the draw. And there was
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by maldusiecle 8y ago
Pretty weak argument. Once you admit that certain views deserve to be taken off the able (astrology, the KKK, Nazis, and "Soviet-style communism," unclear whether Mao-style communism is permissible), you need to have principles ab
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by maldusiecle 8y ago
You don't think anyone can tell what you mean?
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by maldusiecle 8y ago
Sure, it was a second wave attitude. It's obviously not at all prevalent in the contemporary mainstream, certainly not among people young enough to be active on Twitter. In that sense it's imaginary: it's his imagined view of
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by maldusiecle 8y ago
When you equate this imaginary feminist position with literally advocating for genocide, you're telling on yourself.
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by maldusiecle 8y ago
Then I guess they took the test too far, because she's had two #1s and several very successful features.
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by maldusiecle 8y ago
Well, none of the novels were complete at the time of his death, and his intention was that they be destroyed. (This is also true of a bit over half of his short stories, though.) Given this, their narrative structure is shaky. Kafka is als
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by maldusiecle 8y ago
I like it, you took all the clearly written statements and added non sequiturs and grammatical errors to them.
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by maldusiecle 8y ago
Marxism is not the same as Stalinism or Maoism, and is not necessarily an authoritarian belief system. Fascism is by definition authoritarian. I don't know how you define "left-wing authoritarianism," but the fact that you tr

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