mkoubaa

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by mkoubaa 2y ago
The point here is that scripture doesn't make claims. People do. Scripture is not a person. You seem to be arguing that the most correct interpretation of scripture is a literal one that ignores its context. If that's the case, th
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
If you're saying that core founding principles were so important then you must feel that slavery shouldn't have been abolished, no?
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
The scripture, as such, does not. Interpretations of it may.
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
And yet religious freedom begat liberalism, not the other way around
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
I couldn't agree more
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
Secular law allows it's citizens discretions for settling family disputes and inheritance. Religious people often use that discretion to use religious rules from their religion. Nonreligious people benefit from the same discretion. Th
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
Liberalism will end when we choose to end it, in bits in pieces, each brick ironically removed in it's own name.
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
It is important for government actions to be communicated clearly
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
The US cold war strategy of supporting Islamic extremism in the USSR is well documented. I think the reading of history that you are suggesting is naive
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
The bedrock of liberalism is religious freedom
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
A liberal secular state must respect the will of its citizenry, whatever it is. It must also suppress violent sedition with violence. Expressing that responsibility as suppressing religion per se is counterproductive
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
I sometimes even have faith in democracy, believe it or not.
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
Some Islamic countries are family businesses that have international recognition as states for historical and geopolitical reasons. I don't take the actions of those countries seriously
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
Islamic law is understood by Muslims to be applied only in an Islamic state. In a secular state, the consensus understanding by Muslims is that the secular law is to be followed. A secular state need not suppress Islam
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
Keeping religions in check as such is incompatible with liberalism. Secular societies need to be maintained, but antagonizing religious people with phrases like that is not how.
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
This is a common take. I respect it but find it entirely unconvincing
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
Actually it doesn't call for that
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
Saying "Islam being kept in check" in this way sounds an implication that religion (or perhaps just this one) ought to be suppressed. This sort of attitude and policy coming from it is like gasoline for religious extremism, and th
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
I'm another aphant who really appreciates Chiang's writing! I wonder if he is one too
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
This type of parallelism is sort of like a flops metric. Optimizing the amount of wall time the GPU is actually doing computation is just as important (if not more). There are some synchronization and pipelining tools in CUDA and Vulkan but
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
Yay more shitgpt all over my life
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
I hate that they did it but I have a hard time sympathizing with Edge/MS
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
Google is known for their work on containers
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
NY State politics 101: Donate to politicians, get funded, repeat.
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
"get all the bad guys" isn't the point of the ICC
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
As of Iraq and Afghanistan, the USA doesn't recognize the ICC, so as long as Bush and Cheney stay in the US it doesn't matter if there are any arrest warrants.
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
Some actors in the "West" might have some credibility but certainly not the USA. In recent decades our state department has been openly Machiavellian, which I wouldn't have minded if they weren't also utterly incompetent
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
I don't see evidence of any lines drawn
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
My reading of the history is that a not insignificant fraction of early Western support for Zionism was explicitly to avoid Jewish immigration to Western nations.
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by mkoubaa 2y ago
An interesting comparison. If they took in every Jew in Germany they would have been accomplices to an ethnic cleansing but would effectively have prevented an ethnic extermination. So while technically the answer would have been yes in tha

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