politicalist

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by politicalist 16y ago
The US has the highest incarceration rate in the world, so it unfortunately looks very American. (If "American" refers to the US alone.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_incarceration_rat...
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by politicalist 16y ago
Yes, sports news is generally held up as the highest-quality news by media critics. They think it's maybe an outlet for people's intelligence, where very sophisticated analysis is common and the audience isn't afraid to disagree with coache
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by politicalist 16y ago
There are people with far worse jobs (if they have jobs at all), but the solution certainly isn't to shut up. A better solution is to spend a little of your time educating yourself and aiding others with their (and your) problems.
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by politicalist 16y ago
I enjoyed this essay, but the author makes unnecessary divisions. Many on the "extremes" have expressed all the positions he describes, to some extent. These aren't really incompatible frameworks, unless they're taken as dogmatic. For insta
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by politicalist 16y ago
When reading comments on articles like this, I wonder if I'm in the minority, or whether people just don't want to get caught publicly supporting a social taboo in front of potential customers and employers. There's something degrading abou
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by politicalist 16y ago
On China, Martin Hart-Landsberg had a couple informative articles on Monthly Review. (I didn't know Lenovo came from the Chinese Academy of Sciences.) http://monthlyreview.org/100201hart-landsberg.php http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2005
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by politicalist 16y ago
I hope some teachers "cheated" on the tests for principled reasons, not just for personal reward, like this UMass teacher: http://books.google.com/books?id=x3ertj1IcaAC&lpg=PA62&#...
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by politicalist 16y ago
The poster you're responding to is correct. Michael Arrington uses heavy rhetoric, so we should probably translate "handouts" to mean expensive economic intervention which benefits an industry. Silicon Valley's fundamental innovations were
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by politicalist 16y ago
That comment uses an odd rhetorical technique -- the poster claims that the article uses "blatant doublespeak"... while ironically writing a long response claiming that he's refusing to write the response that he's writing. Ok, interesting
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by politicalist 16y ago
In response to your question, your post currently has 9 points, and virtually all it offers is an ad-hominem implication (people who are merely interested in this article aren't "critical thinkers", presumably unlike you) and an unsupported
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by politicalist 16y ago
This essay from the right-wing thinktank Heritage Foundation is flawed. It attempts to argue that while food insecurity exists, it isn't a problem; those who suffer from it actually have too much to eat, and just don't know how to eat healt