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by rexpop 5mo ago
You are unbelievably out-of-touch with the state of the world and social relations, although citing twelfth-century verse isn't in itself inexcusably outmoded. The other poster is right about tit-for-tat. I'm afraid you're gi
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by rexpop 5mo ago
Yes, but not nature's—the built environment and socially constructed institutions of modern civilization. Conservative political scientists like James Q. Wilson have historically argued that the root of crime is an essential moral and
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by rexpop 5mo ago
People live in and depend on that waterway. Just because it's beneath your standards doesn't mean it isn't vital. You're giving "let them eat cake" energy.
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by rexpop 5mo ago
Yes—the threshold of new technology has re-opened the books on settled—or exhausted—arguments. Every paradigm shift offers the opportunity to relitigate old bargains.
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by rexpop 5mo ago
> Even under our decidedly raging conflagration, people STILL find reasons to burn to a crisp. The argument—to which I'm quite sympathetic—is that these non-anarchic institutions perpetuate the environment which incentizes "bad
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by rexpop 5mo ago
If the world is to stay within a range of carbon emissions that avoids catastrophic global warming, 80 percent of the fossil fuel industry’s reserves must remain unused in the ground. If we "run out" we'll have done ourselves
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by rexpop 5mo ago
Ok, but you're not exactly a research sociologist, are you? It's not like you've made a study of poverty in America—let alone poverty on the imperial periphery, like El Salvador, Guatemala, or Honduras where we've been u
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by rexpop 5mo ago
> internal US inequality is actually shrinking Since the 1980s, the United States has experienced a profound shift in wealth concentration toward the top of the economic ladder. The bottom half of American households controls just 2.5% o
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by rexpop 5mo ago
> You're going to point out that's illegal in random latin american country too. No, I'm not. I'm done reading your lazy bullshit.
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by rexpop 5mo ago
> Shitholes are gonna shithole. Wow, brilliant insight. Yes, the US used to have tons of manufacturing and unusually large amounts of social unrest. Is that your only question?
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by rexpop 5mo ago
Despite decades of expanding global commerce and industrialization in the developing world, the data shows that extreme income inequality between nations has remained stubbornly entrenched, and between-country inequalities still account for
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by rexpop 5mo ago
The dynamic is not a straightforward "race to the bottom" that simply runs out of victims, but rather a cyclical process that continually recreates working-class resistance and shifts capital into entirely new industries. Maybe it
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by rexpop 5mo ago
Literally the thesis of Sorry to Bother You (2018).
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by rexpop 5mo ago
I feel like you struggle with the concept of "jurisdiction", and if we were going to look at the holistic picture, rather than charging foreign refugees with child endangerment, we'd be offering them reparations eg subsidizin
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by rexpop 5mo ago
There's definitely racism in a global apartheid.
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by rexpop 5mo ago
> you are a glorious immigrant who put it all on the line to give your family a better life According to whom? The immense hardship endured by migrants isn't a badge of glory, but the direct result of a global economic system design
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by rexpop 5mo ago
Cool, Taylorism 2.0
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by rexpop 5mo ago
How, and why, are we supposed to have a conversation about fascist propaganda without mentioning Nazis?
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by rexpop 5mo ago
> it would still need to be different enough from Smooth Criminal to avoid listeners just going back to the original Or just cheaper to license so that Spotify/Pandora promote it in your algorithmic feed. It's audio skimpflatio
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by rexpop 5mo ago
"Let's not be tribal. Even Goebbels has something valuable to contribute to the conversation." That's how naive you sound. Give me a break.
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by rexpop 5mo ago
> I'm dead serious. Well duh. Anyone with half a brain knows that the root causes of crime lie in poverty, systemic exclusion, and the erosion of social safety nets, rather than in inherent criminality or a lack of "moral chara
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by rexpop 5mo ago
Governments should be more constrained than private individuals' enterprise. "Political" motives are inappropriate for the federal government.
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by rexpop 5mo ago
If your definitions of "intelligent" and "stupid" aren't mutually exclusive, then I'm not sure what's the point of them, or if you're really even attempting to apply logic.
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by rexpop 5mo ago
> people with a certain minority lifestyle That phrase is a dehumanizing, Nazi-style talking point: it frames a group of people as a “lifestyle” problem instead of as human beings, which is a common setup for stigma and persecution. Nazi
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by rexpop 5mo ago
Is Kelsey Piper a celebrity writer? She may be in a different class.
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by rexpop 5mo ago
Cal Newport and tech commentator Ed Zitron discussed this disparity between Anthropic's public image and their actual practices. Despite cultivating a reputation as the "ethical" AI company, Zitron argues that Anthropic'
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by rexpop 5mo ago
> This guy is highly intelligent > There's literally nothing I could say that would make him examine the situation from a different angle. I feel like you need to examine your definition of "intelligent" from a differen
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by rexpop 5mo ago
Are you in kindergarten?
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by rexpop 6mo ago
Rights exist insofar as they're defended, is my point. Your insistence that they're non-existent is your admission that you won't fight.
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by rexpop 6mo ago
> this is not a welcome place for genuine discussion You're either a propagandist or a useful idiot.

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