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by slg 1y ago
>individual border agents should absolutely not be doing this One of the underdiscussed aspects of an authoritarian regime is that it creates countless little tyrants that all feel empowered to exert whatever power they have in any way t
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by slg 1y ago
It's always hilarious to see people who are so defensive about capitalism that the mention of any flaw is received as a total and complete condemnation. It is noticeable that you didn't try to refute any specific point made, you
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I was more remarking on your criticism of competition as an appropriate way to deal with scarcity and/or try to maximize societal benefit. Although now that you mention the public/private distinction, the difference in that has be
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by slg 1y ago
This is fundamentally a critique of capitalism. And if we are honestly opening this up to a discussion of the ways capitalism damages this country, I don't think higher education is either the best example or the one most urgently nee
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>I am suspicious of the motivations behind the excerpt This is a pointless concern because "the excerpt" has no motivations behind it that were imbued by its author. The only reason it exists as an excerpt is that someone pulle
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And is this opinion supported by anything beyond a distaste for sports? Because it is objectively wrong at the extremes.[1] [1] - https://www.al.com/news/2024/01/what-economic-impact-has-nic...
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by slg 1y ago
I'm sorry, it's not debatable. People who don't like sports tend to really struggle to actually consider the larger ecosystem that exists around sports and sports fandom. For example, there is a widely studied phenomenon tha
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What specifically is the problem with that? Do you think a "director of a university's drama department" brings the same value to a university as "Successful football and basketball coaches"?
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Matters of health are probably the wrong ones to speculate on or try to speak authoritatively about when you "didn't spend much time researching" them. CTE can be a problem in soccer specifically because "Evidence indic
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In my opinion, this is like complaining that the US Postal Service isn't profitable. It isn't a business, framing it in terms of profitability is missing the whole reason it exists. No one expects a middle school soccer team or
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I guess I need to repeat myself. I'm unclear on why you think that question answers my questions. Do you think AIPAC refuses money from non-Jews?
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by slg 1y ago
You are right that young Evangelicals are less supportive of Israel, but that is an overall trend in the US[1] and not specific to Evangelicals. Maybe the rest of what you said is true about your specific church, but it doesn't seem t
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by slg 1y ago
I'm unclear on why you think those links answer my question. Do you think AIPAC refuses money from non-Jews? Do you think there aren't Evangelical leaning PACs or other lobbying groups?
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I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt that you are calling attention to the phrasing of the excerpt rather than insinuating that Jews collectively are more loyal to Israel than the US. I admit the phrasing of the excerpt does
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by slg 1y ago
I wasn't comparing any two blocks of 6m people. I was comparing a specific group of 6m to a specific group of 100m. Do you think the 6m American Jews have more political power than the 100m American Evangelical Christians?
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by slg 1y ago
What did I say that made you think I support the ICE kidnappings? I was making a very specific point that you seemingly received as a much different general point.
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What is a context in which it is acceptable to say that an American's loyalty to this country can't be trusted because of their ethnicity/religion? Some of these definitions are too broad, but this is not the example to use i
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by slg 1y ago
There are also roughly 100 million Evangelical Christians in the US who are strongly in favor of political support of Israel too. It is a little silly to think the American position on this is exclusively about wooing the votes of 6 millio
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by slg 1y ago
That is a strange one to call out as too broad because it is literally an ancient form of antisemitism going back to the Romans. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_loyalty#Jewish_Believers https://www.nytime
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by slg 1y ago
There were also $280 of other vague miscellaneous costs listed among the initial investments that I was including as part of that "roughly $1k"
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by slg 1y ago
There is also the roughly $1k in costs for the solar and battery hardware even if we consider the iPhone itself free since it is so old.
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by slg 1y ago
Since fascism is more a political philosophy than an economic one, it is hard to define an "objective measure" for this type of thing, but the formal merging of corporate interests with military interests by commissioning C-suite
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by slg 1y ago
This article is clearly written with an attempt to frame this as a purely patriotic and yet somehow an apolitical ideological decision, but it reads as incredibly fascistic.
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by slg 1y ago
If you can't recognize the 60+ years of relative peace that efforts like the Marshall Plan brought us, I don't know how you can recognize any time period in recorded history as being "peaceful".
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Do they not teach about the Marshall Plan in schools anymore? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Plan
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by slg 1y ago
Whether it's capable/incapable of doing it is much less important in a legal sense than whether it does/doesn't. When it comes to the specific images in the article, the AI clearly didn't add anything new. The ave
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by slg 1y ago
We don't need to hypothesize. If you pay attention to this space, you will see it play out in real time in the news. Over the last several years, there have been multiple public pressure campaigns against the advertisers on Youtube, F
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>but they should be clear and consistent. As Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart famously said in Jacobellis v. Ohio [1], "I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that sh
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>Youtube is a private company. They can make whatever additional moderation decisions beyond the law they want. Which are in no way based on what you want but are entirely based on what advertisers want. This control effectively answers
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>There are myriad laws around the world, and somehow we manage to decide what's legal and follow the law, at least most of the time. This argument is absurd on the face of it: "we can't have a law because laws are too diff

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