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by syki 5y ago
The precedent has been set in the U.S. If you can whip up an army of fanatics to assault the Capitol then you may do so with impunity. The system set up 230 years ago has too many imbalances. We don’t have proportional representation in e
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by syki 5y ago
I wasn’t referring to Russia gate as such. It is clear that foreign governments are using bots and fake accounts to sow dissent. China uses a lot of people to do this. Israel uses fake accounts and whatnot to try to sway opinions regardi
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by syki 5y ago
First time you get passport it’s in person. Renewals are by mail. So do you support first time voting in person and mail in voting for subsequent elections? I don’t believe there are a fair number of cases in which voter fraud caused the w
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by syki 5y ago
Well, Republicans haven’t quite shifted their views/policies enough to include Hispanics as a whole in their party. Rabiblancos (Panamanian Spanish term) are acceptable but even ones like Rafael Cruz feel the need to go by names like
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by syki 5y ago
A lot of the discontent as you put is race based. Whites soon will no longer have a majority and there is an ongoing shift in the demographics. There is a sense amongst uneducated whites and lower class whites that things aren’t right and
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by syki 5y ago
Don’t know. We don’t have a national ID system in the U.S. In Wisconsin they mandated voter ID and promptly closed a lot of places to get said IDs. They made it harder for people to get it. In some states Polling places get closed down i
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by syki 5y ago
And that is the problem with knee jerk reactions. Trump’s travel ban against China was widely criticized but he was right to do so. Just because Trump said it or did it doesn’t make it wrong.
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by syki 5y ago
I don’t claim they were his only supporters but he clearly targeted them and emboldened people to say/do things that they kept suppressed. I think historians will agree with my assessment. I could be wrong.
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by syki 5y ago
It’s easy to find articles on voter suppression efforts. This is particularly true in the South. There are lots of articles detailing these efforts. Here is one: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/nearly-21-000-
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by syki 5y ago
Do you believe that winning the Hispanic vote automatically makes someone not a racist? That is a pretty strange standard to go by. Is someone a racist by not winning the Hispanic vote? Are you aware of the racial divides and disparities
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by syki 5y ago
If the center of the political spectrum shifts too far left or right then things get distorted. Moderate viewpoints when this happens will similarly have shifted to the right or left. From my perspective the U.S. has very much shifted to
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by syki 5y ago
It seems overly simplistic to say he won because of constant media exposure. The 2016 election was a white nationalist backlash against both political parties. Trump’s catering to this surely had quite a lot to do with his victory.
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by syki 5y ago
Most higher education faculty positions in the U.S. are for teaching and not research. Most STEM graduates have minimal training in teaching. If one goes solely by education level or achievement in the field as a means of determining qual
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by syki 5y ago
Consider the median in terms of intelligence. For each subject taught in school take the median in terms ability to explain things to a child in a constructive way. Almost everyone falls below the median in multiple categories. Hence wha
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by syki 5y ago
Your comments in regard to this case are right but our justice system does not work well. People who can afford lawyers do much better than those who can’t.
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by syki 5y ago
Statisticians have a saying, “all models are wrong, some are useful”. What we have is that math is useful for modeling physics. But it is just that, a model in so far as we know. Believing that math or logic is intrinsic to the universe
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by syki 5y ago
You sidestepped the question about what rules of logic are intrinsic to the universe. There are different versions of logic. Is Law of the Excluded Middle intrinsic or not? A great many physicists, philosophers, and mathematicians don’t
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by syki 5y ago
The logic used by most mathematicians is uses exclusive or, law of the excluded middle, and is first order logic. There are some mathematicians that don’t use all of these and there are branches of math that don’t use all of them. So when
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by syki 5y ago
There are lots of things that wouldn’t exist if humans didn’t exist. The question is whether or not math is one of these things. No one is doubting the existence of mathematics. What is doubted by a great many people is whether or not ma
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by syki 5y ago
It’s bad faith to compare a nonviolent protest by 300 people to an insurrection by thousands. No lawmakers were in fear of their life in the Kavaugh protest and the floor of the Senate and the House remained protected. Also the goal was n
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by syki 5y ago
Paying workers for upkeep and construction of infrastructure is part of the cost of having said infrastructure.
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by syki 5y ago
I lived in a suburb with lots of walking paths and within walking distance of a grocery store. This is a rarity in the U.S. Even on nice days very few people out and about. It was rare for me to encounter more than one person on a hour l
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by syki 5y ago
We Americans are a nation of people who spend the vast majority of our waking hours inside. We go from building to building via car isolated from the world and each other. It’s an enormous waste of land and resources since every building
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by syki 5y ago
Most would decry visiting Krakow during the Nazi occupation. Somehow visiting North Korea gets a pass from such scrutiny. Usually people, when called out on visiting North Korea, try to defend themselves by saying something along the line
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by syki 5y ago
Clearly I think it’s immoral to visit North Korea and therefore I won’t do so. I also think it’s wrong for others to do it and those people should be called out for doing so. Those who do visit North Korea should be judged for doing so an
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by syki 5y ago
Are there ever circumstances where it is immoral to visit a country as a tourist? I believe the answer is yes. It would have been immoral to be a tourist in Cambodia during the killing fields. Can one imagine being a tourist in Krakow du
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by syki 5y ago
I’d forgotten about the French Indochina aspect. Thanks for the info and perspective.
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by syki 5y ago
If the army and navy did get along (and famously they certainly did not) wouldn’t the same problem that necessitated war have occurred? Assuming Japan still invades China and gets hooked on waging war there they still face a supply problem
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by syki 5y ago
Japan did not go to war with the U.S. because of army/navy rivalry. This was not a consideration for the perceived necessity of going to war with America. It all had to do with supply constraints and the military gambled and initiall
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by syki 5y ago
Thanks for the info!

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