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by tjs8rj 4y ago
Bluntly, that’s just the cost of freedom. How many people get punched in the face for saying something unsavory, yet there is no national conversation about curtailing speech? Why didn’t we have that conversation after the Dallas police sho
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by tjs8rj 4y ago
Of course there are whites that act in racist ways, but it is a very significant accusation that all white act in racist ways, are driven by racist motives, or even that a significant fraction of whites are (poor whites). When you make such
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by tjs8rj 4y ago
I disagree that poor whites are specifically against welfare because they think it helps black people more. That’s just another way of saying they are all racist. Ive grown up around poor whites and dislike for welfare among them was pretty
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by tjs8rj 4y ago
To be clear, this is about university admissions where their goal is to identify the most capable people for the school, and a smart but poor person might very well be the most capable (even if it’s not clear on paper given their previous l
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by tjs8rj 4y ago
Then discriminate on the socioeconomic inequalities. A poor white person and a poor black person should get aid. Obama’s daughter (black, but rich and powerful) doesn’t need any aid or discrimination in her favor. Discriminating on the basi
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by tjs8rj 4y ago
The answer is really simple: discrimination not on race, but on inequalities. Don’t discriminate because someone is black or white, but give due consideration to factors like family situation/income/legacy/etc This seems like
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by tjs8rj 4y ago
Being vaccinated COULD be correlated with being less healthy just in that old people might be more likely to be vaccinated and young people more likely to "take their chances", and there are few things less healthy than being old.
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by tjs8rj 4y ago
Is there reason to believe "long covid" is even a thing? Is covid so significantly different from many diseases that it has about 50 various "long" symptoms that run the gamut from brain fog to change in taste to a rash
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by tjs8rj 4y ago
The issue is you’ve wrapped up so much in the word “white” that you’re confusing yourself. You seem to be under the impression that intra-racial discrimination can’t exist? The Rwandan genocide was entirely between black people, but 2 diffe
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by tjs8rj 4y ago
The definition of white is that same as that for any other racial group: a member of the white racial group, determined by a combination of lineage, how one is perceived, how one perceives themselves, and more. It can be complicated, and so
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by tjs8rj 4y ago
No, Irish people aren’t and will never be WASPs, because you have to be anglo-Saxon to be White Anglo-Saxon, Protestant. Beyond that: being white and being accepted in America having little to do with each other. In every legal instance of
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by tjs8rj 4y ago
You are talking a totally different point here! Being discriminated against in job opportunities and so on has NOTHING to do with being white. Tying them inextricably together is completely unnecessary and pollutes the conversation with bor
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by tjs8rj 4y ago
By all legal stipulations, there’s no indication that Irish people were not always considered white. There is not a single instance where Irish people were denied from “white” accommodations. They were always considered to be of “white raci
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by tjs8rj 4y ago
This is the exact book the myth is based on. Here’s a debunk of the book: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201... It’s pretty simple: the book doesn’t mean “white” like white, you know
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by tjs8rj 4y ago
Sorry updated to reflect the source, here it it’s again: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201... Yes, it’s a myth. 100%. There’s only 2 ways of reading “Irish people weren’t considered
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by tjs8rj 4y ago
Just a side note: the idea that Irish people weren’t considered white is a myth (same with Italians and Jews)[0]. Irish people could go to white-only venues/places, could marry other white people, weren’t affected by segregation, etc i
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by tjs8rj 4y ago
Investments doing so well these last 40 years is the unusual part. Vast majority of the gains in the stock market over its history happened from 1977-2007.
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by tjs8rj 4y ago
They have these on Quantbase already
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by tjs8rj 4y ago
That’s well and good but the result should be that bail out happening as an investment on fair market value (in this case, borderline bankruptcy value) - and now the tax payer owns that firm (perhaps sold off asap at a profit for the tax pa
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It seems theoretically sound: the profitably threshold for accidents is lower than the threshold most people are comfortable risking their lives for a job for, so a for-profit company is pressured to lower standards to the most profitable l
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by tjs8rj 4y ago
Tradition and common sense are so fundamental that you're really going to have a hard time with this statement, and what does "wrong" mean exactly? Brushing your teeth 2x a day is a tradition and common sense. You do it not
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by tjs8rj 4y ago
“Tradition is a set of solutions for which we have forgotten the problems. Throw away the solution and you get the problem back. Sometimes the problem has mutated or disappeared. Often it is still there as strong as it ever was.” ― Donald K
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by tjs8rj 4y ago
As I understand it, the monarchy doesn't own otherwise public lands, in fact it's exactly the opposite - they lease their private lands to the government to be used as public lands[0]. In other words: this is entirely private land
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I'd say that's more promising than anything. Ads come last as they are a guaranteed detriment to the experience. You have to make something really engaging first. The fact that they've created games so ad-laden to be known fo
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by tjs8rj 4y ago
Pseudoscience of this nature is derived specifically from selfish incentives. Nowadays, you can get pretty rich by convincing others something is a “miracle plant” (“super food”, etc), and so that’s why it’s become a cliche. Did those same
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by tjs8rj 4y ago
How can land be underpopulated? What happens when you don’t have much labor is the labor prices go up (wages increase). I can’t help but suspect from your other comments in this thread you are just trying to justify your a priori want for m
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You’re saying this same thing all up and down this thread but have already been disproven on the “professionals that create the vast majority of the wealth”.
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by tjs8rj 4y ago
If Craigslist is the pinnacle, is the best software engineer one who can create the most “impact” per hour of development? Think Craigslist has several engineers, but it’s really a skeleton crew for the scale of their “impact”
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by tjs8rj 4y ago
It’s really not this complicated at all, and arguments like this just come across like reaching for a rebuttal. What these people want is very simple: a clear standard uniformly applied and not done so in a partisan fashion. Everyone is onb
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by tjs8rj 4y ago
Could you list the erroneous claims made in Masterworks ads? I’m not affiliated with them in any way other than as an interested potential customer (and I’ve seen the charts on their site, but haven’t made any deposits)

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