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by trabant00 8y ago
As I grow older I found myself questioning more and more the absolute position against any form of physical violence in modern society. Before you get angry I really do mean questioning as in I don't know, not that I have a pro stance
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by trabant00 8y ago
> What will keep people--resigned to their fate--from plopping on the couch to wait it out, as opposed to attempting somethin I don't think this is how it works from my observations. People don't decide to couch it out based on
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by trabant00 9y ago
I have 4 tattoos. The oldest is 20 years, newest about 6. I don't care about the motives in any of them any more. Oldest is a cross and I'm 90% atheist now :) All the tattoos are crude by today's standards. I don't mind
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by trabant00 9y ago
> as much of a gender-equality-utopia Scandinavian countries are, they're certainly not free of gender roles and the societal institutions that enforce those Compared to Algeria, Albania, Turkey, Tunisia, UAE, Romania, etc? Please g
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by trabant00 9y ago
The oversimplification of cancer and smoking: Smoking has been overly simplified to “If you smoke hard, you will achieve cancer.” But I've been smoking hard for 20 years and no cancer yet! My grandfather smoked his lungs till he was 82
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by trabant00 9y ago
Seen from outside of the US the "social studies type" is just as damaging as the racist type. Somebody makes measurable improvements to the troubled US police - public interaction and the first thing you can think of is "ever
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by trabant00 9y ago
How the hell could "same as us" mean "white/indian/asian boys"? I'm a white man from eastern Europe and the white americans I work with are anything but the same culture as mine. Indians could well be from
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by trabant00 9y ago
One thing to remember: it's only one side of the story from somebody who had/has serious financial interest depending on the outcome of the scandal. It kind of worries me how most comments take the allegations for granted.
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by trabant00 9y ago
A little straw man here, a little twisting of the meaning of clean there and voila: trying to eat healthy is classist and racist. Junk food is being marketed at poor uneducated people. Yes! That is even more reason to fight it, not find esc
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by trabant00 10y ago
I have a somewhat similar background. When I was young (<18) I used to feel guilty from time to time. I mean there is no denying that I got a head start by being in a family that could support me in school, pressure me into getting an ed
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by trabant00 10y ago
You are describing the current status. That is not where the doubt is. The article worries about the future and how trends will change. As mentioned in the article what "a real watch" means changed a couple of times and it could
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by trabant00 10y ago
Living through communism in an eastern european country and getting the real freedom to vote and support who we want changed everything . And this is why I simply cannot understand this. Educated people from countries which I associate with