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by ue_ 10y ago
> Ah, yes. "No true Scotsman". Refusing to back up certain or all interpretations of an idea by no means amounts to NTS. You're making a fallacy by saying that these problems you mention are core to Marxist thought. Modern
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>Sorry, 100 million dead bodies is more than enough to convince me that Marxism doesn't work. Where did Marx and Engels write about 100M dead bodies?
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by ue_ 10y ago
I'm not sure if I agree with the idea of killing anyone who tries to exert a claim over oneself, though I can't agree more: abolish the state, the class system and IP.
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by ue_ 10y ago
I think Derrida is treated rather poorly, even in taught philosophy. Just because a work has multiple possible interpretations, it doesn't mean it's obscurantist or bad.
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by ue_ 10y ago
Isn't some kind of balance important? You want to have code that you can maintain and that others can work on, but also efficiency. I don't know if it's one of those 'unobtainable golden middle' things, but I feel a
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by ue_ 10y ago
Can you give an example please?
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>The "material conditions" that lead to illegal immigration in the US are lax enforcement of immigration and labor laws. These are material conditions, but they do not cover all immigration, so they are insufficient. The bigger
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by ue_ 10y ago
>The reason the left wants immigration is because they overwhelmingly vote left. This is extermely narrow-sighted and very uncharitable, and fails to explain the radical left's stance on immigration, given that very few immigrants v
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by ue_ 10y ago
Because you apparently base your moral viewpoint around illigal immigration (rather than the other way round), why does the fact that it's illegal change whether it's right or not?
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>I self-identify as a neoliberal (fiscally conservative); is that part of the left? No. The left believes in the workers controlling the means of production and stopping capitalists from exploiting labour by appropriating value that they
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by ue_ 10y ago
Although there are various ways (which I'm not personally familiar with), hours of SNLT may be a starting point for more complex calculations. It doesn't apply for management positions (or really positions which don't produce
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by ue_ 10y ago
>Support a law that says the top executive can't make x times the total comp of the lowest paid. Or support a law that means that you get paid for as much as you work. That makes more sense, no?
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What tends to be the case is irrelevant. The contents of what is being said is all that matters.
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> Wouldn't the next logical conclusion be to get rid of cash altogether? I like this solution. Get rid of the need for money, too.
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>Defenders of dictatorships and monarchies, from Jeremy Corbyn (who had kind words for Castro) What gives you the impression that Corbyn is against democracy? In fact, he participates in the 'democratic' system of his own party
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by ue_ 10y ago
>that show about colorful, pastel-, candy-colored equines, of which I'm totally not a fan of. Have you watched the last couple of seasons? I liked them more.
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by ue_ 10y ago
I very much dislike Javascript commenting, but you don't have to use a third party service if you host the comments yourself. Isso[0] for example can do this. [0] https://posativ.org/isso/
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I thought it was due to phishing. I'm not sure where I heard that, though.
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Good idea!
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I've heard that capsicum is not soluble in water, though it is in fat (which milk contains), which is why it's recommended to have milk. I have no idea if this is true or not, but it lines up with anecdotal experience :)
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It's unfortunate to find that someone serioulsy holds such views, especially an academic.
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>someone who has taken someone's innocence (and perhaps their ability to have a happy life) has certain privileges taken away. They should have already been served the 'punishment' or retribution within prison, and hopeful
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Why do you say that?
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>Just don't personally feel that sorry for a sex offender who can't get on Facebook. How do you feel about other criminals who have been convicted of a crime, then let out? Sure, Facebook isn't really the issue here, but w
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by ue_ 10y ago
>but rather the distribution of it is. Why?
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>"If you see something, say something" Perhaps a slightly different context but I have heard this almost verbatim a few days ago on buses and trains in Birmingham, UK. If I'm not mistaken too, I believe that "If you
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by ue_ 10y ago
> The term "TV License" is 1000% more offensive and outrageous, to my Canadian ears, than "TV Tax" would be. >A "license" is a permit from the government to do or use something, and carries the implicatio
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I really wish there were something like this for Windows. Free/Open source, not requiring me to use someone else's service (i.e I can host my own server to stream to and from) etc. I want to stream games on Windows, but the games
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I have seen some albeit more simplistic rice art when I went to Japan. I had to climb a little tower to see them, it was such a cool idea at the time; the one I saw showed that popular Japanese woodblock print with the waves on it, which I
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>If Culture B was totally fine with adopting Culture A and adding to the culture rather than demanding things be done their way "culture killing" wouldn't be as large of an issue. What if those in Culture B face problems?

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