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by x220 8y ago
>I was addressing the poster directly. You don't directly know what the poster has gone through. Prefacing the statement with "as a white male" implies that you know what the poster has gone through because of his race. It
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I'm very glad that you have found a sense of community and connection at work. Loneliness and alienation is serious, and fixing it is not easy. I do think that attending groups connected to your workplace is the wrong approach, even if
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>As a white male you haven't experienced any of that This is almost unbelievably blind.
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A decent explanation of the media genre is "radical breakdown of the social order combined with radical progress in technology". It is also an aesthetic inspired by cyberpunk media. It is also a mindset which is quite hard to defi
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There are activists that think that more resources given to the police will be used by the police (a mechanism of oppression) to oppress minorities and underprivileged groups even more. This is not a fringe belief. Many people with these be
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Thanks for the info!
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I think I agree with you entirely. I'm pointing out that that statement is very different than "the police break the law".
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I think that most activists want those things. Some activists are like the person in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjIEZf8Skx4
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by x220 8y ago
See, now we're talking about something more specific and useful. Those are pretty interesting.
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Yes, the police break laws. Republicans break laws. Democrats, Muslims, Trump supporters, and Python programmers break laws. Any large group of people contains law-breakers. It's not a useful statement.
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Free speech is a value, not just a legal right.
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You could look up videos on YouTube of police deploying an AMRAP to an area with an active shooter (a shooter with military-grade rifles and armor) and using it for cover. That's how they save lives.
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For most police departments it's a smart choice since it's armored, can be used to provide impenetrable cover, and has lower upfront costs than alternatives. For cash-strapped police departments, that's a great opportunity.
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We need a different department in each state tasked with investigating and prosecuting law enforcement officers and prosecutors suspected of crime, a department that is completely separate from the rest of the normal law enforcement departm
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>less than 30% of people believe that police behave lawfully If you ask someone if they think a large collection of individuals behaves lawfully, the answer should always be "no" because with a large enough group there will alw
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Yes, and it becomes even more politically difficult to request more funding for police departments when activists paint all police with the same brush and sometimes want to literally abolish the police.
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I'm considering making an alt-chan that cyclically purges content.
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Aside from conspiracy-theorizing about current events (and I don't use that term pejoratively), people tended to discuss the same topics. New cyberpunk media doesn't come out very often, so people tended to talk about the same boo
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by x220 8y ago
I'm thankful that Guido van Rossum made the Python programming language. It's the first language I really delved deep into in high school and it made me seriously consider a future in computer science. It's also a delightful
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One subculture I got somewhat involved in was the internet cyberpunk-hacker culture, until about a year ago. Communicating through 4chan threads, alt-chans, and IRC channels, these users were always interesting to read from on various topic
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That guy has some pretty interesting articles.
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>if we can become less dependant on oil / natural gas we'll have more money for mass transportation how do you figure that?
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> hacked voting systems do you have evidence that fake votes were cast?
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That statement should be the beginning of a discussion, not the end of it.
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The Nordic countries are the most egalitarian countries on earth with regards to rights, equal pay, and gender norms. The sex differences in many different academic fields and professions persist and are even more pronounced than countries
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Truly the code messiah. He rose after three days of interviews.
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Maybe in a couple years we can talk about statistics suggesting inherent gender differences in academic interest without getting screamed at.
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You should not let others define this for you. You should feel satisfied based on your progress towards your goals, as defined by you.
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>liberate most of Northern Europe You mean liberate them just to enslave them again? You list many achievements of the USSR that are certainly impressive, I just don't think they matter on the whole to the people who lived (and star
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>There's no global optimum for life, even at an individual scope That's a big assumption with no evidence to support it. Depending on who you ask, people might say that the global optimum is Jesus, or Buddha, or Superman. Peopl

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