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by yawpitch 4y ago
That particular ministry was, of course, composed of those who’d been infected by rightly unpopular ideas that were allowed to grow and fester until the Overton Window had shifted to the far right, encouraged by parents and not sufficiently
1322.
by yawpitch 4y ago
In all the thousands of years of recorded human history there has never been a time where you could find enough people who actually believe the Earth is flat to fill a room sufficiently large to constitute “popular” opinion. That is, not
1323.
by yawpitch 4y ago
Depends in its entirety on the specifics of arbitrary topic X… for instance, if X involves putting ethic group Y in to gas chambers, then send in the ministry, post haste.
1324.
by yawpitch 4y ago
In every part of the world that has developed public education standards the public good already interferes with parents teaching kids their beliefs about physics, math, basic world history, economics, etc, and for a very good and entirel
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by yawpitch 4y ago
Not to their children, or to anyone else’s, in any context in which there isn’t an overwhelming voice of opposition always present. Allowing someone infected with stupidity to willfully infect those who cannot consent in an informed man
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by yawpitch 4y ago
Those are, indeed, historically unusual beliefs… though the rise in their popularity being directly coincident with the spread of more-than-minimal literacy and the slow degradation of traditional and institutional obstacles to higher educa
1327.
by yawpitch 4y ago
Given all information that has ever been observable, absolutely not… and while that doesn’t mean they should be silenced, it absolutely means they shouldn’t be allowed to present their idiot ideas as facts, absent opposition and lo
1328.
by yawpitch 4y ago
> But did it ever occur to you that they're unpopular because we're not allowed to speak our minds fully and rationally convince others of our ideas' merits? Notwithstanding my ignorance of the particular unpopular opinion
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by yawpitch 4y ago
Ok, $100 USD says that a crop failure resulting in at least 2 million excess deaths happens within the next 20 years, let’s round to <= 31st December, 2042. Of course by then $100 USD will have the purchasing power of ~$10 USD, so it’s n
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by yawpitch 6y ago
Yeah, the editorial spin on the title isn't helpful.
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by yawpitch 6y ago
Tests you’ve taken that you’ve selected ... my point is that you’re self-selecting tests that confirm your biases, including the bias that you’re somehow without bias... your comment history is unmistakably and indelibly right of the cent
1332.
by yawpitch 6y ago
I’ve looked at your comment history; you’ve taken political spectrum tests that were written by people so far right of you that your far right looks center, from their distorted perspective. Not unusual: we self select for confirmation bias
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by yawpitch 6y ago
Maybe, just maybe, consider for a moment that the BBC can only appear as left of center from a position ludicrously close to the cliff’s edge on the right.
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