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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Why Do Some Leftists Love Fictional Villain Monarchs? |
| The_Walrus |
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Posted: 08 Apr 2024, 7:08 am
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roronoa79 wrote: Quote: Unfortunately Lord Vetinari doesn't exist. Sadly, I have not read any Pratchett. There's so much it's hard to know where to start 
Wyrd Sisters or Going Postal. The former is funnier, but the latter has chapters. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: The Electoral college factor |
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Posted: 08 Apr 2024, 6:41 am
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| Yes. There is only one argument I have ever heard for preserving the EC. And that is ...they dont say it so many words, but it boils down to...the EC protects the minority of folks who live in the country from tyranny by the majority who live in cities and suburbs. The arguments for the EC are basi... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: The Electoral college factor |
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Posted: 08 Apr 2024, 6:39 am
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| Either the EC must be abolished, or all states must use Maine and Nebraska's system to reduce bias. While it varies based on circumstances, Maine and Nebraska's system would not inherently reduce bias. Gerrymandering is an obvious way in which it can be made worse. 2016 would have been even more sk... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Why Do Some Leftists Love Fictional Villain Monarchs? |
| The_Walrus |
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Posted: 07 Apr 2024, 3:00 pm
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| roronoa has made good points. The other thing to remember is that, historically, most leftist governments have been dictatorships. If you're already claiming to be a fan of Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Tito, or whoever, as some leftists do, then the concentration of power in one person doesn't seem like an i... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Euthanasia |
| The_Walrus |
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Posted: 07 Apr 2024, 10:36 am
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Replies: 23
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| People should have the right to choose a peaceful death. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: ADL Says Palestinian Scarf Equals SWASTIKA |
| The_Walrus |
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Posted: 04 Apr 2024, 2:30 pm
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Replies: 41
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| Hamas disagree. They explicitly want to wipe out Israeli Jews. There is no "sanewashing" them, they are actually as bad as it's possible to be. And they're not the outliers - frankly it's the opposite, the activists who support Israel but want it to be more inclusive and less violent are o... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: ADL Says Palestinian Scarf Equals SWASTIKA |
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Posted: 04 Apr 2024, 10:31 am
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| What he actually says is "if you wouldn't tolerate someone wearing a Swastika saying "death to the Zionists" then you shouldn't tolerate it from someone" and cuts out. And... yeah, we shouldn't tolerate anyone saying "death to the Zionists". That isn't "criticism o... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: I'm doing all my political card readings in one thread now |
| The_Walrus |
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Posted: 03 Apr 2024, 10:25 am
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Replies: 26
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| ! | The_Walrus wrote: | | Merging pictures of playing cards into existing thread. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Sick and tired of identity politics |
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Posted: 31 Mar 2024, 5:41 pm
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Replies: 115
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| The classic thought experiment about the liberal and communist approaches to equality is something like... Would you rather live in a society of 100 people where everyone has $5? Or a society of 100 people where one person has $50, 90 people have $7-$10, and 9 people have $2-$4? The first society i... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Leon's "Kill Jews" cocktail tradition hate or innocuous? |
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Posted: 31 Mar 2024, 5:36 pm
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| What I had in mind was swapping "Jew" for some kind of game animal with a similar sounding name. There is a - possibly apocryphal - story about a Spanish man who had just joined the Republican army during the Civil War saying "if I can shoot rabbits, then I can shoot fascists". ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Sick and tired of identity politics |
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Posted: 27 Mar 2024, 5:00 pm
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Replies: 115
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| The classic thought experiment about the liberal and communist approaches to equality is something like... Would you rather live in a society of 100 people where everyone has $5? Or a society of 100 people where one person has $50, 90 people have $7-$10, and 9 people have $2-$4? The first society is... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Sick and tired of identity politics |
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Posted: 26 Mar 2024, 2:32 pm
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| I wonder if the victims of Tito would feel that he deserved to be glorified. People like Milovan Djilas or Venko Markovski. People like the ethnic Albanians he persecuted. The suppressions upon the freedom of the press, the huge numbers of political prisoners, restrictions on protest and dissent - i... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Is it right to judge when they haven't tried or found guilty |
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Posted: 22 Mar 2024, 6:05 pm
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| Judge? Yes, sure, especially if you have access to relevant evidence. We can judge Hitler and Stalin, we have pretty conclusive evidence that they ordered terrible things. Punishing someone is another matter, as is taking actions that might prejudge a trial. So, for example, it's now fine to say &qu... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Do You ThinkThe Special Counsel Was Politically Motivated? |
| The_Walrus |
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Posted: 22 Mar 2024, 5:37 am
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| It's since come out that Hur lied in his report. For example, he said that Biden couldn't remember when his son Beau died, but the transcript shows Biden immediately told him the exact day. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Scientists Maybe One Step Closer To Having A Braincell. |
| The_Walrus |
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Posted: 19 Mar 2024, 5:40 am
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Replies: 12
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| ^ Australia's economy is worth 2.3 trillion GDP? According to Wikipedia, last year in 2023 it was more like 1.7 trillion GDP. That figure you mention seems a little high, even accounting for any growth in 2024. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Australia You've failed to convert the units pr... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Scientists Maybe One Step Closer To Having A Braincell. |
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Posted: 18 Mar 2024, 8:30 am
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Replies: 12
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| Not sure if impressive or ridiculous. Like, should we be making fake brains? Or should we just actually look after people and the environment they depend on for survival and the perpetuation of our species? :? All sorts of research doesn't immediately seem like it will improve people's lives, but e... |
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