@DR_RAGEBERG absolute occam's razor explanation here is that most of these accusations are false and embellished because for every one geniuine abuser there must be easily fifty of these attention seeking morons willing to make falso accusations
@adamjohnsonNYC A lot of people are acting as if active eugenics and passive, gradual relenting to inescapable morbidity of this disease are the same. Once you really viscerally accept that one is not the other, the mentality you described becomes easier to maintain.
@JoshuaPotash Isn't it just easier to pass a law requiring the reimbursement of commuting expenses/investing more in public transport? How does worker ownership solve this problem?
@JoshuaPotash But what if, qua worker, I don't give a shit about my business and just want to exchange my labor for money without any real concern or responsibility for the enterprise?
@relevantmena Can't believe SOY leftists didn't support honest working ladd burning down coloured orphanages in the draft riots. Claim to be with the working man but when push comes to lynching they're on the side of the 300 dollar men.
@JoeEDwyer Make no mistake, the real cleavage in NI society is not between Protestant or Catholic, or settler and colonized. It's between murderers/murder apologists and decent people. U2, Cranberries and most Irish people on the side of the latter and it irks you.
@JoeEDwyer This, ironically, is why prosecuting the bloody Sunday soldiers is important. They have to be held to the standard of an organisation for whom mindless violence is the exception. Prisoner release, by contrast, happened because mindless violence is the raison d'être of ira/uvf.
@plathfanclub All extremely anodyne and wouldn't be in the least bit shocking to someone who isn't a hand-wringing, thin skinned neurotic (ie normal). When will cease this cynical habit of pretending only slightly off colour things are 'horrific'?
@tony4goodstuff @river_is_nice This whole point of view of the universe paradigm is the problem here. It's not a meaningful question. The only question is ever: do I as a a citizen of X country support our resources being used in this way?
@c5nt5r__l5ft1st @adamjohnsonNYC We owe to our "Nato allies" the same as to the fucking Martians... not one single penny. The highest commitment is not going to war, everything is second to that. Russia can march to Paris. Not one PENNY.
@c5nt5r__l5ft1st @adamjohnsonNYC Those obligations can be ignored. Just call all Nato allies east of Berlin and say 'lol they can literally drop nuclear bombs on you and we're not doing anything'. What are they going do to us, sanction us?
@asymmetricinfo I think few believe this. It's just that to the extent that differences are genetically determined they're trivial (eg one ethnic group performing well in one sport at extreme margins). To the extent they explain broader phenomena (eg global inequality) they are wrong.