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All points of view welcome except those relying on red herrings, straw men, non sequiturs, and cherry-picking.

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@Mekhiwilliams__ @JSteppe1 Read the interview- Coach Belton couldn’t say enough good things about you, both on and off the field. Fan favorite coming in. Congratulations, Mekhi.

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By firing Scott Pelley, editor-in-chief of CBS News Bari Weiss has single-handedly destroyed the most brilliant investigative newsmagazine in network history, 60 Minutes. Weiss exemplifies everything MAGA is about: ego, incompetence, and blithering idiocy.

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@MikeGinsberg6 @bariweiss Trump began his career as left-of-center and founded MAGA, so poor reasoning on your part (surprise!). She was hired by a MAGA supporter to do a hit job. Your attempt to whitewash that is what’s not credible.

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Becoming a doctor isn’t a “social claim”, whatever that is. It’s a license issued by a professional body after years of study verified by a board exam. Verifying it isn’t an “ethical issue”; the license itself is verification that the years of study have been completed with acceptable grades and the boards were passed. Why would anyone not trust that a doctor earned their status, absent any evidence to the contrary?

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@fermatslibrary Meters? Kilometers? Light years?

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@JustinRoyHarvey @NateAFischer @paulg @grok You just posted that workers are seen as “slaves”, “an underclass to be managed and maintained”. When I point out how ridiculous your statements are, you backtrack and say “No, they do not see them as slaves.” Your beliefs last for thirty minutes.

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@ggreenwald “It’s how people increasingly want to live”. Yes, people increasingly want to live on a private island in the Mediterranean purchased all cash. Ivanka tapping into her populist sensibilities.

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@martinoosthuizn @paulg You cherry picked the one profession requiring trust and ethics that Republicans favor over Democrats. I didn’t “overlook” it. I just don’t reason by exception— cherry picking.

Read the whole chart.

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@JustinRoyHarvey @NateAFischer @paulg @grok Doctors see patients as slaves? NURSES?? Engineers that design and build bridges see motorists as their “slaves”?

You are nuts. A whacko.

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@SubduedRadical @insideoil @paulg “Credentials” means anyone with a degree. So, kids that work their asses off to go to college and then spend years competing to be good in their field. That’s who Republicans “dislike”. Sick.

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Veterinarians and engineers are thought less ethical by Republicans than Democrats. Read that sentence carefully. This is the last time it can be explained to you.

Re: plumbers, etc - the chart is about professionals in a position of trust requiring a high degree of ethics. The ethics of plumbers isn’t a matter hotly debated.

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I’m talking about your ridiculous assertion that professionals “reflexively” think of themselves as constituting society more or less “exhaustively.” On what planet do doctors think their working-class patients aren’t part of society?

One of us needs help, but it’s not me, “bruv”.

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@somsai @AliceFromQueens I didn’t say they are more ethical. I said their position requires them to uphold the highest standards of ethics. I said no one debates the ethics of an oil field worker because being a derrickman, chainhand or motorman is very demanding but ethics isn’t part of the job.

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@ndyRoo2 @paulg You think Republicans have a higher appreciation of the honesty and ethics of “the poor”? In what universe? Not the one I’ve been living in for the past 50 years.

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@snowfarce @paulg Not equally. Consistently higher.

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@somsai @AliceFromQueens The poll is about professions because those generally require a high level of honesty and ethics. Nobody debates offshore oil rig workers’ ethics.

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@FloridaManV @AliceFromQueens And why do you think that is?

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@jerald @paulg Nurses?

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@NeelamDesai3000 @paulg The poll is about professions that generally require college, because those are professions that require honesty and ethics. Nobody debates day laborers’ ethics.

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@robinhanson @paulg Why more skeptical of nurses ethics, for example?