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@soblackandblue @g_h_rossman @MattBruenig @AliceFromQueens @Noahpinion And by the response to the control question, liberals tend to as well.

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@soblackandblue @g_h_rossman @MattBruenig @AliceFromQueens @Noahpinion That assumes quite a bit (e.g., selection bias is both the professional and the patient, and professional misdiagnoses exist), but the fact that liberals flagged the control as mental illness more frequently is telling.

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@g_h_rossman @MattBruenig @AliceFromQueens @soblackandblue @Noahpinion This is the info I was looking for.

It demonstrates that liberals are generally more likely to classify things as mental illness.

Though there are also some specific things that conservatives are likely to consider mental illness, but that liberals specifically exclude.

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@JustinWolfers But trivially disproven because "money supporting Harris reached $2 billion... this significantly outpaced the $1.45 billion raised to support Trump." https://t.co/Y6yMRqRBFC

If Harris outspent Trump and lost, Musk didn't buy the election, and they are not cheap to buy.

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@LDS_Dems Marshall plan was 5% of US GDP over several years.

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@mercifulgorn @PhilWMagness Difference appears to be that Musk built things worth more than the money he received.

Grok estimates that Musk's companies have received about $38 billion of government money. Tesla market cap $1.5 trillion. SpaceX market cap $2.1 trillion.

Marx spent it and it was gone.

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@PhilWMagness And socialists have been doing the same ever since - except when they get enough power to just take it.

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@lthlnkso But think of the equality!

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@cafreiman Not big on second-order effects.

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@unclebobmartin I'm reminded of the Stephen Petzold Programming Windows books that started with a multi-page "hello, world" Windows app, eventually trimmed in 1998 to a traditional hello-world length program with a MessageBox call.

https://t.co/eil6zpproe

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@LDS_Dems Maybe they can get another Pulitzer to match the Trump-Russia collusion award?

I'm not saying it's made up, but inflammatory spinning of tales from anonymous sources is not persuasive in the face of the Biden administration's failure to leak anything incriminating to Trump.

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@mdwfmom @LDS_Dems John 5:18-19

I often ponder what Jesus meant when he said he could only do what he saw the Father do.

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@rodmanmaffet @JWhitebread1 Matthew 13:10-17, 36
Exodus 25:10-22, esp. 21-22

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@MarcGoldwein Jesus is the only begotten Son. John 3:16 Matthew 3:17

Jesus refers to God the Father as his Father and our Father, and instructs us to do the same. John 20:17 Matthew 6:9-13

Why pretend there is confusion where there is none?

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@SandyofCthulhu Great books are better than mediocre movies, and vice versa.

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@unclebobmartin @Handre You create the growth/wealth, but not the money.

You could repay the loan with the money the bank lent you, plus any fees or interest, for which you'd have to acquire money from elsewhere.

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@sochriscoded > the Nicene Coucil(s) are THE defining councils of Christianity.

And that's where we differ.

Twelve Apostles
Peter, James, and John
Father, Son, and Holy Ghost

are the defining councils of Christianity.

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@MassachusettsXY @tracewoodgrains And all those other water molecules may be one, as thou art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us.

Interesting analogy. 🤔

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@paulg Isn't it better to be so compelling that people who disagree with you still listen?

And "correct" is often not midway between the extreme ends - the midpoint is subject to gaming by advocating ever more-extreme positions.

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@SandyofCthulhu @Nerdcognito Do you require the players to act in accord with their character stats?

Was the fast talker high enough charisma to do that? The dinotrappers intelligent enough to come up with the plan?

Where is the line between player and character?

But rule of fun always wins.