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@RichardHanania @lionel_trolling Richard, Noah’s post didn’t deserve well reasoned responses. He started it.

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@janecoaston Any non-utilitarian reasons for violent crime you can think of but are not referring to explicitly are probably exacerbated by poverty, so yes you are being that dense.

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@Tcho76521726 @CraftTanner @atlanticesque Some have

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@FreeRosedark @ArtoriusNZ @atlanticesque Once again, is it surprising that previously working for an immoral company is less offensive than previously committing immoral acts?

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@rbmichae80 @GregBenage @janecoaston That wasn’t the claim at all. You literally just invented that. Read the OP tweet again. They only say “reduce” crime.

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@maxdubler @janecoaston Notice how the OP used the word “reduce”, not “eliminate”.

Ya’ll are incredibly dense.

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@FreeRosedark @ArtoriusNZ @atlanticesque Is it surprising that being a former mercenary is less offensive than having raped someone?

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@Tcho76521726 @CraftTanner @atlanticesque The nazi tattoo essentially registers with me as “yeah I used to be a chud but changed my views”. That hits a lot different than “yeah I drunkenly raped someone when I was younger but I’ve grown as a person”

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@atlanticesque Why aren’t they standing by a man revealed who probably forced himself on a woman? What?

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@Shrimp4_dinner @SlurricaneH @MattBruenig @AliceFromQueens You asked if someone has turned off their water or put their thermo to 78 because the government told them to and I’m telling you yes, we do this in Texas.

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@Shrimp4_dinner @SlurricaneH @MattBruenig @AliceFromQueens I live in Texas. When the power grid is struggling we turn off non essential lights and appliances and raise the thermostat. It’s to avoid blackouts

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@VL2102 @rex_the_reptile @yhdistyminen @signulll The spirit of the statement isn’t to say that any lib claim should always be trusted, that is frankly a reading you’d really have to reach to come to. The spirit is clearly more about the badness of trump rather than the truthfulness of all lib claims.

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@VL2102 @rex_the_reptile @yhdistyminen @signulll It isn’t contrary to the spirit since the spirit is not indicted by the mere existence of prominent liberals who made as-yet false statements about trump. The spirit is to say that libs were generally right about trump being uniquely bad. There is no specific claim beyond that.

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@VL2102 @rex_the_reptile @yhdistyminen @signulll I was able to understand @yhdistyminen’s tweet fine without concluding that literally all liberal claims about trump were true. I don’t thing that discourse norms are hindered at all by this verbiage, and in fact your pedantry is a real problem in modern discourse.

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@TimTrytitle @rowanfornow @impostersyndrum This whole discourse is just annoying semantics. People need to just say what they mean and who they think qualifies as “American”

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@TimTrytitle @rowanfornow @impostersyndrum Right, because the term “American” is overloaded to refer to 3 different things here:

1) A US citizen
2) A person experienced in typical American life and culture
3) a set of aspirational virtues and characteristics that are “American”. For some this involves being white

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@baldheadfarter @NICOWILLDIE Because most people are able make a distinction between managing who they interact with without racism/misandry. This is why “kill all men” girlies are stupid.

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@MattB79569101 @OccupyNationals @hankgreen You think abundance bros are against nuclear? Did you even read the book?

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@PenguinVolcano @Noahpinion @xwanyex Youre doing a motte and bailey with the word “American”.

People think you mean “citizen” when you’re actually referring to some set of characteristics or aspirational virtues that most citizens don’t even meet.