youareostriches

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Eventually you’ll have no choice but to stop hiding from the real world
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Comment · 5 years ago
So in other words, all workers at the company still benefitted from having a union.
Comment · 6 years ago
Can anyone figure out corresponding rsID/SNPs to these genes?
Comment · 6 years ago
Comment · 6 years ago
The governor of that swing state happened to be the brother of the Republican presidential candidate. That governor's secretary of state also purged the registrations of 90,000 black voters months before the election.
Comment · 6 years ago
Al Gore never claimed that he was the only legitimate winner months before the election began and that any result in which he lost would be fraudulent.
Comment · 6 years ago
In most countries around the world, Sanders' policies are mainstream.
Comment · 6 years ago
This is both-sidesism, which is an intellectually lazy excuse to avoid taking action while appearing morally above the fray.

Trump literally uses cult-like techniques to control his followers, traffics in conspiracy theories, attacks as "fake" any news media which doesn't praise him effusively, and is actively undermining democracy itself by claiming that any votes against him are illegitimate. There is no vaguely liberal or left politician in US history who has done what Trump has.

Comment · 6 years ago
Ethics applies here just as well. You are trying to equivocate the actions of those who actually attempt to kill those who disagree politically (aka “terrorism”) with attempts at eliminating platforms for wide dissemination of speech.
Comment · 6 years ago
Fascism is a political strategy involving fear of change and scapegoating. If you’re trying to imply that use of force automatically translates to fascism, then you need to consider situations of community defense against fascists, which ultimately requires force. Self-defense and defending democratic rights is quite different from terroristic violence in the service of subverting democratic and human rights.

I reserve the term “violence” to situations described in Hannah Arendt‘s similarly-named essay, in which terroristic violence has historically been used by failing dictators against the legitimate power of the people as a whole.

Comment · 6 years ago
No, sorry. Ostracizing others is absolutely not equivalent to attempted murder.

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