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Heatmaps indicating highest moral allocation by ideology...The highest value on the heatmap scale is 20 units for liberals, and 12 units for conservatives. Moral circle rings, from inner to outer, are described as follows: (1) all of your immediate family, (2) all of your extended family, (3) all of your closest friends, (4) all of your friends (including distant ones), (5) all of your acquaintances, (6) all people you have ever met, (7) all people in your country, (8) all people on your continent, (9) all people on all continents, (10) all mammals, (11) all amphibians, reptiles, mammals, fish, and birds, (12) all animals on earth including paramecia and amoebae, (13) all animals in the universe, including alien lifeforms, (14) all living things in the universe including plants and trees, (15) all natural things in the universe including inert entities such as rocks, (16) all things in existence
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tommy wrote:I don't trust people who only hate one side of the political spectrum.
tommy what if i told you i'm at the point of calling into question the entire Liberal - capital "L" - project, and regard both ends of what constitutes the modern political spectrum as more or less functionally equivalent?

the differences are in degree, not kind
What if we told you no one gives a shit?
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Peeps wrote:
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tommy wrote:I don't trust people who only hate one side of the political spectrum.
tommy what if i told you i'm at the point of calling into question the entire Liberal - capital "L" - project, and regard both ends of what constitutes the modern political spectrum as more or less functionally equivalent?

the differences are in degree, not kind
What if we told you no one gives a shit?

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--- wrote:what if i told you i'm at the point of calling into question the entire Liberal - capital "L" - project
Please do go on
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how anyone can watch fox and not simply laugh at the network is beyond me
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At least there aren't a bunch of teachers on the streets trying to switch kids' genders.
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--- wrote:what if i told you i'm at the point of calling into question the entire Liberal - capital "L" - project
Please do go on
Or please don't.
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Lol the guy shooting up definitely did not buy his drugs with money from breaking into a convenience store or selling the bike he stole from some teenager.
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The DSA and the “decolonize” crew has really shown their true colors this week.
"The fatal flaw of all revolutionaries is that they know how to tear things down but don't have a f**king clue about how to build anything."
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Bi_3 wrote:The DSA and the “decolonize” crew has really shown their true colors this week.
Did they bomb and starve 2mil innocent Palestinians in response to an attack by a small, militant contingent?
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B wrote:
Bi_3 wrote:The DSA and the “decolonize” crew has really shown their true colors this week.
Did they bomb and starve 2mil innocent Palestinians in response to an attack by a small, militant contingent?
Exhibit A
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Bi_3 wrote:
B wrote:
Bi_3 wrote:The DSA and the “decolonize” crew has really shown their true colors this week.
Did they bomb and starve 2mil innocent Palestinians in response to an attack by a small, militant contingent?
Exhibit A
I repeat. One can be against terrorism and apartheid at the same time.
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B wrote:
Bi_3 wrote:
B wrote:
Bi_3 wrote:The DSA and the “decolonize” crew has really shown their true colors this week.
Did they bomb and starve 2mil innocent Palestinians in response to an attack by a small, militant contingent?
Exhibit A
I repeat. One can be against terrorism and apartheid at the same time.
How do you reconcile this in the case of Gaza?
"The fatal flaw of all revolutionaries is that they know how to tear things down but don't have a f**king clue about how to build anything."
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Bi_3 wrote:
B wrote:
Bi_3 wrote:
B wrote:
Bi_3 wrote:The DSA and the “decolonize” crew has really shown their true colors this week.
Did they bomb and starve 2mil innocent Palestinians in response to an attack by a small, militant contingent?
Exhibit A
I repeat. One can be against terrorism and apartheid at the same time.
How do you reconcile this in the case of Gaza?
When I rank who is worse for Palestinians, I put Israel and Hamas in a tie for the lead.
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B wrote:
Bi_3 wrote:
B wrote:
Bi_3 wrote:
B wrote:
Bi_3 wrote:The DSA and the “decolonize” crew has really shown their true colors this week.
Did they bomb and starve 2mil innocent Palestinians in response to an attack by a small, militant contingent?
Exhibit A
I repeat. One can be against terrorism and apartheid at the same time.
How do you reconcile this in the case of Gaza?
When I rank who is worse for Palestinians, I put Israel and Hamas in a tie for the lead.
Putting aside that Hamas was elected, how would one remove the “apartheid” without removing Hamas?
"The fatal flaw of all revolutionaries is that they know how to tear things down but don't have a f**king clue about how to build anything."
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Bi_3 wrote:
B wrote:
Bi_3 wrote:
B wrote:
Bi_3 wrote:
B wrote:
Bi_3 wrote:The DSA and the “decolonize” crew has really shown their true colors this week.
Did they bomb and starve 2mil innocent Palestinians in response to an attack by a small, militant contingent?
Exhibit A
I repeat. One can be against terrorism and apartheid at the same time.
How do you reconcile this in the case of Gaza?
When I rank who is worse for Palestinians, I put Israel and Hamas in a tie for the lead.
Putting aside that Hamas was elected, how would one remove the “apartheid” without removing Hamas?
Did you word that right? I'm fine with removing both.
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B wrote:
Bi_3 wrote:
B wrote:
Bi_3 wrote:
B wrote:
Bi_3 wrote:
B wrote:
Bi_3 wrote:The DSA and the “decolonize” crew has really shown their true colors this week.
Did they bomb and starve 2mil innocent Palestinians in response to an attack by a small, militant contingent?
Exhibit A
I repeat. One can be against terrorism and apartheid at the same time.
How do you reconcile this in the case of Gaza?
When I rank who is worse for Palestinians, I put Israel and Hamas in a tie for the lead.
Putting aside that Hamas was elected, how would one remove the “apartheid” without removing Hamas?
Did you word that right? I'm fine with removing both.
Yes. How would you achieve it? Like, what’s the path to success here to remove both?
"The fatal flaw of all revolutionaries is that they know how to tear things down but don't have a f**king clue about how to build anything."
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I don't know how to solve Israel, but I know that caging and killing innocent people doesn't punish the guilty.
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