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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Terrible Political Memes

« on: November 13, 2024, 05:06:19 PM »

 

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: November 13, 2024, 03:16:39 PM »

If you are arguing that woke leftists brainwashing gay children to be trans might be a good thing because the internet and penicillin was a good thing, then wow.

nope, just pointing out that the natural-vs-unnatural distinction is stupid. botulism and brain tumors are "natural." gas stoves and automobiles are "unnatural." it's obviously a pretty useless distinction for grouping things into "good" and "bad."

it's also not even remotely coherent. what does it even mean to say that some human behavior is "unnatural"?? lmao you get that humans are part of nature, right?

as ever, "unnatural" always just means "the things i don't like." you're free to take that highly-emotional, fearful, and fundamentally amoral position if you like, i just think it's shitty.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: November 13, 2024, 02:57:37 AM »

you can say basically the same thing about penicillin, the internet, and indoor plumbing. none of those things were around for most of human history, but *spoiler alert* that doesn't have anything to do with anything unless "new thing bad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111" is really your political philosophy.

and even if it the case that being trans is literally completely new to the 21st century (lmao please for the love of god read one fucking history book someday, i'm begging you), that doesn't really have anything to do with the fact that it's morally wrong to use the state to police gender identity.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: November 12, 2024, 10:31:03 PM »

imagine being so pathetically afraid of seeing a man in a dress that you have to manufacture a narrative about children being in danger, even though it is many orders of magnitude more likely for a child to be abused by a parent/teacher/clergy than to even so much as hear the words "gender-affirming care" at any point growing up.

but y'all are the "fuck facts, i'm scared of my own shadow" party, so go for it, i guess.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: US Presidential Election 2024

« on: November 03, 2024, 03:38:50 PM »

I like Trump because he is going to use his authority to jail his opponents.

which opponents in particular? are you wanting him to arrest certain specific democrats? all current democratic lawmakers? all democrats in general? the quotes you provided were somewhat general.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Coronavirus Vaccine and You

« on: October 28, 2024, 09:29:20 PM »

how is it 2024 and y'all are still this pathetically upset about "that one time when walmart wouldn't let me in without a mask on 😔😔😔😔." lol grow up

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: US Presidential Election 2024

« on: October 14, 2024, 05:56:16 PM »

genuine question(s) for trump voters -- why do you want to vote for trump? what is the thing about him that you believe will benefit you and/or the nation? or, if you like: why should i vote for trump, too?

these are not meant to be sarcastic questions at all, and i'm not gonna argue with your answers. just curious.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Yet Another Gun Law Thread

« on: October 12, 2024, 01:16:08 PM »

there is actually a significant body of research on the effectiveness of violent vs. non-violent protest/revolution. we don't have to guess.

i have yet to see any literature coming out of this research that says violent revolutions are more likely to achieve their aims than non-violent ones. but there are many that find the converse.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: October 06, 2024, 01:34:48 PM »

i'm just glad students in oklahoma will finally have access to a bible. excellent use of $3 million.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: US Presidential Election 2024

« on: October 02, 2024, 09:18:24 PM »

I don't think "we know people who do weird voodoo shit with cats" is a bridge too far.

"my friend 'went to a voodoo ritual'" is already a bridge too far for me to take anything that follows at face value

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: US Presidential Election 2024

« on: October 01, 2024, 12:54:25 PM »

my girlfriend is a supermodel. you wouldn't know her, though, she goes to another school.

lol this never happened.

oh so nobody has ever had a girlfriend before?? supermodels don't exist??

no i just think he's lying

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: US Presidential Election 2024

« on: September 30, 2024, 12:02:25 PM »

I have not either, but a friend of mine did go there. Surprise, he went to voodoo ritual and what did they do? Killed a cat, drank its blood.

lol this never happened.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Yet Another Gun Law Thread

« on: September 17, 2024, 10:41:07 PM »

okay so when are y'all gonna get to using the guns to protect you from the government? when does that part happen? i feel like the right has been pretty clear that the state and society are systematically oppressing them, stripping their rights away, selling state authority to corrupt interests, etc etc.

so like...get to it. you got the guns. when does the liberation start?

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: US Presidential Election 2024

« on: August 25, 2024, 09:12:13 PM »

your source simply doesn't understand the difference between weighted and unweighted values.

Still waiting for an authority to be cited.

i dunno, i feel like the nyt is a pretty solid authority on "how does the nyt do polling." but that's me.

or do you need an authority to tell you that 207 is equal to 207?

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: US Presidential Election 2024

« on: August 23, 2024, 01:04:42 PM »

Those people are authorities in their field.

ahahahahhahhhhahahaaahahahahahaha

Those [NYT] surveys, however, have attracted scrutiny from an array of pollsters either due to their lack of transparency about the sampling methodology or from oversampling Democrats.

cool, let's examine these claims.

1) lack of transparency about sampling methodology.

https://www.nytimes.com/article/times-siena-poll-methodology.html

and there's literally a section at the bottom of the poll data itself called "full methodology" that describes...well, i don't wanna give it away. but it has to do with the full methodology of the polling.

2) oversampling democrats.




lol i know numbers are tough for you, but notice how they didn't oversample democrats at all. by self-reporting, they spoke to an equal number. by L2 data, they spoke to more republicans than democrats. your source simply doesn't understand the difference between weighted and unweighted values. probably because he doesn't understand nyt's methodology. lmao this is way too funny.

3) bonus claim: "Exit polls from the 2020 election may provide a benchmark for estimating the partisan affiliations of voters."

ahahahahhahhhhahahaaahahahahahaha yeah demographics never change over time, that's why we just use polling demographics from 1776 or whatever.

fam you really gotta stop taking people at their word simply because you both vote for the same party.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: August 06, 2024, 09:57:38 PM »

The chief executive of the world championship organization that banned her stated in the conference that she failed the chromosome test

right. or: some dude says she failed a test. you can change "says" to "stated" if you want, i guess. not sure what difference it makes.

is your argument really that he can't possibly be lying since he's the head of an organization? are you listening to yourself?

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: August 05, 2024, 11:21:57 PM »

the chromosome test repeatedly failed to pass the genetic material as a XX chromosome.

according to some dude. holler at me if he ever provides any documentation besides "this totally really happened for real, i promise!"

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: August 05, 2024, 10:58:39 PM »

i mean if you wanna simply take some dude's word for it that she totally has XY chromosomes, then sure, hold that belief. that's the level of skepticism we've all come to expect from you at this point anyway.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: August 05, 2024, 06:06:04 PM »

Now, it does seem possible that she may be genetically male and has some condition which led to her being incorrectly assigned female at birth, there is certainly some doubt about whether she should be competing with females.

fyi there is literally no evidence at all that she's anything other than biologically female besides "some russian guy said she's totally a man" after she defeated a russian boxer one time.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: August 04, 2024, 06:55:12 PM »

this is honestly becoming a little sad at this point