alentist

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by alentist 5y ago
The user is quite clearly lying, and reposting the same lie multiple times: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28803751 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28809332 https://news.ycombinator.co
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by alentist 5y ago
Why did you flag my comment? > ignoring our request to stop What request are you talking about?
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by alentist 5y ago
This sounds like you're strawmanning the GP.
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by alentist 5y ago
GP said it's not a common statement, not that they haven't encountered it before.
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by alentist 5y ago
ISIS was founded in 1999. The Iraq War began in 2003. Bush's administration ended in 2009. ISIS gained power in 2014, 5 years into Obama's administration.
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by alentist 5y ago
Treating a man who claims they're a woman as a man isn't denying their existence.
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by alentist 5y ago
> companies discriminate against black people They actively discriminate for black people. > there is police discrimination against black people in the US, not just in one or two regions, but in every sizeable city in the US Source?
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by alentist 5y ago
You need to take your blinders off and get some reading glasses. > What is the scope of our mission? > Coinbase’s mission is to create an open financial system for the world. This means we want to use cryptocurrency to bring economic
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by alentist 5y ago
They are assuming no such thing. You are simply putting words into people's mouths, shamelessly. But perhaps it's not such a bad thing for you to push people away from your position with such shameless behavior.
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by alentist 5y ago
Your second paragraph is a word salad and non-sequitur. Treating a human who claims they're a deer as a human isn't denying their existence.
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by alentist 5y ago
> Criticizing retaliatory and intellectually dishonest hit pieces makes him sound like he isn't open to dissent Non-sequitur.
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by alentist 5y ago
Despite being a socialist, Orwell was very critical of the socialists of his time (especially the Soviets and Spanish communists), to the extent that he gradually became a Labour reformist later in life. In all, his most significant contr
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by alentist 5y ago
> Techbros are notably far-right. I'm sure everything looks "far-right" from your far-left perspective.
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by alentist 5y ago
> Edward Snowden is absolutely a leftist On what basis do you claim that? Does the following paint the picture of a leftist in your mind? > And he became furious about Obama’s domestic policies on a variety of fronts. For example, he
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by alentist 5y ago
In practice , leftism has led to the most tyrannical, murderous, and totalitarian regimes in human history. That's the simple fact of the matter, and no amount of coping can change it. The fact that you even dare to excuse Soviet tota
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by alentist 5y ago
You are extremely ignorant and misinformed. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PSAVERT
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by alentist 5y ago
Why are you lying? > An alarming 25.5 percent of survey respondents said it would be appropriate to “create an obstruction, such that a campus speaker endorsing this idea could not address an audience.” This authoritarian view was held b
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by alentist 5y ago
Is gravity a "construct"? Is genetics a "construct"? What exactly do you claim is the difference between a "construct" and "non-construct"? And what gives you the authority to allow certain views abou
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by alentist 5y ago
How?
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by alentist 5y ago
I don't. Perhaps you do? Are you unable to substantiate your nonsensical claim?
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by alentist 5y ago
Perhaps you should attempt to substantiate your nonsensical claim?
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by alentist 5y ago
You mean ubiquitous? So? That's a non-sequitur.
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by alentist 5y ago
> By the time we had scientist-priests people didn't know why they were Christians, to begin with. What do you mean?
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by alentist 5y ago
Why is it weird? What are you equating publishing a private sex tape with?
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by alentist 5y ago
In its famous "Field Guide to Anti-Muslim Extremists", the SPLC chose to include such figures as Maajid Nawaz and Ayaan Hirsi Ali. These and similar examples illustrate what kind of organization they are.
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by alentist 5y ago
Of course they're being quashed. Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information, on the basis that such material is considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or "inconvenient." Censor
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by alentist 5y ago
No, I don't. Why don't you answer the question?
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by alentist 5y ago
> That's not "moving the goal posts". Your first comment: > Whose voice is getting quashed in the US? Everyone has a Facebook, Twitter, email, phones, a magazine, protests, their own news channels, subReddits. Your seco
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by alentist 5y ago
https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/logicalfallacies/Moving-... https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/logicalfallacies/Relativ...
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by alentist 5y ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28475405 .

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