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by awayyyythrow 7y ago
Alexander is known for being a bit...chicken. There are very few positions to which he's willing to firmly commit beyond "don't get mad" and "don't be mean", for fear of antagonizing his rather...political
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by awayyyythrow 7y ago
There are no rational arguments for my cause if it involves whether I should exist or have rights. I want rights because I want them. How would a rational argument even work?
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by awayyyythrow 7y ago
One of Alexander's better stories. However, I'd say it reeks of what I'd call Alexanderness : -The idea that arguments and debates are the most important thing in the world and everyone should do it as much as possible (poss
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by awayyyythrow 7y ago
I'm curious, what do you suggest should be done? Build more mental health wards? Put everyone behind bars? For how long? What do you do once they're released from prison? Or maybe there should be some sort of camps where they coul
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by awayyyythrow 7y ago
Yeah, how dare people want to sleep in a bed under a roof. So entitled.
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by awayyyythrow 7y ago
The alternative is building houses . When you put people in houses they cease to be homeless. They did it in Helsinki, and it worked: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/jun/03/its-a-miracle... Very
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by awayyyythrow 7y ago
Yeah, most people actually love to be homeless and live in tents. The housing crisis isn't real.
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by awayyyythrow 7y ago
Why should we expect people to have affordable healthcare? Why should we expect people to have enough to eat? Why should we expect people to have rights? Can't we just let people die outside from the cold or something?
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by awayyyythrow 7y ago
Far-right isn't a synonym for bad, aggressive, abrasive (although in practice many people would argue that the two are linked, and that could explain why some people tend to recoil from the term even though they hold similar position
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by awayyyythrow 7y ago
I'm relatively comfortable with the English language but I absolutely loathe having to use it every single day. Whether it's the bland style found in newspapers, the opaque style found in scientific articles, the fake let's-p
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by awayyyythrow 7y ago
I think most of the explanations fail to account for a very important point: music doesn't exist in the abstract but comes with a setting, a context and a community. You don't just listen to music, you experience it. Whether i
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by awayyyythrow 7y ago
Even music people think is new is actually quite old. I have yet to discover a genre whose origins don't extend at least two decades back (unless you cheat and name an extremely specific subset that sounds like 'hard dark psy tech
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by awayyyythrow 7y ago
I notice you have conveniently chosen to avoid answering the other talking points and am choosing to believe out of charity that you don't have time to write an elaborate response. >If measuring something like the visual reaction ti
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by awayyyythrow 7y ago
Except: -There's doubt that the Flynn effect was real to begin with and isn't just an artifact of a measure that never really made sense to begin with (IQ) -Plenty of "sophisticated" music is being made right now, perhap