jsmith0295

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by jsmith0295 9y ago
What's odd to me is that this seems like it should be bad for Jews, and that they wouldn't want this to be the case, and that in general people wouldn't want a minority treated as the majority group in these cases... But inst
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by jsmith0295 10y ago
Yeah, I should've been more clear, but that is what I was talking about.
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by jsmith0295 10y ago
It's a totalitarian ideology which is fundamentally opposed to liberal democracy. It shouldn't be tolerated for the same reasons Nazism shouldn't be tolerated.
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by jsmith0295 10y ago
The two are not mutually exclusive. Belief systems influence actions. Obviously it makes sense to call out the Neo Nazis within the Trump movement, so why wouldnt it make sense to criticize ideas which are effectively fascist held by a much
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by jsmith0295 10y ago
Even if that were the case, that doesn't make it a good idea to align yourselves with Islamists as many on the left have.
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by jsmith0295 10y ago
Surface Studio is actually selling at 2x what Microsoft anticipated it selling for, so it seems to be a bigger market than one would think.
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by jsmith0295 10y ago
Well they failed to do it but given the opportunity they would have used immigration and amnesty to shift demographics in order to dilute these people's votes (and make money for their donors by holding labor costs down)
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by jsmith0295 10y ago
There's more than one way to rig the system. A substantial increase in immigration and an amnesty program would have provided an even bigger opportunity for Democrats than gerrymandering has for the Republicans.
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by jsmith0295 10y ago
Calling out Republicans specifically over identity politics seems kind of silly, given how much of the Democratic Party's politics is based on race and gender.
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by jsmith0295 10y ago
I think it's also worth noting that this was not a particularly sophisticated attack. Podesta fell for a simple phishing attack. A lot of media attention around this has made it sound like something out of an action movie, but the atta
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by jsmith0295 10y ago
So why not try and fix the mismatch between the paycheck and the value produced by the worker rather than just abandoning the idea of producing any value at all? Even if someone is paid 10% of what they produce, I'd rather have them do
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by jsmith0295 10y ago
Yeah, I would imagine things are milder than they have been in my experience. But I've heard people say the phrase "white people have no culture" upwards of 10 times by several different people, the majority of whom were whit
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by jsmith0295 10y ago
Weren't those negotiations with Boehner mainly just intended to avoid sequester? That's a fairly unusual situation. Outside of that I don't recall anything, but I may have just not paid enough attention. As for the party movi
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by jsmith0295 10y ago
It sort of does. Having been pushed out of negotiations around things like the stimulus bill they ended up as a unified opposition, which resulted in the "tea party" and the party moving drastically to the right
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by jsmith0295 10y ago
and then there's the question of how many therapists would validate this thought process? And how much will that number increase?
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by jsmith0295 10y ago
In my personal experience there seems to be a pretty big difference based on the age. People who are like 26 are much less aggressive about it than people who are 18-22.
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by jsmith0295 10y ago
It's not just a small percentage of activists. I'm 21, and I live in Ohio, which Trump won by 9 points, and it seems like a huge portion of people about my age are proponents of these ideas, on or off of college campuses. People c
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by jsmith0295 10y ago
That is really not true given the full history of things. Most Republicans were very willing to compromise after Obama first took office, but he elected to completely ignore them instead since he had a super majority. At that point the only
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by jsmith0295 10y ago
I don't really think it has much to do with going to school. I think theory gets ignored because some portion of an engineering team has no interest in learning it, so we cater to the lowest common denominator because its the less expe
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by jsmith0295 10y ago
Um...yes, it did. They manipulated everything they could to limit his exposure and got a decent number of African American voters to fill out absentee ballots towards the beginning of the primary before they had any idea who the other candi
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by jsmith0295 10y ago
That is a better way of saying it, I was more thinking of it from the perspective of the media coverage
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by jsmith0295 10y ago
That is too funny, almost too good to be true...kinda like how Anthony Weiner got pulled into all this Clinton scandal business.
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by jsmith0295 10y ago
Well, at least these aren't bursting into flames. (Although, hilariously enough, they are still sort of exploding, just in a different way.)
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by jsmith0295 10y ago
They care too much about backwards compatibility I think. .NET had done generics this way from the beginning.
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by jsmith0295 10y ago
Doing it a better way is hard
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by jsmith0295 10y ago
It's possible but there's basically no chance of that occurring in the current political climate. Our "liberal" party is dominated by corporate interests. Hillary Clinton being the Democratic nominee is basically the p
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by jsmith0295 10y ago
This is especially a problem because any solutions that are politically likely at this point, like raising the minimum wage, aren't taking money from the wealthiest, they're taking money from the middle class to fund wealth redist
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by jsmith0295 10y ago
That isn't necessarily true. I wouldn't expect a wholesale move to 60 hour work weeks if the overtime pay requirement were raised or eliminated. And there are many people who already want to work 60 or more hours a week who get a
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by jsmith0295 10y ago
The problem is that people are already getting second jobs for this very reason. People want to work more when they're only making around minimum wage, and the laws that are supposed to protect them just make that difficult. I was sayi
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by jsmith0295 10y ago
That's part of the problem I was referring to. If reducing hours didn't cut the cost of labor then employers wouldn't have an incentive to do it, and people wouldn't need second jobs. That 30 hour thing is fairly recent,

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