The reason for this poem is also the reason for the restrictions on speech in Germany. Go figure. Also, the US has been morphing into an suthoritarian state for quite a while. What is not the freedom of white affluent males is under constant attack there. From the war against drugs to the war against women's rights, there are countless examples.
Hit piece? PewDiePie was effectively normalizing Nazi propaganda, for whatever reason. He should stop whining and admit that he has only himsrlf to blame. PewDiePie might not be racist, but he certainly is a spoiled brat who has no idea that actions can have consequences.
Yeah, those 100/0 districts are not going to be "in play", as the saying is - they're not going to be a competitive race, ever. That means that all the action will be in the primary. (Of course, with a 100/0 district, maybe that's appropriate...)
But the fact of the matter is I think that closing the borders is in fact the best thing for all lower socioeconomic classes by lessening the wealth transfer from the working poor to the ownership classes. Incidentally this would most positively affect hispanic and black laborers. So every time NYT or TG calls me a racist for supporting Trump I kind of wonder why they aren't talking about his policies.
The fact of the matter is that Trump says he wants to chat with Putin. Hillary is dead set on a no fly zone in a country where the standing government has asked Russia to fly. I generally consider war to be the shittier option and have absolutely no problem negotiating with other world powers instead of unilaterally flexing military might in countries we were never invited to. No amount of syrian children pictures is going to make me think another regime overthrow is magically going to end up better than Iraq and Libya.
The fact of the matter is that Obamacare is a proven disaster, even NYT covers how absurdly expensive it is. We should try something new and opening competition seems like a good start. No amount of articles about how backwards we are for not having universal healthcare is going to change the 4000$ copays.
The fact of the matter is that tax loopholes are a thing. Trump uses them and says he uses them. He's going to raise tax rates, and theoretically close tax loopholes. That makes more sense to me than leaving billionaire loopholes open and raising the taxes on the top 5% earners... ie. doctors and engineers.
If someone wants to sway my vote they can try using numbers and analyses and facts instead of shoving some pussy grabbing video in my face because, any honest individual will admit they've heard worse talk at basically any college party. These media organizations are the ones dropping the level of discourse to name calling and voter shaming and I'm furious at them for not addressing the actual points and just comparing someone to Hitler.
>If someone wants to sway my vote they can try using numbers and analyses and facts instead of shoving some pussy grabbing video in my face because, any honest individual will admit they've heard worse talk at basically any college party.
Not at the college parties I've been to. Nor in the lockerrooms I've been in. If people do say worse things then they are also bragging about sexual assault just like Trump was.
There can be no such evidence because there is no such thing as a "veil of ignorance". You are fully aware of your social status. It seems likely that this knowledge informs your values.
Your status does inform your values, but we differ in values even if we aggressively correct for social status (as well as upbringing, race, and every other factor). This is a 'nurture vs. nature' issue, where Rawls assumed nature was irrelevant, but was incorrect.
No. The topic has simply been ceded to a subset of philosophers who fill large volumes that still don't manage to say more about this topic than you do. One big problem is that your thought experiments are designed specifically to make the null hypothesis sound silly. That's the same strategy you guys have been uding for thousands of years. Not so long ago people claimed that life couldn't be explained without some special substance.
Your proposal is comparable to saying that checks and balances are not needed in a democracy, politicians just need to govern "right".
This is about incentivising scientists to do the right thing instead of merely demanding it, like you do.
How is advocating for a new set of best practices any more "demanding" or wishful than a regime of obligatory replication? And how is this categorically different from current practices such as peer review, disclosing conflicts of interest, an IRB, etc.?
Nazi Germany was Christian, very much so (There were also fringe pagan elements, yes). Atheists were persecuted under Hitler. Soviet Russia didn't kill anyone in the name of atheism. Atheism isn't an ideology, only the lack of a certain kind of ideology. There isn't much that unites atheists. It doesn't mean atheists don't subscribe to any ideologies, of course. In the case of Soviet Russia, the ideology responsible for the atrocities commited would be communism. Of course, these ideologies are not the sole reason people turn into savages. But Nazi Germany and Christianity for example were compatible because they shared a lot of hatred against jews. Christianity made a lot more people susceptible to Nazi propaganda (together with economic problems) than would have been possible.
Just look at any recent Android phone. Font rendering is basically solved, all it took was making displays dense enough. What you are talking about is legacy software that doesn't scale properly.
