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The most powerful man in the world? I thought Xi went home?

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But all of those things were always lies, they never believed any of them, it's just that they allow them to argue against obviously good ideas without directly addressing them. They don't want to say "Poor children should starve" so they invent some cold, bloodless technicality to harp on instead.

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The problem is just conservatives. Chistians, Muslims, Atheists, all fine people. Conservative Christians are horrible, conservative Muslims are evil, conservative Atheists are murderous... It doesn't matter what identity group, if you eliminate the conservatives from it, the rest are fine.

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Losing to those idiots is their job.

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Being involved in Gamergate was literally just choosing to be wrong just because it entitled you to be a misogynistic hatemonger, and that was more important to some people than being correct or decent. It was 100% evil pieces of shit all the way down.

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What is the point of talking to known liars? Like, the whole movement took place in public forums. We can see what data was there, what people chose to ignore and pay attention to. We know that the movement was just people choosing to be hateful misogynists even though the facts were all public.

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...social Democrat. I'm not saying that's amazing of anything, but Bill Gates has fucked up everything he's touched for decades on end and has never learned or changed in any way as a consequence. So, like, George Soros might not be good, but compared to others of his class, he's a bit better.

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I have a little bit of appreciation for Soros personally, simply because he is the only billionaire I have actually seen learn anything from the consequences of his actions. Like, Soros went into Russia in the 90s as a devoted neoliberal, and saw the consequences of that, and came out of it a...

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Also, I'm pretty sure that the people complaining about this would oppose such a law vociferously, so I don't even understand what the criticism could possibly be here.

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Also, last I checked, there were already laws against gang raping 17 year olds, so I'm puzzled as to what further action is required? A law punishing police for failing to properly investigate rape allegations would be good, but I'm kind of dubious that it is needed in this specific case.

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People keep talking as though the Republican party has manifestly changed since Trump, and maybe it has a little, but I think we should all remember that back in the 1990s, the majority of Republicans already believed that demons were a serious problem that the government should be concerned with.

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A medieval punishment would be if they grabbed men accused of rape and forced it onto them. This is, at most, a medieval deterrent.

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While this is technically true, in reality even apparently bloodless genocides usually turn up some hidden bodies down the road.

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I dunno, I would say that all executions are state murders , but not all state murders are executions.

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...are dead, that's an unsuccessful genocide. I would be genocidal in that circumstance. But if I'm minding my business and the entire population of a country just decided to hunt and murder me, and I killed them all one by one in self defense, I wouldn't describe that as a genocide.

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Setting aside the America question, this is obviously silly. The percentage killed obviously tells you nothing without knowing the context. Like, if I go into a country, set up camps, begin systemically executing the people there, and then my enemy invades and stops me after 1% of the population...

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