No, because the vegans are right, eating meat isn’t justifiable. You can’t “both sides” morality. The attempt is an admission that you’ve lost the plot.

Consider the possibility that your feelings of guilt or being judged is a call coming from inside the house.

The idea of “political neutrality” is naive or bad faith.

What you want is a right-wing sub. They pride themselves on being centrist, reasonable, and uncontroversial. You’re going to get lots of radical ideology, but don’t take it seriously bro, it’s just a joke.

Left subs may seem obnoxious with their politics, but that’s just because we’re trying to persuade you with argument instead of tricking you with flattery.

Hillary called him a Russian puppet to his face.

For years I’ve argued that the gun lobby is for manufacturers, not owners. This is a concrete example of them prioritizing the former over the latter.

Forced labor in prisons is not equivalent to chattel slavery. It’s not even a race-based institution as you suggest since over half of the prisoners are white. (I understand POC are over-represented, I’m just pointing out that chattel slavery was exclusively for black people)

In other words, I’m from corporate and I’m asking you to tell the difference between these two pictures:

The tragedy of gun ownership in America is having a stockpile doesn’t protect you, it’s actually a magnet for criminals and government agents.

When I was young, the gun culture was one of secrecy. It was rude to ask a person what kind of guns they had, and you might never know unless you go hunting with someone. The cowboy clowns of today post their whole inventory on Facebook. And they update it for every new weapon or accessory they buy. (and your typical numbskull gun owner puts more effort into accessorizing than a fashion model).

Do you hate Foucault because your a Marxist or a Petersonian?

This is genius! A citybuilder as a lovecraft cultist? How has nobody thought of this before?

This is not because of an executive order from Biden. This is because of the murderous war perpetrated by the criminal Putin.

If the whole Linux project died out, it wouldn’t be on the top 10,000 important things that have been destroyed by Russia.

You forgot Foucault’s Power/Knowledge.

“Sims treats everyone as if they are guilty until proven innocent and he is willing to manipulate the judicial system in order to pressure a defendant into accepting an unjust plea bargain.”

Not only is this normal and acceptable behavior in our legal system, but the system would collapse without it.

YSK: the Dunning-Kruger effect is controversial because it’s part of psychology’s repeatability problem.

Other famous psychology experiments like the ‘Stanford prison experiment’ or the ‘Milgram experiment’ fail to show what you learned in psych101. The prison experiment was so flawed as to be useless, and variations on the Milgram experiment show the opposite effect from the original.

For those familiar with the Milgram experiment: one variation of the study saw the “scientist” running the test replaced with a policeman or a military officer. In these circumstances, almost everybody refused to use high voltage.

Maybe he just knows about the ‘Just so’ fallacy and he’s suspicious of even good-faith science communication being presented as narrative? I know I have that problem sometimes.

This is just another example where Trump doing something hamfisted and clumsy pushes something universal about politics into the arena where the the Left has to pretend this isn’t just how politics works America.

I mean to be outraged about open political corruption implies that altruistic public service is the norm.

Do we think all the other billionaires decided to buy up media outlets and making secret unlimited donations are somehow better because they kept their political agendas on the DL?

Konyndyk added: “US-funded contractors that took an armed security approach got hit a lot because they were seen as combatants.”

This simple truth not only elegantly explains why using mercenaries is a bad idea in Gaza, but also undermines the central idea behind arms as protection.

I agree that ending arms shipments to Israel is the correct action. But don’t labor under the illusion that the US can “force” Israel to do anything. I can think of numerous instances in the past where Israel defied and betrayed her patrons. And not just the US, but also the UK and the Soviet Union.

I can only think of one instance where Israel backed down due to pressure, and that was the Suez Crisis. And that took the combined influence of the US, the Soviet Union, and the UN. (as well as help from Canadian diplomats.) Not to mention that Israel was a partner of the UK and France for this adventure and thus didn’t have the final say.

I lost a lot of faith in Burns after he heavily featured some lost-cause dilettante in his Civil War series. After I saw him pictured on one of the retreats that Clarence Thomas was bribed with, I plain don’t trust his judgement about American History.

Art isn’t a progression. “Realism” isn’t necessarily a goal.

If capturing some subject in the most naturalistic way possible was the goal of art, there would be no need for paintings after the invention of the camera, and sculpture would be obsolete because of 3d scanning. Art must be something beyond capturing nature, otherwise there would be no reason for humans to do it.

One of the reasons for creating the system of death camps was that Nazi soldiers and policemen tasked with murdering Jewish people and other undesirables had elevated rates of PTSD. Also, during the Cultural Revolution, the People’s liberation Army switched to a lower caliber sidearm because all the executions were giving them carpel tunnel.

You don’t want to loose sight of humanity just because you’re committing atrocity.