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There is a very great portion of the American left that cares about economic status. I do believe that admissions should factor in socioeconomic status rather than just race, gender, etc., but believing this does not require me to generalize a very wide reaching political stance.
How about Godot?
This whole comment basically says, "it is how it is, so you can't criticize it." It is like saying, "racism will exist. Humans are just racist. Should businesses be publicly shamed for being racist if it is what their users want?"
Now as for how we should treat businesses that treat people better based on their looks is not something I have a strong opinion about, but my two cents is that looks should not be a factor of how people get treated because it is possible that representation of "ugly" people in media could make many diverse looking people "attractive" to younger generations. This would be beneficial because it means that talent would have more priority over looks than before.
I'm the one who best knows how to effectively allocate those resources in my life.
Some people do not get good enough education and do not know how to effectively allocate resources.
There are some social services that are necessary and beneficial but these should be built on top of a UBI foundation for maximum effectiveness.
Do you mean the other way around? Necessary social services should be the foundation with UBI built on top of it. Social services can do some things better than UBI can even when assuming everyone uses their UBI completely rationally.
As the person who you're replying to said, it was for verification. Milo does not work at Buzzfeed, but Milo claims to work at Buzzfeed on twitter. This resulted in the loss of the checkmark because Milo working at Buzzfeed is unverified.
The problem here is that "speaking out" doesn't change a damn thing. And it never will. Not in China. Not in the States.
Aren't you doing exactly that right now? "speaking out" on Hacker News against people you disagree with?
Criticising is only useful when it actually influenced something.
Of course. And countries with freedom of speech allows criticism to be influential.
but if people perceive yellow diamonds to be pretty (even if its through marketing), then it is all the same
If this was reddit, I would reply how it is funny that you imply that you would not say that on hacker news, but you actually did indirectly
i mean, the rich already gets the best education, the best healthcare, etc...
extrapolating a small sample size will probably produce unreliable results.
also its possible that there are 3 sushi restaurants on the same street because of the Hotelling model of spatial location (good vid explaining that: https://youtu.be/jILgxeNBK_8)
He may be liberal or not, that is irrelevant. OP said was that he was a gateway to the alt-right, not alt-right himself.