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I don't know about that. I received some negative comments recently for asking for evidence that wearing a mask, while outdoors, while socially distanced was ever effective.
People still have their egos and identities attached to this, seeing disagreement as a personal or political attack.
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It's all around you, but you can't touch it
Sayin', "God, make me famous"
"If you can't, just make it painless"I know the phrase gets overused but that would be a prime example of virtue signaling.
I had people on here saying some pretty nasty things to me for suggesting that while social distancing is good, having a mask on when outside and more than 6 ft apart is unnecessary.
I wonder if they realize how they're proving all the "virtue signaling" critics right.
Fear is incredibly profitable.
The Google play store managers and/or their bosses probably have their hands deep in it. It'd be interesting to see what a real investigation into this produces.
Do you really think that is a rare sentiment?
An unfortunately popular sentiment nonetheless.
Many people see BLM as a conduit for the redistribution of power and wealth towards minorities and thus communist.
Regulatory capture prevents competition. Money influencing politics prevents regulation.
As stated elsewhere, by asking the question you’re assuming the point is to have a rational argument on consistent beliefs - but it isn’t. It’s to gaslight and misdirect for political gain.
There is a difference between having unpopular opinions and advocating for violently overthrowing our government.
"When do we beat Mexico at the border? They're laughing at us, at our stupidity. And now they are beating us economically. They are not our friend, believe me."
- Donald Trump, during his presidential bid [1]
[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/06...
I always wonder why executives earn so much money when there is no responsibility on them when things go wrong.
The word you are looking for is "oligarchy".
If you believe that supremacy is a good thing, this is absolutely wonderful news.
The underlying counterargument was that it was never completely "your stuff" to begin with.
The underlying counterargument is that tax dodging is a form of violence against the poor.
Is the act of doing some drugs enough to ruin your life? The wealthy do drugs all the time. I'm willing to bet the majority of our politicians have done "illegal drugs" during their adult lives.
Why the double standard?
What year is the correct cutoff year where the effects of slavery should be ignored?
Would that logic apply to people who joke about topics like death?
A lot of comedians would be demonized under such logic.
Rising crime waves are prevented by Nordic approaches to social welfare and economic safety nets, things Americans decry as socialist.
Is there a way to view videos deemed nsfw without signing into a google/youtube account?
There is a strong deluge of propaganda to make people believe that there is this sudden migration surge from California and New York to Texas and Florida. But people have always been leaving CA and NY—as people are also always moving to CA and Texas all the same.
A better statistic to take into account is net migration.
It's a bit ridiculous at this stage to suppose that those supporting Trump's coup attempt are doing so in good faith.
If you are not an American, I suppose it makes sense that you are not aware of the current political climate. If you are American, then you've been deliberately ignoring the obvious.
Do you think there are many people here that would support a breakdown of the democratic process, a coup? I'd hope that those people are in the vast minority.
Your naivete is being taken advantage of by bad faith actors.
You mean like marijuana?
Is this journalist untrustworthy?
"You want to know what this was really all about?
The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news.
Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did."
- John Ehrlichman, Richard Nixon's aide on domestic affairs:
It follows that nobody who uses the term "vice signaling" has anything useful to say.