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cld8483

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    Comment #34948521

    The wacky derivations of their beliefs doesn't change the fact that most businesses in red states would kick you straight out the door for antisemitism or any criticism of Israel. …

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    Comment #34948497

    This app should have been banned from both appstores when it was found to be exfiltrating all clipboard data. Insane that it's still permitted by Apple and Google after such an obv…

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    Comment #34948400

    > What differentiates boys like this from plain bigots is they think they can put it next to their resume. Yes, if they hand you the evidence then it should be obvious. > A gut fee…

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    Comment #34948384

    > Or just live in a red state? Heh, in red states where unconditional support for Israel among white evangelical protestants is more popular than in the Jewish-American community i…

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    Comment #34948292

    > "just because of stress" Where is that narrative coming from? It doesn't seem to be what the article is pushing. The perp seems like a nutjob who had a violent melt down, no need…

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    Comment #34948190

    You can tell the difference by looking to see if any of their research helped in developing the vaccine (it did not.)

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    Comment #34948169

    The research out of this lab didn't help develop the vaccine, so what were they doing in the first place? Weapons research, it's as simple as that. As soon as the virus started cir…

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    Comment #34948107

    > I'm not sure what world you're living in but we've been shooting missiles at Chinese military objects Only after several days of failing to resolve the balloon matter diplomatica…

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    Comment #34948056

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    Comment #34948040

    > What should the consequences be? The abolition of modern virology, roll the clock back on them a hundred years. Allow the development of vaccines for extant viruses, but complete…

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    Comment #34932683

    It can be. Is there an abridgement of The Count of Monte Cristo that has the hashish chapter? The abridgement I read as a kid didn't have it.

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    Comment #34932667

    Same. It took me a few years to get past the first few pages, but once I did that book just clicked for me.

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    Comment #34928594

    > > The research, which was funded in part by the National Wildlife Federation and U.S. Department of Energy > Can't imagine there's any conflict of interest there. Pro-nuclear bia…

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    Comment #34928291

    I have, and it isn't. Have you actually read any of his novels, or are you relying on Achebe to do it for you?

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    Comment #34928255

    The author is dead, any "ownership" of the work today is purely a legal concept. But ownership in any sense irrelevant. Being the owner of a work does not preclude censorship. If t…

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    Comment #34928218

    I like it; it often has the hands symbolically painted red.

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    Comment #34928129

    You may be right, but I'm not convinced. I believe many Jules Verne novels were once considered "young adult" fare, but (in the original unabridged forms) became challenging for yo…

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    Comment #34927907

    The sentiment Joseph Conrad expressed in his books is that colonialism is evil and corrupts the souls of anybody who participates in it. If you can't read his books because you can…

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    Comment #34927894

    > Ok why aren’t there Hitler statues in Germany then? Are they going to forget Hitler was bad and have another Holocaust? Perhaps it is the reason why the Reichstag still today has…

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