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contourtrails
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Comment #16999846
I'm with you, prohibition of weed is very backwards. But that's hardly slavery.
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Comment #16999797
How so? Economic circumstances negatively impact certain people more than others in the world but how are modern western governments perpetuating racism?
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Comment #16999622
They broke laws and are being punished as criminals. Many people of all races are punished in the same way. I think drug laws in this country are way too harsh, but those are the l…
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Comment #16999610
>"What does the NSA so? Who are they protecting? You're comitting a logical fallacy. You think just because bad things sometimes do happen to US citizens that the NSA clearly isn't…
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Comment #16996875
No, that particular case was a completely justified use of lethal force. Police we're being directly fired upon. Should officers not fire back when they are fired upon?
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Comment #16994496
That's naive, there will always be people looking to subvert the system because they want to see the world burn.
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Comment #16994469
It's funny, some people are so opposed to increasing capabilities of law enforcement but they conveniently ignore that the capabilities of criminals are increasing too. Law enforce…
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Comment #16991747
I'm not arguing about anything, I'm just stating facts
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Comment #16991290
I'm pretty sure that a minority group - Asian Americans - do much better than their white counterparts on the GRE. Don't paint this "white males vs everyone else" narrative since i…
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Comment #16990818
I think in general social media is hostile to conservative viewpoints because most social media users are young. There's really not much social media companies can do if someone ge…
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Comment #16989736
It's not really that way. The universe has produced things that basically must exist given the laws of physics (when certain chemicals exist together under certain conditions we kn…
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Comment #16987982
>"The Third Reich was a diagnosis regime, obsessed with sorting the population into categories, cataloging people by race, religion, politics, sexuality..." It's never good to cate…
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Comment #16985819
Hive mind exists everywhere, the goal is to not encourage it.
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Comment #16983471
What is the purpose? What will downvoting enable aside from downvoting itself? I have a sense it will only worsen the mob mentality on Facebook and make it more like Reddit.
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Comment #16978459
I don't have much sympathy for major news organizations because they are publishing opinions more than they are publishing breaking news based on investigative journalism. Of cours…
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Comment #16966907
The next season of Black Mirror may just be a documentary on China
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