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Comparing size without considering population will only lead to bad conclusions. Could you imagine someone claiming cancer deaths in Germany aren’t a problem because it doesn’t hav…

> Oh, please. These issues were not about child exploitation. Your original statement conveys the FBI should never ask Twitter to take down accounts. My response was such that ther…

> The FBI should not be asking Twitter to take down accounts. Period. Have you considered the real consequences of this? If the FBI for example finds accounts linked to child explo…

That's a good devil's advocate, but it's worth pointing out minor children consent (with parental consent, too) to surgeries all the time. Whether that's cancer treatments, surgeri…

Thanks for the notice, I will try to do better.

Well, it’s sorta helpful to better understand your mindset. Of course you don’t see any connection between the Enlightenment and trans rights. It would suck to realize one’s ideolo…

I commend you at your attempt at humor. It’s a solid approach when losing an argument.

A trend that has lasted decades? Try at least centuries. Egalitarianism and tolerance is a cornerstone of Enlightenment thinking. Constitutions gave power to the people over kings.…

Be a friend and share a few examples.

To be fair, this isn’t the sort of argument you’d want to make with any historical knowledge. At some point in history, a lot of extremely bad opinions went from “almost everyone” …

The peer comment to mine by dragontamer sums it up better than I could. I’m not saying problems didn’t exist before Elon, but Musk has been a net negative for the company who thus …

I respect your choice and to each their own, but to characterize Elon as a wartime CEO when he’s caused 80% of the crisis is a very generous characterization. His “leadership” thus…

I agree, I was misinformed. Too many articles state both acquisition or $1B fine were viable routes for Twitter, but other sources with more solid analysis look to contradict that.…

I was aware that Twitter went to court to complete the deal, but I admit to being misinformed as much of the analysis I read stated both avenues ($1B fee or force the acquisition) …

Fair enough, I'm not versed on the legal in's and out's and it appears you're correct. I knew Twitter sought to close the deal, but most of the analysis I read claimed they could h…

I see this differently. Elon attacked the credibility of engineers at Twitter by publicly making up a lie about their incompetence and shouting it out with the biggest megaphone in…

Where have you been? I think you may be uninformed on this. Here's some details: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/26/technology/twitter-musk-b... . Later when Elon sought to pull ou…

Cherry picking? I think you’re confused. I chose the same year YOU chose to say police per capita was down 11.6%. In that same time, property crime is down 51% and violent crime do…

Violence is bad. Yes. I can’t believe that has to be argued. The glorification of violence in your posts here is disturbing. State sanctioned violence on innocent people is especia…

I don’t think this is surprising. Police killings are more likely to happen when the officer feels threatened. Research regularly shows we’ve been conditioned to see Asian people a…

Most murderers are not caught in a shoot out with police. And murderers account for such a small number of police interactions that it’s a little bizarre to extrapolate the murder …

First, I don’t think there’s just one metric to use, and it’s a tall argument to say funding of all things should be ignored. Second, I think the stat you focused in on probably do…

> Instead we ask too much, cut funding and criticize the outcomes. The movement that was partially aimed to stop asking so much of police officers by distributing those responsibil…