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San Francisco absolutely does not need a racist[1] mayor. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop-and-frisk_in_New_York_Cit...

Piracy is good but fascism is bad. What's the problem here?

Capitalism has certain systemic features, one of them is concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a small few. Look at how wealth is concentrated in the U.S., especially o…

Capitalism.

That investment shouldn't be made by individuals, it should be made by society as a whole, ie by increasing taxes so tuition is free. The burden of student debt is not shared equal…

I'm more upset that a single person has 5 billion dollars in the first place. Why don't we have a wealth tax on billionaires so that no one has student debt and we don't have to re…

They would be say that an inheritance tax hurts "family farms" and "family businesses", because they are dishonest about the fact that their policies benefit the power and privileg…

There is not one single way to publicly fund media. Hell you could just leave the whole system as is as provide no strings attached grants or tax credits to all publishers. The poi…

> The only way to have free content is if the user is the product being sold. Or we could provide robust public funding, like the BBC > It's what we must accept if we don't want th…

The U.S. president has been accused by multiple women of sexual assault. He has called women bitches, whores, fat pigs, ugly, etc. Multiple states in the south passed legislation e…

I didn't frame it as men vs. women. I framed it as challenging patriarchy, which is a system and ideology of male dominance and control.

No, I'm saying the economy rewards the choices men make. Women get paid less because employers pay less in female-dominated fields.

Even if you assume all this research is correct, why are people with certain characteristics or interests that are disproportionately associated with women get rewarded less econom…

It's not sexist to point out that men historically have held disproportionate cultural, social, economic, and political power and continue to do so to this day.

I agree, however I think it's important that we do not use "implicit bias" as a cover. Implicit bias seems very vague and allows people to evade responsibility. I think there's a l…

It isn't, there is an enormous body of evidence demonstrating that the gender pay gap is driven by overt sexism and institutional barriers. This evidence is far more compelling tha…

Another way in which rigid, patriarchal gender roles hurt men as well as women. Straight men should be far more critical of sexism and misogyny than they are. This attitude is dire…

There's a ton of overt misogyny and sexism in the U.S., nothing "subconscious" about it.

Socialism is a material struggle, it isn't an idealist Utopia where everything is perfect. It's a process. And most socialist regimes have been in the developing world, which had m…

This is ahistorical nonsense. The west industrialized hundreds of years ahead of the rest of the world and spent a century and a half plundering the global south. Regardless, China…

>they are not the reason why there is still actual poverty and malnutrition in the western world. Why is there poverty and malnutrition in the western world if not because of capit…

>Then why not focus on the anti-competitive behavior, instead of trying to remake the entire society in your leftist image? because my leftist image is good

We could do this all day, but the fundamental difference here is you look at the normal functioning of capitalism and think it is just and good, while I look at it and see it as hi…

You ignored my point - that the concentration of wealth is an inhibitor of solving poverty, and you failed to explain why you feel the need to defend billionaires' interests when t…