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eeky

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    > Their government are an evil, theocratic, messianic cult who care nothing about their people but do care about promoting barbarism internally and terrorism externally to further …

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    Comment #6089612

    > No. It's so edgy to be contrarian on HN.

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    Comment #6077570

    > manufacturers and retailers interpreted these color preferences or manufactured them. Interpreted. There isn't a monopoly on clothes manufacturing so if a trend emerges it was li…

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    Comment #6077564

    gender is enforced through culture No. Gender/sex is a result of objective biological differences.

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    Comment #6075332

    Does this allow anonymous Bitcoin transactions, obviating the Zerocoin project?

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    Comment #6072774

    >You are not supporting a thing, you are supporting keeping that thing from someone else. Here lies the crux of the debate. You think straight people are keeping something away fro…

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    Comment #6072683

    It's changing the definition of the word, so yes there is something to stand for. If you don't believe marriage needs defending, look at the rates of marriage. Now the meaning of m…

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    Comment #6072541

    You arguments are good but not airtight. I'll pick out the ones I disagree with. > To be clear, there are difference in say how gay couples reproduce Straight couples can reproduce…

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    Comment #6072492

    >I've never seen a resume where the candidate listed anti-gay or anti-gay marriage advocacy groups. This very fact should concern people. You rarely see people advertising their su…

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    Comment #6072430

    >"tolerance means accepting intolerance" That is not at all what I said. He suggested that he supports me going away and dying out, and I think shouting out your opposition is into…

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    Comment #6072394

    Yeah it could shift eventually, big countries like Brazil have recently supported same-sex marriage at the federal level.

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    Comment #6072376

    I agree completely. But this is a tactic mainly used by the other side of the debate. Homosexual groups often fly under the banner of tolerance (literally, their flag is an inclusi…

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    Comment #6072359

    A straight person has the same rights as a homosexual person. They can both get married. That's equal protection under the law. What you want to do is change the definition of marr…

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    Comment #6072321

    Much of the value of Tumblr was its huge stash of amateur porn (and Yahoo overpaid for even that). And the first thing they do is gut it? Oh wow, Marissa could not have failed hard…

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    Comment #6072270

    How do you know I'm not right? Do you provide any evidence? Also what is your obsession with calling me a bigot, when I'm open to dialogue. You are the one who is glad that I'm a "…

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    Comment #6072135

    I didn't use my appeal to the majority as a support to my argument. My argument was simply not to conflate the issues. If I would have said "The majority of people are opposed to g…

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    Comment #6072121

    I'm a bigot? Please, look up the definition of bigot and then look in the mirror. I even explicitly said I was tolerant of gays. You are the one intolerant of others' opinions.

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    Comment #6072103

    Majority of people - so the world population.

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    Comment #6072096

    These are the kinds of attacks that people who stand for traditional marriage have to face. A bigoted army of people who can't muster a better argument than vulgar name calling. Th…

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    Comment #6072035

    The main reason is that people don't understand science, but they will still appeal to it as if it were the law of the universe. It's an appeal to authority: Much like people used …

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    Comment #6071961

    It helps if you contribute factual and useful information instead of trite emotional attacks.

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    Comment #6071955

    You keep arguing with logical fallacies, but I'll respond anyway. Russia is doing quite well and just became the 5th largest economy[1]. They also have a news station (Russia Today…