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ericfrenkiel
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About ericfrenkiel
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Comment #42285736
You’re old fashioned.
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Comment #41514313
The difference between equality under the law or equity under the law. Equity is by definition relative. Equality is at least absolutely reasoned without the interference of relati…
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Comment #40088316
So when are we banning TikTok?
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Comment #40066953
I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords. Progress in robotics is beginning to look non-linear and it will have only positive impact on the world. Skynet won’t be humanoid termi…
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Comment #40066791
I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords. Progress in robotics is beginning to look non-linear and it will have only positive impact on the world. Skynet won’t be humanoid termi…
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Comment #36173775
The label you are looking for is “duly convicted party,” per the 13th Amendment: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shal…
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Comment #36173687
Categorically, definitionally, and historically wrong. What you are you are referring to is the following: “ Article I, Section 8, Clause 1: The Congress shall have Power To lay an…
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Comment #34366544
In some ways it's even more expensive to remain "credit invisible" because of the security deposits now needed when you set up utilities, getting a mobile number, applying for an a…
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Comment #24101287
Seriously? You don’t find the million people (the Uighurs) in concentration camps “outlandish”? How about the thousands of students rolled into smithereens by tanks in Tianamen Squ…
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Comment #24024847
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Comment #22081713
I would say it’s your own bias which is informing your opinion. California has only gotten more “progressive” with each election. If that makes you happy, I hope you understand tha…
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Comment #22081585
Yeah, no. Reality doesn’t bear out with your theory.
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Comment #22015424
Epstein didn't kill himself. Video footage "accidentally" deleted and the backup footage also lost due to "technical errors." His death and a cleanup so slovenly and brazenly done …
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Comment #20782050
To effectively clean up the city. You can’t have tent encampments in cities, which leads to refuse build up, which brings the rats, which spread typhoid. Yes, this is a fact, and y…
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Comment #20780876
As long as it is outside city limits, but operated as a city extension, in something like a rural environment, I think this is a great idea.
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Comment #20460637
Yes, please tell this to the next doctor you see who saves your life or cures your disease. /s
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Comment #19726144
Well said!
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Comment #19726139
Per capita GDP and gross GDP easily refute your apologia. Pro tip: at least try to submit something unrelated to China every now and then, otherwise people may rightly or wrongly c…
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Comment #19466174
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Comment #19466109
Like what exactly? You accurately describe the cause-and-effect of not prosecuting petty crime whatsoever and that prison is not a sufficient deterrent, so what would be “less seve…
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Comment #19466064
What you are stating is 100% morally wrong - that it’s better for a mentally ill individual to be left to starve on the streets rather than a society that can afford to care for th…
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Comment #19466021
That still doesn’t negate dragonwriter’s very valid argument.