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Comment #26205964
Not thousands of random people picked off the street, though. It involves thousands of people that overwhelmingly share a seething hatred of one of the two candidates.
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Comment #26205957
Yes, absolutely. We must use the evidence available and draw inferences, assuming that there is no magic soil type phenomenon involved. In this case, the evidence available include…
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Comment #26201336
>Either people who get away with it undetected in the very short term are so good that they manage to suppress all evidence completely and it never comes out (which seems an implau…
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Comment #26200116
If it is possible to carry out election rigging conspiracies in the US, then how can we be so confident that no such conspiracies were carried out by people that viciously hate the…
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Comment #26200113
>this time the people who believed the possible-but-highly-unlikely outcome, "Trump actually won", ended up donating lots of their money to the people who believed the much more si…
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Comment #26200079
Yes, and examples of evidence might include that some election facilities were administered by people with a seething hatred for one of the candidates, and election observers in so…
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Comment #26198850
It's also kinda like how Al Capone might not have ordered the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre, and we'll never really know for sure, but most people conclude that he probably did, e…
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Comment #26198726
In a bench trial, the judge is supposed to weight the evidence presented, and issue various different degrees of relief based on whether it meets certain standards in totality. For…
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Comment #26198139
>No, they aren't Have I been mislead? If it is possible to carry out election rigging conspiracies in the US, then how can we be so confident that no such conspiracies were carried…
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Comment #26197824
>But if the evidence is not available, then there is no good reason to believe it. Based on this statement, I am guessing you are an American, and are therefore accustomed to all r…
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Comment #26197645
My understanding is that people in those other countries have not been lead down such a path, even though they know that sometimes people get away with stealing elections in their …
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Comment #26196900
One theory I've heard is that the magical soil in the US would compel the riggers to confess and/or provide evidence of their guilt to the courts and to the general public, rather …
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Comment #26196409
>Or a participant in some sort of fantasy vote-rigging conspiracy. This is even more relevant outside of the US. In the US vote rigging conspiracies are impossible for some inexpli…
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Comment #26038594
>The root of the problem is a lack of self control So make it easier for people to control their own behavior, if you want to make a dent in the problem. Teach them how to be in go…
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Comment #26038028
How about locking the soda and sugary snacks away with the cigarettes, instead of having them in your face (and your children's faces) in the checkout aisle? How about putting warn…
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Comment #26037945
Is working for Walmart something you would aspire for your grandchildren to be doing as a career?
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Comment #26037607
>If a dog is fat it's somebody else's fault, if a person is fat it's their fault. I don't really care whom you blame, I care about the results. Our society could do much more to st…
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Comment #26037424
So, lots of bread and circuses. Are they healthy? Are their grandchildren and great-grandchildren going to inherit a civilization that they would want to be born in to?
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Comment #26002685
I am not sure why you think the audience had tribal hostilities against him. These people were not klansmen, they were young British aristocrats whose parents were overseeing the d…
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Comment #25996534
I saw that video somewhat recently. I believe what the audience probably learned is that Buckley was not terribly effective at debating in that format. I am not sure what they lear…
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Comment #25994489
Jefferson wrote that while owning slaves, so I'm not really sure why that quote would give anyone the impression that American culture was built for blacks.
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Comment #25993913
>It is not a question of 'special effort' it is more of the question of why descendants of slaves were not viewed as part of the civilization, why there was such push against integ…
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Comment #25989621
>he mesmerises the audience by telling them what it's like to grow up black in America not even knowing you're black, until one day, as a young child, you catch yourself in the mir…
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Comment #25971098
Of course there are specific individuals that are focused on one or the other, but there are also specific individuals who span both concerns. Significant examples include the secr…
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Comment #25965923
Thank you for illustrating my point.