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You're right. Sometimes it's very small. And often in favor of women.

What? Are men not capable of looking at data? Imagine if someone said that about a woman... Perhaps you should keep your sexist comments to yourself.

They banned asking about salary history to close a gender wage gap that... wait for it... doesn't exist ! (There are entire books about this! http://amazon.com/Why-Men-Earn-More-St…

I don't think you're calm enough to have a rational discussion about all the untruths you just stated.

This is dumb. Of course people can protest. Nobody's questioning that. However, this victim mindset where everything process is "unfair" and elections are "fundamentally broken" is…

US politics was intentionally designed such that the majority doesn't get its way. It's the single major innovation in liberal political philosophy in the past 500 years. Saying "i…

Here's a sampling of the top comments in this thread: * "protesting is virtually impossible" * "The law making process is so clearly broken" * "society will be warped into some dys…

It's actually spelled "gerrymandering". You might have learned that by now if you weren't so busy spreading dumb conspiracy theories on the internet.

Okay, but the same can be said for Media Matters, Sean Hannity, Rachel Maddow, and so on. They're all doing shady shit, but sometimes one of them hits on something useful.

This doesn't mean anything. Which ethics? Which morals? Yours?

They're activists, but sometimes activists stumble on the truth too.

There are existing answers to these questions. It's not a grand mystery. Instead of merely repeating the questions, you should explain why the answers to those questions are wrong.…

I honestly don't really think you've thought this out. You might want to understand the existing structure of government before you propose replacing it on a whim. Here are some qu…

Given the track record of social interventions, what if this backfires?

Why is pure democracy a good thing in and of itself?

Why does basically every economist disagree that "capitalism is fundamentally broken"? Is that because they don't "understand the dynamics of how economies work"?

I do. See above comments. I spend $18k per year in a HCOL area. Plenty of room to save $5k in there and still have buffer for expenses that come up.

I mean my living expenses, including rent, utilities, food, transportation, health care, etc, add up to $1.5k per month (or ~18k per year). As in, I could make $25k (at a level whe…

Coming up with utopian ideas like this are easy. The hard part, which barely gets any discussion is: * How do incentives work? How do you incentivize the production of new wealth? …

Proponents of Net Neutrality: What do your best and strongest critics say and where are they mistaken? Opponents of Net Neutrality: What are the best and strongest arguments agains…

Most people make more than $12 an hour, which is great news! Not having kids outside of marriage is something everyone can do as well.

It's extremely rare to make only $25k/year for your entire life. Most people improve their earnings over time. Most people get married at some point. The important point is that ev…

It's extremely rare to live on 25k for your entire life. That's a pessimistic assumption. My point is that even if you do make that for your entire life, you can still get by and b…

I live on 18k/year in a HCOL area. Don't tell me it can't be done.

This is not convincing in the slightest... and a great example of why proponents of basic income need to up their game.