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Do you know what a Gish gallop is? With a new account you lack the credibility for me to trust that's not what you're doing here with these very long comments. Ironic, coming from …

Yeah I guess my point is a theory of constraints argument; Taylor Swift herself is the constraint, nothing else will matter. People seem to be ignoring or forgetting that basic ide…

The cooling effect on supply?? You mean Taylor Swift's inability to be in two places at once and unwillingness to drive her voice into the ground by continuing to add more concert …

Sure, but that's not why The Eras Tour tickets were so expensive, which is the real reason Taylor Swift fans are upset. Yes, TM has a concerning amount of control over venues and t…

Maybe I'm the only one who doesn't really see a problem with ticket prices being as high as they are. There is much more demand for these tickets than there are supply of tickets, …

I think the implication can more aptly be stated as, "We survived this sentiment then, we can survive this sentiment now."

What? No. That's the government acting in response to speech, not other people expressing themselves . Your argument forgets that it's also free speech to react to something object…

My assumption here is that this is built to replace Patreon entirely. "Sub to my Discord or sub to my Patreon to get exclusive content!" eventually becomes, "Sub to my Discord to g…

Agreed. It's hard to create quality content, and even harder to do it without being able to monetize that content. "The Internet should be free!" that's just not sustainable. I'm s…

I wonder if it's because this is probably the only place they feel they can get away with bragging, but have been "proud" of their "accomplishment" for some time now.

I’ll be sure to tell all American history books that Alexander Hamilton and Lafayette (two off the top of my head because I listened to Hamilton recently, there absolutely were man…

I feel like you ignored the part where I absolutely would house as many refugees as I can in my home, were it as bountiful and spacious as the US is. But it’s not, and I did buy th…

“Slavery was an improvement” ok, so honestly I find this insanely offensive and uncomfortably in line with some “white savior” arguments racists make, but I don’t want to be rude t…

So? Nearly all countries at one point allowed slavery, refused to let women vote, and a ton of countries were ruled by an authoritarian monarchy, that doesn't mean it was a good id…

If you're not interested, why force yourself? It's okay to let things go that no longer give you the joy they once did. Maybe a break will rekindle that spark, but maybe it won't!

This is not the compelling argument you think it is; in this analogy I: * didn't buy my house, I inherited it, * the people I inherited it from stole it from other people who * als…

The key is which things you exclude people over. A society can have values, but if those values discriminate based on aspects of a person that are outside of the person's control, …

Of course you have a responsibility towards the society and the people who raised and support you. That just doesn't involve excluding others from that society. They deserve, just …

Yea, if someone wants to , they can and should be able to freely swap which society they participate in. We are successful as a species because we socialize, and there is no reason…

Uh they didn’t work alone on it, and they left a ton of people out, ripping freedom and progress from their hands without a second thought. Your ancestors were thieves and oppresso…

Paper?