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The last few cases that come to mind (Breivik, Tarrant) are from lone wolves that had radical ideas but were not affiliated with any group. It must be very difficult to catch (unle…

I suspect you're just disagreeing on what "keeping tabs" actually means. The government shouldn't put someone under (specific|personal) surveillance without strong evidence of cour…

It's hard to disagree with this point, really. I don't see how you can prevent the police from reading stuff that's being broadcast for everyone else to see. And threats of violenc…

Do you have a problem with grammar anarchists?

I would say this is a 5-year-old's understanding of the police, if not for the fact that 5 year olds (at least boys) typically like anything related to the police.

The cartels would obviously immediately stop chopping up journalists in pieces and would retrain to become car mechanics, bakers, factory workers, etc.

Indeed. We also use this logic for juries.

Twitter is a modern-day gladiator arena, where all the spectators are also actually inside the arena.

Here's a concrete, practical solution: Radical affirmative action. Not radical in the rioting / revolution understanding of the word, but in its application. So, if the issue with …

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You cannot possibly avoid testing software, unless the software is literally useless. So testing will definitely happen _at some point_. The debate is about where it happens: on th…

What do you mean exactly by "brown" people? Who do you include in that category?

You're on Google, the 21st century version of AOL

There are many risk factors, not just this one.

Humanities departments becoming de-facto meetings of the party, as opposed to a cafe where philosophers of all strokes meet to exchange ideas.

I despise the woke newspeak, but if we have to replace master and slave, I think master and puppet would be pretty cool. In this case, the analogy works even better because the pup…

More important than this change of terminology, I think it's good that Twitter decided to donate ten million dollars to NGOs fighting slavery around the world (it's still prevalent…

An even bigger mistake than starting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is the mistake of keeping those wars going forever. And that mistake is still ongoing. Of course, I'm assuming…

If you're scrolling through your feed you haven't left Facebook either.

Point taken, although I don't think I was engaging in that. I did not make comments about Islam specifically, and whether it is "good" or "bad" in the absolute sense. I could have …

I think your view of the world is very naive. You can't inject political Islam in the French secular-with-deep-Christian-roots culture for the same reason you can't inject San Fran…

"Democracy is like a train: when you reach your destination, you get off" -- Erdogan

>Because the state stamped out every regional language during the creation of the Republic, and that was that. They had signs on the walls in Breton schools telling that "it's forb…

The scarf is an issue in the sense that it was a way for militant, political Islam groups to test the waters. Which has led in less than a generation to much more extreme ways to o…