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Hey HN slow down let me chime in here, i used to work in the lying profession and i just need you to know that lying is not ok, and that lying is not the same thing as lying

You're better off just not posting if the first infantile misfiring of your brain is what you decide is fit to type into the comment box.

How do do you shut down a town in an orderly fashion? More to the point, how do you avoid putting the people you displaced from their homes on a high-rent, low-wage treadmill?

The people who lived in towns which thrived long before the economy failed them don't need to justify their existence in economic terms. The question you should be asking is whethe…

Testimony of lived experiences is evidence. It's enough to convict. When you serve jury duty and the case involves domestic violence, you are explicitly reminded of this because mo…

With such disproportionately high rates of domestic abuse in law enforcement professions, you really can't say they are competent to investigate them either. So whose responsibilit…

The US also didn't have a national highway system and other social services for much of its history. Interesting.

I have this nagging belief that advertisers know well that nobody in this generation wants to be advertised to, and that ads generally don't work as a direct call to action. Someth…

Work culture in general is harsher, but a lot of professional jobs include benefits like housing (usually not too far from full rent) and full commute expenses in their compensatio…

Correct. For the strict purpose of protecting private property, something which slaves were considered to be. Thank you for agreeing with the historical facts.

>Police serve themselves and the state Just a minor nitpick about this, forgive me. Overall this post is perfectly agreeable. Police primarily serve private property owners, with p…

No, it just means your boss likes you.

Whatever you have to tell yourself to keep believing what you do.

>For everyone. Efficient markets raise per capita productivity, which raises quality of life for the vast majority of the population. The majority of the US can't financially bear …

>The conclusion that free markets work better is empirically supported Better for whom?

To take this critique to an even lower order of problems, economics as a field is strictly centered on capitalism and the base assumption that markets are the only efficient distri…

I've never seen a clear explanation of the right's grievances regarding Soros, but what I can put together contextually is that he is a wealthy source of finance or power brokerage…

I'm asking because when someone says they are offended by someone else's words, it's because the use of that word makes their daily normal life more difficult to live in a direct m…

I don't know how to ask this without it seeming dismissive, but how much more difficult is it to live your normal life by someone's use of this word?

Remove it or not based on your company's rules and values. I don't know how to make this any more explicit. Hate speech having a clear and defined concept (which both you and that …

Unfortunately, politics directly affects the safety, health, and livelihood of everyone. People get sick die because of political decisions, and people gain great amounts of wealth…

Hate speech specifically comes from a position and perspective of power. Stop making up your own terms.

In order to make your points, you keep skating over the first principle: there is a clear definition.

In a vacuum, I would not say that's hate speech. But there are complexities in the advocacy for capital punishment in the current context of the US's criminal justice system. Our c…