You know who posted:

We simply don't know the long term health effects of vaccinations over a few decades.

Antares posted:

I haven't seen this linked in the last few pages, but I know "what happens in libertopia if a company dumps poison into your water supply" is a perennial question so I thought I'd share this excellent Intercept story:

Part 1
Part 2
(and there's a Part 3 yet to come)

1000101 posted:

As an aside I went a number of years not paying all my taxes and nobody clasped me in irons. I ultimately filed and paid all my back taxes when I had the financial means to do so because it's a socially appropriate thing to do. I'm okay even when they help people like this!

luxury handset posted:

i am being completely honest when i tell you that ron paul is a racist

Lightning Knight posted:

You truly are human garbage, jrod, and it is but by the grace of our wonderful community and their desire to argue with you that you are allowed to remain here.

Alhazred posted:

Without the allies intervening my country would've remained under german occupation. My granduncle would probably have died in a nazi prison camp (he was a teacher and refused to teach nazism to children), lord knows what would've happened to my other granduncle who sailed in the convoys or my grandfather who was in the resistance but chances are that their luck would've run out at some point. Without the allies intervening there's a chance that I would've never been born.

Captain_Maclaine posted:

And also that after the war many camp survivors had distinctly frosty, and at times murderous, receptions when they made their way home, particularly in Poland.

Goon Danton posted:

R.J. Rushdoony... Why does that name sound familiar?


lol oh yeah, he's one of the founders of christian dominionism. Liberty!

Bobby Digital posted:

https://twitter.com/wongkarwax/status/1239733301562298368?s=21

Mr Interweb posted:

i was listening to a video of ben shapiro DESTROYING the concept of systemic racism. he made a lot of typically dumb ben shapiro level arguments, but one that kind of went under my radar was an argument he made about wealthy people. apparently 70% of millenials and 52% of boomers thought that wealthy people inherited their wealth, but shapiro cited a study that said only 15% did.

i figured there was something fishy about that statistic, but couldn't exactly figure out what. now the mistake that i made initially was thinking that most of these rich folks came from well to do, middle, upper middle class households, which, while impressive to become a millionaire, is not exactly a rags to riches story. but then i come to find out that i once again, gave ben too much credit. because it turns out that the way the study was done, somebody who was born into a millionaire/billionaire family, who became a millionaire while their parents were still alive, would be counted in this figure. if you grew up in beverly hills, well your financial success would become far, far less impressive.


waiting 30 years to make back your money sounds like a pretty inefficient business plan, imo

Halloween Jack posted:

When conservatives say they "just want to be left alone," they mean that they don't want anyone to investigate the mysterious deaths.

theshim posted:

I hope he doesn't get banned only because I deeply enjoy the amount of thoughtfulness and research that people put into dunking the gently caress out of him.

Somfin posted:

You do know why the "average IQ of the general population is between 90 and 110," right? Do you know why that measure puts the average person there?

Somfin posted:

Not really? Like, the urge behind trying to figure out what IQ actually measures is fairly benign, and a bunch of folks are genuinely convinced that g exists in a completely spherical cow way.

The problem with libertarians is that they want g to both justify their beliefs and influence policy, and they want their online test's 240 IQ score to be taken as proof that their belief in right-wing ideology must be smart. Really they just want validation.

JRod watch the video

SpaceSDoorGunner posted:

Who What Now posted:

Intelligence isn't competence.

JustJeff88 posted:

What FuckWit also does is that it constantly repeats this fallacy about advancing to a better job later, as if everyone is morally obliged to go through some sort of soul-sucking shite-job purgatory before they can have any personal dignity. You will notice that it fails to mention that somebody will always be going this unpleasant job even if all previous workers move on to something better (they won't). It never has a thought for making a terrible job less terrible, only a vague delusion (read: veiled narrative) that people who work shite jobs will be better for it somehow (they won't) and ascend to better things later (most won't). FuckWit's messianic fable sure sounds a lot like the lies of Capitalism and the Just-World Fallacy, doesn't it?

JustJeff88 posted:

I took the GRE and scored top 1% in verbal and top 2% in writing (quantitative was another story). With no humour whatsoever, I wanted to feel proud of myself but I mostly realised that the exam was utterly meaningless.

I'm still proud of how I did on my A-levels which is something that fills me with shame and I would never admit to anyone who knew me personally.

Antifa Turkeesian posted:

Bill Clinton was a Rhodes Scholar who got a JD from Yale. Is he more intelligent than you?

Cemetry Gator posted:

They always tell you that "well, no true libertarian society ever existed" or something like that.

I remember Jrod used to make that claim, and I would ask "well, if nobody has ever done it, isn't that worth investigating why?" But Jrod was an incurious person who thought he had all the answers, and thought happiness could be found inside a watermelon.

Caros posted:

https://twitter.com/the_posts/status/1779301277668925527?t=G7pYC_ED4PEWvVju3uovMA&s=19

You know, I was on the fence but the guy with cte might have a point.