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Author Topic: Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread  (Read 1298161 times)

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Re: Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #8430 on: September 16, 2014, 05:27:48 am »

No thanks.

Mind, I didn't see your big post until after I'd typed mine. It was directed at the Reelya & Stak convo.
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Re: Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #8431 on: September 16, 2014, 05:37:25 am »

That would have been a prudent thing to mention in your very first reply.
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Re: Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #8432 on: September 16, 2014, 05:45:59 am »

blurp. Can we stop fighting yet? Can we be friends again? I don't like fighting. :3
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Re: Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #8433 on: September 16, 2014, 09:12:34 am »

Please be respectful of other people, regardless of their argument or attitude.

As the former adjudicator of this thread I would like to remind everyone that the DailyMail is a tabloid, so please use alternate sources for your (actually true this time) statistical trends.

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Re: Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #8434 on: September 16, 2014, 03:08:15 pm »

(inflammatory remark removed, troll banned)
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Re: Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #8435 on: September 16, 2014, 03:14:26 pm »

We don't mind devil's advocate, we dislike devil's advocate with no argument.
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Re: Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #8436 on: September 16, 2014, 04:00:44 pm »

That's...not....really true. At all. Most conservative forumites are banned within a year or so.
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Re: Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #8437 on: September 16, 2014, 04:12:07 pm »

IIRC, there's still a fair few kicking about.

Howdy. I've not been here much more than a year though, so I suppose there's still time.
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Re: Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #8438 on: September 16, 2014, 10:07:00 pm »

That's...not....really true. At all. Most conservative forumites are banned within a year or so.
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Re: Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #8439 on: September 16, 2014, 10:11:51 pm »

GreatJustice is more of a radical libertarian, as I recall.
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Re: Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #8440 on: September 17, 2014, 12:11:28 am »

Conservative here. Been here for... holy shit, 5 years. That said, I don't post all that often and I (usually) try to avoid stirring shit up.
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Re: Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #8441 on: September 17, 2014, 01:11:01 am »

I'd say about half of the not-to-the-left-of-social-democrats that post regularly just don't go to the political threads, since dogpiles occasionally happen and while most people are pretty civil around here, a few aren't. Anyhow, I'm not posting too much these days because school is pretty heavy atm, though maybe I'll find an easy argument to get into sometime
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Re: Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #8442 on: September 17, 2014, 01:17:28 am »

Anyhow, I'm not posting too much these days because school is pretty heavy atm, though maybe I'll find an easy argument to get into sometime
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Re: Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #8443 on: September 26, 2014, 11:09:01 am »


If the criminal justice system is fair, then Black people commit crime at a rate disproportionately higher than any other race. Black people do not commit crime at a rate disproportionately higher than any other race (to believe that would imply that to be Black is to be inherently more likely to commit crime, hence the racism), therefore, the criminal justice system is not fair.


That's so, so wrong. You basically say that statistically peoples of one race cannot be different from those of another race, therefore the system is racist.

By the same reasonning, Jews are overrepresented as noble price winner, Jewish conspiracy confirmed. That's absurd.
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Re: Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #8444 on: September 26, 2014, 02:51:49 pm »

http://gawker.com/social-impact-bonds-the-opposite-of-private-prisons-1638678383

An interesting idea is being piloted in Massachusetts to remove some of the influence of private prisons. The article sums it up pretty well, but the gist is that the state only pays the company if some desirable goal is met, thereby creating financial incentives to reduce recidivism. It isn't as good as removing private prisons entirely, in my opinion, but it's a good start.
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