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Re: Vector's Chill and Relaxed Progressive Rage Thread
« Reply #5760 on: October 04, 2011, 10:10:27 pm »
How the fuc- defending marriage? By making it harder for some people to get married? How does that even make sense?
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« Reply #5761 on: October 04, 2011, 10:25:35 pm »
Because apparently the institution will be tainted if more people starting using it because some of those people might be icky about it.
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Re: Vector's Chill and Relaxed Progressive Rage Thread
« Reply #5762 on: October 04, 2011, 10:59:03 pm »
That seems to be a somewhat anti-Republican website.

That aside, it's wonderful to see that there are still people in this world who don't think that homosexuals should enjoy the same rights as heterosexuals. So very, very wonderful.
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« Reply #5763 on: October 04, 2011, 11:00:26 pm »
Yeah, regrettably many of the sources here are biased left.  On the other hand, many of the issues are not covered very well in the mainstream press.  I suppose all I can say is "read with caution."
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« Reply #5764 on: October 04, 2011, 11:06:17 pm »
Ah well. I'm a left-ist myself, so I found myself nodding away at the few articles I read from that site.

I just got into the habit of looking for two sides to an argument when I was at university, and then trying to figure out who or what I agreed with most and taking it from there.

I guess I'm just lazy, I don't like having to look for the other side of an argument without beind directed to it heh.
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« Reply #5765 on: October 04, 2011, 11:08:57 pm »
Ah, well, if you spend enough time here you will see many, many sides to every argument discussed.  We're just lulling a bit right now.
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« Reply #5766 on: October 05, 2011, 01:55:45 am »
Quote from: hector13 on October 04, 2011, 10:59:03 pm
That seems to be a somewhat anti-Republican website.

Quote from: Vector on October 04, 2011, 11:00:26 pm
Yeah, regrettably many of the sources here are biased left.

To be fair, you don't have to be "biased left" to be anti-Republican. Being biased toward the center is enough.

This isn't to say that centrism is necessarily good, just that the Republican party is far enough on the other side of the spectrum lately that being biased against them doesn't necessitate that a source is terribly leftist.

I don't personally believe that every source, news agency, or website should give equal credence to all beliefs anyway, even if one set of beliefs does reflect a major political party. If fifty percent of the country thought that the moon landing was faked, that doesn't mean that everyone should treat that with equal validity as the idea that they actually happened.
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Re: Vector's Chill and Relaxed Progressive Rage Thread
« Reply #5767 on: October 05, 2011, 05:57:10 am »
Quote from: ChairmanPoo on October 04, 2011, 10:07:48 pm
IIRC there was a crazy study some years ago, of women who had husbands with aids, wanted to have children with them, yet did not want to opt for IVF techniques (I'm guessing for religious reasons). So the husbands had the antirretroviral treatment scaled up, and after that they got busy. Most of them did not develop aids. (Still, whereas it's nice that infectiveness is reduced, it's not something I would recommend)
If they had already developed AIDS though, that would be pretty damn late to start receiving retrovirals.  The infectivity would be far less if you started receiving them at an early stage of HIV infection.

I mean, it would be expensive to scan and treat everyone in affected countries, but money would be saved in the long run as the vast majority of new infections with HIV would stop.
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« Reply #5768 on: October 05, 2011, 11:18:25 am »
Watched the documentary Pink Saris yesterday, about casteless women in India. Or rather, about the head of some women's aid organisation for casteless women (or maybe just women, I didn't catch the beginning and so it wasn't very clear to me). Very interesting, very well done. Check it out.
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Re: Vector's Chill and Relaxed Progressive Rage Thread
« Reply #5769 on: October 05, 2011, 09:49:51 pm »
Whoop, wrong thread.
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Re: Vector's Chill and Relaxed Progressive Rage Thread
« Reply #5770 on: October 06, 2011, 09:27:42 pm »
woops, replied to an old ass post
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« Reply #5771 on: October 07, 2011, 07:19:34 am »
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« Reply #5772 on: October 07, 2011, 03:18:35 pm »
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/suspected-domestic-abusers-free-topeka-city-county-officials-161404729.html

Topeka is decriminalizing domestic abuse, in the hope that the county will take over prosecution of those cases after the city can no longer afford to prosecute misdemeanors.
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« Reply #5773 on: October 07, 2011, 05:23:38 pm »
... Hurray.
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Re: Vector's Chill and Relaxed Progressive Rage Thread
« Reply #5774 on: October 07, 2011, 07:06:34 pm »
'We can't afford justice, so instead of raising more money via taxes, let's just cut all the justice.'

What.
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