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Comment Re:Echo effect? (Score 1) 270

The "why" is pretty simple. The right tends to lean toward authoritarianism, and the left toward anarchy, at their far extremes. The mild form of authoritarian is hero worship and trusting of authority when the authority is perceived to be in your group. The mild form of anarchy is skepticism and questioning of those kinds of authorities. Thus, right-wing info gets shared more often, because the right believes it, and the left shares it to critique it. (BTW, People feel like the parties in the US don't represent them because they don't, really, on this axis anyway, though Trumpist Republicans are making a real play for authoritarianism.)

Comment Re:COVID vaccines: An history of failures! (Score 1) 440

I find it so worried that so many people are so worried about Big Pharma trying to get people hooked on medicines for a lifetime, and then when presented with a single- or two-shot solution, many of these same people would rather take off-label medication for who-knows-how-long as a prophylactive. It's not rational, at all.

Comment Re: Unilateral (Score 1) 193

Look, this is just factually incorrect. (1) You're free to type "SARS-CoV-19 isolation" into Google and disbelieve all you like, but SARS-CoV-19 isolation is routine, and has been since the start of the outbreak. There are literally hundreds of peer-reviewed papers out reporting it from scientists in many, many countries. (2) Early tests were bad. That doesn't make PCR tests impossible. Current ones still have some flaws, but are much better. It's almost like scientists don't know everything about a novel virus immediately, and have to experiment and refine knowledge. Wild, I know.

Comment Re:IRS (Score 2) 392

Not to mention the reason behind an estate tax: It's meant to avoid the establishment of an idle-rich aristocracy. After a few generations, wealthy families that aren't productive and generating new income won't be wealthy families anymore. It's become so low though, along with all other wealth taxes, that it's not really doing that. Hence, income inequality.

Comment Re:Precursor (Score 4, Insightful) 182

If you're going to pre-emptively complain about the X-Men franchise being "woke", given its long comic book history, then I don't know what to tell you. It's kind of its' whole thing. It's like saying "I don't like when Captain America punches Nazis," or "Superman is too much of a goodie-two-shoes," or "Batman always solves crimes - it's so predictable." Like, yeah.

Comment Re:Levels of hate? (Score 1) 543

If you really think that the solution to Nazi mass murders is a return to traditional family values and a more patriarchal court system, then you're lost. You're right that banning speech won't solve the problem. Banning Nazis, and making it difficult for them to communicate their hate, congregate, plan, and stopping them from buying weapons might keep them from increasing in number and murdering.

Comment Re:Levels of hate? (Score 2) 543

You know what breaks up families and community in a really permanent way? Mass murders. Mass murder is worse.

I don't know what the fuck you're on about with "gynocentric courts". Mass murder for the cause of racial purity and terror makes the world worse. You can appoint new judges and change laws. Feel free to go campaign on that all you like. Nobody thinks that's worse than Nazi murder sprees. If you do, you're lost.

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