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Lol, I've repeatedly said it's not equivalent, and not a legitimate argument when utilized in generality. I've just noticed people like yourself are increasingly utilizing it to rebuff all criticism for the Democratic party.

Wanting to discuss nuance in an argument isn't a blatant acceptance of an argument. You're just trying to force a false dichotomy.

I guess we need to start a petition, and maybe some kind of sign up sheet for large ethical bullies?

The whole point of 'both sides' is both sides doing the same kinds of things.

Yes, and in some areas this is a legitimate argument. Both parties are slaves to donors and the capital class, and have rarely disagreed with things like how we handle things at a geopolitical scale.

One party failing to stop a coup because they try (and fail) to work within the legal system and making poor choices is the opposite of the side that is blatantly breaking the system.

Right, but that's also ignoring the decades of thirdway politics that allowed the conservative party to position themselves to do a coup in the first place.

I'm not saying that both sides is a legitimate argument for every topic, but it also shouldn't be off-handedly rejected in every scenario either.

Yeah, but half of the country has abused spouse syndrome with trump. While the nicest things most progressive people have to say about Biden is that he wasn't Trump.

And does ERW work if the pulverized rock is in a big pile on the sea floor? Or would we have to dig the highly radioactive area up and spread it around the surface?

Yeah..... Doesn't the carbon sequestering happen from rain absorbing carbon in the atmosphere and then attaching to the rock to mineralize it? Something tells me 6-7 km of ocean might impede that process.

And does the radioactive water truly stay at the site of the explosion? Or will it be spread through the entire ocean via currents?

Dilution is the solution.........ocean big?

While conservatives are obviously worse than liberals in just about every way, I don't think rejecting the "both sides" argument in such a general way is a legitimate argument either.

It takes two to tango, and the Democratic party obviously deserves some of the criticism for the current state we find ourselves in. Mainly in their passivity in response to the rise of fascism in the conservative party.

I wonder where the delineation from psychopathy and just being an asshole really exist? To my knowledge psychopathy isn't a clinically diagnosable personality disorder, as it seems to require some aspect of privilege to perpetuate without completely isolating yourself.

With the amount of dweebs who instantly become "psychopaths" the moment they receive an iota of power over people, it really makes me wonder how many people lack genuine empathy. Are these people just utilizing false empathy as a way to fit in prior to their position of power, or is power really just that damaging to the psyche?

It's just kinda horrifying how many nerds become rapist, naunces, or fascist the moment they think no one can bully them anymore. Does society need some kinds of system where we deputize some kind of ethical gymbro to give these dudes swirlies when they get out of hand?

Southern evangelicals are definitely the worst of the bunch, but up north there are some pretty cool Christian organizations. My fav is the Moravian church, which sprouted from an internal crisis in catholicism once they started printing the Bible in languages other than Latin.

The Moravians basically came to the realization that what the church said and what the Bible said weren't congruent. So they decided to reinterpret the Bible, but couldn't agree on anything but Jesus prob wanted people to help others. So the whole church is based around disregarding theological conflict and instead just focusing on serving the community.

Bergoglio brown?

I don't know his actual ethnicity, but to a lot of European Catholics anyone from South America is brown at least by association. It was kinda a big deal that he was the first Pope from the southern hemisphere.

criticism against him is not an exclusive of US fundamentalists.

I didn't claim it was?

But what about the shareholders? Defense requires taxation and freedom equals less taxes......right?

Yes.....but no. American Catholic fundamentalism has little to do with the actual Catholic church. They're basically a renegade sect of the church who believes the new Pope is woke because he's brown.

They've steadily infiltrated the highest offices in the nation, but especially the judicial branch. They're essentially high brow versions of southern evangelicals, with more cash and an ahistorical chip on their shoulder in regards to America's relations to prejudice against traditional Catholics in the 19th and early 20th century.

last 10 years of Ukraine's history represent a unique example of a ruthless struggle to become a colony.

More like a ruthless struggle to break up with one colonizer in favor of a new one.

There's a reason more than half the oligarchs fled to Russia at the onset of the war.

What do they sell during Honkbal Hoofdklasse?

I mean yeah...... Far right is kinda a big part of distinguishing authoritarian left vs authoritarian right. I think the only way you could possibly conflate the two is by ignoring economics.

Just because we've done some pretty cool things, it doesn't dismiss the really bad things we've done. That's just as a reductive argument as we've done some bad things so that dismisses the good things.....

By the same definition that we label other animals, humans are an invasive species.

It is not an appeal to authority.... It's called a rebuttal. If someone makes a claim that no real smart person can do x, an easy way to prove them wrong is to provide an example of a smart person doing x.

When I bought my house it had been abandoned for years, so I had to remodel the whole thing. When I built the counters and cabinets I accidentally built everything based on my height, so everything in the house is a good 3-4 inches higher than most houses. Everything looks fine and works fine for me, but I have to get a lot of things down for the wife, and we have to have a couple different steps stools around.

Sorry for your loss, but thanks for sharing. To me the toughest thing about reaching middle age has been the friends I've lost along the way.

Time goes by so fast now that it can be hard for me to find a moment of contemplation to think about the people I wish i had spent more time with. After work today I'm going to have a beer and think about my friends and yours

Cheers.

Yeah, I would prob agree with that. We do usually have different flavours of "different" depending on the department.

My department mainly has a bunch of dudes with a lot of divorced Dad energy. They mostly just work too much and then spend their off time pretending to be motorcycle dudes, or playing squash way too aggressively for their age.

Lol, not surprising at all. Everyone in neurosurgery is a freak of some sort. At least he has a healthy outlet for his sadism, bet you he's the nicest and most well adjusted guy in his entire department.

I might be a bit biased though, I work in Orthopedic surgery and rehabilitation and we can get weird as well.