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6 years ago @ The Reality-Based Comm... - Moore voters, in their... · 0 replies · +1 points

What do you even do with this? My default hope today is that those on the margins of these people's social circles, those less interested in politics, and those who have retain reasonableness and sanity will be able to persuade. I'm reminded of the yeoman's work that moderate Muslims do in their communities under assault by radicalization. I fear those of us on the outside can only influence them, with hopes that it will somehow make it through.

6 years ago @ The Reality-Based Comm... - How an ostensible $16/... · 1 reply · +2 points

We just had a small-scale civic uprising against short-term rentals here in the Coachella Valley, CA. It was to the point where people were putting up yard-signs over a city-council vote. I was disappointed because we've been doing AirBNB in our home for the past few years and it's been great. We've met people from all over the world sitting around our kitchen table. The NY Times had a piece on it a while back and to read the comments was to believe neighborhoods were being invaded by the Mongol hordes.

6 years ago @ The Reality-Based Comm... - The GOP's War on Women · 0 replies · +1 points

As far as I can tell, this is the story on a range of deductions. What would the good faith argument for this be, aside from a faith in trickle-down economics so strong that it would justify increasing effective taxes on all manner of others in order to inflate the coffers of the "job creators"? Or is there a less crazy argument than that?

6 years ago @ The Reality-Based Comm... - On arguing with fools,... · 0 replies · +2 points

"Yet he throws out that charge about me to push me back and to warn other people (women, especially, I suspect)... "

Isn't this just the sort of thing conservatives despise? They tend to argue implicit bias doesn't exist and is merely used as an ad hominem attack "Playing the race card", etc.). Here, Althouse accuses Mark of having ulterior motives. That she views them as unconscious is a reasonable assumption - both given her "I suspect" qualifier, and that Mark didn't actually state anything of the sort.

Funnily, as a typical liberal, I completely embrace the notion of unconscious bias (as a behaviorist even more so!). So I'm not allergic to her argument here. Just wanted to point out the apparent ideological incoherence. If more conservatives were willing to embrace the fact that unconscious bias a very real and important phenomenon, it would be a great development.

6 years ago @ The Reality-Based Comm... - The problem with cultu... · 0 replies · +1 points

To me, the most blinding example of bad cultural appropriation has got to be Vanilla Ice. Hands down. In explaining what was wrong with that, you get at the root of the problem.

6 years ago @ The Reality-Based Comm... - You know where they re... · 0 replies · +1 points

I agree. I'm fortunate to not qualify for the subsidies here in CA, but I'd face a knife fight to protect the pre-existing condition requirement and subsidies for people who need help.

6 years ago @ The Reality-Based Comm... - Scary Genius · 0 replies · +2 points

That was great. I feel like the right is having their own Age of Aquarius lately.

6 years ago @ The Reality-Based Comm... - What Does It Take to F... · 0 replies · +2 points

I'm surprised more enterprising corporations haven't tried this for tax purposes.

6 years ago @ The Reality-Based Comm... - Another Modest Proposa... · 0 replies · +1 points

I've always felt that it is we who should be paying the job creators for the privilege of being allowed by them to suckle at their work-teats.

6 years ago @ The Reality-Based Comm... - Big Deal · 0 replies · +6 points

I don't know where he stands on any issue, really. So while I also applaud his integrity, that would only be one criteria in my list of progressive values and policies a candidate would need to support in order to get my vote.

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