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Go, bills! (by which I mean obligatory recurring transactions should be dispelled from society with the abolition of private property and I'm sorry, you were saying something about football?)
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That technology would have to be scaled up to serve eight billion people, and in the process it would face vigorous opposition from established agricultural firms and people who are simply opposed to change on principle. It would "do exactly that" only after decades of slow, grinding progress.
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I would like it if no animals died for human consumption, but since I'd have to be the world's biggest idiot to believe that's achievable within my lifetime, I'll settle for *fewer* animals dying for human consumption, with less suffering along the way. I don't see how this could be controversial!
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"The Business Pot"
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Then, the B-side of that single includes a car alarm in the instrumentation. I love them so.
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Right, it is designed to have no CLEAR answer, meaning that you have to resolve the dilemma as best you can, knowing that there is no perfect solution. You're watching someone pull the lever to kill one instead of five and then poking them and saying "So you wouldn't prefer NO ONE die? Interesting."
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The ENTIRE POINT of the trolley problem is that you have to choose.
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It feels like, until the US news media's inbuilt deference to authority is conquered, nothing of importance will change.
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OF COURSE they used Fortunate Son. Were there also generic instrumental versions of Born in the USA and Little Pink Houses?
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It hardly makes up for the systematic destruction of an advanced society, but it gives me some consolation knowing that the people responsible are absolutely miserable all the time.
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I didn't take pictures, but there was a couple in head-to-toe taco costumes in Buffalo, NY.
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Never forget
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Screen the Holiday Special, you cowards.
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What a payoff for tracing the quote-posts back to their source.
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Time was, we made human sacrifices to our chosen deities. Now, we deify those who sacrifice human beings at will.
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Who's that?
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I intend to make a sign for tomorrow's protests which reads, "Make friends everywhere," both as a reference to the Andor series and the need for networks of real resistance and as a genuine appeal for people to demonstrate that liberalism stands for real human connection and mutual support.
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That's the theater of the Right's version of tenderness. My uncertain argument: The left *at best* could meet the Right tit-for-tat in terms of spectacle of strength or "violence," but probably not even close. But when it comes to tenderness, we can make the better theater, because it's true. 8/
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I missed the debate, but the one thing that gives me pause is that I was only getting "Mayor Scanlon is working for you 36 hours a day" ads beforehand, and the next day the tone switched to "Sean Ryan will kill us all."
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It would be difficult to downplay the fact that I see video ads for Scanlon literally every single day. Most of them imply that he's already the elected mayor, and I know that's good enough for a lot of voters.
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I was going to make this reference and point out that Driscoll didn't specifically say "American soldier."