| ▲ | smt88 7 hours ago |
| I'm not sure why you think that would've helped. A lot of the people who won't shut up about 1984 and Ayn Rand still vote for the closest thing to monarchy they can find on their ballots. |
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| ▲ | mr_toad 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet, and say to us, "Make us your slaves, but feed us." |
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| ▲ | forgotoldacc 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | We're at a point where people would be glad to starve if they think it pissed someone else off. | | |
| ▲ | recursive 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | I think most of them would say that right up until they could actually feel the hunger. People spend hundreds of dollars on drugs that just make them less hungry so they eat less. So I don't think so. |
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| ▲ | wat10000 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Some people see "don't tread on me" as "don't tread on people," while others see it as "don't tread on ME specifically." |
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| ▲ | ReptileMan 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Okay - democrats will push us in 1984 dystopia where they force you to accept that reality is what they tell you, and republicans will push us in low life high tech Cyberpunk dystopia where corporations reign supreme. Choose your poison. |
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| ▲ | raddan 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Which reality is that? The real reality? Admittedly real reality is a pretty bitter pill at times. | | |
| ▲ | jacobgkau 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Maybe the one where biological sex is imaginary. Or the one where Biden's health is good enough for another four years. You pick (or keep looking the other way and losing, to the detriment of far more important issues). | | |
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| ▲ | buellerbueller 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | oh, like that classic Democrat line "tylenol causes autism"? | | |
| ▲ | ReptileMan 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | We are talking about the same hepatotoxic compound that is absurdly easy to OD on but it gives negligible relief on stuff you should just power trough? That anecdotal - is barely better than a pacebo? Personally - I think that the two main drivers of autism are people having kids later and too high rates of smart people intermarriage. Of course Trump should not have said Tylenol, but paracetamol. And there are some very mild hints in the data that they are correlated, but not enough sigmas. And of course it could be Tylenol and something else with which ot interacts. And autism is so hard to be linked to anything because of how big the umbrella is and that we have such high delay to diagnosis that we will never know. Not taking medications when not really necessary is probably a good precaution principle | | |
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