That is an entirely different point than the one you made in your previous response.
The title is not saying 'this is the greatest privilege of all, and we don't talk about it'- it's saying 'among the privileges we don't talk about, this is the greatest.' Still might not be true, but it's less…
Agreed. A handful of sentences were completely unfair, and they've been rightly criticized in other comments. But it's a very long piece, and the majority of it came off as reserved and even-handed. I've seen hit…
I don't think gp was claiming that all religious beliefs are false and all religious videos should be removed under this standard; or at least that's not the claim I'm making. I'm saying many religious traditions…
There are plenty of bible literalist traditions that present falsifiable events/ideas as historical facts. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Earth_creationism.
https://newrepublic.com/article/158104/rush-redefine-defund-... The meaning is not a settled question.
If you insist that it is 'advertising' that is the cause of this malaise, then you must agree that 'advertising' is not compatible with modern free democtratic societies and needs to be made illegal That's a leap. A…
This is not true. Left/Right and Authoritarian/Liberty are separate and overlapping spectrums. Pick your favorite post-communist-revolution country as an example of Left-authoritarianism.
Negative reviews can also be compromised. I was reading through Borderlands 3 metacritic user reviews when I noticed at least 3 reviewers made identical complaints of boring, "repeative" gameplay... My best guess is…
A worthwhile read in the same vein http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/05/is-faceb...
I've actually been watching the current LCS despite not playing LoL for a while (it was too addictive). Games spectatorship pushes all the same buttons that real sports do, and Riot is very intelligently pushing it in…
That is an entirely different point than the one you made in your previous response.
The title is not saying 'this is the greatest privilege of all, and we don't talk about it'- it's saying 'among the privileges we don't talk about, this is the greatest.' Still might not be true, but it's less…
Agreed. A handful of sentences were completely unfair, and they've been rightly criticized in other comments. But it's a very long piece, and the majority of it came off as reserved and even-handed. I've seen hit…
I don't think gp was claiming that all religious beliefs are false and all religious videos should be removed under this standard; or at least that's not the claim I'm making. I'm saying many religious traditions…
There are plenty of bible literalist traditions that present falsifiable events/ideas as historical facts. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Earth_creationism.
https://newrepublic.com/article/158104/rush-redefine-defund-... The meaning is not a settled question.
If you insist that it is 'advertising' that is the cause of this malaise, then you must agree that 'advertising' is not compatible with modern free democtratic societies and needs to be made illegal That's a leap. A…
This is not true. Left/Right and Authoritarian/Liberty are separate and overlapping spectrums. Pick your favorite post-communist-revolution country as an example of Left-authoritarianism.
Negative reviews can also be compromised. I was reading through Borderlands 3 metacritic user reviews when I noticed at least 3 reviewers made identical complaints of boring, "repeative" gameplay... My best guess is…
A worthwhile read in the same vein http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/05/is-faceb...
I've actually been watching the current LCS despite not playing LoL for a while (it was too addictive). Games spectatorship pushes all the same buttons that real sports do, and Riot is very intelligently pushing it in…