How do you get from 'tenured prof at Yale' to 'faction of the ruling class that's OK with it'?
Just because a bunch of white guys gave tenure to a black professor at Yale does not mean they agree with everything he says and/or teaches.
Looting as legitimate political protest
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You can lead them to knowledge, but you can't make them think.
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I dunno. You seem to think everything bad comes from the top down. I don't think life is so neatly hierarchal Sometimes people do bad shit on their own accord, without some "ruling class" urging them to do so.
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They have wealth and power. But that doesn't mean that every bad bit of human behavior is marching orders from themAbdul Alhazred wrote:Only a faction of the ruling class in this case.Nyarlathotep wrote:I dunno. You seem to think everything bad comes from the top down. I don't think life is so neatly hierarchal Sometimes people do bad shit on their own accord, without some "ruling class" urging them to do so.
Or are the trustees of Yale not members of ""some "ruling class""?
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That's fucking ridiculous. Looting should never be tolerated, rational people know this to be fact and it doesn't matter where the opposite notion comes from. If Yale and Harvard, then they can go fuck themselves.
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Rational people know that people who enter a country illegally should not be tolerated
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Oh fuck.ed wrote:Rational people know that people who enter a country illegally should not be tolerated
Here we go.
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And you need to prove your citizenship in order to have any guns.
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Why should gun ownership be required for.............
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You can really have your finger on the pulse of what's going on in America politically by paying attention to what radical professors advocate.
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On what planet?
"If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight! Sun Tzu said that, and I'd say he knows a little bit more about fighting than you do, pal, because he invented it, and then he perfected it so that no living man could best him in the ring of honor. Then, he used his fight money to buy two of every animal on earth, and then he herded them onto a boat, and then he beat the crap out of every single one. And from that day forward any time a bunch of animals are together in one place it's called a zoo! (Beat) Unless it's a farm!"
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I blame the Tholians.
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Because his Presidency was an unmistakeable expression of the radical liberal agenda. The near-isolationism, breakdown of corporate holdings, surveillance restraint, reparations, and single payer health care... it's been like Noam Chomsky's wet dreams...
"If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight! Sun Tzu said that, and I'd say he knows a little bit more about fighting than you do, pal, because he invented it, and then he perfected it so that no living man could best him in the ring of honor. Then, he used his fight money to buy two of every animal on earth, and then he herded them onto a boat, and then he beat the crap out of every single one. And from that day forward any time a bunch of animals are together in one place it's called a zoo! (Beat) Unless it's a farm!"
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Nor are most radicals.
"If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight! Sun Tzu said that, and I'd say he knows a little bit more about fighting than you do, pal, because he invented it, and then he perfected it so that no living man could best him in the ring of honor. Then, he used his fight money to buy two of every animal on earth, and then he herded them onto a boat, and then he beat the crap out of every single one. And from that day forward any time a bunch of animals are together in one place it's called a zoo! (Beat) Unless it's a farm!"
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Texas sharpshooters' fallacy, I think...
Yes, occasionally craziness goes viral. That doesn't mean that the craziest things you hear are the most likely to gain traction. You're forgetting the hundreds of other crazy ideas that found no purchase at all.
Yes, occasionally craziness goes viral. That doesn't mean that the craziest things you hear are the most likely to gain traction. You're forgetting the hundreds of other crazy ideas that found no purchase at all.
"If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight! Sun Tzu said that, and I'd say he knows a little bit more about fighting than you do, pal, because he invented it, and then he perfected it so that no living man could best him in the ring of honor. Then, he used his fight money to buy two of every animal on earth, and then he herded them onto a boat, and then he beat the crap out of every single one. And from that day forward any time a bunch of animals are together in one place it's called a zoo! (Beat) Unless it's a farm!"
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