Funny Events of the "Woke" world
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The difference is you often use "lack of proof" as some gotcha to claim any regressive/authoritarian approach you agree with is valid while refusing to acknowledge the balance of evidence (both quantity and quality) that disagrees...
There is a key difference between something being supported by evidence and something being proven. The latter, of course, representing something for which the supporting evidence is uncontestable (or sufficiently close to).
One of the key tricks of debating by some people is the goalpost-shifting where the evidential demands are moved to suit the desired conclusion. If their evidential demands are met, they simply increase the amount of evidence they require, up to eventually insisting on "proof" in the knowledge that this probably cannot be met. Had they been more honest earlier on, they'd have simply said "I don't believe that and nothing you say can convince me", but they're not willing to do so because it shows them up to be unreasonable.
I will get flak from this website, but I am going to say this right now.
Break them up.
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The very definition of a Luddite.
Break them up.
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The very definition of a Luddite.
Come on, the Yes campaign were very light on details about how it would all work if the Yes vote won, with the answer to a lot of queries being 'we'll decide that after'. Suffice to say that more than a few people found that to be a bit 'odd', if not straight out suspect.
Not really, most people aren't mad keen on agreeing to things they don't understand.
I think you may have read the comment backwards. The idea here is that proof is a silly standard, and we often shouldn't hold ourselves to it.
False
The No voters thought that voting yes would do damage to society, or them personally, somehow
If this wasn't the case, you would vote yes, because it doesn't affect you, just like they voted yes for same-sex marriage
As to 'light on detail', I'm pretty sure everyone got the details, they were light because it did very little. But people kept on asking for more details because they were looking for some sort of negative. There was no amount of detail that would have been satisfying. And there was way less detail during the same-sex marriage debate
It was incredibly absurd how Mundine used almost every line that the Yes campaign was using... and then stated that you should use this reasoning to vote No. I felt like I was in the Twilight Zone. Which brings us to the real reason why the Yes campaign failed. They used logic instead of screaming about racism all the time like the No campaign did
And this is from a person who thinks the Yes vote wouldn't have cured much. I just want people like John Howard, Tony Abbot and Peter Dutton to stop controlling and devasting people's lives just because they are Indigenous.
I voted No because I couldn't see anything to indicate it wasn't going to end up with another ratfuck of corruption, nepotism and abuse like ATSIC was.
Jesus Christ. "Redpilltiktok", "sigmamale". What a pathetic joke.
I asking for basic proof of something you say works actually fucking works. I don't give 2 shits about the economics. I partly do in US because people losing their jobs in the US means losing healthcare, which is probably worse overall than being unnecessarily exposed to covid due to people not getting care for everything else (as covid is not nearly the only public health concern). I'm aware just about everywhere else (developed nations at least) have public healthcare that you don't lose because you got fired or laid off so that US issue doesn't apply elsewhere. Thus, I'm not asking for that US issue to even be in the discussion. Where is the proof that lockdowns actually saved any life (lowering covid deaths =/= saving overall deaths btw)? Nobody has yet to produce this evidence because it actually doesn't exist.
OMFG, not every cost-benefit analysis is economics. For example, basically all medical interventions are basically cost-benefit analyses over whether any one of them actually fucking works. Any drug study is literally just a cost-benefit analysis that doesn't care about cost, it just cares about if something is beneficial. After you find that, then you can have the money discussion.
Again, it's not on me to prove lockdowns don't work, it's on you to prove your claim that they work.
IIRC, all of Australia at least for the first year or so did really well in keeping covid cases and deaths low. Even with that great result of keeping covid at bay, Sweden did better than Australia in overall deaths. You know that covid is not the only public health issue and by only concerning yourself about covid and ignoring everything else, that is also not good and beneficial to public health either.
Here's Sweden in 2020; people are living like normal, no masks, no lockdowns, no distancing, commuting like normal to work everyday. Sure, they had more community covid spread without a doubt, but in the end, that didn't result in more death.
So you don't make things worse...
Really small tie knot too, someone got skinnied!
Did anyone else have skinnies at school? It's where to yank someone's tie really hard so the knot closes up and is hard to undo.
I mean, probably. But then, there is a high possibility of any government policy. (Actually, I shouldn't just blame the government here. Any private institution would do the same as well.)
Also, when you are talking corruption here, do you mean the Clarke of it all? Or are you talking about something else in particular? Eg. wastefulness? (I'd also note that, last week, Dutton clearly is using Clarke as a stereotype to 'investigate' Indigenous Australians.)
I would not that the Intervention happened only a few years after this. I put that policy as more damaging than ATSIC
After having to wear ties to school, I deliberately picked a job so I would never have to wear a tie... but this is good to know. Does the coin just beat on your chest all the time?
Ah, the old cities have more gun violence than rural areas trick....
Until you get a different table where you look at counties with the most gun violence as a proportion of the population. And then 2 cities appear in the top ten on the table, with most being rural counties
The coin sits within the knot so you're not really aware of it, though skinnying is generally less common in the workplace than it was at school.