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Also when fossil fuel companies continue to get billions and billions of dollars for subsidies, no questions are asked.
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I wouldn't tie your horse to those things if I were you.
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'Actual people' are stupid. They need to start acting like corporations. I don't mean by becoming psychopaths, that wouldn't be ideal. But if they just set aside a small proportion of their income and used it for lobbying and political donations, they'd soon find a number of ways in which they'd benefit. Neighbors been complaining to the HOA that your grass is a little unkempt and you have too many vehicles on your drive? They'll be a loop hole for that. Grown too many potatoes in that little backyard patch and want to sell a few but can't compete with your local organic farmer's market? There's subsidies available for that. Want to remodel and expand that underused basement but can't really afford it? There's tax relief for that. The possibilities are almost endless if you grease the right palms.
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Translation: You undermine the justification for what you want (presumably, to give other people's money to people in need), by aligning it with other things you would probably not defend. Did you really mean to suggest that "people in need" should be placed on equal footing with billionaire tax breaks? I doubt it.
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Just to be difficult... could revert to French. Roman Latin's use was mostly eccelesiastical whereas legal use and formal missives were mostly French, which was the main language of the "important" bits of England until a few years after this cartoon is set. Also, it would be another hundred years or so (with a revolution and a Royal execution in between) before most of "England's" (and soon "Britain's") local languages were properly eradicated by the Crown and its Church. Some of those are now dead forever but some are making a comeback, particularly nationally-identified forbidden languages like Doric, Welsh and Gael.
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“If the Nuremberg Laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged”- philosopher Noam Chomsky, 1990.
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So this idiot loses his job and instead of applying for government aid and financial assistance, the selfish SOB decides to head down to the ocean and take a swim??? Why doesn't he think of his children instead of himself. Incredible. Some people are beyond help.
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You got the point of the comic wrong. It’s meant to show that platitudes like ‘stay home’ aren’t really helpful. People are genuinely struggling because they lost their jobs (due to lockdown), and government aid usually isn’t enough. Drowning is supposed to be a metaphor of that. I don’t agree with the comic’s point entirely (governments around the world over by and large failed to act early enough so that we wouldn’t have widespread lockdowns and exonomic damage), but this is a bad take.
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I don't feel as though the "likes" I gave are sufficient and I want to say how much I appreciate what you're doing here. Even when he doesn't respond because he's only here to ****-post and spread anti-mask sentiment, everyone else sees your challenges to what he's posting and hopefully takes a moment to think about it more. I wish GTP wasn't a platform made available to these worthless sacks of ****, but I respect the decisions of the moderation staff regarding what they enforce, and your efforts (okay, also those of others, but you're so consistent) really are the next best thing. Thank you.
I saw this a couple weeks ago, I suppose, and it quickly became one of my favorite things...like...out of all of the things.
Seems to me that the point here is to, as I have said elsewhere, link the thing that you don't like to a thing that is generally accepted as bad so that people may, without giving it serious thought, accept the thing you don't like as bad.
Child pornography is generally accepted as bad. That's an easy one.
Now, "studies" that question the efficacy of, say...wearing face coverings to curb the spread of a deadly virus...are undoubtedly plentiful, but their findings aren't terribly likely to be accepted by a meaningful portion of the scientific community (and it seems to me this user has posted one or more images regarding what the scientific community accepts in order to call the dynamic into question), and so there is presumably a noticeable absence of peer-reviewed studies making the rounds . As a result, people are likely noting the absence of peer review when a "study" that "finds" face coverings are less than meaningfully effective for stopping the spread of SARS-CoViD-2 when they're presented by apparent anti-maskers.
So you highlight this propensity to point out the absence of peer review by attributing it to a hypothetical individual seemingly advocating for child pornography, and now you've hopefully tainted this form of argumentation and possibly even called into question the peer-review process.
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Aaaaanywaaaaay...
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Uhh, actually, no. I didn't.
And neither did @TexRex, even though it wasn't specifically directed to me. I couldn't be bothered engaging. So I was just responding.
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Correlation does not equal causation. Don't celebrate ignorance.
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