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DDerec replied to the thread 2026 Mid-Term Elections.I think the meme argues that. And what of your handle? Isn't it inspired by this? What do you think I think it is? 100% laissez-faire...
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DDerec replied to the thread 2026 Mid-Term Elections.Argument from "no sources listed". First we'd have to know which polling outfit, if any, produced these numbers.
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DDerec replied to the thread 2026 Mid-Term Elections.Don't be silly. H.G. Wells would not have bene able to breathe in a vacuum. Far fewer than died or suffered building, say, USSR. Those...
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DAre you high? Seriously, what is with your desire to punish people for things that other people did some hundred years ago? It's...
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DDerec replied to the thread California Doing California Things.Weren't you complaining about spurious precision in another thread? It's really 2.1x102. Only two sig figs given Elixir's post.
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DDerec replied to the thread 2026 Mid-Term Elections.This is not a good representation of capitalism. Capitalism has allowed a huge increase in overall prosperity over the last 2 centuries...
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DDerec replied to the thread 2026 Mid-Term Elections.I wonder what poll Bernie is using here. "Data for Progress" has been publishing similar results for years, but I do not think they are...
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DDerec replied to the thread MCATs, Affirmative Action, and DEI, Oh My.Squabbling over "many" versus "a number of" aside, can you point to some of the cases you think are lynchings. I doubt "most of the...
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DDerec replied to the thread MCATs, Affirmative Action, and DEI, Oh My.They may not be easily paid off for many people, but they are certainly easily paid off for practicing physicians. This is why people...
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DDerec replied to the thread MCATs, Affirmative Action, and DEI, Oh My.Not to my knowledge, except maybe the so-called HBCUs. Yes, very much so. That's the whole point of "race conscious" admissions. There...
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DDerec replied to the thread MCATs, Affirmative Action, and DEI, Oh My.Guess again. But I'll try to go slower this time. No, you just fail to understood the point of it. The point is not that selection...
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DDerec replied to the thread MCATs, Affirmative Action, and DEI, Oh My.Moronic is either your inability to comprehend, or else you feigning ignorance. The point of the analogy is not about which selection...
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DDerec replied to the thread Split New York City Mayoral Race.Pro-Hamas protesters in NYC booing Rafiq Zohran because he is not being anti-Israel enough. Oct. 7 Peace Vigil Erupts in Chaos as...
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DThe person you are addressing is well practiced at the super-civil expression of misogynistic, racist and authoritarian preferences. One...
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DDerec replied to the thread MCATs, Affirmative Action, and DEI, Oh My.It is certainly a piece of evidence for the discrimination hypothesis. This is corroborated by the fact that med schools, AAMC, and...
