The Simple Truths Silver Mine

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Do not judge Jesus by those who claim to be following him.  Too many of them are wandering around in circles following each other rather than him.

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No, a gentleman's club is nice.

Your average Atlas poster is neither gentle, nor a man.

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Standing at the altar, arms raised, looking out over the masses, having liberated all from their oppressive atheism and conservative theologies into the new light of Progressive Christianity. After all, if God is not Progressive, then what else can He be? Also, Bill Clinton was just elected to his 6th term last November, a la "Watchmen". For Scott, this, this is freedom.

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It also seems that Oldiesfreak, possibly due to being a massive GOP hack and possible due to his autism, is unable to see covert racism (which I'll explain below), which is much more prevalent in America today than overt racism (example of overt racism: "I hate those n***ers!")

Overt racism is the use of code words (often known as the dogwhistle) to scare or rile up working and middle-class white voters into voting for you. Common dogwhistles include "state's rights", almost anything related to welfare or other anti-poverty programs (especially after 1996), "tough on crime", and most of the War on Drugs, and it's what brought conservative white southerners into the Republican fold after the Johnson administration.

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"Finnish students are better than American students."

(FTR, I don't actually think Finnish kids learn better than American kids, but the Finnish education system is indisputably better.)

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Atlas privilege is choosing to spend a significant proportion of your life on a forum devoted to politics/elections and discussing the ins and outs of a (political) fart, and yet expect to be held to the same standard as the average, apolitical, joe.

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Yes, around the house the Atlas is "the stupid forum." I have referred to it this way since 2006.

That's quite accurate.

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This is good news.

Why?

Because ideally abortions would not be necessary at all? Like, what kind of f**king question is that?

The problem is the moralization of a medical procedure that only affects women. And considering how misogyny and sexism are pretty big problems as is, and the overlap with the "pro-life" movement of those tendencies...

All of this is just irrelevant "please notice me and how progressive I am" stuff, though. I'm also not out to tell people they're not allowed to have an opinion.

The point remains that this is good news. If it was primarily a result of restrictions on abortion, then it would be chilling and worrying, but as the study explains, those laws only had a very minimal impact, and most of the decrease has been tied to reductions in pregnancies due to increases in use of birth control. Most of the decrease also came from "liberal" states. Abortion is never an ideal procedure, and hopefully someday we can reach a point where it never needs to be performed. No reasonable person would disagree with that. There's nothing there to be argued or quibbled with.

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Ayn Rand hated everybody.

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race traitor.

dude you've been spending too much time at Stormfront. 

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Jeff, would you like to see Update get its own board?

No

Why not?

I'm sure that was not Dave Leip's intent when he created the forum.

And it wasn't his intent that someone could one day hijack this forum by relating his horrible life.

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Didn't know you were a Hillary fanboy, Lief. Color me surprised.

You haven't been paying attention, clearly...

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And my argument doesn't just apply to Nathan. Nietzsche basically sourced the entire origin of Christianity altogether in mass moral self-victimization, and of course I took it from him.

To wit, this is also why Nathan thinks I consider all Christians flagellating Catholics.

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So? My Dad still listens to the same music he listened to as a teenager. Things only go "out of style" if you care more about what other people think of you for listening to it than for your view of the music itself.

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LaVeyan Satanism is just Randian philosophy with Hellfire Club style ritual to annoy Christians.

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SNL died long before Don Pardo did.