Damn you post this dumb thing a lot.

A 2018 year-in-review and prospective on fact-checking from the Poynter Institute (which develops PolitiFact[25]) noted a proliferation of credibility score projects, including Media/Bias Fact Check, writing that "While these projects are, in theory, a good addition to the efforts combating misinformation, they have the potential to misfire," and stating that "Media Bias/Fact Check is a widely cited source for news stories and even studies about misinformation, despite the fact that its method is in no way scientific."[26] Also in 2018, a writer in the Columbia Journalism Review described Media Bias/Fact Check as "an armchair media analysis"[27] and characterized their assessments as "subjective assessments [that] leave room for human biases, or even simple inconsistencies, to creep in".[28]

Wow that's pretty damning, almost makes it seem like someone using this to shut down conversations by claiming media outlets are unreliable could be acting in bad faith. Like some kind of pro-Western, pro-Israel ideologue.

Deep magic, black art, heavy wizardry, almost feels like cheating.

I don't even know computer stuff, just picked these up via osmosis.

EDIT: blue screen of death is a very powerful abjuration spell

Okay, to be clear, in the discussion you're jumping into, one of the interlocutors has stated that Jews are inherently genocidal.

I'm an atheist and I don't particularly value religion but I do value people and there are many good people who do value their religion and I won't stand for them being painted as inherently genocidal and neither should you.

There's a time and place for nuance but I don't know that this is it.

Some jackass once said:

Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies.

Let's see if he was right, you said:

You seem to think my view is that "all religious people have the same beliefs". It's not.

But no, here's what I think your view is:

Are you saying that Judaism is an inherently genocidal religion/culture?

Your response?

Not any more than other religions, but yes, it's in the book preached as the word of God and prophets. Israel is what happens when you put bronze age values in practice

Let me cut out all the weasel words for you

Yes

Yes, you think that Judaism is inherently genocidal.

Fuck you, you antisemitic trash.

There are nonreligious homophobes and misogynists and racists and trans phones. There are religious people who aren't bigots at all.

Clearly the religion is an excuse for the bigotry and not the ultimate source of it, or neither of those would be true.

Saying that Judaism inherently inclines one to the kinds of genocidal crimes Israel is committing makes you a fucking antisemite and is clearly disproven by the number of religious Jews who have been vocally opposed to the genocide and to Zionism generally.

You don't get to "I'm oppressed too" your way out of being called out for bigotry.

I was raised by evangelicals myself, and also went through a nu atheist phase when I was 14.

You're a bigot and you need to grow up and put that away.

No, a ton of Israelis are secular and they support this just as much as religious Israelis, and this is clearly about land and wealth. The American government is supporting the genocide, and it has nothing to do with religion and everything to do with supporting a white supremacist settler colony that functions as an unsinkable aircraft carrier in a resource rich region.

This particular person is from .ml but honestly I've seen this kind of rhetoric popping up a lot recently on Hexbear and it's frustrating.

If you have hatred and contempt in your heart for all religious people, you hate and despise the global proletariat.

Great time to get into, oh, any RPG that isn't connected to WOTC.

Ton of options available, including many designed to offer similar experiences to various editions of D&D if that's your jam.

Plus, I have old Russian friends who lived there, so I will certainly trust them over some possible ideologue on the internet.

The vast majority of Russians who actually lived in the Soviet Union regret its fall, your friend's are outliers. This information is easy to find if you do literally any research.

One of the things that many pro-Communists never like to talk about was what happened to the people who society who did not want to LARP along. Generally they were re-educated or considered traitors or enemies of the State.

Oh wow, the state imprisoned people that didn't follow laws and otherwise threatened it? That might be uniquely concerning if every single human society in history didn't do that.

Feel free to look it up.

Regarding vacations, makes sense that since you were seen like a cog in a machine, that for most, vacations, mandated by the State would be given generally, all at once and time off depended on a number of factors.

Most Americans do not get a vacation at all, which group is getting treated like a cog in a machine again?

Worth noting that the above is a Pro-Russian site, so there is bound to be some bias.

"Here's a source I am using to make an argument, but if you find anything contradictory to my argument in this source, it doesn't count."

Then don't link the site.

Found this person who claims that some type of vacations given to workers would be booked, group vacations. Not my idea of a vacation, however, if you ask me.

The sort of vacation I take, and that most Americans take, is that we either can't afford to travel even domestically so we take a few days off here and there to catch up on housework or we work somewhere that doesn't even offer vacation time and we just take zero days off through the year.

Your idea of a vacation sounds like pampered shit that has only even been available to the most privileged. Of course you prefer this highly stratified and brutal society, you benefit from it.

So, no, more time off is not necessarily the only metric that should matter.

One, it's a hugely important one when discussing the quality of life of a typical citizen.

Two, it wasn't the only thing we were discussing. Are you really not understanding that most regular Americans can't afford to travel anywhere?

Secondly, millions died due to political persecutions, like in the Great Purge, at least 1.2+ million Kulaks, just to mention one.

Nazi sympathizers and famine opportunists aren't gonna get much sympathy from me.

Their crime being only slightly better off plebs.

You're leaving out the part where they destroyed crops and livestock during a famine because they were upset they couldn't price gouge their neighbors who were starving to death.

On top of that millions of others died of famines, in order to get the USSR "going." Same happen under Mao, in fact way more died under Mao

Oh wow, millions died of famine in the early USSR? Tell me, prior to the USSR (which, remember, this argument started because you claimed that things were not better in the USSR than they had been in the fucking Russian Empire), how often did they have famines? About once a decade right?

There were three famines in the Russian Empire in the 20th century. The Russian Empire existed for less than two decades in the 20th century.

Same story with China. The communists came in and put a stop to the famines. You're mad that it didn't happen instantly in the aftermath of a giant civil war, or when the whole planet invaded them, or when the Nazis were ravaging their country. Once they got a moment's peace the famines stopped and never returned.

The presumption that I would be dishonest is silly and reeks to bad faith.

Nah, liberals constantly make dishonest arguments in bad faith. You might just be extremely bad at critical thinking, I guess, and not dishonest at all.

Do not just try to cherry pick a time period for what seems to be benefit.

The last famine was in the immediate aftermath of WW2 and then famines didn't reoccur for the remainder of the Soviet Union's existence.

Who's cherry picking?

How many millions dead over governmental ideology shift does the US have?

Millions of native Americans, millions due to deprivation and deaths of despair (including famines, see the dust bowl), millions due to foreign wars of aggression, millions due to poor conditions in the American prison (slave camp) system, millions due to the ripple effects of our actions wrt "foreign policy."

The US is one of the most evil empires in history. It's obviously killed a massive number of people.

Also, would you not say that the standard of living in say, the USA was superior in the aggregate to Russia's during the same time period, or would you deny that?

Probably but you're leaving a lot out by painting with such a broad brush.

1. the US was geographically isolated and mostly untouched by WW2. While we sent away ships of Jews and considered whether or not to enter the war at all, the Nazis were ravaging Russia with a genocidal war of aggression. The consequences would ripple for decades.

2. Superior for who? I would say not for Native Americans, and not for Chinese rail workers, and certainly not for black people, and not for women who wanted to go to university, and not for striking mine workers being gunned down by Pinkertons.

3. American wealth came from plundering the rest of the world abroad, and theft of land and slavery at home. If you are okay with unspeakable cruelty you can really pile up some material comforts for yourself, sure.

Friend the ignorant here seems to be you. Cheers.

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