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29 minutes ago, ActualCornHusker said:

Nobody is defending Trump's personal baggage here. 

Maybe not defending, but there's an awful lot of false equivalency between him and Biden as far as character and behavior in here.

2 hours ago, nic said:

If this passes I guess each state decides what abortion limits are. I am surprised they did this. Not sure how to take this either. I have always felt like this country’s  thoughts on abortion would need to be a cultural change, not a legal one. 

Well, only 19% of the culture thinks abortions should be illegal under all circumstances, so the cultural change has happened, and the legal one is presumably about to go against it.

41 minutes ago, Archy1221 said:

But you all still support Joe

I voted for Biden because he wasn't Trump, and wasn't as bad as Trump. Outside of that, I'm completely apolitical about the guy other than a general hope for whoever's in the office to not f#&% s#!t up too bad, which I share equally across all Presidents.

24 minutes ago, Enhance said:

The trouble is that I don't know how you inject this methodology it to our country's politics.

This will never happen, but here's one interesting way that you could theoretically inject this idea:

https://bigthink.com/the-present/malcolm-gladwell/

14 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said:

But...but...but....we are the ones who left principle behind.

None of that even starts getting into the fact that....he isn't conservative. His policies aren't conservative, his ideology isn't conservative, he'd been a Dem his whole life, and then he co-opts the party, and suddenly lifelong consistent GOP members are RINOs. I guess the term isn't wrong if being Republican means following Trump and abandoning principles of good conservative policy.

1 hour ago, nic said:

When we moved into our new home many years ago we become good friends with neighbors from Africa. My kids were about 3 or 4 years old at the time. I am pretty sure they never noticed the neighbors skin was a different color or at the very least it didn't bother them at all. 

 

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dc-elementary-anti-racism-fistbook-racist-family-members

 

Edit: I would not approve of my kids taking this curriculum, nor do they need it at age 4.

Haven't read the article because I don't want to disable my adblocker, but re: the bolded - I can guarantee you the kids from Africa noticed even if yours didn't.

3 hours ago, talaricohusker said:

This guy just doesn’t have a clue 

You got that right! He's never even heard of Carhenge smh

1 hour ago, ActualCornHusker said:

 

Nowhere near as interesting as the study on the people who abandon all principle to oppose orange man.

Most folks have either always opposed orange man, or eventually grew to oppose orange man, based primarily on sticking to principle. 

I guess everyone's barometer is different for how much fraud, cheating, lying, sexual assault allegations and boasts, racist behavior, fear-mongering, Christian larping make-believe, narcissism and incompetence they're willing to look past.

2 hours ago, Dr. Strangelove said:

Is this... bad?

 

I mean, the number of Trans people going into men's bathrooms is extremely low, but I get why forcing men's rooms to have them is controversial. On the whole, providing these products with instructions is a good thing. 

 

But that's the difference: the Left pushes things that are often annoying, like feminine products in men's rooms, but it's harmless. 

 

The Right pushes vaccine disinformation that kills thousands, sues the federal government to restrict Medicaid expansion hurting countless lives, fuels climate doubt causing untold harm to future generations, and hates America so much they were willing to trash democracy to fraudulently keep their party leader (twice Impeached for crimes Presidents technically can't commit). 

 

Yeah. Maybe annoying, maybe mostly unnecessary, but also completely harmless.

4 hours ago, ActualCornHusker said:

 

I'm not a republican either but I'd vote for MTG 1000x before I'd vote for any of the listed Republicans or a single Democrat

That's absolutely crazy pills insane. You'd pick the lady who claimed jewish space lasers start wildfires over a dignified presidential candidate who has a consistent record of putting principle ahead of party.

16 minutes ago, Archy1221 said:

What did Christianity get wrong about Jesus?  In your view.

Well, the first foundational thing is just the concept of a specific set apart religion in his name seems entirely contrary to his ministry and ethos. Then, the "modern" traditional concept of hell/the afterlife and all the infrastructure surrounding the childish idea of "good people go to the good place and bad people go to the bad place" (I'm simplifying that, I know that Christians would say "No it's not about being a good person you can't earn your salvation") are also incompatible or at least nonsensical in regards to the work of Christ as well, who was primarily focused on how to live now and not at all focused on the afterlife as the goal and destination.

18 hours ago, Archy1221 said:

What???

What are you confused or asking about? 

1 hour ago, Redux said:

 

Can you post one that shows it's not?

 

What a ridiculous thing to say 

 

That's not how science works my man. You can't prove negatives.

19 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said:

 

 

Thanks, libs of tiktok

37 minutes ago, knapplc said:

Pretty weird way for a loving father to filter out his beloved children.

And here you've successfully diagnosed where Christianity got Jesus wrong from the very beginning

6 minutes ago, funhusker said:

Wasn't "free will" actually a punishment for eating the apple?  (or is free will why Eve ate the apple?  If so, God is a d!(k!) Along with free will, we got murder and cancer and war and famine and drought and....

The forbidden fruit story is best understood as a fable exploring the problem or the burden of consciousness and what to do about it. 

Before becoming conscious, there's no such thing as good/bad/right/wrong, and creatures only exist in harmony with the planet around them in the way they're meant to.

1 hour ago, seaofred92 said:

You still haven’t answered the question at hand: How much money does Nebraska’s NIL effort need on an annual basis in order to compete nationally? All I’m looking for is a number. 

I have no idea what the number is, but we're certainly not making news keeping up with the biggest spenders.

8 hours ago, BigRedBuster said:

 

The first part of Musk's tweet is true.

The second part of Musk's tweet is absolutely 100% false. Neutrality does not, in any way, imply equally upsetting both sides, because the sides aren't symmetrically far from center.

Put it this way. Forget conservative/liberal for a second. If 80% of the "far left" side believe in political compromise and only 32% of the "far right" do, being neutral does not mean that you adopt the middle between those positions (even though that's exactly what Elon is suggesting). 

20 minutes ago, funhusker said:

I'm just amazed at the amount of people that are super excited to "get their Twitter back."  I just find it strange that people are this addicted to social media that they are finally feeling like their voices will be heard again. 

It's just another ideological battleground. It's not at all about that - it's just an avatar for winning the culture wars. It's funny because right-wing folks bemoan how the left tries to turn everything into power dynamics and identity politics....then they turn around and celebrate a W in an environment like this that doesn't really mean much, but is perceived as a victory for their group.

40 minutes ago, Archy1221 said:

Actually, scientists did tout the ability to stop infection when the vaccines first came out.  

Stop? Or significantly reduce?

30 minutes ago, teachercd said:

Man, if you are trying to show how you don't care about Musk buying twitter...you are doing a bad job of it.

 

I would care more if Musk bought Huskerboard. I use twitter for jokes and news, both of which seem pretty safe, but I need a place to actually waste time talking about stuff that doesn't matter.

1 hour ago, ActualCornHusker said:

Jesus... He has spoke openly about what he believes twitter SHOULD BE, which one could infer would be how he will plan to have it run.

 

You're right, no one knows for sure how exactly he'll run it. But I am taking the totality of what Elon has said as a good indication of what he's going to do

I think all people are getting at is that even if you take his words at face value, there's still so much room for interpretation on how that plays out policy-wise. He hasn't said anything in regards to actual concrete terms of service and rules, he's only espoused an approach, and even within the approach there's plenty of grey.

There are plenty of quotes from him that show A) that he doesn't even have a great understanding of free speech laws in the first place, B) that he obviously agrees some moderation is necessary (think of porn as an example, or spam bots, both of which are legal and protected under 1A), and C) that his plan is essentially to go back to how facebook/twitter/etc. were run in the early days, before people realized it couldn't work. He says stuff like, "When in doubt, let it exist." The fuzziness of something like that doesn't work at all at scale.

2 hours ago, DevoHusker said:

 

That's what the Twitter verse says. 

 

You have other info?

According to the first google result when I searched his name + twitter, I got this: 

“The account was permanently suspended for repeated violations of our COVID-19 misinformation rules,” a Twitter spokesperson said in a statement to The Hill

So for starters if we're gonna have a serious conversation about people being unrightfully banned, we should look at ALL that went into it and not just the final straw. 

12 minutes ago, JJ Husker said:

 

So you guys see a distinction between A) being fired for praying at midfield and B) being told not to do it, he continues to do it and then they fire him? Wow!  I’m failing to see absolutely any difference as far as his religious liberty is concerned.

 

I know an employer who makes excessive allowances to allow muslim employees to pray at the prescribed time daily and it gets even more crazy during Ramadan. This is a huge assembly line packing house deal and TBH it really screws up their production times, break times etc. Maybe they should just tell them to not pray and then fire them when they keep doing it. ???

In your example, if they asked them to stop (due to reasons unrelated to the religion itself, but things such as "really screwing up our production times"), and then they kept doing it, yes they would have much better grounds for firing them.

Not good grounds necessarily, but better ones than if they never gave a warning/reason to stop. The posts you quoted said there's a distinction (one even said "IF we remove the religious context); not that saying not to first makes it fine.

21 minutes ago, DevoHusker said:

Yes, he was referring to the vaccine, and it got him banned.

 

Not sure, but I believe every point came true. How is that dangerous misinformation?

According to what source do we know that that tweet and only that tweet is the direct reason he got banned.

26 minutes ago, Enhance said:

I'm fairly confident a right-wing nut job will at some point post something that goes over the line resulting in their account being banned/suspended, and then Twitter will just go back to being another 'liberal think tank.'

Elon Musk owning Twitter definitely won't solve the problem of asymmetrical bats#!t crazy and rule breaking internet content on behalf of one camp moreso than another.