claim stringlengths 20 257 | positive stringlengths 139 5.07k | negative stringlengths 135 3.54k | post_id stringlengths 7 7 | post_title stringlengths 20 257 | post_text stringlengths 507 35.9k | post_timestamp int64 1.73B 1.74B | post_author stringlengths 4 20 | positive_comment_id stringclasses 1
value | negative_comment_id stringclasses 1
value | date stringdate 2024-10-01 00:00:00 2024-12-31 00:00:00 | quarter stringclasses 1
value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CMV: We already see the signs of societal collapse | {'id': 'lpz0oie', 'text': "its hard to predict the future. I wouldn't rule out a collapse on the scale of the Roman empire, but i also wouldn't say that its the mostly likely outcome in the not to distant future.\n\nthe roman empire collapsed slowly. The lost territory to nearby rivals and they stopped generating new... | {'id': 'lpywv10', 'text': "A common thread in deteriorating societies is the debasement of their currency, and we (the US and other countries whose currency is pegged to it). We also see a declining birthrate, and large influx of foreigners. With all our wonderful technology, and the entirety of history at our fingerti... | 1fuf7sk | CMV: We already see the signs of societal collapse | From political instability to internal conflict and extreme wealth inequality, we are witnessing the signs that have historically brought down the most powerful and influencial societies, such as the Roman empire, Persian empire and Ottoman empire, to name a few.
We also see some of the minor signs, such as moral det... | 1,727,872,854 | Tydeeeee | nan | nan | 2024-10-02 | 2024_fall |
CMV: If you sincerely believe that the current Israeli government are as bad as the Nazis, you logically ought to be advocating for a similar response from the West (i.e. a war to topple them), and if you aren't, I'd question whether you really believe it | {'id': 'lpymvs3', 'text': "> And that by extension if a similar regime were around today, the moral thing to do would be to fight them even if it's not us that they're threatening?\n\nNot if said regime doesn't directly threaten the West. We invaded Germany because Nazi Germany was very much a direct threat to balance ... | {'id': 'lpymfln', 'text': 'I obviously don’t speak for anyone else but I feel like it’s more something like, war would absolutely be reasonable at this point to stop the reign of terror, but the governments most in power in the world are clearly not going to do that so we are exercising the amount we are able to do whi... | 1fudwov | CMV: If you sincerely believe that the current Israeli government are as bad as the Nazis, you logically ought to be advocating for a similar response from the West (i.e. a war to topple them), and if you aren't, I'd question whether you really believe it | I've seen a fair few posts and comments on social media within the past year likening the current Israeli government to Nazi Germany on account of the current war in the Middle East and their treatment of Palestinians in the years prior. I generally think comparisons to Nazi Germany tend to be hyperbolic, but I'm not r... | 1,727,868,605 | forbiddenmemeories | nan | nan | 2024-10-02 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Brain development science is nowhere near accurate enough to be useful for anything and its effects have only been detrimental thus far. | {'id': 'lq5jpxi', 'text': "Any chance you can provide me the links again? I was reading through one, switched to my computer, and they took the post down :( I did find the source I referenced: https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2009/04/27/faith-in-flux/\n\nMain note on that survey is it was done entirely without neur... | {'id': 'lq3ps3j', 'text': 'I was thinking simply a wealth change\n\nPeople tend to lean more to the right as they gain wealth\n\nWin the lotto and peoples politics change fast', 'author': 'Interesting-Copy-657', 'score': 0, 'timestamp': 1727939783} | 1fuzby2 | CMV: Brain development science is nowhere near accurate enough to be useful for anything and its effects have only been detrimental thus far. | [Source 1](https://slate.com/technology/2022/11/brain-development-25-year-old-mature-myth.html)
>“Some 8-year-old brains exhibited a greater ‘maturation index’ than some 25 year old brains,”
-
>The interpretation of neuroimaging is the most difficult and contentious part; in a 2020 study, 70 different research teams... | 1,727,928,363 | Livid_Lengthiness_69 | nan | nan | 2024-10-03 | 2024_fall |
CMV: pitbulls are the ‘machine guns of dogs’ and people should not be able to own them as pets, just as they can’t own machine guns as guns | {'id': 'lpt9usf', 'text': 'You are wrong actually. As long as they get the proper permits and documentation, anyone can own a machine gun in the United States. They can\'t be bought as easily as hunting rifles or pistols, but they aren\'t "illegal."', 'author': 'mufasaface', 'score': 43, 'timestamp': 1727791082} | {'id': 'lpt7081', 'text': 'But you can own a machine gun, you just have to go through a bit of paperwork or as a joke, own a drill press. So perhaps there should just be more discretion when picking a dog.', 'author': 'thecountnotthesaint', 'score': 1, 'timestamp': 1727790055} | 1fto0tw | CMV: pitbulls are the ‘machine guns of dogs’ and people should not be able to own them as pets, just as they can’t own machine guns as guns | People can’t own machine guns (fully automatic) for obvious reasons. They are incredibly powerful weapons that can do a ton of damage.
For this same reason, pitbulls should be banned from being owned as pets. Their bite force is incredibly strong. If there’s ever an incident with a pitbill, there’s a good chance it wi... | 1,727,789,071 | Call_It_ | nan | nan | 2024-10-01 | 2024_fall |
CMV: If more people admitted they weren't that good at driving, driving would be a much safer activity | {'id': 'lqelqhh', 'text': "It has nothing to do with skill though. People choose to drive aggressively because they want to get to their destination faster and they don't care much about people's safety. That's not a _skill_ issue, it's a values issue.", 'author': 'yyzjertl', 'score': 9, 'timestamp': 1728098568} | {'id': 'lqedse2', 'text': 'I agree. It\'s less "I\'m a good driver" as much as "I\'m a good drunk driver. Driving high makes me more focused. My peripheral vision is good enough to text and drive, etc."', 'author': 'sleightofhand0', 'score': 1, 'timestamp': 1728094957} | 1fwfmpe | CMV: If more people admitted they weren't that good at driving, driving would be a much safer activity | Road accidents are *one of* the leading cause of death in the US and many other countries (EDIT 6). Most people I know (including myself) vastly overestimate their driving ability, which makes them less risk-averse and more of a danger to themselves and others.
My core assumptions are:
* **"Driving IQ" is normally di... | 1,728,092,985 | Current_Working_6407 | nan | nan | 2024-10-05 | 2024_fall |
CMV: any industry that involves the care of human beings should not be for profit | {'id': 'lqlrvbd', 'text': "I'm sorry to hear. I hope you (or your loved ones) can get the care you need soon, get better and have a full recovery.\n\nWith regards to this post and your view to change: the problem is not so much that there should be no private healthcare industry, the problem is that the government sho... | {'id': 'lqln7qu', 'text': ">And if you extend healthy lifestyles, you must add nutritional and food industry.\n\nWith the progress of automation, why do the necessities of life need to be for-profit? \n\nI don't mean to be flippant, but I appreciate your post because it brings up a question I've had before. Shouldn'... | 1fxe6gx | CMV: any industry that involves the care of human beings should not be for profit | The goal of a for-profit company or industry is just that: to turn a profit. Whether it’s a publicly traded company or a private business, if your goal is to make money, then providing quality care is always secondary.
The applies to healthcare, childcare, long-term care, and basically any other industry that involve... | 1,728,213,324 | 0nlyhalfjewish | nan | nan | 2024-10-06 | 2024_fall |
CMV: The Way Race is Categorized in the United States Makes Almost Zero Sense | {'id': 'lq0sxy9', 'text': "It sounds good to me, but that seems to push things one step farther, being that we should just treat everyone on an induvial basis.\n\nAmong more liberal crowd, people would agree with you that race does not exist and is just a social construct. But counterintuitively we have to understand a... | {'id': 'lq0r7rr', 'text': "> The evidence is that Bangladeshis are from “Asia” as are Chinese.\n\n\nLmao do you think universities are looking for the word Asian and throwing it out or are they looking at entire applications that include country of origin?\n\n\n> And you are currently arguing that it should be ok to di... | 1fun2bh | CMV: The Way Race is Categorized in the United States Makes Almost Zero Sense |
The way race is categorized in the United States makes little sense to me. The exceptions to this statement are the terms "African-American" and "American Indian", though I personally prefer the term indigenous person or First Nation.
The reason for this is that both the native population of the continent and the de... | 1,727,892,984 | BluePillUprising | nan | nan | 2024-10-02 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Vilifying and holding social media companies responsible for the negative effects they have on their users isn’t fair | {'id': 'lqlpgos', 'text': ">10 year olds shouldn’t be on the app. They’re breaking the law to be on it. If you break the law, how can you expect to then turn around and wield it against companies?\n\nIt's facebook's legal responsibility to ensure that 10 years old's aren't on the app. Instead, based on internal communi... | {'id': 'lqlpcv8', 'text': 'On the quantum scale there is sheer randomness, which is the opposite of free will—but that\'s beside the point, because there is no such thing as humans on the quantum scale. On the macroscale—the only one where "morality" is a thing—genes and the environment are the only things that determi... | 1fxdpjn | CMV: Vilifying and holding social media companies responsible for the negative effects they have on their users isn’t fair | Just an FYI, I’m 18. My generation has obviously been extremely affected by social media, so I understand firsthand how pervasive and insidious it is. Believe me, I do. I have friends who just systematically, irresistibly whip out their phones every time they’ve got a second of free time, and I sincerely feel bad.
Th... | 1,728,211,373 | Clear-Sport-726 | nan | nan | 2024-10-06 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Most people who post offensive ragebait on the Internet want attention and ignoring it will make it disappear | {'id': 'lqn8ryf', 'text': 'Not calling hateful public speech out as harmful normalizes it. Ignoring it won\'t make it go away, it\'ll make it stick around. Even if the original posters were "just trolling" there are definitely racist, sexist, and generally awful people out there that will see this speech becoming norma... | {'id': 'lqn8os3', 'text': 'Number 1 is obviously true, like we just know it as a fact. Gay marriage didn\'t take so long to get legalized just because of people faking homophobia. The civil rights movement wasn\'t just fighting against trolls "faking it for attention".\n\nThe other problem is that you can\'t "just igno... | 1fxldk1 | CMV: Most people who post offensive ragebait on the Internet want attention and ignoring it will make it disappear | Now before I start I would like to define offensive as something that causes anger due to it being homophobic, racist, sexist, ableist, making fun of a tragedy (for example, 9/11) etc.
Overall, every time I see something that’s bigoted I scroll past it. Why? Because people want likes and clicks and engagement. All the... | 1,728,234,493 | stealthyalfredo | nan | nan | 2024-10-06 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Society is moving towards everyone only using English and that is a good change | {'id': 'lqdl8th', 'text': '> if they learned say English, they would probably have to learn how to count\n\nMy point is that they are literally incapable of doing that. Growing up speaking a language without counting has resulted in a brain physiology that cannot comprehend numbers. Again, it’s an extreme example, but... | {'id': 'lqdgwz3', 'text': ">What cultures specifically can only be preserved via continuing use of a given language? Why?\n\nancient egypt would be an example (but the aztecs too.)\n\nancient egypt was a forgotten culture that people in more modern times (circa 100bc) didn't know anything about. they could see heirogly... | 1fwan6l | CMV: Society is moving towards everyone only using English and that is a good change | I am not saying there are not advantages of having many languages and everyone having their own language. But the advantages of having a global language strongly outweigh the disadvantages.
My main points:
- Language barriers are a major reason for disconnect in understanding people from different cultures and havin... | 1,728,078,116 | Mysterious-Law-60 | nan | nan | 2024-10-04 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Removing a characters ethnicity/national heritage for fear of "backlash" is significantly worse than just keeping them in. | {'id': 'lqlknsq', 'text': 'From what I’ve read all they did is change her from being a mossad agent. She still Israeli, i think you’re missing a big point in your argument. Marvel is owned by Disney which is a super conglomerate that does not want controversies that could lead to Legal or financial impact, pretty much ... | {'id': 'lqlhknx', 'text': 'It\'s bad to have things censored like this, but ultimately it has proven better to have them under censorship if any amount can be gotten through, rather than the work just not getting any attention via making a stand on an issue.\n\nThe more eyes on the work, the more that at least the news... | 1fxczgm | CMV: Removing a characters ethnicity/national heritage for fear of "backlash" is significantly worse than just keeping them in. | To be clear exactly what I mean I refer to the recent news that the character of Sabra has had any references to her Israeli and Jewish heritage removed from the new Captain America movie to prevent backlash. So specifically the idea of taking an existing established character, adapting them, and in the process removin... | 1,728,208,178 | The_Naked_Buddhist | nan | nan | 2024-10-06 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Unless asked, trying to change the views of other people is inherently disrespectful. | {'id': 'lqcp7om', 'text': '> But I\'m not sure you\'ve described a situation where anyone is trying to persuade. You\'ve just described, as you say, a discussion among friends. Maybe even a disagreement!\n\nIn a disagreement, you try to persuade someone. I said "f I felt the position of not having kids didn\'t align wi... | {'id': 'lqckirr', 'text': '>One of the foundations of showing other people respect is respecting their autonomy. People have the right to make decisions about their life without outside influence. When you try to persuade someone, you\'re undermining this right--or at least trying to.\n\nThis is completely untrue and h... | 1fw4wnp | CMV: Unless asked, trying to change the views of other people is inherently disrespectful. | Online and in person, people seem to love to tell other people what beliefs they "should" hold and what they "should" do.
I think this is bad!
It's **disrespectful**. One of the foundations of showing other people respect is respecting their autonomy. People have the right to make decisions about their life without o... | 1,728,063,240 | ThatSpencerGuy | nan | nan | 2024-10-04 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Presidential Debates should have LIVE Fact Checking | {'id': 'lqz5bn8', 'text': "It kinda is. There is a major difference between some random website doing the fact checking online and fact checking by the provider of the debate. The latter really must be correct and fair under all circumstances and you can't ensure that while doing it live.", 'author': 'Downtown-Act-590'... | {'id': 'lqz3sg9', 'text': 'Hard disagree. Most people don’t care about fact-checking, especially in real time. \n\nRun the debate, then as a “post-game,” fact check all you want. The nerds will stick around and watch, the normies will go back to their lives.', 'author': 'that_nerdyguy', 'score': 3, 'timestamp': 1728410... | 1fz6425 | CMV: Presidential Debates should have LIVE Fact Checking | I think that truth has played a significant role in the current political climate, especially with the amount of 'fake news' and lies entering the media sphere. Last month, I watched President Trump and Vice President Harris debate and was shocked at the comments made by the former president.
For example, I knew that ... | 1,728,410,161 | DK-the-Microwave | nan | nan | 2024-10-08 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Having differing political views only becomes divisive and friendship ending if you act like dick about it | {'id': 'lr1nrs3', 'text': "> That's a question I think everyone should ask themselves and everyone may come up with different answers.\n\nSo it's a legitimate answer if someone thinks a vote can count as promoting violence?\n\nThen there you have it: friendship-ender.\n\n> You'd never go and have a discussion with some... | {'id': 'lr1mvpb', 'text': 'The comments in here is why reddit is the toxic hellhole it is. To think it’s a duty to be a dick and nasty towards friends and family because of a differing opinion shows how morally bankrupt this platform is.', 'author': 'KRISBONN', 'score': -3, 'timestamp': 1728446915} | 1fzidv7 | CMV: Having differing political views only becomes divisive and friendship ending if you act like dick about it | So, the news is full of all kinds of talk about how the democrats are evil or the republicans are evil and we all know the rhethoric of abortion, homophobia, transphobia, assassinations, mentally unstable, fascists, like you get it.
Well today, I met a bunch of strangers and decided to play a few games with em and we ... | 1,728,444,570 | Fearless_Show9209 | nan | nan | 2024-10-09 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Using AI to formulate arguments is unethical and inevitable. | {'id': 'lqw3an5', 'text': '>So then by your admission an AI cannot create a good argument. Otherwise it could convince you. \n\nTo this one specific question that humans haven\'t been able to answer. AI can create good arguments for other topics. And if you think that AI cannot create good arguments, this discussion ha... | {'id': 'lqk2orx', 'text': '>You think therefore you are\n\nAI think therefore AI are. If AI can think on such a level, how are they any different from Humans? And I think using a friend to help formulate argument is not such a bad thing.', 'author': 'DarroonDoven', 'score': 0, 'timestamp': 1728181373} | 1fx63f3 | CMV: Using AI to formulate arguments is unethical and inevitable. | As AI begins to understand more nuanced thoughts, like trailing follow-up questions (H: What time is it? AI: 7:02pm H: In Bejing? 10:02am) As AI begins to predict our next thoughts, (suggesting products and locations) As AI begins to understand associations between seemingly ambiguous terms, (Right = Conservative = Pro... | 1,728,180,144 | brothapipp | nan | nan | 2024-10-06 | 2024_fall |
cmv: Mansplaining is a sexist, derogatory word and should be treated as such | {'id': 'lqk4jq5', 'text': 'No problem, I wasn’t upset, it’s just that you left out the word that mattered, ie it doesn’t define every man. But it’s something we do do. We can’t pretend we don’t. \n\nI think we’ll someday be able to talk about gendered differences again without controversy. Maybe 50 years from now. But ... | {'id': 'lqjt33c', 'text': 'I’ll address #2 first. I would guess it’s based on tone. In all circumstances, a condescending tone (which I’ve found men to use against women more often than the reciprocal, simply due to Men and Women’s places in history) can be rude and make an otherwise innocent statement seem rude. \n\n1... | 1fx2zi9 | cmv: Mansplaining is a sexist, derogatory word and should be treated as such |
To many this might seem totally absurd. But I believe this is a new derogatory word.
The definition of derogatory is “showing a critical or disrespectful attitude” and that is most definitely what the effect of that word.
Mansplaining according to a Google search is “is a colloquial expression used to describe situa... | 1,728,170,109 | Wasserschweinreich | nan | nan | 2024-10-05 | 2024_fall |
CMV: we should normalize (more) the act of working without seeking some major enlightment or happiness, but just to do what you must do and go home spend your time the way you want | {'id': 'lq7m4cj', 'text': 'What I failed to say, is that all things that are fulfilling in life are work. Work doesn\'t bring joy or fulfillment, but all things that are fulfilling are dervied from work. And given that work is causative (not just correlated) to fulfillment, I think "tolerating" it is unhealthy. Even th... | {'id': 'lq7kos0', 'text': 'There’s a lot of information that I’d like to see to this.\n\nJust based on what I’m reading, it sounds like you feel in your heart of hearts that you’re supposed to be happy to go to work. Where do you get the idea that you’re supposed to be happy to go to work?\n\nI’d wager most people just... | 1fvg21p | CMV: we should normalize (more) the act of working without seeking some major enlightment or happiness, but just to do what you must do and go home spend your time the way you want | I'm in the middle of a crisis where I don't think I'm happy doing what I do. I've talked to a few people about it and even my therapist, and the final conclusion was: not everyone is happy working and that's ok. This whole scenario to "work with what you like and you'll never have to work again" is a bs created by corp... | 1,727,983,818 | giocow | nan | nan | 2024-10-03 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Most psych hospitals don’t work because too many of the people there get off on making the mentally ill suffer | {'id': 'lr3dj0b', 'text': 'Your data set is from Yelp? That\'s a very good sample. /s\n\nOnline reviews often reflect extreme opinions, with moderate voices being underrepresented. This creates biased, polarized reviews that can distort consumer decisions\n\n[Online Reviews Are Biased. Here’s How to Fix Them (hbr.org)]... | {'id': 'lr3d1dc', 'text': "I have been in short term psych care three times, in three different hospitals and experienced none of these things. My step mother worked 30 plus years in mental health and anyone who behaved in the ways you describe was immediately fired.\n\nWhat I can tell you is basing your opinion on psy... | 1fzrpw0 | CMV: Most psych hospitals don’t work because too many of the people there get off on making the mentally ill suffer | Here is why I say this. I used to be a teacher for students who would hit, bite, smother poop on you, cuss, or try to permanently injure others. Still most teachers of students with severe behavior problems do not take it out on their students. This seems to be the opposite for what happens with inpatient mental health... | 1,728,481,384 | bubbletea-psycho | nan | nan | 2024-10-09 | 2024_fall |
CMV: It's not a crime if you don't get caught | {'id': 'lr23nzb', 'text': 'There is a difference between being caught and being ruled to have committed a crime.\n\nBeing caught makes it sound to simple. It makes it sounds like the facts and the law are obvious, and that the determinative issue is how well the police are able to find you.\n\nBeing ruled to have commi... | {'id': 'lr1wnb1', 'text': 'Maybe in the eyes of the government they don’t know. But you know', 'author': 'TimTheTinyTesticle', 'score': 1, 'timestamp': 1728452985} | 1fzkbcc | CMV: It's not a crime if you don't get caught | I was just thinking about this and it makes sense to me but also seems wrong.
Crime is defined as an illegal act for which someone can be punished by the government. While this definition seems straight forward I'd say it's somewhat misleading because crime is determined by the court. Even when being arrested you're n... | 1,728,451,850 | Shak3Zul4 | nan | nan | 2024-10-09 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Joker 2 was actually a success because it achieved Warner Bros goals | {'id': 'lr8q65l', 'text': '> So they could not get top down order from executives to make bad on purpose then? \n\nNo studio executive would ever give that order. Not one. \n\n>It was all on the studio?\n\nNo, it was all on the creative team, Todd and Joaquin basically. They were given full control, and they just shit ... | {'id': 'lr8n2jz', 'text': "Twisters made more than double it's budget just in BO. IF made almost double in BO. Furiosa just made back its money, again just in BO. The real money is the perpetual income these films will receive being part of the studios stable going forward. \n\nI am intrigued what your definition of fl... | 1g0gj5y | CMV: Joker 2 was actually a success because it achieved Warner Bros goals | So we all know that Joker 2 bombed really had at the theatres, reviews, sales and more. It’s selling really bad that it won’t break even and the audience the first movie garnered has been completely driven away, heck this movie even ruined the first Joker movie for many.
By all means this should be a failure, but it... | 1,728,559,447 | Evoxrus_XV | nan | nan | 2024-10-10 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Florida Real Estate Will Collapse Within The Next Few Years | {'id': 'lr41vke', 'text': 'Look at home prices in legitimate "destroyed by hurricane semi-regularly" areas like coastal Carolinas. The other option is that the US updates the building codes to require what Japan does to protect from (most) tsunamis and earthquakes.\n\nThe home prices and insurance premiums are based o... | {'id': 'lr3v6lt', 'text': ">\xa0We're reaching a tipping point where either homes become completely uninsurable or the insurance becomes so expensive that homes start losing value.\n\n\nIs there a data-based reason to believe this? Do you have some particular expertise that allows for such a proclamation?", 'author': '... | 1fzuimf | CMV: Florida Real Estate Will Collapse Within The Next Few Years | The insurance crisis in Florida already quite bad, and with Milton, it's [poised to get even worse.](https://www.fox9.com/news/hurricane-milton-florida-homeowners-insurance)
We're reaching a tipping point where either homes become completely uninsurable or the insurance becomes so expensive that homes start losing va... | 1,728,488,702 | tomtomglove | nan | nan | 2024-10-09 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Loving yourself is logically impossible | {'id': 'lqo7lse', 'text': 'Don’t think about a bad day, don’t think about a good day. Think about a boring day. Just any other day, nothing remarkable, nothing momentous.\n\nOn that day, were you overall a dick to people? Or were you highly positive and joyful with people? Probably not either. Odds are good you gave a ... | {'id': 'lqo4yyp', 'text': "Overwhelmingly the majority of things I do are justified. \n\nAnd I know people who have done messed up things and I have forgiven them. \n\nConsidering the fact that most things I do are justified and the things I do that are not justified I can forgive, there's no reason I can't love myself... | 1fxpgo1 | CMV: Loving yourself is logically impossible | How is it possible to love yourself? Who is the one person who knows every single mistake, every single L, or every single time that you were the villain? Every single time, you were the undisputed asshole in the room and you know with one hundred percent certainty that everyone else's life would've been better without... | 1,728,245,028 | KgPathos | nan | nan | 2024-10-06 | 2024_fall |
CMV: The "self-defense" argument for abortion; including first and second trimester abortion; is arguably just as responsible for widespread beliefs in "post birth abortion" and "late term elective abortion" as people who believe in these things. | {'id': 'lqz925m', 'text': 'I get it, but in the context, nonessential or unnecessary would be the single terms. \n \nThat said, given that every pregnancy carries a potential life risk even in the healthiest of mothers, I don\'t think the terms would really apply. Could see maybe the use of prophylactic since you co... | {'id': 'lqyzt2m', 'text': ">What are you defining as a late-term abortion?\n\nThird Trimester abortion.\n\n>The post-birth abortion nonsense has been made up out of whole-cloth by people who are misleading people who don’t know how abortions work.\n\nNo, it came specifically up when the [former governor of Virginia dur... | 1fz49v2 | CMV: The "self-defense" argument for abortion; including first and second trimester abortion; is arguably just as responsible for widespread beliefs in "post birth abortion" and "late term elective abortion" as people who believe in these things. | If *one* student fails calculus, it's considered the fault of the student.
If *half the class* fails calculus, it's considered the fault of the professor.
I consider this analogous to the situation here. We have millions of voters who believe "post birth abortion" is a thing, and many more who think third trime... | 1,728,405,607 | ShortUsername01 | nan | nan | 2024-10-08 | 2024_fall |
CMV: The youth both need and deserve more liberty to explore their sexuality. | {'id': 'lrp6a0l', 'text': ">What do you mean 'let' them? Since we were talking about sex 15 min ago, prohibition didn't start working.\n\nI was mentioning how we prohibit minors from doing many things that are harmful to them that they would otherwise to in greater quantities. \n\n>Prohibition still didn't start workin... | {'id': 'lrosq47', 'text': 'I feel like alot of Redditors are mad at teenagers doing teenager things because they never got to experience them. Their classmates made love while they wrote stories about being the nice guy/girl who never got a date.', 'author': 'Easy_Dig_88', 'score': -3, 'timestamp': 1728804625} | 1g2k7e2 | CMV: The youth both need and deserve more liberty to explore their sexuality. | **Why they need it:** [Here](https://reason.com/2023/10/18/an-18-year-old-had-consensual-sex-with-a-16-year-old-he-went-to-jail-for-6-years/) and [here](https://abcnews.go.com/US/19-year-spend-25-years-registered-sex-offender/story?id=32783206).
The first link describes an 18yo who had sex with a 16yo he met on a dati... | 1,728,803,982 | Livid_Lengthiness_69 | nan | nan | 2024-10-13 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Misogynistic men are often equally misandrist as they are misogynistic | {'id': 'lrl6exz', 'text': 'I’m not entirely sure that is relevant.\xa0\n\nI think many if not most misogynists also don’t believe themselves to be misogynistic, and they just believe it’s natural and will make women more fulfilled to behave in the ways that they want them to.\xa0\n\nWhether they believe they are misand... | {'id': 'lrl4vuz', 'text': ">\xa0The man believes that most men hold the same views as themselves, which is a misandrist assumption because it implies most men hold misogynistic viewpoints.\n\nMisandry means hatred against men. For these men that you speak of, to think that most men hold the same views as them, is not m... | 1g23ppd | CMV: Misogynistic men are often equally misandrist as they are misogynistic | Most of the men I‘ve observed exhibiting hostile or benevolent sexism towards women hold equally sexist views about men.
i see a good amount of misandry from red pilled men- that women are lying, cheating, and manipulative, whereas men are naturally prone to wanting sex at a far higher rate, and that men are “infer... | 1,728,749,985 | PachinkoMars | nan | nan | 2024-10-12 | 2024_fall |
CMV: The man vs the bear question indirectly fuelled hatred between groups | {'id': 'lrdq935', 'text': 'If you interpret the truth as misandry, then that is on you and not the metaphor. Time for some inner work.', 'author': 'ilovetandt', 'score': -4, 'timestamp': 1728633009} | {'id': 'lrdohbt', 'text': 'No, she’s really not. The ones who are genuinely good are not alienated. \n\nThe ones who are pushed away are perhaps less “good” than they believe themselves to be.', 'author': 'Destroyer_2_2', 'score': -9, 'timestamp': 1728631752} | 1g13usf | CMV: The man vs the bear question indirectly fuelled hatred between groups | So I has been hearing about "The man vs the bear question" Which I feared that the question question could either misinterpreted to fuel the gender to the point of severe hatred...
So as you may know, In the internet there's two groups that fight in the "gender war" so to speak: The "Manosphere" a.k.a. Incel, Pickup... | 1,728,629,725 | Porschii_ | nan | nan | 2024-10-11 | 2024_fall |
Cmv: Commercial advertising should be banned | {'id': 'lrv82ch', 'text': "Okay, but I think movie trailers at least show the need for advertising.\n\nBecause how would you know when a movie was coming out if the movie studio wasn't allowed to make a trailer with a release date on it? For movies that aren't part of major franchises how are you supposed to know what ... | {'id': 'lrv6zfn', 'text': "The vast majority of advertising is for product categories that everyone knows exist. If someone needs something, they go look for it. How is that by any stretch of the imagination 'completely blind'?", 'author': 'Cubusphere', 'score': 0, 'timestamp': 1728909026} | 1g3e25e | Cmv: Commercial advertising should be banned | Advertising is most beneficial for those most established e.g Nike shoes. This allows for branding to carry poor quality on established quality. We find ourselves in a situation where the most popular brand is often the worst quality at a middle of the road price or even the highest price. Advertising is paid for by cu... | 1,728,907,417 | snowleave | nan | nan | 2024-10-14 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Ninja and shinobi were not real | {'id': 'lqv0n5g', 'text': 'I still think you might be placing too much emphasis on the novelty of the label. If people use the term to describe soldiers who actually existed, then all that\'s needed is clarification on what is real and what is legend. \n\nI think we can reasonably say something like:\n\nMercenaries who... | {'id': 'lqv0iz2', 'text': "I think you're focusing too much on etymology rather than the historical reality. Ninja or shinobi (Japanese: 忍び, lit.\u2009'one who sneaks') were covert operatives in feudal Japan who specialized in infiltration, espionage, guerrilla warfare, and even acted as mercenaries or bodyguards.\n\nT... | 1fyk1h2 | CMV: Ninja and shinobi were not real | My argument is this: there is not enough historical evidence to claim that ninja/shinobi are real historical figures. When you try and prove that they exist, all you get are examples of anyone who did something stealthy, or someone who assassinated someone. But we already have terms for that- spies, and assassins. Ther... | 1,728,338,658 | danhyman | nan | nan | 2024-10-07 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Americans should believe in America first. | {'id': 'lrzm8as', 'text': "It's 1% of the budget. https://www.brookings.edu/articles/what-is-us-foreign-assistance/\n\n\n5% of discretionary spending. https://www.pgpf.org/finding-solutions/understanding-the-budget/spending#discretionary", 'author': 'uncle-iroh-11', 'score': 31, 'timestamp': 1728964589} | {'id': 'lrzlreq', 'text': 'Why does American Govt love Israel so much?', 'author': 'indianemployee', 'score': -3, 'timestamp': 1728964365} | 1g3yw9p | CMV: Americans should believe in America first. | Today, I want to make the point that, regardless of our opinions on the conflicts in Israel and Palestine or Russia and Ukraine, we should focus more on solving our problems here at home instead of sending aid overseas. My argument isn't about the complicated details of international issues, but about our responsibilit... | 1,728,963,834 | AdSpirited9373 | nan | nan | 2024-10-15 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Iran is not the greatest adversary of the United States, and saying so is a pretty brazen absurdity that demonstrates Israel's outsized influence on the country. | {'id': 'lrbghd1', 'text': '>Ahmadinejad did some things that were not what the Ayatollah wanted\n\nI\'m gonna have to see a source on this. He was able to talk and walk around by himself, but all actions of the government had at least implicit authorization from the supreme leader.\n\nAgain, going back to my previous p... | {'id': 'lrb74cj', 'text': 'How do you categorize "adversary"?\n\nI would argue that a minimum qualification is a lack of diplomatic relations, and/or commercial relations. We trade billions of dollars worth of good and services with Russia and China-and have formal relations with both. They are trading partners; relat... | 1g0rxgr | CMV: Iran is not the greatest adversary of the United States, and saying so is a pretty brazen absurdity that demonstrates Israel's outsized influence on the country. | Iran being the "greatest" enemy of the United States was a statement Kamala Harris made to the press when asked about who the United States greatest adversary was, for some context, but its a statement that could just as easily of come from a Republican's mouth.
Russia and China both have stronger militaries and stro... | 1,728,590,990 | CoyoteTheGreat | nan | nan | 2024-10-10 | 2024_fall |
cmv: Only individuals should be legal and taxable entities | {'id': 'lrzsdrw', 'text': '*"Yes the lowliest person will get the blame the first few times. Soon these people will see that "just doing what the boss says even if its illegal" is not ok and will stop doing it, and then the system works fine."*\n\nI didn\'t say anything about any employee choosing to do things knowing ... | {'id': 'lrza8yu', 'text': "I believe corporations should have lower tax rates as the tax itself is passed onto consumers and employee wages.\xa0\n\n\nHowever, corporations enjoy several legal protections that other entities do not enjoy.\xa0\n\n\nCorporations' owners are 100% exempt (unless they are involved in the man... | 1g3x83o | cmv: Only individuals should be legal and taxable entities | I think that there should be no entities for legal or tax purposes other than individuals - so no trusts or even companies.
They can still exist, just not have any standing when it comes to legal matters or money matters. If a someone died due to a "companies" negligence, then it's at least one individual at the compa... | 1,728,958,486 | Prim56 | nan | nan | 2024-10-15 | 2024_fall |
CMV: non-humanitarian countries will continue to block any attempt we make at improving the situation for the natural world and non-human animals. | {'id': 'lrvetb2', 'text': 'And honestly, most poor countries contribute very little to destroying the environment, that’s caused far more by overconsumption in rich countries.', 'author': 'Routine_Log8315', 'score': 4, 'timestamp': 1728912288} | {'id': 'lrvbhrz', 'text': "There's no such thing as a capitalist completely unconstrained by morals and values because every human out there has them.", 'author': 'xfvh', 'score': 1, 'timestamp': 1728910953} | 1g3eoct | CMV: non-humanitarian countries will continue to block any attempt we make at improving the situation for the natural world and non-human animals. | Almost every human nation will eventually aim for achieving capitalist prosperity. Prestigious markers like how many cars your citizens can buy matter to all populations in the world. This will likely include policies that improve human health enough to not cause too many workers dying - see chinas efforts for green en... | 1,728,909,347 | Equivalent_Pilot_125 | nan | nan | 2024-10-14 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Tax Filings Should be every 3-5 years, instead of annual | {'id': 'lryesz0', 'text': 'What? No way. \n\nI think you’re projecting the simple situations you’re familiar with onto other businesses. \n\nIn the last five years, my entity changed accounting principles, accounting system, and corporate structure. Laws changed. That was a 60 person org…imagine 6000 or 60000.\n\nPlus ... | {'id': 'lry4h2k', 'text': '>I mean credits and deductions are heavily used by the lower income folks, and represent a\xa0*much*\xa0larger percentage of their income in most cases. They certainly aren’t isolated to the higher income folks.\n\nBut there is the option just to lower the amount of taxes low income people pa... | 1g3q446 | CMV: Tax Filings Should be every 3-5 years, instead of annual | This view primarily applies to the US. It's my view that State and Federal tax returns should only be required every 3 or 5 years, not annually.
While plenty are simple, others can take literally hundreds of hours of preparation every single year. This is especially true when someone has multiple businesses, partners... | 1,728,938,287 | vettewiz | nan | nan | 2024-10-14 | 2024_fall |
CMV: The effectiveness of public policy within a society is dependent on the collective genetics of the inhabitants. The more diverse the genetics, the harder it is to develop public policy. | {'id': 'lru3hng', 'text': 'Uganda is not a genetically diverse country… lmao. \n\n80% of the country is Bantu… thats higher than the US when it comes to ethnic and racial homogeneity 🤷🏻\u200d♂️', 'author': 'Doub13D', 'score': 3, 'timestamp': 1728883292} | {'id': 'lrtqzvk', 'text': '>The effectiveness of public policy within a society is dependent on the collective genetics of the inhabitants.\n\nI wouldnt be giving you attention if this dump im taking wasnt such a strainer.', 'author': 'Minimum_Passing_Slut', 'score': 2, 'timestamp': 1728876446} | 1g361dy | CMV: The effectiveness of public policy within a society is dependent on the collective genetics of the inhabitants. The more diverse the genetics, the harder it is to develop public policy. | In modern times, we are often taught the idea that diversity is a strength. This is true in some regards: Such as collecting a broader range of ideas and perspectives within a workplace for innovation, or for experiencing a wider range of cuisine.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------... | 1,728,872,812 | disillusioned875 | nan | nan | 2024-10-14 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Preventing Jobs from being eliminated due to technological advancement and automation should not be considered a valid reason to strike | {'id': 'lpzz7lu', 'text': "If automation is going to make the company more money I don't see why a portion of that can't go to the employee (in the form of their wages) until they leave or retire.\n\nNegotiating over who gets that benefit seems like exactly what you're saying a union should do.", 'author': 'DeadCupcake... | {'id': 'lpzyiun', 'text': 'Ok, so we agree broadly that strikes/unions are allowed to advocate on the behalf of workers at the expense of the public \n\n\nSo why does the efficiency argument matter in this case? It is more beneficial to the worker to have a job than to be a part of a more efficient company', 'author': ... | 1fujm1l | CMV: Preventing Jobs from being eliminated due to technological advancement and automation should not be considered a valid reason to strike | Unions striking over jobs lost to technological advancements and automation does nothing but hinder economic progress and innovation. Technology often leads to increased efficiency, lower costs, and the creation of new jobs in emerging industries. Strikes that seek to preserve outdated roles or resist automation can st... | 1,727,884,579 | WakeoftheStorm | nan | nan | 2024-10-02 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Cards Against Humanity 's paying people who don't vote is illegal. | {'id': 'lrpklks', 'text': "So here's the thing:\n\n1) They're calling out Musk, who is offering to illegally pay voters. This is illegal: [https://www.cga.ct.gov/2001/rpt/2001-R-0132.htm](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2001/rpt/2001-R-0132.htm)\n\n2) It's a PR stunt. Go to the website in the instagram post - [https://apologi... | {'id': 'lrpffl9', 'text': "Wasn't this whole thing in response to Elon basically doing the same doing so if one is illegal then both are. Keep in mind I don't know the law well enough to see its it is or not, but if the law allows people to pay people off for a vote then they are so damned cooked in that country.\n\nE... | 1g2nf4p | CMV: Cards Against Humanity 's paying people who don't vote is illegal. | Cards Against Humanity has a project out right now where they bought records from some data brokers regarding who did/didn't vote in 2020 and who leans left/right. They are offering to pay left leaning people who didn't vote to say they will vote in 2024.
I assume that the left/right data is fairly inaccurate but tha... | 1,728,818,332 | Falernum | nan | nan | 2024-10-13 | 2024_fall |
CMV: For the sake of society, some professionals should be paid to spend time on forums. | {'id': 'lqetm6o', 'text': 'It\'s my position that it\'s so full of mis and disinformation mostly *because* such a significant portion of those consuming and interacting not only the skills, but the objectivity, to see much of it for what it is. And with the growth of AI... The ratio of mostly manipulative garbage to ge... | {'id': 'lqend68', 'text': "You assume these people will change their mind if provided with the correct information. Some of them will, but I bet a lot won't and will just get defensive. For a large minority of our population facts and logic mean nothing to them, because they choose to believe certian things. A flat ear... | 1fwgbik | CMV: For the sake of society, some professionals should be paid to spend time on forums. | I see it on here all the time:
what is clearly a 14 year old giving dumb relationship advice to a post by a 30yo married man;
people giving bad and dangerous DIY advice;
People getting the law very wrong (e.g. if you live together for a long time, it's common law marriage! Wrong. In some very specific states and ... | 1,728,095,300 | ActualGvmtName | nan | nan | 2024-10-05 | 2024_fall |
CMV: EVs are the new status symbol | {'id': 'lrr8sb0', 'text': "[Link 1](https://afdc.energy.gov/vehicles/electric-emissions)\n\n[Link 2](https://www.visualcapitalist.com/life-cycle-emissions-evs-vs-combustion-engine-vehicles/)\n\nNot here to post paragraphs about whatever, since you asked for reading, and I'm just a random redditor. Hope this provides th... | {'id': 'lrr0kcs', 'text': "Just because there's a higher level of status symbol doesn't mean that a lower tiered thing isn't also a status symbol.\n\nA penthouse is a status symbol even if private islands exist.\n\nFirst class exists as do private jets.", 'author': 'OlympiasTheMolossian', 'score': 0, 'timestamp': 17288... | 1g2ux7f | CMV: EVs are the new status symbol | Charging an EV is a major hassle. Spotty charging coverage, frequently broken chargers, and if can’t find a fast charging station it could take hours to get to an 80% charge. This is a massive difference from filling up a gas car in minutes at commonly available gas stations.
One of the most common refrains I hear fro... | 1,728,840,519 | 4oh4_error | nan | nan | 2024-10-13 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Porn is often sexist | {'id': 'ls1z7ve', 'text': 'I think you misread where op said never. \n\nThe only times op said never was about what happens in these videos op thinks are sexist. They are saying in these videos the women never xyz. \n\nThey did not say porn never shows women doijng xyz.', 'author': 'Long_Cress_9142', 'score': 1, 'times... | {'id': 'ls1o6c6', 'text': '> I am talking about mainstream porn\n\nLike... studio porn? Most of that is stepcest and cuckolding scenarios these days, and both have issues that are different that those listed above. They deal more with social expectations surrounding established relationships than mere objectification o... | 1g4933k | CMV: Porn is often sexist | I was recently in a thread that found issue with highly-degrading porn titles at an IVF clinic. nigh nobody could spot the problem, excluding lesbians like me.
I found it funny, but had a disturbing realization that there may be a pervasive narrative going around that degrading women is normal, and that porn is common... | 1,729,002,645 | PachinkoMars | nan | nan | 2024-10-15 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Colleges should offer refunds if a majority of the class agrees the professor is incompetent. | {'id': 'ls4gl7v', 'text': "Right, it shouldn't be up to the students alone, which honestly came off as a major part of your view. It shouldn't be tied to the accountability of the school other than triggering investigations. \n\nTheir accountability might not be able to look like a refund, though. instead, it might be ... | {'id': 'ls4dv4p', 'text': "This just isn't how at-will transactions work. An employer cannot ask for salary back if the employee gets bad reviews or is fired. \n\nSome kind of legal contract would be needed to effect what you propose, and as you can imagine, what professors or schools would be incentivized to wrangle w... | 1g4lj54 | CMV: Colleges should offer refunds if a majority of the class agrees the professor is incompetent. | I am a college student and my argument stems mainly from the fact that I currently have a professor who has admitted to not having taught math in 20 years and having no idea about modern teaching methodologies. The professor says to "just follow what I am doing in class and you'll be fine" and has provided absolutely n... | 1,729,034,856 | AdSpirited9373 | nan | nan | 2024-10-15 | 2024_fall |
CMV: the left and democrats are not capable of the same cult behavior as maga | {'id': 'lsgu7l0', 'text': 'If I may, back in 2016 I had a group of hard left friends who were heavy into #feelthebern, like daily posts on it to spread awareness of Bernie Sanders.\n\nThen the day Hillary took the nomination a friend then posted a point by point listing of Hillary’s platform explaining why he supported... | {'id': 'lsgtc1z', 'text': 'I tend to agree with you, with Republicans they get a cult of personality. The Left is super dedicated to party-- you only need to see how Kamala suddenly went from the most disliked VP in history to a leading Presidential candidate after her only primary experience was getting absolutely de... | 1g67mxc | CMV: the left and democrats are not capable of the same cult behavior as maga | case in point, look at how they went from defending biden and hating kamala to immediately reversing course.
it was "lets weekend at bernies biden" to "kamala is awesome" when they were like "biden needs to dump kamala for his re-election"
youd NEVER see that kind of tactical thinking on the maga republican side
all... | 1,729,217,647 | shadow_nipple | nan | nan | 2024-10-18 | 2024_fall |
CMV: The concept of making beauty modeling diverse is inherently flawed. | {'id': 'lsg0ytj', 'text': 'Your argument is a strawman. You never even established credible reason for why you think modeling tries to establish an objective beauty.', 'author': 'translove228', 'score': 1, 'timestamp': 1729207858} | {'id': 'lsfzvl0', 'text': "you know that's not a counterpoint right?", 'author': 'Formal_Yesterday8114', 'score': 0, 'timestamp': 1729207451} | 1g63vn5 | CMV: The concept of making beauty modeling diverse is inherently flawed. | I am focusing on runway models and super models, not things like retail fashion models for brands or fashion.
**1: Modeling attempts to establish objective beauty**
A model is meant to display which people are the **models** of current beauty standards and stereotypes. It attempts to establish objectives beauty by ad... | 1,729,205,971 | Legitimate-Bath-9651 | nan | nan | 2024-10-17 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Adding a Physical Security Key to protect my personal data is overkill | {'id': 'ls9g736', 'text': 'Yes - but not in addition to app based 2FA, rather instead of app based 2FA. 2FA apps often don’t have good backup features, so if someone’s phone gets broken or stolen, they can be royally screwed. Keeping a backup security key is way cheaper and more practical than keeping a backup phone, a... | {'id': 'ls6636n', 'text': ">Unlike phone number-based 2FA, Authentication App or device-based 2FA requires the user to have physical possession of the token and help remove the risk of mobile carriers falling for phishers whose social engineering skills are on point.\n\nDirectly from your source. Unless you just get so... | 1g4tm8t | CMV: Adding a Physical Security Key to protect my personal data is overkill | Change my view:
I do not need a physical security key to ensure my data is protected in my alley Apple garden. I have my iPhone 15 pro max, my iPad 12.9”, and my series 4 Apple Watch.
I want to protect my pictures (photography is one of my main and key hobby/ies), messages, notes (especially notes these are importan... | 1,729,063,012 | IXMCMXCII | nan | nan | 2024-10-16 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Porn and OF should both be totally banned and prosecution efforts should be focused against the mostly male customer base. | {'id': 'lsflf6h', 'text': 'You can award deltas for whatever alters your view, even slightly. You can also award as many as you\'d like.\n\nThe point I\'m trying to make and asking you to consider is that it\'s very difficult to define what is and isn\'t pornography. I know we all basically know what it is and when w... | {'id': 'lsfii9d', 'text': 'Wow. That\'s one of the best so far.\xa0 "Not only do I have nothing to add to the debate, but your question makes me so uncomfortable that I hope you get arrested"\nFucking hell. This sub is great. I\'ve never seen so many incels get so upset so easily', 'author': 'Buggery_bollox', 'score': ... | 1g61mg0 | CMV: Porn and OF should both be totally banned and prosecution efforts should be focused against the mostly male customer base. | The reason why I want to ban these things is because they are forms of moral degeneracy and actively destroy society from the ground up.
Think about it. There are so many ways to have fun. You can go out with friends or go on a solo trip to the city. Of course, these are not mutually exclusive with being a porn watch... | 1,729,199,646 | Early-Possibility367 | nan | nan | 2024-10-17 | 2024_fall |
CMV: It's not ok to sacrifice our nation's sobriety to win elections | {'id': 'lss6k0r', 'text': 'Just to expand on things for people in this thread, propaganda doesnt mean misinformation or even lies.\nThough its a common misconception\n\nSmokey the bear is propaganda, Give a hoot dont pollute? Likewise, also propaganda.\n\nPropaganda is disseminated messages, more or less', 'author': 'z... | {'id': 'lsrpxe3', 'text': 'The ‘ends justify the means’ angle is not valid here. For it to be propaganda in the first place implies the means itself is faulty. You wouldn’t say a charity organization advertising is propaganda for an example.', 'author': 'YouJustNeurotic', 'score': 1, 'timestamp': 1729384371} | 1g7lpnz | CMV: It's not ok to sacrifice our nation's sobriety to win elections |
I'm going to take a few lines to explain what my post is not about:
First, my post isn't about arguing that the 2016 election was swayed by foreign propaganda; that is not something I'm willing to change my view on.
Second, I'm not seeking to discuss whether the use of propaganda for political gain has been go... | 1,729,380,903 | Davngr | nan | nan | 2024-10-19 | 2024_fall |
CMV: In the case of #21 of Tennessee hitting an Arkansas fan yesterday, the fan deserves the vast majority of the blame. | {'id': 'lqoi2cx', 'text': '>Rape is much more premeditated and is done regardless of where the victim is or what they\'re wearing.\n\nSo if the rape isn\'t premeditated that would make it fine for the girl to be raped since it was a foreseeable outcome? \n\nNot sure what your argument is by bringing this up \n\n>I don\... | {'id': 'lqof1om', 'text': 'Huh, why? Presumably this fan was an adult, what about them justifies the kid gloves? If anything, the dude who just played the game should get deference over the guy who sat on his ass and watched a game.\xa0', 'author': 'RobotsFromTheFuture', 'score': -13, 'timestamp': 1728248784} | 1fxqffz | CMV: In the case of #21 of Tennessee hitting an Arkansas fan yesterday, the fan deserves the vast majority of the blame. | Video surfaced today of #21 of Tennessee's football team shoving an Arkansas fan to the ground as Arkansas fans stormed the field post game. There is a lot of outrage against the player for what he did, but I'd say that outrage is misplaced. I think it's the fan's fault for putting himself in the situation.
One thing... | 1,728,247,524 | Early-Possibility367 | nan | nan | 2024-10-06 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Booby traps should be completely and globally legal if they're able to be turned on and off. | {'id': 'lshfn1g', 'text': 'Can you think of a scenario where booby traps perform better than an alarm, and instructions to your kids to run to aforementioned gun/peephole combo in the event of an alarm? Maybe if you live in a palace and have your kids sleep on the opposite side of that palace for some reason?\n\nBecaus... | {'id': 'lshex31', 'text': "> You don't sneakily enter someone else's home without their permission unless you've bad intentions. Do you consider firing a weapon in their direction an appropriate response?\n\nA warning shot, maybe, but I don't think it's appropriate to immediately kill someone with a gun when, for all I... | 1g6a4pg | CMV: Booby traps should be completely and globally legal if they're able to be turned on and off. | The only argument I've seen against booby traps is that there could arise a scenario where, for the owner's safety, medical staff, police or firefighters may need to enter the home without the consent of the owner.
This could occur if you had, say, a pitfall trap somehow set up in your house that was always actively ... | 1,729,226,339 | MHSevven | nan | nan | 2024-10-18 | 2024_fall |
CMV: "Accurate" representation in media isn't all it's cracked up to be | {'id': 'lsuld4x', 'text': 'If the implication is that a personality disorder causes certain behavior then the book should at least be accurate enough to reality in that the disorder actually does cause said behavior. \n\nPeople with disorders have to live with the media\'s portrayal of them. If you have a disorder you... | {'id': 'lsrv4j0', 'text': '>So, when we demand that media representation be "accurate," what does that even mean?\n\nThe expectation is can be a variety of things. Some people may want more positive stories. Some may want stories that reflect experiences that they can relate to. Some people may want more stories in gen... | 1g7mfr3 | CMV: "Accurate" representation in media isn't all it's cracked up to be | I'm about to say something that might get me roasted, but hear me out. I think the emphasis on "accurate" representation of social groups and experiences in media is overblown. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying it's not important at all, but I think we're putting too much stock in the idea that fiction can (or should)... | 1,729,383,111 | Confident-Fan-57 | nan | nan | 2024-10-20 | 2024_fall |
CMV: If someone does something because of something you said, it is not your fault. | {'id': 'lsmydhq', 'text': '> However, holistically, I would blame Hitler since he created and set up the institution that allowed for those killings.\n\nHe build those institutions with words. Do you think he made Germany what it was by crafting with his hands like clay? No, it was words. He told people to do things.',... | {'id': 'lslypja', 'text': ">Words are just noises.\n\nThat is just factually incorrect. Words may be comprised of mouth and throat noises, but their purpose is to convey *meaning*. It is not the *words* *themselves* that hurt people. It is the meaning those words carry. It is the meaning those words convey. That's what... | 1g6uctu | CMV: If someone does something because of something you said, it is not your fault. | If I were to go and say something horrible to someone else that led them to cry, that would not be my fault. I made the choice to say something to them, and they made the choice to cry. Words are just noises. They are something that we use to communicate. It is different than punching someone because that is physically... | 1,729,290,165 | TTVBy_The_Way | nan | nan | 2024-10-18 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Infanticide is not worse than abolition | {'id': 'lt5cvo1', 'text': "Because, with the current stats in the western world, for every 100 000 rolls of the dice, it lands 99 985 times on 'okay or better' and 15 times on 'absolutely miserable' (judging by teen suicide rate because that's the decision of 'nah, this life isn't worth living').\n\nThose are pretty gr... | {'id': 'lt569ql', 'text': 'Well how about this for a wrench in the works: what if I don’t think you have a sense of self or a consciousness? \n\nI think that everyone else has a consciousness, but not you. I think you act like a person, but have no will behind it. I think you are a “philosophical zombie.” How could you... | 1g9d41w | CMV: Infanticide is not worse than abolition | This isn't an anti-abortion post. I do not really care whether it is or is not legal, I just want someone to explain to me because as is I feel everyone is being a hypocrite and have no idea why.
It is a common refrain amongst people who are pro-choice to use increased infanticide statistics against pro-life people, b... | 1,729,585,012 | hydrochlorodyne | nan | nan | 2024-10-22 | 2024_fall |
CMV: "I can't pause it because it's multiplayer" isn't really a valid excuse. | {'id': 'lqpq2t8', 'text': 'I usually play full duos so my teammate would lose out. And no it’s not a huge deal in solos but unless it’s an urgent matter why would you leave?', 'author': 'East-Teacher7155', 'score': 7, 'timestamp': 1728266009} | {'id': 'lqpminb', 'text': "The table and stuff will also be there when I'm done with the match. It's rude to expect people to drop what they're doing in order to assist you in whatever.", 'author': 'tayroarsmash', 'score': 4, 'timestamp': 1728264591} | 1fxw2ob | CMV: "I can't pause it because it's multiplayer" isn't really a valid excuse. | I feel like we've all heard the story of a kid sobbing when being called for dinner because a mother doesn't understand that you can't pause a live game session. But imo? I've never really understood why it's such a big deal to turn off a multi-player session if something comes up. Especially for adults, I don't think ... | 1,728,263,927 | Komosho | nan | nan | 2024-10-07 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Progressives being anti-electoral single issue voters because of Gaza are damaging their own interests. | {'id': 'lt465cl', 'text': "I agree with your first point- that is another flaw with this argument. However as long as there are some Palestinians left alive, and as long as they're still living under Israeli occupation, there's still someone that needs helping. Not to mention that the genocide in Palestine is far from ... | {'id': 'lt44a3s', 'text': 'I want you to [read this new article covering IDF soldiers describing what theyve seen](https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/21/middleeast/gaza-war-israeli-soldiers-ptsd-suicide-intl/index.html) and truly understand that there is not a single thing you can say to a \xa0progressive that would ever chan... | 1g97dnv | CMV: Progressives being anti-electoral single issue voters because of Gaza are damaging their own interests. | I'm not going to put my own politics into this post and just try to explain why I think so.
There is the tired point that everyone brings up of a democrat non-vote or third-party vote is a vote for Trump because it's a 2 party system, but Progressives say that politicians should be someone who represent our interests ... | 1,729,563,135 | kdestroyer1 | nan | nan | 2024-10-22 | 2024_fall |
CMV: furries are not usually nice people, at least, not unless you ask them if they’re nice people. | {'id': 'lt913ai', 'text': 'Okay! Glad to hear it. If I have changed your mind, type ! delta but without the space with a brief description of how I changed your view.', 'author': 'Ender_Octanus', 'score': 1, 'timestamp': 1729637049} | {'id': 'lt8tejw', 'text': 'My point is either way can’t really be proven as “not usually” because unless you’ve met the majority of furries, it can’t be proven. Your view is an incorrect fact', 'author': 'ArtisticRiskNew1212', 'score': 0, 'timestamp': 1729634392} | 1g9toh8 | CMV: furries are not usually nice people, at least, not unless you ask them if they’re nice people. | I know, it may sound rude and edgy, but in 90% of my encounters with them, they have either been annoying, demeaning, stuck-up, rude, or mentally draining to talk to. I have had some positive experiences recently, but only because I told them that I only ever had bad experiences. I feel like they should be nice either ... | 1,729,632,652 | Creative-Finger5965 | nan | nan | 2024-10-22 | 2024_fall |
CMV: there is no reason to RTO unless your job can only be accomplished from your place of work | {'id': 'lt2bh2h', 'text': "Yes. Junior engineers have progressed much more quickly from home. \n\nThey've also been much more transparent when they don't understand something. I think in office there was a fear most/all had of asking a stupid question and people seeing them being stupid that's lessened when it's a dire... | {'id': 'lt28y1j', 'text': 'There are jobs that cannot be done from home at the same level of service. I am an architect and spend a good bit of time dealing with various local jurisdictions for building permits. Pre-covid, you could walk into a the permit office to ask a question, check on a status, or argue with a p... | 1g8yugw | CMV: there is no reason to RTO unless your job can only be accomplished from your place of work | As we are approaching 5 years since the Pandemic happened more and more businesses are requiring their work from home employees to return to the office. As of now many businesses are hybrid and require some mix of in office and wfh time. However there has been a big push for employees to return to the office for more t... | 1,729,539,969 | blaze92x45 | nan | nan | 2024-10-21 | 2024_fall |
CMV: The US National Debt “crisis” is a religiously motivated moral panic. | {'id': 'lt8dsju', 'text': '>I’m talking about the fundamental source of the attitude\n\nSo am I. We know that your hypothesis that there\'s a religious fundamental desire to pay down the debt because no political party acts in furtherance of such goal. We can see other religious fundamental desires being operationalize... | {'id': 'lt8d3fd', 'text': "I am an atheist, so my concerns are wholly unrelated to religion. \n\nThe reality is that debt comes with a cost. While small amounts of debt are manageable, there obviously is a level where it becomes a concern, and when interest payments surpass DoD spending, that's certainly a level where ... | 1g9rxvc | CMV: The US National Debt “crisis” is a religiously motivated moral panic. | Abrahamic religions are traditionally weird about banking and interest. Although debt hawks have a track record of using the national debt to try to prevent social spending, their real motivation is fear of literal divine retribution, and their ultimate goal is to eliminate the national debt regardless of the consequen... | 1,729,628,240 | tkrr | nan | nan | 2024-10-22 | 2024_fall |
CMV: We need to start embracing being single as a valid life choice and support it as such, same as we support any other life choices. | {'id': 'lsjb091', 'text': "> Like I said,\xa0[](https://www.reddit.com/r/Singles/)\xa0is just a thirst sub rather than a place for singles to go and talk to each other. \n\nSo your whole view is based on the purpose of a particular subreddit? On this one, single website? Why should that serve as a barometer for your vi... | {'id': 'lsjaavx', 'text': "Umbrella what? I don't think people who choose to be single have any disdain or lack of support.\n\nIt's people who desperately want a relationship but can't get one that society shuns. Granted sometimes people mistake the former for the latter but I don't think it's all the common.\n\nAt the... | 1g6jkrp | CMV: We need to start embracing being single as a valid life choice and support it as such, same as we support any other life choices. | Speaking as someone who has been single for the vast majority of my life and whose interest in relationships seems to be dwindling over time, I can personally attest to the fact that society does NOT respect this as a "choice", much less a "valid" one. Sometimes this is generally viewed as a consequence of some unfortu... | 1,729,262,226 | Nillavuh | nan | nan | 2024-10-18 | 2024_fall |
cmv: the Charlottesville "very fine people" quote/controversy was not fake news | {'id': 'lsfizuj', 'text': 'He accelerated for a block before driving into them. You can look it up because he was convicted of murder and committing a hate crime.', 'author': 'YetAnotherZombie', 'score': 9, 'timestamp': 1729201290} | {'id': 'lsfi94v', 'text': 'Why do you think that telling a bunch of neo-Nazis they are good people is going to get them to stay home? Those things seem unrelated.', 'author': 'yyzjertl', 'score': 2, 'timestamp': 1729201037} | 1g61cwb | cmv: the Charlottesville "very fine people" quote/controversy was not fake news | I see Trump supporters bring this up all the time as an example of the media lying about Trump, but this argument sounds transparently absurd to me. It feels like a "magic words" argument, where his supporters think that as long as he says the right magic words, you can completely ignore the actual message he's communi... | 1,729,198,954 | taintpaint | nan | nan | 2024-10-17 | 2024_fall |
CMV: The Supreme Leader of North Korea Kim Jong Un might be one of Earth's greatest heroes | {'id': 'lta4k22', 'text': "Then he caused the issue in the first place. \n\nHe's gonna die someday, if he has intentions to convert them over to the modern world, he really should start now.", 'author': 'Various_Succotash_79', 'score': 4, 'timestamp': 1729650970} | {'id': 'lta45ry', 'text': '>ridiculously unfit populist leader like the North Korean Donald Trump \n\nSo, real quick, how many nukes did Donald Trump launch?', 'author': 'revengeappendage', 'score': 2, 'timestamp': 1729650843} | 1g9zwy8 | CMV: The Supreme Leader of North Korea Kim Jong Un might be one of Earth's greatest heroes | It's all because North Korea is an insane country with a nuclear arsenal.
He might be one of Earth's greatest heroes because he's preventing nuclear war by keeping the dystopian society of North Korea under an iron fist that prevents anyone crazier than him from entering a position of power and starting a nuclear war.... | 1,729,650,509 | TalkingOcelot | nan | nan | 2024-10-23 | 2024_fall |
CMV: All day-traders and retail traders are gamblers deluding themselves - 100% of their results are based purely on random luck, and there is little to no skill expression at the retail level | {'id': 'lt2uzmj', 'text': '>i\'m not saying it\'s impossible for you, or some other SME to be right once, twice, or even consistently about an industry that you may understand to an extreme degree. but for you to be able to turn that subject matter expertise into\xa0**long-term, repeatable market-beating**\xa0success y... | {'id': 'lt2u026', 'text': 'What you\'re saying is correct over an infinite span of time, but a human life is not an infinite span of time.\n\nIf I engage in a riskier strategy than you every year for a million years, there will certainly be centuries where I never become illiquid. My strategy should also produce higher... | 1g908tr | CMV: All day-traders and retail traders are gamblers deluding themselves - 100% of their results are based purely on random luck, and there is little to no skill expression at the retail level | **Background**: I am a professional oil and refined products trader. My experience includes 4 years on a commodities trading desk at a bulge bracket investment bank, one year in O&G strategy consulting, and now 2 years trading refined products at a oil major. In the next year or so, I will consider transitioning to der... | 1,729,543,320 | fakespeare999 | nan | nan | 2024-10-21 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Western right wingers and islamists would get along great, if it wasn't for ethnic and religious hatred. | {'id': 'lqztcdk', 'text': 'You can if I changed your mind (which includes changing your mind a little bit, or I guess educating you on the topic) :)', 'author': 'wibbly-water', 'score': 7, 'timestamp': 1728419329} | {'id': 'lqzsmlr', 'text': 'Wait you mean to tell me that the confederates were *progressives?*\n\n \nOr do you mean to tell me that you struggle with reading comprehension?', 'author': 'Frosty-Bag4447', 'score': 1, 'timestamp': 1728419092} | 1fz8a7x | CMV: Western right wingers and islamists would get along great, if it wasn't for ethnic and religious hatred. | They both tend to believe:
* That women should be subservient to men and can't be left to their own devices
* In strict gender roles that everyone must adhere to, or else
* That queer people are the scum of the earth
* That children should have an authoritarian upbringing
* In corporal and capital punishment
* That je... | 1,728,415,606 | Fraeddi | nan | nan | 2024-10-08 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Redditors are fully capable of recognising political propaganda... but only 50% of the time. | {'id': 'lq0kb3r', 'text': "You literally prove OP's point by only listing left wing broardsheets and only compare them to right-wing tabloids. Deliberately ignoring the unreliable left wing outlets and the more reliable right-wing outlets. To add to this, you use the Guardian as an example of a left wing reliable sourc... | {'id': 'lq0d44b', 'text': '>By contrast, those with consistently liberal views:\n\n>Are less unified in their media loyalty; they rely on a greater range of news outlets, including some – like NPR and the New York Times– that others use far less.\n\n[Political Polarization & Media Habits | Pew Research Center](https://... | 1fulop5 | CMV: Redditors are fully capable of recognising political propaganda... but only 50% of the time. | The majority of Redditors (in terms of politics, but also a lot of other things) think they are too slick and smart to fall for propaganda.
I'll use an obvious example here: Most Redditors can correctly Identify that Fox News has a HUGE element of Propaganda in it. The entire point of Fox News (when it comes to polit... | 1,727,889,609 | Dillon_1289 | nan | nan | 2024-10-02 | 2024_fall |
CMV: "Anti-zionists" are in effect anti-semites because they cannot propose any solution to the Gaza conflict that doesn't involve massive Israeli deaths. | {'id': 'ltbfc1j', 'text': "I agree it's far from ideal but also I think trying to pass the buck to another middle eastern country is a surefire way to end up back where we started. Palestine is already a mostly Iranian proxy at this point in terms of hamas, and the only neighbor who'd really be a solid fit(egypt) squar... | {'id': 'ltbfao6', 'text': 'What ceasefire ? [https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2023/11/24/countdown-to-genocide/](https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2023/11/24/countdown-to-genocide/)\n\nIsrael killed more civilians than any other actors in this conflict. They killed more since oct 7th than most of the "terrorists" ... | 1ga61qv | CMV: "Anti-zionists" are in effect anti-semites because they cannot propose any solution to the Gaza conflict that doesn't involve massive Israeli deaths. | Basically title.
I don't understand what the anti-isreali people would have isreal do in its current position.
I don't think there's a country in the world that is expected to be bombed regularly and endure bloody terror attacks and do nothing about it, except for Israel.
Making deals with terrorists has proven po... | 1,729,674,296 | EUCulturalEnrichment | nan | nan | 2024-10-23 | 2024_fall |
CMV: If Hezbollah Collapses Under the Current Israeli Attacks, the Group that Rises in their Place Will Be Much More Dangerous to All Parties | {'id': 'lt8f56g', 'text': "That's why I don't see Hezbollah being wiped out.\n\nAt the same time though ,these are all arguments against your initial thesis that in case of Hezbollah collapsing, a more radical group would fill the space. The space is too big and too complex to be filled with radicals. It's much more li... | {'id': 'lt7eue1', 'text': "\nEvery single bomb is an recruitment poster. Israel has a long and established history of atrocities in Leb. The people in the region have long memories. \n\nHell the Israeli killing and atrocities in Leb. was the reason the IDF created their propaganda department to always appear as the vic... | 1g9m9y1 | CMV: If Hezbollah Collapses Under the Current Israeli Attacks, the Group that Rises in their Place Will Be Much More Dangerous to All Parties | A key concept within Lebanon is that Hezbollah has shown interest in preventing a civil war between the other sects that live in Lebanon. They participate in government there and have at least limited domestic relations with Sunnis, Christians and other types of communities within the country. It seems the most likely ... | 1,729,614,324 | FinTecGeek | nan | nan | 2024-10-22 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Little kids shouldn't have access to tablets or smartphones | {'id': 'lrk0h1b', 'text': 'Any kid that has access to an iPhone or iPad or whatever, but doesn’t have access 24/7 would follow under your title and you agree to those terms and thus you disagree with your title as your title is too harsh.', 'author': 'Superbooper24', 'score': 3, 'timestamp': 1728735701} | {'id': 'lrjz9hj', 'text': 'Fair enough. I\'m not sure there\'s anyone who actually would advocate for that though. They just kinda do it. Maybe someone out there has a "Train them for contemporary society" mindset, but seems kinda unlikely.', 'author': 'valkenar', 'score': 2, 'timestamp': 1728735129} | 1g1ydza | CMV: Little kids shouldn't have access to tablets or smartphones | Let me first clarify something: When I say little kids, I mean someone below the age of 10. Toddlers and such.
It's honestly sad to see kids as young as 6 years old glued to a screen in such a way. I know this is going to make me sound old, but I feel like kids that age should be socializing more or at the very least ... | 1,728,733,783 | Lokicham | nan | nan | 2024-10-12 | 2024_fall |
CMV: we should use eugenics to improve the intelligence of the human species. | {'id': 'ltko0fa', 'text': 'You ar quibbling over your own refusal to read the full and various definitions of cruel. Maybe it would help to offer you another set of words and phrases:\n\n\nBrutal\nHarmful\nCausing misery\nInflicting widespread suffering', 'author': 'Equal-Air-2679', 'score': 3, 'timestamp': 1729802012} | {'id': 'ltkm3em', 'text': '*in some but not all countries\xa0\n\nThat paper examines Norwegian data. Surely someone with a high IQ knows that you can’t make broad statements based off of the results from one paper, right? \xa0', 'author': 'arrgobon32', 'score': 2, 'timestamp': 1729801439} | 1gbbjyb | CMV: we should use eugenics to improve the intelligence of the human species. | I’d like to hear any potential problems you all can think of with the core of my idea. However, I’m mainly interested in problems of logistics. I believe that large-scale, organized eugenics to increase human intelligence would be both one of the most beneficial things we could ever do for ourselves as well as one of t... | 1,729,799,256 | Gr8er_than_u_m8 | nan | nan | 2024-10-24 | 2024_fall |
CMV: There is absolutely no reason for fans of the Star Wars sequels to continue to enjoy and support them as they are invalidated beyond redemption. | {'id': 'ltuz2m8', 'text': 'That sounds like a personal problem that you need to work on. \n\nIt sounds like a lack of self confidence', 'author': 'justafanofz', 'score': 3, 'timestamp': 1729955280} | {'id': 'ltuy977', 'text': "Why not feel the validation of possessing a superior opinion to Star Wars fanboys? Y'know, if simply enjoying a movie is insufficient.", 'author': 'eggynack', 'score': 2, 'timestamp': 1729955001} | 1gcldld | CMV: There is absolutely no reason for fans of the Star Wars sequels to continue to enjoy and support them as they are invalidated beyond redemption. | Disliked films come out and are then forgotten, franchises rise and fall, cinematic universes start and sometimes die at film one. But the Star Wars sequel trilogy is easily the most hated cinematic event in existence. There is simply no movie or movie series that has caused as much anger, division, conflict and derisi... | 1,729,950,172 | ChocolateHoneycomb | nan | nan | 2024-10-26 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Bottlegate was justified. | {'id': 'ltcinvo', 'text': "I feel you! I certainly wouldn't say it was logical or justified, just understandable. If you want a group of people to behave to the best of their logical ability, don't give them a very good reason to feel indignant and enraged. Changing a crowd's emotions changes the way they'll behave.", ... | {'id': 'ltce27v', 'text': "So what you're really saying is that this game has lived in your head for free for the last 23 years and you're still talking about it. Also you think it's cool for people to physically assault someone because they disagree over a call with no relevance to real life at a sportsball game... ... | 1gaawqo | CMV: Bottlegate was justified. | For those who don't know, there was a Browns-Jaguars game in 2001. For the Browns, it was late in the season and with that particular game, there was a playoff spot on the line
4th down with 48 seconds to go and the Browns in scoring position down 15-10, referees called a 1st down.
With time of the essence, Tim Couch... | 1,729,691,053 | BunnyPatrol2001 | nan | nan | 2024-10-23 | 2024_fall |
CMV: I believe abortion should be illegal. | {'id': 'ltywv4q', 'text': "Because it's not a baby. It's a collection of cells. Is it wrong to get rid of cancer, another form of life? How about parasites, is it wrong to kill that life?", 'author': 'Dack_Blick', 'score': 4, 'timestamp': 1730008138} | {'id': 'ltyvya5', 'text': ">I consider the start of life the time when a sperm cell enters the egg.\n\nBetween 33%-50% of fertalized eggs don't implant. So, like, all women are murders in your eyes?", 'author': 'RoninOak', 'score': 2, 'timestamp': 1730007590} | 1gd3yxe | CMV: I believe abortion should be illegal. | Specifications:
I am talking about the abortion in which a fetus is removed from the mother.
I believe if you have intercourse with someone and get pregnant you shouldn't be able to have an abortion, unless....
1. The mother is at serious permanent health risks.
2. The mother was raped.
3. The mother is under ag... | 1,730,006,883 | Qnamod | nan | nan | 2024-10-27 | 2024_fall |
CMV: The vast majority of Cuban poverty and authoritarian policy can be attributed to the USA. | {'id': 'ltgar7w', 'text': ">I find this kind of absurd. Capitalist countries can only trade with other capitalist countries, and communist countries can only trade with other communist countries?\n\nCapitalist countries might not want to trade with communist countries that expropriate the property of companies. And com... | {'id': 'ltg2jcn', 'text': 'Despite that Cuba is still the only country in the Caribbean you can freely leave tourist areas without pretty extreme risk. Progress in Cuba is slow but steady. Its ironically the way a lot of right wing Americans seem to want things, you dont find many things that arent Cuban made in Cuba. ... | 1gar40o | CMV: The vast majority of Cuban poverty and authoritarian policy can be attributed to the USA. | Let me lead with why this view of mine initially changed and why I would like it changed again. I’m a left wing person whose core values are democracy and that regular people should have much more autonomy over their lives than they generally do. So as someone in the west, I believe in policies that will strengthen our... | 1,729,733,429 | coolamebe | nan | nan | 2024-10-24 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Censorship within /r/WorldNews is dangerous | {'id': 'ltcosvf', 'text': 'If this is your take, I’d argue that you post title is wrong, and should be “mod policy on Reddit is flawed” (or something similar), rather than singling out WorldNews. Posts of that kind have been made here very regularly', 'author': 'Environmental-Fun258', 'score': 32, 'timestamp': 17296959... | {'id': 'ltcjys2', 'text': "The fewer people getting their news from reddit the better. Comments on news are always horrible, this is inherently a bad format and without moderation they'll devolved into cesspits, check out the comments for any yahoo or MSN story, vile.", 'author': 'eggs-benedryl', 'score': 15, 'timestam... | 1gac58g | CMV: Censorship within /r/WorldNews is dangerous | /r/WorldNews is the largest subreddit on reddit, and controlling the narrative with permabans for widely supported views is dangerous and promotes a one sided story. It creates a self perpetuating echo chamber.
I was permabanned instantly for saying that Israel is enforcing an apartheid. Something many extensive Unit... | 1,729,694,298 | Pattern_Is_Movement | nan | nan | 2024-10-23 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Republicans who feel left behind and that their communities are being hollowed out should stop voting for the antigovernment Republican politicians who brought these changes about | {'id': 'ltzwlcu', 'text': ">You're not the kind of voter we are talking about, after all.\n\nThis is the exact same roadblock I ran into with the OP. The categorical exclusion of literally anyone who doesn't fit the exact description laid out in the post.\n\n>Try to explain why someone who DOES care about the river bur... | {'id': 'ltzuz10', 'text': 'Gee, coach. That’s got correcting me. \n\nYou are only proving my point, but you are to blinded to see it. \n\nThey are being incessantly told they are the problem. That despite being poor that they are privileged. That despite working hard their entire adulthood to raise good kids with good ... | 1gd7omr | CMV: Republicans who feel left behind and that their communities are being hollowed out should stop voting for the antigovernment Republican politicians who brought these changes about | We’re deep into election season, and I’ve seen a lot of psychologizing about the disinfected white rural voter who lives in a dying small town. Seems like voters like that may be poised to vote Republican down the ticket and maybe bring Trump back to power.
But when did these changes start? When was America “great” b... | 1,730,023,512 | Affectionate-Ice3145 | nan | nan | 2024-10-27 | 2024_fall |
CMV: The moon landing was real | {'id': 'lu05d9z', 'text': "i understand your intuition, but it doesn't map to the physical reality.\n\nwetness is a [surface science term](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wetting).\n\na molecule of water isn't wet, even when it is surrounded by other water molecules. wetness is an emergent property of two (non gaseous) p... | {'id': 'lu01w62', 'text': 'The title of the post uses I BELIEVE.\n\nHis last line uses "i am convinced".\n\nIf he already believed it, he wouldn\'t need convincing. So in my opinion, either word should be changed to more match the statement. I chose believe because I think it\'s the less accurate word.', 'author': '425... | 1gd9az3 | CMV: The moon landing was real | I believe that the Apollo moon landings were real and not a hoax. There are several pieces of evidence I'd like to present to support the landing's authenticity.
First, during the Apollo missions, the Soviet Union closely monitored NASA's activities. The USSR, a competitor in the space race, had both the capability an... | 1,730,030,178 | Alon51 | nan | nan | 2024-10-27 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Adding vinegar to laundry cycle does nothing. | {'id': 'ls1nx84', 'text': "You can't use dilution factors with weak acids technically. You have to use the molarity of vinegar and the pKa. However, you still do get to a pH of 3.8", 'author': 'hunterhuntsgold', 'score': 6, 'timestamp': 1729003668} | {'id': 'ls1fcod', 'text': "It doesn't. This trick really works. Once they smell like mildew, if you just dump 2-3 cups (500-750 mL) of vinegar in, the smell will be gone in one cycle.", 'author': 'koolman2', 'score': 5, 'timestamp': 1729000747} | 1g47fl2 | CMV: Adding vinegar to laundry cycle does nothing. | Average washing machine: 19 gallons of water per load.
Most advice online says add up to 0.5 cups of vinegar per load.
1 gallon = 16 cups.
19 gallons = 304 cups.
0.5/304= 0.0016%
So the vinegar is being diluted to 0.002% of its original concentration.
To take it a step further, most white vinegar or apple cide... | 1,728,998,077 | tmntnyc | nan | nan | 2024-10-15 | 2024_fall |
CMV: The US (and other NATO countries) should cease all diplomatic relations with Russia. | {'id': 'lrxgfyo', 'text': 'Putting aside the weird half of US, are there any other movements to leave NATO to start with?', 'author': 'eloel-', 'score': 6, 'timestamp': 1728936167} | {'id': 'lrxet6x', 'text': "Makes more sense to disband NATO. \n\nAlso a shame the Russian residence doesn't give any citizenship paths.", 'author': 'IncreaseObvious4402', 'score': -2, 'timestamp': 1728935662} | 1g3opvo | CMV: The US (and other NATO countries) should cease all diplomatic relations with Russia. | In case you've been living under a rock for the last few years, Russia is effectively at war with NATO in Ukraine due to invading that country and committing ethnic cleansing, likely genocide in the areas they occupy. I posit that it's morally abhorrent to retain diplomatic relations with such a country. Now, the war i... | 1,728,934,869 | SacluxGemini | nan | nan | 2024-10-14 | 2024_fall |
CMV: The universe exists only as a series of self sustaining patterns, and it makes perfect sense intelligent life would emerge. | {'id': 'lrs0b42', 'text': ">But I felt they are not understood enough nor important enough to my argument to mention.\n\nI don't think this is good reasoning when you are so sure on your beliefs. They are understood enough that we know they exist, and that we know that while unlikely they can stick around. We also know... | {'id': 'lrs09px', 'text': "I think the process of evolution should be distinguished from the origin of life. It kind of seems like you're conflating the two in your post. Conway's game is based on the starting conditions of life, not the universe. The idea of life being the consequence of certain anomolous patterns for... | 1g2y5ds | CMV: The universe exists only as a series of self sustaining patterns, and it makes perfect sense intelligent life would emerge. | I thought of this only recently, but could not find an inconsistency in my logic. I am hoping somebody here will. I am also hoping this doesn't seem incoherent. I'm not crazy!!
The idea is basically evolution taken to an extreme. What is here is what has survived.
The general idea comes from [Conway's Game of Life](... | 1,728,848,988 | Infinite_Worry_8733 | nan | nan | 2024-10-13 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Israel should recommit to a comprehensive strategy of “land for peace”, but pair it with an equally strategic policy of “annexation for violence”. | {'id': 'lu0256g', 'text': 'I see "land for peace" as a fundamentally flawed strategy that died with the second intifada, and suffered a second death with Sharon\'s disengagement. It should stay dead.\n\nInstead, I\'m proposing "peace for land", whereby Israel only recedes from Palestinian land after a certain amount of... | {'id': 'ltztrxf', 'text': 'Tried AND FAILED.\n\nIsrael handed Gaza back to the Palestinians in 2005. Probably one of the most momentous events in modern Palestinian history.\n\nThen the Palestinians elected Hamas in Jan 2006 in the only democratic election ever held in Palestine.\n\nThen in 2007 Hamas and Fatah WENT TO... | 1gd8sm7 | CMV: Israel should recommit to a comprehensive strategy of “land for peace”, but pair it with an equally strategic policy of “annexation for violence”. | This “land for peace, annexation for violence” plan would create a clear, enforceable path toward peace while imposing severe consequences for any aggression. The framework operates on two simple principles: each peaceful interval results in a specific parcel of land transferred from Israel to Palestinian control, fost... | 1,730,028,215 | Pale_Zebra8082 | nan | nan | 2024-10-27 | 2024_fall |
Cmv: it's okay to discriminate against neurodivergent manipulators | {'id': 'lu0xj6l', 'text': 'There are a couple problems. The main thing is that you can’t take a correlation and work backwards from the brain structure to symptoms. For example, there’s a lot of evidence that people with schizophrenia have different brain activation patterns and even different volumes of brain structur... | {'id': 'lu0qxif', 'text': "I think you are confusing three concepts.\n\n1. Discrimination\n2. Safeguarding\n3. Rejection due to incapacity\n\nSafeguarding includes the barring of nonces from working with children. This is to safeguard the children. This is **not** discrimination.\n\nRejection due to incapacity is the r... | 1gdbvmf | Cmv: it's okay to discriminate against neurodivergent manipulators | NPD is a main example of a disorder associated with manipulation but not well understood by the general public right now. I feel keeping the terminology more direct towards the behavior and not the diagnosis is better to keep the conversation centered around manipulation and not person experience around those diagnosed... | 1,730,038,455 | snowleave | nan | nan | 2024-10-27 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Electoral tresholds are unfair, unnecessary and undemocratic | {'id': 'lu83ja5', 'text': 'There are other easier ways to counter this in the long run. In NZ, we have a 5% threshold though the details of how this works can cause other issues. \n\nVotes to below threshold parties are not entirely wasted however - Parties receive some government funding for their campaigns and one of... | {'id': 'lu80uhw', 'text': '\\> Fringe parties don\'t deserve seats does not imply voters of fringe parties don\'t deserve a voice. They **must** be allowed to vote in a way their vote gets represented, kf they so choose, either by ranked ballot or second round or any other solution.\xa0\n\nWhat is the meaning of the wo... | 1ge984r | CMV: Electoral tresholds are unfair, unnecessary and undemocratic | I think electoral systems that have an explicit hard threshold defined, for example to deny a party entry to parliament are inherently unfair, unnecessary and undemocratic.
By explicit threshold, I mean a given ratio, like a %, that is not a natural threshold defined by the type of electoral system and the number of s... | 1,730,139,786 | budapestersalat | nan | nan | 2024-10-28 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Most People Actually Have A Choice In Being Alone/Single | {'id': 'ltf6dwl', 'text': '>But don\'t stereotypes come from somewhere?\n\nNo not necessarily and even if they do, that\'s no reason to judge people based on them.\n\n>I actually have, but it all just seems glitchy and buggy since they never seem to be concise on when they\'re available or are never truly up for it, on... | {'id': 'ltdfxgg', 'text': 'Yeah, I feel you. That’s a bitch to deal with for sure, there’s this weird irony around the whole “fake it til you make it” type of attitude — giving off neediness tends to put off others, while seeming secure / happy / independent draws others in. \n\nI think it’s particularly difficult beca... | 1gacdj0 | CMV: Most People Actually Have A Choice In Being Alone/Single | **TLDR AT THE BOTTOM:**
I (25M) can appreciate if this view might sound incel-esque, but this is a longstanding view that perhaps has poisoned my mind a lot more than I thought, and I thought I'd have a discussion surrounding it as a way of getting some alternative perspectives. I’m not saying my view is absolute, but... | 1,729,694,891 | NomadicContrarian | nan | nan | 2024-10-23 | 2024_fall |
CMV: The world is destroying the poppy plants - slowly but surely | {'id': 'lu0xis0', 'text': 'All poppies produce opium in some quantity- it’s a byproduct of their metabolism. You could, in theory, use them to produce opium. But they’re not bred for that, they’re bred for their flowers.', 'author': 'Godwinson4King', 'score': 2, 'timestamp': 1730044894} | {'id': 'lu0dbgn', 'text': 'So? Your view is the poppy plant is being destroyed. The above shows they aren’t being destroyed. Selective breeding the plant doesn’t destroy the plant.', 'author': 'Nrdman', 'score': 1, 'timestamp': 1730038120} | 1gda4s9 | CMV: The world is destroying the poppy plants - slowly but surely | Currently there is no place for people who just want to grow it without selectively breeding it for a specific substance they need. Be it the farms that grow them for medical purposes or the illegal drug industry. Best way to preserve the essense of the plant for future generation is to have people who care about the p... | 1,730,033,099 | 2reform | nan | nan | 2024-10-27 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Black Lives Matter has been a failure | {'id': 'lsq0r8i', 'text': 'I live and work in Mass. I think it’s too early and too complex at this point to make sweeping judgments regarding the efficacy of BLM. I can tell you that police use of force is something that those of us in the prosecutorial community are working very hard on grappling with, and the departm... | {'id': 'lspzitm', 'text': 'I agree that it’s too soon to definitively declare BLM’s success and failure, but insofar as it has failed *thus far*, I think it comes down to the largely successful effort to convince people that violent crime is up, and that it is so because of defunding the police. That violent crime is i... | 1g7c5b3 | CMV: Black Lives Matter has been a failure | Back in the 2010s, and especially in 2020, it seems like the Black Lives Matter was gaining strength. Videos of police brutality, especially against African Americans, became viral, and millions became outraged that this was so common in America. When George Floyd was murdered, millions justifiably took to the streets ... | 1,729,353,836 | ice_cold_fahrenheit | nan | nan | 2024-10-19 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Swear words are completely harmless and people offended by them need to grow up | {'id': 'lu5vgzz', 'text': "You can award a delta even if you aren't OP, btw :)", 'author': 'Nillavuh', 'score': 1, 'timestamp': 1730117122} | {'id': 'lu2zjqq', 'text': "That's not a logical fallacy. It's just an argument you don't like.", 'author': 'WompWompWompity', 'score': 0, 'timestamp': 1730067330} | 1gdlpli | CMV: Swear words are completely harmless and people offended by them need to grow up | it pisses me off beyond words when people act disgusted or angry when someone swears. growing up, most parents would be hostile towards these words. My honest opinion if your that parent: Quit being a fucking baby and get over it.
I have several points in why I find it stupid to be repulsed by cussing
1 - Literally h... | 1,730,064,356 | Naive-Bug8598 | nan | nan | 2024-10-27 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Dating preferences shouldn’t be considered wrong for people to have | {'id': 'lud48bu', 'text': "Yes. My point is that *both* of the examples you've given are prejudiced, not just the first one. The underlying assumption is the same, it's just worded differently.", 'author': 'laikocta', 'score': 1, 'timestamp': 1730216318} | {'id': 'lud3z7d', 'text': 'Dating preferences isn’t wrong\n\nSaying “I don’t date black men because they…” is wrong.\n\nThe wrongness happens when you start making value judgments on the person because of their race.', 'author': 'Fifteen_inches', 'score': -1, 'timestamp': 1730216239} | 1gewuha | CMV: Dating preferences shouldn’t be considered wrong for people to have | This is mostly a social media thing but social media makes it’s way into real life. I’ve noticed over the years people have been against certain preferences, and to me I don’t see a problem with having preferences in your dating life. As long as you aren’t saying people who aren’t your preference are objectively less t... | 1,730,214,400 | Accomplished-Fix1204 | nan | nan | 2024-10-29 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Allowing children to become morbidly obese is child abuse. | {'id': 'lu29e5m', 'text': '[The Impact of foster care on development by Lawrence et al](chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://cca-ct.org/Study%20Impact%20of%20Foster%20Care%20on%20Child%20Dev.pdf)\n\n"Foster care is a protective intervention designed to provide out of home placement to children li... | {'id': 'lu20vnc', 'text': ">If it does result from neglect, then the parents should have to work with professionals to address the issue.\n\nSo... here's the thing:\n\nLosing weight is *hard*. 90% of people that try end up putting the weight back on within 5 years. \n\nI think this really *trivializes* the incredibly c... | 1gdi4gm | CMV: Allowing children to become morbidly obese is child abuse. | As the title states, parents that allow their children to become morbidly obese are abusing them and should be treated as abusive parents. That includes CPS involvement and possibly loss of custody.
In regards to the type of abuse, I believe that allowing a child to be some obese falls under “neglect.” Neglect occurs... | 1,730,054,842 | Sicily_Long | nan | nan | 2024-10-27 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Free Market vs. Regulation or Central Planning is not the Most Important Difference Between Capitalism and Socialism | {'id': 'lszuin1', 'text': '>the USSR didn\'t have at least a narrative about "democratizing the economy"\n\nThey didn\'t. The USSR, and similar planned economies, rarely if ever claimed to be democratic in the common (liberal democracy) sense of the word. \n\nThe important idea to keep in mind is that the Communists Re... | {'id': 'lsz2x12', 'text': 'The point you are missing is that in most socialist states, only the ruling party owned the means of production. Not the average Joe. And the ruling party was always in power, because you were forced to vote for them. So how is this process in any way democratic? How does the average Joe demo... | 1g8ji1d | CMV: Free Market vs. Regulation or Central Planning is not the Most Important Difference Between Capitalism and Socialism | I know terms as broad and contentious as "Capitalism" and "Socialism" don't have a single definition, but they seem to orbit consistent ideas.
* **Libertarian Capitalism** is the idea that the market should be free of all or almost all state regulation.
It is often said that when regulation is put into the market, th... | 1,729,493,117 | TheVioletBarry | nan | nan | 2024-10-21 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Democrats align more with Jesus than Republicans | {'id': 'lsd2458', 'text': 'Not arguing any points but just to add more context about now using churches as shelters, it’s basically impossible BECAUSE of the government. A church near my house considered turning their church into a shelter throughout the week (small city without a shelter, so this was a big deal) and l... | {'id': 'lscznq0', 'text': 'Those don’t directly comment on abortions. Numbers specifically does. And it makes it clear under what type of circumstances an abortion is ok, which speaks to the ethics.\n\nThe whole Bible is divinely inspired. You stating that what was written in Numbers is far from Jesus literal blasphemy... | 1g5mx6h | CMV: Democrats align more with Jesus than Republicans | I continue to see Republicans/Christians say with their full chest “You aren’t a Christian if you vote democrat.”
Jesus was a peaceful, loving, accepting, and radical revolutionary. He never mentioned gay people, and he never mentioned abortion. In fact, the only time the Bible mentions abortion is when God gives Mos... | 1,729,157,392 | BigSkidz_ | nan | nan | 2024-10-17 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Straight women don't exist | {'id': 'luexo68', 'text': 'Sounds like over 40% of women are straight then. \n\nWhich is way more than the "none" quantity in your view. Does that mean you give yourself the delta, or do I get it?', 'author': 'AlwaysTheNoob', 'score': 1, 'timestamp': 1730235918} | {'id': 'lueic0b', 'text': 'I agree. However, that implicates that even straight men do not exist, men are just not willing to experiment or be honest because of homphobia and toxic masculinity.', 'author': 'CathanCrowell', 'score': -1, 'timestamp': 1730231375} | 1gf3e78 | CMV: Straight women don't exist | I have seen tons of straight women who has no problem making out or "experimenting" with other women.
Most straight women watch lesbian porn, which i have seen a lot of straight women explain it as that they are just attracted to the acts of women getting pleasure not the women themselves. Which sounds to me like bull... | 1,730,230,667 | Unlucky_Turnip_3233 | nan | nan | 2024-10-29 | 2024_fall |
CMV: You should be a single issue voter | {'id': 'lua1yuy', 'text': "Whichever country you're in, let's assume you go all in on climate change. It causes economic ruin in the short term, but hey no price is too high right?\n\n\nWhat if, during those turbulet times some other country decides to take advantage and invades, and that country doesn't care at all ab... | {'id': 'lu9yrtc', 'text': 'I don’t think we shouldn’t solve the issue. I think the solution is nuclear energy but both parties reject it because it would erase their wedge issue. It’s too perfect of a solution. Instead we opt to keep burning coal or putting up solar panels. Neither solves the problem and is bad for the... | 1geiegk | CMV: You should be a single issue voter | on Climate Change.
Most other issues are secondary and are not existential threats to the world at large. The hottest sexiest news headlines about identity politics, guns, israel/palestine, etc. are all minor issues when you zoom out onto a bigger scale. It won't matter what your stances are on those topics if we are ... | 1,730,163,370 | strangefruit3500 | nan | nan | 2024-10-29 | 2024_fall |
cmv: there is no viable ethical alternative to fast fashion brands as of right now | {'id': 'lu48yi6', 'text': "I think you're in the minority with that definition.\n\n>Fast fashion is the business model of replicating recent catwalk trends and high-fashion designs, mass-producing them at a low cost, and bringing them to retail quickly while demand is at its highest.\n\nhttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/... | {'id': 'lu3rm3k', 'text': '>but you\'re likely still owning clothes produced in an unethical manner,\n\nThere\'s a reason people work in those \'unethical\' sweat shops. It\'s because those sweat shops are often the only alternative they have to subsistence farming.\n\nNobody would work those jobs if they had better wo... | 1gdpfwh | cmv: there is no viable ethical alternative to fast fashion brands as of right now | recently people have become increasingly aware of the issue that is fast fashion, as companies like shein demonstrate a reckless disregard for quality, ethics, and sustainability. so, there's been an increasingly popular movement of ethical fashion, in brands like free people, etc.
however, as much as I hate it, there... | 1,730,074,988 | rosniya | nan | nan | 2024-10-28 | 2024_fall |
CMV: The biggest take away from education is social interaction. | {'id': 'lqn0u8v', 'text': "Being good at school lets one pass filters to attend better and better schools. \n\nSome of those filters aren't as much of a meritocracy as they should be, a la the recent college admissions scandal, but others are pretty objective. \n\nEventually, we all enter a classroom filled with people... | {'id': 'lqmhtn6', 'text': 'Completely disagree. There are plenty of people who are sociable and then immediately fail at life once they leave high school from lack of basic foundations, which is what education is for.\n\nDoctors, lawyers, engineers, etc. have a minimum threshold of knowledge before you can actually do ... | 1fxgjz6 | CMV: The biggest take away from education is social interaction. | When I reflect on my time in both school and college, I realize that the academic content—while useful in some cases—wasn't the most important takeaway for me. I didn't really need someone to hold my hand through reading textbooks or solving math problems. What I truly valued from those years was the opportunity to lea... | 1,728,221,487 | GrumpOldGamer | nan | nan | 2024-10-06 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Our plea bargaining system has allowed unwritten rules to dominate the courtroom. Thus our criminal legal system is no longer a rule of law system. | {'id': 'ls2io0o', 'text': "Just the information from around me - from a defense attorney who deals with this.\n\nBasically the low level cases that go forward all have tons of evidence. Cases without a lot of evidence don't typically move forward due to budget issues. And the high level cases are even money for whether... | {'id': 'ls2fpbn', 'text': '> Do you feel that a) those rules have in fact been written down, or b) those rules do not dominate courtroom behavior?\n\nThe rules about plea bargains *are* written down, generally in court precedent, which is considered part of the law in Common Law jurisdictions like the US. \n\nThere are... | 1g48p1n | CMV: Our plea bargaining system has allowed unwritten rules to dominate the courtroom. Thus our criminal legal system is no longer a rule of law system. | It seems to me that one of the fundamental characteristics, one of the most important characteristics, of a rule of law system is the fact that the rules are written down. So everybody knows going in what to expect. This is what really justifies the philosophy of you do the crime, you do the time. A philosophy I sup... | 1,729,001,623 | tolkienfan2759 | nan | nan | 2024-10-15 | 2024_fall |
Cmv: I will vote for every party including socialists before I vote for the DNC | {'id': 'lun0edj', 'text': 'Does that mean you only won\'t vote for Democrats for *President*, then? Because that\'s all the DNC is concerned with. Or are you also against the DSCC party and are unwilling to vote for Democratic Senators? The DCCC party is you\'re against Democratic Congresspeople?\n\nIn 2016, there was ... | {'id': 'lumwiue', 'text': "Greens, not a real party, a crude right-wing psy-op designed to bleed votes from democrats. Libertarians, you get extreme economic totalitarianism. You want Musk and Bezos as multi-trillionaires, owning the armies of entire nations, declaring themselves Kings and putting thousands to the swor... | 1gg499k | Cmv: I will vote for every party including socialists before I vote for the DNC | CMV: I am a far right voter and I would vote for every party including socialist before the DNC
CMV: I am a far right voter and I would vote for every party including socialist before the DNC
* If I made me rank the parties by choice, I would rank the DNC as my least favorite. I deeply dislike the DNC as an organizat... | 1,730,341,636 | DaegestaniHandcuff | nan | nan | 2024-10-31 | 2024_fall |
CMV: I No Longer (or never had) The Option of Being Politically Neutral | {'id': 'ltypck8', 'text': "It only matters if where you ive is a swing state. If you live in a red state or a blue state with historically predictable voting, even if you tell everyone which party you support, it won't change the vote at a state level and it won't change the college vote for your state.", 'author': 'Pu... | {'id': 'ltykm0r', 'text': "Neither you voting nor you speaking about voting has any impact on the world. \n\nIf you feel the need to participate, then it has to be more than voting. Organize. Labor union, tenant union, and local political action are your weapons. If you aren't going to do those things, then don't bothe... | 1gd245b | CMV: I No Longer (or never had) The Option of Being Politically Neutral | I don't like confrontation, but I enjoy respectful disagreements. I'm a socially Liberal American who has tried extremely hard not to participate in the public dialogue about politics, especially through things like signs, bumper stickers, or lawn signs.
I've held a certain amount of condescending disdain for politica... | 1,729,999,778 | 1714alpha | nan | nan | 2024-10-27 | 2024_fall |
cmv: One, might makes right; two, and it is good | {'id': 'ltm21gv', 'text': '> That’s my point! If you say murder is bad and I say it’s good and I beat the shit out of you then how does that prove murder is bad? It doesn’t! It also doesn’t prove murder is good!\n\nCorrect, because the application of raw might doesn\'t prove anything. It doesn\'t prove that 2+2=5, and... | {'id': 'ltm0qts', 'text': "There are more and less effective ways to grow tomatoes, yes? Those who do it well get healthy plants and a huge yield of delicious tomatoes. Those who do it poorly get the opposite. What it takes to grow tomatoes properly is a matter of objective fact. While we're at it, expand the same prin... | 1gbi7vb | cmv: One, might makes right; two, and it is good | Might makes right. Or rather right doesn’t exist. Let wolves raise a child and the child would not hold any moral standards that a regular person would.
A truth is by definition universal and immutable. The truth does not disappear nor change when it is not accepted or not discovered.
No system of morality is univer... | 1,729,817,734 | FarConstruction4877 | nan | nan | 2024-10-25 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Airports having a general help desk instead of check in counters will be a much better system | {'id': 'lujvfqg', 'text': ">could be a carousel where you just drop it off the way it is when you pick it up\n\nIt's probably worth pointing out at this point that baggage claim takes up more space than the check in counters at airports. So if you make the bag drop more like baggage claim them you'll probably lose spac... | {'id': 'lui0mhh', 'text': ">It is in a very basic form and even with their existence. The normal check in system exists in most airports. What I am saying is they should be removed\n\nI feel like it's a bit too early for that. Many people alive today aren't used to the insanely rapid digitalisation of our world that to... | 1gfhgwc | CMV: Airports having a general help desk instead of check in counters will be a much better system | In general, I believe a lot of services in the world are made unnecessarily complicated and can be optimized greatly. One such thing is check in counters at airports which I am going to focus on here. I am going to speak primarily from my experience in US airports but am open to hearing about airports in other countrie... | 1,730,275,665 | Mysterious-Law-60 | nan | nan | 2024-10-30 | 2024_fall |
CMV: We’re much better off teaching kids to co-operate with one another rather than compete with one another. | {'id': 'luc4n8q', 'text': 'That doesn’t sound like cooperation; that sounds like a crutch.\xa0\n\nSome group work? Good idea.\xa0\n\nNo individual work whatsoever: bad idea.\xa0\n\nYou don’t always have other people to lean on. The ability to confidently and competently work without needing help from others is absolute... | {'id': 'luc31zw', 'text': "We should teach children that not all competitions are zero-sum games, and encourage them to compete to find the best win-win paths forward. \n\nEveryone on a team might debate the strategy the team takes, but ultimately if it's a good strategy, the whole team wins, and everyone shares in tha... | 1gery4l | CMV: We’re much better off teaching kids to co-operate with one another rather than compete with one another. | Modern education values individual contribution and individual scores way too much compared to how the real world works.
It doesn’t matter how much an individual works hard or correctly or effectively in a company, the company would still go under if all the individual workers don’t co-operate to better their work and... | 1,730,200,133 | FuzzyWuzzy9909 | nan | nan | 2024-10-29 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Any robot that says it's conscious and can feel, must be taken at their word | {'id': 'luqergu', 'text': 'Assuming consciousness is an illusion, then the definition of life would be about sufficient complexity or intelligence. Something only able to say “I am alive” with no other functions such as “feeling” alive, would exist as nothing other than its one statement “I am alive”, which ultimately ... | {'id': 'luqb9g5', 'text': "> I believe a simple definition for something to be alive is that it must possess qualia\n\nI'm not sure that is the giant hurdle it first appears. What does it really mean to experience something? Is a text input not a sort of experience? Is it some how different if the LLM works off of a s... | 1ggirjw | CMV: Any robot that says it's conscious and can feel, must be taken at their word | Many, if not most, scientists and philosophers believe that consciousness is a byproduct of brain processes, and many believe consciousness is essentially an ["illusion"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliminative_materialism#Illusionism) existing to serve the biological needs of the organism.
If this is true, than w... | 1,730,392,368 | TapiocaTuesday | nan | nan | 2024-10-31 | 2024_fall |
cmv: Elon Musk Will Be the most prolific figure of the 21st Century | {'id': 'lurz5uz', 'text': 'It comes down to this. How do you expect us to change your view?\n\nEverything Musk has done could come crashing down, or it might not. Someone born today could take us in a completely different direction, or they may not.\n\nPeople have a hard enough time arguing who the most influential is ... | {'id': 'lurx2w3', 'text': "Did you miss the part where he literally invented reusable rockets, vastly decreasing the cost of space exploration for the rest of human history? Even if someone else would have invented it otherwise (unlikely) it sure as hell wasn't happening any time soon, probably not this century, which ... | 1ggrcus | cmv: Elon Musk Will Be the most prolific figure of the 21st Century | The Argument is simple in my view. (maybe the probability is still low i think its directionally true)
Brain chip interface, autonomous driving, electric vehicles, satellite internet, expansive space travel, and AGI. The thing that shapes and lifts the floor of society is technology, the end of the story in my view. D... | 1,730,415,194 | tswizzy3 | nan | nan | 2024-10-31 | 2024_fall |
CMV: it is mathematically advantageous to bet on Kamala to beat Trump, at this point in the race | {'id': 'lubobpm', 'text': "First of all, he didn't say it, his guest did, so it's not even Trump being the center of the scandal.\n\nSecond of all, Puerto Rico citizens don't vote in the US elections, so he insulted people who aren't potential voters, so the potential fallout is small, especially since people who left ... | {'id': 'lubivoh', 'text': 'I\'ve bet on a few elections and I play poker professionally so this is definitely in my wheelhouse. I think the line is actually pretty close to being perfectly set, I would lean toward betting Kamala, but barely. I therefore don\'t disagree much with your overall conclusion, but there are... | 1geppi8 | CMV: it is mathematically advantageous to bet on Kamala to beat Trump, at this point in the race | This is strictly a mathematical /betting cmv, less so about policy.
The betting markets have shifted pretty wildly over the course of this election season, however, as they stand right now, trump is a clear favorite, hovering at around 62/38 Trump.
https://electionbettingodds.com/
However, actual polling data sugges... | 1,730,190,512 | original_og_gangster | nan | nan | 2024-10-29 | 2024_fall |
CMV: Sports gambling has gotten out of hand and needs much more regulation, especially in advertising. | {'id': 'lup1nep', 'text': "> Should people not have agency over the choices they make?\n\nSure. But also, addiction is a real thing part of the population is super fragile to, and protecting them makes sense.\n\nIt's like the opioid epidemic; people should have the choice, but we should also have reasonnable laws and r... | {'id': 'lul9tzd', 'text': 'This is literally a bad faith strawman. The addictiveness of gambling is about as well established as tobacco causing cancer. If you fundamentally disagree with this, there is no chance we can have any discussion over the topic.\n\n\nYou could make an argument about what counts as gambling. I... | 1gfvers | CMV: Sports gambling has gotten out of hand and needs much more regulation, especially in advertising. | It has become so ubiquitous in society. I can’t watch or attend a sports event without advertising being shoved down my throat. The whole industry is predatory and takes advantage of the vulnerable. It’s to easy to gamble and become addicted to it.
There has been a lot of recent research on this issue, including a... | 1,730,317,511 | longtime2080 | nan | nan | 2024-10-30 | 2024_fall |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.