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So are we still more upset about Diverse, but qualified, yet presumed unqualified hires, than DUI hires?

(Asking for anyone who cares about US National Security)

Pete Hegseth needs to go for the safety of the United States & the allies that we still have.

Pete Buttigieg's avatar

Of course advance information on US combat operations is classified. Pretending otherwise is an insult to our troops, who all know this.

The Secretary is unfit to lead.

Robert Reich's avatar

So the Republican Party has historically blocked:

-Paid sick leave

-Paid family & medical leave

-Universal childcare

-Universal pre-K

-Expanded Child Tax Credit

-Programs to support reproductive health

And they're wondering why more people aren't having children?

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Joe Walsh's avatar

To all those who say Trump has “single-handedly” wrecked the economy: He didn’t do it single-handedly. Congress could’ve stopped him anytime. The Republican-led Congress allowed him to wreck the economy.

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The Szaszian Fork: Another Reply to Scott Alexander on Mental Illness
Daniel Carroll's avatar

It seems to me that you are engaging in a debate over vocabulary. The terms "mental illness" and "preferences" mean different things depending on the context. "Preferences" implies desirability, while "mental illness" implies deviancy or disease. "Neurodiversity" appears to be a better term - humans are neurologically diverse: some of that diversity is desirable, some is not; some is genetic, some is environmental (which doesn't mean it is voluntary or can be "unlearned"); some allows some volu…

Stephen Grossman's avatar

> Neurodiversity: the Nazi claim of different brains of different races. There is a human nature. We are not shrimp or crows.

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There's a diversity of brains within any single race.

Stephen Grossman's avatar

Push it one step further. There are no races. Each individual has a human brain w/free will. Cannibals have the same human brain as Hollywood directors, Asian rice paddy farmers and waiters in Paris. Each individual chooses to focus his mind or evade focusing. Or some combination. Thats life.

Atlas Shrugged-Ayn Rand

Daniel Carroll's avatar

Race is indeed a social construct, not a biological one. Neurodiversity refers to relatively random variation in the architecture of the brain, and has nothing to do with race. Human brains are not blank hard drives. The brain's architecture is unrelated to "race," as the term "race" is based on outward physical appearance (in the US) and/or cultural practice, ancestral heritage.

Neurodiversity has the opposite meaning of the Nazi conception of race, as the Nazi's brutally enforced their ideal u…

Race and sociais a false idea of the free wills of some people. There are no social constructs.

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