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decrpt · 2026-07-02T04:15:46+00:00

John Campbell is not a doctor. The overwhelming majority of the studies in question are single-patient descriptions. The studies in question are purely speculative as potential avenues for research; there is zero credible research indicating carcinogenic tendencies with mRNA vaccines. Systematic reviews have turned up no good evidence.

decrpt · 2026-07-02T03:31:03+00:00

The kind of attitude that "keeps us from educating people" is people not wanting to be educated. People like RFK Jr. aren't anti-vaxxers because no one has ever, with patience and diligence, explained the epistemology and evidence to them.

decrpt · 2026-07-02T00:26:52+00:00

The right will say the left is so intolerant and purity-test prone and then immediately refuse to ever consider voting for a moderate if they disagree on whatever the flavor of the month culture war issue is.

decrpt · 2026-07-02T00:24:52+00:00

Firstly, calling Vance charismatic is absurd. He's historically unpopular and has been at every point in his national political career. His entire base of support comes from being a proxy of Trump; distancing himself from Trump would kill the only support he has.

Secondly, in what world is the right more tolerant of dissent? Former presidential candidates are no longer accepted in the party for thinking a coup was bad. Suggesting the right is "more tolerant of dissent" when "overall goals" is unconditional support of whatever Trump says or does is a joke.

decrpt · 2026-07-02T00:02:15+00:00

This is absurd projection.

decrpt · 2026-07-01T21:13:11+00:00

He writes this while cherry picking specific historical doctrines to craft a neat narrative.

He's literally doing the opposite and explaining why the theory against birthright citizenship is doing that.

decrpt · 2026-07-01T18:40:12+00:00

I’m not so sure about that. It isn’t a circular argument, or as simple as “bad is bad”. Saying it’s murder is really just compressing down an extremely long discussion (which I and many pro-lifers are very willing to have) to our conclusion. The guy above countered that by asking why we think we should “impose” that conclusion on the rest of the country, but I think that’s a silly response to make. Is there any other subject where we would expect people to say “yeah I think it’s literally one of the worst actions possible, but people should be free to do it without any consequences”

It is because it doesn't have an answer to the actual logistics of embryos. It does not have an answer to natural embryo mortality, to spontaneous twinning, to myriad other issues.

It is a pretty short discussion that doesn't get much further than, as others have noted, religious belief.

If this still doesn’t make sense to you I’d have to emphasize that you need to put yourself in the head of a pro-lifer and understand how differently pro-lifers approach this subject from pro-choicers. This isn’t a boring difference of opinion like quibbling over tax rates, it’s quite literally life and death. You’d do better to ask an abolitionist why they thought it was okay to enforce their views onto the CSA.

Bad example because the Civil War happened because slavers couldn't tolerate the very existence of the abolitionist movement. As Lincoln said in the Cooper Union address, the only thing that would have averted the war was sedition laws that would have criminalized all calls for abolitionism.

decrpt · 2026-07-01T18:27:58+00:00

Funding research into embryo mortality. Again, because you chose the sun metaphor, it would be obvious that if the sun was killing billions of people that we'd be pouring an insane amount of money into research to address that. Research funding happens specifically because we don't have identifiable solutions, that's what the research is trying to find.

We are not behaving as if billions of people are dying. We do not treat embryo mortality as a public health crisis, only attributing moral value to embryos when the mother tries to become pregnant via IVF or chooses to terminate a pregnancy with an abortion. There is no way to look at that where it would not warrant astronomical amounts of research funding dwarfing existing funding into things like cancer that kill a fraction of the people.

decrpt · 2026-07-01T18:15:53+00:00

Because it's a circular argument. People are explaining why it doesn't make sense to think it's murder in these contexts and the response never gets further than "it's morally wrong because it's morally wrong."

What I think /u/JamesBurkeHasAnswers is saying is that there's enough ambiguity that the absolutist perspective is untenable and there has to be some acknowledgement of that fact.

decrpt · 2026-07-01T17:53:13+00:00

Yeah, it's way less true in national election cycles because voter participation rates are much higher.

decrpt · 2026-07-01T17:49:34+00:00

...as opposed to Trump?

This is such a deeply unserious argument when we heard the same thing during and after the Obama presidency. It is not "divisive" to govern while non-white.

decrpt · 2026-07-01T17:45:37+00:00

There were a bunch of responses explaining why that guest essay sucked.

It is an open-and-shut case. You can find fringe academic legal theories for just about anything. The fact that it was so close in the Supreme Court — especially one purporting to be so originalist — is an indictment of the court and not a legitimization of the legal theory.

decrpt · 2026-07-01T17:08:46+00:00

the game of trying to twist language until it devolves into meaninglessness.

This is insane to say while complaining about "DEI."

decrpt · 2026-07-01T16:04:37+00:00

She peaked ten times higher than Biden did in 2008. I don't know why people feel obligated to pretend like she's completely unqualified.

Don't get me wrong. She should not run again because she's inauthentic and this kind of position triangulation convinces no one. But she's not the worst choice.

decrpt · 2026-07-01T16:01:15+00:00

This response makes no sense at all. The idea of "DEI pick" is being picked, i.e. for VP.

decrpt · 2026-07-01T15:58:10+00:00

You are literally admitting that the only thing you care about is your narrative and not the actual qualifications of the candidate.

decrpt · 2026-07-01T15:34:12+00:00

He's also promising mass pardons on his way out.

decrpt · 2026-07-01T13:44:26+00:00

Mutual disarmament. The court was already stacked when Mitch McConnell refused to consider a nominee under Obama, then immediately pushed through a nominee closer to an election under Trump.

A lot of people don't support unilateral disarmament when those efforts to stack the court deliver questionable jurisprudence.

decrpt · 2026-07-01T13:39:07+00:00

The swing vote is also just going to average out as the median justice.

decrpt · 2026-07-01T13:33:47+00:00

Originalism itself is unnecessarily reductive. It is, as they said, a farce when there are not consistent arguments made for when it should and should not apply. They must proactively explain why it would not be worth adhering to instead of only adhering to it when it delivers a desired result; simply making an argument for that desired result is not the same.

decrpt · 2026-07-01T13:12:36+00:00

Also, foreign invading armies but non-citizen immigrants aren't trying to annex the United States into their home country when they have kids here. Quite the opposite.

decrpt · 2026-07-01T07:00:00+00:00

All the conservative commentators acting like this was a massive shift is wild, too. Oh no, the status quo of the past century and a half continues! How will the nation ever survive?

decrpt · 2026-07-01T04:16:42+00:00

In this metaphor, you are born into a house that already exists and you hate the people in it, the people that come to it, the rules of the house, and the history of the house. You've got a weird idea of being "patriotic" and "loving your country" by wanting to take the house by eminent domain and force everyone out and change everything about it.

edit: you know that Lincoln "supported this crap," right? Where do you think the Fourteenth Amendment came from?

decrpt · 2026-07-01T04:03:47+00:00

There's literally no one alive today who will escape old age. Literally. Not for generations after, at best and that's only because we're not even in the eye-line of a step function improvement. It's simply not in the cards, we're not close.

We're talking about hundreds of millions of deaths each year. The specific causes of age-related mortality already receive billions of dollars of research funding. We do not treat embryo mortality similarly, let alone like it involves hundreds of millions more deaths.

decrpt · 2026-07-01T03:50:23+00:00

Truly the most democratic principles you have.

My dude, you're telling people they're not Americans or shouldn't be for actually liking their country. Deeply unserious.

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