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Audy

  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: The rise of robots: good or bad?

    This is what a drone strike does. War should never be treated like a 9-5 coffee break. War shouldn't even be an option, let alone an occupation.

    Sep 2, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Why does everybody think Americans are ignorant?

    It works both ways. But as non-Americans we learn to appreciate the differences between our language and yours. I don't think I've ever read an American book that's been converted ...

    Aug 31, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Cultural Appropriation

    For instance, in Kenya everybody listens to reggae music and embraces Jamaican culture. Has Jamaica had a vote to allow Kenya to appropriate this culture? Kenyans listening to Jamaican music ...

    Aug 16, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Why does everybody think Americans are ignorant?

    Short answer? We're workaholics. 40-80hr workdays in America translates to retirement and health care benefits. Any "vacation time" is more like, time to go see parents/grandparents or other extended

    Aug 12, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Gay rights? (cont)

    Perhaps it's because I'm backreading, but this conversation to me has turned into one about the nature of meritocracy and how it functions in regards to differing social spheres. There's ...

    Aug 6, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Abortion. A human right? What about Financial Abortion?

    I'm a feminist, I agree with the concept of equality of genders and empowering disenfranchised, marginalized, or abused people all over the world who are suffering from gender inequality. In ...

    Aug 1, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Why does everybody think Americans are ignorant?

    What's the joke? Three languages = Trilingual. Two languages = Bilingual. And one language = American :^P I don't think I "officially" learned world geography until my first year of ...

    Jul 30, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: The Universal Basic Income

    @Karzkin, There's a political/ideological schism when it comes to raising the minimum wage, but one of the things I find interesting about UBI is its versatility. There are proposals that ...

    Jul 29, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: The Universal Basic Income

    I'll start by stating the issues and problems we are all familiar with: > The roughly ~46.5 million people who are living in poverty in the United States [1] > ...

    Jul 29, 2014
  • Official Polls Re: What would your author name be?

    It would be ridiculously awesome if I could just be Audy as a mononym. I also have a super hard to spell/pronounce last name (and it just doesn't look like ...

    Jul 22, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Hate Speech

    @Kafkaescence, How do you differentiate inherent racial bias from conscious, harmful bias?

    Jul 15, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Oxford Style Debates

    @MooCowPoop, send Nate a message saying you're interested! Unfortunately, we don't get to pick a side, but that should make things more exciting ;)

    Jul 14, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Feminism

    @TheWritersStop, I think it's easy for people to dismiss feminism because we think that the "big fight" (voting rights, working women) has been achieved, but I think you'll find feminism ...

    Jul 13, 2014
  • Contests Re: 10,000 points contest

    Seasons by @Sachiko, will really turn your feels inside out :c

    Jul 12, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Hate Speech

    In regards to hate speech, I totally agree with these statements: It doesn't matter if you think it's a stupid thing to get hurt over. It doesn't matter if it's ...

    Jul 11, 2014


Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
— Martin Luther King Jr.