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A bunch of comformist hackers (oxymoron) and professed libertarians who insist that you believe as they do?

Isn't reddit feeding off the entire nation of self-professed internet activists who are out to solve the world's injustices?

There are very few self-professed feminists who would be good, were it merely not for the label.

It never ceases to amaze me how an online bookstore can be so ahead of all the self-professed hosting providers.

That's the most overtly religious belief I have seen expressed by a self professed rationalist, you know...

I think there is a huge disconnect between professed Christian values and execution on many fronts, including this one.

Ignoring that, I'd say that its not bullying to make a person's own professed beliefs public.

Those who have professed a preference for open space plans, including e.g.

I've often professed that sadly Miami has no patient zero in the web startup space.

As, I would imagine, the professed beliefs of many on HN, yet here we are.

Or a self-professed Catalonian being described as Castilian.

As a corollary, the position professed generally only holds any truth in as much as most people have already considered and rejected it's premise and matured beyond it.

Or at least, that is how the term "Communism" is used by self-professed communists, as opposed to by self-professed enemies of communism, who of course use the term in their propaganda to mean "Soviet-style dictatorship".

In a legal context, Stephen Breyer makes a similar argument about the decisionmaking process of self-professed “originalists” and “textualists” on the Supreme Court.

I don't love my daughter because [...] My first sentence professed that "This is going to be a touchy subject as people have children for many different reasons" - I don't pretend to know why anyone here had kids.

But if it turns out the evidence just isn't there yet, at least with this bunch at the wheel, well then let's suck it up and accept that, rather than circle the wagons and defend "science" when it's clear the scientists in question have not acted in accord with their professed principles.