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This is a perfect example of what Peter Thiel calls the phony culture wars distracting Americans and politicians from real issues.
by bko 10y ago
This is a perfect example of what Peter Thiel calls the phony culture wars distracting Americans and politicians from real issues.
- taobility 10y agoTotally agree. Some US people are not living in a real world
- hga 10y agoWhich/what do you and he consider to be phony about this culture war over guns?
- secstate 10y agoLinking the frequent sending of gun emojis to gun violence would be hard indeed. Perhaps it's not phony, per se, but it is so hilariously ancillary to the actual discussion regarding mental health, access to field combat-grade firearms, and disparities in urban molestation of certain classes of people that this smacks more of Apple doing solid PR than it does actually solving issues in our communities. That's my take on Thiel's point, and guns are NOT the only topic where big corps trot out stupid stunts to capitalize on what yesterdays big cultural outrage was.
- hga 10y agoBut this does put the very clearly on one side of this cultural war, so it's something more than nothing. Virtue signaling at the very least. And it's not as if Apple isn't giving OS X/macOS plenty of reasons to switch to something else from what I've been reading....