NaturalPhallacy

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by NaturalPhallacy 6y ago
Show me proof that twitter censorship has converted even ONE racist/nazi and I'll entertain this notion. "it seeming unlikely" hardly compares to a man with 200 trophies to prove his method works.
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by NaturalPhallacy 6y ago
He did, and is. Just because you only pay attention to mainstream (D) media doesn't mean he's not on others.
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by NaturalPhallacy 6y ago
It works....in the short term...within a very narrow scope. And then suddenly, for no reason at all, someone incredibly well aligned with everyone you deplatformed rises to power.
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by NaturalPhallacy 6y ago
>There is a pardadox of tolerance with respect to free speech. We cannot expect to maintain freedom of expression if we treat everyone who actually expresses themselves as a sinner. In every thread about free speech, the people against i
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by NaturalPhallacy 6y ago
>Isn't "trending on Twitter" a popularity contest? Right up until it runs into their 'trending blacklist'. An admin tool that the existence of was leaked a while back.
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by NaturalPhallacy 6y ago
Nevermind that Daryl Davis has literally converted over 200 KKK members: https://www.rt.com/viral/371340-meet-black-man-kkk/ THAT is how you beat fascism. Not censorship. Lazy programmers trying censor via bits an
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by NaturalPhallacy 6y ago
Doesn't mean it's wrong... The racists on the right know they're racists. They admit it. The racists I've encountered on the left are the racism-of-low-expectations kind with a dash of openly-racist-against-white-peopl
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by NaturalPhallacy 6y ago
Cancel culture in a nutshell. There's a reason we have "innocent until proven guilty" and lots of interlocking checks and balances in the legal system to prevent the mob from lynching people. Nowadays they can lynch your soci
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by NaturalPhallacy 6y ago
1 principle: Make as much money as possible.
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by NaturalPhallacy 6y ago
World income inequality is pretty pointless data. $1 in Niger buys you quite a lot in Niger (the first African country I randomly clicked in the interactive chart at the bottom). $1 in USA doesn't buy you shit in USA.
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by NaturalPhallacy 6y ago
This just illustrates why it's a misunderstanding that banks - because they have to deal with money - are somehow better at tech or are more secure. Since it isn't actually how they make money, it turns out they're markedly
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by NaturalPhallacy 6y ago
NYT deleted it. Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20170312221259/https://www.nytim...
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by NaturalPhallacy 6y ago
Were walkable ones a problem before?
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by NaturalPhallacy 6y ago
This artificial scarcity that is 'Imaginary Property' will hopefully be looked back on as a seriously bad idea that holds humanity back in a world so full of actual scarcity that was created by lawyers for the exclusive benefit of