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by Pils 6y ago
But those two states account for roughly half of the total world population. According to your link, the US has 400,000 enslaved peoples, which is still less per capita, but the US is a lot more developed than India and China. From the link
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by Pils 6y ago
> the second being the system of mind control which enslaves people by feeding them simulations that convince them that they are sufficiently free and safe. The latter version of an unfree regime still benefits from creating a form of s
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by Pils 6y ago
> If you build a system that is so technologically perfect that it extinguishes violence from the public space, then you have created a system of slavery. I intuitively get the point you are trying to make (sovereignty, "governmen
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by Pils 6y ago
Plus, classification is reserved for government documents, right? If someone's goal was to specifically expose "DNC secrets," a la Watergate, the most damaging information would likely not be "classified" in the for
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by Pils 6y ago
Why propagandize? The results are clearly speaking for themselves.
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by Pils 6y ago
One thing is clear: the "Stop The Steal" crowd was clearly radicalized into something openly violent and seditious. Mainstream news outlets that actively encouraged this violence must be shut down. OANN/Newsmax delenda est
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by Pils 6y ago
From the description, this podcast episode doesn't seem to talk about religion at all. Do you have a better source?
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by Pils 6y ago
Guess I never saw it that way, thanks. Could you go more into the religious aspects of the Black Lives Matter movement?
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by Pils 6y ago
Ah yes, clearly he meant "the specific schism of corporate media that The New Yorker occupies." I missed some obvious contextual clues there. If the alternative to traditional media is more Moldbug, I'll pass.
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by Pils 6y ago
> intellectual emptyness of traditional media. What do you mean by this? What does "traditional media" mean in this context? Anything that isn't self-published?
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by Pils 6y ago
Censorship measures often have bipartisan support.
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by Pils 6y ago
From the article: > Ms. Butler said she was not told how to make an official complaint; Ms. Sawyerr said she never spoke to an investigator and was not informed of the findings “Absence of evidence” etc. etc.
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by Pils 6y ago
> by the MSM media How exactly is the Main Stream Media media weaponizing big Tech? The Myanmar genocide is not "fake news."
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by Pils 6y ago
Tbf, I know very little about Tim Pool. I did see the viral tweet where he claimed the reason he was voting for Trump was because of the Kenosha shooter, which reads very "right accelerationist" to me.
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by Pils 6y ago
> especially when even the authors themselves seem to be okay with blocking child pornography sites. ...are you not? Like, I get your "moral relativism" argument, but I don't think anyone besides "extra-principled&q
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by Pils 6y ago
> I get that the author may just not like the format. They'd be bored by Jiro, they'd sleep during Helvetica, and they'd probably die watching Herzog movies. But they should acknowledge their biases rather than pretend th
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by Pils 6y ago
Maybe Tim Pool? Big far-right podcaster, was famously an early intern at Vice, regularly claims to be one of Vice's founders.
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by Pils 6y ago
> They don’t want to make difficult decisions. One inventory manager told us that the only research they did before approving conspiracy theory website The Epoch Times for their inventory was to check out the All Sides media bias chart.
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by Pils 6y ago
There is no shift. Here's BBC article[0] with CCTV screenshots you can look at yourself. You seem to be under the belief that I was going to produce evidence that would satisfy you , which I never claimed to do. I wanted to disprove y
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by Pils 6y ago
> people still make a mess and a version that is absolutely fact based is still not there, then there is little hope for the things we don't hear about This is sometimes called an "isolated demand for rigour"[0]. There is
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by Pils 6y ago
> The link points to the Wikipedia page of the "Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi". Do you have a link to the Saudi Arabian government admitting to murdering Khashoggi? "Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir told Fox News "t
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by Pils 6y ago
> You hear pundits and journalists claiming things for fact, but what are the sources, and what is the actual evidence. The only evidence is "everybody knows", or the U.S. intelligence community being "certain" of his
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by Pils 6y ago
> Prominent liberals like Alan Dershowitz say they're being socially blacklisted for not taking part in a pile on against Trump: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/03/us/alan-dershowitz-martha ... No
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Dismissal: The Relevance of the Cultural Revolution(thepointmag.com)
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by Pils 6y ago
Did you mean to also exclude tech companies that work with the government (i.e. Palantir, Amazon, Microsoft, etc.)? > Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corporation (informally Booz Allen) is the parent of Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., an American
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by Pils 6y ago
> > Would you consider "sorry, I didn't get a lot of sleep due to police sound grenades going off until 3am" a political statement? > No, of course not. Awesome. So it follows that you would have no issue then with a
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by Pils 6y ago
one inconsistency is that Coinbase is based in SF. Would you consider "sorry, I didn't get a lot of sleep due to police sound grenades going off until 3am" a political statement?
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by Pils 6y ago
> The vast majority of employees prefer a work environment that is stripped of political conversation While I generally agree, I think there is a tacit assumption that Armstrong's actions will work exactly as intended. 5-8% of workf
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by Pils 6y ago
Obviously the solution to workplace politicization is...dissolving the federal government and appointing Eric Schmidt the CEO of a newly founded business-state? > One day in March of this year, a Google engineer named Justine Tunney crea
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by Pils 6y ago
The person I was responding to clarified his position on taxes. Maximizing taxation is reductio ad absurdum, whereas there are quite a few examples of countries that don't rely on tax income to maintain themselves. > "But the S

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