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by apta_ 6y ago
And BLM rioters didn't also attack police? Give me a break. Both extreme sides need to be dealt with.
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by apta_ 6y ago
They have to do this by the fact that Google and Apple preceded them, they don't want to appear as the bad guys.
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by apta_ 6y ago
And far right groups don't have ideological roots in the US? It's not absurd, it's history.
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by apta_ 6y ago
That didn't work out so well with ISIS did it?
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by apta_ 6y ago
You don't think the radical left is a problem that the far right is feeding off of? Then the cycle goes on. They both feed off each other.
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by apta_ 6y ago
Arabic uses derivatives of words for specific connotations. "nusi" means "has been forgotten", "instasa" means "made to have been forgotten", but in this case it might be used for what was described i
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by apta_ 6y ago
They can ban individual accounts calling for violence (which happens on both the extreme left and extreme right). But it's only socially acceptable to ban one of those, the other gets a free ride.
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by apta_ 6y ago
> To me it seems obvious the feedback works in the opposite direction. Deplatforming disrupts the feedback bubbles that radicalize these people. I think it will push them off to even more obscure platforms, and the ones that do make it t
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by apta_ 6y ago
It's due to extreme virtue signaling, basically cancel culture. These companies have to behave alongside the social pressure or else they're going to lose revenue.
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by apta_ 6y ago
> The republicans have espoused a dangerous ideology that not just allows but welcomes factual untruths and a worrying disconnect from rational thought. As if the dems didn't do the same? Let's be honest with ourselves, both ex
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by apta_ 6y ago
Why don't they ban people like https://cdn.cnsnews.com/styles/article_big/s3/2021-01/Arthur...
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by apta_ 6y ago
Would you disagree that they're run by heavily liberal companies though?
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by apta_ 6y ago
Check out Islam's Zakat, which has been proven to work. It's not a wealth tax per se as proposed by some foolish and unrealistic policies, but cash sitting in the bank is taxed at 2.5% (if it is above a certain threshold), and its
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by apta_ 6y ago
How is that wealth tax even supposed to work? The only successful model that is remotely close that has been historically proven is Islam's Zakat, a form of charity tax if you will. It doesn't force you to sell shares of your comp
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by apta_ 6y ago
How much do you need to retire? $500K? $1M? $10M?
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by apta_ 6y ago
> Which, to be clear, has been tried and tested in the form of gold standard and deemed not satisfactory Deemed unsatisfactory by who? The money printers? The banks? Yes, the people who make money off of lending money, something clearly
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by apta_ 6y ago
Who would get fired though? It seems that it is more likely to affect those lower in the hierarchy.
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by apta_ 6y ago
> and I would wager that this doctor's clinic already makes a lot of money (2-3x that 650K) every year if not more. Forgiving 650K is nothing to scoff at, no matter how much money is being made. God bless him for his charitable ac
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by apta_ 6y ago
> And even for credit, I am not sure interest is needed. That leads to the world devouring growth that we have. Exactly. It's not needed. It causes a growth at all cost situation we see today (and one cost is debt slavery for a larg
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by apta_ 6y ago
> I'd never heard that usury rules applied to financial contracts before. Islam prohibits something called Riba. Interest and usury fall under it, but Riba encompasses more than just loans. The example about purchasing gold on cred
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by apta_ 6y ago
With all due respect, this is a very fallacious argument. Just because it is widespread today does not make it acceptable or good in any way or form. It does not mean that it is the cause for our advancement (association fallacy, and correl
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by apta_ 6y ago
One important thing to note is that Islam also prohibits chaining together permitted contracts, with the intention being trying to circumvent or dance around the prohibition. For example, you and I can engage in the following set of transac
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by apta_ 6y ago
Short selling has several issues. Brokers usually charge a fee for the borrowed asset (stock), this fee is clearly usury/interest. Also, it creates risk with the hope of gaining money, without any corresponding value being created. Sho
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by apta_ 6y ago
It's not bad news. Because interest is parasitic (it's prohibited in Islam, Judaism, and Christianity), there are other (fair) ways to become an entrepreneur. Pitch your idea to an investor (or group of investors), and have them p
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by apta_ 6y ago
So it is still a usurious loan. Nothing to see here.
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by apta_ 6y ago
In Islam, there exists a notion of a Salam sale (بيع السلم), or (advance sale). These are sales contracts in which the price is paid for goods to be delivered at a later time. > The Prophet (ﷺ) came to Medina and the people used to pay i
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by apta_ 6y ago
As a Muslim, almost every "Shariah compliant" financing contract I came across is not compatible with Islamic Law (Shariah). Unfortunately, we're just taking modern parasitic and usurious financial contracts, and wrapping
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by apta_ 6y ago
They seriously think "master" is a bad word? That's crazy.
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by apta_ 6y ago
> (My assumption when you said "inflation" was a drop in purchasing power of a given asset, not a rise.) I was referring to the inflation of the US dollar. That's why property, stock, bitcoin, etc. went up.
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by apta_ 6y ago
Does it have anything to do with what's going on now? https://downdetector.com/

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