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by archagon 1y ago
Sometimes a racist is just a racist. Everything in his writing points to it, though maybe he hasn’t quite admitted it to himself yet. “White Brits (or Nords, or Americans) are the only true Brits (Nords/Americans)” is a difficult posit
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by archagon 1y ago
What, the post where DHH implies that brown immigrants are rapists and criminals and that Britain is being invaded and needs to be cleansed? The one that paints five-time convicted criminal and fascist Tommy Fucking Robinson as some sort of
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by archagon 1y ago
In the country’s past, third parties occasionally emerged to replace the dominant parties. I wonder why this does not happen anymore.
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by archagon 1y ago
I think you’ll find yourself sorely disappointed in a decade or two.
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by archagon 1y ago
I’m sure they don’t care today, but since these people proudly slap their names on their jeering comments, I imagine that someday their leftist children will read them and feel disgusted at the mocking cruelty. Will the authors feel shame t
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by archagon 1y ago
I don’t see a lot of people talking about Britain losing its cultural identity without also using dehumanizing language to describe the “invaders.” I mean, look at the closer to this article: > You survived the Blitz. Britain will be ba
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by archagon 1y ago
I have the opposite problem. My Bluesky (and Mastodon) feeds have gotten so active that I have a hard time catching up these days. And Twitter seems to be mostly full of bloviating narcissists who are addicted to feeling like “influencers”
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by archagon 1y ago
I think there’s still value to having a long tail of independent instances, which can readily become more dominant if something happens to compromise the primary mastodon.social instance.
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by archagon 1y ago
We’re talking about the average user. They’re not going to be particularly passionate about federation. The point, to them, is to have a functioning Twitter-like social network.
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by archagon 1y ago
> The cdc for example saying it's ok to disregard their previous guidance in order to protest for black lives matter That’s… not what they said? They said it was probably relatively safe to attend a protest because it was happenin
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by archagon 1y ago
The pendulum has broken out of the clock and is clattering on the floor.
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by archagon 1y ago
How is it a pain when you can just skip the server selection process and use mastodon.social like pretty much everyone else?
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by archagon 1y ago
Wow, I didn’t realize that DHH had gone off the rails* into full-on white nationalism: https://world.hey.com/dhh/as-i-remember-london-e7d38e64 It’s fucked how normalized this sort of “Britain/US for Whites” rhetor
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by archagon 1y ago
I doubt you’ve ever set foot in a sociology classroom before. Perhaps a smattering of liberal arts education would help tame your hysteria.
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by archagon 1y ago
Forking is a political action that requires buy-in. Hence the letter.
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by archagon 1y ago
Roma is amazing and the documentary about it made me appreciate it even more. The insane attention to historical detail!
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by archagon 1y ago
Biden did not have magic powers to preempt the runoff effects from the pandemic. (If anything, the actions of his administration helped get inflation under control by the end of his term.) And to claim the borders were “open” is just propag
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by archagon 1y ago
And advocates "remigration" and other white nationalist slime on social media.
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by archagon 1y ago
Musk has verified blood on his hands: https://archive.is/YknTv
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by archagon 1y ago
You provided zero evidence for your claim that millionaires “are almost certainly going to be a net benefit to our society.” Plenty of millionaires are sociopathic, corrupt, and power-hungry people. The millions may even be a testament to t
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by archagon 1y ago
And where is this money going?
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by archagon 1y ago
So the son of some oligarch more worthy to immigrate than a poor but brilliant PhD?
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by archagon 1y ago
Why should we have programs that specifically allow wealthy people to cut the line?
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by archagon 1y ago
Don’t let the name of the site mislead you. There’s a reason jwz redirects traffic from HN to a picture of a testicle.
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by archagon 1y ago
The peninsula might not be dense, but San Francisco has a density of 7,194/km2 and the transit situation pales in comparison to Rotterdam's. There are many urban areas in the US with population density of 3,000/km2 or higher
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by archagon 1y ago
Rotterdam — a city with a population of around 650,000 — has both a metro and a tram system. Extraordinary density is not a prerequisite. And in any case, there's no reason that public transit needs to be self-funded. We don't exp
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by archagon 1y ago
Designing our urban transit around the needs of the mulch-bearing 0.1% seems like a bad idea.
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by archagon 1y ago
$20+ per ride is affordable? Waiting 10m+ for your ride and slowly sifting through traffic is quick? In London, Paris, or St. Petersburg, I pay a few bucks to hop on a train that runs every few minutes and rapidly end up across town, roughl
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by archagon 1y ago
Good. Cars ruin walkable cities, and the last-mile problem can be solved in other ways. And it's not just the EU. I'm sure that e.g. China and Japan will continue to invest in their excellent public transit infrastructure even whe
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by archagon 1y ago
…What? What sort of terminally online strawman would be spending his free time “virtue-signaling with Europe” to some anonymous bozos on a tech forum? What a dull and intellectually uncurious reply. I think self-driving cars may eventually

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