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by ardy42 6y ago
Is that a problem? I'm not so blinkered that I'd object to toppling a regime like Maduro's, and the main issue with this effort seems to be incompetence and proceeding with insufficient resources. BTW, Wikipedia considers Mi
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> Otherwise Twitter is interfering in foreign diplomacy and governments, be they legal, illegal, authoritarian or democratic. > Twitter should not be making these calls. Twitter should totally should be making the calls. If the CCP w
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> Clearly no agenda here. Twitter backing an illegitimate US backed tin pot dictator and denying the legitmately elected government a voice. As far as I can tell, the group you're calling the "legitimately elected government&qu
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> Imagine they were strict vegetarians, or peaceful and kind meat eaters for that matter. It would completely disrupt our own evolution by injecting foreign memes into our culture. Or imagine they were psychopathic sadists, like the Affr
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> But a more long term solution without redistricting is to give up on the notion that states are equal. Just give more senators to larger states, and fewer to small states, and the current system mostly works; certainly better than now,
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>> When looting and vandalism are allowed to reign supreme, the atmosphere alone sets the stage for more violence. >> Violence begets violence, whether it's committed by BLM protesters or a mob of Trump supporters. By that
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> I'm starting to think that the degeneration of society into a 1984-style dystopia may now be unavoidable. We need to take power back from big tech and we need to do it now. Look, lying is bad, and there is no nobility in defendi
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>>> The slaughter of an extra 3000-4000 people in the span of seven months is a colossal tragedy. I hope that the cheerleaders of future racial reckonings will do all in their power to prevent similar disasters. >> How exactl
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> The slaughter of an extra 3000-4000 people in the span of seven months is a colossal tragedy. I hope that the cheerleaders of future racial reckonings will do all in their power to prevent similar disasters. How exactly do you think th
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> There is no easy way to stop the Bitcoin network so if they really wanted to kill Bitcoin they would make it illegal to exchange Bitcoin. But then people would exchange it and just not report it anywhere, and they’d lose tax revenue. B
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Just so you know, this isn't reddit, and joke replies are discouraged. I was looking for clarification about what "the information warfare campaign" was. I'm guessing it's some kind of post-hoc rationalization for
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> The problem is that there is not clear enough guidelines for enforcing some criteria for what constitutes a new state. Thus we have a false positive like Wyoming, which shouldn't be a state with its minuscule population, and we a
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> Since Congress makes its own rules, and 51/49 is enough to change a rule ('the nuclear option'), supermajority would have to be a constitutional amendment... And then 45% would be enough to halt government. I guarantee y
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> and goring it’s own ox, ie harming the thing that those principles are attempting to protect Do you have any references for that idiom? I'm finding surprisingly little with Google, except for a handful of hits that confirm it&#x2
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> I was under impression that the self-pardon story was part of the information warfare campaign. Is there any proof to the that? Part of the what?
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> Hello deadlock! Come on down! Deadlock is not the worst thing, and the solution to it is not necessarily to remove as many locks as possible. The actual problem in the US right now is that checks and balances are strong enough to allow
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> Checks and balances essentially don't work in the US. The best bit is simply a decent judiciary, but that was mostly copied from the British. And even that is more poorly executed than elsewhere, due to the political nature of jud
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> Why WOULD Trump pardon assange or snowden? Because he has a grudge against the US intelligence community, so would enjoy using his power to piss them off: https://www.lawfareblog.com/why-flynn-pardon-matters : > The
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> He pardoned a literal spy who was convicted of espionage of state secrets but he did not pardon Assange. Incredible. Assange and Snowden remain unpopular with Senate Republicans, and my understanding is that he was told pardoning them
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> Almost every single thing on a computer is meant to be scrolled, so 9:16 is natural for desktop UI, web pages, documents, code editing, the works. I tried that once [1], but it didn't work very well for me. The monitor was 1080p,
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> Phone trees are a well known and used method to broadcast information via the phone system. And pretty bad at doing it. It's actually pretty funny to imagine someone trying to organize a movement via a phone tree.
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> These "marketplace of ideas" zealots don't operate on evidence. No exceptions or qualifications to the sanctity of free speech exist. Free speech is a faith, and no such heresies are allowed. I couldn't agree more.
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> it means that people deplatformed from FB/Twitter should also be deplatformed everywhere else, which doesn't sound like a great policy for freedom of speech or fostering a competitive marketplace. That's actually a great
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> I can't say that I know enough about that part of WWII, but yeah I agree with that statement. Which isn't to say that it applies here. Simply pointing out that stripping out context can lead to false equivalences is lazy, it
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> If most people live in the cities, I don't see an argument for letting rural areas have more than their proportional share of representation. It does act to prevent the rural areas from becoming totally neglected hinterlands, help
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> Examples are everywhere, you just have to not be in a bubble and be open to seeing it. I could keep going but you tell me, do you need more? If you strip out enough context, you can make any false equivalency you like. For instance:
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> Really? How did past revolutions and terrorist attacks get organized? You realize most of world history existed before the Internet, right? Yeah, of course. Broadcasting means one-to-many communication. Before modern technology, thos
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> I would love to see a source for this claim. There's no source, but it stands to reason: Facebook has something like 2 billion daily active users and it its roots are in nonpolitical social networking (meaning baby pictures, etc.)
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> If people had called one another to prepare this, would we say that the phone was responsible for the attack? And would we try to ban phones? That's a moot point, because an attack like this can't realistically be organized v
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> Moral of story: FB and Twitter can do whatever they want, because they have more baby pictures. Any new social network has fewer baby pictures, and therefore can be held to a higher standard, to the point that it will be obliterated be

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