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by barbacoa 5y ago
From my recollection, twitter blocked NYP from posting until they took down a post with the link to their laptop article, which NYP refused to do.
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Is it unconstitutional for the government to tell tobacco companies they can't advertise to children? There are laws that the phone company can't discriminate who can use their service. Is that unconstitutional too? People have ha
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I feel it's becoming more in line with a religion at this point, how else can you explain such large groups of people having near indistinguishable views on unrelated and complex topics. Knowing someone's view on Keystone XL pipel
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SCOTUS has ruled on a case very close to this and it held up. PruneYard Shopping Center v. Robins https://www.oyez.org/cases/1979/79-289
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>Not that this has any chance of being upheld, of course. The author of that article seems to not have a very deep understanding of court precedent. I wouldn't count it out as unconstitutional so quickly. https://reason.c
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The companies would fall under Florida jurisdiction if they have any presence in the state like data centers.
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In New York City unions are essentially a subsidiary of the political system, funneling money into reelection champagnes. In return politicians return their support by requiring that any government contract must be awarded to contractors th
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That is because they never gained power and the nazis murdered/imprisoned most of them after they won the election of 1933. Unfortunately it turned out the medicine wasn't any better than the disease. If you want to read about wha
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by barbacoa 5y ago
The political "other side" in Germany in 1930s was the German Communist Party. Not "free health care" communists more like gulags and firing squads communists. Not much better.
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>supporting black activists automatically pits you against white working class folk That does seem to be the perception. One of the core ideas of BLM is that we live in a systematic racist society. If that is true who are the perpetrator
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I didn't log in for 4 years.
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I had 19¢ in a bank account I that sat dormant for 4 year. Still there when I logged in and started using the account again.
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There have been countless corporations that are openly supporting BLM and pushing the "everything is about race" narrative because it is a distraction from the increasing wealth inequality that has led to rising economic popularis
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It the same issue but with a slight of hand to shift blame. There is a sentiment that at a macro level the economic system is geared to advantage those at the top. What I see mega corps are doing now is try to shift that frustration from a
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>If you conclude otherwise I conclude its because its the answer you wish were true. Confession through projection.
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That is an interesting observation. I can confirm I get those results too. Perhaps they are relaxing their algorithms now that elections are over. I originally tried this month (or maybe a few) ago and was unable to get any link to breitbar
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by barbacoa 5y ago
Ironically, DM did enough journalistic leg work that they managed to get their hands on a copy of Hunter Biden's hard drive and had "forensic expert" examine it. Something the rest of the "reputable" media couldn&#x
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by barbacoa 5y ago
We live in a world of subjective truths. "Hunter Biden laptop is fake" is to the left what "wide spread voter fraud" is to the right. People are too emotionally invested to have adult conversation on these topics.
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If you ever want to play censorship scavenger hunt, try to get Google to link to breitbart.com without including the word breitbart. You can search article titles word for word in quotes and the names of the authors but google will not retu
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by barbacoa 5y ago
>Unfortunately many are fine with this because they believe it benefits their ideological group, which is more important than individual rights. Sadly true. A good example from this year: https://theintercept.com/2021&#x2
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by barbacoa 5y ago
And signed a law authorizing indefinite detention of american citizens without trial. Surprised he didn't win any champion of due process awards.
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by barbacoa 6y ago
>So you could conveniently drive around in a bubble of ‘right to self defense’ Yes that is how self defense works. The driver was an Uber driver who made a wrong turn and was mobbed by people, one of who pulled an ak-47 and pointed at hi
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by barbacoa 6y ago
What do those numbers mean?
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by barbacoa 6y ago
If you are in a car and are attack you have the same self defense rights as if you were at your house. Something similar happened at a BLM protest in texas with predictable results. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/1223951
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by barbacoa 6y ago
>Cocaine, Heroin, Meth, and Fentanyl should never be legal. They are too addicting. I know 10X as many people who threw away their lives working minimum wage and minimum responsibility jobs just so that they can afford enough marijuana t
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by barbacoa 6y ago
>I'm glad to see more corporations stepping up and enforcing laws and morals. You mean enforce your view on morals. I suspect you would be less happy if corporations enforced the morals of the quakers on what you were allowed to do.
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They are also building high rise residential building in the city center including numerous 50+ story residential skyscrapers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_A...
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It has been rumored that the leader of the proud boys is an fbi informant. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/27/proud-boys-l... After 9/11 the fbi sent all kinds of informants into mosque
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Modern day African immigrants generally as a group don't suffer the same issues that afflict American Blacks. Racism is a problem that has existed and probably always will, but I don't think it is appropriate to blame racism for o
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> most people no longer celebrate Christmas, don't speak your language, and don't work I find this the most alarming part of what Europe is doing. In the USA they had a welfare system back in the 1960s that many saw as actively

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