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by bequanna 5y ago
> We’ve also heard directly from smaller creators, and those just getting started with their YouTube channel, that they are unfairly targeted by dislike attacks Wow. Well, the politically motivated truth behind this change is pretty darn
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by bequanna 5y ago
Not organized at all, completely grassroots. Check the like/dislike ratio for any mainstream media video which features an obvious politically slanted view on some topic. The problem here is that people are using the like/dislike
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by bequanna 5y ago
But maybe far less/slower progress. If you take capital away from people who are excellent capital allocators and give it to consumers we will just end up with more candy crush in app purchases.
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by bequanna 5y ago
This is more than a little naive. Think pragmatically and put yourself in the position of the Russians, Chinese. We are their opponent and there are no rules. It is well documented that the Soviets were trying with great effort to influence
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by bequanna 5y ago
The parent comment is saying that propaganda could be used as a weapon to demonize industries in an attempt to force regulation that would handicap US companies and make them less competitive. In this scenario, the US has painful and ultima
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by bequanna 5y ago
Clickbait title and manufactured outrage. The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission required Enbridge to pay for additional police presence as a condition of granting permits. These payments are managed by an independent third party. Enbrid
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by bequanna 5y ago
Do you mean stop institutions from purchasing residential real estate or are you referring to providing mortgage loan liquidity?
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by bequanna 5y ago
> If this continues, the US will simply have less allies. I’m not so sure. We’re in a two super power world now with China being a threat to almost every Western country. Which countries do you think would risk losing support from US int
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by bequanna 5y ago
That’s great! This whole civilization thing is working pretty well. Just because you haven’t personally encountered violence, doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.
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by bequanna 5y ago
> Promoting willingness to kill as a path to a voice or Liberty in personal relationships or society is utterly immoral. That is not the kind of society we should be aspiring to build. Statements like this remind me how lucky we are to h
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by bequanna 5y ago
> It hands an implicit veto on opinion to the violent. Utterly shameful. Except that isn’t how it has worked in the US at all. Can weapons be used to intimidate and coerce? Of course. But we’re civilized. We have freedoms and we are prot
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by bequanna 5y ago
People were not receiving typical unemployment benefits. When you look at the size of the benefit amounts from the perspective of a working class person or Jr Employee, it was a no brainer: Stay at home, make more money. Check out the numbe
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by bequanna 5y ago
…or anyone who opposes the politics of the current regime.
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by bequanna 5y ago
> powering a construction-labor shortage I've been discussing with builders for the past few months and they state that the main issue is the lack of low-skilled laborers. They claimed that many workers at that level left >18 mon
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by bequanna 5y ago
Uh huh. Except pretty much everyone has personally experienced it and some us reflect on it with disgust. Assuming you were educated in the US, can you honestly say that you never witnesses a teacher/professor infuse their political be
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by bequanna 5y ago
> my very clichéd understanding is that the only parents that want to home school their children are those with extreme religious or political opinions they want to foist upon them. In my anecdotal experience it is actually the opposite.
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by bequanna 5y ago
Limiting the amount of new experiences people are able to have reduces their quality of life, period.
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by bequanna 5y ago
Our perception of time seems to be related to the number of new experiences we have. If every day is exactly like ever other, you quite literally are losing a portion of your life.
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by bequanna 5y ago
I appreciate that you are able to give people the benefit of the doubt, but that isn’t human nature. Most people are not self sacrificing do gooders. Indeed, almost everyone is self interested. Don’t be surprised when the person you cite ab
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by bequanna 5y ago
There is a well known trade off between public safety and personal freedom. I believe that is the point the parent comment is trying to make.
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by bequanna 5y ago
In addition to the power, don’t forget the pseudo celebrity status that many formerly ignored politicians and bureaucrats have enjoyed. The hour long daily briefings rarely contain any new information and are nothing but pure ego and attent
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by bequanna 5y ago
Nice try. Eating high quality meat is absolutely NOT a public health concern. Man, after reading some of these comments I realize how lucky I am to live in a part of the world where we push back very hard when the shrieking, alarmist minori
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by bequanna 5y ago
It isn't just out of necessity. We don't really have much of a hunger problem in the US or most of the Western world. We need to stop approaching problems by trying to force people to change their habits and preferences. That isn&
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by bequanna 5y ago
Or, you could stop buying cheap, garbage meat that sometimes causes the problems you describe. Buy from a food coop, research the farm that supplies the meat. If you have the luxury to make informed choices, do that. Of course, good luck ge
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by bequanna 5y ago
> Places with cheap energy… I’ve always wondered about colocating manufacturing near cheap power sources. Is this actually possible? Isn’t the power generated already being used? If it is possible, why doesn’t every manufacturing plant j
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by bequanna 5y ago
A study to prove/disprove long term COVID issues seems awfully difficult or impossible, especially for minor, objective things (fatigue, taste, “brain fog”, etc). Are we relying on patients to self-report whether they had COVID, what t
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by bequanna 5y ago
Not denying the use of a straw man or some humor to illustrate my point. Like any movement, I’m sure there are some valid points being made. And like any movement, this one appeals to some legit human needs: significance, connection, contri
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by bequanna 5y ago
A few friends and I managed to install this on target machines by starting a chain email and claiming the attached .exe was a “virus patch”. We would then port scan known IP ranges for our ISP to find a machine we could connect to and play
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by bequanna 5y ago
Indeed. The woke are experts at placing people into endless categories and determining which is “good” or “bad”. Which are the “oppressors” and the “victims”. Listen to their rhetoric, it is pretty much the opposite of live and let live. On
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by bequanna 5y ago
Right. So, an overwhelming majority of the people who “died from COVID” would have likely passed away in the near future from something unrelated. They just were unfortunate enough to catch COVID in their already incredibly fragile and dete

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