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by chroem- 6y ago
That couldn't be further from the truth. A large group of Black Panthers armed with assault weapons stormed the CA capitol in 1967 as part of a protest. https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/history/article1
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by chroem- 6y ago
People being relegated to digital ghettos (Parler) is not a sign of healthy discourse. This is about individuals not feeling like they can speak publicly.
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by chroem- 6y ago
This will be an extremely unpopular comment and will probably be the end of my ability to post on HN, but it needs to be said: What we saw today was precipitated by mass deplatforming and censorship. When you take away the ability of peopl
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by chroem- 6y ago
Weren't there antibody studies of people in the US around that same time frame that claimed 30%+ (somewhere in that range if I recall) of the American public already had covid-19? There was some sort of issue with cross-reactivity tha
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by chroem- 6y ago
Dang, there is no other venue to discuss this. There are massive human rights violations currently happening that rival those of Nazi Germany, but most news media and online discussion forums shy away from the topic because China is too ec
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by chroem- 6y ago
This comment is extremely disingenuous. The annual number of state sponsored executions in the United States can be counted on one hand. Most (all?) of the EU has banned the death penalty altogether.
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by chroem- 6y ago
They receive social credit points for doing that though.
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by chroem- 6y ago
Quite frankly, I suggest the opposite. Most people in the west, and especially in the US, don't appreciate just how evil the CCP is. Our corporate media has given the CCP a free pass on mass murder because many of our wealthiest peop
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by chroem- 6y ago
In your opinion, what would the pseudo left need to do in order to become the real left?
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by chroem- 6y ago
That's all well and good, but it fails to account for potential action by state actors other than Russia. Everything you have said applies just as much to China, if not more so.
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by chroem- 6y ago
> As a overly generic rule, trust (or don't) the Institution over the individuals. That is precisely the same line of reasoning that started the Iraq War based on lies. The New York Times claimed to have intel from anonymous source
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by chroem- 6y ago
How should we handle misinformation from official sources? It wasn't that long ago the New York Times told the world they had evidence of Saddam Hussein possessing weapons of mass destruction, setting off a chain of events that litera
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When Russia fakes elections, they may be giving us the statistical finger (2017)(washingtonpost.com)
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by chroem- 6y ago
Is conspiratorial thinking confined to the right wing? A sizeable portion of the country believes in a conspiracy theory where a sitting US president is somehow a Russian sleeper agent.
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by chroem- 6y ago
The war on terrorism was a response to violence, not words. Please re-read my post.
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Terrorism is defined as the use of violence to intimidate or suppress political opponents. With that in mind, Popper's Paradox of Tolerance is simply an ideological framework for justifying terrorism. You can respond to violence with
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by chroem- 6y ago
> You are describing the abridging private organizations' right to free speech by congress... There is a large amount of legal precedent in the US for the government being able to compel speech of private businesses, both in laws an
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by chroem- 6y ago
We already have a significant amount of legal precedent to compel a private business to serve certain groups. Those protected groups were legally enshrined in the first place to extend them the same rights that everyone else already enjoye
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by chroem- 6y ago
It gets better (worse?) though: reddit has removed any references to Aaron Swartz from its list of founders. https://www.redditinc.com/ > Reddit was founded in 2005 by two college friends. > Steve Huffman, Co-Founder&
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by chroem- 6y ago
Your implication is that Twitter and Facebook are human beings, and I think a majority of people would contest that idea. What I am saying is that the authors of the bill of rights did not intend for a person's human rights to go away
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by chroem- 6y ago
> Now if the government had ordered this moderation, that's where the idea of rights and first amendment comes into play. That may be the latest popular interpretation of the bill of rights, but it is absolutely not in the original
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by chroem- 6y ago
There are not a lot of causes that I'm willing to die for, but freedom of speech is one of them. It is the most fundamental human right from which all other human rights are derived. The moment you lose your absolute right to questio
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by chroem- 6y ago
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Please provide us with some.
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by chroem- 6y ago
Looking into it, as far as I can tell it's not meant to be taken seriously. Q is an elaborate practical joke created by "The Hacker Known as 4chan" in order to troll the media into losing their minds. So far it seems to be
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by chroem- 6y ago
> too many people putting too much money in it and only few happen to profit But that's the explicitly stated purpose of a lottery. The goal of the lottery is to have as many losers and as few winners as possible, in order to attra
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by chroem- 6y ago
But why do we still allow lotteries even if there are lots of examples of them ruining people's lives?
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I'll never understand protecting the middle class from "dangerous investments", but continuing to allow state-sponsored lotteries which are demonstrably scams.
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by chroem- 6y ago
This. Myopia on a single method for reducing carbon emissions is how you get rolling blackouts. Perfect is truly the enemy of good here.
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by chroem- 6y ago
Finally, something to go with my pirate metal.
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Ask HN: What would be the unit economics of a near-human AI?
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