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by chroem- 5y ago
Are they? With cryptocurrencies I can at least conduct commerce. With gaming PCs, I can... play violent videogames?
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by chroem- 5y ago
At a minimum, at least this is ideologically consistent with wanting to ban bitcoin, since both consume approximately the same order of magnitude of energy.
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by chroem- 5y ago
Don't take my word for it, take theirs. Here is one of their documents. http://www.noisyroom.net/blog/STORMSummation.pdf
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by chroem- 5y ago
That's no more of a defense than claiming you're "only" a fascist instead of a nazi. (still waiting on the reply cooldown for the other comments ITT)
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by chroem- 5y ago
> Someone doesn't become a Nazi post-WWII because they believe in fascism. They do it because they are motivated by the hateful beliefs of Nazis. Thank you, this is precisely my point. How can someone still support communism after
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by chroem- 5y ago
Would you say the same things about someone who was formerly a nazi, but who still engaged in far right politics? I do not believe you would.
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by chroem- 5y ago
That's not true, because the goal is to establish a dictatorship of the proletariat through violent revolution. Democracies are incompatible with dictatorship and must be overthrown in order to purge the other social classes. This is
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by chroem- 5y ago
> Does one have to adopt every ideal of something when founding an organization? Let's change the labels. If someone founds an organization to spread nazism, is it a reasonable inference to suggest that the founder might be a nazi?
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by chroem- 5y ago
A core tenet of communist ideology is violent overthrow of democratic governments to implement a "dictatorship of the proletariat". Both are rooted in violence.
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by chroem- 5y ago
You are suggesting that we hold him to a different standard than everyone else and give him the benefit of the doubt. Other people have had their careers ruined for far, far less, while Jones gets a television gig and $100M for his trouble
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by chroem- 5y ago
Does co-founding a Leninist organization not make one a Leninist? Why would you create an organization if you don't believe in its ideals?
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by chroem- 5y ago
It says on his wikipedia page that he's a Leninist. It's not a conspiracy theory if he's open about it.
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by chroem- 5y ago
Previously he's been known for being openly communist (i.e. not just a regular socialist). As an aside, I still find it odd how we've rightfully shunned other totalitarian and mass murdering political ideologies, but we've c
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by chroem- 5y ago
As others have pointed out in this thread, "misinformation" has easily extended to politically inconvenient facts, such as the lab leak theory. The government absolutely does not, and should not, have the authority to censor wh
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by chroem- 5y ago
The first is a direct excerpt from the linked article, which is a high level summary of the press conference. The second is a reference to this https://youtube.com/watch?v=IwwwRC2xLC0
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by chroem- 5y ago
Yes. > We are in regular touch with these social media platforms, and those engagements typically happen through members of our senior staff > https://www.newsweek.com/biden-administrations-admission-the... Psaki also
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by chroem- 5y ago
> so long as the government doesn’t act as an authority to fuse censorship across all platforms They literally discussed how they're doing this last week during a white house press conference.
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by chroem- 5y ago
In 2003 the US Government and media collaborated to start the Iraq War based on false reporting. Tens of thousands of people died. Today, the notion that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction would be suppressed as "misin
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by chroem- 5y ago
Many people would already consider HN to be a bay area-centric echo chamber. Based on the examples you listed, this seems to be an argument to explicitly enforce that echo chamber so that nonconforming posts are blocked outright. At that
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by chroem- 5y ago
China has already implemented this system. Why not head over and try it out?
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by chroem- 5y ago
I could be wrong, but I thought Starship's booster is reserved only for orbital flights.
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by chroem- 5y ago
I'm surprised Virgin Galactic hasn't pursued the high speed VIP transport market. Point to point travel at extreme speeds, without sonic booms or significant aerodynamic drag, seems like a better use of this suborbital technology
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by chroem- 5y ago
Another extremely unsatisfying possibility is that those threads could have been flagged as flame wars and de-indexed. I'm not entirely sure what happened, but I do distinctly remember reading those posts and I'm willing to stand
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by chroem- 5y ago
HN's search feature leaves a lot to be desired when it comes to comments. Perhaps some variation of "replacement conspiracy theory".
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by chroem- 5y ago
I invite you to spend lots of time digging through search results, which I myself decline to do since these conversations are rarely productive, however this frequently comes up whenever there's a thread discussing declining white demo
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by chroem- 5y ago
You can't just call everything you don't like a conspiracy theory. I have seen plenty of people on HN arguing for censorship of unflattering statistics to achieve social justice goals. Why not just work on fixing the causes of t
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by chroem- 5y ago
This is precisely why San Francisco is so expensive relative to the rest of the country. SF's infrastructure seems expressly designed to prevent people from commuting from cheaper, outlying areas. This effectively limits the housing
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by chroem- 5y ago
Is it boilerplate? It seems very relevant to the discussion, given that it's addressing a specific point in the parent comment.
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by chroem- 5y ago
Corporations don't have freedom of speech and it is misleading to suggest that they do. In fact, there is an enormous amount of legal precedent for mandated corporate speech. If you don't believe me, look at your nearest &quot
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by chroem- 5y ago
> your own web site What about all those times internet infrastructure companies shut down the people who built their own website? Do you see the precedent that you're setting?

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