cosmiccartel

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by cosmiccartel 9y ago
> No, Steve Bannon said in an interview that he led Breitbart in giving a spearhead to the alt-right in large media. This both true and irrelevant to my point. Quick history lesson of the term: It was originally coined by white nationali
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by cosmiccartel 9y ago
> These guys largely call themselves the "alt-right". No they don't. Most of "these guys", meaning the new right, distance themselves from that term because of its association with white nationalism. > They&#x
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by cosmiccartel 9y ago
> In day to day life there are 0.21 homicides by gunfire for 100k inhabitants per year in France and 3.6 in the US (source: wikipedia). This is missing the point of the comment you're replying to. You're comparing homicide by
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by cosmiccartel 9y ago
I was a Firefox user since it was called Phoenix, and finally switched to Chrome in mid 2015. With the latest release, I finally feel comfortable enough to switch back. FF is a true competitor in the browser space again.
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by cosmiccartel 9y ago
I'd mainly chalk that up to them being the only ones open to a genuine discussion with him. The articles coming out in the aftermath were all extremely demonizing of Damore. I remember watching Peterson's interview with him, and D
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Smearing Free Thought in Silicon Valley(quillette.com)
55 points by cosmiccartel 9y ago|39 comments
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by cosmiccartel 9y ago
Theodore Kaczynski (AKA the Unabomber) wrote about this quite a bit. To him, the most insidious aspect of technology is one's inability to opt out. Even if an individual draws a line in the sand and decides they don't want a [dish
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by cosmiccartel 9y ago
Equating speech with terrorism builds fear in me. According to your logic, your own comment is terrorism. Unless you really want to split hairs.
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by cosmiccartel 9y ago
We're not talking about terrorist material. We're talking about speech. Holding and voicing controversial ideas is not terrorism.
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by cosmiccartel 9y ago
It looks like the responsibilities of the TSC involve much more than enforcing a code of conduct. If you want a simile for this situation, I'd say it's more like a police officer sharing an article that's in favor of marijuan
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by cosmiccartel 9y ago
I applied for an internship at a local-ish company (I'm from a very rural area, so local means within 100 miles). They did check out my GitHub, and all I had on it was my blog (Rails app I had made when first learning). One of the inte
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by cosmiccartel 9y ago
From your own link: "On January 16, 2017, Project Veritas uploaded a video showing DC Antifascist Coalition members of Disrupt J20 plotting to use 'stink bombs' at the DeploraBall. After the video's release, Disrupt J20
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by cosmiccartel 9y ago
DisruptJ20 was exposed by Project Veritas for (allegedly) organizing illegal terrorist activities. Presumably, that would be the reason for this, rather than their organization of legal protests.