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by ctrlp 5y ago
Are you pro-motorcycle helmet as well? I don't ride but my understanding is there is disagreement about the relative protection of a helmet vs compromised visibility, yet most states in the US mandate helmets. Maybe some motorcyclists
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by ctrlp 5y ago
Not every anti-mandate person is a anti-vax. Government mandates are a political issue. Depending on the country and its laws, some believe mandates are illegal and constitute government tyranny. They may value rule by law or autonomy over
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by ctrlp 5y ago
Please do! I look forward to being wrong. Nobody likes a Cassandra (although Cassandra turned out to be right) and I'll gladly concede these warnings were alarmist if the trends I see discontinue without mass unrest or turning over the
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by ctrlp 5y ago
Please share evidence for this claim.
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by ctrlp 5y ago
I also see a familiar pattern with sentiments like yours. There is little to no concern for people whose livelihoods or psychological health were harmed by health policies that prioritize the vulnerable minority over everyone else, includin
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by ctrlp 5y ago
Arguments for thinking of the burnt-out healthcare professionals are tired and miss the forest for the trees. There are many reasons for healthcare professionals feeling burnt-out that pre-date Covid and were exacerbated by it. Where were y
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by ctrlp 5y ago
Is this an argument in favor of monitoring individual compliance with environmental standards using some kind of digital pass? That seems like something you should state explicitly. Occupational safety regulation is typically targeted towar
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by ctrlp 5y ago
Whether or not you agree if there is legal authority for mandates for this vaccine or this pandemic, where does it end? The trajectory we're on is for all people to be monitored by the State for compliance with the vaccine programs. Is
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by ctrlp 5y ago
TSA is a manifestation of the totalizing technocratic State and all that that implies. The motivations are manifold and they evolve and are discovered over time; I wouldn't argue that there is only one reason. Being also a 'jobs p
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by ctrlp 5y ago
Why would the government care to have you banned from Twitter?
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by ctrlp 5y ago
The State
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by ctrlp 5y ago
Would you like to be subject to Twitter's or Facebook's interpretation of extremist?
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by ctrlp 5y ago
What percentage of TSA employees are former military?
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by ctrlp 5y ago
Do you know for a fact that your background screening does not now or will not ever include calling out to a social media extremist detection service? I'm not so confident.
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by ctrlp 5y ago
Exhibit A: Australia Exhibit B: Canada Exhibit C: New Zealand
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by ctrlp 5y ago
Well, YOU may not have a problem complying with every government mandated health intervention required of you to travel, but others might. Oddly, lots of people on HN seem not to view compulsion as a form of force when it's cloaked in
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by ctrlp 5y ago
Pre-check screening is the EZPass of the security state. Exchange your privacy for convenience. Submit to a background probe and permanent residence in a government database (and god knows what other consents are required) and you, too, can
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by ctrlp 5y ago
The obvious purpose of removing shoes at airports has long been more about security theater than safety. The authorities must be seen to be doing something to protect travelers or the industry might not survive the customer's perceptio
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by ctrlp 5y ago
Are you suggesting that people who disagree on masking children are radicals comparable to jihadi terrorists?
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by ctrlp 5y ago
It is a system that is being threatened to irrelevance by institutional corruption. Voting as a feedback mechanism seems not to be able to survive the capture of our political and administrative institutions. There are other countries that
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by ctrlp 5y ago
Without minimizing the cultural importance of Gamergate, you are vastly overstating its influence on the 2016 election. If you want to understand Trump in 2016, you'd be better off looking at the Tea Party and the rise of populism cont
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by ctrlp 5y ago
If this is such a tiresome question, why is there so much ink spilled about voting rights/integrity? It seems you are one of the few people who think the system ensures oversight. If it isn't corrupt, perhaps. But what if it is? T
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by ctrlp 5y ago
What is your opinion of public/private partnerships? What would you say if the government pressures private organizations to censor individuals? Is that still 'private' censorship? What if partisan government officials take b
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by ctrlp 5y ago
That's quite contemptuous of half the U.S. voting population. The 75 million people who voted for Trump in 2016 might beg to differ about who/what put Trump in office. Are you equally sure no misinformation was spread to elect Bid
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by ctrlp 5y ago
Why, indeed. Maybe our standards for teachers are too lenient. In any case, it is possible that there is no quality of teaching that will change a student's natural aptitude. It's a disservice to huge swaths of the population to f
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by ctrlp 5y ago
Reputational cost to whom? The platforms? Due to network effects they are quasi-monopolies. The FAANGs have moved in recent years to cement their monopolies via government influence. What did they have to offer in return? Political donation
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by ctrlp 5y ago
Well, Marx famously wrote he himself wasn't a Marxist ("je ne suis pas marxiste"), but putting that aside, Marx was himself a bourgeois intellectual (as were Lenin and Trotsky, Che Guevara, and many other famous revolutionari
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by ctrlp 5y ago
If you want everyone to pass, lower the standards. The end result will be that certificates from schools without high standards will be worth less in the eyes of employers (while still costing the same to the student). As they progress thro
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by ctrlp 5y ago
This is so ignorant I don't even know what to say to you. If you're interested in learning about the connection and evolution you can look into the Marxist Frankfurt school and its influence on modern identity politics.
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by ctrlp 5y ago
Agile has meant 'bad' for years now ever since Agile processes were formalized and adopted by big orgs. At least that's how I've thought of it: 'Agile' means the worst of all worlds. Run if you can.

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