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   Barbara Lee was the only representative in Congress to vote against the 2001 AUMF
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   As Yemen Collapses, NYT Publishes Saudi Arabia Propaganda
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   For those who believe in the existence of socialization of gender roles from early childhood (as described by sociologists like Emily Kane in "The Gender Trap") this is a good thing. It means socialization in human civilization ha
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   And white supremacists say their enemies are against social cohesion and organizing to silence people (in the latter case there's a bit of truth, in terms of the anti-civil-liberties streak of my fellow progressives and leftists). In t
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   No one believes they can't. But should they? https://theintercept.com/2014/08/21/twitter-facebook-executi...
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   And yet folks stress how much we need to put moderators at Facebook, Twitter etc in charge of determining what is acceptable political speech on their platforms beyond existing legal requirements...
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   What do you mean by "powerful" in the first sentence? Are you saying "power" is a scalar quantity?
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   Is Donna Brazile a Republican, RU operative, or both?
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   I think many hoped for a path forward in Bernie Sanders, but the Democratic Party kneecapped that...
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    That's why we need good journalism... power will always corrupt, making the "Fourth Estate" a necessary implicit branch of a democratic government-and-society
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    The GOP is beyond corrupt -- would you agree the focus should be on improving the Democratic Party to be formidable again?
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    Did you follow the links to the other connected articles?
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    Hoarding money like this is highly immoral. Just give most of it away: https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/06/its-basically-just-im...
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    Is there precedent for that? As in has there been other leaders whose twitter accounts have been taken down in the past for ordering military/police forces to do things?
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    What would be an example of something they should take his account down for that would otherwise be legal to post?
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    True that "no [legal] obligation or legal requirement" exists but a democratic society requires free discussion to survive and the last time the US public threw out this principle, it brought us the term "McCarthyism" [0
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    I don't know about any actual silencing myself (I'm not well-read), but the efforts to impeach Chomsky's mental stability and character [1] unquestionably have that as the goal [1] https://www.theguardian.com/
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    Thanks for the explanations. I do actually think that NYS does not have Fair Elections like Maine or Arizona has implemented. The left in the US doesn't want focus on boring things like election law because it is currently addicted to
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    Would publicly funded elections help this problem? I know NYC and some states have Fair Elections implemented in some form
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    Would you consider trying such a thing in a wheelchair yourself, as political performance art?
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    Being a constituent of X (in this context) means means X is expected to advocate for you. Thus Eric Garner wasn't a constituent of NYC, he was a constituent of his representatives, who may or may not have done a good job advocating for
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    What conditions or events happened for people in these other "professional" unions to start organizing? I think people only take action en masse when clear incentives exist. I can't see what cultural incentives there are to o
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    You can talk about different groups of actual physical women who have different types of thought about sex, sexuality, and men, because waves and groups of feminisms actually do exist. I recommend "Gender Inequality" by Judith Lor
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    Once again we see demonstrated the simple dynamics of economics in that the stories that are on the HN front page is a function of demand from an overwhelmingly male base of regular users.
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    If women decide to talk about anything other than their "equality" under the law, they are The Extremists who are "doing it for their own gain"? (What does this phrase mean? I would assume women would be engaging in femi
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    Why should women shut up about their experiences?
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    Everyone can see the purpose of this comment. Telling women to quit whining and shut up is not novel.
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    Everybody already understands that those who claim to "have nothing to hide" are always those found in some intersection of sets representing those arbitrarily constructed classes of people which were invented and exist to extract
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    I think "How the Irish Became White" by Noel Ignatiev is a good place to start with respect to engaging on this topic.
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    What if "whiteness" is not a geographical/physical trait but a social construction? What if whiteness varies in the specifics of its processes around the world?