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by diyorgasms 10y ago
Fight back against the white supremacists and neo-Nazis and racists and write nationalists, both in real life and online. You think they're ruining a website? They took control of the USA. The might take control of France. I can't
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by diyorgasms 10y ago
For far longer than that actually. Newt Gingrich (the one soon-to-be of the Trump administration) spent the 90s trying to defund public media as House Speaker.
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by diyorgasms 10y ago
No, while I suspect that many of the people who voted for Trump did so out of bigotry, some I assume are good people. And the email did not say to resign if you supported Trump, it said to resign if you would engage in bigoted acts . &quot
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by diyorgasms 10y ago
Wait, I fail to understand how refusing to hire or associate with bigots is an assault on democracy. It seems to me this is the free market in action. Your labor is worth so much less as a bigot that you are unemployable. Tough shit. Unless
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by diyorgasms 10y ago
I think the majority doesn't think of this at all. And for many of us, it was never acceptable for Apple, Google, MS, the telecoms, or IoT products to do this either. That's why many of us use FOSS and encrypt everything and use V
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by diyorgasms 10y ago
No, billionaires pouring money into politics is not a good thing, but it is the status quo. As long as it's the status quo, I'd like to see that money being used to oppose autocracy. But I'd be happier to see money out of pol
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by diyorgasms 10y ago
Agreed, and I opposed the Bush expansion of executive powers and the Obama expansion of executive powers. Perhaps not everyone has been ideologically consistent throughout this process but there are those of us who have. And as you have poi
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by diyorgasms 10y ago
You can't possibly believe that. The only thing they listen to is money. We're just serfs.
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by diyorgasms 10y ago
Frankly, we had the candidate to address this. Taxpayer-funded education would have allowed these otherwise useless people to gain useful skills. I fear from now until the world becomes uninhabitable through climate change that these useles
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by diyorgasms 10y ago
I think this might have been a hypothetical question on your part, but one name does stand out to me, and that's Tim Cook. Consider that Trump was openly hostile toward Apple on the campaign trail, and that Tim Cook himself is gay, and
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by diyorgasms 10y ago
This is absolutely true, but let us remember that the creepiest pervasive surveillance entity in SV is probably Palantir. I am sure that Obama did not give Peter Thiel warm fuzzies (based on his position on the Trump transition team) and ye
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by diyorgasms 10y ago
It was never acceptable to many of us. But the threat of unbridled autocracy was less present under Obama than it will be under Trump, for the reasons stated in the article. It is possible to oppose these programs with some but not utmost u
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by diyorgasms 10y ago
The police act almost as an occupying force in some communities. It does not surprise me in the few instances where they are resisted like they are an occupying force.
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by diyorgasms 10y ago
I'm not sure if this it's a popular decision, but I don't really think the private sector should be innovating with our electoral system. Integrity is of utmost importance, and voting machines have been proven vulnerable in t
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by diyorgasms 10y ago
I'm suspecting parent is referring to the Iran-Iraq War, though I may be mistaken.
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by diyorgasms 10y ago
Two weeks is the blink of an eye as far as politics goes. This is going to be years, if not decades, in the making.
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by diyorgasms 10y ago
It seems you are intent on using the term "libel" which carries a very specific and technical meaning. As best as I can parse, you mean to say they chose a deliberately unflattering picture. I suppose I understand what you are goi
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by diyorgasms 10y ago
>I consider anything that makes a candidate look confused or stupid or ineffective politically loaded, damaging to reputation (in the context of an election) and therefore libelous. The you are clearly misinformed as to the nature, facts
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by diyorgasms 10y ago
In a thread yesterday, sama qualified his status as a "part-time partner" but nonetheless he is involved with YC.
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Facebook, Twitter and Instagram sent feeds that helped police track minorities(washingtonpost.com)
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by diyorgasms 10y ago
I downvoted because this comment is incredibly inflammatory and instead of providing any evidence relies solely on inflammatory language and emotional appeal.
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by diyorgasms 10y ago
I'm not sure depth is the thing that movie lacks. But tack on some more, sure, why not?
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by diyorgasms 10y ago
I don't disagree with you that Democrats pushed some of these bad laws. I just disagree with the characterization of Democrats as not-conservative, especially during and after the Reagan years. Certainly there are some Democrats who
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by diyorgasms 10y ago
"Tough on crime" has always been incredibly popular. But Nixon was the "law and order" candidate. Reagan was the "tough on crime" guy. Center-right Bill Clinton continued and expanded Reagan's policies. So
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by diyorgasms 10y ago
So the new face of mass incarceration is white rural conservatives, the same demographic that is largely responsible for the "tough on crime" push that led to disproportionate incarceration of poor people of color. Now that their
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by diyorgasms 10y ago
I've been using rtorrent for years and I wouldn't ever suggest anything else. It's just so damn simple and reliable. I love the concept of watch directories too. Upload a torrent file to a specific directory, and the data wil
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by diyorgasms 10y ago
I remember 15 years ago or thereabout and ITT Tech was advertising on daytime television. When was the last time a reputable institution of higher learning had a television advertisement strategy, let alone on daytime television. Their mode
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by diyorgasms 10y ago
Degrees from these sorts of institutions are already arguably a black mark. I've seen this come up a few times in /r/sysadmin, and to some people, attending a school like ITT displays a shocking inability to do even the most
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by diyorgasms 10y ago
I have not yet bought the game but your extremely vivid description of your experience playing just sold me on it.
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by diyorgasms 10y ago
I would assume ssh and its underlying logic are welcome here. What I assume is unwelcome is advocating religious tests in a secular state.

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