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by edbob 6y ago
I get that everyone just wants to shit on Parler, but AFAIK they didn't host any content that wasn't present in far greater quantity on Facebook and Twitter. It would have been reasonable to expect to have access to the same platf
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by edbob 6y ago
> over the last 30 years the democratic party has mostly remained the same with a slight left trend, while the republicans have become moved much much further right. On visual comparison between the 97th Congress and the 116 Congress, it
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by edbob 6y ago
It sounds like they had prepared to move from AWS to another mega-provider like GCP or Azure. The site is too large (and probably poorly optimized) to just spin up a few DO droplets.
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by edbob 6y ago
They figured out that they can get away with genocide as long as they do it in slow motion. The end result is the same, the disappearance of the Uyghurs as a people, but it takes decades instead of years. That's why they are sterilizin
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by edbob 6y ago
Most of us can only do a bit, but acknowledging the truth helps. Refuse to fund companies like Disney and the NBA which bend over backward to defend and minimize the actions of the PRC. Support China's rivals. There are scores of great
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by edbob 6y ago
> Social networking websites have become such an important source of information that even sex offenders should not be barred from social media, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday.[0] > social networking sites have become a m
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by edbob 6y ago
netizen-9748 asked for a reference where someone was canceled for sharing facts, which I provided. This has huge implications for the entire nation. How can we trust "facts" when everyone knows that the "facts" are cherr
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> David Shor, for example, was until recently a data analyst at a progressive consulting firm, Civis Analytics. Shor’s job was to think about how Democrats can win elections. When Omar Wasow, a professor at Princeton, published a paper i
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by edbob 6y ago
They didn't "botch the messaging". They lied. The article covers this blatant lying.
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> My company had a zoom conference with a very well respected British doctor, he won something more or less equivalent to a nobel prize in mediciine, and he told my company, on May 4th, that masks are not necessary. This was already a bi
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The article is talking about Google's suppression of independent reporting content that regularly appears on the news. It has nothing to do with anyone being killed.
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by edbob 6y ago
Christmas is considered part of American culture. Whether it should be is not relevant. Given how liberals widely seem to hate "America"[0], I was remarking that avoiding mentioning Christmas (by a well-known woke company) comes
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Which would make it 8%?
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I did emphasize the criteria, and it seems reasonable to expect any informed person to already know that there was violence from police, protesters, and counter-protesters. But the Guardian source says "All but one were killed by fello
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Unfortunately I don't see anyone successfully publishing a study critical of BLM when you can get fired merely for mentioning a past study, as David Shor did[0]. I don't think studies are going to change anyone's mind when th
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The stated aim was to be inclusive and give people ' something to say "hey, we realize that you exist!"'. A way to be inclusive without coming off like you hate American culture. I don't really care if "Merry
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That is a bit "unfair", although not in a deliberate way. Maybe just say "Happy Hannukah" on one particular day? That serves the purpose of inclusion well enough. If someone objects to saying "Happy Hannukah" a
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by edbob 6y ago
> It's something to say "hey, we realize that you exist!" It seems like there should be a way to do that without feeding into the whole Culture War thing. The holidays generally fall on different days. Why not say "
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by edbob 6y ago
Thanks for the honest reply. Sorry for getting off-topic. I'm trying to understand liberal thought a bit better, hopefully without getting flamed out too much. I agree that the Starbucks choice of greeting is a "babiest of baby st
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I don't know the extent to which this is a problem (i.e., I don't want to make this into a "weak man"), but there are some legitimate reasons to be concerned with the replacement and/or minimization of traditional
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What is the appeal to authority? That the court can easily verify the boy's age? I'm pretty comfortable with trusting the court on that matter. There is an appeals process if they drop the ball here. It works pretty well in simple
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The Hunter Biden laptop story has been confirmed by witnesses and the cryptographic signatures on the email, while not a single shred of evidence that it's a "plant" has been found. This should give the NYPost a huge boost in
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> In any case: it should be blatantly obvious that the Twitter representative did not know or agree that the person in the video was a minor. The lawsuit alleges precisely that Twitter had ample evidence to know that he was a minor. How
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by edbob 6y ago
This is a pointless ad hominem that is completely irrelevant to this case. The court can easily verify whether the victim was a minor.
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I think you got me confused with someone else. I don't have any other comments in this thread. How can you honestly say "Imagine trying to paint being against political violence as a partisan issue." while doing absolutely ev
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From your own source: > Numerous Secret Service agents were injured, fires set by rioters blazed near the White House and authorities were searching for car bombs > The official initially put the number of agents injured at over 50, b
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If your argument is actually that no one is being censored, then we will just stop there.
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I don't know anything about what the nightly news ran. All I know is that when my news sources got around to talking about it, a couple days later it's "oh I have to be very careful what I say about this, I already got a noti
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I don't care whether it's a corporate or government logo on the boot stamping on my face.
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My best guess is that liberals stopped reading higher in the thread. I would hope that moderates and conservatives would not find those claims very credible, but perhaps they do or are not so offended as to downvote. I was personally fine w

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