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by free_rms 6y ago
More relevantly, they were specifically ordered by their city council not to use tear gas and then went ahead and did it anyways, all over the city. I'd like to think, regardless of anyone's politics, we could all agree that the e
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This article's about Zoom. Which, ironically, has a lot better case for "hold your video call elsewhere" than Twitter does for "engage with the American political class elsewhere". The sad fact is, nobody's pr
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To add on a third issue, also anecdotally, there's the nature of duties that the typical county sheriff finds themselves with. They're not local police, they're not state police or FBI, their primary job often winds up being
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by free_rms 6y ago
Also revealed preference of the angry mob! I saw zero medium posts saying "hey, forget about RMS's posts, let's go get mad at the people who actually did this stuff". I'm sure they existed, but in general the mob w
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None of them got fired, though. Revealed preference is a mother.
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by free_rms 6y ago
Edited. But, really, you're proving my point here with who you get outraged at. I didn't go on that island either.
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RMS was the only one punished for the Jeffrey Epstein scandal at MIT. He never even went on any of those trips! He was just weird, and a mob formed to shame him for it. All the people with good social skills, who went to the Epstein islan
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by free_rms 6y ago
This entire subthread is based around the premise of "they're too stupid/racist to know what's good for them". Whether or not the specific phrase 'white trash' is said or not said doesn't matter. It
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Farmers are rich, though, and they're doing fine for labor. The trade war hit them worse by tanking pork prices. For working class people, neoliberal economics have done nothing for them. Plants in town have closed and they don'
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Maybe they just vote for the party that doesn't call them white trash?
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Do you think any of those people actually think to themselves "I'm going to vote against my economic self-interest because of Last Place Aversion"?
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Everybody says it all the time about MLK and Malcolm X, ever since they were murdered. It's closer to boring than controversial.
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by free_rms 6y ago
Thanks. Appreciate the common sense, especially from someone who has a different good-faith opinion on the actual substance :)
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There's a distinction between 'people' and 'Target', though.
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MLK was the good cop, it was his role to say that. You need the bad cop too, or the good cop doesn't get listened to.
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We already have that, though. Elected politicians spend most of their time raising money and the remainder stoking culture war bullshit. The system mostly runs itself.
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It's 100% blame-shifting. We all saw this happening in China for 2-3 months before it got here, then in Italy a month before it got here. It was all over the news. And we did nothing, as you note. So now the line is that the WHO abet
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by free_rms 6y ago
Once upon a time, the USSR quit the UN Security Council in protest over something or other. China's seat was held by Taiwan at the time, so we wound up with a UN-endorsed anti-communist war in Korea despite China and Russia both being
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I felt a moment of disgust but then decided I actually like this better than terms like "kinetic defense". At least be honest.
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I should have used 'liberals' instead of 'the left'. I fell victim to symmetry.
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Bedhead's point still stands in isolation from this week's bullshit, though. Trump will be on to some other highly divisive circus act next week. The question of whether Twitter is a public square will persist.
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All analogies across such different systems will be inexact, of course. The headline about "Military Schools" is still completely misleading, from the paper who brought you "Saddam has WMD". Both stories fed to them, of
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Because everything is tribalism now. You can call the right hypocrites for doing a 180 on corporate property rights and demanding a 21st century fairness doctrine.. but didn't the left do a 180 as well?
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The reporting indicates it's about the schools they attended, not the students' scholarship conditions. We haven't seen the list of schools, but from what I can see it'd be more like revoking the visa of someone who atte
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The military sponsors departments of civilian universities there[1], or even whole universities, rather than individual research grants like we do here. "Military Schools" is misleading. These 5,000 kids aren't out of Chines
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I know I already said good night, but you haven't engaged with that common carrier concept at all. Check it out. We've been through all of this already with Ma Bell. Good night.
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I'm suggesting that Twitter might be a monopoly in the field of "being the watering hole for the entire media/political class". The argument hinges on network effects, I'm not saying it's ironclad, but I think
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I mean, they already enumerate that child porn isn't allowed, but kitten pictures are. We're just negotiating the boundaries. I'm advocating for the widest possible boundaries, because I think it creates the least possibilit
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I'm not talking about the government regulating speech, I'm talking about the government regulating against Twitter deciding your politics are unacceptable. Whatever they may be. More speech. I'd be fine with retaining Twit
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Twitter deserves credit for creating their platform, absolutely. They created a platform where everyday people can interact with top media and politicians. Now that it's here, and they're all on it.. "the coffee shop can thr

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