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by free_rms 6y ago
Twitter is the place where the entire media and political classes hang out. They're all addicted to it. These people's opinions shape real-world politics and election outcomes. Could that be a 'limited public good'? D
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"American Columnist Blames China For British Decision" In 1960, China was in the middle of the Great Leap Forward and like 40 million people were starving to death. The rest weren't doing great, either. Maybe the Brits were
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You're aware it's a 1-party state, right? That's an awfully fine hair to split. The people making that comment are talking about the government and the nation, not an ideology (which is barely even followed in practice, anyw
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Yeah, but why hand them ammo. Like you say. I'm pretty sure most judges would recuse if they had statements like that surface. Sections (a) (1) and especially (a) (5) here, for example: https://www.americanbar.org/grou
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In this context it's very clearly about the PRC, referencing specific history, not some generic hypothetical communist. Nobody calls berkeley student marxists 'bandits'.
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The "communist bandits" thing is a Taiwan vs PRC thing -- Mao was basically a bandit for like 10 years while fighting the ROC government. Or the revolutionary vanguard expropriating wealth for the people's liberation, if you
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The appearance is disqualifying on its own. They're gonna get dragged for these tweets any time they fact check anything, even if their judgment is always impeccable.
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We had 2 billion-dollar campaigns operating for a year. Russia had some paid shit posters and a 100k Facebook ad spend. Blaming Russia is just a cop-out. No need to hold ourselves accountable, it was those damn Russians!
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Not my job. Go hire a tutor or something.
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Wow, you know nothing yet you're completely invested in strong opinions. Go do some reading, consider relaxing your opinions while you do it.
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This article is about hacking and covid-19, though. Nobody's monstrous overreactions to Islamic terrorism are the topic here.
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I was speaking more generally. WeChat is monitored and things get said there, the gulags aren't full. There was a lot of outrage over that doctor that died after blowing the whistle about C19, for example. HK was more of a hot situat
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It's not 'pro china' to have surface familiarity with some of the CIA's greatest hits. They tried to kill Castro with an exploding cigar, no joke, like Looney tunes.
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I mean, I'm not trying to say "china always good, USA always bad", either. I'm just trying to add some perspective. If I were to take that on as some sort of debate challenge, I'd point out the mass incarceration a
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Oof, Korea? Bad example. We spent 4 years fighting, with 3 million casualties, in order to leave the border between north/south in the same place we found it, and install an allied dictatorship for the following 30 years. I guess it
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We did have the Church Commission.
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> Compared to the CCP, it's fairly benign It would take a book-length treatment to evaluate that sentence, but I don't think it's justified. We've been VERY active, around the whole world, since WWII. China's o
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by free_rms 6y ago
First off, the west's covert activities are not limited to benign surveillance. Second off.. aside from the total lack of evidence, why would the Chinese be interested in sabotage here? American discovery of a vaccine means they ca
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And there's always 100 with extremely selective outrage. We're hacking them, they're hacking us, yawn. We hacked Angela Merkel's phone, even. This is normal low level stuff.
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Yeah, I used 'common carrier' in reference to when Ma Bell was a monopoly and wasn't allowed to just not do business with people. We don't have jurisprudence saying so for websites, because this is new, but it could be a
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I don't know the solution, but I definitely wouldn't want my phone carrier deplatforming me for counter-revolutionary speech. There are plenty of other places to go if Wal-Mart doesn't sell a CD. Not so much in Twitter or Wi
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There's an argument that certain information systems have become 'common carriers' in a way that wal-mart never was, and maybe we should regulate them differently. But I was mostly just nitpicking improper usage of the parado
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I was referring to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parents_Music_Resource_Center The conclusion was that parental advisory stickers are cool and will help sell your album, and I'm glad we got there as a socie
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Would you also support banning hip hop albums that talk about shooting cops or other violent crime? Or glam metal albums that glorify satanism? We've been through this before.
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I mean, even a mass shooting like that doesn't trigger the paradox of tolerance. It's a terrible tragedy, and a law enforcement issue, but society as a whole is not less tolerant for it -- we all agree, don't shoot up a syna
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Karl Popper's the original author of the paradox of tolerance meme. The paradox isn't "you don't have to tolerate intolerant people because they're bad and tolerance is our goal", the paradox is that tolerating
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Cults have leaders.
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The thing is, whenever you invoke Popper, you're calling the person you disagree with a literal Nazi who wants to liquidate millions of people. Anything short of that and the logic falls apart -- there's no threat in tolerating so
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Finally, someone gets it.
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That article is amazing. I figured Trump was just shit stirring, I should have known he'd have a relationship with people who've been trading in that debt. Since 2001! There's a century of this debt getting rolled over to g

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