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by free_rms 6y ago
I don't think they meant literally lost his mind. I'd be happy to see more reporting on other topics mixed in with the media contrarianism. It's an important point and I agree with it but he becomes the thing he criticizes a
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by free_rms 6y ago
I notice you didn't carve out an unconditional condemnation of violence in your comment here. It's implied. Can we stop being so laborious?
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by free_rms 6y ago
Things You Can't Say change over time though, so you can't keep archives either.
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by free_rms 6y ago
Why is Scott Alexander's real name important in this specific case? I'm not interested in sloppily applied generalities for the common case where people aren't a pseudonymously semi-famous writer. Give me some reasoning on t
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by free_rms 6y ago
"Scott Alexander" is who's famous, not whatever his vastly less-known real name is. His real name adds nothing to the story. The fact that he slipped up at least once in the past doesn't mean the NYT should go and print
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by free_rms 6y ago
Maybe the people who live there, set the policy and literally built everything deserve a little credit?
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by free_rms 6y ago
Worth mentioning that the only lethal force in the capitol was when they were breaching the barricades where (I think) VIPs were being guarded. That's lethal force in self-defense, not lethal force to clear out the protest.
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by free_rms 6y ago
You ever notice how the only countries with "regimes" are coincidentally the countries the US establishment has a problem with?
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by free_rms 6y ago
But you're only describing poorly executed / counterproductive frugality. Spending $500 of time to save 10 bucks isn't frugality, it's idiocy. Spending time reducing unit cost as opposed to customer acquisition or buil
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by free_rms 6y ago
The thing about building cages and whips is they're inevitably used against the vulnerable. It sounds good when you're building them..
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by free_rms 6y ago
We've built a society without physical public squares, for the most part, though, and substituted them with the virtual.
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by free_rms 6y ago
In this particular case, IMO, 2 things are true: * The linked story is way out over it's skis, pulling together partial opinions from a bunch of sources to make a definitive claim that is not really supported. I doubt the Party themse
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by free_rms 6y ago
RFE/RFA's reporting will never, ever, ever undercut US geopolitical interests.
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by free_rms 6y ago
It's not covert, but it's quite literally a propaganda machine. The reason Radio Free Europe/Asia were founded was to broadcast the benefits of 'freedom' into communist-governed areas. You might think that we'
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by free_rms 6y ago
Awfully long to hold a grudge? We in the west could have stopped screwing them over a couple centuries earlier as well. Might have avoided the whole civil war ever happening. EDIT: Was being light-hearted about the "holding a grudge&
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by free_rms 6y ago
There's a very large pro-money coalition in politics at all moments. People who stand to make money off of business with China will always win against people who don't stand to lose money by curtailing it. It's a matter of c
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by free_rms 6y ago
As a matter of national policy, you're absolutely right and maybe this whole "outsource our entire manufacturing chain" thing was a mistake. As a matter of ethics.. they've lifted a billion humans out of back-breaking s
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by free_rms 6y ago
All economic activity in a nation is going to benefit the government in some way. Is this a call for full cuba-level embargo of the nation of China, or what here?
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by free_rms 6y ago
It's more effort to ban a post than to just leave it up. Getting into picking and choosing which foreign governments are allowed to post, and which messages they'll countenance, at additional expenses for their mod team? Twitter
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by free_rms 6y ago
OP and myself are making the case that, by dipping into politics and labelling certain opinions, rhetoric and/or factual claims as "unacceptable", they're making themselves exactly that.
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by free_rms 6y ago
Does twitter censor US policy-maker's tweets when they trumpet the power of western values to liberate muslim women?
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by free_rms 6y ago
Terrible analogy, newspapers and stations have limited space for what they cover and it's an editorial decision to choose to run something over something else. Twitter could just let the tweet exist for people who personally choose to
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by free_rms 6y ago
Fox News was founded in 1996. Fox broadcast stations having nightly news, like your local Fox affiliate news at 11 was and remains different.
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by free_rms 6y ago
> doesn't really have anything to do with a moral or ethical system Philosophical ethics typically divide into utility-based, rule-based and virtue-based ethics. OP is clearly lamenting some utility-based failures and claiming that
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by free_rms 6y ago
That requires a vote of 50%+1 of all eligible employees (not just voters) though, to certify the union as the employee representative, followed by regular elections to union leadership. It's not like a few dozen people can just seize
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by free_rms 6y ago
> What government can't do is to steal your money or block your access to your money. https://xkcd.com/538/
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by free_rms 6y ago
Who else you going to turn to? Someone who was drummed out of the club for questioning things that everyone knows?
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by free_rms 6y ago
> It boggles the mind that anyone could have believed that replacing many of the core productive bits of the economy with fluff like management (and ownership), finance, and hospitality would lead to anything but weakness. When the decis
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by free_rms 6y ago
We manage to imprison 4x as many people per capita compared to China. Think of every bad thing you think and have been told about the big bad CCP and then think that we manage to imprison at 4x their rate. What does that make us?
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by free_rms 6y ago
Sure but you're mixing apples and oranges here. Can we think about how funny it would be if someone was doing social justice rhetoric with that level of energy? "well, uhh, you see this is, uhh, problematic i guess, they weren&#x2

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