funkythings

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by funkythings 8y ago
Did you even watch the video? The VERY FIRST thing he said was "turn it (his girlfriends dog) into the most unfunny thing I could think of...a Nazi". This was a joke, nothing more, nothing less. Now, the real scandal was that the
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by funkythings 8y ago
Given you are calling Sargon and Count Dankula alt-right shows how little you know about them.
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by funkythings 8y ago
> In August, a discussion started among GNU package maintainers about the problem that GNU development often pushes women away I'm not trying to offend people or anything, but where is the evidence for this in GNU specifically?
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by funkythings 8y ago
I disagree with "I still feel people are looking for as much personal freedom as possible while maintaining high personal safety". If we're talking about leftists, not (classical) liberals, it is abundantly clear that they do
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by funkythings 8y ago
Why do you assume he's a Republican? He didn't even mention Democrats. You don't have to be a Republican to see that many people on social media and in social media companies are close minded. Jones was just the start. Why sh
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by funkythings 8y ago
What do you expect from a newspaper that has people on their editorial board like Sara Jeong, who openly tells us all on twitter how she likes to see old white people suffer?
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by funkythings 8y ago
American culture is shaped largely by costal cities, especially towards the outwards world. Don't you think its fair to say those regions have a liberal bias?
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by funkythings 8y ago
We can never reach the point of spirited debate, when any opinion that goes against popular opinion is immediately labelled as "hate speech", "bigoted" or "ignorance". Good point
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by funkythings 8y ago
"Conservatives “feel like the big social platforms, Facebook and Twitter, are not sympathetic to their views,”. Uhm. yes. But this is not a "feeling". Jack Dorsey and Zuckerberg have both admitted the echo chamber their compa
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by funkythings 8y ago
Why is anyone taking the veto diet seriously?
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by funkythings 8y ago
I really want to love DuckDuckGo, but for programming things I search for the results are simply to weak.
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by funkythings 8y ago
EVERYONE has anecdotes of things they had to fight. Only large scale data shows us if there is specific discrimination in an industry or not. American women are not far behind Scandinavian women on the equality index. Same applies to them
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by funkythings 8y ago
I said "opposite opinion" Then I provided data. I don't care about anecdotes
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by funkythings 8y ago
So, all these women present anecdotal evidence. If you are interested in an opposite opinion from another woman coder: https://medium.com/@marlene.jaeckel/the-empress-has-no-cloth... Reality looks very different. Women
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by funkythings 8y ago
Really? Read the news: https://nypost.com/2018/07/18/san-francisco-allows-non-citiz...
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by funkythings 8y ago
Try again, kiddo. This is not about conservatives, it hits everyone, ESPECIALLY LEFT WINGERS: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/8/3/17644180/po... Making this issue a conservative vs libe
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by funkythings 8y ago
This is not about conservatives, it hits everyone: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/8/3/17644180/po... Making this issue a conservative vs liberal issue is dishonest and doesn't get
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by funkythings 8y ago
Voting: https://nypost.com/2018/07/18/san-francisco-allows-non-citiz... Look at what's happening at college campuses. Students and administrators are openly against free speech, because it "harms mi
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by funkythings 8y ago
No it's not. - Most unequal state in America - VERY high taxes (that are supposed to stop inequality, but it doesn't. Surprise) - skyrocketing housing prices - Very illiberal mindset towards the first amendment, especially on coll
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by funkythings 8y ago
Yeah, double standards. Unbelievable
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by funkythings 8y ago
It's a NYT journalist that stated multiple times she hates white people. Like, really vile stuff. No ban, no 7 day suspension. Nothing. The NYT even defended her (Sarah Jong). Now, the crazy annoying right-winger Candance Owens just co
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by funkythings 8y ago
No matter what you think of Jones: Silicon Valley is digging their own grave with their blatantly obvious double standards towards "hate speech" and other forms of harassment.
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by funkythings 8y ago
great discussion
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by funkythings 8y ago
well put! Most people don't realise how divisive identity politics is.
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by funkythings 8y ago
what's the issue. I stated by opinion. If you don't like it, well, so be it
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by funkythings 8y ago
I get that. These types of headlines tend to try to highlight the fact, that these programmers are WOMEN. Well, yeah, ok, I don't care, and people shouldn't care, if programmers want to have an "inclusive" community. Do
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by funkythings 8y ago
Why does the gender matter? I hate headlines like this
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by funkythings 8y ago
how was the will of the people ignored in the 2016 election? I agree in the larger sense though. In my opinion, the only way to stop a corrupt government is to shrink it.
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by funkythings 8y ago
How come "democracy is broken", only when people get voted into power, that you don't like? Well, that's democracy. I believe an every increasing government is broken, how about we start with that? Democracy doesn't
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by funkythings 9y ago
This comment vastly understates the effects of this law. Social Media companies are scared af to be fined by the German government, so the filters are so strong, that it targets the wrong people. A couple of comedians and satire magazines h

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