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by gfodor 5y ago
Not really. If you disagree, I dare you to burn your vaccination card and see how life is for you over the coming months. There are many people like me who do not like seeing what is going on and are fully vaccinated. We have read enough hi
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by gfodor 5y ago
Given how common it is for countries with oppressive regimes to bar or heavily restrict exit, it is noted in article 13 here: https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-huma... The point is if another
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by gfodor 5y ago
It’s about the right to exit. A situation where people sit by while basic rights are eroded for others is most likely to happen when there is a rationalization for reasonable people to support it. See also: the NSA mass surveillance program
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by gfodor 5y ago
I’m pro-vax, anti-authoritarianism. I realize this is hard for a lot of people (like yourself?) but it really shouldn’t be.
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by gfodor 5y ago
Different topic completely than universal government mandates.
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by gfodor 5y ago
The oppression is being barred from travel, work, and many aspects of public life. If you strip away your opinions about the risk and benefits of vaccination and look at the people not vaccinated as a group agnotistically, they are being op
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by gfodor 5y ago
That stereotyping and scapegoating of the unvaccinated is occurring and is animating the support of increasingly oppressive policies against them. Many of whom have natural immunity and pose less risk than those vaccinated in early 2021.
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by gfodor 5y ago
The claim was this was a burden on par with shoes. I claim it is far beyond that and many of the US mandates will be struck down. The precedent is a state level mandate with a $150 penalty.
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by gfodor 5y ago
Citation needed that you need a vaccine to get on a train in the US.
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by gfodor 5y ago
Beautiful illustration of stereotyping.
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by gfodor 5y ago
Search for “unvaccinated vs vaccinated cartoon” on google images and have a look. Remind you of anything?
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by gfodor 5y ago
Ah this is good. Hope it stays that way. Thank you for sharing. I’m also glad if seeing this fact helps people form opinions how they would feel if it weren’t the case.
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by gfodor 5y ago
Interesting claim that a requirement to take a drug is the same burden as wearing shoes. The world has gotten very strange.
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by gfodor 5y ago
I do. They often start by restricting the right to exit and assembly of stereotyped groups.
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by gfodor 5y ago
Your options for being able to exit Canada now are severely restricted if you are unvaccinated, particularly if you cannot enter the US. It appears you will need to charter a private plane or ship to emigrate. I suspect the right to emigrat
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by gfodor 5y ago
I have not been to space, but imagining the blank, clean matter-of-factness of it, the sterility of it, the emptiness of it, and understanding that is what the incomprehensible vastness of the universe "is" except for the roundi
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by gfodor 5y ago
gamdevs have been waiting for this for something like a decade. I'd like to know if anything has changed to expect it to land anytime soon esp in Safari.
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by gfodor 5y ago
Once enough force has been deployed, oppression and complacency look similar from the outside.
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by gfodor 5y ago
Well, obviously. Their current system offers enough value for users to keep using it. The question of if working on something is an ethical pursuit is only partially connected to it's demand. Examples abound of things which people happ
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by gfodor 5y ago
No, my opinion that people should resign from Facebook is not a forwards looking opinion but a backwards looking one. But if you agree with my position on what you're contributing to, it is an additional reason to do so.
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by gfodor 5y ago
Eventually, unless something changes, Facebook will be able to commandeer your avatar to allow a third party to speak on your behalf to persuade others. Eventually, you will come to have personal relationships with non-human agents which al
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by gfodor 5y ago
We already have done this over the last several centuries by defining the line between legal and non-legal speech. The point is the line is chosen to trade off these risks. There is no silver bullet but acting like there is, and that this d
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by gfodor 5y ago
I wasn’t making an analogy. Facebook and similarly scaled up communication networks ought to be treated in ways similar to public squares for the purposes of understanding the nature of their effect on speech freedoms, now that we have seen
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by gfodor 5y ago
I deleted my Facebook account many years ago so I would say the obligation to resign, to me, probably goes back pretty far. But overall I understand this wasn’t self evident for many for a long time and for many it still isn’t. I wouldn’t p
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by gfodor 5y ago
It’s not hard to ascertain someone’s business model when they are a public company, nevermind one that you literally can start spending money with in about 5 minutes.
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by gfodor 5y ago
If you work for Facebook, you are contributing to a system which will grow into being the most effective mechanism, by far, for a bad actor to deploy capital to successfully alter the beliefs, behavior, and choices of your children. One day
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by gfodor 5y ago
The argument isn’t about Facebook per se, and especially not the people at Facebook. It’s that providing Internet services for “free” on the back of advertising was an obviously great idea when such “ads” were cute product pitches and led t
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by gfodor 5y ago
Social media data science wizardry for targeting likely swing voters was applauded by the likes of the NYT when the Obama campaign did it. It was only when the cold water was poured on the left realizing the same methodology could be used t
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by gfodor 5y ago
It’s depressing that criticisms of Facebook now seem to entirely be focused on them not shutting down speech. At some point, the root issue with Facebook (as identified best by Jaron Lanier) has been lost in the political noise: their busin
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by gfodor 5y ago
You say you’re baffled but conclude the people you are baffled by are heartless. You’re not baffled: you have made up your mind.

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