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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
It's a reference to the famous (perhaps misattributed) quote from Stalin: "Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything."
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
I think I'm less pessimistic than you are but I get where you're coming from. According to Pareto (yes, that Pareto), there is a natural ebb and flow of this sort of national vs self interest that exists within the ruling class. I
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
Yes let's compare that to: 1. All of the mainstream media except for Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity 2. All of academia (higher and lower education) 3. All of Hollywood 4. Essentially all of entertainment in general (music, late night
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
You belong to the cult of the mainstream. These talking points that you're trotting out are shallow and prepackaged, provided to you by the traditional organs of culture, and function more like shibboleths for other cult members rather
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
Yes I get what you're saying. It is transient in the sense that all civilizations have an arc or cycle that involves greatness and then decadence. However, what I'm talking about is not a perfect set of selfless angels in the ruli
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
I find comments like this extremely interesting. What you've written is deranged and comes across like a programmed response similar (I would say functionally identical) to that of a devoted cult member. You've just rattled off wh
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
This isn't a mild scandal even when you exclude the sex/drugs component of it. There are documents and audio recording detailing relationships between the Biden family and members of the Chinese intelligence services, among other
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
> unverified This term doesn't mean anything. It's just a meme. How does one actually "verify" anything? When people use this term they mean "someone I trust (e.g. mainstream media) concurs with this statement&qu
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
The way people have been dealing with these leaks is pretty amazing. The amount of goalpost moving is so absurd that it's just amusing at this point. It's basically like one of those doomsday cults that keeps pushing back the date
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
People already knew in March that the virus spreads via droplets (as all respiratory viruses do) and that widespread mask usage would slow the spread. They had implemented this protocol in China and the rest of Asia for at least a month by
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
There will be Nuremberg-like trials for doctors, guardians, and members of the establishment who have enabled this. Even for completely apolitical checked-out "normies", enabling and in many cases encouraging minors to permanently
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
Yes and for the record I'm Jewish.
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
I am aware we have these civil rights laws. I am asking if you can find a scenario where someone was forced to engage in creative work for someone under these laws. For example, someone forced to be a wedding photographer of an interracial
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
> It worries me even more that i can't see a way out of it other than censorship Please rest assured that there's nothing you can do about it and that is a beautiful thing.
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
I retract my use of the term "LGBT themed", that was too strong a description. However at the very least common sense tells us it would have had some reference to the homosexual nature of the marriage (e.g. "Adam & Steve&
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
> they requested a cake that happened to be for gay people getting married. From the court filing: "In July 2012, Craig and Mullins visited Masterpiece, a bakery in Lakewood, Colorado, and requested that Phillips design and create a
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
From your linked court document: "In July 2012, Craig and Mullins visited Masterpiece, a bakery in Lakewood, Colorado, and requested that Phillips design and create a cake to celebrate their same-sex wedding." "LGBT-themed&qu
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
> Denying someone a cake It wasn't about denying someone a cake. The shop had many premade cakes available for purchase. It was about being forced to create a custom LGBT themed cake that the gay couple wanted baked. If you believe
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
> No, because those are laws, and those regulations exist for a reason. Therefore you wouldn't see any problem with regulations or laws that restrict the rights of companies to enact this sort of policy that Mailchimp is.
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
Can you put the same person for all of your choices?
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
The report that NBC is referring to was compiled based on public data. It can all be checked. Really it's just sad how cattle-like some people are. Edit: Here it is: https://www.baldingsworld.com/2020/10/22&#x
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
Tucker Carlson has said they made copies anyway.
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Glenn Greenwald Resigns from the Intercept(twitter.com)
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
He still isn't ready to believe that this whole movement that accompanies CoCs is pushed for malicious purposes by twisted power hungry people. That would require a massive loss of innocence and a reckoning about the nature of the worl
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
Yes of course but in this case you're just wrong. This is a very well documented pattern of behavior at this point. Fortunately you're not my boss or colleague and so you can continue to promulgate these structures that cause a lo
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
> Maybe it's not what's being said but how it's being said. This is the kind of rhetoric I'm referring to when I say Kafkaesque. These people derive power from being victims so if they are given this benefit of the do
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
I don't think it's particularly insightful. I'm just stating it since it doesn't seem to occur to most adults these days. Certainly it is interesting to consider the set of circumstances that give victimhood and fragilit
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
I can assure you that speaking out against CoCs under your real name in a professional context can be quite difficult. The people who tend to create, promote, and defend CoCs tend to engage in incredibly Kafkaesque and pathological behavior
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
Yes in some cases there are bad things in this world that are promulgated and promoted under the guise of being good. Learning to recognize those bad things for what they are instead of naively accepting their self-serving sanguine explanat
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
> The thing HN likes to do best with any story is to generalize it and find sweeping conclusions. This is what intelligent people do. They recognize patterns and extrapolate. At this point the vast majority of people have experienced var

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