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by gorwell 4y ago
I'm liberal and don't want central planning. It terrifies me that we are headed down that road at all; even seeing trial balloons for price controls. It always ends very, very badly and there's no reason to think this time wo
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by gorwell 4y ago
Is the idea here that SHEL.L suddenly became a profit focused company after all these decades?
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by gorwell 4y ago
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by mi
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by gorwell 4y ago
I was just quoting from the book to provide missing context. My read is that they are casting a larger net than the traditional definition to include anyone that disagrees with their ideology.
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by gorwell 4y ago
Here's what the book says, "Sometimes they're called Nazis. Other times, they're the far-right or alt-right. White Nationalists. No matter the name, hateful groups are spewing vile, racist, anti-immigrant, anti-POC, anti
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by gorwell 4y ago
Good point. I didn't realize they had already weeded them out.
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by gorwell 4y ago
Kickstarter may survive since they enjoy near monopoly status, but otherwise how can they compete given that high performers in tech are allergic to unions?
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The Dubious Science of Microaggressions(unsafescience.substack.com)
59 points by gorwell 4y ago|57 comments
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by gorwell 4y ago
It's the same kind of person. The difference is that your boss correctly identified himself. The activists in question are the same, but misidentify themselves, hiding under a false label. They are wolves in sheep's clothing. I al
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by gorwell 4y ago
You must not have experienced this brand of activists yet. They are toxic to the entire team and organization in which they are present. They sow division, intolerance, hatred, bigotry and exclusion unlike anything I've seen in decades
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by gorwell 4y ago
That's not what he said.
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by gorwell 4y ago
The people who preach the loudest often do so to overshout their own past. It’s no coincidence that the loudest proponents of cancel culture and DEI have themselves a history of bigotry and bullying. Today this is the most effective way to
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by gorwell 4y ago
It may or may not be pandering. The cultural and corporate elites have been increasingly exercising control over speech on the internet the past few years, and now we have a Ministry of Truth in the government. More top down control is the
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by gorwell 4y ago
When and why did progressives become authoritarian?
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by gorwell 4y ago
After Russia was shut out, who took control of the narrative and is running it now?
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by gorwell 4y ago
This is straight out of Brave New World where the word "mother" was viewed as obscene.
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by gorwell 4y ago
We suggest you replace the word angry with pleased.
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by gorwell 4y ago
I can't imagine most employees agree with this. Why aren't they pushing back?
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by gorwell 4y ago
The "woke" all have the same opinions and aggressively attack any deviation. It acts like a parasite or virus that contains a payload of dogma replicating itself from host to host. It turns rational people into zombies, so mind vi
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Books that librarians and teachers recommend removing(twitter.com)
2 points by gorwell 4y ago|2 comments
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by gorwell 4y ago
Differently abled?
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by gorwell 5y ago
What could Signal do to prove they aren't a honeypot? I have no idea if they are or not, but it'd be a disaster if they are. Or maybe not. I suppose people might just shrug it off like the NSA. sigh.
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by gorwell 5y ago
Population isn't growing much at this point tho. It's trending to 0%. https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/us-population...
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by gorwell 5y ago
Yudkowsky doesn't strike me as a crank. Why do you say that?
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by gorwell 5y ago
We may be close, but I don't think we'll get closer because we're trending in the other direction now. We're in decline and I'm more worried about technological regression than tech getting too powerful at this poin
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by gorwell 5y ago
They invoked the Emergencies Act to bypass due process. `When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau decided a week ago to invoke his country’s Emergencies Act for the first time in Canadian history to quell the unrest, it gave the police sweeping n
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by gorwell 5y ago
Consider yourself lucky. You don't live in places like Russia, China or Canada, where your credit cards and bank account can be frozen or even confiscated without due process. For some living under these regimes, crypto is the only wea
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by gorwell 5y ago
Silicon Valley's Censorship Harms Everyone
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by gorwell 5y ago
That post looks like Orwellian satire. Starting with the header image literally telling the viewer what to do. APPLAUSE Two authoritative figures standing on stage, delivering the good message to the crowd. APPLAUSE Followed by a dose of ga
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by gorwell 5y ago
From the Canadian Civil Liberties Association: Let's be clear: there is no legal justification for using the emergencies act. The broad powers the government has granted to police curtail Charter rights across the country. This risk of

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