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by gorwell 5y ago
If anyone is not terrified by the precedent being set here, then they haven't yet imagined it in the hands of their political opponents.
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One idiot or provocateur in a sea of tens of thousands does not override the 99%. That's an absurd, lazy smear. What this episode makes clear is that many people actually love authoritarianism as long as the actions of the state in the
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Does it? To a neutral observer the BLM protests were overwhelmingly peaceful and represent the administrative class. To a neutral observer the trucker protests were overwhelmingly peaceful and represent the working class.
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> The question though, are these protests really what he has called them? Are they really a military occupation? Definitely not. Every large scale protest has its provocateurs and outliers. Using the outliers to frame the 99% is dishones
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You're being mislead by corporate and party line propaganda. Over 1.6 million people tweeted about the Canadian trucker protests over the country’s vaccine mandates, reaching about 330 million users. Of the top 100 most retweeted tweet
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I hadn't thought about it that way, but it certainly would explain his actions. You don't compromise with nazis. If you're convinced that's what they are. This would explain a lot about Trump too. He was in a misinformat
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by gorwell 5y ago
When you hear the word `misinformation`, you can generally substitute with `wrongthink`. It makes much more sense that way.
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This is the real danger of the administrative state. Arresting you requires actual police officers to go out and physically do the act of arresting you. The bureaucratic state can freeze your bank account, revoke your license, and shut down
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by gorwell 5y ago
All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.
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by gorwell 5y ago
What would you call it when someone is obsessed with race and views skin color as paramount? Squeezing everything through that lens and making judgements on that basis. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev373c7wSRg
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by gorwell 5y ago
How many times are we going to fall for `This is the most important election of our lives!`. It's always about choosing the lesser evil. Every time. And then nothing changes. Andrew Yang has the right idea. We need to break the duopoly
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by gorwell 5y ago
"Tell me you're a sinner without telling me a sinner". This is what you're saying. I'm well aware of how puritanical religions and cults work. Heretics who speak blasphemy must be shunned for defying the approved do
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by gorwell 5y ago
What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared
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by gorwell 5y ago
Define `hateful` or `harmful`. And would your definition reflect Instagram's definition, as seen in the following example? https://twitter.com/GaiaRiot10/status/1468787960216797190
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No worries, this time it's the good guys who want to censor you. We'd never abuse such power. We're just saving you from the bad guys. Pinky swear.
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by gorwell 5y ago
Twitter in a nutshell; outrage-based misinformation.
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Same. It's great. Most game companies are very comfortable. Nice offices with free food, good pay, flexible hours, remote friendly, full benefits. Crunch is rare these days. This is all true of Blizzard, btw. The vocal minority on twit
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by gorwell 5y ago
That's because they are both correct. The ruling class uses identity politics to divide, and the ruling class isn't limited to one party.
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by gorwell 5y ago
@jack was oft accused of abandoning the people and twitter's free speech principles, but with the changes we've seen since he stepped down, it now appears he was the only thing standing between dissident voices (including citizen
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You're projecting your own conspiracy thinking. You're literally seeking hidden, dark meaning in things that are benign (the word `patriot` in this case). That's more revealing than anything.
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They could handle that by providing a simple solution: Randomize names. This isn't about avoiding stereotypes though. This is about pushing a belief system and an agenda. A dangerously misguided one at that. Equity is about equal outco
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That's also about not calling attention to its cult-like characteristics. DIE is a little too on the nose for a group that demands conformity and unpersons those that dissent.
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What do they say when confronted with the fact that Asians are the top performers in this system?
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Read Chapter 2: Teaching for Equity and Engagement https://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/ma/cf/documents/mathfwchapter2.doc... Why are they integrating and layering the religion of social justice and gender ideology
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by gorwell 5y ago
A former NYT tech reporter is calling it the `Andy Ngo law`. https://twitter.com/NellieBowles/status/1465724183044841473 It does seem crafted to gatekeep citizen journalists who are a major thorn in the corporate
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by gorwell 5y ago
Indeed, `Twitter Safety` is explicit about their bias. `Feeling safe on Twitter is different for everyone` and `The misuse of private media can affect everyone, but can have a disproportionate effect on women, activists, dissidents, and mem
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by gorwell 5y ago
There was an amusing example of this yesterday with The Economist saying, `The sharp increase in inflation over the past year has blindsided many economists. Almost no one saw it coming` https://twitter.com/TheEconomist&#x2F
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It's also a large amount of psychological projection and intra elite jockeying. Naval hit the nail on the head here: `The whole Social Justice Warrior-ing trend seems like a case of white-on-white violence.` https://twitter.
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by gorwell 5y ago
I'm surprised you're getting downvoted. I thought HN was well aware of Noam Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent. Maybe not? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent See also Revolt of the Public,
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by gorwell 5y ago
This is another example of how the ruling class is trying to reassert control over the narrative and flow of information. Flag dissent as `misinformation`, remove comments, remove dislikes. Bit by bit, clamping down on the ability for the p

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