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by guildwriter 9y ago
> As an empirical matter, I would note that most threads (both here and on simmilar sites, such as reddit) seem to follow a predictable life-cycle. An initial wave of low quality posts gets down voted and gives way to more thoughtful di
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by guildwriter 9y ago
I think the upvote system is flawed and needs to be evolved into a better system that rewards content based on different metrics. Maybe things like time spent on the page linked, or time spent writing content, or even word count should add
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by guildwriter 9y ago
> And Tweeter. I never signed up, but from the posts and tweets I've seen, I can't imagine a worse platform for sharing ideas or views. I firmly believe in the idea that the tools that we shape shape us in turn as we use them.
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by guildwriter 9y ago
The ideological basis and the geopolitical basis are two entirely different things. Geopolitics and ideology have to be considered hand in hand when making decisions at the scale that Roosevelt and Eisenhower did. Before Pearl Harbor, ev
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by guildwriter 9y ago
I'm saying that political theatre is important and necessary. When it comes to everything else the UN has a really bad history of ineffectiveness.
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by guildwriter 9y ago
It's a global stage for kabuki. So yes, it definitely shapes world affairs that way. I don't really consider the principles of the UN to be important when it's a paper tiger. Government without force is not government.
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by guildwriter 9y ago
I'm not advocating for a specific side and it's interesting that is the conclusion you instantly went to. I'm saying WW2 wasn't about a global fight of good versus evil or even about individual rights per se. Those wer
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by guildwriter 9y ago
Not to argue that there wasn't and still is racial inequality when it comes to drug enforcement, but how advanced was our understanding on how to treat opiate abuse even by the 1980s? To make things clear, I'm curious about the h
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by guildwriter 9y ago
> "Make no mistake: The ideological basis of WWII was the protection of individual human rights." Erm, then why did we hand over Poland and other Eastern European states to the USSR? Why did we let France re-establish their co
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by guildwriter 9y ago
I think one way to think about it is that there is a wide variety of ways to change the worldviews of people. After all, everyone experiences reality differently and has different preferences on what is more significant to them or not (esp
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by guildwriter 9y ago
Another good source for Steve Bannon's views comes somewhat ironically from Buzzfeed: https://www.buzzfeed.com/lesterfeder/this-is-how-steve-banno... In regards to your point about arguing in favor of the working
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by guildwriter 9y ago
> I don't buy your distinction between Wheaton and MIT. Free speech pre-dates the scientific method and exists independently of scientific inquiry. You can publish your research that challenges the status quo so long as Free Speech
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by guildwriter 9y ago
You still haven't explained what a "preponderance of evidence" looks like. You keep doing blanket refusals that the liberal threat to free speech is overblown.
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by guildwriter 9y ago
> This is just tautologically false. IDK what else to say about this particular quote. Re: the rest of your first paragraph, this seems like a huge double standard. Would you be happy with MIT throwing out every climate skeptic and neo-l
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by guildwriter 9y ago
> 2. When removed from reddit, do these people find different alternative social outlets to share their hate (i.e. after the ban, did 4chan etc. experience a measureable increase in fat/racist posting). Yes. See Voat. > 3. If #2
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by guildwriter 9y ago
I guess you could go through the case log of FIRE. https://www.thefire.org/category/cases/free-speech/ How many instances does Evergreen rate? How many instances of self censorship do you think such an atmos
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by guildwriter 9y ago
So here are two cases I've pulled up on Wheaton College: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/12/christi... http://time.com/3722790/wheaton-college-lgbt-apple/
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by guildwriter 9y ago
My experience with online communities is that while you don't have to have fun at other people's expense, it's a large subset of what people like to do. For better or for worse a lot of people like to say or do things that p
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by guildwriter 9y ago
I think the argument is that it's a space that is accessible by everyone without any sort of gatekeeping, that makes it a public space. Whereas a forum such as somethingawful would be considered more private as there is a subscription
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The Uncomfortable Truth About Campus Rape Policy(theatlantic.com)
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by guildwriter 9y ago
What are you talking about? South Korea and Taiwan may not have had those stand out moments of mass murder, but saying they didn't go through an authoritarian period is just not true. It may not have been on the same scale, but it st
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by guildwriter 9y ago
Good to see that old "Blood For Oil" canard being trotted out again. http://www.scottmanning.com/archives/howmuchoilfromiraq.php http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/03/17/a-decade-lat
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by guildwriter 9y ago
Listen to how Californians talk about how their tax dollars are used to support Southerners and Midwesterners. Take that cultural/political/ethnic disconnect and cube it. Then you might approach the level of drama that we'd
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by guildwriter 9y ago
No we don't. Self protection is just a small part of the overall strategy.
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by guildwriter 9y ago
It's worth mentioning that Korean democracy is a relatively new phenomenon. For a period of time, South Korea was effectively a military dictatorship. It was only until 1988 that SKorea actually elected a president for the first time
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by guildwriter 9y ago
You don't know South Korea very well then: > "Having lived in South Korea for the past 15 years, I don’t share most Americans’ confidence that it will always choose America over a North-supporting China. My own impression—bolst
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by guildwriter 9y ago
North Korea doesn't have to force the US. North Korea just has to convince South Korea to sign a peace treaty. From there getting the US to leave is easy. North Korea doesn't have the capability at present to invade SK. Having
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by guildwriter 9y ago
This is not just about self protection or about blackmailing to keep the regime going. The end game for North Korea has been and always will be the reunification of the Korean Peninsula. http://www.slate.com/articles/n
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by guildwriter 9y ago
You're thinking too small if you think this is just about self protection. > "No. The goal of [North Korean] nuclear armament is not mere security from U.S. attack, which conventional weaponry trained on Seoul has preserved sin
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by guildwriter 9y ago
Teleportation is a garnish, not the main dish. Traversal mechanics are a core part of most action related games.

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