hamsterOnWheel

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by hamsterOnWheel 5y ago
The leaders who sell us and the world on these terrible interventions need to have a personal stake in their outcomes. If they want to nation-build, they should have to move themselves and their families to the new nation. If they want to t
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by hamsterOnWheel 6y ago
Much of it is assuredly going to organized crime, just as always when a lot of government money is moving around at once. The similarities between the bad loans bailed out during the Savings and Loan Crisis and the Financial Crisis have con
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by hamsterOnWheel 6y ago
>You are describing the abridging private organizations' right to free speech Many people and organizations have their free speech regulated because of the ability of speech to do harm (e.g. yelling "fire" in a crowded the
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by hamsterOnWheel 6y ago
The market-based solution depends on assumptions about people acting "rationally," which isn't possible with such asymmetry of information between the parties involved (media companies and individuals wanting information), an
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by hamsterOnWheel 6y ago
I think there needs to be rules about transparency for media companies. In court you have to argue about and explain any disallowance of evidence; however in the court of public opinion, the media, no such rules apply. Obviously you have to
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by hamsterOnWheel 6y ago
Yeah but we can look at the evidence and evaluate it for ourselves using our critical thinking. We can look at the evidence and evaluate for ourselves whether people are lying to us. I have done that, and you OBVIOUSLY have not. Do you get
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by hamsterOnWheel 6y ago
There have been legal cases where convincing evidence has been presented, it’s well-documented. Your presumption that people aren’t looking at these things with suspicion is obnoxious and indicates that you are forming your opinion based on
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by hamsterOnWheel 7y ago
>push the uncommon vernacular out of the text You're entirely comfortable with only being able to publish the lowest common denominator of things which will be comprehensible to everyone, at the risk of being automatically pulled fr