heterodoxxed

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by heterodoxxed 6y ago
In exchange for an audience of 1.65 billion.
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Mhm. December 10, 2017. Two days after the video was released. #BLM Activists Call Attention To Graphic Video Of Daniel Shaver's Death At The Hands Of Arizona Police Black Lives Matter is against police brutality of all forms and
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After 10 years of a movement that culminated in protests in 2000 cities in all 50 states and 5 territories that had supermajority support in polls, the people who are still ignorant enough, feigned or otherwise, to say BLM means Black Lives
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The vast majority of Americans understand that Black Lives Matter is an inclusive statement, not an exclusive one. Those who make hay out of the name and have ignored the movement itself for almost a decade now are a small, ineffective mino
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The reason we just had the largest civil rights protests in American history this summer has as much or more to do with the everyday experience with the police as it does the extraordinary events such as deaths. Deaths were the spark, not t
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| neomarxism Well at least you dropped the laughably contradictory post-modern part.
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| Far left activism abandoned in the practice most worker issues No it didn't. The people you're talking about are not far left. | farm votes strategically. If you think the far left would construct their entire strategy aroun
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| influenced by far left activism If that were even remotely true, they would be supporting unions.
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You're right, it is social conditioning; like a warm December in Australia.
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And we're sure that this is statistically different than any other period of time and that the policies of the DA are behind it? Despite this being Hacker News, I see a lot of people here reacting to sensationalist single data points a
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Sex work and pugilism I think can be strongly equated. Both involve using ones body and adult consent. One for sex, the other for violence. We don't outlaw boxing or MMA. But we put regulations on it. We shut down illegal basement figh
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| I bet there's a cottage industry of porn There is. But like with all markets, it's more expensive and will always have less mass appeal than the lowest common denominator. That downward pressure is felt in that industry just l
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| Fiction drives home unrealistic standards or extremes. Strongly depends on the fiction. 500 Days of Summer or Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, for instance.
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Exactly. "I tried to help some cancer patients by giving them jobs and the occasional free meal, but a lot of them just ended up dying of cancer anyways." The day America stops treating addiction as an individual moral failing a
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The US model only seems better because we're much, much wealthier than India. If you compare our model with other first world countries, it's a different story. In fact, some of the countries with the best education outcomes outla
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What is the American Dream? The ability to work hard and be rewarded. That dream has a name and it is class/social mobility. That's something we can measure and the US does not come out well in that measurement. There are many cou
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40 years ago, Finland was a backwater nothing of a country and by actual investing in their children and education and teachers equally across the board, they went from that backwater to #1 in education. We in the US have never even tried t
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| works three jobs. I wonder why.
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| some might even get hired as teachers What? How would you extrapolate that? The university system, for all its flaws, is very different from public high schools in a poor city.
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| But those who ignore history are condemned to repeat it. Ha! Right back atcha, kid.
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| people who haven't been displaced? Displacement far enough that they are outside of the local political jurisdiction is specific to there. In places like Peoria, it's just further economic immiseration within Peoria. Most of A
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| after all, they're still here! This is a very SFBA thing to say. | Look who overwhelmingly applies pressure Yeah, I'm not talking about those people. Poor and working people have mobilized plenty of times before. That's
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| a bunch of individuals the system serves well-enough Again, are you talking about SFBA? Because I thought we addressed that.
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| the less sense of individual agency we give ourselves In aggregate, the population is at the mercy of material forces. Turning a social problem into an individual moral failing has never managed to solve anything at scale.
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Imagine how different social media would look if it were subscription based and required much, much less investment and revenue could grow linearly with the userbase. The incentive of an ad-supported, vc-funded social media is to addict you
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It seems to me that it's a speculative investment for almost everyone, because the case for anything else is extraordinarily weak. And the case for it as a speculative investment is based on the other cases.
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I'm of the mind that markets may be rational *given* (and here's the key) a long enough time period. However, human needs have an expiration date and often cannot wait for the market to make sense. | That assumes rational actors
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So is it a speculative investment or is it a currency or is it a groundbreaking technology with uses apart from either?
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What use is a deflationary distributed ledger to anyone? We've had 12 years of Bitcoin and no killer app for a reason. It's simply not a useful technology.
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That assumes the market is rational and the actors within are rational.

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