illuminerdy

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by illuminerdy 4y ago
> "...it purported to be a sober view of history, well cited and no name calling. Literally none of the references were to anything real; it was all fabricated bullshit trying to push the reader to a particular conclusion (Jews are
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by illuminerdy 4y ago
Reddit has a bad anti- everything problem. That place is a cancer.
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by illuminerdy 4y ago
I haven't used Facebook or Twitter in well over a decade. Nothing is more freeing than not having to put up with entitled, whiny idiots who think they are the moral authority on pretty much everything in the world. Especially since mos
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by illuminerdy 4y ago
Great. Now I can build my next rig with 4x RTX 3080 and, well...who cares about the rest of the parts? Also, I hope every GPU miner's fireproof safe fails and all their money burns up.
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by illuminerdy 4y ago
> "Different socialist and communist communities interpret this differently. The fundamental baseline is no one should starve, no one should be homeless, no one should lack basic medical care -- essentially there should be a baselin
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by illuminerdy 4y ago
Except none of those people, to my understanding, are communists and none of the countries they lead are communist countries. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't a central tenet of communism the equality of outcome for all citizens
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by illuminerdy 4y ago
Most people would be surprised at the number of laws passed decades, if not hundreds of years ago that are still on the books in many states but never enforced. Many aren't even Constitutional due to subsequent jurisprudence. They&#x27
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by illuminerdy 4y ago
I don't think you needed to include "The spam on". The statement works just as well without it.
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by illuminerdy 4y ago
I think you need to distinguish between "communist folk" and the people who inevitably end up being in charge in communist governments. Show me a communist country where the leaders don't profess to be "for the people&qu
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by illuminerdy 4y ago
It's impossible to set a definite standard for when a social media site or other website has become so crucial to the public square that it is set apart from general services. You could use a multi-prong test like they do for determini
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by illuminerdy 4y ago
I remember when a well-respected doctor (in his field) started questioning the COVID narrative and Wikipedia let people literally erase him from wiki pages he had been on for years. None of the information on him was false, they just didn&#
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by illuminerdy 4y ago
I think the scope and scale makes it different. Social media has become extremely important to the free and open exchange of ideas between people.
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by illuminerdy 4y ago
I'm not sure I understand your question. Is what true? I don't think the ACLU actually supported the Nazis in Skokie or their message. But sometimes people miss the forest for the trees with that case. In oder to defend your own r
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by illuminerdy 4y ago
Framing it as "support" is extremely disingenuous. You can defend someone's right to say something offensive without actually being in support or agreement with said statement.
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by illuminerdy 4y ago
Or, the only thing we learned is that you cannot trust the beaurocrats who call themselves scientists, and the politicians who are all too happy to try and force performative displays in order to gain more control and power over anyone who
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by illuminerdy 4y ago
On the contrary, we should all forget the "1619 Project".
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by illuminerdy 4y ago
Well, it's already a well-established principle that, when you take taxpayer money from the government, the government gets to attach conditions to it as they see fit. That's not a violation of any individual rights.
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by illuminerdy 4y ago
Bullied, trolled - Tell them to get over it. Harassed - online, tell them to get over it. In person (i.e. someone is actually harassing you in real life), call the police because we already have laws against that. Doxxed - If someone posts
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by illuminerdy 4y ago
But to be clear, just because we're not talking about government abuse (i.e. violating the First Amendment) doesn't mean that "there's nothing there for speech to be free from." The mob can be just as dangerous as a
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by illuminerdy 4y ago
Can you give some examples? Is it actually speech that's being restricted, or actions, or access to certain types of speech/content (e.g. age restrictions)?
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by illuminerdy 4y ago
Somewhere along the line, we stopped teaching children that everybody doesn't have to agree with you. And now those children have grown into adults who want only those opinions of which they approve to be heard. No free and open societ
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by illuminerdy 4y ago
I can see how their conclusions play out in real life. One of the common threads I've noticed across many people when trying to explain why defending freedom of speech, and the free and open exchange of ideas in general, is that they&
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by illuminerdy 4y ago
I think trying to limit it to taxes ignores the many other reasons why average Americans are fleeing states like California and New York. Business climate, high crime, low prosecution, homeless issues, etc.
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by illuminerdy 4y ago
Why would the FBI investigate anything related to the integrity of elections when it doesn't involve a certain Orange Man?
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by illuminerdy 4y ago
I remember a story a few months ago where a female player (her name was Queen something) posted a video on Twitter showing how she was being "abused" by a misogynistic man who told her to go play a farming simulator because she su
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by illuminerdy 4y ago
Another option is to listen to the audio book read by Rob Inglis. He's absolutely amazing in his reading.
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by illuminerdy 4y ago
I think Dune would be the only other series I might read multiple times like I've done with Lord of the Rings.
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by illuminerdy 4y ago
Seems like an overreaction. At least based on what articles are saying was the probable cause.
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by illuminerdy 4y ago
Interesting. Might be good for getting kids into tabletop(?).
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by illuminerdy 4y ago
I never think about the Bible as a 'book' for some reason. But I've read it more than any other.

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