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by iron0013 6y ago
This post was at #2 on the front page, and then it disappeared completely.
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by iron0013 6y ago
“I’m not threatening you, I’m just informing you that I’ll kill you if you don’t do what I want”
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by iron0013 6y ago
It’s funny, my experience has been the exact opposite. Conservative boomer and older-gen-x employees where I work are very outspoken, loudly rehashing Fox News talking points in the cafeteria, seemingly projecting their voices as loudly as
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by iron0013 6y ago
The line of argument you’re objecting to comes up every time because it continues to be correct every time. Instead of saying you’re tired of it, it might be more productive to admit that you’re wrong.
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by iron0013 6y ago
I’m seeing a couple of red herrings dominate these comments, which really have no relevancy to the issue at hand. 1. The veracity of twitter’s fact checking. This absolutely does not matter, since Twitter may host or refuse to host whatever
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by iron0013 6y ago
There’s also this element of framing surrounding the word “offensive”. when someone is put on the spot and asked if they find something “offensive”, it’s kind of a socially precarious moment. If they say “yes”, it could lead so challenges a
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by iron0013 6y ago
The attempt at a “gotcha” is annoying. I can only speak from my lived experience as a white person who grew up on a reservation. I married a native, and almost all my closest friends were (and are) natives. Everyone I knew called themselves
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by iron0013 6y ago
You will be quickly disabused of this notion if you talk to poor and/or brown people. While I’m sure that you can find occasional individuals who do not care about inclusivity, the large majority do care. The attitude that your comment
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by iron0013 6y ago
I feel like “both sidesing” the issue could be countered empirically. Are there really as many pro-“SJW” comments as KKK-forgiving comments, or is that just a comfortable thought-annihilating truism?
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by iron0013 6y ago
Here’s the thread, go ahead and tally the number of comments that are sympathetic vs unsympathetic to the hate-crime CEO, and compare that to the proportion of comments in this thread that are sympathetic/unsympathetic to the Florida w
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by iron0013 6y ago
She’s being accused of lying by folks who don’t like what she has to say, simple as that. Contrast this to HN’s response to the tech CEO who was outed as a kkk member who had committed violent hate crimes: most people here bent over backwar
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by iron0013 6y ago
dang, does it ever make you feel sad that so many HN users will apparently defend Nazis, KKK members, and other white supremacists regardless of the circumstances or severity of their crimes? Like, do you ever kind of throw up your hands
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by iron0013 6y ago
He literally was the getaway driver for a synagogue shooting by a kkk member. I’m not sure it’s possible to be more directly connected to the kkk than that.
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by iron0013 6y ago
What? We require evidence before we accept claims, not before we reject them.
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by iron0013 6y ago
Wow, there are an awful lot of articles plagued by eastern European nationalists trying to re-write history and reality!
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by iron0013 6y ago
Reminds me of the famous case of a letter addressed solely with a drawing of Alfred E. Neuman being successfully delivered to the offices of Mad Magazine!
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by iron0013 6y ago
Funny how this argument is rarely leveled against the defense industry, the vast proportion of which is at best boondoggle busywork and at worst outright grift.
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by iron0013 6y ago
We already subsidize tons of essentially valueless jobs, from propping up the coal and oil industries when they can’t compete in the free market, to paying farmers to plant corn for ethanol that no one needs. Those subsidized industries act
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by iron0013 6y ago
perl is also very concise
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by iron0013 7y ago
I get how Hoosiers are a granfalloon (the borders of the state of Indiana being essentially arbitrary), but how are groups defined by a shared philosophy and belief system like the Communist party a granfalloon? Like, what are some example
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by iron0013 7y ago
The title of the work (or rather the title of her entire oeuvre in this style) is “Truisms”, but I don’t think that means they’re necessarily intended to literally be truisms. There’s a lot of humor and irony involved.
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by iron0013 7y ago
This doesn’t include a lot of post-1983 Truisms which are just as good. My favorite might be “Someone Wants To Cut A Hole In You And Fuck You Through It, Buddy”
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by iron0013 7y ago
White Sun of the Desert is a very good movie, too! Somewhere in the vicinity of Indiana Jones or the Man With No Name westerns, but with more heart and tenderness.
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by iron0013 7y ago
Today we have "ag gag" laws that work to stifle speech that alerts citizens to issues related to the provenance of their food. To my eye, such laws are blatantly unconstitutional--but many blatantly unconstitutional things are rou
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by iron0013 7y ago
Kayfabe is such an important concept in this historical moment! To me, the “audience” is the most interesting component, and the “performers” are almost irrelevant, except to the extent that they must provide some fantasy that (ever so nom
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by iron0013 7y ago
I’m not sure that’s true. Some objective “truth” exists in the world whether it’s noticed and reported correctly or not (the tree falling in the woods), and some news outlets (NYT) report this truth more accurately than others (Fox News)
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by iron0013 7y ago
They should get one vote per person, the same as anyone else. That that puts them at a numerical disadvantage is their own fault for fostering economic inequality in the first place.
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by iron0013 7y ago
^ yikes
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by iron0013 7y ago
He is one.
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by iron0013 7y ago
But it sounds like you want NPR to be forced to be a right wing radio station?

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