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by jwond 5y ago
> Gab was being used to promote hate, violence, and misinformation So is every other social media site
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It seems a lot of people in this post are opposed to payment processors pressuring OnlyFans to do this. When Google, Apple, Amazon, et al. simultaneously took actions that resulted in the shutdown of Gab it seemed a lot of people supported
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> out of altruistic motives > to the benefit of everyone. This is debatable or even blatantly false in many cases. Researchers are still human, and many of them are driven by greed and self-interest.
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The Biden administration has openly admitted that they are working with Facebook to fight “disinformation”. https://www.newsweek.com/biden-administrations-admission-the...
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The numbers come from a YouGov poll [0] as the image in the tweet shows. Also I think it’s funny you link that senate report, because section VI of the report is titled “NO EVIDENCE OF CHANGED VOTES OR MANIPULATED VOTE TALLIES” [0] https:&
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Why not mention the Biden administration attempting to distribute COVID relief money based on race? https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/joe-bidens-covid-debt-reli...
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Trump did not call COVID itself a hoax: https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-virus-outbreak-ap-f...
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When I go to the gym I don't bring my phone with me, and when I am resting in-between sets I just sit there. Sometimes my mind will wander, but often I just sit there and my mind is pretty much blank. I find it very relaxing.
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I’m getting really fed up with people lobbing accusations of bigotry to try and dismiss others’ concerns and criticisms without actually providing any substantial counter-argument.
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> Don't want videos of cops being posted on the internet? Contact your local representative and have them sponsor a law. What would a law look like that would prevent people from posting videos of police officers on the internet whi
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> As for the Trump ban, freedom of speech also means freedom from compelled speech. The government can't force a store to sell a particular newspaper, or force a newspaper to run a particular story. Same applies to internet websites
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> hopefully it will mean that treaties are more likely to be kept and that stolen land can be restored to its original owners. What do you mean exactly by “original owners”? If you simply mean that the US should return land to whichever
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Yeah, I use FreeTaxUSA also. It doesn’t have all the integrations that Turbo Tax et al. have, so you have to spend a bit more time manually entering your figures, but I had no issues. You can also double check the numbers if you want by goi
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> In my humble opinion it is not Amazon who is at fault here, but our flawed human nature. Good management should be taking human nature into account.
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Does physics have a replication crisis like the social sciences do?
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It should be noted that the study the article is covering only looked at people in Maryland, so the findings don't necessarily apply to the rest of the country. I also think it is interesting that the article doesn't mention what
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Exactly. All this pervasive whinging about "white males" is getting really tiring, like when the Smithsonian described traits like hard work, objective thinking, etc. as aspects of "whiteness"[0]. I mean yeah, if you err
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> If you squint really hard you can make it seem like failure but the article does not make that claim. It does actually. Here are a couple of excerpts from the article that explicitly refer to it as a failure: > Brown’s comments are
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This is a perfect example of a kafkatrap. If someone tries to defend themselves against accusations of fragility then it is used as evidence of fragility. It's a very transparent bullying tactic.
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Maybe in theory. From my perspective the quote "'Be Less White' Learning Plan Was About Workplace Inclusion" seems fairly representative of what inclusiveness usually means in current practice.
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> This kind of story is really difficult: it provides fodder for right claims that social justice warriors have taken over the country. It always makes me a little sad when people see something wrong happening and their first concern is
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> Our election was hijacked. There is no question. Congress has a duty to #ProtectOurDemocracy & #FollowTheFacts. - Nancy Pelosi on May 16, 2017 https://twitter.com/SpeakerPelosi/status/864522009048494080
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I don’t understand, am I supposed to think it’s a problem that German companies are being managed by native Germans?
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> He identified $GME 6 months ago He identified it over a year ago actually: https://reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/d1g7x0/hey_burr...
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> [Whiteness] is a term being applied to people of colour too when they don't fall in line with the re-education program. For anyone who doesn’t believe this is a thing, here’s a Washington Post article: “Opinion: To understand Trum
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Need to justify the ever-expanding surveillance, police state, and curtailing of civil rights somehow.
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> ads means you can't have child porn and terrorism on your platform. Doesn’t seem to be true in the case of Twitter https://nypost.com/2021/01/21/twitter-sued-for-allegedly-ref...
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Larry Sanger, co-founder of Wikipedia, thinks that Wikipedia is badly biased. https://larrysanger.org/2020/05/wikipedia-is-badly-biased/
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There also exist plenty of screenshots of Twitter and Facebook posts advocating violence and racial supremacy.
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The Republicans killed the filibuster for Supreme Court nominations in 2017 after the Democrats killed the filibuster for all other judicial nominations in 2013.

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