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by leftyted 6y ago
Opinions are divided concerning Garnett. I don't speak Russian but what I have read is that she does an excellent job translating the tone and meaning though there are mistakes and omissions (as you say). Many of the most famous Russ
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by leftyted 6y ago
Facebook does not have a "conservative lean". Facebook's users have a conservative lean. The company itself skews to the left because tech workers under 30 skew to the left. Facebook is in a funny situation where the empl
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The bones of her argument are not semantic. She's saying that there is a sharp difference between consensual power and non-consensual power. The fact that she uses the word "power" to refer to the former and "violence&
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by leftyted 6y ago
She wrote a lot about racism and certaintly wasn't racist by her own standards or the standards of the day. If you want to retroactively apply modern notions of racism to someone who lived last century...that's your perogative, b
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by leftyted 6y ago
> Regarding her views about violence, I suspect there may only be two true levers of political power, and these are force, and deception. I'm not saying this necessarily makes you wrong, but this is explicitly not what she thinks.
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I wasn't making a comment about censorship just that, as far as I know, no one is writing anything half this interesting in publications like the nyrb
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by leftyted 6y ago
This essay is available elsewhere as On Violence. It touches on topics like student protest movements, left-wing violence (and what Marx would have thought about it), race relations in the US, racism more generally and whether all politica
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by leftyted 6y ago
I would not call 911 unless I judged that I needed either the cops or an ambulance and I'd be pretty pissed if a couple hippies in a van showed up.
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by leftyted 6y ago
This is another "we have to kill free speech to save it" spiel. I don't find these arguments convincing and the use of Hannah Arendt is particularly egregious. Hannah Arendt was not (and never claimed to be) a philosopher.
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by leftyted 6y ago
I was intrigued by this kind of stuff so I took LSD. I enjoyed it and I felt it improved my mood temporarily but I don't believe it changed me permanently in any way. As far as I can tell (which may not be that far), reading Chomsky a
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by leftyted 6y ago
> This heavy-handedness isn't an encroachment on free speech but a necessary impediment to keep the spirit of free speech and free society intact, one where the tolerant voices aren't drained out by the relentlessness and irrat
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> It's pretty hard to stomach for those of us who don't share his views. I don't think this is true. I'm not a Christian and I loved his books as a kid. Tolkien and Madeleine L'Engle wrote novels in a similar v
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by leftyted 6y ago
Israel does not have successful academic institutions because of the US. They built it themselves. The theory that the US "does not allow" the establishment of academic institutions in Islamic countries is equally wrong. edit - T
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by leftyted 6y ago
"Breathless" can mean exaggerated, over the top, absurd, etc. I was referring to what I see as the silly, overly excited way this article (and others in this genre) is written.
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by leftyted 6y ago
Surprise, surprise: you're not allowed to make a "board" and call it "Real Facebook Oversight Board" without Facebook's permission. In the battle between Facebook and journalists, I am increasingly on Facebook&
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by leftyted 6y ago
> Why is academia (at least in the physical sciences) so competitive? All human achievement is fundamentally agonistic. The really bewildering thing is how so many people who clawed their way to the top apparently forgot about the compet
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by leftyted 6y ago
It's interesting to me that most people in this thread view colleges as jobs programs. In other words, many of us seem to view universities as machines that take in undergraduates at one socioeconomic level and graduate them at a high
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by leftyted 6y ago
I don't get it either. I think Zuckerberg is doing the right thing by refusing to cave. I also agree with you that he already gave up far too much by agreeing to "fact check" content in the first place. > Actually, just
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by leftyted 6y ago
It seems "very weak" to you but not to me. There's a line between being a journalist and engaging in a conspiracy. The quote you provided is an attempt to blur that line. But, as far as the law is concerned, that line exist
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by leftyted 6y ago
> The case is then clearly about 170 years worth of charges, not about hacking (the rest 5 years). And these charges are all the "Espionage Act" charges for a non-US person doing obviously a journalistic work outside of the US.
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by leftyted 6y ago
Note that "until a new president is installed" means until 2024 if Trump is reelected.
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by leftyted 6y ago
I don't think the intelligence agencies willfully produce false intelligence. They might be wrong but, as a matter of policy, they don't lie. I think the lying occurs higher up in the command structure where some intelligence is
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by leftyted 6y ago
> The SIGINT also shows, according to Hanyok, that a second attack, on August 4, 1964, by North Vietnamese torpedo boats on U.S. ships, did not occur despite claims to the contrary by the Johnson administration. President Johnson and Sec
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by leftyted 6y ago
There's nothing in the Pentagon Papers to suggest that the CIA lied to the government (or to the American people). The liars were various presidents, their various cabinets filled with brain-trusters, and other politicians who either
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by leftyted 6y ago
Your comment explains the hate. There is no such thing as history without a political philosophy. Herodotus had one, Thucydides had one and Zinn has one. This is all fine and good. The issue is when people come along and say "He tel
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by leftyted 6y ago
I think comparisons to the civil rights movements of the past are valid and I agree that current movements compare unfavorably to the past ones. I'll just repeat that I think it's a significant mistake to make analogies to Nazis o
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by leftyted 6y ago
I wrote this in response to your previous post, which was flagged: I don't think this rioting, violence, and general unrest should be compared to the Brown Shirts. Groups engaging in "antagonism and murder towards people they per
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by leftyted 6y ago
Sounds like you've rediscovered original sin, renamed it bigotry and hypothesized the existence of a small number of non-bigots who, perhaps, we ought to refer to as saints. Also, there's plenty of Christian existentialism: https
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by leftyted 6y ago
It's based on this: https://www.replicationmarkets.com , which is linked in the first paragraph of the article. Per https://www.replicationmarkets.com/index.php/rules , volunteers are predicting whether
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by leftyted 6y ago
> It does? What about genetic drift, random mutations, and artificial selection, where humans select based on qualities not necessarily conducive to survival? It seems unlikely to be due to these factors since there's a gradient fro

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