matai_kolila

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by matai_kolila 4y ago
Do you know what a Gish gallop is? With a new account you lack the credibility for me to trust that's not what you're doing here with these very long comments. Ironic, coming from me, but I make new accounts for privacy reasons, n
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
Yeah I guess my point is a theory of constraints argument; Taylor Swift herself is the constraint, nothing else will matter. People seem to be ignoring or forgetting that basic idea.
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
The cooling effect on supply?? You mean Taylor Swift's inability to be in two places at once and unwillingness to drive her voice into the ground by continuing to add more concert dates? No, this is not the right argument. She had to
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
Sure, but that's not why The Eras Tour tickets were so expensive, which is the real reason Taylor Swift fans are upset. Yes, TM has a concerning amount of control over venues and therefore artists, but in this scenario, that's
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
Maybe I'm the only one who doesn't really see a problem with ticket prices being as high as they are. There is much more demand for these tickets than there are supply of tickets, so my econ 101 tells me the price should go up u
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
I think the implication can more aptly be stated as, "We survived this sentiment then, we can survive this sentiment now."
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
What? No. That's the government acting in response to speech, not other people expressing themselves . Your argument forgets that it's also free speech to react to something objectionable. If the government forced me to
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
My assumption here is that this is built to replace Patreon entirely. "Sub to my Discord or sub to my Patreon to get exclusive content!" eventually becomes, "Sub to my Discord to get exclusive content!" and cuts out Pa
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
Agreed. It's hard to create quality content, and even harder to do it without being able to monetize that content. "The Internet should be free!" that's just not sustainable. I'm sorry but it isn't.
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
I wonder if it's because this is probably the only place they feel they can get away with bragging, but have been "proud" of their "accomplishment" for some time now.
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
I’ll be sure to tell all American history books that Alexander Hamilton and Lafayette (two off the top of my head because I listened to Hamilton recently, there absolutely were many many more) were actually from England and not the Caribbea
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
I feel like you ignored the part where I absolutely would house as many refugees as I can in my home, were it as bountiful and spacious as the US is. But it’s not, and I did buy this home with money rather than inherit it through theft, so
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
“Slavery was an improvement” ok, so honestly I find this insanely offensive and uncomfortably in line with some “white savior” arguments racists make, but I don’t want to be rude to you. I guess all I can say is that I just don’t see how yo
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
So? Nearly all countries at one point allowed slavery, refused to let women vote, and a ton of countries were ruled by an authoritarian monarchy, that doesn't mean it was a good idea.
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
If you're not interested, why force yourself? It's okay to let things go that no longer give you the joy they once did. Maybe a break will rekindle that spark, but maybe it won't!
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
This is not the compelling argument you think it is; in this analogy I: * didn't buy my house, I inherited it, * the people I inherited it from stole it from other people who * also still live in the house somehow but just in the not-a
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
The key is which things you exclude people over. A society can have values, but if those values discriminate based on aspects of a person that are outside of the person's control, that society is not operating ethically. Western socie
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
Of course you have a responsibility towards the society and the people who raised and support you. That just doesn't involve excluding others from that society. They deserve, just as much as you, to participate (and improve!) in you
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
Yea, if someone wants to , they can and should be able to freely swap which society they participate in. We are successful as a species because we socialize, and there is no reason to limit that only to people who were born in specific geo
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
Uh they didn’t work alone on it, and they left a ton of people out, ripping freedom and progress from their hands without a second thought. Your ancestors were thieves and oppressors, and took things that didn’t belong to them, which means
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
Paper?
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
Firstly no, they didn’t earn anything on their own, and secondly if they did make that choice it was selfish and not theirs to give away in the first place so their “ownership” here is a mistake on their part to believe they had. You can’t
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
I think pretending AirDrop is the only way people can coordinate is weird.
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
Nope, once you involve others, you involve consequences, as it is now their free speech (and free association) that often generates those consequences.
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
The main thing we have over animals is our ability to reason, so if anyone can overcome petty border disputes, it’s us. “Animals do it” is not a compelling argument for humans to participate in… well, anything. We know better!
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
None of which you did anything to earn.
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
What even is a “private speech”? Are you worried Alexa is listening to you as you rant to yourself?
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
Depends on how private. Speech is communication, which almost always necessitates more than one person, and the other people are perfectly within their own rights to provide some consequences to the speech they hear in private.
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
I dunno if, “use Apple AirDrop” is a “most basic freedom”. Is it shitty and contrary to what they claim to support? Yeah. Does it merit this melodramatic response? Probably not.
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by matai_kolila 4y ago
What entities a person born in a nation to is resources more so then someone born outside of that nation? You can’t control where you’re born, why would that be then used to determine… well, anything about you?

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