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by mcantelon 7y ago
Might take a lot of lawsuits to get them to verify info before acting on it.
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by mcantelon 7y ago
SEAL Team Six is best known for a raid during the Obama administration. Modern progressives seem to have less of a problem with the military than old school leftists (and less of a focus, politically, on foreign policy) hence simple glorifi
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by mcantelon 7y ago
If you something seems to have propaganda embedded in it then that really means it's not propaganda? Of course.
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by mcantelon 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_petition_against_age_of...
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by mcantelon 7y ago
Sounds unworkable, but is likely a pretext for some other effort (like undermining anonymity).
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by mcantelon 7y ago
This article is pretty incoherent.
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by mcantelon 7y ago
Anxiety sells and social media enables every person to play a part in signal boosting it.
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by mcantelon 8y ago
Mass migration is another factor possibly contributing to increasing cases of communicable diseases.
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by mcantelon 8y ago
The scale was massive, yet no one noticed this astroturfing campaign until the election... and this astroturfing campaign dwarfed all other competing astroturfing campaigns by other states/NGO factions? All this talk of Russia astrotur
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by mcantelon 8y ago
The knife is considered the most important tool of all time... perhaps not to eat with, but handy in general: https://www.forbes.com/2005/08/31/technology-tools-knife_cx_... Socialization seems to be turning
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by mcantelon 8y ago
Canada did the same last year, by the looks of it: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/canada-po...
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by mcantelon 8y ago
Probably a good time to torrent what with the intertubes unburdened.
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by mcantelon 8y ago
>there are far more elegant and explanatory frames of reference for discussing the phenomenon Kundera describes (mostly drawn from psychology). Such as? I thought "kitsch" perfectly summed up the essence of a restricted, infant
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by mcantelon 8y ago
Bogus moral considerations are a great rationalization for censorship, charging Marie Le Pen for sharing photos of reality being a good example. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/01/marine-le-pen
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by mcantelon 8y ago
Outsourcing and automation still have much of the economy to eat in America and the rest of the West.
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by mcantelon 9y ago
Pretty good way to launder money and, via the Art in Embassies program, smuggle anything anywhere. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-w...
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by mcantelon 9y ago
True. Societies may, however, be hesitant to follow our footsteps towards atomization and low birthrate.
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by mcantelon 9y ago
The birthrate in most of the West is sub-replacement. Inter-generation testosterone decreases, and cultural factors, likely play a part. Youth suicides have gone up considerably in the last decade.
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by mcantelon 9y ago
>Because it is blatantly obvious "both sides"-ism nonsense that should not pass the smell-test with anyone, unless they've been desensitized from being neck-deep in shit for ages perhaps. The idea that one side is lily whi
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by mcantelon 9y ago
>since more people voted for Hillary than Trump, is "universal" loathing actually a problem for presidential candidates? Evidently so seeing as getting the most votes in total isn't what was required to win.
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by mcantelon 9y ago
Both parties are irrational, but about different things. Both largely shaft their base and serve different segments of the oligarchy.
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by mcantelon 9y ago
Informed gun advocates can actually make a pretty compelling case against gun control, but few are interested in listening. Canada's gun control IIRC isn't that much stricter than the US's, yet there's significantly less
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by mcantelon 9y ago
>Why not create a new republican party? The system is heavily weighted in favor of the duopoly (televised debates, etc.). Fixing that might increase the odds a third party would be able to be a genuine contender, rather than simply split
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by mcantelon 9y ago
"government maximizes the freedom of the people by preventing the infringement of such freedom except in cases such that there is a mass consensus of its merit" seems pretty clear. The argument is that the freedoms the founding fa
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by mcantelon 9y ago
>Targeted voter suppression campaigns have prevented people from voting who would have tipped the scales in favor of Democrats. And the Democrats have spun reasonable measures, such as requiring some sort of identification to vote, as &q
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by mcantelon 9y ago
And then there was also that whole Eich purge fiasco.
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by mcantelon 10y ago
You're right, of course. The Democrats seem more for protection in the private realm. Hopefully the motivation isn't simply to preserve the deep state's monopoly, under a national security pretext, on the power to violate the
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by mcantelon 10y ago
Obama admin did little about NSA domestic spying (and James Clapper perjured himself, but is amazing still considered credible by the media), so the idea that neither party cares about privacy is, indeed, correct.
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by mcantelon 10y ago
The folks calling for Crockford to be disinvited weren't complaining about his talk quality, they were complaining about his behavior. And there really isn't much beyond what this blog post mentions that they are complaining about
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by mcantelon 10y ago
I'd guess people with lots of social capital in the JS community told the conf orgs Crockford had to go and the orgs decided disinviting him would be less risk than having Crockford's enemies campaign against the conference.

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