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by mindslight 1mo ago
Why do you need the detour through the CIA? Our de jure Constitutional government is merely part of a much larger de facto government formed by large corporations and the billionaire (oligarch) class. The same group of people who funded the
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by mindslight 1mo ago
There is a difference between failing to condemn something and gloating/supporting attacks on liberty simply because one's favored political team is now doing it.
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by mindslight 1mo ago
We've got a billionaire funded conspiracy openly ignoring the Constitution, wantonly trashing our American liberties, and yet you're still raging about "communist billionaires" ? The politics of billionaires as a group i
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by mindslight 1mo ago
I didn't claim that there was no basis in the legal system for these draconian actions. Clearly there must be, or they wouldn't be happening, right? Positive arguments rooted in what is aren't terribly compelling when the
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by mindslight 1mo ago
I don't think that really changes my interpretation? There is an all-too-common dynamic of people working overtime to connect actions the administration is doing with what could be a sensible plan. If that was not your intent, then ple
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by mindslight 1mo ago
Yes, we are talking about a communications service , one specifically focusing on political speech . " Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the fre
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by mindslight 1mo ago
Keep in mind we're talking about communications services here, and one focusing on political speech at that. " Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or ab
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by mindslight 1mo ago
The problem is that perception can only carry things so far. Surveillance Valley had been coasting on unjustifiable positive perceptions while continuing to build their digital cages. The jig is up, and it's a long way down.
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by mindslight 1mo ago
That die has already been cast. It's stop everything versus "accelerationism" full speed ahead. Both sides will point to how their full world view is coherent and would have sensible results, and will blame the other side for
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by mindslight 1mo ago
As a centrist libertarian, I would say the dynamic is better framed in that authoritarians are frequently attracted to libertarianism as a way of cloaking and justifying their true beliefs, to both themselves and others. So called "rig
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by mindslight 1mo ago
How about concrete actions rather than marketing "visions" ?
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by mindslight 1mo ago
You're missing the other choices that link those two things. Being able to export dollars lets the government create new dollars out of thin air, which can be traded for real goods and services - a great deal by any measure. But the po
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by mindslight 1mo ago
If that were seriously on the table, we could have just used the proceeds from having the world reserve currency to do that. Instead, their open plan for that national asset is to squander it. In general, stop trying to steelman the loote
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by mindslight 1mo ago
It's fucking heads they win, tails we lose. The only way we can win is to walk a narrow line, and in the presence of populism that is seemingly impossible. How much support for Grump was because "Biden supports genocide" ? Of
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by mindslight 1mo ago
Don't bother. "woke/marxist crap" is an obvious tell that they're delusional from a Facebook feed or similar. They will have plenty of examples because it obviously does exist, but it's ultimately just a strawm
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by mindslight 1mo ago
"ZOG" claims way too much, is inactionable, and ultimately just feeds the reactionary dumpster fire that has created our current predicament. "Please don't release the real Epstein files Mr Bibi Sir" suffices.
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by mindslight 1mo ago
For voters to actually be in control, they would have to do straightforward things like reject the obviously terrible destructionist candidate in favor of the milquetoast corpo stooge. I would love to say it's as principled as "I
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by mindslight 1mo ago
Aren't we out of feet to shoot ourselves in? The glaringly obvious answer to stop the looting of American industry over the past thirty years would have been to use our asset of having the world reserve currency to directly subsidize
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by mindslight 1mo ago
> And we all saw the "summer of love" in 2020. Personally I want to see more accountability. I presume you mean starting with accountability for the police riots? State organized mayhem is much more of a pressing problem than
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by mindslight 1mo ago
The important part here would seem to be that we're talking about communications hosting . Why would we want to propagate a framing created by a far right terrorist network, just because they've managed to capture the bully pulpi
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by mindslight 1mo ago
" Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the
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by mindslight 1mo ago
"I was planning on insulting the office myself, but I figured it would just be easier to post it to hacker news"
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by mindslight 1mo ago
That does absolutely nothing for the time crunch. I'm more than happy to give my young child tours of my small construction site or whatever other projects are in progress. But it's not like I can also be working on things while d
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by mindslight 1mo ago
But you've got to shovel and clear snow regardless? Shoveling a small path and being careful how you take off your shoes sure beats scraping ice off of a car and dealing with the plows' windrow. The biggest problems I see is wanti
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by mindslight 1mo ago
I'm in the middle of finishing out my own (significantly larger) shed I just had built, basically all DIY except for the structure itself. The number that popped into my head at the start of your post was $30k - each step adds up when
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by mindslight 1mo ago
> You are referring to ICE as a criminal terror gang, but they perform a very important function of enforcing immigration law Sure, the point is that these two things are not tied. In fact they're actually sympathetic to one anoth
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by mindslight 1mo ago
What specifically are you referring to? I don't see how that relates to anything in my comment.
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by mindslight 1mo ago
It's not a matter of "cute" and thinking that Nuremberg-style accountability will definitively happen, but rather that if we are going to fight for our liberty then we must draw clear lines in the sand about things like moral
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by mindslight 1mo ago
The longer this criminal terror gang continues to operate with impunity, the more we need to be thoroughly documenting individuals who will need to face justice for our society to heal when we eventually get our Nuremberg moment. In this ca
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by mindslight 1mo ago
> authoritarianism is so ingrained in the fabric of software development Based on this thesis I thought it was going to be a bit more meta about how software itself is inherently authoritarian-by-default from a technical perspective ,

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