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by minimuffins 5y ago
These discussions often miss the point and get bogged down in trying to prove or disprove individual instances of bias or censorship. The problem for me is prior to all of that. If the New York Times (say) lacks financial independence, then
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by minimuffins 5y ago
I don't know, I have seen a lot of pro LSD and psilocybin mushroom micro-dosing posts and comments. I think this place still has a generally libertarian ethos and most people think of drugs questions as best sorted out by a rational ma
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by minimuffins 6y ago
Yeah but you'll notice having the facts and convincing everybody of the facts against the grain of industrial propaganda is not a trivial task.
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by minimuffins 6y ago
No, do you? If there's an implicit argument in that question I'm not able to discern it.
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by minimuffins 6y ago
> It doesn’t make me feel any specific way. I think it should! It's disconcerting to see the expansion of platform censorship even if the censored party is aware of it, "doesn't care," and was in on the deal. That &qu
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by minimuffins 6y ago
I am totally baffled as to why that makes you feel better.
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by minimuffins 6y ago
Are you being ironic? Of course there's something to see: the latest glacial shift in the accretion of content control by tech platforms.
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by minimuffins 6y ago
I think we agree but are just using slightly different defintions for liberal and centrist. I would like to see reporting that is both more rigorous and thoroughly researched, and more critical and intolerant of centrist dogma/pablum.
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by minimuffins 6y ago
The Intercept seems to be pivoting toward a safer, non-adversarial orientation lately. I don't know who they're trying to please with that move. Omidyar? Democrat pols? Their own more centrist staff? The world doesn't need an
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by minimuffins 6y ago
Nah, you're just letting the definition of terrorism float all over the place, like everybody else. Terrorism is whatever you don't like. Terrorism is bad guys. This is Bush playbook stuff.
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by minimuffins 6y ago
Yes. Legally probably no one did anything wrong. My claim is not that any party behaved inappropriately according to law or the ordinary norms of doing business. Amazon is "within its rights." No argument. But if you look at this
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by minimuffins 6y ago
> Supporting somebody who rejects democracy is linked with terrorism No. "Rejecting democracy," a position held by myriad political currents, each of which probably means something different by the term, is basically a run-of-t
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by minimuffins 6y ago
> It turns out that when multiple global corporations collude to halt the communications of people who think they are being persecuted by a colluding body of global corporations, it makes their movement stronger. Who would have thought?
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by minimuffins 6y ago
> conflating reasonable discourse... This is precisely my point! Who gets to decide what's reasonable discourse? I personally don't think the whole rank and file of establishment press jumping over each other to get in line beh
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by minimuffins 6y ago
> no legal basis I agree. Those are the facts, for sure. > money cares more about itself than anyone’s feelings. No argument. > terrorizing a legislature is harmful to these corporations’ profitable predictability Strongly agree. T
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by minimuffins 6y ago
> I'm trying to come up with an explanation why TI would do that. When I hear these kind of stories I always wonder this too. Like, who was allowed to turn this into a company policy and why on earth did they think it worth their ti
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by minimuffins 6y ago
> If you have weak company leadership, legal will start to drive policy more than it should. That's a really interesting dynamic I have never experienced or heard of. Explains a lot! Do you know other examples? (ed. clarify which p
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by minimuffins 6y ago
> Well you could become an actor, and film makers could use your body to make movies they sell for profits. Then I would be a laborer. The film company would be using my labor as well as the director's, in conjunction with all the c
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by minimuffins 6y ago
Yeah, it's a tradeoff they have to make. A lot of "knowledge worker" unions decide to do this, hoping it's worth it for the institutional support they'll get. Some grad student unions were formed under United Auto W
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by minimuffins 6y ago
Great news! I can't wait to hire workers to start using my body to produce valuable commodities which I can then sell for a profit!
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by minimuffins 6y ago
> It's just easier and cheaper to become a small capitalist by renting some of the means of production...from big capitalists Just to clarify: I really don't mean to sound like a nihilistic radical by pointing this stuff out. C
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by minimuffins 6y ago
> in terms that are artefacts of the 19th century This is such a strange neophilic reflex that people have. So the words are from the 1840s. Frankly a bunch of the concepts are even older than that. And yet other concepts that are still
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by minimuffins 6y ago
Industry wide unions are the goal, but you don't just flip a switch and change to a society with industry wide unions. We don't have industry wide unions in the United States because, although unions were on the rise in the first
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by minimuffins 6y ago
Guild has a connotation of workmanship and craft expertise, industriousness, etc. I do like that. But there is also an existing phenomenon of various things calling themselves guilds (there are various "freelancers'" guilds,
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by minimuffins 6y ago
My take on this is the old unions aren't decrepit just because they're unions and they've existed for 100 years. I don't think it's built in to the nature of unions to eventually become decrepit (no more than any ot
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by minimuffins 6y ago
I mean, I agree with most of the content here, but it's written in that confident left-wing manifesto style that is probably more convincing to the already convinced than to the undecided. If I kind of saw myself as at-one with the bas
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by minimuffins 6y ago
Yes, this is the commodity fetish in action. The laptop seems to just appear before me when I fork over a thousand bucks, conjured out of the ether of "the market." But of course there are long (often blood soaked) supply chains,
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by minimuffins 6y ago
> The stock market and housing prices are higher than ever, so a large part of the population is doing good. confusing the map for the terrain
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by minimuffins 6y ago
Your body/capability to work is labor. Property that you can use to produce value beyond itself through workers' labor is capital.
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by minimuffins 6y ago
We're never going to have a productive discussion if you think capital and labor are the same thing.

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