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by moate 6y ago
So much confusion. https://twitter.com/TrumpSC/status/1346918315378298880
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by moate 6y ago
Let me see if I learned my lesson from the Facebook post: Censorship is bad, nobody should be making decisions for other people, monolithic tech companies are bad. People should have rights and saying this should be a thing people can do. H
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by moate 6y ago
He continues trying to play OG Face Hunter decks no matter what the meta.
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by moate 6y ago
Dog whistles work because they proved the fig leaf of plausible deniability. Trump's presidency has been a series of dog whistles. Why would it have stopped just because he lost an election?
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by moate 6y ago
Fact check: Several police officers were harmed/treated for injuries. The crowd used chemical weapons (pepper/bear spray) on officers at several different times during the riot. No less than 2 improvised explosives were recovered
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by moate 6y ago
Because he did not actually provide a statement condemning the riot that took place and said several things that are being interpreted (by both his followers and his opposition) as supporting the behavior. (Please try not to read this in a
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by moate 6y ago
I don't think that's a good faith take at all. "You're an idiot for saying that" is not the same as "You should have your rights taken away". But go off.
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by moate 6y ago
Because the above post is a misrepresentation of what was said.
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by moate 6y ago
Yes, while also providing encouragement for those illegally entering the capital by calling them "loved" and "special".
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by moate 6y ago
It's also how about every other WaPo or NYT article that turns out to be right works. Anon sources are the core of journalism, good and bad.
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by moate 6y ago
It's actually the opposite: If this time was so valuable, why wouldn't there be more of it? Why is it so important for the individual to have a child if you're never going to spend any time with them down the line? This is ab
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by moate 6y ago
No, and I don't think anyone sees them this way (the same way "free speech" loving Republicans wouldn't consider themselves "liberals"). The police are almost always tools of authoritarianism. They act as, well
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by moate 6y ago
>>There is no way the software actually achieves this. If it did we would have already heard about a well-off target identified by the software, a target with the means to mount a loud defense against such tracking. I mean it's m
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by moate 6y ago
By whom? The government has shown time and time again they aren't interested in policing attacks against labor (see: the toothlessness of the NLRB, the gig economy, weakening of unions/organizing, etc) so it wouldn't be them.
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by moate 6y ago
>>I guess it's reasonable for police to use this technology... Depends on your interpretation on the 4th amendment. I personally feel it's extremely unreasonable.
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by moate 6y ago
So a whole lot of "not in my neighborhood". It has to start somewhere. Like...giving them a good paying job in a thriving industry. You're contradicting yourself and you only wrote 3 sentences. You've being shown the pro
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by moate 6y ago
I spent most of my career working in restaurants. We had a server who literally lit someone on fire. I had drug addicts who didn't show up for work, causing a panicked chain reaction among all the other people from their halfway house.
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by moate 6y ago
I mean you’re tying value to cost which is weird for art (which is the majority of e-books, novels) This is like complaining a painting is too expensive because the canvas and paint only cost 100 dollars. The major value of a book, to a con
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by moate 6y ago
Absolutely not. Why would Trump eliminate one of the biggest draws to electing him? If he pushes someone through before November, he absolutely loses the senate (assuming you believe the polls). No way those purple states with senators up f
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by moate 6y ago
No reason is given, so there is “no good reason”. There technically isn’t a bad reason. The implied reason is “because its funding wasn’t included in the (non-binding) presidential budget proposal “
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by moate 6y ago
>>The data is not sold to the public. You must be a private investigator... So the data is sold wholesale to private investigators/lawyers and retail to the public. This is just a supply chain. The data is sold to the public.
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by moate 6y ago
>>These types of cases should come up first, in my opinion, but we are where we are. Don't worry sir, the legal system is (mostly) asynchronous! You could do both.
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by moate 6y ago
What about a lynch mob murdering a violent criminal (I'm specifically thinking of a pedophile because culturally that's one of the 'worst') who got off due to a technicality? How is that not a small scale version of stat
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by moate 6y ago
>>Corporations may become as great a threat to personal freedom and liberty than the government. Quick rhetorical question: Who do you think is funding that government? The corporations (and the class of people at the top of them) hav
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by moate 6y ago
Her evidence: she wrote and directed the film and is explaining her experience and intentions into the art she created. Yours: ... people lie sometimes? Why are you a more authoritative expert on this topic? If you don’t feel you are, can y
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by moate 6y ago
What? The creators of the movie are making a statement about their film. Are you saying they’re lying?
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by moate 6y ago
JK Rowling seems like she’ll take any credit that people want to ascribe to her. The idea that the Wachowski sisters intended this meaning based on their experience but were overruled by the suits feels more legit based on who they are in t
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by moate 6y ago
One assumption as to why "do the bad thing" is "because it will make China behave in the manner we want".
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by moate 6y ago
So then how do you stop China from doing the bad thing?
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by moate 6y ago
A little necro-posty on my part, but I think this is worth mentioning: I'm an American from a white Midwestern family born in the mid-80s. I can tell you that in my upbrining things like "time out" or being sent to my room or

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