mzw_mzw

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by mzw_mzw 9y ago
If, as you've just admitted, the SPLC is not reliable, why do you think it checks out?
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
If your job is to act as a mole for Trump's 2020 reelection campaign, then go ahead and keep doing what you are doing.
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
>Honestly, who needs to reach out? Did the Republicans get in the nice situation they find themselves in now by reaching out? Yes, as a matter of fact, they did. Trump flipped a lot of counties that went for Obama twice. I recommend you
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
>Hillary won the popular vote by almost 3 million votes And if the Presidential election was based on the popular vote, that would mean something. It doesn't work that way, and everyone knew beforehand it didn't work that way,
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
And that sort of rhetoric is exactly why you lost that vote. Learn from it.
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
That sort of rhetoric may make you feel better, but anyone who voted the other way is not going to be "ashamed" because someone insulted them for it; they're just going to dismiss you even more and harden their positions. If
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
"The drumbeat of election rigging and foreign hacking of voting machines" -- None of that happened.
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
Who gets to define "better"?
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
I'm guessing it never snows where you live, and nobody ever needs to buy more than one bag of groceries at a time?
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
Before you panic (well, before you continue panicking) you should probably read the article. There is nothing in there that even remotely suggests anything untoward happened in this past election. > Does this call for a special situation
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
How many people complaining about this policy enthusiastically voted to elect the political party that has put into place this policy in 2008, 2012, and 2016, and insisted that even considering any alternative was a straight slide into fasc
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
Says who? You can't go up to people and tell them what their views are. They get to decide.
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
Are you for open borders? No? Then illegal immigrants are going to exist.
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
> If we consider VICE a legitimate news outlet Well, there's your problem.
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
It wasn't iCloud specific, although that didn't help. More just a general sense that with every iteration of OSX, the operating system got just a little bit slower, just a little bit more unstable, the human interface standards ju
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
It wasn't hard to do. Endless coy secrecy on platform refreshes, deciding what tech to use based on form factor and coolness instead of utility, and an operating system that got more bloated and unstable with each version were more tha
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
It would be nice if we could have a correct understanding of the relevance and proportion of these questions, though. So a corporation made some sliver of its annual income selling insurance policies to slaveowners over a hundred and fifty
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
> Now, HN has a HUGE misogyny problem [citation needed]
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
That'd be like trying to "normalize" the presence of shirts, or automobiles. Guns have been ubiquitous in popular fiction of all kinds for decades, if not centuries, since they're such a useful device for drama or just e
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
And in 2004, the Democratic Party ran a billionaire for President. Whoopie-doo.
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
Good luck winning elections with that.
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
Once you're talking about tearing down all existing houses and rebuilding them based on new and alien philosophies, your plan is starting to become a bit impractical. > Getting rid of oil addiction doesn't solely mean replacing
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
No, the mainstream explicit, self-proclaimed position is that these positions should be allocated on a meritocratic basis, not on the basis of racial quotas.
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
Somebody so unstable they get "triggered" by how ordinary human beings walk needs professional help. At some point, you have to acknowledge that certain complaints are not reasonable.
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
I would cautiously argue that the two sides don't define themselves internally so much by what they are for as by what they focus on opposing . So maybe anti-racism and anti-activist? Or anti-politics?
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
"Anti-diversity" is a rather uncharitable term to use; it takes people who, say, dislike bullying tactics or prefer meritocracy and lumps them in with racists. One reason threads on the topic often degrade into flame wars is the a
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
Please don't use sexist epithets on HN.
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
You can't bully people into caring about things, sorry. Most people here would rather talk about solar power or functional programming than the political implications of whatever, and trying to guilt them into cooperation is just going
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
Suggesting that mixing HN and politics will improve HN is like suggesting that mixing wine and poison will improve the poison. The political discussions on HN have been typified by flaming, bullying, groupthink, and appeals to emotion, whic
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
Yeah, it's actually quite charged -- saying someone is behaving "entitled" is suggesting that they are being extremely childish and bullying on the subject. That word has been used as a weapon by far-left political pundits as

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