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by nxx788 3y ago
There are several instances of left wing folks being banned, he stated that "cis" will be disallowed on the platform, he's removed tweets at the behest of governments like the Saudis, and this post is literally about text d
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by nxx788 3y ago
And freedom to "censor" speech they don't like.
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by nxx788 3y ago
Police in America exist universally in a position where using their authority is basically unchecked and assumed by default to be "the right thing". They have incredibly dangerous powers, and by and large the response to them wiel
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by nxx788 3y ago
I think we agree. Your first two paragraphs are the point I was trying to make. I disagree with your opinion in the third paragraph, but I think we can agree to disagree.
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by nxx788 3y ago
I judge parties by what they do. And what they've done is monumentally center right, with small local exceptions.
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by nxx788 3y ago
Musk is absolutely not anti censorship. He's proudly removed views he disagrees with and fulfilled government requests to remove tweets (which is about as definitionally censorship as you can be.)
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by nxx788 3y ago
I don't think anyone thinks free services don't have costs. Everyone (or nearly everyone) understands they are taxpayer funded. Even to the layman.
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by nxx788 3y ago
The original point was that language is descriptive - if words are understood by people, then that's what they mean. I disagree with you, but I'm not discussing your value judgement, I'm discussing whether "free" is
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by nxx788 3y ago
Center right, by any reasonable analysis. Largely pro corporate, fairly disinterested in change from the status quo. Very, very few even question capitalism, let alone call for its replacement.
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by nxx788 3y ago
And there's a second amendment contingent on the left now too. Organizations like the socialist rifle association (SRA), Pink Pistols, John Brown Gun Club (JBGC) and several others. It's far from the majority position left of cent
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by nxx788 3y ago
Free public schools, free health care, toll free roads, free housing. It's not the only way we refer to these things, but it's an accepted one.
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by nxx788 3y ago
Then it's not free. Opportunity cost is real. I don't ask my kid to volunteer because he got a chicken pox vaccine, he just gets to not have chicken pox for free. And that's ok. We can choose to make the next generations live
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by nxx788 3y ago
They are paying no matter what. If you don't educate kids well, you are just paying for it when you retire and get fucked by a weak workforce.
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by nxx788 3y ago
As someone who was homeless in high school (but still graduated thanks to some incredible non-familial adults), it's very easy to think, "fuck it, I'm out, I don't need this extra stress". Doing homework is real f
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by nxx788 3y ago
That's not how the language works. We have long ago decided that "free", when used in the context of social services, is correct enough to be understood. Do you think that definition is bad? If so, maybe you'll catch mor
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by nxx788 3y ago
I'm a leftist, left of democratic socialist and definitely left of social democrat. But can we please not point fingers and question people's motives? If someone says they are X, then we should believe them until there's a
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by nxx788 3y ago
If we taxed wealth at 1%, the wealthiest would still be getting wealthier and we'd be able to cover the needs of so many more people, fight climate change, or whatever else. You think Apple stops operating here because of a 1% headwind
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by nxx788 3y ago
> The labor theory of value is simply incorrect. Profit isn't stolen from workers. Why? I mean you don't provide a justification that's more defended than me saying the opposite is true.
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by nxx788 3y ago
Are you talking about the idea that taxes are theft, (which I didn't disagree with more) or the idea that wage labor is theft because your employer sells the products for more than they pay you to produce them (which is absolutely thef
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by nxx788 3y ago
The FBI are cops, are we supposed to be surprised cops abused their power? Also, if they are doing this to a senator, surely they are doing it to many, many Americans. Hopefully this will cause the senator to push for less power for the FBI
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by nxx788 3y ago
Right? He's clearly center right. Sanders or Warren or AoC are centrist moderates. Or maybe center left. Kshama Sawant is a leftist. There are folks left of her. If you don't see Biden as centrist or even center right, you have
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by nxx788 3y ago
Are there sources other then the police, who failed to act and have a vested interest in finding excuses? Because "the dog ate my homework" I mean "no, cause I didn't want to be racist" stretches credulity.
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by nxx788 3y ago
Knowing something exists but not why can be irritating
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by nxx788 3y ago
Popcorn polymer implies, to me at least, a polymer that expands in size like popcorn. I assume that with exposure to oxygen, the product expands into this polymer.
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by nxx788 3y ago
I've only worked for big companies. Several FAANG companies.
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by nxx788 3y ago
Every company I've worked at prefers Linux desktops over Windows and Mac.
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by nxx788 3y ago
The alternative is to say, "knowing who we are now, we are going in together. Fifty fifty. Egalitarian. If someday in the future we split, we both walk away with half." Holding on to the idea that somehow anything is "mine&qu
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by nxx788 3y ago
I think it's more than fair to ask, if workers produce more why aren't they compensated more?
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by nxx788 3y ago
Sure, but why?
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by nxx788 3y ago
In many places, you don't. Washington State all property is 50/50. Half my income is my wife's, even though I make 800k and she makes nothing. I dunno, the idea that you are willing to make a commitment to someone for the res

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