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by qcnguy 1y ago
The right went quiet about censorship on X because there just isn't much of it. I remember at the time when people were asked to justify the claim X was censoring the left people could only cite three examples, two of which were mistak
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by qcnguy 1y ago
You can look at the huge surge in Bluesky usage at the time of the US election, if you want data. They report it themselves.
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None of the things you quoted involve him claiming Democrats aren't human or asking that they should be killed. Some involve him saying not to do that. Hitler's manifesto included in it a promise to kill all the capitalists, so th
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Sort of. Government spending usually turns into a debate about wealth inequality in the next step though, usually right around the time someone suggests paying for it all by taxing the rich.
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That right here is why leftism is such a violent ideology and why all good people should abandon it: 1. Pick some ideas. 2. Define any disagreement with those ideas as "hate". 3. Kill anyone who disagrees on the grounds that &quot
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They were abandoned but alive . Once you go down the road of solving problems by killing the people who have them, there's no limit to where the logic takes you. Homeless people are often also abandoned by those around them and suffer
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They probably would not have been subjected to torture, no. If you're thinking of lobotomy, I believe that was phased out around 1951 or so, and it wasn't intended as a form of torture.
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When the context is auto-generated and may include irrelevant data. This is a common AI benchmark and has been for years before GPT-2 even existed. LLMs need to not get distracted by irrelevant facts and there are tests that measure this. I
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It's not a strawman argument because he's arguing with people who cite "wealth inequality" on its own as a justification for riots. There isn't any limit or objective quantity attached to the argument - it's ph
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> or you can be extreme and reap the consequences This part of your post is very unfortunately worded given the context. I'll try to parse this in the most generous way possible, namely that you're talking about the consequen
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He did not in fact advocate for lynching or killing trans people. In the 50s and 60s they would have been treated as mental health cases, not executed on the spot by sharpshooters.
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Steelmanning that position, though, would go like this. The purpose of debate is to challenge people's views, even if they strongly disagree, in order to convince if not participants then bystanders to change their mind. Good debate ma
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At the time he was shot he was talking about the problem of trans people being much more violent than average. If his shooter gets caught and is trans, well, that would be "died for his beliefs" in a very extreme way.
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People who are scared award power to leaders, and leaders use that power to advance their social agenda rather than merely try and solve the problem that scared people. It was ever thus. Public health is not a technocratic field where there
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These are polls asking who people would vote for tomorrow. They're usually pretty accurate. Maybe it's comforting to think that all those people would "really" unite behind a single party to keep Reform out, but there&#x
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The AfD has nothing in common with the Nazis.
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Since lockdowns I think the underground only recovers around 70% of its operating costs. Maybe you have seen different figures? The freezes eliminated investment projects needed to keep pace with population growth. There's also just bi
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Look up the data for yourself. Imports/exports glitched briefly then went right back to their prior levels and trends. There's no observable Brexit impact in economic performance: Britain has continued to roughly follow its neighb
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Sample size for that poll was 2615, about normal or a little bigger than normal for a voting intentions poll in the UK. The people being asked who they'd vote for in the next election are thinking about it, at least. Reform announced s
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I didn't pass any judgement on that policy, nor blame immigrants for anything. I only observed that it's a deeply unpopular policy across the political spectrum yet they won't abandon it because it's seen as non-negotiab
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Trump has certainly dragged his party towards the left economically speaking. With lots of squealing and resistance, but they went there in the end because it's popular with voters. They haven't managed to win people over on fisca
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Given that ratings agencies were brought up it's worth adding a bit more detail here. Thames' debt is C-grade because it recently defaulted on its debt. How is that possible given that its debt servicing costs are not unusually hi
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You're welcome!
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The difficulty of getting people to vote for tax rises is a good justification for privatization. This difficulty isn't some uniquely right wing thing. The Democrats and Labour don't campaign on general tax rises either. At most,
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Competition in rail does exist in the UK and privatization turned around the network's fortunes. The ridership graph is very clear: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privatisation_of_British_Rail#... Traffic dropped a
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They placed a bet on the government allowing water prices to rise to match the level of investment needed, and lost that bet.
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I don't think Trump is anyone's idea of a textbook conservative, especially not economically. He's a former democrat with populist instincts. Such politicians are often popular. It's frequently said in the UK that the me
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There's no contradiction. Thames and gilts both pay ~5.8% on average. This is about the same as "Baa" (moderate risk) corporate debt. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/BAA Thames' debt costs are no
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> Pretty much no one other than extreme rightists would describe the Conservatives as a centre-left party If an election were called tomorrow your next government would be Reform with a massive majority of 339 seats. It is the most pop
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We're in agreement. The mainstream left abandoned their economic agenda because their economic agenda was stupid and as the 20th century progressed that became ever clearer, until the steady collapse of the USSR in the 1980s finally ma

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