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by rfrank 9y ago
Yeah I know, and I'm referring to that as well. He pans the Gutenberg Bible early in the article. The whole reason the printing press was a world changing invention is because it reduced books from handmade art to a commodity. To me it
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by rfrank 9y ago
Books have always been an art form...
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by rfrank 9y ago
> If a journalist can find it - any internet layman who knows how to Google can find it. News organizations have access to many non-public databases.
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by rfrank 9y ago
HN political discussion in a nutshell.
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by rfrank 9y ago
No, I've never heard of civil disobedience. Fantastic question. Sure seems to me like people would have been able to say, "I don't consent to listening to these people ask for equal representation, an aggressive violation of
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by rfrank 9y ago
> They just convicted a protester from Session's hearing. "She did not get convicted for laughing. It was her actions as she was being asked to leave," the jury foreperson told the Huffington Post. "Ms. Fairooz's
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by rfrank 9y ago
No, we don't need to talk about consent. If both parties had to consent to a conversation, the civil rights movement would have never happened.
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by rfrank 9y ago
Young America's Foundation. http://www.yaf.org/news/statement-young-americas-foundations...
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by rfrank 9y ago
Do you actually know conservatives that you associate frequently with in real life? I really doubt they've ever been interested in what Milo has to say.
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by rfrank 9y ago
> "Violence" is always somehow brought into the mix by conservatives. Antifa and other leftist extremist groups have attacked people a lot lately... > ...when you see how quick conservative America was drop Milo like a hot p
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by rfrank 9y ago
An application of an Amendment to the Constitution is different than the entire document. Context is important, but I see you're committed to ignoring that. > The only thing preventing Trump from being impeached is that it's hi
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by rfrank 9y ago
> ...there's enough to attempt to bring charges, that's all that matters. Considering he'd still be in office, and any later attempt to impeach would likely fall on its face due to the embarrassing failure, no, charges are
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by rfrank 9y ago
> The point stands, there's enough that congress could impeach him at any time... No, it doesn't, as I've just pointed out why all of your listed items have legitimate legal defenses that would probably win in court. I don
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by rfrank 9y ago
Best reply so far. Might be misinterpreting, but I think that both you & the other person who replied to my above comment are taking the somewhat broad charge of high crimes and misdemeanors as allowing for just about anything to become
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by rfrank 9y ago
And with the US interfering in foreign elections. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/apr/22/barack-obam... http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2017/05/04/ob
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by rfrank 9y ago
I think that encouraging people to think about how silly the things they say during political discussions is productive. I've still yet to see someone propose a rational mechanism with which to impeach the current president.
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by rfrank 9y ago
So you'd be fine with the president being assassinated by a foreign government?
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by rfrank 9y ago
> The only rational response is an organized campaign to convince American citizens to remove Trump from office as soon as possible. Why is that the ONLY rational response? What removal mechanism do you propose?
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by rfrank 9y ago
And YouTube isn't entitled to thousands of people producing high quality content on a daily basis, just because they provided a means to do so. Nothing stops those same people from leaving for other platforms, and the number of people
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by rfrank 9y ago
Was that the case before Ryzen? I know their new CPUs support ECC, but I'm not sure for earlier generations.
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by rfrank 9y ago
I totally get you on your critique, but I think the ambiguity is somewhat intentional - think koans in Zen Buddhism. Haven't read it in over 10 years now, so if I were to read it again I might not think the same, however. He probably d
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by rfrank 9y ago
Not the legitimacy of the page being liked, of the bot's profile. Filling it with dummy information, including various liked pages, posts, etc, to use them for astroturfing.
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by rfrank 9y ago
> Is it wrong to want white drug users to go to jail just like black ones were? Yes, if you're of the "drugs should be legal" perspective. Revenge isn't justice.
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by rfrank 9y ago
I definitely think that's the case, same for food trucks as well.
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by rfrank 10y ago
It's just amusing to me how only one of those bad things seems to be "terrifying" or "disturbing". Which is worse, unmasking the twitter account owner, or Susan Rice's unmasking of intel reports on Trump's
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by rfrank 10y ago
> the executive branch of the federal government attempting to punish dissent Like using the IRS to target conservatives?
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by rfrank 10y ago
> Look at what happened when Obama won. "Elections have consequences." "I won. Deal with it." "If you like your plan, you can keep your plan." Politicizing the IRS. Should I pretend that Yvette Felarca [1] i
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by rfrank 10y ago
Most of America seems to have forgotten that single issue voters exist on both sides.
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by rfrank 10y ago
You should be able to define the words you use, when you want to dismiss conflicting viewpoints with them. Your inability to define what propaganda and bias mean makes the conversation impossible. You have no bar, other than your feelings,
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by rfrank 10y ago
No, it's not wrong. Which part of his comment is the bigotry you feel like projecting? Is approval for stronger border protection bigotry? Is thinking the EO on immigration is fine bigotry? Is making assumptions about every single poli

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