scaredtobeme

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by scaredtobeme 6y ago
This part seems true and seems to be easier for non-Americans than Americans to see, which I suppose is not surprising. Americans have always been good at policing uniformity by and among themselves. The puritanical streak of shaming and s
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by scaredtobeme 6y ago
That's not much of a counterargument. The question could be phrased as "How much room is there still for debate?" and the answer is clearly: less and less, and dwindling rapidly.
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by scaredtobeme 6y ago
Public shaming and the invocation of a mob against you?
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by scaredtobeme 6y ago
For sure, but why would the Wisconsinites be behaving any differently in terms of violence, looting, etc.? I suppose it could be selection bias. Maybe it takes a higher level of anger to drive a couple hours than to go someplace local, and
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by scaredtobeme 6y ago
What's so different between Minneapolis and Wisconsin that hordes of Wisconsinites would come to town to do things that Minneapolans would never do? That seems implausible, at least to a know-nothing outsider like me.
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by scaredtobeme 6y ago
He isn't competent enough to pull that off. He can't even get his own staff to do what he wants most of the time.
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by scaredtobeme 6y ago
The argument is that it's getting there. It's the leading platform for public debate in the US right now. Journalists spend their days refreshing their Twitter feed, so the effect isn't just in the size of Twitter's plat
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by scaredtobeme 6y ago
It has as least as much to do with not fact-checking the claims of people you agree with. Politics is replete with lies. Remember "all 17 intelligence agencies"? The idea of neutral just-calling-balls-and-strikes fact-checking i
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by scaredtobeme 6y ago
It's a public space because it's become the dominant platform for political debate.
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by scaredtobeme 6y ago
That's because these companies function in a way that is between the private and public sectors, and are getting more so. There are plenty of precedents for this, e.g. utilities, and the way we generally address such gray areas is regu
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by scaredtobeme 6y ago
Maybe I used that word wrong. I just meant someone who's strongly on one political side. Those things mostly go together in a two-party system though.
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by scaredtobeme 6y ago
It's exactly the opposite. People are going to cringe at their hamfisted and obviously partisan interventions and their transparently hypocritical justifications for them. I don't agree with the opposing side politically but this