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by tarakat 4y ago
"A foreign country is amassing spies and rumour-spreaders on our streets!" "So? Our country also has such agents on our streets. Worrying about these others is xenophobic. Besides, our country is just as corrupt, we are in no
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by tarakat 4y ago
There's a corruption problem, and the US will use it as an excuse to target politicians unfriendly to their interests, and divert scrutiny away from those that play ball with Washington.
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> I like to ask myself, what if the result were reversed? Would it be reported? Ask and you will be answered: The authors also submitted different test studies to different peer-review boards. The methodology was identical, and the vari
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by tarakat 4y ago
And blind acceptance? I haven't been paying attention to whether the Republican doubts over the election are justified, so don't interpret this as endorsement, but in principle, elections should be scrutinized by all parties.
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> Acceptance of an electoral outcome — win or lose — was once a virtual certainty in American politics, although there have been exceptions. A 10 minute montage of those exceptions: https://twitter.com/_/status/
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by tarakat 4y ago
I don't mind a slow pace. It's when the humans (unusually pale compared to the rest of the show's diversity) started complaining about elves taking their jobs that I checked out.
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by tarakat 4y ago
Which alleged viewpoints of mine conflict? And is that what we're calling drawing attention to relevant but ignored facts? Trolling? And to not troll, I would have to accept journalist's framing and cherry-picking of stories witho
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by tarakat 4y ago
It will be interesting to see how this develops. Afaik the federal government refuses to secure the border, despite the pleas of some border states, and does not allow those states to secure it on their own, since they claim it is a federal
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by tarakat 4y ago
Disable javascript if you encounter the paywall.
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The curious afterlife of a brain trauma survivor(wired.com)
1 points by tarakat 4y ago|1 comments
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I didn't mean to imply that was the only thing it was based on. But it is the main thing placing limits on laws such as this.
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State intimidation for things that are explicitly legal in the UK is also nothing new - see their police logging of "non-crime hate incidents", even for schoolchildren: https://reclaimthenet.org/the-uks-chilling-
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by tarakat 4y ago
> The police crackdown on such protests has raised questions about freedom of speech during this fraught period for the United Kingdom. Those questions were answered years ago when mean tweets [1] and nazi pugs [2] resulted in arrests. T
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by tarakat 4y ago
Perhaps they've read a summary of the decision that they trust? Also, the decision is based on a single-paragraph long part of the constitution. I tentatively disagree with the decision*, consider this hypothetical: a one-thousand pa
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by tarakat 4y ago
1. As I understand it, state constitutions are subordinate to the US constitution. In case of a conflict, the US constitution prevails. 2. "Disruption" is highly subjective. On one end of the scale is spam, on the other end is pol
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by tarakat 4y ago
"People" like banks, phone companies, ISPs, software vendors (suppose MS decides not to support your speech and prevents you from using any of their products), multinational taxi (Uber) and rental (AirB&B) companies, utilities
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by tarakat 4y ago
SCOTUS also ruled that the 1st Amendment allows compelling a mall (a private entity) to host petitioners, which is strikingly similar to this case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruneyard_Shopping_Center_v._R... And we
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by tarakat 4y ago
> they want citizen’s united to hold so right wing candidates can be funded with unlimited corporate funds but don’t want the woke tech world to police speech The situation is not nearly so clear-cut. Both parties seem to get about equal
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> being yanked from a good location "Reducing the listing" can potentially mean being pushed to page 23 of search results. In retail, that would be equivalent to never leaving the warehouse, available only upon specific request
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No business is happy with competition. That doesn't make contractual collusion any less anti-competitive. If it is, as you allege, the norm, that only makes dealing with it more urgent.
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by tarakat 4y ago
> Biden was introduced by Susan Bro, mother of Heather Heyer, who was killed during an August 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. "Her murder resonated around the world, but the hate did not begin or end there
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Anything bad they did they did with full malicious desire and intent, and anything good they did is either ignored or, as I said, discredited ("they only did it because they were forced!") If they give up the Koh-I-Noor to whomeve
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by tarakat 4y ago
> decolonization has to cost it something to mean something Didn't they, you know, give up their empire? And invite their former colonies to colonize them , to the point that they are now a minority in their own capital? If anythin
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> “What this country needs is fewer laws and agencies, and more courageous, tireless, devoted leaders whom the people can put their faith in.” So fewer laws and agencies restricting personal liberty, and those politicians that remain sho
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by tarakat 4y ago
Why not? Almost everyone that had it before won it through conquest, but only Britain is being held to a standard where that is forbidden.
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Isn't it interesting that as soon as one suggests Swedes are indigenous, i.e. have the same claim to their lands and cultures that peoples usually referred to as "indigenous" by the media have, suddenly the conversation turns
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That Swedes are not considered indigenous to Sweden perfectly encapsulates how insane and hostile to their own people their government has become.
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> radical anti-immigration Sweden Democrats What does "radical" mean? A return to pre-1975 immigration policy? - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_Sweden#1968%E2%... > The party has also unde
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by tarakat 4y ago
Archive if paywalled: http://archive.ph/x8U9B
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Works of Art That Define the Contemporary Age(nytimes.com)
1 points by tarakat 4y ago|1 comments

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