tathougies

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by tathougies 6y ago
I'm the child of indian immigrants. My parents adored trump in 2016, I was meh because all my friends told me he was a white supremacist. I thought my parents had gone mad. But then I saw that nothing my friends claimed actually came t
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by tathougies 6y ago
What part of Trump's policies are extremist? I ask this question honestly. None of his policies are extremist in the slightest. Even the mob on the sixth are just crazy supporters. Trump instructed them to be peaceful repeatedly, even
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by tathougies 6y ago
Wow okay.. Some people have too much time on their hands. Since I'm not giving them my money, I honestly don't really care what they do.
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by tathougies 6y ago
Uh... I always thought it was! You're right though. It shares the philosophy though.
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by tathougies 6y ago
Nazism?
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by tathougies 6y ago
I've been on parler for months. Stop exaggerating
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by tathougies 6y ago
Speech should have limits, but calling anything that took place on parler automatically 'hate speech' so contemptible that it ought to result in banning along with everything else on that site is ridiculous. There have been few in
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by tathougies 6y ago
It's not surprising, and it's disingenuous to accuse people of apathy. In several flu seasons, hospitals have been overwhelmed, tent beds set up, etc, and most people don't care because the flu is 'normal'. COVID is
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by tathougies 6y ago
I'm unsure if you think that I'm supposed to disagree with you. I really don't. YC is incredibly toxic. I let the scales fall off my eyes on that one. When I first graduated university and started reading hacker news, I had a
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by tathougies 6y ago
I have never said that speech should be fully free. I do have criteria that would be used to censor speech. However, neither the sixth riots or the summer riots had many actors whose speech I believe ought to have been banned. For example,
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by tathougies 6y ago
Fascism is quite literally the merger of corporations with government (see corporatism [1]). In non-Nazi Fascist countries, such as proto-fascist pre-Anschluss Austria and Mussolini's Italy, the government was organized such that indiv
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by tathougies 6y ago
The 1st amendment does not apply to private entities. The first amendment is a law restricting only Congress. 'Freedom of speech', however, is not the 1st amendment. It is an ethical precept, not a law. It's like how 'do
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by tathougies 6y ago
I am glad Poland is doing something, but I'm not sure I like this bill either. This is just censorship by another name. I think we need to make a distinction -- as the US Supreme Court did -- between large, publicly held corporations a
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by tathougies 6y ago
We actually see Trump/Sanders directly overlap in Tulsi Gabbard, a democrat who supported Sanders, but who often disagrees with Trump (and indeed, was the sole democrat to not vote for impeachment). Many Trumpers like her too. I like t
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by tathougies 6y ago
> Based on your logic, if both parties rejected Stalin then you'd be in favor of him. Yes, I'd rather have a social democrat that rejects Stalin than a fiscal conservative that embraced him. Unlike the various 'what-ifs&#
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by tathougies 6y ago
Yes, you're right. The casting out of Ron Paul made me really mad. Thanks for reminding me. No, no party is better really. The GOP is the same. It's run by the same kinds of old farts. My main source of good feelings towards the G
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by tathougies 6y ago
Right. I used parler to do such things as follow EWTN. I stopped using Twitter for this sort of thing because I figured that -- with EWTN's stance on the trans issue -- it was only a matter of time before they were banned (there had be
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by tathougies 6y ago
they are increasingly beyond the reach of normal citizens. If your views do not align 100% with either party, you are increasingly marginalized. See the treatment of Donald Trump (a republican outsider, and not a traditional conservative by
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by tathougies 6y ago
Honestly, I stopped believing the media reporting of Trump once I listened to the full audio of his speech about the awful events in Charlottesville. Literally immediately after the 'both sides' soundbite he goes on to explicitly
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by tathougies 6y ago
And then pick and choose sound bites to report to form a narrative.
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by tathougies 6y ago
But Republicans more and more are shifting. More Republicans today than ever are willing to regulate corporations especially in this area. Beliefs change. We see it in the senate taking up the cases into twitter and facebook. The party is s
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by tathougies 6y ago
No I don't support throwing out votes. This is why I support thomas and alitos reaction to texas v pa. They said they would have taken the case but, even if they found pa to be wrong, they would not give the resolution asked for. That&
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by tathougies 6y ago
Then why did the supposedly far right donald trump dept of justice file the first major anti trust case in decades?
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by tathougies 6y ago
This conservative administration has been the first in a long while to charge antitrust violations against americans monopolies How do you square away that fact with your simplistic characterization of conservatives as okay with anything bi
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by tathougies 6y ago
> The lack of standing is pretty obvious for the supreme Court isn't it? Texas has no say in how Pennsylvania votes. There's other things that are ridiculous about that case, like wanting throw out unrelated Texan votes. No it&
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by tathougies 6y ago
I'm a trump supporter in that I voted for him in 2020. I didn't vote for him in 2016 because I didn't think he'd do a good job. The last your years have shown me that while I don't agree with everything, he's d
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by tathougies 6y ago
Some people don't want Biden as president. That's their opinion and they have every right to protest. Regardless of what their opinion is though, everyone should agree that this particular behavior is unacceptable. Unfortunately,
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by tathougies 6y ago
I mean... I agree with you. I like Norway's model... Please don't be so confrontational.
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by tathougies 6y ago
Yes, the increased standard deduction was one of the best things from the TCJA.
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by tathougies 6y ago
I refinanced last year for a 0.125% better interest rate, and the bank paid me $1000 to do it. It was the easiest decision I ever made. Basically, there was $5000 in closing costs and the bank paid me $6000 in points. If I paid money I woul

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