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by taxicab 6y ago
Exactly! Just look at the magnificant wall he finally built [1]. I'm not holding my breathe to see if Mexico will pay for it, though. [1] https://www.newsweek.com/white-house-wall-donald-trump-bunke...
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by taxicab 6y ago
Good! The election is already stressful enough without any bleating over trying to prevent every legally cast vote from being counted.
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by taxicab 6y ago
> victim of cancel culture due to their scientific pursuits or statements either... The system worked here and it's manufactured outrage from the conservative tabloid you linked to over some random academic drama. The academic orga
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by taxicab 6y ago
I looked up your statistics and the reason there is nobody calling it out is because, first, that's not the claim being made (the argument is that they earn far less than equivalently trained professions which is objectively true no ma
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by taxicab 6y ago
True that we should listen to our peers more often, but there is also a concerning trend towards the opposite: utter contempt towards subject matter expertise. There's a reason we trust experts. It's because they have worked on w
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by taxicab 6y ago
> even peer review or the publishing of scientific information, is a power struggle between ideologies That is so wrong that I'm having a hard time finding where to begin. First off, you are literally spouting off an existing politi
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by taxicab 6y ago
> Let individuals look at the content and context and decide on their own if it is true That is literally what they are doing. They are literally linking to context and other articles. People can make up their own minds about Wayback Ma
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by taxicab 6y ago
They are not saying that the site is propagating conspiracy theories. They are saying that the site is pandering to conspiracy theorists who would be upset about a company like Mailchimp deciding to not propagate their emails.
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by taxicab 6y ago
Don't be obtuse. It's a partisan tabloid spouting off an emotionally worded narrative.
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by taxicab 6y ago
I don't think mailchimp is a monopoly
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by taxicab 6y ago
I would even go further and put it in the category of conservative victimhood porn. Their narrative is that the Mailchimp "arbiters of truth" are going to come and censor your conservative viewpoint which is already "continu
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by taxicab 6y ago
The 10 top-performing link posts by U.S. Facebook pages are almost always right to far-right. Whoever is behind this liberal conspiracy must be really bad at their job. https://twitter.com/facebookstop10
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by taxicab 6y ago
Maybe comparing pandemic response is more complicated than a dumping of numbers on wildly unrelated countries? A more accurate comparison that controls for location, culture, political structure, economic situation, etc is between Sweden an
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by taxicab 6y ago
To save people the click: this isn't a study or professional poll, it's effectively just a twitter poll that someone put up and then a partisan website is now broadcasting around without adding information to the story. There&#x2
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by taxicab 6y ago
The news actually feels like it's just messing with me now. We live in the timeline where Osama Bin Laden's QAnon conspiracy theorist neice went on Fox News to say that she is really an American at heart and to give Trump her end
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by taxicab 6y ago
Unless you are planning to gun down some state censors, then I'm guessing you mean the first amendment.
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by taxicab 6y ago
> unrestricted 'say anything lmao' free speech does not exist I am baffled by everyone here talking about algorithmic platforms like Facebook and Twitter as if they are a bastion of free speech. They are designed to promote onl
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by taxicab 6y ago
It is a little disappointing to see this post get so quickly flagged off of the front page when there is another COVID-19 post that better fits preconceived notions still there that is seven times as old and has one third of the votes. It m
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by taxicab 6y ago
Since the point clearly went over your head or you just decided to give that snotty reply to a strawman you came up with: parent was saying good ideas don't win if demagogues can hold a monopoly on the marketplace of ideas in the same
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by taxicab 6y ago
Of course I would have doubts about pulling causality out of something as complicated as this, but here is an interesting paper that talks about a few possible mechanisms [1]. The big ones it seems are: - Inflexibility in when people may v
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by taxicab 6y ago
The fact of the matter is that voter ID laws prevent legal voters from having their voices heard and that they disproportionately affect minorities. Participating in democracy is meant for everyone, not just the people who can afford a pol
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by taxicab 6y ago
The US needs voting reform badly. Race is currently one of the strongest predictors for how long people wait in line to vote even when you control for poverty [1]. Sadly, I don't see it happening without a change in our political land
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by taxicab 6y ago
History might not repeat, but it does rhyme.
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by taxicab 6y ago
The story reeks from top to bottom. The owner of the repair shop that allegedly received the laptop from Biden is a super far right conspiracy theorist. To the point where he literally believes that the Clintons are out to kill him for th
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by taxicab 6y ago
As Winston Churchill said "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on." In normal circumstances, that doesn't matter. Talk about it, let it fly around the internet and then in a wee
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by taxicab 6y ago
Not only that, but IMO context matters here. We are 20 days away from the election. People are standing in lines to vote as we speak. If this was published at any other time (and the material for the story has apparently existed since Dec
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by taxicab 6y ago
To be fair, the fact that it was published by the New York Post already seriously undercuts the article's credibility. Edit: and also the fact that it was written in collaboration with the President's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani
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by taxicab 6y ago
You understand what you did here, right? You're complaining about not having your views taken seriously because people consider them ideology driven. Then, you immediate dismiss anyone who disagrees with those views because "fea
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by taxicab 6y ago
It takes some next level cognitive dissonance to read an article where a republican party chairman is noted as confirming the story, and then respond by saying that it's all a Democratic hoax.
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Trump Campaign Actively Discussing Radical Measures to Bypass Election Results(forbes.com)
16 points by taxicab 6y ago|13 comments

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