the_drunkard

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by the_drunkard 6y ago
Subtitle: Japan’s rate of strokes fell during a period when it began eating a bit of meat Article is paywalled, but the subtitle appears to make a correlation between the consumption of meat in Japan and the decline in the rate of strokes.
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by the_drunkard 6y ago
i'm curious if this phenomenon has existed during previous elections. for example, is this a normal event when compared to previous elections or is this type of activity indeed suspicious. from the article you linked: > The one thin
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by the_drunkard 6y ago
please don't take my comment out of context. i was referring to the narratives spun by the media as largely being false and filled with fabricated stories, not the Mueller report (something you're clearly still clinging to). as re
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by the_drunkard 6y ago
>You present an opinion piece from Matt Taibbi on substack (where anyone can publish anything) as evidence of what mainstream news was writing? > You might as well cite any fringe blogger. Your proof is like some idiot writing Trump i
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by the_drunkard 6y ago
> But I also have many criticisms the US election system. When am I allowed to discuss them without "inciting violence"? that's exactly my point. we should never allow a mob to influence our democracy; whether it is confir
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by the_drunkard 6y ago
> Telling 150 million people to sit down and shut up because their party happened to lose an election is a really, really bad idea that has no possible good ending for those doing it. i do think you mean 74M? anyways i agree with you, it
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by the_drunkard 6y ago
wrong thought will not be tolerated and is to be actively censored. boy, we've taken quite a turn from where we were just a few years ago with conspiracy theories spreading like wild fire regarding Trump and Russia. it would probably b
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by the_drunkard 6y ago
> It was never rigorously examined, because Republicans blocked it. in my opinion, the objective person would likely agree that Trump and his campaign have been rigorously examined both formally (by Mueller and his team) and informally (
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by the_drunkard 6y ago
> but they most certainly were not fabrications or lies. i'd strongly beg to differ. fake news was at its peak during the first two years of "Russia-gate" with networks reporting on hearsay and drawing wild conclusions irr
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by the_drunkard 6y ago
> during an active insurrection it is. or did you miss the planned attacks on the 17th sorry, but participating in the democratic process is not sedition. and i would hope we never allow mobs to dictate our participation in the democrati
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by the_drunkard 6y ago
> lies about our elections for the past 4 years the media spun a narrative of Russian collusion, one that largely proved to be false and filled with fabricated stories. Nanci Pelosi tweet May 2017: Our election was hijacked. There is no
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by the_drunkard 6y ago
> Sedition objecting to a state's election process and /or electoral votes is not sedition. in fact, it's been done by Democratic senators after the 2000, 2004, and 2016 elections. this is part of the democratic process.
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by the_drunkard 6y ago
>Who is praising the CCP's economic rise? Did you miss the last 40 years in which US economic policy was underpinned by the thesis that shipping manufacturing jobs to China would give rise to a middle class that supports democracy?
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by the_drunkard 6y ago
it's clear that selective enforcement occurs, especially on Twitter. while i'm sure there are examples of violence being incited on Parler, I can find just as many examples (if not more) on Twitter.
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by the_drunkard 6y ago
> receives any power from a free online publishing tool i respectfully disagree. imagine FDR without his radio fireside chats, JFK without his television appearances, or even Trump without Twitter. the usage of media platforms and abilit
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by the_drunkard 6y ago
>he broke it how did he break the contract with Twitter? the tweets twitter references hardly seem to encourage mob violence. twitter subjectively interprets their own set of rules and it's clear there's a double standard. when
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by the_drunkard 6y ago
This action doesn't hold up to historical treatment of other apps /platforms. Was Facebook banned from app stores when shooters live streamed on their platform? Was Twitter banned from app stores when calls for violence against Ni
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by the_drunkard 6y ago
> If you run a social network and can’t keep up with moderation for calls for violence you shouldn’t be allowed to be in business. This goes for the big tech companies as well. This is such a narrow minded view and doesn't hold up t
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by the_drunkard 6y ago
Remind me if Google ever threatened to suspend Twitter over the fake stories, threats, and "mob" incited violence against a teenager named Nick Sandmann?