thr0w72594

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by thr0w72594 5y ago
You mean private companies that have government-enabled monopolies and work together to shut people out of interacting in society, all while getting ban-lists from NGOs funded by billionaires? I'd rather have the oppressive government,
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by thr0w72594 5y ago
The authoritarian tech/finance cartel will gladly close your PayPal account without recourse to claim the balance, close your bank account, prevent you from getting access to payment processors, delist your products, kick you off of we
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by thr0w72594 5y ago
Subramanian Kumar 2021 [1] found that there is no correlation between vaccination rates and new case rates on a country-wide level, or a county-wide level in the United States. This tracks with Dr. Vanden Bossche's assessment [2] from
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by thr0w72594 5y ago
Unless you have a significant number of people working in your office over 70 years old, or if half of your colleagues are at least 60, it's more likely that nobody will die than 4-5.
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by thr0w72594 5y ago
In Russia they have state-controlled media, but America is a media-controlled state.
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by thr0w72594 5y ago
I agree with you completely. It actually makes me angry that corporations will seemingly stop at nothing to rape the Earth for their own profit and control. They want to replace everything natural and beautiful with a cheap simulacrum, and
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by thr0w72594 5y ago
The big tech companies (and more) act as a cartel, doing things for each other to kick out smaller rivals or just censor and deplatform people and groups they don't like. This is just evidence that it's more than wink-and-nod deal
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by thr0w72594 5y ago
Capitalism and Socialism aren't the only ways to organize society. The state could force every company that operates within it be beneficial to its citizens.
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by thr0w72594 5y ago
The biggest story that the mainstream American media won't report on, and actually runs cover for, is agencies like the FBI using early-2000s anti-Muslim "terrorism" and MK-Ultra tactics to manufacture a "domestic terror
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by thr0w72594 5y ago
If this is the only rhetoric, it fails all the other criteria I laid out. If it's not a useful, predictive, and positive worldview then this is not a good group to be in. As for trust or distrust in authorities. There are many authorit
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by thr0w72594 5y ago
I don't think echo chambers are a bad thing. You can't verify everything yourself, so you can delegate some subset of your opinions to someone else, and be diligent about verifying that they're not leading you astray. I'
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by thr0w72594 5y ago
The scanning already isn't necessary . What makes you think everyone getting vaccinated would cut back on government surveillance? You would just have to check in with your vaccine passport to prove that you can enter rather than chec
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by thr0w72594 5y ago
The criticism here is entirely self-serving and hypocritical. Why should Google be able to undemocratically decide which parts of the internet it allows, yet deride governments for doing the same thing? At least the governments ostensibly h