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by thrance 6mo ago
What are you even talking about. There was and still is much more money to be made on the pro-Israel side. Which media magnates have ever sided with Palestinians again? Virtually all the propaganda money goes to defending the actions of Isr
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by thrance 6mo ago
Mass rape has strictly nothing to do with "sexual liberation". In fact, you see way more rapes in conservative countries of the global south than in more liberal ones. Rape happens when there is a power imbalance and a total lack
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by thrance 6mo ago
Yeah, always circles back to the Jews with these people....
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by thrance 6mo ago
Don't read too much into it, it's just a joke, I'm very happy with Jones losing his platform. I thought I could add to the Onion's satire with a bit of my own, but forgot how hard it is sometimes to tell apart humor from
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by thrance 6mo ago
My comment was just a silly joke, reusing some of Jones phrasing. I never fully grasped who "the globalists" were in his mind, and why they were seemingly behind everything he dislikes, but I always found if funny. I'm just h
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by thrance 6mo ago
> The whole thing is a psyop - wow it’s so amazing we can’t give it to you. Anyone else still remembers when OpenAI refused to release GPT2-xl because it was "too powerful"?
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by thrance 6mo ago
Verhoeven is the filmmaker, that adapted the book to the screen. He is very much an anti-fascist, and absolutely did turn the book into a satire of itself and the ideology it tries to convey. > Director Paul Verhoeven admits to have neve
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by thrance 6mo ago
They can't, else their bigotry and support for genocide would be too evident. Such pathetic cowards...
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by thrance 6mo ago
The struggle is the point, that's how you learn. If you offload your task to someone/something else after barely 20 minutes of head scratching, you've missed the plot entirely.
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by thrance 6mo ago
Hmm, the book in its whole is basically a manifesto for Rand's Objectivism. I think I'm mostly correct in painting it as a "rich people good, poor people bad". As I understand it, the villains in her book are the hordes
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by thrance 6mo ago
Ehhh, is this really what the world is suffering from though? Too much equality?
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by thrance 6mo ago
Fitting how the author felt compelled to use Gemini to generate an ugly banner for their blog post. An image completely devoid of meaning, that adds nothing to the article except a few kilobytes: slop under any definition.
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by thrance 6mo ago
Brave New World warns against the dangers of consumerism, hedonism and complacency. 1984 warns against fascist modes of governance, the dehumanization of individuals under totalitarian regimes. Animal Farm warns against the danger of
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by thrance 6mo ago
Don't know about cryptocurrencies, but private jets are a powerful symbol, and them not being the first thing paused when in an oil shortage sends a strong message to the rest of the population.
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by thrance 6mo ago
For sane readers: "noticing" is a fascist dog whistle. They can't make developed argument, else their bigotry would be self-evident. Instead, they just say "I notice" next to asian-looking names, as if every asian-A
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by thrance 6mo ago
Top comment wasn't questioning anything, they just wrote the names of the offenders, which both sound asian. The conclusion they want us to make is that any American with an asian-looking name should be immediately suspect and face inc
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by thrance 6mo ago
As a zip archive of however they store it in their database?
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by thrance 6mo ago
> and progressive labor politics (which are asymptotically doomed in the current automation push). What do you mean exactly by this?
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by thrance 6mo ago
Hmm, maybe. Even then, there are causes worth burning buildings over, I think, and the right to vote is probably one of them.
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by thrance 6mo ago
> probably over 50% of the population On which end of this split do you place yourself? Most people believe they're smarter than average [0]. And have some more respect for your fellow human, please. [0] https://pmc.ncbi.
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by thrance 6mo ago
Are you implying that the suffragettes were mentally ill?
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by thrance 6mo ago
I've been toying with the idea of a language whose packages have to declare which "permissions" they require (file io, network access, shell...) and devs have to specify which permissions they give to their dependencies.
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by thrance 6mo ago
IIRC, you've already made this argument in the past, but it's a bad one. Yes, the Ancien Régime 's nobility became the bourgeoisie in the successive governments of the French 18th century, but it allowed many from the tiers
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by thrance 6mo ago
But social violence is?
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by thrance 6mo ago
Serf mindset like that won't get us very far...
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by thrance 7mo ago
Maybe the author believes in the fact that violence is never justified, and thus the things you mentioned can only be used to explain violence, never justify it? Either way, it's a weird way to think indeed.
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by thrance 7mo ago
Both governments are (were?) similarly right-wing. Poland's is indeed pro-Ukraine but also very pro-Trump.
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by thrance 7mo ago
"European nationalists" as in "nationalists which happen to reside in Europe", not "Chauvinistic European federalists", which feels like a rare breed.
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by thrance 7mo ago
Actually, with Trump losing support in his own base, it's him they'll soon throw under the bus. I predict that Vance will run in 2028, by pretending that he was always against this war. Which is obviously a lie, but Republicans ar
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by thrance 7mo ago
You should probably read up on cognitive dissonance, because this ain't it. Here's what the author actually wrote: > Nothing that Altman could say justifies violence against him. This is an undeniable truth. But unfortunately,

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