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by ue_ 9y ago
I categorise myself as one of the 'elite' beacuse you only need 500 karma in order to downvote; it's not about the fact that I don't have downvoting ability (I do) but about the fact that downvotes do so much to discoura
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by ue_ 9y ago
I'm sure HN wasn't a lot of things but has become them. For the majority (I'm guessing) of users, HN isn't a place you can downvote. Perhaps this experience of the website should be widened. I respect that I am on a diff
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by ue_ 9y ago
>Remember this the next time that The Economist, Time magazine or New York Times tries to talk about "the wonders" of communism. Could it be that, if they talk in favour of it, they have a different idea of Communism to you? Mo
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by ue_ 9y ago
Some forums don't have downvotes at all, and I find that controversial discussion flourishes there. The moderators also are much more laid back than in HN; they enforce rules like spam and illegal content rather than the task the HN mo
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by ue_ 9y ago
No, NTS applies to cases in which an additional qualifier is added to an object after a claim made by someone in order to disqualify that object from being a Scotsman. In this case, it is not the case - Communists of many stripes, even the
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by ue_ 9y ago
I would love to agree that comments on HN can be substantive and civil, but the downvote power afforeded to 'elite' users is horrible, leaving a comment which is perhaps a little challenging to a charged view or commonly held beli
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by ue_ 9y ago
>Lol I won't ever hand that level of personal data to a government institution. But you would to a private one? Why?
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by ue_ 9y ago
>Actors and writers are not laborers either Why aren't they?
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>The people (majority of people (actually the people claiming to represent the majority)) have spoken Really, have they? Is there a poll showing that? And does agreement on laws mean that the laws are therefore not draconian? I'm su
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by ue_ 9y ago
You know, I have to say something about this: >I have only ever personally heard of one case of someone having their electronics searched, and the extent of the search was Canadian customs using the Windows search to look for files with
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by ue_ 9y ago
>that one's position/class/socio-economic-factors are the determining factors in their values and beliefs. Have you actually read Marx? Nowhere does he make this claim, nor inspire this thought. I don't know where you
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by ue_ 9y ago
It is very much illegal, as is stories depicting it. Here's an Australian supreme court of the Northern Territory case describing such a ruling: http://www.supremecourt.nt.gov.au/documents/judgements/2014&#x2F
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by ue_ 9y ago
> So pictures of KKK members killing little black girls would be fine as long as the images were "drawn"? Much worse things are displayed in comics and described in books. What's confusing here? It's fiction, and ther
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by ue_ 9y ago
>Here, we're talking about lolicon, and Japans obsession with it that has become more and more normalized. Is "Japan" obsessed with it, or just a subculture native to that country (i.e otaku)? >The argument usually is t
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by ue_ 9y ago
I don't know how true it is, but I read that the government of Japan conducted a study which showed that most people are not in favour of the material, and would support legislation against it. The number was around 80%. I'd appre
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by ue_ 9y ago
>"State socialism is a classification for any socialist political and economic perspective advocating state ownership of the means of production either as a temporary measure in the transition from capitalism to socialism, or as cha
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by ue_ 9y ago
Interestingly enough, redistribution isn't a Socialist policy; if the workers (proletariat) control and own the social means of production, i.e not a state which is clearly not under control of the workers (i.e not a dictatorship of t
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by ue_ 9y ago
I wonder for long people have been saying this. https://xkcd.com/1601/
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by ue_ 9y ago
Very much agreed on this swarm behaviour. A political channel made by a very kind person with nice intentions didn't seem to breaking any rules at all, though the /pol/ board on 8chan coordinated mass-flagging attacks against
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by ue_ 9y ago
A bit of a nitpick, but >I would never assume positive intent and allow my daughter to be alone with a registered sex offender I don't know, prehaps that's true in the case where one doesn't know what the sex offender has
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by ue_ 9y ago
I am by no means an advocate of Mill's liberalism, but according to that philosophy espoused everywhere else but the case of a business refusing access to black customers seems to me inconsistent.
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by ue_ 9y ago
>peaceful pluralistic society should be discarded in favor of short-term political wins. I don't think that's a fair characterisation given the post-WWII attempt to truly be discarded of these pernicious racist ideas which some
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by ue_ 9y ago
Why do you think they're ignorant/backwards?
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by ue_ 9y ago
I'm against forceful removal of people (as in, taking them away from their homes simply for being who they are), not of private property.
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by ue_ 9y ago
Killing has nothing to do with Communism. I don't defend those who have killed in its name, and I don't want to do the same as them. As far as I know, Nazism requires forceful removal or killing of people. This is the difference.
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by ue_ 9y ago
What is unbelievable? That a Communist is in favour of the abolition of private property?
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by ue_ 9y ago
>Communists killed many millions more than national socialists and is also a genocidal ideology Sorry, but you're wrong. The Nazi ideology hinges on the idea of forceful removal and killing "inferior" people. The Communist
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by ue_ 9y ago
>The Nazis you dislike would agree with you The fact that other people would also like to censor some speech in other circumstances is irrelevant to me. >open borders communists who, to their minds, promulgate the genocide of the whit
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I am too. What happened to Bat'ko (if this is the Communist you talk about) on Youtube isn't good. But I think there is a clear difference in what he was saying compared to, for example, The Daily Stormer. But it's possible o
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by ue_ 9y ago
>you can't have it both ways and choose who can speak freely and who cannot... Why not, exactly? I hear that people say "it's a slippery slope", or "who decides?" as if this puts an end to the argument. It d

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