walrus66

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by walrus66 8y ago
>> Their purpose is to pretend to be serious news outlets to amplify various social media phenomena by selectively reporting about them and repeating this over and over again, with the purpose of legitimizing the phenomenae. In compar
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by walrus66 8y ago
... I wouldn't really call RT a foreign propaganda site. Frankly, and perhaps I'm myself biased, they provide less propagandic of an assessment of Western events than nearly every one of our mainstream media outlets that I can thi
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by walrus66 8y ago
I understand there are a lot of “nuanced” rationalizations against Tumblr’s decision-and of course it’s great that they’re discussed and cases are made, so that fair minded people rightfully reject them. We live in a free society- Tumblr is
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by walrus66 8y ago
There are a growing number of censorship and free speech issues facing the internet- this is not one of them. This society is heading to the toilet if a mainstream website used by children cannot decide that they don’t want to host porn on
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by walrus66 8y ago
A power asserting its dominance has been the norm for thousands of years; you have just been brainwashed into hating your country. As for neocons being responsible for everything- just wow- that’s two steps past ignorant. The last president
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by walrus66 8y ago
Let's not engineer bigger spiders, please
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by walrus66 8y ago
Certain actors have been getting away with murder for over a decade now. We have a few lucky first movers that have become alpha predators and are now stifling innovation. I can't really see any rational argument for this type of behav
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by walrus66 8y ago
Ignoring the obvious controlling interest issues which others have mentioned, which is the largest issue... That's a funny contradiction of a sort - then the index fund becomes the agent it's supposed to be observing. For one, Bla
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by walrus66 8y ago
To expound what you're suggesting, which is completely ridiculous, is that if someone buys 5.1% of actively traded float, the price will exponentially surge such that it would be equivalently priced to purchasing 51% of float in a mark