whatislovecraft

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by whatislovecraft 8y ago
100 years ago, maybe, as cited in your wiki link, that could have some interesting discussion behind it. But that model of the world quite clearly does not fit today, and viewing modern society like that is exactly the kind of attitude that
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by whatislovecraft 8y ago
> No, if you fail to pay taxes, you will be carted off to jail, violently, if necessary. That is simply false. You will not be "carted off to jail, violently, if necessary". If you refuse to obey the laws of the country of cour
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by whatislovecraft 8y ago
Wait, in what country? Not in the USA! You ain't forced to pay shit here if you don't want. Don't want to pay taxes? Go work minimum wage job then, don't pay taxes okay? Or be megarich and still don't pay taxes. Nob
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by whatislovecraft 8y ago
Oh, you've committed violence against your peers by depriving them of the money that would have been used to save them in the healthcare system? By not paying taxes, you're being violent to your fellow Americans? Is that the take
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by whatislovecraft 8y ago
Are you suggesting that taxation is equal to violence? I'm confused. If these are the opinions of Americans, then I think I have found out why the "US is a Rich Country with Symptoms of a Developing Nation". Viewing taxation
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by whatislovecraft 8y ago
All the TV news networks then as well, right? Everyone who plays video of the Republicans spouting lies about the world, without directly commenting how wrong it is, would be equally guilty? More guilty? This stuff starts with Authority. on
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by whatislovecraft 8y ago
Is this really YouTube's fault? The President of the USA thinks China invented climate change as a hoax to reduce the economic output of the USA. Who can expect youth or anyone really to be okay in an age where the ruling parties are t
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by whatislovecraft 8y ago
> It could, for example, finally be possible to see a time-ordered view of your friends' posts (Facebook doesn't allow this since it reduces engagement). Am I missing something? This has always been a feature on Facebook right?
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by whatislovecraft 8y ago
> And yet you're suggesting government regulation that moves more quickly, which implies that the government shouldn't wait that conversation and consensus to happen. That's right. If the government waits for a consensus,
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by whatislovecraft 8y ago
> Your dismissal is not a counterargument. Oh sorry, I didn't mean to dismiss. I was trying to say that if your conclusion/mechanism to enact change depends on the success of convincing individual people do take action, it is u
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by whatislovecraft 8y ago
> Choose not to do business with them This has no effect whatsoever. You can try but it won't matter. You make money for Facebook and Google even if you spend every waking hour trying not to do so. Your very existence - that you hav
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by whatislovecraft 8y ago
> Browsers can block that quite easily. How? That's not possible. Facebook knows where you are and what you're doing, etc, without you even having a computer or smartphone at all. Your friends or their friends will already uplo
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by whatislovecraft 8y ago
Okay. It's still illegal and my point stands. There are disincentives for it here and that matters.
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by whatislovecraft 8y ago
> I would much rather let the market produce alternatives products when companies do things customers object to. Why, though? This line of thinking does not work in a modern, connected society. You can not any longer choose to avoid thes