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by xracy 6mo ago
The wildest thing to me about the 2010s, was that the war on taxes got framed as a "class war". And everyone didn't understand that to mean "a war on anyone who is not the top 1%" Even reading through this comment s
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by xracy 6mo ago
Site looked interesting, so I was just like "what would it look like to have a top tax rate like we did in the 1950s-1980s (Before Reagan dropped it)?" [1] And the hilarious thing is the propaganda it spews without any backing of
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by xracy 6mo ago
I need you to reread my comment, and then paraphrase what you think I said, for me. Cause I don't get how this is someone's response to my comment in a million years unless it's like intentional rage bait, or something.
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by xracy 6mo ago
Sorry, this is russell's teapot falacy. "the burden of proof lies with the person making an unfalsifiable claim, rather than on others to disprove it" If there is evidence this is related to cameras, then the onus is on compa
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by xracy 6mo ago
You didn't ask for data... You asked: "In what way do cameras make life harder for regular people?" That requires a specific example, which you were provided with. This reads to me as a pithy response that doesn't want t
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by xracy 6mo ago
I think his comment about "why dogs might provide actual neighborhood safety" is a good reminder that the thing that makes communities safe is "knowing your neighbors." You don't get safety by building a castle with
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by xracy 7mo ago
It feels like the only reason to label one side of the political spectrum "reactionary" in this way is to poison the well for anyone responding to you. Where as, pre-labeling things as being politically one-sided is very reaction
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by xracy 7mo ago
This is really cool and impressive... but relatedly... Has anyone figured out what the minimum specs for Quake are? I feel like the first thing everyone does with a computer is to determine whether or not it can run quake, and I'm just
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by xracy 7mo ago
I think the problem, is that cameras don't prevent you from getting stolen from. I know many people in the same city as me who get things stolen off their front porch, and have cameras. On the flip side, I have basically never worried
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by xracy 7mo ago
Saying "The West has deindustrialised" is incredibly disingenuous. The west's consumerism has driven a race-to-the-bottom for pricing of products in China and India.
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by xracy 8mo ago
Yeah, I mean, the thing is, I also lived through it, and you and I remember it differently. Which is why I asked for clear examples, because it's easy to go back and forth about anecdotes.
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by xracy 8mo ago
because in his mind "it's worse to be a hypocrite than it is to torture children." He just doesn't realize how he's also a hypocrite, so he can't hold himself accountable to his own opinion.
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by xracy 8mo ago
you're asking them to enforce the rule. I'm asking them to enforce the rule consistently if they're going to enforce the rule. Otherwise it's a first amendment violation. I'm opposed to violations of the first amend
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by xracy 8mo ago
Read my comment again, and then think about it. Who do you think would need to be given equal time on conservative talk radio? What would be the other outcome of the change to the rule that I am proposing? Also I am not even against the rul
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by xracy 8mo ago
I mean, if you think this administration is the same as the last, I recommend reading the news from a different source.
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by xracy 8mo ago
Apply it to conservative talk radio first, and then we'll talk. As applied now, it's clearly the gov't chilling speech.
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by xracy 8mo ago
No, it's calling out a red herring. It's a valid response in a discussion to say that your comment is not contributing to the topic at hand. Especially when your comment is not really comparable.
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by xracy 8mo ago
I mean, why don't you lose your mind that Trump is doing it? If it was so bad when Obama did it, then you're the hypocrite here.
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by xracy 8mo ago
This is the account's M.O. You can see my response above, but basically as far as I can tell they're deeply conservative, and they try and position themselves as a like "rational centrist" by doing this "both sides&
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by xracy 8mo ago
My read of this account is that they're deeply conservative, and like to take every example of a terrible thing the current administration is doing as an opportunity to "both sides" it in order to attempt to normalize how bad
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by xracy 8mo ago
Weird, cause I remember there being a very lengthy and involved debate about COVID. I remember hearing a ton of dissent and disagreement with the government positions... almost like... they weren't being censored. There are hundreds of
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by xracy 8mo ago
At some point, we as a society are going to come to grips with the fact that only like 5% of the population is capable of actually losing and maintaining weight-loss. The rest is just all new "fad diets" that cycle every 3 years a
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by xracy 8mo ago
It looks to me like you're adding the conflation to "all addictions" because you can clearly distinguish between "sugar" and "cocaine" as both forms of addictions. Why would you not be willing to include &
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by xracy 8mo ago
I don't think you understand what "silencing" is. If they were actually silenced, you wouldn't be able to find anything about it online. People who are "silenced" are not "googleable with 100s of examples.
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by xracy 8mo ago
Anything this terribly defined, makes a poor candidate for "being treated like cigarettes"
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by xracy 9mo ago
If you've ever been inclined to run a "don't tread on me" sticker, it's time to start trading it out for a "tread on me daddy" sticker.
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by xracy 9mo ago
OOC do you have any sources for what the current administration considers illegal aliens? Genuinely curious if they've published this information.
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by xracy 9mo ago
> why bring up any other industry when this is the vc playbook Because my point is how messed up the VC incentive structure for tech is. This is proved by comparing it to every other industry. > Yes, they do actually. I'm not sur
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by xracy 9mo ago
> Answers this question from 9 year ago, so it predates (well probably when you were born) In case you're wondering why you're getting downvoted and flagged, it's probably to do with the fact that you're throwing arou
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by xracy 9mo ago
> What would be different about these people if their faces were visible? I mean, if you agree there's no difference, then we should prefer transparency? You're going to have to make the case for why they should cover their fac

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