youareostriches

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by youareostriches 7y ago
I just stated my point with perfect clarity. And no, gun control has been legislated almost entirely in response to perceived violence from communities of color.
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If it’s a problem of election fraud then we can fix this in 2020 with all paper ballots and a restoration of the voting rights act. Unfortunately violence might be necessary if fair elections can’t be guaranteed.
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How is it an intractable political problem when a large majority of the US, and a larger majority of the world, is in favor of strong governmental action to stave off climate disaster? A political revolution against the corruption of our de
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by youareostriches 7y ago
It would seem that the first step would be to delegitimize those election results and any ensuing laws or orders from those officials.
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by youareostriches 7y ago
This fantasy is almost more intellectually insulting than straight up climate denial. What kind of dream world do you inhabit where you think it’s easier to travel to other stars or terraform planets than simply not “shit where you eat” o
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by youareostriches 7y ago
In case it wasn’t already blatantly obvious, my point is that terrorism in the US is fundamentally associated with “brown” people, and elicits the most immediate and direct attention from governments, whereas mass shootings are almost alway
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by youareostriches 7y ago
It’s really quite incredible how these subversions of our privacy (even including blatant disregard for the constitution) are rarely questioned when it comes to preventing terrorism, but when it comes to mass shootings that have actually ki
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by youareostriches 7y ago
That might not always be possible. Sometimes I don’t know the full definition of the function upfront; I have to discover/invent it one line at a time and can’t do that without pausing and thinking about the line I just wrote.
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by youareostriches 7y ago
>... that gives me extra security Actually, manually typing or pasting your password (assuming you aren’t using WebAuthN) opens you up to phishing attacks because you could be fooled by the URL, whereas password managers and hardware to
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by youareostriches 7y ago
That’s a rather passive aggressive way to ask for a link, isn’t it? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19507288 Oh and what do you know, now that comment appears to have been flagged, too! https://news.ycombi
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And this wasn’t enough already? Tiananmen Square protest death toll was 10,000: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-42465516 >"Students linked arms but were mown down including soldiers. APCs then ran ove
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Harvested Alive (2017): https://www.reddit.com/r/Documentaries/comments/akbaxf/harve...
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Shamefully, my HN account was shadowbanned for posting ethical objections to chinese nationalism on the basis of these atrocities committed by the government merely several months ago.