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by yucky 4y ago
Why are these "journalists" upset now about suspensions of journalist accounts? It was never an issue with them before when it was journalists of a different political ideology, was it? I can't find a record of any of these p
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by yucky 4y ago
How exactly would a state nationalize a company?
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My understanding is this is due to them doxxing which is against their TOS, is that not the case?
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There are a few things of note. First, when Bush Sr. became Director of the CIA he claimed to have never worked for the CIA, making him the first civilian to head the Agency. It was always odd since nobody could figure out what he did to ea
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by yucky 4y ago
The most credible theory at this point seems to be that it was indeed a CIA operation and that George Bush Sr. ran the field ops on it. Too many pieces of evidence don't make any sense if he wasn't involved in the planning and cle
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By that argument, email, text messaging and even phone calls are a part of social media.
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Well there is an easy way to test this theory of yours, by answering a question. Do you think we should treat people differently based on the color of their skin? I happen to think we should treat everyone the same regardless of skin color.
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by yucky 4y ago
You assume good intentions with these people, that is not what has been on display for the last few years. A general rule of thumb is that anybody engaged in identity politics is a horrible human being, and discussion with them is generally
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If you use that argument to explain away property crime differences, maybe. But that doesn't hold for violent crime rate disparities, which is typically where these conversations go off the rails.
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For what it's worth, I agree with you. But if you've ever discussed racial disparities in anything you know that asking for more information that might not fit neatly with the established narrative, is likely to just get you calle
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by yucky 4y ago
Interesting, the above quote seems to apply perfectly to the current administration as well. Maybe it's not conservatism, but neo-liberalism in general.
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It feels like the sweet spot of technical proficiency is younger Gen X + older Millennials who were there early enough before a lot of the underlying nuts and bolts of how things work got hidden away behind a pretty GUI, but also not too ol
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Price equilibrium is a foundational free market concept. It technically can't exist in a non-free market.
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Yes but the "God" in our case, is in fact the Federal Reserve. They are the Creator here.
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One thing to keep in mind is that Paypal and Stripe are Payment Facilitators, not payment processors. You do not have your own merchant account when you use them, you exist as a sub id on their master merchant account. I suspect this is why
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by yucky 4y ago
You're just making an argument that you don't value freedom as much as others, and that's fine. It's just not relevant to the point. The point is that by definition freedom is incompatible with democracy. In democracy,
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I agree that correlation doesn't equal causation, I pointed it out because it's the exact same argument used to decry racial disparities in the criminal justice system. Either the argument is valid, or it isn't. We can't
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> But the question was "is democracy compatible with freedom", and by definition it is not. You keep skipping past this part, which was the question. I have no idea what election deniers have to do with anything. Mayb
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It's not Utopian, of course many things would be more difficult without the constant threat of force. But the question was "is democracy compatible with freedom", and by definition it is not. How much you value democracy (and
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Like New York, which is still too expensive.
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by yucky 4y ago
Of the non-government agency guesses, this one would be the most credible if not for one thing - not even Szabo could sit on $50 Billion in bitcoin and just casually never spend it. The NSA is the most credible culprit as Bitcoin creator. H
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by yucky 4y ago
It sounds like you're struggling with the definition of freedom. It encompasses the NAP. Therefore by definition , harming someone else is incompatible with the concept of freedom.
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The Non-aggression principle answered the questions many years ago, it's worth a study. You may find yourself not being as authoritarian afterwards.
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Conversely, if too many people want to live in the same place, of course it's going to get expensive.
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> working to make it a better place for everyone Whether or not this was the goal, it was clearly not being achieved. Twitter has been getting worse for almost 10 years now. Will it get better now? No idea, but it wasn't g
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> In a democracy you have some. You have made Thiel's point.
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Look up the Non-Aggression Principle.
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Absolutely! I also don't think that I should be able to band together with others to prevent my neighbors freedoms. As long as his actions don't cause me physical harm or deprive me of my property, why would I?
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This same argument is used to dispute the racial disparities in the justice system. Is the explanation right in this case but wrong in that. Right in both? Wrong in both?
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It's understandable to have that initial reaction, but if we remove emotion from it we have to at least acknowledge that Fauci did in fact lie to the public on more than one occasion. Rather than arguing about whether or not these &quo

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