NYC *does* have a large cultural distance from America. New Yorkers legendarily look down on us rubes in the sticks. Foreigners who travel middle America always remark on our politeness, while in NYC rudeness and hostility towards strangers is the norm. NYC is also where much of our shit comes from, as all the criminal banks are based there and their corruption thrives in that environment.
When liberals hate conservatives, it is because they do not understand what conservatives believe, nor do they care to learn. When faced with questions such as "One of the worst things a person could do is hurt a defenseless animal" or "Justice is the most important requirement for a society," liberals assumed that conservatives would disagree.
One of the most telling discoveries was that conservatives tend to be curious about what liberals think and why, while liberals see conservatives as inferior "other," inherently incapable of thought. The slur as substitute for argument is glaring on this website.
One only needs to utter the name "Sarah Palin" to see how interested liberals are in women's rights, or "Clarence Thomas" to see how interested they are in racial equality.
You mean the Leftist who shot up a baseball field full of Republicans, trying to kill a bunch of Congressmen so there would be new elections? PS it wasn't a church.
You know those people got caught red-handed on camera saying they deliberately bused in crazy people to Trump rallies to start shit, so that they claim victimhood? Leftists beat the shit out of people all the time, it just doesn't get reported (for obvious reasons).
In a corporatist system of government, corporate censorship is state censorship. If Paypal had any competitors, they could be used. There aren't any that I've ever heard of. It's not a free market.
You might not have sympathy for Gab as an individual, but I'd still be worried about the legal precedence this sets. You might not presently live at the cliff edge yourself, but the gradual erosion of liberty will certainly ensure that you eventually do.
Who's the #2 payment processor behind Paypal? Who are their hundreds of competitors? I don't know and neither do you. That's not a free market. In a corporatist system of government, corporate censorship is state censorship.
If there was a free market here, you'd have a point. Who is the #2 payment processor behind Paypal? I have no idea, and neither do you. Who is the #2 short message social network behind Twitter? Well, it was Gab. Now who is it? Nobody.
In a free market there would be dozens or hundreds of competitors. Some jerk wants to cut off your supply of eggs or dishwashing detergent or shoes? Fine, get another supplier. That's a free market.
LOL. Radical right? The Democrats were the ones who deregulated Wall Street. This crashed the economy within 10 years, just like conservatives warned it would. That's what Democrats did. Democrats did things that Ronald Reagan could only dream about. The Democrats gutted welfare at the same time they exploded the prison population, called black people 'super predators', at the same time they did NAFTA. George HW Bush couldn't pass NAFTA. It took Bill Clinton to do it. Bill Clinton gave the cover to the other corporate Democrats to go along with it. That was the beginning of the end for the working class in America.
Then the Democrats wag their finger at people with no money and no power, for not voting for a corporatist warmonger like Hillary Clinton. Why do you think the people in Michigan wouldn't vote for Hillary Clinton? Maybe because she put half of them in fuckin' prison? Because she passed NAFTA, and Barack Obama was trying to sell TPP at the top of his lungs, at the same time she was trying to get working people to vote for her? They knew what the fuck was going on! That's why half the country didn't vote. But you're going to wag your finger at the people who actually do vote? Who come out and vote their conscience? You know what voting for the lesser of two evils gets you? Donald Trump!
In a corporatist system of government, corporate censorship is state censorship. When there's no meaningful space between corporate power and government power, it doesn't make much difference whether the guy silencing your dissent is Mark Zuckerberg or Jeff Sessions. America most definitely has such a system.
And when independent candidates run for office and can't get their message out for being shadow banned, and the corporatist candidates are always the number one trending subject, you'll be there to finger wag for not bothering to set up their own world-class content distribution system first.
Any time you try to talk about how internet censorship threatens our ability to get the jackboot of oligarchy off our necks you'll always get some guy in your face who's read one Ayn Rand book and thinks he knows everything, saying things like âoeFacebook is a private company! It can do whatever it wants!â Is it now? Has not Facebook been inviting US government-funded groups to help regulate its operations, vowing on the Senate floor to do more to facilitate the interests of the US government, deleting accounts at the direction of the US and Israeli governments, and handing the guidance of its censorship behavior over to the Atlantic Council, which receives funding from the US government, the EU, NATO and Gulf states? How "private" is that? Facebook is a deeply government-entrenched corporation, and Facebook censorship is just what government censorship looks like in a corporatist system of government.
Liberals? They're not liberals. Liberals believe in freedom of speech. They might disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it. You are talking about Leftists. Leftists have little use for free speech and will happily silence those with whom they disagree. As is happening here.
Hillary Clinton received Top Secret material on her unsecured email server. She should be in jail right along with Reality Winner, for the same reason.
But she proved that there's one set of rules for the little people, and one set for elites. Thus Trump doesn't need to worry. Thanks Hillary!
It is truly amazing to see all these leftists pretending they give a crap about the lives of the working class. They're deplorable racists, remember? Or is this one of those 1984 style "we have always been allied with Eurasia" moments where we collectively forget the positions we passionately held a few minutes ago?
Since when do we care about the lower classes? Those deplorables voted for Trump! Why should they not feel the pain? Why is anyone sticking up for them?
Because without DST it gets light at 430 in the morning and gets dark at 730. This negatively impacts utility bills. Move it forward one hour and you just saved a ton of carbon. Sure, if you don't give a shit about the planet we understand why you'd oppose DST.
It all started after the election, they had to delegitimize Trump somehow. Easy, accuse him of being a dirty foreigner. McCarthyism. It worked shockingly well, people were grabbing at straws to find a reason why he won. The idea that the they had deliberately fucked over the American working class and that this was a reaction to that was too painful to acknowledge. What, admit the deplorables had a point? Entire political systems have fallen rather than admit less.
Wow, that is really ugly bigoted classism. You're what's wrong with America. How's that go, comfort the afflicted? You're not supposed to afflict the afflicted and comfort the comfortable. Speak truth to the powerful, not the powerless. Wait, you're one of Putin's trolls, aren't you? You're here to start fights and divide us. Well it's not going to work, Ivan.
Those who seek to divide us and make us fight with one another are Russian trolls. You are doing exactly that. You're so easy to spot, Ivan.
And if you're not a dirty foreigner? You're a useful idiot, who is helping Putin for free. They pay good rubles for help like yours, you're a sicker to do it without a salary.
We are pledged to stick together no matter what. We have more in common with each other than any foreigners. We do not recognize you as the enemy. If you're a troll, fight us. If you're an American, join us.
Peace and good relations with Russia are in the interest of the American people. So he's a dictator? Don't make me laugh, America's best friends have always been dictators. In many cases we help them to overthrow democracies. Remember our good buddy the Shah? The south Vietnamese? Ferdinand Marcos? The list goes on and on. What do you want, a war? Operation Barbarossa Part 2: We Remember To Bring Winter Coats This Time?
It's useless. They protest the military while taking full advantage of its protection. This isn't new, Rudyard Kipling wrote about these pricks 150 years ago: "making mock of uniforms that guard you while you sleep." The reason is that they see the status quo as immutable and take security for granted. It's not, security is fragile and easily destroyed - exactly what they're agitating for.
The "opposite" gender? Implying there are only two? The parent comment has been reported for transphobia. If this was Facebook we'd have your real name and we could report your ugly bigotry to your employer.
Yaknow, if you use the bed of your truck once a month...you still need a truck. This is one of the weaknesses of data-driven analytics. "Our data shows most people hardly ever use the bed of their truck - morons!" Yeah, but that one time is when you need it.
Moreover whoda thunk it - we humans are motivated by status. What morons! Obeying their instincts instead of suppressing them. That's so bad for their mental health!
So how many rubles does it pay when you write a divisive comment that inspires hate like that, Ivan? Do you get a bonus for getting it modded to +4? Maybe a little extra kasha in the lunchroom? It's almost lunch time in your time zone, isn't it?
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NYC *does* have a large cultural distance from America. New Yorkers legendarily look down on us rubes in the sticks. Foreigners who travel middle America always remark on our politeness, while in NYC rudeness and hostility towards strangers is the norm. NYC is also where much of our shit comes from, as all the criminal banks are based there and their corruption thrives in that environment.
When liberals hate conservatives, it is because they do not understand what conservatives believe, nor do they care to learn. When faced with questions such as "One of the worst things a person could do is hurt a defenseless animal" or "Justice is the most important requirement for a society," liberals assumed that conservatives would disagree.
Jonathan Haidt's experiments ask liberals and conservatives to fill out questionnaires about their values, then to predict how someone from the opposite tribe would fill out the questionnaire. He finds that conservatives are able to predict liberals' answers just fine and seem to have a pretty good understanding of their worldviews, but that liberals have *no idea* how conservatives think or what they value.
One of the most telling discoveries was that conservatives tend to be curious about what liberals think and why, while liberals see conservatives as inferior "other," inherently incapable of thought. The slur as substitute for argument is glaring on this website.
One only needs to utter the name "Sarah Palin" to see how interested liberals are in women's rights, or "Clarence Thomas" to see how interested they are in racial equality.
You mean the Leftist who shot up a baseball field full of Republicans, trying to kill a bunch of Congressmen so there would be new elections? PS it wasn't a church.
You know those people got caught red-handed on camera saying they deliberately bused in crazy people to Trump rallies to start shit, so that they claim victimhood? Leftists beat the shit out of people all the time, it just doesn't get reported (for obvious reasons).
Trump Derangement Syndrome in action, people. It even got modded up. Sad.
In a corporatist system of government, corporate censorship is state censorship. If Paypal had any competitors, they could be used. There aren't any that I've ever heard of. It's not a free market.
You might not have sympathy for Gab as an individual, but I'd still be worried about the legal precedence this sets. You might not presently live at the cliff edge yourself, but the gradual erosion of liberty will certainly ensure that you eventually do.
Who's the #2 payment processor behind Paypal? Who are their hundreds of competitors? I don't know and neither do you. That's not a free market. In a corporatist system of government, corporate censorship is state censorship.
If there was a free market here, you'd have a point. Who is the #2 payment processor behind Paypal? I have no idea, and neither do you. Who is the #2 short message social network behind Twitter? Well, it was Gab. Now who is it? Nobody.
In a free market there would be dozens or hundreds of competitors. Some jerk wants to cut off your supply of eggs or dishwashing detergent or shoes? Fine, get another supplier. That's a free market.
LOL. Radical right? The Democrats were the ones who deregulated Wall Street. This crashed the economy within 10 years, just like conservatives warned it would. That's what Democrats did. Democrats did things that Ronald Reagan could only dream about. The Democrats gutted welfare at the same time they exploded the prison population, called black people 'super predators', at the same time they did NAFTA. George HW Bush couldn't pass NAFTA. It took Bill Clinton to do it. Bill Clinton gave the cover to the other corporate Democrats to go along with it. That was the beginning of the end for the working class in America.
Then the Democrats wag their finger at people with no money and no power, for not voting for a corporatist warmonger like Hillary Clinton. Why do you think the people in Michigan wouldn't vote for Hillary Clinton? Maybe because she put half of them in fuckin' prison? Because she passed NAFTA, and Barack Obama was trying to sell TPP at the top of his lungs, at the same time she was trying to get working people to vote for her? They knew what the fuck was going on! That's why half the country didn't vote. But you're going to wag your finger at the people who actually do vote? Who come out and vote their conscience? You know what voting for the lesser of two evils gets you? Donald Trump!
In a corporatist system of government, corporate censorship is state censorship. When there's no meaningful space between corporate power and government power, it doesn't make much difference whether the guy silencing your dissent is Mark Zuckerberg or Jeff Sessions. America most definitely has such a system.
And when independent candidates run for office and can't get their message out for being shadow banned, and the corporatist candidates are always the number one trending subject, you'll be there to finger wag for not bothering to set up their own world-class content distribution system first.
Any time you try to talk about how internet censorship threatens our ability to get the jackboot of oligarchy off our necks you'll always get some guy in your face who's read one Ayn Rand book and thinks he knows everything, saying things like âoeFacebook is a private company! It can do whatever it wants!â Is it now? Has not Facebook been inviting US government-funded groups to help regulate its operations, vowing on the Senate floor to do more to facilitate the interests of the US government, deleting accounts at the direction of the US and Israeli governments, and handing the guidance of its censorship behavior over to the Atlantic Council, which receives funding from the US government, the EU, NATO and Gulf states? How "private" is that? Facebook is a deeply government-entrenched corporation, and Facebook censorship is just what government censorship looks like in a corporatist system of government.
Liberals? They're not liberals. Liberals believe in freedom of speech. They might disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it. You are talking about Leftists. Leftists have little use for free speech and will happily silence those with whom they disagree. As is happening here.
Hillary Clinton received Top Secret material on her unsecured email server. She should be in jail right along with Reality Winner, for the same reason.
But she proved that there's one set of rules for the little people, and one set for elites. Thus Trump doesn't need to worry. Thanks Hillary!
The fact that you think nobody would want to live in Boise is pure classist bigotry and it's shocking you can say that in public.
It is truly amazing to see all these leftists pretending they give a crap about the lives of the working class. They're deplorable racists, remember? Or is this one of those 1984 style "we have always been allied with Eurasia" moments where we collectively forget the positions we passionately held a few minutes ago?
Since when do we care about the lower classes? Those deplorables voted for Trump! Why should they not feel the pain? Why is anyone sticking up for them?
Because without DST it gets light at 430 in the morning and gets dark at 730. This negatively impacts utility bills. Move it forward one hour and you just saved a ton of carbon. Sure, if you don't give a shit about the planet we understand why you'd oppose DST.
It all started after the election, they had to delegitimize Trump somehow. Easy, accuse him of being a dirty foreigner. McCarthyism. It worked shockingly well, people were grabbing at straws to find a reason why he won. The idea that the they had deliberately fucked over the American working class and that this was a reaction to that was too painful to acknowledge. What, admit the deplorables had a point? Entire political systems have fallen rather than admit less.
Wow, that is really ugly bigoted classism. You're what's wrong with America. How's that go, comfort the afflicted? You're not supposed to afflict the afflicted and comfort the comfortable. Speak truth to the powerful, not the powerless. Wait, you're one of Putin's trolls, aren't you? You're here to start fights and divide us. Well it's not going to work, Ivan.
And if you're not a dirty foreigner? You're a useful idiot, who is helping Putin for free. They pay good rubles for help like yours, you're a sicker to do it without a salary.
We are pledged to stick together no matter what. We have more in common with each other than any foreigners. We do not recognize you as the enemy. If you're a troll, fight us. If you're an American, join us.
Peace and good relations with Russia are in the interest of the American people. So he's a dictator? Don't make me laugh, America's best friends have always been dictators. In many cases we help them to overthrow democracies. Remember our good buddy the Shah? The south Vietnamese? Ferdinand Marcos? The list goes on and on. What do you want, a war? Operation Barbarossa Part 2: We Remember To Bring Winter Coats This Time?
It's useless. They protest the military while taking full advantage of its protection. This isn't new, Rudyard Kipling wrote about these pricks 150 years ago: "making mock of uniforms that guard you while you sleep." The reason is that they see the status quo as immutable and take security for granted. It's not, security is fragile and easily destroyed - exactly what they're agitating for.
What's the Democrat platform? Why vote for Democrats? I don't know, and neither do you. #walkaway
The "opposite" gender? Implying there are only two? The parent comment has been reported for transphobia. If this was Facebook we'd have your real name and we could report your ugly bigotry to your employer.
Yaknow, if you use the bed of your truck once a month...you still need a truck. This is one of the weaknesses of data-driven analytics. "Our data shows most people hardly ever use the bed of their truck - morons!" Yeah, but that one time is when you need it.
Moreover whoda thunk it - we humans are motivated by status. What morons! Obeying their instincts instead of suppressing them. That's so bad for their mental health!
So how many rubles does it pay when you write a divisive comment that inspires hate like that, Ivan? Do you get a bonus for getting it modded to +4? Maybe a little extra kasha in the lunchroom? It's almost lunch time in your time zone, isn't it?
Trump Derangement Syndrome, modded up to +5 on Slashdot. So disgraceful.