The FBI director isn't elected. In fact, he and the entire FBI and the rest of the intelligence community do not answer to the elected government. They have their own goals, and they simply do not feel safe from us. They feel we mean to harm them (although we can not say why); and to prevent this they must monitor our communications. Thus the Fourth and Fifth amendments have to go.
If only those Republicans could have built nuclear plants, then we could have retired coal long ago. But no, we can't have nice things because of Luddite Democrats.
The US Navy guarantees free trade for the entire rest of the world, and it's free as in beer. We also guarantee the security of Europe, so that they don't need to spend on defense, which frees up a ton of money for their vaunted social programs. Then, as a casual F you to the American people, Europe profits from unfair trade policies to the tune of $150 billion a year. If you really want a "who's more virtuous"-off (but of course you do) then France can't hold a candle to the titanic achievements with which the United States has benefited the world.
Seriously? Argumentum ad hitlerum? You're really going with that logical fallacy instead of an argument?
Things are better today than they've ever been in this history of the human race. The people who have benefited most are the desperately poor. This is a fact; see Stephen Pinker.
It's really glaring when people write these things and totally fail to acknowledge the stunning success story that is the profit motive. The world is better today then ever in history and it's all due to the profit motive. I do however see a clear desire to control, an authoritarian impulse that wants to deny. They tried the economy your way and it was a gargantuan failure.
UC Berkeley was where the free speech era ended, in the Berkeley Anti-Speech Riots of 2017. The whole world saw it happen. So did the grandparent poster. So did you.
Berkeley's stand on free speech today?
"If your perceived definition of violence is limited to the confines of physical contact, that's probably because you've never had to experience the psychological trauma that comes along with being a Black person in America," declares Shelby Mayes, who serves as Membership Development Director for the BSU, in an op-ed for The Daily Californian. "I didn't need to be physically harmed to feel violated by my school [on September 14]."
Corporations don't have power over what you can say or hear.
If your video isn't on Youtube, does it really exist? Our public square today is dominated by corporations. It's foolish to say otherwise. We have moved on from the era of soap boxes on the street. Imagine in the old days if Ma Bell had the ability to listen in to every phone call and was ordered by management to disconnect calls that opposed the war in Vietnam.
In a copororatist system, it does not matter who is censoring you. Corporations can buy whatever laws they want. America certainly has such a system. The real question is why are you on Slashdot defending the right of billionaires to suppress us from speaking, even if we're wrong? You work for a social media management company, don't you?
Having corporations control what we can say and hear is more dangerous, yes. All sorts of vile things can be done in the name of science. Once, intelligence was thought to be heritable, for instance. This was proven false and turned out largely to be due to economic factors and childhood nutrition. We mustn't allow science to be abused in this way.
Wow, what an amazing conspiracy theory you have there. How'd you get modded up? I used to listen to police scanners all the time and they're boring as hell. A lot of mundane business. When they switched to trunked systems it wasn't a conspiracy to keep TEH CRIMEZ from the honest (giggle) journalists, it was to make better use of scarce frequencies. Just a quick question, do you listen to Alex Jones? And have you been checked for schizophrenia lately? The disease often manifests itself with paranoia and conspiracy theories.
The new McCarthyism is calling people Russian troll farms. The person you replied to is Bruce Perens, the man who co-founded the Open Source Initiative with Eric S. Raymond. But it sure feels good to call people dirty foreigners, doesn't it? Relieves you of any responsibility to engage with their ideas. After all, who debates with Russian bots? Better to stick your head in the sand and fail to argue.
No kidding. It's not even the US government that's doing the censorship. It's corporations like Google, Facebook, Twitter who freely remove any information that's derogatory towards our ruling class. The internet, once the saviour of free speech, has been condemned by Google as problematic. We have but a year or two left.
The EU is made up from the wisest people in Europe, who went to the best schools. They are well able to decide what's true and false. Britain will not be better off after Brexit, that's fake news which must be deplatformed. So many lies out there doing harm.
It is a very bad idea to hire criminals to work for you. It's not some horrible US culture. If it's such a wrong, why don't YOU hire some criminals to work for you? Oh, you won't be doing that? But the rest of us have to expose ourselves to unnecessary risk just so you can feel better about yourself. Gotcha.
Clean up your own house before you criticize others. Stop bombing and invading other countries, is that so hard? You're gearing up to overthrow Venezuela while we speak. What the hell is wrong with you people? You go on about how China is so bad, and yet the worst are yourselves.
Funny you should mention Tibet, though. Did you know it was a religious dictatorship with real-live serfs? You hate religion, right? So why suddenly on the side of religious nutbags? They were overthrown and replaced with a government that put the people first. All the serfs were freed, children were educated in a common core curriculum where they were taught to view religion skeptically, and the government was officially atheist.
The white man came up with the idea there is "objective truth" and used it to oppress peoples of color. The Enlightenment's ontology, rooted in the new science of the 17th century, created a vision of human beings in nature which provided weapons to a new race-based ideology which would have been impossible without the Enlightenment.
The entire idea behind today's Left-wing thought is that there is no objective truth, only differing points of view, all equally valid. For example, there is no valid genetic basis for human intelligence, there are merely different kinds of intelligence. Native Americans do poorly at intelligence tests designed for whites, but excel at tests designed to measure storytelling intelligence.
White supremacy as enabled by the Enlightenment is most commonly conceptualized as a way for lower-class whites to feel socially superior to people from other ethnic backgrounds. More important, though, white supremacy is a tried-and-tested means for upper class whites to grow their wealth and power. This thought is all over the place on the Left and I am astonished that you are not familiar with it.
Let's play a game. I will name one country where the US forced a "regime change" and you will name one country where China forced a regime change. Let's see who we should trust the least.
I'll start: Iraq. Half a million human beings died. Your turn.
Without the subsidies, the businesses just clump together and nobody benefits but the already-rich. Other businesses don't relocate to town. You analogy is false. I love how you sentence small towns to death and then offer nothing but "learn to code" to the victims. Funny, when we did that to members of your tribe who got laid off, it was hate speech. Awfully flexible, that definition.
You judge people by their actions, not by their words. You behave like a fascist, you ARE a fascist, no matter what identity you tell the world you have. Shutting down free speech is fascist, end of story.
Funny, when we tell laid off journalists that they need to retrain for other industries, it's hate speech. But when we tell laid off coal miners to fuck off, move to New York City and found the next generation of nimble tech startups, it's completely acceptable to talk down to deplorables that way. Classist bigotry: it's fun to shit on the little people if you're a Democrat. Speak truth to the powerless!
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The FBI director isn't elected. In fact, he and the entire FBI and the rest of the intelligence community do not answer to the elected government. They have their own goals, and they simply do not feel safe from us. They feel we mean to harm them (although we can not say why); and to prevent this they must monitor our communications. Thus the Fourth and Fifth amendments have to go.
The 2nd Amendment isn't too popular either on the Left. And the 1st as well.
If only those Republicans could have built nuclear plants, then we could have retired coal long ago. But no, we can't have nice things because of Luddite Democrats.
The US Navy guarantees free trade for the entire rest of the world, and it's free as in beer. We also guarantee the security of Europe, so that they don't need to spend on defense, which frees up a ton of money for their vaunted social programs. Then, as a casual F you to the American people, Europe profits from unfair trade policies to the tune of $150 billion a year. If you really want a "who's more virtuous"-off (but of course you do) then France can't hold a candle to the titanic achievements with which the United States has benefited the world.
Seriously? Argumentum ad hitlerum? You're really going with that logical fallacy instead of an argument?
Things are better today than they've ever been in this history of the human race. The people who have benefited most are the desperately poor. This is a fact; see Stephen Pinker.
It's really glaring when people write these things and totally fail to acknowledge the stunning success story that is the profit motive. The world is better today then ever in history and it's all due to the profit motive. I do however see a clear desire to control, an authoritarian impulse that wants to deny. They tried the economy your way and it was a gargantuan failure.
UC Berkeley was where the free speech era ended, in the Berkeley Anti-Speech Riots of 2017. The whole world saw it happen. So did the grandparent poster. So did you.
Berkeley's stand on free speech today?
Source: The Daily Cal, "Campus stance on free speech facilitates trauma against Black students"
Corporations don't have power over what you can say or hear.
If your video isn't on Youtube, does it really exist? Our public square today is dominated by corporations. It's foolish to say otherwise. We have moved on from the era of soap boxes on the street. Imagine in the old days if Ma Bell had the ability to listen in to every phone call and was ordered by management to disconnect calls that opposed the war in Vietnam.
In a copororatist system, it does not matter who is censoring you. Corporations can buy whatever laws they want. America certainly has such a system. The real question is why are you on Slashdot defending the right of billionaires to suppress us from speaking, even if we're wrong? You work for a social media management company, don't you?
Having corporations control what we can say and hear is more dangerous, yes. All sorts of vile things can be done in the name of science. Once, intelligence was thought to be heritable, for instance. This was proven false and turned out largely to be due to economic factors and childhood nutrition. We mustn't allow science to be abused in this way.
There are a lot of racists who are delighted to finally have a socially acceptable outlet for their vile hatred. Sinophobia is back in a big way.
Wow, what an amazing conspiracy theory you have there. How'd you get modded up? I used to listen to police scanners all the time and they're boring as hell. A lot of mundane business. When they switched to trunked systems it wasn't a conspiracy to keep TEH CRIMEZ from the honest (giggle) journalists, it was to make better use of scarce frequencies. Just a quick question, do you listen to Alex Jones? And have you been checked for schizophrenia lately? The disease often manifests itself with paranoia and conspiracy theories.
The new McCarthyism is calling people Russian troll farms. The person you replied to is Bruce Perens, the man who co-founded the Open Source Initiative with Eric S. Raymond. But it sure feels good to call people dirty foreigners, doesn't it? Relieves you of any responsibility to engage with their ideas. After all, who debates with Russian bots? Better to stick your head in the sand and fail to argue.
No kidding. It's not even the US government that's doing the censorship. It's corporations like Google, Facebook, Twitter who freely remove any information that's derogatory towards our ruling class. The internet, once the saviour of free speech, has been condemned by Google as problematic. We have but a year or two left.
So you're saying you won't be hiring them. Yup. Everyone else needs to comply. How typical.
The EU is made up from the wisest people in Europe, who went to the best schools. They are well able to decide what's true and false. Britain will not be better off after Brexit, that's fake news which must be deplatformed. So many lies out there doing harm.
It is a very bad idea to hire criminals to work for you. It's not some horrible US culture. If it's such a wrong, why don't YOU hire some criminals to work for you? Oh, you won't be doing that? But the rest of us have to expose ourselves to unnecessary risk just so you can feel better about yourself. Gotcha.
Clean up your own house before you criticize others. Stop bombing and invading other countries, is that so hard? You're gearing up to overthrow Venezuela while we speak. What the hell is wrong with you people? You go on about how China is so bad, and yet the worst are yourselves.
Oh, I'm sorry, I meant from this century.
Funny you should mention Tibet, though. Did you know it was a religious dictatorship with real-live serfs? You hate religion, right? So why suddenly on the side of religious nutbags? They were overthrown and replaced with a government that put the people first. All the serfs were freed, children were educated in a common core curriculum where they were taught to view religion skeptically, and the government was officially atheist.
The white man came up with the idea there is "objective truth" and used it to oppress peoples of color. The Enlightenment's ontology, rooted in the new science of the 17th century, created a vision of human beings in nature which provided weapons to a new race-based ideology which would have been impossible without the Enlightenment.
The entire idea behind today's Left-wing thought is that there is no objective truth, only differing points of view, all equally valid. For example, there is no valid genetic basis for human intelligence, there are merely different kinds of intelligence. Native Americans do poorly at intelligence tests designed for whites, but excel at tests designed to measure storytelling intelligence.
White supremacy as enabled by the Enlightenment is most commonly conceptualized as a way for lower-class whites to feel socially superior to people from other ethnic backgrounds. More important, though, white supremacy is a tried-and-tested means for upper class whites to grow their wealth and power. This thought is all over the place on the Left and I am astonished that you are not familiar with it.
Let's play a game. I will name one country where the US forced a "regime change" and you will name one country where China forced a regime change. Let's see who we should trust the least.
I'll start: Iraq. Half a million human beings died. Your turn.
That's a deliberate misreading and shameful misrepresentation, you're better than that.
Without the subsidies, the businesses just clump together and nobody benefits but the already-rich. Other businesses don't relocate to town. You analogy is false. I love how you sentence small towns to death and then offer nothing but "learn to code" to the victims. Funny, when we did that to members of your tribe who got laid off, it was hate speech. Awfully flexible, that definition.
You judge people by their actions, not by their words. You behave like a fascist, you ARE a fascist, no matter what identity you tell the world you have. Shutting down free speech is fascist, end of story.
Funny, when we tell laid off journalists that they need to retrain for other industries, it's hate speech. But when we tell laid off coal miners to fuck off, move to New York City and found the next generation of nimble tech startups, it's completely acceptable to talk down to deplorables that way. Classist bigotry: it's fun to shit on the little people if you're a Democrat. Speak truth to the powerless!