"You have an enshrined right to vote. You do not have one to purchase beer or guns."
Actually we do have an enshrined Constitutional right to purchase guns. Unfortunately, in every city I have lived in as an adult, the Second Amendment (among others) has been de facto repealed.
Who knows, it might help a little with crime. After all they say East Germany was pretty safe...
Wait a minute, who are we kidding? These are American cops. We're going to get totalitarian repression AND it will still be unsafe to walk downtown at night.
The major problem is that the police can't be bothered to fight actual crime. This will not be improved by fitting them out with the equipment of totalitarianism.
The cops in most big American cities can't be bothered to stop people committing crime right outside the police station. The ONLY thing panoptic surveillance will be used for is repressing political dissent.
Cybernetic totalitarianism is already here. The Machine is always watching.
Has anyone noticed how ANY article that's unflattering to Big Brother Google immediately attracts trolls/shills who crapflood the comments with anti-semitic copypasta? It's almost like the Goog employs a dirty PR firm to spread the entirely misleading idea that opposition to Big Brother Google's policies is based on ugly racism.
That's just obviously untrue. Measles is NOT some terrifying deadly disease. Never was. It's more like the common cold. A minor annoyance.
Like EVERYONE here over 40, I speak from personal experience. Absolutely everyone I grew up with had measles at some point. It's super annoying but basically harmless. Measles killed zero people among tens of thousands of kids - who all caught it - in my hometown. These big scare stories are flat out lies.
Now does that mean you should skip the measles vaccine? Not necessarily - that's up to you. (Personal choice!). It just means that the Big Pharma shills and forced-vax nazis are LYING when they claim measles is in the same league as polio, and use that wild scare story to justify forcing people to undergo a potentially risky medical procedure against their will.
I'm starting to think this measles-focused nazism is less about medicine or "science", and more about being yet another shibboleth of the kakistocracy. Whole hearted belief in the absurd is a sign of great faith.
This is why I wish people would stop getting hung up on the obsolete, stultifying left/right binary model of politics. Perhaps it was always a false dichotomy, I'm not sure. But it definitely does not describe the reality of today's political alignments.
That's because no one ever feared measles. It's not even remotely kinda sorta close to being in the same league as polio. It's in the same league as the flu.
Vaccine-choice advocates literally, objectively _are_ being oppressed. They have been ejected from public "social media" services on the basis of their political views. They have been excluded from conducting lawful online commerce and lawful online charity fundraising, using services open to the general public, solely on the basis of their political views. Forced-vax nazis acknowledge this with gleeful delight.
In California political views are considered a protected class. It is illegal under state law to discriminate on the basis of political views against a person or group in providing them services, access, or employment. By the grace of God I am not a lawyer - but gee-whiz it sure does look like these these California-domiciled companies are brazenly defying both the letter and the spirit of the law.
Initially when this forced vaccination craze started, I was pretty trusting of vaccines, but nevertheless supported the vaccine-choice advocates' right to free speech. But watching the coordinated, ruthless information suppression campaign being waged by the forced-vax nazis has changed my mind.
If vaccines were really as safe, efficacious, and all around wonderful as the nazis claim - there would be no need to silence minority viewpoints and to unperson dissidents. Sure, maaaaaybe they are just using the iron boot because they are nazis, and that's what nazis like to do. Or maybe they _do_ have something to hide.
Oh c'mon, brohamley - does the bootleather taste _that_ good?
Everybody and his brother knows these leonine "contacts" are undisguisedly one-sided; always "accepted" without a shed of informed consent, much less meeting of the minds; never even read; imposed as mandatory on simple commerce, utterly out of proportion with the elaborate convolutions of the leonine "contract"; and a general travesty of the Law.
"You have no rights. You lose. All your data are belong to us. This is a no free speech zone. Everything you have ever said can and will be used against you. You are presumed guilty, but at our whim you may (or may not) be given a chance to prove your innocence, if you have enough money. Bend over. Fuck you, pleb, that's why.
I agree, the better solution is for Uncle Sam to smash Google's monopoly. Separate Android from the Play Store from everything else Google does. Then let the free market sort it out.
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Boy, things sure are great for us ununionized Silicon Valley workers!
* Pay that hasn't risen in more than a decade, while cost of living more than doubled. Check!
* Long hours with no overtime. Check!
* No time off. Check!
* No job security. Check!
* No career development path. Check!
* No autonomy. Check!
* Always managed by nepotists with no technical background. Check!
* Preposterously one-sided "contacts", required by every employer. Check!
* Replaced by lawfully-imported H1B scabs at every opportunity. Check!
* Required to work on unethical software (snooping, "ads", lawful fraud, etc) or be immediately shitcanned. Check!
Boy oh boy, it sure is great to be a worker with no rights, no voice, and no union.
"You have an enshrined right to vote. You do not have one to purchase beer or guns."
Actually we do have an enshrined Constitutional right to purchase guns. Unfortunately, in every city I have lived in as an adult, the Second Amendment (among others) has been de facto repealed.
Who knows, it might help a little with crime. After all they say East Germany was pretty safe...
Wait a minute, who are we kidding? These are American cops. We're going to get totalitarian repression AND it will still be unsafe to walk downtown at night.
The major problem is that the police can't be bothered to fight actual crime. This will not be improved by fitting them out with the equipment of totalitarianism.
The cops in most big American cities can't be bothered to stop people committing crime right outside the police station. The ONLY thing panoptic surveillance will be used for is repressing political dissent.
Cybernetic totalitarianism is already here. The Machine is always watching.
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Has anyone noticed how ANY article that's unflattering to Big Brother Google immediately attracts trolls/shills who crapflood the comments with anti-semitic copypasta? It's almost like the Goog employs a dirty PR firm to spread the entirely misleading idea that opposition to Big Brother Google's policies is based on ugly racism.
Why not instead apply the Silicon Valley Razor?
"Never attribute to incompetence that which can be sufficiently explained by malice."
Yes, I know Huawei is not based in Silly Valley. Nevertheless I suspect the Razor is valid in their case too.
That's just obviously untrue. Measles is NOT some terrifying deadly disease. Never was. It's more like the common cold. A minor annoyance.
Like EVERYONE here over 40, I speak from personal experience. Absolutely everyone I grew up with had measles at some point. It's super annoying but basically harmless. Measles killed zero people among tens of thousands of kids - who all caught it - in my hometown. These big scare stories are flat out lies.
Now does that mean you should skip the measles vaccine? Not necessarily - that's up to you. (Personal choice!). It just means that the Big Pharma shills and forced-vax nazis are LYING when they claim measles is in the same league as polio, and use that wild scare story to justify forcing people to undergo a potentially risky medical procedure against their will.
I'm starting to think this measles-focused nazism is less about medicine or "science", and more about being yet another shibboleth of the kakistocracy. Whole hearted belief in the absurd is a sign of great faith.
Spoken like a man of strong faith!
Forgot to login. That's my reply above.
Absolutely, my brother.
This is why I wish people would stop getting hung up on the obsolete, stultifying left/right binary model of politics. Perhaps it was always a false dichotomy, I'm not sure. But it definitely does not describe the reality of today's political alignments.
Forced-vax nazis sure do love smugly censoring political speech that disagrees with their scientistic faith.
That's because no one ever feared measles. It's not even remotely kinda sorta close to being in the same league as polio. It's in the same league as the flu.
Vaccine-choice advocates literally, objectively _are_ being oppressed. They have been ejected from public "social media" services on the basis of their political views. They have been excluded from conducting lawful online commerce and lawful online charity fundraising, using services open to the general public, solely on the basis of their political views. Forced-vax nazis acknowledge this with gleeful delight.
In California political views are considered a protected class. It is illegal under state law to discriminate on the basis of political views against a person or group in providing them services, access, or employment. By the grace of God I am not a lawyer - but gee-whiz it sure does look like these these California-domiciled companies are brazenly defying both the letter and the spirit of the law.
Initially when this forced vaccination craze started, I was pretty trusting of vaccines, but nevertheless supported the vaccine-choice advocates' right to free speech. But watching the coordinated, ruthless information suppression campaign being waged by the forced-vax nazis has changed my mind.
If vaccines were really as safe, efficacious, and all around wonderful as the nazis claim - there would be no need to silence minority viewpoints and to unperson dissidents. Sure, maaaaaybe they are just using the iron boot because they are nazis, and that's what nazis like to do. Or maybe they _do_ have something to hide.
Oh c'mon, brohamley - does the bootleather taste _that_ good?
Everybody and his brother knows these leonine "contacts" are undisguisedly one-sided; always "accepted" without a shed of informed consent, much less meeting of the minds; never even read; imposed as mandatory on simple commerce, utterly out of proportion with the elaborate convolutions of the leonine "contract"; and a general travesty of the Law.
Papers please, comrade.
"You have no rights. You lose. All your data are belong to us. This is a no free speech zone. Everything you have ever said can and will be used against you. You are presumed guilty, but at our whim you may (or may not) be given a chance to prove your innocence, if you have enough money. Bend over. Fuck you, pleb, that's why.
Thank you for your compliance."
I agree, the better solution is for Uncle Sam to smash Google's monopoly. Separate Android from the Play Store from everything else Google does. Then let the free market sort it out.
No no no... I believe we are all now expected to say in unison:
"Yay censorship! Down with freedom! Oligarchy forever! The cheers for censorship - hup, hup, hurrah!"
How naive are you? OF COURSE our intelligence agencies control WhatsApp. It's part of friggin' FACEBOOT for crying out loud!
In Soviet America all people are equal before the Law. But some classes of people are more equal than others.
1500 signatures per minute, in favor of a profoundly anti-popular measure? No sir, that's _definitely_ not the work of a bot army. No siree!
I miss Aardvark. It was magnificently useful.
Tho I kinda suspect - based on Aardvark's former userbase - that Google didn't so much shut it down, but rather sold it to Uncle Sam for private use.