regulate it? If folks don't like the way Facebook does business they can stop doing business with Facebook. Install no-script, delete your FB account (or don't make one in the first place). Problem solved.
fun junk, but junk. How much is college tuition? How about transportation? Or Housing in a safe neighborhood with good schools and jobs? And if you're an American don't get me started on health care.
Chinese slave labor has made electronics cheap. I just read a story where a US boat went down in a storm and it causally mentioned that the Chinese lose a boat every other day (along with it's crew). Then there's Cancer Villages. And smog so bad you can't go jogging. That's why your TVs are.09% of your income. For the stuff that matters (and that they couldn't outsource to countries with slave labor) you're paying through the nose. As a result your wages have not kept pace with inflation.
First is the implicit notion that people have to be contributing to society to feel fulfilled. Bullshit. The upper class is full of layabouts, so much so we've got a term for it (the Idle Rich) and I don't see them offing themselves. People will watch TV, sports, drink and hang out with friends and be perfectly happy. Hell, our ancestors had _more_ free time than we did since they spent a lot of it just waiting for crops to grow.
Then there's the subtext that people who can't contribute don't have worth as a human being (e.g. you're comment about "If you don't have a job, you don't have a place in society"...). Here's the thing: from a philosophical, moral and civilization standpoint you've got two options: Either human beings have intrinsic worth or they don't. And if they don't then _none_ of use have any worth beyond what we can claim for ourselves. As Alistair Crowley put it: Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.
If that's your bag fine man. But don't be surprised when somebody bashes your skull in and feasts on the goo inside (or more likely, forces you to work for slave wages 90/hr/week in a factory breathing poisoned fumes). And if that's _not_ your bag, then you need to realize that the line of reasoning your following leads there and turn away from it ASAP.
you just don't let anyone near to take pictures. If they force their way in you charge them with trespassing on a military base. And of course you can just revoke their press credentials and stop sharing press releases with them, dooming them. The latter is the most common technique.
My point wasn't that Russia couldn't send their amy men off to death without political repercussions, my Point was that America is using mercenaries to do an end run around those sensitivities.
These two factors result in the same end goal: Americans are dying in wars fought overseas and nobody cares. Hell, we've done a better job of it than the Russians. In Russia everybody's made because they know they're being lied to. Here we've got plausible deniability because it's not in our face all the time and the ones that are dying are those filthy mercenaries. We got our cake and ate it too.
which is why nobody cared. We have a mercenary army too now. It's run by Betsy DeVos' husband. And neither of us know how many have been killed off the books.
But even if we ignore that our government learned from 'Nam. How much coverage of dead Americans overseas have you seen? A: Almost none. They used to take pictures and run video whenever their coffin's came off the plane. That's not allowed anymore.
Based on this finding, Youn says small cities could see an exodus of workers, as well as exacerbated income inequality, since robots are likely to hollow out the middle class there.
Something is seriously wrong with our civilization when robots taking over dull, repetitive tasks leads to an overall worse quality of life.
white-on-black killings spiked by 22.5 percent between 2014 and 2015 after years of mostly trending downward. Killings of whites by African Americans increased by 12.2 percent
White people killing blacks is increasing at a higher rate than the other way around. But that said _both_ are increasing. The point the article is hinting at is that the toxic atmosphere created by the right wing (especially Trump and the alt right) are increasing racially motivated violence. The article also points out that a record number of young black men were killed by police officers.
The Article supports the "world view" that blacks are getting the short end of the stick. Also that we (the working class) are being made to fight among ourselves while the rich and powerful take everything for themselves.
And yes, totalitarianism is a problem. But it comes in many forms. here's one of them now.
You _are_ being oppressed. But it's not by Trotskey & Lenin's ghost or the fat chick who runs your Community College's women's study's program and gets all SJW up in your grill. Billionaires and multi-millionaires like the Koch Bros, Bloomberg and yes the Clintons & the Trumps are the ones oppressing you (and me). I wish folks like you could wake up to that fact so we could stop fighting among ourselves and fix these damn problems once and for all.
Here's the first one. There's no evidence it was a hate crime. Even the right wing bloggers were just complaining the media didn't cover it enough because it was black on white crime.
The second one wasn't a hate crime because it was blacks and a white. It was because it was a bunch of assholes attacking an Autistic man. Again, not Blacks attacking "Whitey". Still a hate crime, but their skin color was irrelevant.
I don't know enough about South Africa to say if you're right or wrong there. The entire place is a hell hole though, and whites are in a minority. And if it's one thing I know about minorities it's that they often get screwed. So you might be right.
I'll counter your final anecdote with my own. My bro married a black woman, and one day when they were dating he ran a red light late at night. She was utterly terrified and he couldn't understand why. The reason was she was terrified of the police, as any interaction with them can and often did turn violent. I've been pulled over more than once myself for driving with black and my best friend, a black truck driver, had trouble getting routes because his dispatcher didn't like sending him down south. And let's not forget legislating while black. Or Mississippi's 2010 anti gang law To be fair those last two aren't anecdotes since they've got sources...
Being black in America is a very, very different life.
it's Facebook, a private company. And I suspect the filters of one of the largest and most sophisticated data mining apparatuses out there would be a damn sight better than what you've previously experienced.
If you want a good idea of why hate speech is a bad thing go read Bruce Sterling's Distraction. Or just consider that old quote about a meddlesome priest. The right words delivered to the right nut job can do scary things. I don't blame Facebook for not wanting to be a party to that.
Seriously? Because while I know plenty of cases of straight white men committing hate crimes (good buddy of mine had his gay brother beaten near death) I don't recall the last time I read about a black guy killing a white man because he was white. And I can't imagine Fox News would let me live life without knowing. I suppose if you include Muslims in that, but that's more terrorism than a hate crime. Different motive (racism vs political aims).
And do you actually know any actual Communists? For what I wish was the last time, Stalin and Mao were dictators who borrowed Marx's rhetoric to lend their regimes legitimacy. They were no more Communists than Hitler was a Democratic Socialist. If I call myself the Grand Emperor of the World will you bow down before me just because I said so? Or would you maybe question whether I might be misrepresenting myself?
Jesus, I know we're not supposed to complain about the Mods, but the crap that gets modded up here these days is down right scary...
progressive or otherwise. If their user #s are to be believed just about everybody in the country with internet access has an account. If it's a bubble we're all in it.
Nor is there any evidence that Facebook or anyone else is cracking down on any of the things you've sighted. Most of the beliefs you're post outlined and/or represent belong to the right wing, and last I check the right wing party is in control of all branches of the government. It's kind of silly to play the victim card when your side literally won everything.
It's also kind of funny to see someone so opposed to identity politics playing the "Stright White Male" card. There's a joke about IMAX projectors in there somewhere I'm not clever enough to make.
if the government isn't the one cracking down. As always, you have a right to say whatever you want. You don't have a right to make somebody pay for the megaphone.
That said, if you want free Megaphones how about making the Internet a free public utility?
In the States we've got a lot of homeless shelters who won't take folks with substance abuse problems. So the social workers get blown off. Maybe if we had more help to kick addiction, but we've mostly got "Faith Based" 12 step programs here. We also have a nasty habit of cutting folks off from assistance the moment they've got $200 USD in their bank accounts. So as soon as you're on your feet you're on your own, no matter how woozy you are.
and when I tell people I'd want to give free housing to the homeless they look at me like I've got lobsters crawling out of my ears. Thing is, unless you're gonna let the poor die in the streets (and do terrible things when they show up at your neighborhood to loot because they're dying) or you're gonna ship them off to gulags then giving the homeless housing is cheaper than the current patchwork nightmare of social services and short term prison.
it's not free speech when it's a crime. That's called 'aiding and abetting'.
That said, Trump was elected partly by the evangelicals. This is him doing the bidding of those folks. So you're right, we shouldn't be surprised. Though I am a bit surprised how much power evangelicals wield in 2018, especially given how small a percentage of the population they are...
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Worked for Reagan , why not Zuck? And as I mentioned elsewhere, 45 of the 55 people "grilling" him get large donations from his company...
regulate it? If folks don't like the way Facebook does business they can stop doing business with Facebook. Install no-script, delete your FB account (or don't make one in the first place). Problem solved.
from Facebook. What's not to understand?
fun junk, but junk. How much is college tuition? How about transportation? Or Housing in a safe neighborhood with good schools and jobs? And if you're an American don't get me started on health care.
.09% of your income. For the stuff that matters (and that they couldn't outsource to countries with slave labor) you're paying through the nose. As a result your wages have not kept pace with inflation.
Chinese slave labor has made electronics cheap. I just read a story where a US boat went down in a storm and it causally mentioned that the Chinese lose a boat every other day (along with it's crew). Then there's Cancer Villages. And smog so bad you can't go jogging. That's why your TVs are
it all.
First is the implicit notion that people have to be contributing to society to feel fulfilled. Bullshit. The upper class is full of layabouts, so much so we've got a term for it (the Idle Rich) and I don't see them offing themselves. People will watch TV, sports, drink and hang out with friends and be perfectly happy. Hell, our ancestors had _more_ free time than we did since they spent a lot of it just waiting for crops to grow.
Then there's the subtext that people who can't contribute don't have worth as a human being (e.g. you're comment about "If you don't have a job, you don't have a place in society"...). Here's the thing: from a philosophical, moral and civilization standpoint you've got two options: Either human beings have intrinsic worth or they don't. And if they don't then _none_ of use have any worth beyond what we can claim for ourselves. As Alistair Crowley put it: Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.
If that's your bag fine man. But don't be surprised when somebody bashes your skull in and feasts on the goo inside (or more likely, forces you to work for slave wages 90/hr/week in a factory breathing poisoned fumes). And if that's _not_ your bag, then you need to realize that the line of reasoning your following leads there and turn away from it ASAP.
are prone to addiction. Congratulations, you've figured out something psychologists have known for ages.
you just don't let anyone near to take pictures. If they force their way in you charge them with trespassing on a military base. And of course you can just revoke their press credentials and stop sharing press releases with them, dooming them. The latter is the most common technique.
My point wasn't that Russia couldn't send their amy men off to death without political repercussions, my Point was that America is using mercenaries to do an end run around those sensitivities.
These two factors result in the same end goal: Americans are dying in wars fought overseas and nobody cares. Hell, we've done a better job of it than the Russians. In Russia everybody's made because they know they're being lied to. Here we've got plausible deniability because it's not in our face all the time and the ones that are dying are those filthy mercenaries. We got our cake and ate it too.
which is why nobody cared. We have a mercenary army too now. It's run by Betsy DeVos' husband. And neither of us know how many have been killed off the books.
But even if we ignore that our government learned from 'Nam. How much coverage of dead Americans overseas have you seen? A: Almost none. They used to take pictures and run video whenever their coffin's came off the plane. That's not allowed anymore.
Something is seriously wrong with our civilization when robots taking over dull, repetitive tasks leads to an overall worse quality of life.
In the wake of this?
to prevent the patches from loading so they wouldn't take the performance hit.
White people killing blacks is increasing at a higher rate than the other way around. But that said _both_ are increasing. The point the article is hinting at is that the toxic atmosphere created by the right wing (especially Trump and the alt right) are increasing racially motivated violence. The article also points out that a record number of young black men were killed by police officers.
The Article supports the "world view" that blacks are getting the short end of the stick. Also that we (the working class) are being made to fight among ourselves while the rich and powerful take everything for themselves.
And yes, totalitarianism is a problem. But it comes in many forms. here's one of them now.
You _are_ being oppressed. But it's not by Trotskey & Lenin's ghost or the fat chick who runs your Community College's women's study's program and gets all SJW up in your grill. Billionaires and multi-millionaires like the Koch Bros, Bloomberg and yes the Clintons & the Trumps are the ones oppressing you (and me). I wish folks like you could wake up to that fact so we could stop fighting among ourselves and fix these damn problems once and for all.
Here's the first one. There's no evidence it was a hate crime. Even the right wing bloggers were just complaining the media didn't cover it enough because it was black on white crime.
The second one wasn't a hate crime because it was blacks and a white. It was because it was a bunch of assholes attacking an Autistic man. Again, not Blacks attacking "Whitey". Still a hate crime, but their skin color was irrelevant.
I don't know enough about South Africa to say if you're right or wrong there. The entire place is a hell hole though, and whites are in a minority. And if it's one thing I know about minorities it's that they often get screwed. So you might be right.
I'll counter your final anecdote with my own. My bro married a black woman, and one day when they were dating he ran a red light late at night. She was utterly terrified and he couldn't understand why. The reason was she was terrified of the police, as any interaction with them can and often did turn violent. I've been pulled over more than once myself for driving with black and my best friend, a black truck driver, had trouble getting routes because his dispatcher didn't like sending him down south. And let's not forget legislating while black. Or Mississippi's 2010 anti gang law To be fair those last two aren't anecdotes since they've got sources...
Being black in America is a very, very different life.
what what Facebook, a private company, does with it's website?
Also, don't feed the Trolls, and that goes for the left wing ones same as right wing ones.
it's Facebook, a private company. And I suspect the filters of one of the largest and most sophisticated data mining apparatuses out there would be a damn sight better than what you've previously experienced.
If you want a good idea of why hate speech is a bad thing go read Bruce Sterling's Distraction. Or just consider that old quote about a meddlesome priest. The right words delivered to the right nut job can do scary things. I don't blame Facebook for not wanting to be a party to that.
Seriously? Because while I know plenty of cases of straight white men committing hate crimes (good buddy of mine had his gay brother beaten near death) I don't recall the last time I read about a black guy killing a white man because he was white. And I can't imagine Fox News would let me live life without knowing. I suppose if you include Muslims in that, but that's more terrorism than a hate crime. Different motive (racism vs political aims).
And do you actually know any actual Communists? For what I wish was the last time, Stalin and Mao were dictators who borrowed Marx's rhetoric to lend their regimes legitimacy. They were no more Communists than Hitler was a Democratic Socialist. If I call myself the Grand Emperor of the World will you bow down before me just because I said so? Or would you maybe question whether I might be misrepresenting myself?
Jesus, I know we're not supposed to complain about the Mods, but the crap that gets modded up here these days is down right scary...
progressive or otherwise. If their user #s are to be believed just about everybody in the country with internet access has an account. If it's a bubble we're all in it.
Nor is there any evidence that Facebook or anyone else is cracking down on any of the things you've sighted. Most of the beliefs you're post outlined and/or represent belong to the right wing, and last I check the right wing party is in control of all branches of the government. It's kind of silly to play the victim card when your side literally won everything.
It's also kind of funny to see someone so opposed to identity politics playing the "Stright White Male" card. There's a joke about IMAX projectors in there somewhere I'm not clever enough to make.
if the government isn't the one cracking down. As always, you have a right to say whatever you want. You don't have a right to make somebody pay for the megaphone.
That said, if you want free Megaphones how about making the Internet a free public utility?
she's a member of the ruling class.
let me laugh even harder.
any fool can see they're crayfish.
In the States we've got a lot of homeless shelters who won't take folks with substance abuse problems. So the social workers get blown off. Maybe if we had more help to kick addiction, but we've mostly got "Faith Based" 12 step programs here. We also have a nasty habit of cutting folks off from assistance the moment they've got $200 USD in their bank accounts. So as soon as you're on your feet you're on your own, no matter how woozy you are.
and when I tell people I'd want to give free housing to the homeless they look at me like I've got lobsters crawling out of my ears. Thing is, unless you're gonna let the poor die in the streets (and do terrible things when they show up at your neighborhood to loot because they're dying) or you're gonna ship them off to gulags then giving the homeless housing is cheaper than the current patchwork nightmare of social services and short term prison.
if you don't want all these laws over ridden by federal law. You need to vote the bums out (on both sides, I'm lookin' at you, Nancy Pelosi).
it's not free speech when it's a crime. That's called 'aiding and abetting'.
That said, Trump was elected partly by the evangelicals. This is him doing the bidding of those folks. So you're right, we shouldn't be surprised. Though I am a bit surprised how much power evangelicals wield in 2018, especially given how small a percentage of the population they are...