FiniteField

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by FiniteField 1mo ago
A very worthy premise for an article. Shame the content of it is claiming CDs sound "tinny" because of sample rates, and extolling homeopathy. Also, after praising the revival of vinyl records based on apparently higher audio fide
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by FiniteField 3mo ago
This is a fascinating case study into how paranoid and reactionary the modern left has become as a movement. It's always had a very conspicuous element of accusation and incrimination, but the sense of forward-thinking ascendancy has d
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by FiniteField 7mo ago
There isn't exactly a "curve" to be behind, just as there isn't one single "history" that you can end up "on the wrong side of". Politics is just the constantly shifting borders in a formalised war fo
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by FiniteField 7mo ago
>Federal troops assassinating kneeling protesters didn’t used to be “one side” This is factually not true. Levels of violence by the state against citizens in the United States is at near historic lows. The state killed dozens of childre
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by FiniteField 8mo ago
The rub here is "skilled workers". Just after Brexit, the Boris Johnson Tory government adjusted immigration rules for "skilled" workers, and caused a civilisation-altering number of people (now known as the "Borisw
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by FiniteField 8mo ago
US immigration policy was explicitly racist from its founding up until the Hart Cellar act of 1965. Assuming that the 2016 election of Donald Trump is your benchmark for when immigration policy became determined by racists again, then the U
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by FiniteField 8mo ago
>I don't even understand [...] >It is not different from groceries. Do you appreciate that, in the wider historical context, this position is an exceptionally radical one? You seem to not understand how there could even exist a d
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by FiniteField 1y ago
Perhaps on the smaller subreddits, but have a look at /r/all on any given day and it's obvious that real people, and diverse backgrounds, it is not. Every single subreddit that goes above a certain activity threshold collapse
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by FiniteField 1y ago
Why does the technicality that red and grey squirrels are different species hold any weight to you? The effect is still the same: They are two discernibly different populations, of which one is on the decline in its native land alongside th
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by FiniteField 1y ago
I don't mean to say this as a challenge to what you said, but as a genuine question: Do you hold any value in the continued existence of the red squirrel in Great Britain? Would you see its extinction as any kind of loss? I know many p
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by FiniteField 1y ago
Demographics by births are much more meaningful than the total population because it's only births (and more immigration of course) that informs all future generations. Even if all immigration was halted today, the Britain of the futur
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by FiniteField 1y ago
White British is an ethnic umbrella recognised by the British government. In the last recorded statistics, the White British population in Britain had been reduced to 54% by births, and dropping significantly each year. A generation ago Bri
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by FiniteField 1y ago
"The current times" are a direct result of decisions like that of Merkel to throw open the borders of Germany to a million unchecked foreign men. If there's one reason that the AfD is the largest party in Germany today, it&#x
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by FiniteField 1y ago
I think the much more likely explanation is that 4chan always existed as a genuine counterculture (which was particularly true in the age prior to the late 2010s, when the internet was like a completely different world to real life), and re
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by FiniteField 1y ago
Pepe the frog became associated with the online far right because it was a commonly used memetic avatar in general 4chan culture, and became intertwined with the space's shift to the political right in a fairly organic way. The associa
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by FiniteField 1y ago
>Note, some of these are associated with the far right. I think that should be trivially obvious based on the discussion at hand. What is interesting, though, is how so many of these terms came into public use as well-known, generic term
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by FiniteField 1y ago
All of this sentiment is many years out of date. "Alt-right" hasn't been a term of self-identification for almost a decade, and hasn't been used as an identifier by pretty much anyone for at least half of that. /pol
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by FiniteField 1y ago
What about these tariffs would cause the millions/billions of non-paying users to stop using the free service that is facebook?
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by FiniteField 2y ago
The contradictions in that definition and its examples indicates to me how outdated it is. Connecting "white men" and Ivy League universities, despite those institutions adopting an ideology explicitly designed to dispossess white
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by FiniteField 2y ago
This is the kind of dishonest motte-and-bailey framing that is all too common in academia, that my post was trying to highlight. There are many aspects and fields of academia that are very obviously ideologically captured, whether that&#x27
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by FiniteField 2y ago
Carl Sagan died the year after this quote. With the greatest respect to him as a science communicator, he has not lived to see an entire generation of politics. When he died, the liberal capitalist post-historical consensus was in full swin
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by FiniteField 2y ago
Most people in London don't care because they are not English and have no connection with the thousands of years of history the city and country have. Only a third of the population has any connection at all to the London of the 1950s,
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by FiniteField 2y ago
Disappointing that a project that should ostensibly care about preserving the open, non-centralised internet takes the time to namedrop and talk about making "compromises" against preserving a well-known, medium-sized clearnet for
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by FiniteField 3y ago
I think those are all good points, which is why I opened my comment with "Without meaning this as a comment towards your post in particular" since I didn't have much context about how you were using that phrase. I was more re
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by FiniteField 3y ago
>What is interesting in the UK is that it seems largely to be people voting against their own interests a lot of the time. Without meaning this as a comment towards your post in particular, I've found that people who say "they&
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by FiniteField 3y ago
>People would rather lurch even further right for answers God forbid we have an even more "far right" government than the one that has overseen a full decade of all-time-high immigration, has utterly failed to stop the years-
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by FiniteField 3y ago
Not to mention that the phrase has existed for over 100 years, which is quite a long "late stage" for an economic system that's arguably only a few hundred years old. It's used in conversations like religious doomsday pr
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by FiniteField 3y ago
This is the same argument that communists use all the time "Socialism/Communism is great and we should all live under that system as it is self-evidently the best" "Well, there were some pretty bad aspects of the USSR an
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by FiniteField 3y ago
> I love these conspiracy theory level claims that groups like the ADL are massive power brokers with far reaching influence that can just dictate the advertising spend of multi-billion dollar companies without warrant. The country of Ic
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by FiniteField 3y ago
How can you say it's not? Money is fungible.

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