another_sock

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by another_sock 6y ago
The people who think 4chan is some existential threat to society rather than anti-social people and people with autism blowing off steam and being mean to each other are the people who aren't very familiar with 4chan. 99% of it is just
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by another_sock 6y ago
No I don't think he's talking about Trump.
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by another_sock 6y ago
I don't care about Trump being kicked off twitter. He is just a name that is meaningless in the grand scheme of things. I also don't care about the people you agree with or how they ended up, although I do think it's funny th
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by another_sock 6y ago
Yes we should ban everybody who shows open disagreement and doesn't take the party line in the serious manner we see fit. I am not trolling, I am highlighting the absurd manner in which so many HN commenters have suddenly become champi
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by another_sock 6y ago
The funny thing is despite your mockery of my reply, literally all the things I've mentioned have already happened to people in real life. It's just a matter of time until it's well known and happening to very milquetoast peo
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by another_sock 6y ago
I'm not throwing a slippery slope anything out. You are failing to see the interconnected nature of all of the things I mentioned. Twitter and all the big tech companies should be nationalized, but they won't be because like finan
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by another_sock 6y ago
Yes and I'm sure when all the standards for allowing people on the wrong side of public opinion are removed, that will never end up flipping around on the people who pushed for their removal.
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by another_sock 6y ago
That was debunked by fact-checkers.
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by another_sock 6y ago
Yes and when AWS shuts them down and ISPs block them, they are free to make their own servers and ISPs. And when the financial system shuts down their banking and all of their family members' and public supporters' banking, they a
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by another_sock 6y ago
Well it's sarcasm in this case, but it won't be when you see it elsewhere.
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by another_sock 6y ago
Do you have a link from a state-sanctioned and social media site approved source where I can read about this?
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by another_sock 6y ago
Yes like that picture of Stalin and Nikolai Yezhov!
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by another_sock 6y ago
This is good!
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by another_sock 6y ago
I'm not insinuating anything lmao. You are adding a bunch of loaded terms like conspiracy because you can't just enjoy the position you are in. Again, enjoy it while you have it!
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by another_sock 6y ago
You're not afraid to ask what the competing narrative is though, because you have all the institutions pushing the dominant narrative on your side. Enjoy this!
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by another_sock 6y ago
Yes exactly, the riots and burned down buildings across the country over the past few years have just been youthful expressions!
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by another_sock 6y ago
It's not really weird, it's expected. What would be weird is if the HN crowd was able to think for themselves when the media, all governments, and tech companies are pushing the same narrative. Employees of tech companies aren&#x2
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by another_sock 6y ago
I think a lot of posts on HN are by people not particularly capable of critical thought.
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by another_sock 6y ago
It's so amazingly funny how HN isn't smart enough to figure out how things are trending.
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by another_sock 6y ago
Yes because one is meat and the other is not meat.
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by another_sock 6y ago
The elite need lots of slaves to work the fields and if you can keep them spending all their free time worried and emotionally exhausted about the news item du jour you never need to even whip them, they won't have any energy to cause
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by another_sock 6y ago
Information used to be hard to reproduce and disseminate across geography. This is no longer the case, and now exploits in human psychology that weren't really feasible to exploit in the past are available. The "problem" isn&
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by another_sock 6y ago
This is basically high-school level "philosophical" musing and has about as much application in real life, which is none.
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by another_sock 6y ago
Trying to redefine work from something it has been for all of human history (a place where you do work) into some sort of personal self expression is what is arrogant and harmful. Things are the way they are for reasons. Don't remove a
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by another_sock 6y ago
Most humans can't discuss those topics rationally. It's not arrogant to say this, it's just basic truth. Throughout history, work hasn't been a social club, because everybody has a different preferred social environment
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by another_sock 6y ago
Don't worry, I don't take much personally and this was not one of those times. The little back and forth that may or may not be sharp is what makes these discussions fun (for me at least) in the first place. I think the added dang
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by another_sock 6y ago
I definitely agree with you on that. Most people are far more likely to have a productive discussion when at least one party goes out of their way to be nuanced and careful in how they word things as well as the discussion not taking place
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by another_sock 6y ago
It is a healthier way to live to keep that sort of stuff to yourself. There used to be a rule not to bring up religion or politics up at work, and this rule was good. Just because the left or what is more commonly known as liberal side of p
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by another_sock 6y ago
My comment was in relation to the topic of the parent comment, which is why I mentioned it at all. Income tax rates and environmental regulation very rarely get brought up in conjunction with why there are gaps in racial outcome that aren&#
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by another_sock 6y ago
I don't care about you trying to cancel me lol that's why this is a sock account, but it's even more telling that you think basic descriptive (not prescriptive) observations about reality are not moderate.

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