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by computerthings 2y ago
So everybody online can be dismissed, except the people posting online that everyone who posts something online can be dismissed? How does that work? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42371412 It's everywhere. You&#
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"When all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing." -- Hannah Arendt
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But nothing is keeping you from working for that change, certainly not the fact that so many people want it so badly that they even cheer over the murder of a healthcare CEO. It's not a dichotomy; you can do either of these things, bot
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Here's the handwritten one that was found on him. https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/luigis-manifesto
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> when the data indicates people are better off today And what "data" would that be? https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2023/05/03/new-surgeon-genera... https://www.gse.harvard.e
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Or just take this story, where people who haven't even punched a CEO are making up detailed "theories" about the actions and motivations of someone who shot one dead. https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/lui
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by computerthings 2y ago
By ~50% of voters, not 99%. More people agree on this than do on cat pics being cute.
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This idea of there being a "game" that just magically is , while players that cannot be blamed for playing, nonsense. We need to change the system people with low individual character created for their own benefits, yes. But that
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People can't just say or do any old random thing and get as much support as this gets. It does have to strike an actual nerve. And even if a major tech CEOs like Zuckerberg or Bezos got shot, while there would be plenty people joking a
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> even if you take action and quit now it's likely they'll find other guns to hire As Joseph Weizenbaum said, that's like saying there are a lot of rapes every day, so it's fine to rape. Let those other "guns&quo
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If that principle was upheld that CEO and people like him and the investors he was a willing tool for would not even begin to exist. This coming from the privileged classes is pretty much "do as I say, not as I do", preaching wine
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If "just following orders" wasn't already completely null and void, i.e. if it was possibly to come up with an even worse defense, "just following incentives" would be that defense. And "politicians" didn&
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So I "checked", so to speak, instead of just going by the random things I saw, and yes, it's everywhere. Where people can speak freely, this is what they say. There is nothing wrong with any of these people. The only notewort
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He ran the health insurance company that holds the record in denied claims in the US. I think that's why hardly anyone sheds a tear. Right now, the culturally transgressive thing to do is, say, make youtube videos about how shocking it
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As an outsider what I see is that Trump claimed to stand for change, while the Democrats seemed to champion the status quo. Just the fact Biden promised to run for one term, then they lied about him not being senile, then Harris was anointe
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> Everybody knows a poor/normal man cannot fight for justice. What justice are you talking about? Their point stands.
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Dishonest trolling? As opposed to honest trolling? Talk about padding the list. And people who are fine with hundreds and thousands of people suffering horribly or even dying, so they can have some more money they have no real use for, draw
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I just thought it was a neat collection of FAAMG kissing the ring, and it's quoting them instead of using embeds. Didn't know what to do with the title though, so I just left it as is. But for me it's about the quotes, not th
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And I'm not a Trump fan. I'm not even American, and I think he's a fascist. But he is exploiting a vacuum left by others, that's for sure.
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During Covid it was incredibly obvious how some people positively got off on bossing other people around. I was vaccinated and boosted, and I felt guilty for that when I saw signs saying people who aren't vaccinated and boosted have to
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To me the Holocaust is a gaping abyss in the history of Europe we still can't even fully fathom, much less process. The trauma from it, of the suffering, of the sheer vast absence , and even of the guilt, lingers on, shapes us today i
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But when "getting away from them" actually means belittling them, berating them, while cuddling with the corporations that exploit them ("you" doesn't mean you personally here, of course), you're not actually a
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> glib replies about how everything for those voters will be even worse now that the other candidate won Here is something I saw on Bluesky, where all the good people are: "To all the misgueded twits who ignored every red flag, cav
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https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/15/us/politics/15abortion.ht... > "the first thing I’d do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act" https://www.reuters.com/article
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> That Israel has a bit of a special status in Germany shouldn't come as a surprise considering Germany's history between 1933 and 1945. It absolutely must. That history involved concentrating, starving, murdering people en mas
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All to often "bad guys" are just a fig leaf for the absolute worst guys. “Now the police dreams that one look at the gigantic map on the office wall should suffice at any given moment to establish who is related to whom and in wha
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So, what kind of foods are you farming? > Every industry that can be converted from "everybody weighs in because it's sort of a social issue" to "mostly only people with a horse in the race weigh in" is a huge pl
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With the human element removed, who would be left to even have a discussion?

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