fault_lines

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by fault_lines 6y ago
The Kremlin is not a propaganda agency any more than the White House is a propaganda agency.
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by fault_lines 6y ago
In the UK, you're looking for JTRIG, Institute for Statecraft/Integrity Initiative, and the 77th Brigade, and probably tens to hundreds of smaller organizations.
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by fault_lines 6y ago
> Look near the end where he describes Trump helping a dictator as a good thing because "it brings the corruption out in the open". I could not find this in the article. > He goes on to explain that Trump has publicly done m
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by fault_lines 6y ago
It’s made clearer in the text, but the conflation of “citizen” and “resident” here is a common irritant that makes it really difficult to understand just what non-citizens are entitled to. The issue here isn’t that they were sent to non-cit
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by fault_lines 6y ago
Right-libertarian "variants of anarchy" fundamentally ignore the foundational concepts of anarchism and are frankly a joke.
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by fault_lines 6y ago
They most certainly are not. Some right-libertarians have convinced themselves that they are anarchists so that they can pretend to be radicals but that does not make it so. Anarchism and capitalism are incompatible, anarchism is a left-win
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by fault_lines 6y ago
I'm struggling to understand what you're trying to argue, to be honest.
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by fault_lines 6y ago
The current geopolitical situation prevents anarchists from living in their desired society because there is zero (or practically zero) free land to create such a society without it existing within a state that is not anarchist. This should
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by fault_lines 6y ago
How do you amass power in an anarchist system? In capitalism you generally amass power by amassing capital. What's the equivalent under anarchism?
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by fault_lines 6y ago
In America, the validity of a search is rarely an impediment to carrying it out.
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by fault_lines 6y ago
Your implication was that Seamus Milne, or his team, command a sort of "troll army" through WhatsApp. This is substantially different to disseminating talking points to friendly media faces (which is something all parties do, and
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by fault_lines 6y ago
> I captured the attention of the Corbynite WhatsApp group run by Seamus Milne's team, and was heavily trolled...Rachel Swindon et al... This is a conspiracy theory with no basis in fact.
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by fault_lines 6y ago
I'm sure they could finagle a job description to say this and maybe even get away with it, but unfortunately the job description they did use was unambiguously "spying on labor organizing", which makes it an open and shut cas
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by fault_lines 6y ago
It is, however, illegal to engage in, or create the impression of engaging in, surveillance of union activities.
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by fault_lines 6y ago
No, it isn't.
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by fault_lines 6y ago
Is there evidence that cats are actually a problem for local wildlife in NZ? Which species are under threat? I've found this belief is common, and it may well be true in some places (including NZ), but it's not true in many, too.
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by fault_lines 6y ago
The right wing in the UK has been inserting their own people into top BBC positions for years. The BBC has a history of working with the security services to deny employment to anyone 'too left wing'. Some of the most well known f
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by fault_lines 6y ago
The right controls the non-government media organizations just as well, what's the difference? The BBC is harder to control because it legally is supposed to be impartial.
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by fault_lines 6y ago
You're probably not the target audience, to be honest.
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by fault_lines 6y ago
> No, the modern welfare state is not capitalism, it's a socialist reaction to capitalism. You have this completely backwards. The welfare state is a bourgeois reaction to socialism. It is capitalism with a bulwark against revolt.
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by fault_lines 6y ago
To be charitable to the guy, maybe he didn't realize that Capital is actually about capitalism, not communism.
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by fault_lines 6y ago
I would rather measure 2.5 grams on the scale I'm already using, it's far easier. Volumetric measurements should only be used for liquids.
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by fault_lines 6y ago
You should revise your original statement from "he didn't say those things" to "he said those things, but I agree with them". Thanks.
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by fault_lines 6y ago
"Screaming 'racism' at people because blacks are collectively less intelligent...is insane." “You cannot run a high IQ [white] society with low IQ [non-white] people…these [non-white] immigrants are going to fail...and t
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by fault_lines 6y ago
It's not much of a coincidence that the bug manifests at a time when there is considerable internet activity around Winston Churchill when Google's system automatically chooses photographs to display based on an effectively black
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by fault_lines 6y ago
I simply don't believe that mistakenly saying "links" instead of "URLs" is sensationalist. The author is not engaging in clickbait by substituting that word. A layman understanding of the web will not make a distinc
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by fault_lines 6y ago
They are equally bad because in both cases the user is taken to a place that they did not intend to go . They are not bad because something is getting "stolen", they are bad because the user is no longer in control. That is a s
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by fault_lines 6y ago
Regardless of whether the terminology is technically correct, it's easily understood what the meaning is. Modifying links and modifying typed URLs are equally bad, so your claim that it is sensationalist doesn't make sense. Your p
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by fault_lines 6y ago
From the inside (UK -> US immigrant), it is really bad right now. From an American perspective, maybe it is not so bad as we think because of the difference in 'overton windows'. We now have the president essentially demanding