griffinmmahon

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by griffinmmahon 9y ago
Sure, agreed! But it's not like the two parties are all that different in that they both act on the interests of wealthy elites.
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by griffinmmahon 9y ago
They're also called the Republicans.
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by griffinmmahon 9y ago
Nah, it does preclude that possibility, because some of the suffering of those individual humans is entirely unnecessary.
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by griffinmmahon 9y ago
Anecdotal and unrelated.
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by griffinmmahon 9y ago
Yeah the whole "globalist" thing is stupid to me. There are better ways to articulate the position that don't originate from conspiracy theorists.
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by griffinmmahon 9y ago
Yeah, I'm interested in the original user's self-identification as someone who mistrusts globalists. Thank you for the summary!
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by griffinmmahon 9y ago
Yes, exactly! None of these things are mutually exclusive. Decrying liberal/conservative media bias while being stuck within that same spectrum is an entirely impotent critique to me if you don't understand the structural incentiv
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by griffinmmahon 9y ago
Sure, we're agreeing. I just take issue with the idea that it is possible to do an injustice against the dead over word choice. I probably jumped too quick, though, and maybe shouldn't have commented. Sorry if any of this came off
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by griffinmmahon 9y ago
I basically do not take issue with your dissection of terms here. However I have seen another bit of your logic elsewhere and strongly disagree with it: the idea that mislabelling (or even correctly labelling) something "does an injust
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by griffinmmahon 9y ago
And there's also the possibility that the NYT et al have 1) done bad things in the past but 2) have also done good things For example, Noam Chomsky rightfully called the NYT "a bad paper" but he still read it every morning
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by griffinmmahon 9y ago
A question only intended as such: could you explain what you mean by the word "globalists"? Thanks! e: I should clarify that I'm not being sarcastic or snarky and am genuinely interested in what "globalists" means -
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by griffinmmahon 9y ago
Yeah "left" is not the way I would describe papers that dishonestly hyped the invasion of Iraq etc. For readers-by: try Jacobin or Dissent
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by griffinmmahon 9y ago
Re-fuckin-tweet. It's a good thing that the world is different from how it used to be -- the past was full of injustices and suffering. Nostalgia for nostalgia's sake is poison.
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The case for Mark Zuckerberg 2020(salon.com)
4 points by griffinmmahon 10y ago|0 comments
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by griffinmmahon 10y ago
Your comment has me fondly remembering a backpacking trip in Wyoming. We'd go to sleep around 8 or 9 since it would get dark before then and wake up at about 7, and the sleep was indeed the best of my life, like coming out of a coma.
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by griffinmmahon 10y ago
I do not disagree!
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by griffinmmahon 10y ago
Didn't know about this, thanks for the info!
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by griffinmmahon 10y ago
As far as I can tell, there's no new "technology" in whatever product Palantir offers (I have briefly used it before?). It seems to me that it's just a program for data visualization, which given that the government is o
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by griffinmmahon 10y ago
This position though is pretty much contingent on nearly every person making nearly every environmentally-friendly decision then, no?
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by griffinmmahon 10y ago
>I haven't significantly changed my behavior and consumption patterns You shouldn't be ashamed about this per se, because the type of action that will combat climate change is action by governments and corporations. An Inconve
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by griffinmmahon 10y ago
Check out r/bodyweightfitness, I'm sure they have a bunch of good tutorials.
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by griffinmmahon 10y ago
The rise in popularity of "functional fitness" and its accompanying ideas about mobility and flexibility have made it seem like everyone should be a contortionist, but if you're only an amateur athlete, the mobility you shoul
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by griffinmmahon 10y ago
Or more recently Mark Fisher, who at least in one essay (to be honest, I've only read this so far but just bought another book; I'm much more familiar with DFW and agree with your analysis) suggests that depression is societal ( h
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by griffinmmahon 10y ago
Thank you for fighting the good fight in explaining this concept.
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by griffinmmahon 10y ago
Žižek on green consumerism is quite good as well, I find myself constantly thinking of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpAMbpQ8J7g .
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by griffinmmahon 10y ago
Hm. I've heard lots of different angles on not eating fruit but never got these numbers. Thanks!
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by griffinmmahon 10y ago
OJ is just sugar water though, the value of fruit is (I think) the whole fruit.
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by griffinmmahon 10y ago
>shutting people up that they don't agree with Yes, but people are allowed to do that . I don't think "free speech" means what you think it means. It's a comforting idea that other people are too immature/e
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by griffinmmahon 10y ago
>in order to curtail other's free speech ... by calling it protesting It's not about free speech. He incites harassment.
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by griffinmmahon 10y ago
Consider that your notion of violence relates that word and the destruction of property, which is not living matter.

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