rule_follower

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by rule_follower 8y ago
Should have specified NSLs that cannot be disclosed but the IC activity is far more significant.
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by rule_follower 8y ago
Those are actions with judicial oversight. I believe OP was referring to NSLs and other IC actions.
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by rule_follower 8y ago
>dey turk ur jerbs This sniffling condescension toward those in our society who have and continue to lose out to corporate interests who have sold out the American worker is vile. When employment and income prospects of citizens are redu
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by rule_follower 8y ago
It's good to have the experience of interacting with someone far more intelligent than yourself who nevertheless believes things you think, with good reason, to be nonsense. It teaches one humility, to question the nature of "know
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by rule_follower 8y ago
There was no prior mention of the person being a prison abolitionist. There was mention of concern about private prisons. I don't know how I am to intuit what a person is truly concerned about vs. what they state they are concerned abo
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by rule_follower 8y ago
You were the one who mentioned financial incentives/conflicts vis-a-vis private prisons.
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by rule_follower 8y ago
Isn't it one of the great assumptions of our age that everyone is "equal" and ought be proportionally represented in every endeavor? And that inequitable representation is evidence of a moral or actual crime against the under
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by rule_follower 8y ago
Private prisons house a tiny fraction of US inmates, an estimated 8% in 2015[0] and the federal numbers are exclusively for the detention of foreigners illegally in the country. [0]: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank&#x2F
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by rule_follower 8y ago
>Arguing that it’s good for them is paternalistic bullshit. Sitting in a cage or a large room with other inmates with nothing productive to do can itself be considered a form of psychological torture, which is precisely what some propone
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by rule_follower 8y ago
But they don't shut off your power because they do not like the type of business you run or you personally.
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by rule_follower 8y ago
>allow people to be terrible on social media without taking responsibility for it? This is a euphemism for banning users and a misrepresentation of the the points I have seen, which is that it is hypocritical to seek government safeguard
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by rule_follower 8y ago
Consider how the men who toiled on the ships of that era lived: https://www.newworldexploration.com/explorers-tales-blog/lif...
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by rule_follower 8y ago
The man who founded the seedbank was sent to the gulag and sentenced to death for calling out Lysenko as a fraud. The Soviets failed to evacuate the contents of the seedbank, leaving it to be destroyed or raided. I don't understand how