tetranomiga

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by tetranomiga 5y ago
Sorry, just saw this. Will do.
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by tetranomiga 5y ago
> In the decade from 1923 to 1933, the Nazi propaganda magazine Der Stürmer — of which Streicher was the executive publisher — was confiscated or had its editors taken to court no fewer than 36 times. Streicher and his fellow editors wer
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by tetranomiga 5y ago
It was popular to say, but I challenge the idea that people have somehow become less tolerant of speech they disagree with than, say, Christians in the 1980s or the US government during the Red Scare.
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by tetranomiga 5y ago
"Is this person defending free speech in favor of liberty? Or because his anti-liberty extremism won't be tolerated otherwise?". It works both ways so this isn't a practical way of looking at implementation of free speec
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by tetranomiga 5y ago
That's an "if" so big I don't know what your point is.
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by tetranomiga 5y ago
Because the west and especially the US has, very specifically, a fascism problem.
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by tetranomiga 5y ago
There's no historical reason to think that not supporting extreme speech will lead to fascism. There are historical reasons to think that curbing extremist speech protects democracy (see the Weimar Republic).
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by tetranomiga 5y ago
I dunno if I'd agree that it's a small vocal minority, zero-tolerance to anybody questioning the current dogma is seen everywhere where trans acceptance is a focus. Ten years ago I was told, by trans people, that there are physica
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by tetranomiga 5y ago
Gender politics is a cancer on the left, even though I agree with it, it takes up so much time and energy away from things that would benefit everybody including trans people, like universal healthcare, better employee protection laws and b
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by tetranomiga 5y ago
> You are intentionally misunderstanding I can't misunderstand what doesn't make any sense. > We have a destination in mind. We know it's down this dark and rainy road. I can't foresee every twist and turn on this
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by tetranomiga 5y ago
> Political change happens step by tiny step. No it doesn't, political change is simply impossible without massive financial backing, which is why policies that benefit the classes that don't have a lot of money have to jump th
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by tetranomiga 5y ago
Diversity of skin color is not meaningful change in the slightest if all the policies stay the same. They're just hiring different faces to say the same things.
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by tetranomiga 5y ago
I can't believe you're unironically using the crack epidemic (that ravaged poor minority communities and was caused by the US government) to justify the War on Drugs (that ravaged poor minority communities and was caused by the US
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by tetranomiga 5y ago
> I think it’s reasonable to see a correlation. That's not reasonable at all. Forensic science and surveillance technology has made gigantic bounds in the past 50 years, as has almost every other aspect of crime fighting. We've
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by tetranomiga 5y ago
A huge portion of them, considering just how much of our prison system is filled with first-time non-violent offenders. Also considering the socioeconomic effects of even a misdemeanor drug conviction at a young age, a lot more career crimi
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by tetranomiga 5y ago
> On Tuesday, two House Democrats introduced legislation that would decriminalize all drugs in the U.S., shifting the national response to a public health model. The measure appears to have zero chance of passage. If that isn't just
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by tetranomiga 5y ago
> because I can do it without the anxiety of uncertainty of the outcome That's like saying you're fine driving at 90mph in the rain because Jesus is on your side. You're choosing to not feel the true weight of your respons
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by tetranomiga 5y ago
So you heard from a second-hand source that productivity at a bank tanked, and that's making you think that negative WFH productivity is the norm? Maybe base your opinions off a little more information than a friend's story.
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by tetranomiga 5y ago
Entry-level wages are being heavily outpaced by inflation and COL increases, so they're not actually "growing".
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by tetranomiga 5y ago
Big cities still need people to do the jobs that only pay minimum wage. There was a whole thing last year about how important those minimum wage workers are, but you've probably forgotten already.
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by tetranomiga 5y ago
Colorado is expensive as anything to live in and is only getting more expensive. $18/hour is NOT a livable wage in Boulder. $35/hour is only 72k a year at full employment (unlikely as a contractor employee) and probably will not r
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by tetranomiga 5y ago
> what I actually do for a living is steer large organizations, drive clarity, hold people empowered but accountable Cool, so now instead of having anxiety of how to make complicated and wide-reaching decisions, you've told yourself
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by tetranomiga 5y ago
>communism/socialism Not the same thing, also you forgot to mention capitalism. You know, the current system under which the exploitation is happening.
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by tetranomiga 5y ago
He said, in a time of record unemployment and low wages that are impossible to live off of. Almost like there are other factors at play here than just men being lazy. HN loves to forget that not everybody can be a FAANG employee or has the
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by tetranomiga 5y ago
>The result is pretty clear with over 10,000 participants in the study. They're all from the same Asian company, it's far from clear.