vimacs2

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by vimacs2 4y ago
That's a common piece of libertarian propaganda but what happens in reality is businesses are forced to offer decent wages to attract labor and the ones that don't, perish - as they should.
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by vimacs2 4y ago
It certainly wasn't hollow when work weeks could go anywhere from 60 to 80 hours during the industrial revolution. The fact that the minimum wage has been rendered sub-optimal after several decades of inflation and a dramatically diffe
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by vimacs2 4y ago
Your perspective seems to be completely orthogonal to reality. 1. That is actually how "wages work". The state decides what is the minimal possible wage and then businesses will pay that amount to low status workers because busine
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by vimacs2 4y ago
I think the point was that it is circular reasoning.
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by vimacs2 4y ago
As opposed to the other crowd who callously disregarded the dangers of the virus because it was primarily dangerous to the elderly. I wonder what represents a larger group of people: those at risk from side effects of the vaccination or eve
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by vimacs2 4y ago
Sorry, did you expect everyone to be blown away by the litany of common (and widely debunked) talking points from fossil fuel apologists?
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by vimacs2 4y ago
"Some of" meaning a tiny fraction of the total population vs those that suffered no ill effects from the vaccination at all.
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by vimacs2 4y ago
I actually think you're all misunderstanding what you're discussing. No, I won't expand as to why, I just wanted to continue this alleged misunderstanding train.
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by vimacs2 4y ago
Presumably all with stage 3 cancer from the radiation on our way to a mandatory shift to pay off our several million dollar fare over the next 300 years of multigenerational indentured servitude.
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by vimacs2 4y ago
I thought this would be an interesting comment about the article but it came right out of the gate with The Message (Wokeism Bad!) and I lost interest. In all seriousness though, do you not see how incredibly self absorbed and outright anti
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by vimacs2 4y ago
I love how you claim there is no line and then almost immediately afterwards establish that you do in fact have a line - that line being if a person is a conspiracy theorist or dangerous person. Unfortunately for your argument, Andrew Tate
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by vimacs2 4y ago
You do realize that we are specifically discussing ideas that are so reprehensible as to warrant being kicked off platforms, right? Also, I'd love to see examples of the things you're talking about that are simultaneously filled w
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by vimacs2 4y ago
How about when the idea itself is directly calling for the opposition of the freedom of others? Fascist and racist ideas are not difficult to parse and there is generally little to no ambiguity in their interpretation. If you're not ev
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by vimacs2 4y ago
Again, this is just more absurd hypothetical scenarios. The reality is never as ambiguous as you're painting it. What you're describing is how a fascist would conduct a confrontation, not anybody who believes in truth. Nobody here
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by vimacs2 4y ago
Nope, not even close to the truth. You should probably stop spreading FUD when it's apparent you don't know one iota about history. When an idea is transparently horrible, it's proponents are not interested in discussion exce
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by vimacs2 4y ago
The line is incredibly simple actually. Ideas that are diametrically opposed to the freedoms of others should not get to spread off the back of the institutions that are supposed to be protecting those freedoms. A free society isn't so
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by vimacs2 4y ago
Bullshit. For one, no speech has been "banned" here. Andrew Tate and others of his ilk are free to preach their hateful message but they're not free to do it off the backs of others. As for the 100 year view, you don't h
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by vimacs2 4y ago
Why do people keep making this same tired, frankly stupid, and entirely ahistorical analysis? Fascists don't need any "martyr", even leaving aside the fact that nothing being done to Andrew Tate here is worthy of that label,
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by vimacs2 4y ago
I was referring to his Only Fans "agency" but I actually somehow forgot the far more blatant and very much not legal thing he stands accused of: https://thesportsgrail.com/andrew-tate-house-raided-in-roman...
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by vimacs2 4y ago
Andrew Tate is definitely guilty of TOS violations on more than one platform (and a whole lot more egregious offences like quasi-legal sex trafficking but I digress) so I'm not sure that a millionaire who does not require social media
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by vimacs2 4y ago
Boo boo? I'm not sure exactly why you expect Japan to be held to a different or lower standard than the rest of the world but I don't stop to think about the feelings of disgruntled nationals when bringing up racism in any other c
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by vimacs2 4y ago
I'm a little confused by your rant when they clearly stated having kids as the sacrifice here - which makes a lot more intuitive sense than whatever antinatalist position you're projecting here onto them. Also, while I'm firm
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by vimacs2 4y ago
Well, the writing was on the wall as soon as they started blocking "Russian misinformation" that DDG are trying to ape the general practices of other search engines. Now, even the privacy itself is a secondary concern. Thankfully,
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by vimacs2 4y ago
I never claimed to have an incorruptible mind. However, if you want an example of what is the logical outcome of your mentality, I would refer you to the treasure trove of delusions that is Infowars.
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by vimacs2 4y ago
I think virtually all US presidents are war criminals but if you think those currently in power are uniquely inhuman rather than uniquely lucky, then you've fallen for the same trap as those who believe they're in power from merit
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by vimacs2 4y ago
OP was specifically referencing vi, not vim
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by vimacs2 4y ago
It's an appealing saying but it's not really backed by any real evidence. Most of the time "good times" just leads to dominance. The Romans didn't stop being the most powerful army in the Eurasian continent after th
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by vimacs2 4y ago
"Hate speech" (which I don't really agree should be protected in the first place) does not have the capability to cripple infrastructure and destroy personal data. This is an act of property damage and should be prosecuted as
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by vimacs2 5y ago
This might be a blessing in disguise. People are hilarious competent at complex and highly intricate tasks whenever they're unaware as to the fact that what they are doing is in fact complex and highly intricate - Minecraft being the m
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by vimacs2 5y ago
Yeah, I admit I find the tendency for MS products to autocorrect anything it can infuriating but I guess I'm just not their target audience which is why I stick to FOSS products and operating systems. I tend to use org-mode's tabl

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