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by vpilcx 3y ago
Maybe that was a while ago, because almost all of the personality tests that I've had to take are, question: "I enjoy the challenge of collaborating with my coworkers" answer: strongly agree, slightly agree, neither agree nor
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by vpilcx 4y ago
I think it's 'dead' in comparison to the way it used to be used. I was actually just looking for RSS feeds for some of the top news sites, and a lot of them have specialized RSS feeds for a certain category but not for the en
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by vpilcx 4y ago
> The thing is, as a person of color, the onus isn't on me to convert your racist grandparent or uncle from being a racist piece of shit. Fuck them. That puts me in the subordinate position of having to placate a white supremacist
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by vpilcx 4y ago
Yeah, I remember during World War II, the Fascists were really giving the Nazis hell. Just classic fascism.
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by vpilcx 4y ago
> people who absolutely hate me and want my whole race to die What's really interesting about that is I couldn't find one bit of audio that came anywhere near what you're characterizing. Even in the one episode of Undergro
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by vpilcx 4y ago
> There is no guarantee that Nazis will not again take advantage of a population that is used to follow the state's lead, this time to silence you, or that another group won't do the same. And that's fine. This argument ke
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by vpilcx 4y ago
I mean, that's a pretty common narrative. "They were being ATTACKED for being racist so they became MORE RACIST." And? There's this black guy. They did this documentary on him a while back. He went and befriended KKK mem
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by vpilcx 4y ago
I mean, if banning Nazi'ism is considered 'state censorship' then yes, I wholeheartedly support state censorship. If that's 'imposing someone's truth on everyone else', so be it.
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by vpilcx 4y ago
Name three podcasts since there are 'a lot of black supremacists'.
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by vpilcx 4y ago
Honestly, I would prefer that over the ambiguity. I'd much rather live in a state in America where being a Nazi is illegal with the side effect of knowing, unequivocally, that I need to leave another state because my existence is in pe
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by vpilcx 4y ago
> I don't care if I'm on the receiving end of threats or actual violence because of free speech. Giving up your rights due to being scared is cowardice and allows actual authoritarians to take over your mind. And assuming that
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by vpilcx 4y ago
> Is it a coincidence that their movements grew significantly with the amplification of messages against them and social media censorship against them. Various right wing figures used this as leverage to increase their virulence. Or did
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by vpilcx 4y ago
> It would be great if we could magically eliminate nazi ideology You mean like criminalizing it like the way it is in Germany? That magic?
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by vpilcx 4y ago
> Surely you cannot think restricting speech helps you in any way? Do you think it helps turn those that dislike you on your side? I think it removes the ambiguity. If you find laws that prohibit someone from being a literal Nazi disagre
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by vpilcx 4y ago
I think that's really easy to believe in - when you're not at risk in any kind of way. I mean, if you're a white guy, what do you give a fuck about someone turning America into a white ethnostate? Sure, theoretically, it&#x27
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by vpilcx 4y ago
> last time this happened in US airspace was Pearl Harbor Didn't this happen in 9/11 with one of the planes?
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by vpilcx 4y ago
It's interesting this would pop up, because I was just thinking yesterday about how the holes of cans used to be a different shape. I believe it was mid to late 90's. They switched over to a larger hole. I was telling my mom and s
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by vpilcx 4y ago
I walk laps around the car in my garage and if the weather is particularly nice, I'll walk outside. I try to do this for about an hour a day. Since this is Hacker News, and might fit the demographic, I built an abacus, specifically, fo
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by vpilcx 4y ago
> One reason parties disappeared is because we have encouraged widespread neuroticism and anxiety about maintaining purity in different and various forms, and that intolerance has effectively eroded the social fabric. Sounds like they&#x
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by vpilcx 4y ago
"Different people have different risk tolerances and people with lower risk tolerances disgust me." Okay, gotcha.
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by vpilcx 4y ago
I have a similar issue with watching TV and movies and any form of media consumption. I stopped rewatching stuff. (for the most part) And now when I save stuff for later, I ask myself, "Is this something that I find truly compelling?&q
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by vpilcx 4y ago
It's not so much 'people who left California are Republicans" but more, 'people who post on social media about how they're leaving California -are- Republicans".
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by vpilcx 4y ago
That's because many of them from the Elon Musk school of problem solving. "You're poor? Work harder. Get a better job. First principles." "You're unhealthy? Exercise more. Eat better food. First principles.&quo
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by vpilcx 4y ago
I would have agreed with you... up until the pandemic. If we didn't live in a car dependent country, way more people I know would have died. You -could- make the argument that we'd probably be healthier and thus, wouldn't be
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by vpilcx 4y ago
Then you haven't been to an actually poor one. Every single one I've been to looks like that one room in an old person's house, full of stuff that no one could absolutely give a shit about and priced WAY the fuck over what it
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by vpilcx 4y ago
> We wont let you starve to death. If you're truly physically disabled, we won't leave you to die. Unless you're a diabetic, then fuck you. Die.
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by vpilcx 4y ago
This is a really arrogant attitude that reeks of the 'pull yourself up by your bootstrap' bullshit.
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by vpilcx 4y ago
"Wokeness" is the just this century's "politically correct", except almost no one has ever seriously talked about respecting being 'woke' in the context you're talking about.
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by vpilcx 4y ago
Alright, engineers, let's reference that seminal work: 3 Little Pigs.
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by vpilcx 4y ago
they were designed to be disposable, but when they were in short supply at the start of the pandemic, medical professionals were wearing them up to a month. There was a study that you could treat them with, I think, UV light, oh no wait, it

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