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We're posting in a thread discussing why YouTube took down the song. The GP asked for what was objectionable about it. Your comment does not make sense.

If this is the standard that we go by, are other lyricists literally commanding me to rob banks and abuse women?

I was unaware that we interpret poetry literally in 2021.

But is the pandemic over? It's clearly not, and that was the point of the lyric. Countries with 90%+ vaccination rates are still having lockdowns because of breakthrough cases.

Are you implying that the lyric is wrong and the pandemic is over?

I'm raising this point because it seems like an idea that's mostly targeted at a very specific HN subculture. The shared area in the venn diagram of people who want to live without cars and people who want to live outside the urban core of a large city is quite small.

> its not a personal attack on you.

Who is implying that it is?

> Our vision is to build the first car-free city in the US

What if I like my car, and the ability to easily travel outside the city limits that comes along with it?

I follow a lot special-interest online communities that are getting inundated with off-topic pro-china posts. "The west is corrupt and china will save the west." "The US can't possibly stand up to china." Maybe it's just a phenomenon that's unique to my own filter bubble. I'm not sure.

As someone who has spent some time and effort attempting to develop this exact process, it's limited by poor fiber adhesion to the metal matrix.

Yeah, nah dude. The rest of the world sees right through the CCP's expansionist ambitions, which is why they've been conducting joint military drills in the SCS. The real question is whether the CCP thinks it can take on all the countries they've spat on at the same time.

It will be interesting to see how the US reacts to CCP-backed Confucius Institutes operating on american university campuses, in the event of a conflict over Taiwan.

Imagine a subreddit dedicated to giving out awards to transgender suicides. Incredibly disgusting.

> This is dysfunction. What can we do if we're not allowed to present facts and evidence because it might trigger people? We end up walking on eggshells while the crazies take over.

It's not that simple: you can't just label an entire political faction as crazy. The left also holds viewpoints that moderates think are absolutely bonkers (which specific viewpoints I can't even say without risking a flamewar on HN), but we've been taught to be respectful of other people's opinions.

The feeling of persecution is literally what's driving it though, and they're not entirely wrong if the focus is "containment".

But that's just it: there aren't very many influencers telling people to take ivermectin. There were some official endorsements for HCQ, but ivermectin has largely been a grassroots response to people feeling as though they're not being included in the political process. Figures on the right have been telling people to take "Donald Trump's vaccine". The influencers who have discussed ivermectin, like Joe Rogan, only did so after it was already popularized.

> If we had a functioning justice system it would find these people and charge them with fraud.

The people who are making these threats feel as though they are being persecuted by a media-corporate-legal complex that is out to get them. The more you attempt to penalize these individuals for their beliefs, the more radicalized they will become.

> I remember a few years back the phrase "global weirding" was circulating to indicate that weather around the world is expected to get more volatile (rather than just warmer across the board).

Isn't this a predicted observation in the case of increased media reporting?

> The only way they could make a plane with carbon fiber wings, fuselage, and empennage, was to replace most metallic elements with titanium.

That's not really true: galvanic corrosion can be stopped if you simply anodize the aluminum parts. There is no titanium required to do this. This is a common practice when working with carbon fiber.

I'm sorry, but I'm going to need more than anecdata.

Can you provide sources that support your position?

That's part of the problem though: there is nobody keeping track of left wing terrorist groups in the US. We only have a clear picture of the PNWYLF and JBGC because they went around bombing and shooting people all last summer. To say the problem is limited to just a few groups is difficult, because A.) they are numerous with varying objectives, and B.) we just don't know how deep the rabbit hole goes.

I did not see the PNW Youth Liberation Front and John Brown Gun Club (among others)

Where are the left wing insurrectionist groups that terrorized Seattle and Portland last year? In Seattle they seceded from the US and shot six people with fully automatic weapons, in addition to thowing pipe bombs into occupied buildings.

Edit: Is it okay when we do it?

> My grandma's in Tasmania. Hasn't needed to wear a mask the entire time. My uncle has worn a mask for a couple of days total.

Now have them attempt that on the mainland. They'll be liable to have their bones broken by the police response.

Excellent: you have achieved orders of magnitude fewer deaths than the annual cold and flu season. But at what cost? You have also surrendered your entire society to an enforcement apparatus that looks like it was taken straight out of a work of mid 20th century dystopian fiction.

Here you go dude:

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/sep/21/victo...

Anyone who has crossed state lines in the last two weeks is required to follow those quarantine measures. They have fewer than 10 deaths per state combined with very high vaccination rates. From the outside looking in, it seems wholly unjustified.

It's been an odd experience having a few Australian HN posters attempt to rationalize to me why their police are justified in shooting people who leave their homes with rubber bullets, and why it's normal to be required to take surveillance photos of themselves in their own residences. I guess strict authoritarianism must be accompanied with equally strict media propaganda.

Reading this press release, I'm a little confused. Was there a foreign government involved in this case, or was he interacting with the FBI the entire time?