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Ok, i'll be specific. Both are hopefully naive about the dangers of lending their platforms to extremists, and have egos large enough to believe that they can confront and debunk false information faster than it can spread via their discussions (they can't).

And for every border line irresponsible "left wing" guest they have, they have 10 "right wing" ones. Ye, Glenn Greenwald, Alex Berenson, Bari, Taibbi, etc. etc. Perhaps right wing isn't the right label for this new emerging ideology. It seems to be a mix of cynical grifting (ironic given Taibbi's last book) and the politics of grievance and rejection by elites (therefore war must be raged against them) mixed with culture war BS (these days mostly anti-trans rhetoric). This cocktail of mystery seems to mostly live on the right of the political spectrum.

But when you dig a little deeper, most of these individuals were always right wing, they just played along with left wing dogma to be able to succeed in their media roles. Not unlike Trump, knowing that if he wanted to succeed in Hollywood and Manhattan real estate he'd have to vote democrat visibly. But that was never who he was.

> We're talking about a guy who spearheaded the "masks 4 all" push back at the beginning of COVID.

Also, what is left wing about the idea that masks help prevent the spread of respiratory viruses? I also thought that fell into the category of basic science literacy.

> modern type of progressives obsessed with race, sex, gender, and such

In my experience, left wingers want civil rights for all the above, but are far from "obsessed" with those groups. Right wingers on the other hand..

No he's the same right wing perspective, just with less jokes.

> They way they target grandparents is surreal

My grandmother got hit with one of these, she has a weak heart and was in severe mental distress all day because she couldn't get ahold of me to confirm what the scammers were telling her.

I try not to judge others, but what monster can do this for a living?

Bulgaria has single payer health care, it's to the left of most leftist states in the USA.

And it's funny you recognize the usage of "woke" as problematic, but you still use it. Actual liberal politics means schools, roads, health care, climate, etc. It means a social safety net and labour protections. All of that are universal in Europe while most of it is completely lacking, as I said in even the most "liberal" parts of the US.

Confusing policy (what matters) with social media arguments about what a woman is defined as is a distraction. It's meant to divide people that otherwise agree. Don't play into that game.

Is being a caretaker for a small human the most important thing in life? Or is this some kind of default no one questions.

1. Ultimately people employed by Twitter had to make calls on what content violated their rules, which they did so in a deliberate manner. Is this surprising to you, did you assume machines did this?

2. There was no direction. FBI pointed out content that filed Twitter's rules (NOT its rules), and Twitter sometimes took action and sometimes didn't, at their own discretion. There as no direction, no instruction, no ordering of any kind.

3. Communications yes, "arrange censorship" no. See above.

I get that the "Twitter Files" is a perfectly engineered PR campaign to convince conservatives of the one thing they believed all along "they are censoring us!". Well, you are half right. "They" meaning Twitter did take repeated actions against right wing accounts for breaking its rules against harassment, election/public health misinfo, and general awfulness. That's true. But the US government never demanded or received any action.

If you need a reminder about what free speech actually protects (hint: it's not the consequences of being an awful person online). https://xkcd.com/1357/

Of all the "revelations" of the Twitter Files (mostly recapping the interactions that were already publicly known), preventing DoD run accounts from being marked as spam is the closest thing to an actual scandal. But

1. These accounts weren't promoted, they were just protected from being "deranked".

2. Twitter and Meta suspended most of these accounts, and made public that they had done so. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/19/us/politics/pentagon-soci...

So the entirely of this "scandal" is that Twitter agreed to shield these accounts from being attacked themselves (mass labeled as spam) - which as it turns out wasn't needed because according to their own records, these accounts received 1-2 impressions per post. In other words, no one even saw them.

Then Twitter banned them and pubicaly fingered them.

Should Twitter have done this? No. Is it proof of an engine of Twitter/US Gov cooperation to promote certain things and silence others? No.

Housing prices everywhere have gone up, just not at the same rates. You can still find reasonable housing outside London, Dublin, etc.

There's plenty of Republicans in California, they just rebrand as Libertarians (same thing) or move to OC.

Literally anywhere in Europe outside of Poland or Hungary ?

Being outside most of the year? Overrated.

While people remain in denial about how nice it is to only have 2-3 months of livable outdoor weather a year, housing prices will always tell the truth

There's no evidence he acted on personal bias, and the US government never asked or told Twitter to do anything.

Other than that, your knowledge of current events is spot on.

You seem to have no idea what Yoel Roth's job was.

Right heat + humidity is bad, humidity alone isn't even noticed.

This is what makes taking in Russian refugees complicated, many of them support the war they just didn't want to die themselves.

Yes, all the same people gathering in smokey rooms making purposeful crime and mistake, one after the other. The same people that did Iraq decided to kill Epstein and push COVID vaccines.

Do you really believe that's how thing work?

Yes because the people running human societies have traditionally been transparent and fair until 2008.

Conspiracy thinking is not new, the mobilization and scale of social media allows the "othering" of people to reach a level we haven't seen since the second world war. And that's frightening.

What would he have to gain from lying about donating to Republicans? He lies about not committing crimes to stay out of prison.

Seems like a lot of partisans want SBF to be a democratic cartoon villain and won't let reality get in the way of that assessment.

He was also the second largest donor to Republicans, which he did in secret to avoid criticism from liberal friends.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/nov/30/ftx-billi...

> SBF was invited to prestigious $2500-a-seat event by the NYT.

Where he was grilled about possible crimes.

> a cut and dry criminal case got dismissed

It was and continues to be anything but "cut and dry"

Whenever I see a claim on HN i've never seen before and ask for a source, 100% I never hear back from OP.

Unless laws are changes, the US Government cannot demand anything from private industry.

So yours is a pure defense of Huawei, because they country the operate in has no civil liberty protections, they aren't at fault for helping authoritarians build a surveillance state and spy on others?

I mean, I guess so. That doesn't mean Huawei isn't harming the safety and security of millions while Apple is just your standard monopolist.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/12/14/huawei-surve...

How is cloud storage more secure than a password managers web interface ?

What does my consent have to do with anything? The difference between commanding private industry to do something and hacking them yourself is the difference between free and unfree societies. Why you are trying to blur the line I don't know.

People interested in what taxpayer money is going towards really ought to google where the majority of it is spent (hint: it's not student debt relief)

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2022/11/22/why-cant-the-do...

What does that have to do with my statement ?