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They banned the sale of these books at other places?

Just walk around with a 3 pound weight strapped to your arm and tell me how it feels afterwards.

So. You think all the companies in the world are defacto arms of the government? I don't get what you are saying

Yes, I am implying that a typical bookstore shouldn't have Mein Kampf for sale. And as a matter of fact, I think a typical bookstore doesn't have it. Are you implying that they should have it? I am suggesting that Dr. Seuss is comparable to hitler in this context: they shouldn't be in the children's section. Just like I think Marquis de Sade shouldn't be in the children's section.Do you think that bookstores should be forced to sell books that contain racist charicatures?

You sound like an old minister in the sixties. So afraid your life and traditions will change. "It's good that people are waking up" and "If enough people push back against this craziness it would stop". But the fact of life is: nothing is stable and everything moves. Panta Rei my friend.

I am not making a point I am asking why he adds the "minority" remark in passing. I think this is not very relevant. But adding such a remark in passing tells me that the OP does think it is important. This triggers me into investigating why it matters

Semantics. The real question is: does it matter that it is a minority that "finds gay marriage utterly repugnant"? Because I think it DOESN'T matter. It could have been said by a minority or a majority, you are the one that is implying that it's important that a minority said this. That means that you think that's important. Tell me, how is that important?

Is Mein Kampf sold as a children's book? I meant it in the context of children's books. Would you think "Marquis de Sade" would be a good book to sell as a children's book?

I am not saying it is. I wasn't aware that ebay still sold Mein Kampf, which I don't think is necessarily a bad thing. I read Mein Kampf it's really not that special. But I meant selling Mein Kampf as children's books. And I don't think Dr. seuss is hitler. On the contrary, I think they are miles apart. I am just tired of all the pro-capitalist, pro-freedom people who are telling some company that they aren't allowed not to sell a book. Just start your own platform then and sell the things that ebay doesn't. Nobody will care. I certainly won't. That being said, I think it is good that old books, traditions and stories are held against the light of racism and discrimination.

This. I wouldn't even call it sport. What ebay does is sport: it's pretty inconsequential, but many people are mad about it. If the government would do it, it would be the opposite: very consequential, but probably not a lot of people who'd be mad.

Nobody banned the sale of these books. The only argument any of the people who are crying their eyes out could make here is: we need open source decentralized bookselling to ensure that people who don't care about the bad feelings people have about these books can still buy these books. Every other argument is just weak and quite frankly, herdmentality of the right wing political sphere.

I don't see a government censoring this book. Is it illegal to have this book? Should I now force barnes and noble to sell my radical insurrectionist anarchist zines? They are gagging my right to free speech!

Haven't seen a burned witch. I have seen people who have killed minorities because these minorities "might start burning witches and thereby destroy western free speech and civilisation".

Or, and this might be something to consider: this restructuring of of culture into groups of "good and bad culture" is something that happens each generation. Like the hippies against the old ideals, the 80 kids/punkers against the hippies, the smooth millennials against the 80-kids. Every generation did their own thing. We are getting old and do not subscribe to the new future. We are losing our childhood loves. They will disappear into the fold of history. Just like we will.

I have never understood why people add sentences like: "probably a minority" to their arguments. This is something that weakens your stand. Let me explain: If a minority (nerds/D&D-players,etc) gets bullied in school. Is them being a minority: A) a fact that aggrieves the bullying B) a non-relevant fact C) a fact that absolves the bullies from their wrong-doing?

Because it seems like you are implying that it's option C by making this comment.

Ebay is not the government. Just start your own red-pilled eBay and sell Mein Kampf and Dr. Seuss

1222 comments and counting. HN's open nerve. Easily triggered hackers

Show me a case of "cancel culture" and I will show you a case where the "cancelled" person benefitted in popularity on the right wing side. The people that really do get cancelled, you don't hear from them. The examples you know of are all people who benefitted hugely from the "cancelling". Unless you count the #metoo people. But you probably believe all these men are innocent. I don't really get how due process and opposition to trial by media is usually not important with right wing people when someone is suspected of robbery, but when someone is suspected of sexual misconduct it is suddenly a problem. This feels like the protection of elites (because elites will never be part of a robbery, but can be hurt by a metoo-scandal). And I am seriously curious who is calling for a new war in terror. Tell me, who is doing this?

You sound very red-pilled

Are you saying that there is no substantial difference between mcdonald's and curries?

Same kind of fat? Same kind of carbs? Same amount of fibers? Same amount of minerals and vitamins?

Sounds a bit like you are trying to provoke a discussion about this.

@rayiner: what a weird thing to say. Are you saying that all foods are equal, that the way you eat doesn't affect your health, thinking and environment in any substantial way?

I bow to you, you say it in the most simple of words.

So, let me get this right: the only way you are allowed to critique the system is to make yourself irrelevant by becoming a techno-luddite, turning your back to society, disconnecting and disappear into the woods to live of the grid and self sustaining? All the critics must shut up because they don't have an alternative (although if they give an imperfect alternative you probably wouldn't deem it feasible). This is bullshit and self serving.

It's like saying you aren't allowed to hate petrol cars because you use a petrol car. The concept of technology being solely the domain of capitalist is ludicrous. The invention of technology is not bound to our economic system. This is a presumption that is not based on history nor empirical evidence.

So critique of the system is something that can be done even if you like technology.

I would think someone who identifies with hackers would understand this.

How did you learn sales and marketing? Any books, methods or courses that you would recommend?

I think it's mostly CCP strategy to control as much cryptospace as possible, be it via exchanges or miners. I believe china is in the game of using any method to undermine the western hegemony in the world. This is not even controversial. I'm even willing to believe that the whole covid-19 crisis is leveraged by them for relative power gains. There's not much evidence for this, but that's what I would do. I think the cryptomining rigs could eventually be claimed by the government to house a large general AI and destroy the crypto market in one swing. If I were the Chinese government I would at least entertain that idea. The fact that people don't care about crypto not being really decentralized makes me believe china would research such ploys. They are growing their power in any domain they can get away with, this is one of them.

- south chinese sea islands

- HK annexation

- pressuring Taiwan and constructing infrastructure towards the island.

- hacking attacks

- tibet (making sure homeland security is maximal)

- the concentration camps with Uyghurs (making sure homeland security is maximal)

- the infrastructural projects in africa to gain access to resources

- the buying of as much european assets (like ports, factories, real estate) as possible.

- the state assisted development of large cyber start-ups/companies (jack ma didn't disappear for nothing)

- the state infiltration of big technology firms like huawei 5g and others.

It seems like a clear picture to me.

One of America's greatest strategical assets is the dollar being the world's reserve currency. It's basically a way to be able to print almost endless amounts of dollars without the punitive danger of inflation. Other countries will buy your excess money to make sure their reserves won't devalue.

If china wants hegemony, they would need to undermine this asset in a subtle way. If bitcoin becomes very mainstream and more stable, then this will become the new reserve currency. With the air of being unbiased. However, china controls many of the levers.

Just my three cents.

I was typing a similar response, before I saw your better articulated one. Thank you.

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@ratww: people don't like different accounts for a very good reason: it costs a lot more money to obtain the same value.

Why use epic and edge when you can haves Firefox? My experience with Mozilla has always been great. It might be marginally slower than chrome, but I don't notice and they have great features and it's open source

I dunno, it has never been tried right? What do you think would happen?