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how is social democracy more authoritarian than capitalist democracy?

actually when the vaccine first came out, no one knew of or talked about long covid (no idea why I cant just edit my reply)

the message was : 1) you're less likely to get covid if you are injected 2) you're less likely to need to go to the hospital if you are injected 3) when the vaccine first came out, no one knew of or talked about long covid

pgh in the hause!

I wanted this for a long time. Like you right click and get a choice of discussion, explanations, or clarifications, etc. I haven't studied Xanadu, but there just has to be something that does this out there already

> 'is like expecting women not to be afraid at night'

some women that I am afraid of would like a word :)

I'm very interested in the recent origins of this playbook. 'never apologize, never explain' is really old, but it seems to be a thing now

are you saying that Ukrainians want more than to just not be invaded?

android 11 asks me if i want to charge only or also allow data transfer. Is it that we can't trust android to be not be hacked just by checking if data pins exist?

assists?

> losing ... winning

not 'losing or winning' but upholding the principle of 'no aggression' is what is (hopefully) popular?

sounds like Timothy Snyder's sadopopulism.

aren't vaccine mandates for participation in a shared environment - like work?

per 'defund the police' being extreme, here's a story. living near Pitt in 1981. iiuc, Reagan defunding forced the local psych hospital to empty out. So now we had a bunch of patients with psychiatric disabilities living homeless in the neighborhood, and my understanding is that they needed to stay close by the hospital in order to get daily meds. Of course this resulted in more police involvement, and though I don't have the proof, the common sense reaction would be to allocate more officers to the zone. I'll bet the officers in the street weren't thrilled.

end result : mental health funding decreased and police funding increased.

So my understanding of 'defund the police' is to reverse what happened in that and many similar situations

> biden said voted (sic) fraud org

to me he clearly meant 'voter fraud prevention', which is still wrong, afik it was a much needed voter empowerment organiztion

> I never affirmatively said fraud happened

> if voting fraud almost certainly happened

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> majority of US citizens believe ... instead of actually 'proving' that fraud occurred, couldn't this be a measure of successful disinformation?

wasn't there a huge effort, like 60+ lawsuits? to show fraud? why was there no significant fraud found?

how does the linked NYT article support your position that fraud was committed at that site? Did the bipartisan boards of county and state canvassers review the processes and results?

I'm honestly having trouble deciding if you're trolling or not. Do you really not understand that it's not binary but about the chances? isn't it simply how many out of a some big number of vaccinated got it and how bad did they get it, versus how many out of the same big number of non-vaccinated people got it, and how bad did they get it?

What concerns me is that not everyone agrees that we need to end bigotry, but if you and I agree on that one point, then great. Thanks

Are you arguing that there is no real hate speech?

Sadopopulism

Please provide clear evidence showing where Brook Binkowski presents misinformation.

what's stopping anyone from fact-checking the fact-checkers? Also, it would be great if fact checking was presented in an argdown form, or someway to distill the bases of disagreement

Please provide an example of where Brooke Binkowski is egregiously and utterly incorrect. She's a hero to me and I'm leery of having hero's.

can i ask how? thank you

This is for those here that think 'fact checkers' are a bad idea. You don't want a fact checker to deliver your opinion of hard questions, like 'is there life after death', but we need fact checkers because some people are on the fence over whether the earth is flat. this is cut and dried. you can argue fine points, but for people who aren't sure, a fact check report that condenses everything that is known and summarizes as 'scam' would be helpful to alot of people. I'd love to see a argdown platform for this stuff

what do you find hateful? Do you not think that there is alot of politicized misinformation now that is making the current public health crisis worse? One of my best friends has fallen for qanon. He thinks that vaccine makes you magnetic and Michelle Obama is a man. Should we be ok with this? squarefoot does not say he wishes harm on anyone, he just sounds frustrated, and i can relate

Is a concept like 'feeding babies is better (i.e. cheaper and healthier) than jailing adults' progressive and so probably based on misinformed understandings of history and science, or is it not progressive?

> no fire appeared

do you mean, despite denying witness access, Fifth Amendment invocations, and all the convictions, no proof of direct involvement of trump?

'Vendor Lock in' was also a problem. When it came time to renew leases/licenses, IBM could say whatever. There was no recourse but to pay. Funny/sad that we believed Oracle when they said they were the solution to 'Vendor Lock in'. The billion+ dollar grift was thick.

hilarious, given i just came from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25928183