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I think both parties might be experiencing TEOTWAWKI. Good. I'm waiting with great interest to see if the Republicans split and collapse as a party. I told Mr. Perfect some time ago that, in my opinion, the two parties are designed to fight each other and the collapse of one party would trigger the...

tl;dr: the new American elite is founded on shared beliefs, not blood and local corruption. For reasons unclear, this is not an improvement. The article wistfully recounts an era where Anglo Saxon heritage was necessary to ascend to elite status and asserts without evidence that there were substant...

Hi Doc Been a while. That 3D printing idea didn't work out. We didn't get the investment capital. We worked on more analytics and web app stuff instead. Bought a house in the country, looking forward to growing some food here soon. ... Thanks man. Hope you're well. Good to see that you are well and...

noddy wrote: ↑Tue Jan 19, 2021 5:51 am we already are.

some suicide internally, drugs and depression, some do it externally with terrorism and nihilism.

both of those define our age.

Violence defines every age.

noddy

I guess we'll just start seeing more deaths of despair.

Be it black or white redneck, everyone in a society should have competent math and literacy skills so that they can make other choices in life than "livin' with yo mama" while trying to make it as a "gangsta rappa". Be that a apprenticeship to learn a useful trade, attend colleg...

Wow your math. Holy lavender, HUGE error. 39 out of 100,000 isn't 7000 out of 100,000 it is 39 out of 100,000. 1 in 15 black people isn't a murderer 1 in 2564 is. Not even wrong. Nice to see you around, Enki. Shame we didn't meet when I lived in New York and I hope you are staying safe. Hey Zack, y...

Wow your math. Holy lavender, HUGE error.

39 out of 100,000 isn't 7000 out of 100,000 it is 39 out of 100,000.

1 in 15 black people isn't a murderer 1 in 2564 is.

Also, sociologists don't disregard culture when they talk about poverty. They just don't limit the boundaries of culture by race. African American culture is considered part of American culture as a whole. The culture of making sure resources stay in white hands is pretty essential to any analysis o...

Colonel Sun

I just find it interesting how the 39 murderers of 100,000 black people or the 5 murderers per hundred thousand white people say something about 'culture' but the 999,961 who never murdered anyone don't say anything about the culture.

What happens when the snake finishes eating its tail?

Yea. Temporary deplatforming is exactly the same as murdering millions of people.

I don't think you understand history very well.

Good. Jack Dorsey is doing the right thing by not helping insurrection.

White Wingers get treated like left wing protesters and they cannot believe the tyranny!

Doc

Lmao.

The endless specious examples you come up with to try to portray the 90 days in jail and a Twitter ban to genocide is comical.

Saul Alinsky gives you a B-.

Well, if you all prefer your news from proven liars, then that is your choice.

Fox and Newsmax aren't going anywhere. You can get all your emotional jiggles from misinformation that you could ever want.

Doc wrote: ↑Sat Jan 16, 2021 4:03 pm

Enki wrote: ↑Sat Jan 16, 2021 4:25 am Yea the unthinking arrogance is on full display when they get so shocked that there are consequences for trying to take Congress hostage.

"They"

Yea, "They", the Nazis that invaded the Capitol. A group that didn't include me, or you.

Doc wrote: ↑Sat Jan 16, 2021 4:03 pm

Enki wrote: ↑Sat Jan 16, 2021 4:25 am Yea the unthinking arrogance is on full display when they get so shocked that there are consequences for trying to take Congress hostage.

"They"

Yea, "They", the Nazis that invaded the Capitol. A group that didn't include me, or you.

noddy My point is even simpler than all of that. Trump would swing in another country in the past for what he did. Instead he got banned on Twitter and his durian cultists are talking about it like it's the gulag. People see big tech being tyrannical when the reality is they tried so very hard not ...

to access pirate bay in my country I need to run custom DNS servers and a vpn to bypass the blacklist our government enforces on the internet. so while its true they can easily bring it back up without amazon technology, they also needed to play whackamole games to an ever decreasing audience. No o...

noddy I don't buy the deplatforming narrative at all. Milo Yiannapolous got deplatformed. Claims it ended his career. But the reality is, he was a twat who no one really liked, didn't have a loyal fan base and his revenue dried up. Are we supposed to believe that being uninvited to speak at Berkele...

noddy

As for deplatforming. The White House platform hasn't been touched.

Just Trump’s personal account.

noddy

There are some really hard information management problems with a decentralized system. But people with resources and platforms are going for the original dream of the internet.

A friend of mine is working on this BTW.

The social media giants don't want to police the internet really. They are just avoiding liability. Many of these guys got into it with the decentralized ethos.

https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/15/twitt ... c=ECFB2021