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Re:Twitter suspends alt-right figureheads by psyc on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @10:15AM (#12967603)
From what I see in my feed, it seems 100% of "progressives" have doubled down on their hyperbolic, established, in-group rhetoric. I followed everyone that I follow because they are programmers, not because they are "progressives". But from looking at my feed, one would think that I deliberately set out to create a radical SJW echo chamber for myself.
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Re:Twitter suspends alt-right figureheads by dictum on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @10:46AM (#12967946)
I looked at a list of OSS project leaders and other programmers recently and was surprised at the popularity of the hammer and sickle symbol in their bios.

Upside is that I now know who not to listen to when the next tech drama pops up.

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Re:Twitter suspends alt-right figureheads by grzm on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @12:22PM (#12969182)
Do you literally mean hammer and sickle? Or is that a literary device?
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Re:Twitter suspends alt-right figureheads by dictum on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @12:29PM (#12969238)
Literally the unicode character for hammer and sickle (U+262D)
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Re:Twitter suspends alt-right figureheads by grzm on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @12:43PM (#12969372)
Wow. Do you have references?
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Re:Twitter suspends alt-right figureheads by vorotato on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @01:58PM (#12970161)
Well mine will now. Thanks for showing this to me.
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Re:Twitter suspends alt-right figureheads by dictum on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @02:24PM (#12970478)
I can't blame you for wanting to feel the same rush from promoting cruel radical ideologies with a postironic wink that the aforementioned alt-right leaders feel, so... good luck.
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Re:Twitter suspends alt-right figureheads by lotsoflumens on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @10:26AM (#12967715)
Exactly the same here. You wrote my thoughts perfectly.

It's sad actually.

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Re:Twitter suspends alt-right figureheads by dragonwriter on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @12:15PM (#12969096)
> From what I see in my feed, it seems 100% of "progressives" have doubled down on their hyperbolic, established, in-group rhetoric

Then that's a problem with your filter bubble.

> I followed everyone that I follow because they are programmers, not because they are "progressives".

Which is why your view of progressives produced by that is distorted. Programmers who happen to be progressives aren't representative of progressives as a whole (they aren't representative of the broader group along class/income, education, race/ethnicity, or gender lines, among others, and several of those do correlate with preferred approaches.)

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Re:Twitter suspends alt-right figureheads by throwanem on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @12:52PM (#12969471)
Who is representative of progressives as a whole?
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Re:Twitter suspends alt-right figureheads by dragonwriter on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @01:59PM (#12970171)
Other than a sufficiently large randomly-selected sample, no such group is particularly likely to be.
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