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Re:Activists Are Protesting Against Palantir Across the Coun... by redwood on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @07:01AM (#24553065)
Doesn't help that their founder is a white supremicist
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Re:Activists Are Protesting Against Palantir Across the Coun... by jackric on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @07:26AM (#24553242)
Gavin McInnes? He hasn't been involved for 12 years how would that affect today's quality of writing?

Or unless you're just trying to crowbar in a signal of your virtue?

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Re:Activists Are Protesting Against Palantir Across the Coun... by geofft on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @07:40AM (#24553333)
It's relevant specifically because old Vice was more influenced by him than it is today, and the claim is that Vice was better in the past.
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Re:Activists Are Protesting Against Palantir Across the Coun... by jackric on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @07:50AM (#24553393)
"Doesn't help that their founder is a white supremicist"

If this person thinks the writing was better in the past, they're unlikely to call the departing influence a "white supremicist".

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Re:Activists Are Protesting Against Palantir Across the Coun... by mercurysmessage on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @08:57AM (#24553880)
"Or unless you're just trying to crowbar in a signal of your virtue?"

What is the point of saying this?

White supremacists are bad, why do you take issue with someone saying that?

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Re:Activists Are Protesting Against Palantir Across the Coun... by jackric on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @10:35AM (#24554850)
Because it looks like using poor logic as a hook to express a rewardable ingroup opinion, and not anything interesting about why the writing quality has declined.

White supremacists are bad, and wrong.

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Re:Activists Are Protesting Against Palantir Across the Coun... by mercurysmessage on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @01:31PM (#24557405)
What rewardable ingroup opinion? What ingroup? Every single person with a head on their shoulders should be against white supremacism.

Your reply reads the same as every reply from a far right peron. Calling everything "virtue signalling" as if people can't care about each other.

I think OP's point was that the writing was never great, I'm not sure what Mcinness's relation to Vice would be now.

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Re:Activists Are Protesting Against Palantir Across the Coun... by jackric on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @04:07PM (#24559208)
Bringing in a virtuous point in irrelevant occasions is virtue signalling. By the way I can't stand people who litter, and I picked up 3 pieces of litter already today.
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