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Re:South Korea to ban music over 120bpm in gyms, in response to Covid ...
on Monday July 12, 2021 @04:26PM (#27814660)
I don't know about that. I received some negative comments recently for asking for evidence that wearing a mask, while outdoors, while socially distanced was ever effective.
People still have their egos and identities attached to this, seeing disagreement as a personal or political attack.
Re:Fewer young men are in the labor force, more are living at home
on Saturday June 12, 2021 @08:27AM (#27483973)
Born in a diamond mine
It's all around you, but you can't touch it
Sayin', "God, make me famous"
"If you can't, just make it painless"
Re:Peloton to invest $400M to build its first U.S. manufacturing facil...
on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @02:35PM (#27280524)
I know the phrase gets overused but that would be a prime example of virtue signaling.
Re:Last year, more people in San Francisco died of overdoses than of C...
on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @03:17AM (#27205564)
I had people on here saying some pretty nasty things to me for suggesting that while social distancing is good, having a mask on when outside and more than 6 ft apart is unnecessary.
I wonder if they realize how they're proving all the "virtue signaling" critics right.
Re:Amazon’s Ring now reportedly partners with 2k US police and fire de...
on Monday February 01, 2021 @11:28AM (#25990090)
Fear is incredibly profitable.
Re:Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 180K in few ...
on Thursday January 28, 2021 @09:29PM (#25952919)
The Google play store managers and/or their bosses probably have their hands deep in it. It'd be interesting to see what a real investigation into this produces.
Re:Made in the USA: Socialism for the Rich. Capitalism for the Rest
on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @11:51AM (#25930450)
Do you really think that is a rare sentiment?
Re:Made in the USA: Socialism for the Rich. Capitalism for the Rest
on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @09:52AM (#25928895)
Re:Made in the USA: Socialism for the Rich. Capitalism for the Rest
on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @09:46AM (#25928842)
An unfortunately popular sentiment nonetheless.
Re:Made in the USA: Socialism for the Rich. Capitalism for the Rest
on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @09:03AM (#25928361)
Many people see BLM as a conduit for the redistribution of power and wealth towards minorities and thus communist.
Re:How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler
on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @12:28PM (#25750110)
Regulatory capture prevents competition. Money influencing politics prevents regulation.
Re:Citing 'Censorship' Concerns, North Idaho ISP Blocks Facebook, Twitter
on Monday January 11, 2021 @06:03PM (#25739148)
As stated elsewhere, by asking the question you’re assuming the point is to have a rational argument on consistent beliefs - but it isn’t. It’s to gaslight and misdirect for political gain.
Re:Stripe bans Trump campaign
on Sunday January 10, 2021 @07:24PM (#25722248)
There is a difference between having unpopular opinions and advocating for violently overthrowing our government.
Re:Mexico president slams social media censorship
on Saturday January 09, 2021 @07:53PM (#25706998)
> "When do we beat Mexico at the border? They're laughing at us, at our stupidity. And now they are beating us economically. They are not our friend, believe me."
- Donald Trump, during his presidential bid [1]
[1] - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/06...
Re:Boeing charged with 737 Max fraud conspiracy and agrees to pay over...
on Thursday January 07, 2021 @05:16PM (#25678390)
> I always wonder why executives earn so much money when there is no responsibility on them when things go wrong.
The word you are looking for is "oligarchy".
Re:Top% of U.S. Households Hold 15 Times More Wealth Than Bottom 50% C...
on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @05:55PM (#25576081)
If you believe that supremacy is a good thing, this is absolutely wonderful news.
Re:California plan for wealth tax on anyone who spends 60 days a year ...
on Saturday December 19, 2020 @12:06PM (#25478875)
The underlying counterargument was that it was never completely "your stuff" to begin with.
Re:California plan for wealth tax on anyone who spends 60 days a year ...
on Saturday December 19, 2020 @11:56AM (#25478764)
The underlying counterargument is that tax dodging is a form of violence against the poor.
Re:Justin Amash Introduces Bill to End Civil Asset Forfeiture Nationwide
on Friday December 18, 2020 @12:14PM (#25469298)
Is the act of doing some drugs enough to ruin your life? The wealthy do drugs all the time. I'm willing to bet the majority of our politicians have done "illegal drugs" during their adult lives.
Why the double standard?
Re:Who Were America’s Enslaved? New Database Humanizes the Names Behin...
on Monday December 14, 2020 @08:25PM (#25425893)
What year is the correct cutoff year where the effects of slavery should be ignored?
Re:An AI Girlfriend Seducing China’s Lonely Men
on Monday December 14, 2020 @02:58PM (#25422411)
Would that logic apply to people who joke about topics like death?
A lot of comedians would be demonized under such logic.
Re:Nordic prison cells look like $3k apartments in San Francisco
on Sunday December 13, 2020 @01:54PM (#25409037)
Rising crime waves are prevented by Nordic approaches to social welfare and economic safety nets, things Americans decry as socialist.
Re:Naked Yoga videos don’t violate Community Guidelines says YouTube
on Saturday December 12, 2020 @03:25PM (#25401374)
Is there a way to view videos deemed nsfw without signing into a google/youtube account?
Re:The Big Moves: Where People Are Moving
on Saturday December 12, 2020 @01:16PM (#25400234)
There is a strong deluge of propaganda to make people believe that there is this sudden migration surge from California and New York to Texas and Florida. But people have always been leaving CA and NY—as people are also always moving to CA and Texas all the same.
A better statistic to take into account is net migration.
Re:Twitter limits users interacting with Trump's tweets about 'stolen'...
on Saturday December 12, 2020 @01:09PM (#25400185)
It's a bit ridiculous at this stage to suppose that those supporting Trump's coup attempt are doing so in good faith.
If you are not an American, I suppose it makes sense that you are not aware of the current political climate. If you are American, then you've been deliberately ignoring the obvious.
Re:Twitter limits users interacting with Trump's tweets about 'stolen'...
on Saturday December 12, 2020 @11:46AM (#25399495)
> Do you think there are many people here that would support a breakdown of the democratic process, a coup? I'd hope that those people are in the vast minority.
Your naivete is being taken advantage of by bad faith actors.
Re:MasterCard and Visa will stop processing cards for Pornhub
on Thursday December 10, 2020 @09:20PM (#25381495)
You mean like marijuana?
Re:US House Vote 228-164 Approve Legislation Decriminalize Marijuana F...
on Friday December 04, 2020 @03:09PM (#25307099)
Is this journalist untrustworthy?
Re:US House Vote 228-164 Approve Legislation Decriminalize Marijuana F...
on Friday December 04, 2020 @02:34PM (#25306641)
"You want to know what this was really all about?
The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news.
Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did."
- John Ehrlichman, Richard Nixon's aide on domestic affairs: