wismer

spot on.

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At least HN is a notch above GamerGate

Wow. Ok, I was afraid that this copypasta account was going to bring up "slam-dunk" fallacies to bring me to shame, however woefully misunderstood.

Let me spell it out for you - Just because some women happen to identify with the GooberGater movement doesn't mean that GooberGate is not, at the very LEAST, misogynistic in tone. If you can't understand that then there's nothing that anyone here can do for you.

Go back to /r/KotakuInAction. And tell the moderators there that they may want to drop their association with /r/dickgirls and /r/breakfemanazis

There's a really good reason for it and it's up to you to figure that part out.

A racist man says: "I'm not racist; I have black friends." Do you see what's wrong with that statement?

"It's about ethics" yet most of the moderators of the subreddit /r/KotakuInAction are also moderators of distinctly misogynstic subreddits http://i.imgur.com/3j7uzXZ.jpg

EDIT: You might be taking downvotes too personally.

I think you might be taking the concept of 'white privilege' too personally.

That's quite a rhetorical leap you just made, there.

oh, please. No one wants to engage with a self-proclaimed martyr.

I like reading this stuff. Sure, I may not use Rust for any real application yet, but it's been teaching me a whole lot on different paradigms than I am used to. I think these articles are great because it pushes boundaries in understanding. And this is a science we are talking about - experimentation is a lot of fun!

oh yous guys! When are you three gonna come back to nyc ;)

I wish I could share your optimism about England.

I second what you've said, as I've had the same experiences in dealing with it myself. Adderall is not crack, but other people may abuse it as such. People without the disorder.

huh?

Truly warms my heart to see there is some resonance on HN for the stoics. I came across Epictetus in a particularly low part in my life - it was this particular passage that nailed me - excuse the bad formatting/spelling. http://wismer.github.io/

Trying to think of analogy here but nothing concrete comes up. The messy thing about this is that the ethnic, cultural and linguistic makeup of Crimea is by majority, Russian. It's something of an foreign-induced rebellion that the majority willingly accept.

So, let's say Crimea overwhelmingly wishes to secede to Russia. Would it be undemocratic for the US to oppose such a move, whether it is induced/heavily influenced by a foreign nation? It get's murkier at that point. It's a rather well-planned move on Putins part and I believe it was pre-mediated months in advance. But that's just my opinion.

Crimea is a semi-autonomous region of the Ukraine. They elect their own PM, etc.

Russia is still technically invading a sovereign nation, though the line gets smudged somewhat because of Crimea's status.

Imagine if you will a US that is not imperialist; a foreign policy that is one of isolationism. Now imagine Russia as it exists today; expansionist and oligarchical. With no one strong enough to oppose it, how would anyone stop it from pulling off political coups or military invasions on flimsy pretexts?

Or vice versa?

Sorry, but how does the link that to setting up the riots? That's an accusation without any concrete proof.

I don't think the parent commenter was implying that, either. At the face of it, it is simply minor quibbling over details.

The commenter may have implied they were troops of the Russian Army, but did not outright say it. Since these few hundred are mercenaries (might as well call them that, not 'private contractors'), they are still an extension of a sovereign nations armed forces.

I think the circumstances surrounding the conflict in Kosovo paint a starkly different picture from what's going on in Ukraine.

Check out the media coverage table on pg 34.

"Comparing average coverage by private and state media outlets in Figures 1 and 2, we find imbalance in the tone of coverage among both but find it more pronounced among state media. On the one hand, in state-owned television, 95 percent of reporting was positive about Hugo Chávez, while in private outlets this number reached 48 percent." (pg34)

"...NGOs monitoring the campaign, such as Transparencia Venezuela and Grupo La Colina, have indicated broad use of government resources to support the Chávez campaign, such as vehicles to transport campaign workers and supporters to marches and also on voting day." (pg43)

"In the Venezuelan context, safeguards to prevent the abuses of ventajismo or to make violations of the law costly not just financially but politically, in terms of imposing sanctions against the perpetrating campaign, are crucially missing." (pg43)

http://www.cartercenter.org/resources/pdfs/news/peace_public...

Right, I agree to an extent with that assessment. It would, in my mind, be more agreeable to say that the 24 hr news cycle was negligent and in dereliction of their duties as members of the free press to not report the story simply in the scope that it wouldn't generate enough viewers as, say, the Bieber thing. I don't believe there's complicity between the press and the US Govt which was (I believe) implied in the article.

But I still hold to the opinion that the coverage by mainstream press did garner enough attention from most people outside of the Internet. The Boston Globe, NYT, and the AP, covered the story.

Of course, those sources have a limited audience and I can't prove how many news outlets bought AP's story because I don't know how.

Edit: News media doesn't hold a monopoly on truth, but this was an exaggeration that can be easily refuted.

Forgive me for my initial sarcasm. You prove a good point but I don't fully agree.

True, but it makes me scrutinize it all the more.

I'm sorry, perhaps I misinterpreted the headline:

"US Media blacks out snowden interview"

as

"Only US _televised_ news sources either did not report with enough depth on the interview, did not report on it entirely, or gave a delayed report; the content of which is not terribly new or substantiated with evidence [1]"

One of these headlines is a short, snappier version that is considered click bait. All this coming from a source that promotes, among other things, the alleged (and widely debunked) link between autism/vaccines.

Color me skeptical, but when a news source bends the truth in order to grab attention, I tend to scrutinize it all the more.

Look, I support Snowden but this isn't journalism. This is hyperbole. Going to such extremes to "fight the system", to be the counter-weight to whatever scheming superpower there is, corrupts. So yes, I stand behind my original accusation that this is "moving the goal-posts". The headline claims US media blocked out the interview, but I find it rather easy to find US reports on this bit of news online. So, to re-examine the accusation, it's not true. US Media did _not_ black out the interview. So what now?

[1] He makes claims that the US spy agencies have been spying on corporations, but he does not elaborate on it. This is unusual for Snowden as he usually provides ample evidence to support his assertions. Don't you think that this would be a bigger deal if he had supplied the evidence to go along with that interview?

"Yes, but what about..." This is moving the goalposts.

This website, this source for "investigative journalism" includes a video that claims that there's a link between autism and vaccines.

http://benswann.com/truth-in-media-vaccine-court-and-autism/

Thanks for providing this.