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    Comment #25710071

    And BLM rioters didn't also attack police? Give me a break. Both extreme sides need to be dealt with.

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    Comment #25709373

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    Comment #25708834

    They have to do this by the fact that Google and Apple preceded them, they don't want to appear as the bad guys.

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    Comment #25708792

    And far right groups don't have ideological roots in the US? It's not absurd, it's history.

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    Comment #25708538

    That didn't work out so well with ISIS did it?

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    Comment #25708485

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    Comment #25708111

    You don't think the radical left is a problem that the far right is feeding off of? Then the cycle goes on. They both feed off each other.

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    Comment #25708085

    Arabic uses derivatives of words for specific connotations. "nusi" means "has been forgotten", "instasa" means "made to have been forgotten", but in this case it might be used for …

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    Comment #25708038

    They can ban individual accounts calling for violence (which happens on both the extreme left and extreme right). But it's only socially acceptable to ban one of those, the other g…

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    Comment #25707915

    > To me it seems obvious the feedback works in the opposite direction. Deplatforming disrupts the feedback bubbles that radicalize these people. I think it will push them off to ev…

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    Comment #25707900

    It's due to extreme virtue signaling, basically cancel culture. These companies have to behave alongside the social pressure or else they're going to lose revenue.

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    Comment #25706654

    Exactly, and both sides are guilty of that: https://cdn.cnsnews.com/styles/article_big/s3/2021-01/Arthur...

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    Comment #25706645

    The far left is equally bad: https://cdn.cnsnews.com/styles/article_big/s3/2021-01/Arthur...

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    Comment #25706636

    > The republicans have espoused a dangerous ideology that not just allows but welcomes factual untruths and a worrying disconnect from rational thought. As if the dems didn't do th…

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    Comment #25699102

    Why don't they ban people like https://cdn.cnsnews.com/styles/article_big/s3/2021-01/Arthur...

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    Comment #25699052

    Would you disagree that they're run by heavily liberal companies though?

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    Comment #25682678

    Check out Islam's Zakat, which has been proven to work. It's not a wealth tax per se as proposed by some foolish and unrealistic policies, but cash sitting in the bank is taxed at …

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    Comment #25682647

    How is that wealth tax even supposed to work? The only successful model that is remotely close that has been historically proven is Islam's Zakat, a form of charity tax if you will…

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    Comment #25682600

    How much do you need to retire? $500K? $1M? $10M?

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    Comment #25678252

    > Which, to be clear, has been tried and tested in the form of gold standard and deemed not satisfactory Deemed unsatisfactory by who? The money printers? The banks? Yes, the peopl…

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    Comment #25678125

    Who would get fired though? It seems that it is more likely to affect those lower in the hierarchy.

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    Comment #25660847

    > and I would wager that this doctor's clinic already makes a lot of money (2-3x that 650K) every year if not more. Forgiving 650K is nothing to scoff at, no matter how much money …

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    Comment #25660192

    > And even for credit, I am not sure interest is needed. That leads to the world devouring growth that we have. Exactly. It's not needed. It causes a growth at all cost situation w…

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    Comment #25654641

    > I'd never heard that usury rules applied to financial contracts before. Islam prohibits something called Riba. Interest and usury fall under it, but Riba encompasses more than ju…