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But seriously, what are your motives in defending Facebook so much?

Right, and it's echoed in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy [0] and elsewhere. [0] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ayn-rand/#Intr

It's not that she's evil, just that her "philosophy" is what you said: one person's view (i.e. opinion). She couldn't reconcile many critiques of Objectivism and didn't do much sel…

Yep, nailed it. For those of us who still read despite all that, here's the browser extension you've been looking for (Make Medium Readable Again): https://github.com/thebaer/MMRA

> Mr. Trump, who is known to watch Fox News while he is tweeting, posted his tweet shortly after a Fox News legal analyst appealed directly to the president during a Thursday morni…

Nope. A lot revolves around them, but there are plenty of ultra-rich ideologues pushing their agenda this way. You can find some good investigative research on this in "Dark Money"…

The formula works! If it can get that guy in the White House, it can sell anything . Also, I think it's kind of delicious when a variant like this is used to actually describe a pr…

> ... but they returned money when they stopped. After they took a couple mil for themselves :) [0] [0]: http://www.businessinsider.com/secret-founders-pocket-6-mill...

Isn't greed self-centeredness? > society at large is unquestionably a cesspit of low consciousness, and self-centered thinking That's a heck of a personal projection :) And pg disa…

Yes, it literally is. You just needed to scroll down the page a little more. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Seth_Rich#Conspiracy...

This is a seriously debunked conspiracy theory [0][1] that damages us all when people continually spread it. [0] http://www.snopes.com/seth-conrad-rich/ [1] http://www.npr.org/2017…

People in the intelligence community consider Snowden a Russian asset now. Russia could've flipped or co-opted Assange since the Bush years, or maybe it's only now coming out. Eith…

That's the point -- the CIA, FBI, and NSA determined with "high confidence" [0] that Russia worked to influence us through (among other outlets) the media -- especially social medi…

From the intelligence community assessment [0]: > The Kremlin’s principal international propaganda outlet RT (formerly Russia Today) has actively collaborated with WikiLeaks. RT’s …

It could be you or your family having connections to powerful people. Being famous. But what's important as it pertains to our conversation: being in an authoritative position, e.g…

> You honestly come off as hostile and even childish. You're fabricating complete strawmen and attacking them. > You also seem to be extremely self-loathing, and you want to projec…

I was mostly trying to point out how ridiculous camelite's argument sounded. I thought maybe we should instead have a serious conversation about the events leading up to Uber's cur…

Thanks dang. Removed.

I see what you're saying, but I've laid out many other, less aggressive points and remained open to any good counter-argument. I'll take the downvotes for this, but I think certain…

And trusting people to have free speech is definitely going to be abused by people who want to say controversial things. And trusting people to use encryption is definitely going t…

> Parent comment said "believe women who..." Luckily we have the power of inference and ability to understand what statements mean even when people use different words -- unless, o…

I'm neither rich nor powerful, and I don't feel pressure to do anything outside of ensure my own survival. I mean, I could get a girl pregnant and still have a hell of a lot less t…

Generally speaking, as a group, yes -- especially when compared to the social pressures put on women. Yes, that's changing, but we still have a way to go. Happy to hear any difficu…

> then you are deliberately stacking the deck against the specific men who are accused of sexual harassment, some of whom will invariably be innocent. This is really a stretch in l…

Power is enacted through multifarious means, with wealth being one of them. Wealth isn't a requisite for power. Generally in the US, positions of power are held by men, because of …