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My point is that our personal views on his positions and character are irrelevant. You seem to be discussing a different point.

How bad you or I think he is is irrelevant. If the people's decision is overturned when the elite do not like it then the country isn't any kind of democracy.

source?

Elo. Not acronym, named for its inventor Arpad Emmerich Elo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elo_rating_system

>your patronizing comment comes across massively condescending Not the case if you give the comment a charitable reading.

It could also be a moderation thing. If the people working on the website mostly just speak English, then it will be much easier for them to moderate an English-only website.

Relevant Utah Phillips story: https://youtu.be/j9c1vSIpHA0?t=97

>A hoax is a falsehood deliberately fabricated to masquerade as the truth Perse probably didn't know it was a hoax.

I'm not sure the person was speaking about the law or current rules.

One flaw in your reasoning is that often times people are willing to pay for things which are bad. For example, the Holocaust was bad (a lot of good people died), but people were w…

>not a recipe for happiness And certainly not a recipe for morality

And risk upsetting Israel?

It seems like you're suggesting that there aren't massive biological differences between a wild human and a crow. This is false. Humans have many biological faculties that crows si…

Surely the goal should be to be accurate rather than balanced?

He could set up a twitter clone for almost nothing because there are already fully working free software alternatives.

Not all of the time. Way too much chance involved. But enough to make a profit on average.

If one didn't mind breaking even rather than making money one could create a search engine which is free software and have groups/people host their own instances.

My ISP banned 4channel.org/lit ... a place for discussing literature and philosophy. Bit dumb.

>guns are not readily avaliable in New Zealand yeah, about that

The private company one is worse

Doesn't bother me. I think it's generally safe to assume comments here are made in good faith.

I didn't disregard your overall point, I just made a comment that didn't happen to relate to it.