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mcantelon

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    Comment #41075203

    >Imo, the bigger question is why Hungary, Poland, Spain, Greece, and Cyprus (all countries part of the recent EU Spyware Scandal) [1] continue to allow their Interior Ministries to…

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    Comment #31331189

    >web3 is a culmination of late capitalist grift, ironic meming, libertarianism and mansplaining, all resting on bad tech that is damaging the planet ... Proof of Stake is an altern…

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    Comment #25787119

    There's lot of edgy people on Twitter... lots of folks with hammers and sickles, ironic or otherwise, in their handles, despite the many documented atrocities committed by communis…

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    Comment #23364188

    Law of the jungle's where it's at.

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    Comment #23076634

    Institutions earned their current distrust.

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    Comment #23075991

    >If the code were an ATM pin code cracker, would that be any different? No. Lots of pen testing stuff exists in the open source realm. A society that allows exploits to be "free sp…

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    Comment #23072238

    Reports of shitty working conditions aren't exactly a new thing in Amazon warehouses.

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    Comment #22407359

    >I got no doubt at this stage that the US will be hit the hardest from all the developed countries. It's the biggest and most diverse so that's wouldn't be surprising, yes.

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    Comment #22407304

    It's not "hypocritical" to address the fact that authoritarianism is a failure multiplier unless one is an advocate of authoritarianism.

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    Comment #22361922

    >The Nazis won a plurality of the popular vote, so it’s not exactly a great distinguishing factor for Trump. The distinguishing factor is that Trump's admin doesn't actually resemb…

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    Comment #22360988

    Perhaps mainstream conservatives would be cooler with this type of violent agitprop-masquerading-as-satire if it they weren't often called Nazis and physically attacked.

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    Comment #22360938

    >Yes it's accurate, though the "Always Punch Nazis" controversy was just the tip of the iceberg Wow pretty crazy that a company would expect employees to consistently enforce a rea…

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    Comment #22205498

    Given historical experimentation by the military and intelligence agencies it seems pretty likely that this sort of research is happening.

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    Comment #22205426

    >who clearly have not investigated any of the most obvious follow-up questions, such as “what is the probability of this occurring naturally?” If it's true then the cause is an ent…

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    Comment #22205289

    The Twitter user seems legit. The Internet in general is full of BS yet we don't guilt-by-association the entire Internet.

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    Comment #22204750

    Corporate media has done a lot to promote polarization (and even violence). Social media is making corporate media redundant to some degree, but those who run social media are also…

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    Comment #22204726

    The severity has grown but the scale of the toxicity's grown in the "human flesh search engine" era.

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    Comment #22204401

    Lots of people would move into other people's nicer homes if they could too, but the owners of the homes might take issue with that. Nations are a form of collective property.

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    Comment #22204388

    What some call "American cultural imperialism" is what he/she is likely talking about.

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    Comment #22204353

    Animals protect their territory. Fierce tribalism has long existed. I find the idea that people could just live anywhere, back in the day, to be hard to believe. In some places? Su…

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    Comment #22204250

    >i don't believe in borders and if you believe in the free market then you shouldn't either "Free" doesn't necessarily mean unregulated or without limitations. If you want to scrap…

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    Comment #22062110

    Characterizing someone as having a "traumatic and damaging" influence seems pretty positive.

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    Comment #22062075

    Using an obituary to characterize someone's influence as "traumatic and damaging" is kind of extraordinary.