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snicksnak

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    Comment #26757084

    The Alex Jones and Tim Dillon episode is one of the best ones ever, very sad they pulled it, at least it's still on youtube (for now).

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    Comment #26756255

    always pay attention who you hire, especially in HR. Woke and activist HR hires woke and activist people, woke and activist people will cause you trouble and can wreck your whole s…

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    Comment #26739576

    the same people probably also find reading Kant offensive

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    Comment #26738982

    It's also a successful tactic, sadly, to just call everyone a racist, the worst thing you can call someone nowadays, and hope they cave. I'm simply not having it and will never eng…

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    Comment #26738886

    This trope is everywhere now. I see this so often now where high profile substack writers are constantly being smeared as transphobic. It's a tactic, and defense and offense strate…

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    Comment #26738823

    yeah, that bothered me too. If it's a pseudoscience then why should I care. I hate it when such campaigns with very concrete objectives try to drag everything possible into them. T…

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    Comment #26724261

    This behaviour is normalized for a while, the wall street journal wasn't an outlier back then, but now it seems to be also expected when working for big media outlets, just look at…

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    Comment #26704146

    yeah, there is whole army of those brave speech police officers out there

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    Comment #26703739

    Of course this will get weaponized, if it isn't already. We've seen time and time again that a vile old tweet in the wrong hands can be very powerful, it's a ticking time bomb. Thi…

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    Comment #26684062

    but at least they're woke while doing it.

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    Comment #26632572

    > start discussing how we elect the president of our country lmao

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    Comment #26616799

    In general, but the risk-reward ration is now way off, as the author of the article mentions, so why risk it if you potentially face harsh repercussions.

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    Comment #26613922

    I think it's now essentially a risk-reward decision, like the author said. And the potential risk of being ousted after being accused of something weighs very high.

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    Comment #26613847

    This trend isn't going away anytime soon, In fact I think it's just ramping up and is accelerating, especially with the racism narrative the main stream media outlets started to he…

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    Comment #26610147

    > I use social media for information, not to be turned into a money-making asset for those I follow. can you describe what you use as sources of information on twitter? Can't be an…

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    Comment #26605929

    Pretty wild list of misrepresentations you have there, your points about Greenwald are downright slanderous. > Greenwald More Recently has been on shows of hard right people like T…

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    Comment #26602660

    How come a link to REUTERS article, with the exact headline is flagged?

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    Comment #26601604

    > Only the policeman and the shot women are indicative of anything coup-like. We still don't know what was the Officer's cause of death. But after weeks of fake news stories about …

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    Comment #26601539

    Assange is in prison, possibly for life for the crime of making US war crimes public. Greenwald has 24/7 protection because his recent reporting exposed the corruption in Balsonaro…

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    Comment #26601215

    That the government is trying to expand censorship and remove things it doesn't like is something I expect, of course, even if the extent of it surprises and deeply appals me. For …

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    Comment #26598058

    The changes are pretty ridiculous [1], apparently the gobernment's devs kept deliberately renaming a specific header by adding and increasing a number at the end, from `xsrf-token`…

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    Comment #26569541

    i'm going out on a limb here and __speculating__ it's the identity of this person to fulfill some kind of quota, I can't explain it otherwise.

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    Comment #26569389

    Jeez, that's disgusting and concerning to say the least. Wonder if this is another case of reddit admins went rogue or even sanctioned by reddit.

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    Comment #26548702

    Can we call it the chinese variant then? Because we do that with the new mutations: the brazilian variant, british variant, south african variant