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Record Breaking Number of Journalists Arrested in the U.S. This Year

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Post by devmunchies »

dragonwriter wrote: post #427
devmunchies wrote: post #414

Earlier quoted context omitted.

IMO when the forming of militias became "extreme" (even though it's in the constitution) is when the writing was on the wall. You can't maintain freedom from the govt without keeping it in check. The public grew an aversion to militia's and we've been boiling the frog with more laws since.

> IMO when the forming of militias became "extreme" (even though it's in the constitution) is when the writing was on the wall. “Militias” are not in the Constitution. The militia , collective and unitary, and belonging to the nation as a whole (with regard to which there are both federal and state powers and responsibilities specified), is in the main body of the Constitution, and reference to a, singular, militia a…

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

Seems weird to have militia in the same sentence as the right to bear arms. Doesn't sound like its referencing the govt.

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Post by busterarm »

LordDragonfang wrote: post #477
daveslash wrote: post #330

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Now with online media you carry it into the bathroom . (Low quality comment, I know. I'll see myself out.)

Actually, that's a really good continuation of the analogy. Doorstep > living room > bathroom is a pretty succinct continuum of personal privacy or intimacy in your your living area.

Chilling, honestly. The way news is presented and consumed now means it's all horrors that we can't escape from.

It's all intensely personal and polarizing.

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Post by austincheney »

webmaven wrote: post #472
austincheney wrote: post #444

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Strength in numbers is a compensation for insecurity. > If the best explanation you can come up with for why a bunch of people exhibit a behavior you don't is "they have a personality flaw" Conformity. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conformity

> Strength in numbers is a compensation for insecurity. "strength in numbers". ≠ "economies of scale" The former is about relative group size, mutual defense within the group, and reducing the risks of aggression against outgroups. The latter is about increasing the effectiveness of coordinated activity more generally (which, yes, can include defense and aggression), especially those activities that persuade people.…

Originality imposes no attempt at either agreement or disagreement. Suggesting that a person must either agree or disagree (forced dichotomy fallacy) to achieve any desirable outcome misses the point. It is a solution not wanted.

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Post by tjr225 »

Reedx wrote: post #258
outworlder wrote: post #220

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Because we have looked at the statistics.

This is worth a read for a nuanced, holistic look at the stats. https://samharris.org/can-pull-back-brink/

For what it’s worth to anyone who finds themselves reading this for whatever reason; the author of the above comment changed their original post from a snarky “have you?” To its current form after my reply.

In my opinion that is not the behavior of someone who is trying to have a good faith discussion.

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Post by 867-5309 »

tick_tock_tick wrote: post #369
867-5309 wrote: post #328

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what about unemployed/retired software developers, and open source contributors?

Doesn't the fact that you had to use different language to communicate their status lead into their point?

no, it questions it

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Post by centimeter »

austincheney wrote: post #462
centimeter wrote: post #458

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Why do you think people who are undoubtedly smarter and more original than you are also buy into political "teams"? If "conformity" is your best answer, then once again, this demonstrates you don't really grasp what's going on.

Read the Wikipedia link. It answers your question.

This is not meant as an insult to you, but just as a warning that you should keep this in mind when you’re analyzing your own decision making; you are pretty clearly neither smart nor original. It’s very unlikely you are actually ever going to have any valuable original thoughts, at least in the way you seem to think you do.

I’m sure you’ll appreciate this since your profile is all about “radical honestly”. Taking Dalio seriously is another sign of a hopeless midwit with an inflated sense of intelligence.

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Post by TheMightyLlama »

This seems like the exact use case for an ILO. An Initial Legal Offering I was reading about that will now be easier for defendants to access.

The linked service allows you to use the blockchain to stake your currency against the legal proceeding benefitting in the outcome if successful.

https://www.institutionalassetmanager.co.uk/2020/12/15/29354...

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Post by Can_Not »

j_walter wrote: post #187
BLO716 wrote: post #25

I'll dare to ask this, but what defines a "journalist" in the data points here? The Clark Kent types are the only ones I really understand that can live under that title - but with the advent of syndication and micro-journalism (to use a term I just made up) for regional markets that have no real local presence of classic journalism, interested to know what it means now. Here in Buffalo, could go many directions.

Living near Portland I would say that anyone that puts "PRESS" on their shirt with tape defines themselves as a journalist...or even just someone holding a phone or camera. Same as those medics with a red cross out of tape. There have also been many examples of those 2 groups of people engaging in the violence that seem to think of themselves as immune to police orders because of it. Unfortunately the videos and pict…

> Andy Ngo

He's already been exposed as a fraud, alt right collaborator, doxxer of innocent victims.

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Post by astura »

astura wrote: post #223
user764743 wrote: post #144

Reading the comments in this thread and I am amazed at the sudden pro-authoritarian shift seen on HN lately, what's going on?

It's truly scary times we live in... It feels like the entire word has developed an authorization bend. The United States has a sitting president who is attempting a self-coup with the majority of the legislatures in his party supporting it, or at least not condemning it. It's just... shocking.

Doh! Authoritarian got autocorrected to authorization.

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Post by astura »

thegrim33 wrote: post #364
astura wrote: post #223

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It's truly scary times we live in... It feels like the entire word has developed an authorization bend. The United States has a sitting president who is attempting a self-coup with the majority of the legislatures in his party supporting it, or at least not condemning it. It's just... shocking.

You make your claims as if it was fact and yet it isn't. Millions of people in the United States think you're completely brainwashed. The same way as somebody a few years ago that was freaking out that Obama was building work camps to force all gun owners into. For somebody outside of your echo chamber your viewpoints sound ridiculous.

1) Donald Trump is trying desperately and very publicly attempting to overturn the results of a legitimate, constitutional, and legal election.

2) A coup d'état is defined as an illegal, unconstitutional seizure of power.

3) A self-coup is coup d'état by a leader who originally came to power legally.

3) Ergo Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election is an attempted self-coup

4) Few Congressional Republicans have condemned this coup attempt, and, in fact, seventeen Republican state attorneys general and more than half of Republicans in the House of Representatives signed an amicus brief supporting it.

These are all provable facts.

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