Anthony Levandowski Pardoned

Post by rijoja » Wed, Jan 20, 2021, 1:11 PM UTC

jrockway wrote: post #42

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How does Anthony Lewandowski being pardoned advance any public good? I would argue it does the exact opposite.

I guess it kind of "sticks it" to Google, who Trump thinks is "so biased toward the Dems it is ridiculous!" I have no idea if there is such a thing as a "revenge pardon", but I guess it's a thing now. (Incidentally, I wanted to use an exact Trump quote in that first paragraph, and I found it here: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/01/19/upshot/trump-... )

Post by stefan_ » Wed, Jan 20, 2021, 1:14 PM UTC

WalterBright wrote: post #103

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Not only this, but Mr. Levandowski has made it clear he thinks his car failing to cause the first self-driving fatality would mean they were behind . The man believes manslaughter is the cost of doing business for innovation. He should be in prison for much more than he got.

The first death in a powered airplane was where one of the Wrights crashed carrying a passenger, and he died. Should the airplane have never been invented and the Wrights jailed for trying?

Post by rijoja » Wed, Jan 20, 2021, 1:14 PM UTC

olliej wrote: post #69

rijoja wrote: post #6

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... or maybe they are competent and knows how to advance the public good.

ah yes, so much public good comes from rich people being allowed to commit crime.

Post by matwood » Wed, Jan 20, 2021, 1:21 PM UTC

marton78 wrote: post #210

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Yeah, context is key. We played a game as kids where if you looked at one of us with the ok sign, the one doing the sign got to punch you in the arm. It was joke. Even though this new origin is a bit of the tail wagging the dog (it started as a joke on 4chan), the ok sign has taken on the meaning of a white power sign in certain situations. Unfortunately, people have trawled old pics and attacked people for using nor…

Wow, that game seems to be surprisingly common! It was played on my school in Munich, Germany. The rules were: if you look through the loop, you are punched in the upper arm. The puncher has to draw a bull's eye first, then punch, then the recipient must say "thank you" and the puncher must reply "you're welcome" (of course in German, i.e. bitte, danke). Any deviation from the rules is punished by a punch, to be admi…

Post by levosmetalo » Wed, Jan 20, 2021, 1:31 PM UTC

muldvarp wrote: post #177

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The "ok" hand sign isn't a white power sign just because some people have decided it to be. It's meant ok since as long as anyone can remember. I'm not willing to accept I can't say okay now because some liberal thinkers have decided that that's now become racist. People need to lighten up a bit and not make everything an affront.

You could use the exact same argument for the swastika. The swastika became the symbol of nazism because the nazis decided it to be. It was a religious symbol for thousands of years at that point. The key is to use context. A swastika on a temple that's older than nazism? Yeah, not a nazi symbol. A swastika on a flag at a right-wing protest in America in 2020? Probably not a religious symbol.