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Post by pluralmonad »

wqaatwt wrote: post #377
pluralmonad wrote: post #338

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Why fuss over "unregulated" chemists when the vast majority of harms come directly from officially licensed and regulated industry? I don't think cannabis dealers have ever poisoned entire towns or ecosystems. The facade of regulated safety must be more important.

Why fuss over anyone committing lesser harm when there is something worse happening somewhere else?

It's not whataboutism. It's poking at the idea that "regulation" doesn't enshrine and enable harms. But by all means, inject lawyers into all aspects of human life. That will surely improve things.

Re: Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police

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Post by [deleted] »

angry_octet wrote: post #274
rexpop wrote: post #81

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> he'd ignore people carrying a kilo gram of weed This is an unequivocally reasonable approach. The prohibition of cannabis is a grotesque charade.

A kilo of weed is clearly a dealer, and part of organised crime. The same people are deeply involved in forced sex work and people trafficking, extortion, illegal weapons, etc. There is a clear difference between end users and small time dealers and the distributors.

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Re: Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police

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Post by l23k4 »

tmtvl wrote: post #307
l23k4 wrote: post #133

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I'm fully European, would not wonder for a second before plunging a knife into an intruder if I happened to have one near me.

Really? 'Oh, someone I don't know! stab '? What if the person is plain-clothes law enforcement? Or a special needs person who somehow managed to wander into the wrong house? Or your sibling's new partner they want to introduce to you? Anyway, unless you actually have stabbed someone before you don't know whether you got what it takes until you're actually in a situation where you find out.

>Anyway, unless you actually have stabbed someone before you don't know whether you got what it takes until you're actually in a situation where you find out.

A guy tried to rob me, I fractured his skull with my iphone before I even realized what was going on. You don't just freeze when someone suddenly attacks you, you'll try to swing at them with whatever you have at hand.

At home? I might just have been cooking, or carving a sunday roast. Who knows? But if someone suddenly smashed through my door, I'm pretty sure that whatever object happens to be in my hand would be heading towards the intruder long before I've had time to think about what's going on.

Re: Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police

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Post by 4ggr0 »

I shouldn't have clicked on his profile. Sorry for him for being raided by the police, but I didn't expect a "Privacy Activist" to be so focused on openly disliking muslims and migrants. I'm not logged in so maybe that says more about the twitter algo, but a lot of what I saw was posts and reposts hating on these groups of people.

remigration, monkey comparisons, generally some awful stuff. yikes. Just focus on privacy, dude.

Re: Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police

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Post by tremon »

Jensson wrote: post #384
b40d-48b2-979e wrote: post #357

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25 years? Why stop there? How about the US terror attacks on other countries civilians since at least the 1960s?

When did USA bomb a civilian house that wasn't a part of a larger operation? Terrorist attacks only target civilians, I have never seen such an attack by USA. They always try to target military or leaders. The last time I know USA did a terror attack was japan in ww2, but everyone did terror bombing during that war, and the first world stopped doing terror bombings since then. If USA still ran that doctrine you would…

Are you sure your name isn't Jingo?

> When did USA bomb a civilian house that wasn't a part of a larger operation

Why does that matter? The attacks on the Twin Towers were also part of a larger operation, does that excuse the attacks in any way?

> Terrorist attacks only target civilians

Nope, terrorism can include literally anything when Power deems it convenient.

https://stratnewsglobal.com/europe/united-kingdom/uk-charges... : British MPs on Wednesday voted to declare pro-Palestinian group Palestine Action a terrorist organisation, after its activists broke into a military base and damaged two aircraft

> I have never seen such an attack by USA

That may very well be true, but the world is a lot bigger than what your eyes can capture. "I don't see it, therefore it doesn't exist" is a state of mind that most people grow out of around the age of 8 months.

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Lai_Massacre : When the soldiers got to the village, they did not find any NLF troops. Despite this, many soldiers began to kill the villagers, mainly elderly people, women, and children

> [the USA] always try to target military or leaders

Bless your heart.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/02/politics/timeline-us-strikes-... : The US military has killed at least 207 people in strikes that have destroyed 66 vessels

> The last time I know USA did a terror attack was japan in ww2

Yet another example of "one man's terrorist is another's freedom fighter"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/mar/24/worlddispatch.... : To some in the Arab and Muslim countries, Shock and Awe is terrorism by another name; to others, a crime that compares unfavourably with September 11

> the first world stopped doing terror bombings since then

Nixon and Kissinger were not part of the first world, then?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Menu : Apart from the large human toll, perhaps the most powerful and direct impact of the bombing was the political backlash it caused [..] The U.S. carpet bombing of Cambodia was partly responsible for the rise of what had been a small-scale Khmer Rouge insurgency, which now grew capable of overthrowing the Lon Nol government

Nixon decided to keep the bombing a secret from the American people as to admit to bombing an officially neutral nation would damage his credibility

> that is what it looks like when the strongest military in the world perform terror attacks

We know perfectly well what it looks like: https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2025/12/22/2025-in-gaza-12...

Re: Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police

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Post by justinclift »

DrSiemer wrote: post #242
joe_mamba wrote: post #197

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>One less psychopath in charge of a US health care provider being around? What kind of broken logic is this? What good did this do for you if the end result for you is the same or worse now? Other than feel good for vigilante vengeance than then backfires on you in the end. It's not like there's a shortage of CEOs to take his place and keep doing the same thing. You're not in a comic book movie where if you kill the…

If the system is rigged heavily against you, relying on it to affect change does feel like a losing strategy. The fact that such a large part of the population supports literal murder could also be considered a political statement. One that would not have been expressed so strongly without what happened. So much of this madness could be resolved with a simple income cap. Musk’s wealth grew by $1 million per minute ov…

> So much of this madness could be resolved with a simple income cap.

The problem (to me) is less the "wealth" of these psychopath CEOs, and more that they're literally taking advantage of the people they're supposed to be helping, for their own benefit.

The concept of an income cap might fix that in some situations, but I'm unsure how complete a fix that would be.

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Post by justinclift »

wqaatwt wrote: post #373
calgoo wrote: post #249

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Sorry the justice system is setup to protect them, not you. By putting fear in the leaders of these companies, and showing people that yes, you CAN actually stand up to their corrupt ways and beat them because in the end they are just people, even if they don't see you that way.

Historically indiscriminate extra judicial murder has never worked as a tool for addressing societal injustice, it has been tried countless times, usually it just made things worse.

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Post by gaiagraphia »

pluralmonad wrote: post #421
wqaatwt wrote: post #377

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why fuss over anyone committing lesser harm when there is something worse happening somewhere else?

It's not whataboutism. It's poking at the idea that "regulation" doesn't enshrine and enable harms. But by all means, inject lawyers into all aspects of human life. That will surely improve things.

When I go to a bar, I appreciate not having to order 'one alcohol, please', and getting a clear bottle of odourless mystery liquid.

I don't have time to be an expert in every subject. I appreciate using the collective power of society to put stamps of approval on things, so I can use language with an element of trust.

If I want to smoke, I want to know what I'm smoking, and don't want to waste time trying to work out the exact chemical composition. I'm not sure why anybody wouldn't want that control over their bodies.

I quite like the idea of words actually having meanings which are enforced, and not being vague concepts coined on the street by people who don't have me or my community at heart.

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Post by klibertp »

Mainan_Tagonist wrote: post #369
klibertp wrote: post #323

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About as many as bad terrorist groups that began due to catastrophically bad decisions of leaders in the West. I'm sorry to break it to you - the plural you - but all the terrorists that are not traditionally domestic (local leftist/rightist extremists are everywhere, after all) - and the fact they are against the West - is simply a consequence of Western politics. Imperialism and neocollonialism are real, actual pol…

no, it's nothing specific to "The West" or the decisions it has taken. The typical "They hate us because our bad policies" does not explain why every empire (western or not) has had to contend with dissenters keen on overthrowing its "yoke". How would the Mongols, the Russians, the Egyptian empires have solved the israeli/palestine conflict? Do you know where the terms zealots and sicario come from? Did the Romans so…

> The typical "They hate us because our bad policies" does not explain why every empire (western or not) has had to contend with dissenters

It's interesting that you actually wrote down in this sentence the very explanation you say doesn't exist. It's pretty obvious: instituting an empire is the policy others will hate you for. The fact that you can't imagine this despite spelling out the facts yourself is curious.

Not being an empire is an option, too. That won't save you in all cases, especially if you're seen as a fallen empire, another empire's lackey due to alliances and dependencies, or your culture is simply incompatible with some other culture that happens to be frequently in contact with you. But it will reduce the likelihood of a convincing narrative - one that could lead people to hijack planes and fly them into buildings - emerging.

It's not a topic that can be fully discussed in HN comments, as there are many complexities involved, but "They hate us because we decided on a policy to be an empire" is not that far from the truth, I think.

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Post by bawolff »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #380
basilikum wrote: post #354

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The Taliban's terrorism very much did work.

Not really. The Taliban’s attacks on civilians didn’t help their cause. They found success when they started acting as a more-competent government than our fucks in Kabul. If we want to debate whether the Taliban under occupation had any success with its terrorist tactics, I guess I’d concede that one man’s terrorist is another’s guerrilla fighter. But even then, guerilla tactics rely on a sympathetic local populatio…

> The Taliban’s attacks on civilians didn’t help their cause

Umm, do you mean al-qaeda (if you are referring to 9/11). Al-qaeda and the Taliban are different groups. Neither are particularly nice, but only one did 9/11.

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