Should make them go through basic.
To punish or to learn?
> To punish or to learn?
Why can't it be both?
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#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
>Leftist analysis can't explain why Bernie out-spent Biden and got crushed. Haven't we been saying it was stolen through suspect political maneuvering and the compromised nature of mass and social media as it exists today? As a black person, it was not lost on me the difficulty CNN et al. had in finding black voters to interview, until the nation NEEDED to know that black South Carolinian voters definitely hated Sand…
> Haven't we been saying it was stolen through suspect political maneuvering and the compromised nature of mass and social media as it exists today? Political maneuvering isn't capitalism. But putting that aside, if your candidate could only win by having the moderate vote split five ways, you're the ones doing political maneuvering. > As a black person, it was not lost on me the difficulty CNN et al. had in finding…
>if your candidate could only win by having the moderate vote split five ways, you're the ones doing political maneuvering.
That's highly presumptive. Supporters of the other candidates made their initial choices for reasons. If they could have chosen someone other than Biden, they would have. The DNC purposely induced a panicked run to their chosen candidate (when they weren't calling heads instead of tails). That's as much a vote as the decision which door to exit out of after someone yells, "Fire," is a choice. To belabor the analogy: there was no fire. They pushed everyone to the leave the way that led to the concession stand instead of to the parking lot.
On the other hand, if your candidate can only win by forcing his ideological rivals out of the race with backdoor quid-pro-quo deals, not only is he now corrupt, he is still definitely only winning through political maneuvering.
>Polls always showed that Biden was the Obama guy.
Clarence Thomas and Strom Thurmond.
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#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
The people want to be surveilled. This is their choice, which has been revealed billions of times since the dawn of the modern social media era. As a result I have zero pity, and the public can reap what it has sown. Privacy advocates, cypherpunks, hackers, et cetera have been sounding the alarm bells since Room 641A, if not earlier. Not only has the Internet at large failed to heed these warnings, some of those "con…
By your logic people also want to get into car wrecks, develop cancer in old age, get food poisoning, etc. Just because there's risks with something or side effects with something doesn't mean people want the side effects
I would agree in cases where the desired effect is distinct from the side effect.
However, for social media in particular, the desired effect is the side effect, which is the surveillance.
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#104Grayzone is an extremely unreliable source which frequently publishes false stories with an anti-US bent [1][2]. The past discussion [3] has a WSJ link which should be preferred over this. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grayzone [2]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/06/02/grayzon... [3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44268547
While that may be true, the article is accurate and has links to its sources.
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#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Haven't we been saying it was stolen through suspect political maneuvering and the compromised nature of mass and social media as it exists today? Political maneuvering isn't capitalism. But putting that aside, if your candidate could only win by having the moderate vote split five ways, you're the ones doing political maneuvering. > As a black person, it was not lost on me the difficulty CNN et al. had in finding…
>if your candidate could only win by having the moderate vote split five ways, you're the ones doing political maneuvering. That's highly presumptive. Supporters of the other candidates made their initial choices for reasons. If they could have chosen someone other than Biden, they would have. The DNC purposely induced a panicked run to their chosen candidate (when they weren't calling heads instead of tails). That's…
> If they could have chosen someone other than Biden, they would have
They could have chosen Bernie(they didn't want to).
> The DNC purposely induced a panicked run to their chosen candidate (when they weren't calling heads instead of tails). That's as much a vote as the decision which door to exit out of after someone yells, "Fire," is a choice.
Bernie's name was on the ballot. He was / is one of the most recognizable politicians in the U.S. He had plenty of money to campaign. My above point better explains his loss.
> On the other hand, if your candidate can only win by forcing his ideological rivals out of the race with backdoor quid-pro-quo deals, not only is he now corrupt, he is still definitely only winning through political maneuvering.
Force is massive cope. Do you think they would prefer to stay in, 100% lose, and get nothing for it? People that are closely aligned consolidate their efforts. That's how democracy works.
> Clarence Thomas and Strom Thurmond
Just look up the polls. Biden always crushed with African Americans.
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#106Genuinely curious what legal waivers they’ve been afforded, since generally speaking “holding a decision-making position in the part of the uniformed services you also sell to” is very much adjacent to profiteering and disturbingly in the vicinity to honest services fraud. How do you disentangle private interests from the public good, even if these guys are operating in good faith? Also, give a brief thought to those…
decision making on contracts and acquisitions is a very complex thing the DOD, and they won't be allowed anywhere near it in the areas where they have civilian conflicts of interest.
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#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
But medical providers aren't commissioned as advisors, they're commissioned to actually deliver services, right?
I'm not aware of any contemporary cases where someone direct commissioned but agreed to a lower "dollar-a-year" payscale. I think our prior assumption should be that these four people are on O5 until we hear for sure.
They're O5s. But in the reserves, so they won't be getting paid much unless they're activated.
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#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sadly, Fascism and Capitalism largely walk hand-in-hand these days... Their bastard love-child will almost certainly be the death of "civilized" society if allowed to continue on the path it's currently on... It's well past time society starts brainstorming a better option.
You could almost say capitalism's final form is some flavor of oligarchy fascism
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#110Previous discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44270660 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44268547
Thanks! Macroexpanded:
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