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Facebook is America’s scapegoat du jour

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jessaustin wrote: post #96
seanmcdirmid wrote: post #64

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I yearn for the Obama days when this and Beghasi were the biggest scandals that anyone could come up with. Now it’s collusion, financial opacity in business dealings, sex with playmates, etc... it really is too much.

I thought it was kind of scandalous that Guantanamo never closed, contrary to campaign promises...

I found the "one bomb dropped every twenty minutes, mostly on innocent people" statistic to be the most scandalous issue of Obama's presidency, personally ..

Re: Facebook is America’s scapegoat du jour

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mmjaa wrote: post #170
ixtli wrote: post #22

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I like to talk about social issues and politics and stuff but the more I do it in public the more I run into what feels like "politics-as-basketball." It's really begun to feel like team sports as opposed to a critical analysis of conditions and power analysis.

Dialectic Materialism has been Weaponised. People think that because they are capable of pitching an anti-synthesis against a synthesis, they are intelligent - whereas nothing could be further from the truth. If you can't get out of the pro-vs-con mindset you are stuck in a trap designed to ensure you don't think beyond the curve, outside the event horizon of 'generally approved thought-process' society. People need…

This is interesting. Right now I'm of the mind that the best I can do is to continue to press on the inherent contradictions.
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