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Wikipedia isn’t a reference. Also you missed this earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45553429
> Wikipedia isn’t a reference I just referenced it, so it literally is. The wild thing about this thread is I’ve gone from being gently supportive of Charlie Kirk vigilers to sort of concluding they’re just cover for extremism.
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> I'm guessing that you have the means to pay your bills for years before having to worry about losing your income and your home. Most folks don't. That's a pretty big assumption that also happens to be wrong. I specifically said "if at all possible" because I'm well aware that plenty of people can't put everything on hold for 30-60 days and have to potentially start over after that's done. If someone can in any way…
>That's a pretty big assumption that also happens to be wrong. I specifically said "if at all possible" because I'm well aware that plenty of people can't put everything on hold for 30-60 days and have to potentially start over after that's done. Okay. I've been wrong before, am wrong with this and will certainly be wrong again. My apologies. As such, I hope you never end up in a position where you'll need to conside…
Agreed, and no one should be okay with living in a system where its so common that weeks or even a few months is a person's breaking point.
Years is excessive, though in any jurisdiction I know of a person wouldn't be help pre-trial for years if they are demanding their speedy trial. I would like it to be commonplace for people to have cushion on the order of months, I wouldn't necessarily expect years of cushion.
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Do you want to post an example? Kirk would defend students being harassed for unrelated political matters - eg the most recent case on his channel was an Agriculture major who had to take some kind of 'equity in agriculture' class and was being bothered by her professor for not being left leaning.
A friend of mine was targeted by TPUSA. Members in good standing did things like * take their class, deliberately do a bad job, and then try to get them fired for bias against conservatives * take their class and write hate speech in coursework to harass my friend, then withdrawing to avoid the F At the same time my friend started receiving emails with death threats, hate speech, gore, and hardcore porn from anonymou…
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> you have a lot of faith in democratic processes at this point I think civic laziness and nihilism, particularly in Silicon Valley, did a lot to get us to where we are.
Yes, if people actually had faith in democratic processes, they would have standards for the people they elect, and be involved in civics and actvism. Corruption is endemic precisely because people don't care. Or more accurately, because the only people who do care are the people who benefit from corruption.
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A friend of mine was targeted by TPUSA. Members in good standing did things like * take their class, deliberately do a bad job, and then try to get them fired for bias against conservatives * take their class and write hate speech in coursework to harass my friend, then withdrawing to avoid the F At the same time my friend started receiving emails with death threats, hate speech, gore, and hardcore porn from anonymou…
That sounds like they were on https://www.professorwatchlist.org - what's their page?