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Post by akimbostrawman »

Pxtl wrote: post #301
akimbostrawman wrote: post #237

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Why do you assuming only true information is information. Information can be anything not to mention that the definition of truths and lies can change with time and location.

My point is that in the late '90s that was the prevailing assumption about the growth of the internet. We have learned that this assumption was wrong. > the definition of truths and lies can change with time and location This is moral relativism.

>We have learned that this assumption was wrong.

I don't see how the existence of wrong or disinformation somehow makes that assumption wrong. Considering the amounts of (true) information you can freely access with the internet right now that is being otherwise suppressed.

>This is moral relativism.

There exists change of truths outside of moral ones, science for example.

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moebrowne wrote: post #206

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UK, shipping rates within one click and they don't look bad. I guess I should take a look at the selection. Thank you.

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Post by andruby »

srean wrote: post #385
andruby wrote: post #383

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I grew up and lived mostly in Belgium. Only a year in the US and a few years in South Africa. Belgium gets a lot of criticism for moving slowing, but it also rarely breaks crucial things. The system of >10 political parties has its flaws, but it's a lot less divisive than a 2 party system. It means compromise needs to be found, and that no 1 party has full control (slows things down but reduces corruption and critica…

Appreciate your reply. The only criticism of Belgium that I have heard are the horrors of colonialism under Leopold. Its a picturesque country.

Thanks! As always, plenty of problems there too.

The colonization of Congo was indeed horrible. Inconsequential clarification: Congo wasn't actually a Belgian colony, it was Leopold's personal colony.

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Post by srean »

andruby wrote: post #393
srean wrote: post #385

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Appreciate your reply. The only criticism of Belgium that I have heard are the horrors of colonialism under Leopold. Its a picturesque country.

Thanks! As always, plenty of problems there too. The colonization of Congo was indeed horrible. Inconsequential clarification: Congo wasn't actually a Belgian colony, it was Leopold's personal colony.

Oh! I did not know that. So crazy.

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Post by unselect5917 »

Refreeze5224 wrote: post #182
unselect5917 wrote: post #156

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Are there black, Asian, jewish supremacist, or zionist books that are banned? If so, which ones? >There is one reason someone would do that. You're a white supremacist and a Nazi. There's no in-between here. How about you fuck right off with all that? No tolerance for Nazis and racists. And good faith is straight out the window. Are you afraid because non-banned books and films told you they were bad, or because the…

Nazis don't get good faith or the benefit of the doubt. I'm not censoring anyone, I am pointing out that you and other commenters here decided, apropos of nothing, to advocate for including racist and genocidal propaganda. >Are you afraid because non-banned books and films told you they were bad, or because the people who produced those were afraid they were right and didn't want you to know that they were right? How…

Nothing but ad hominem attacks. Go back to farLeftSky.

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Post by mixseo »

halostatue wrote: post #388
olalonde wrote: post #382

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> I suspect that the same applies to most of the words that came to your mind; they're just being used in contexts you politically disagree with and therefore it's a "misuse". Nope. I just care about words and their meaning. If you tell someone that X is a "banned book", the vast majority of people will understand it as meaning that it's a country wide ban (I just verified this with a couple of people to make sure I…

Language doesn't work that way. Being prescriptivist about it doesn't change that language evolves. The time to have had this fight about "banned books" was 40 odd years ago, and you still would have lost it because your interpretation being limited to a "country-wide ban" is also nonsense in a meaningful sense. If a political figure has made a decision that a book will not be available in the places where it would o…

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