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Re: A/I shuts down

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Post by nullbio »

Normal_gaussian wrote: post #42

I wasn't aware of this group; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autistici/Inventati is their wiki article, but it is a little light on details. Some of the claims are interesting - "Decision making in the group takes places collectively instead of through majority voting." - isn't explained by the sourced article.

This is how you get mindless group-think. Anyone who tries to object to a bad idea is turned into an outcast and seen as a boat rocker, so members are trained to toe the line at all costs. Very unhealthy.

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Post by Sharlin »

mitxela wrote: post #408
LeBit wrote: post #312

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s mesmerizing to see how easy it has been to transform the USA into what was decried China to become about 5 years ago. You see some form of resistance (the guy that was caught with a truck full of cut Flock cameras) but it seems the population is resigned.

They say "every accusation is a confession" yet I'm still continually surprised by accusations that I never thought would turn out to be confessions, turning out to be confessions. Like the Chinese surveillance state. It seems to be a type of psychological projection - someone harbors an ideal like a surveillance state and assumes everyone else is harboring the same ideal so they accuse them. I hope the Uyghur genoci…

Well, the Chinese surveillance state in the US took off 25 years ago, give or take a few days.

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Post by TMWNN »

micromacrofoot wrote: post #495
xienze wrote: post #384

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> Jan 6, didn't work, not entirely sure why you bring this up as a blueprint for anyone. Might want to let the Democrats know that. According to them the government was >this< close to being overthrown. Which is funny, because if anyone truly believes that, we don't stand a chance against pretty much any country on earth.

bro if 2k people broke into work looking for you, it would probably be something you think about a whole lot

> ~~2k~~ 250 unarmed people ~~broke into work~~ mysteriously allowed in are looking for you, while dozens of trained armed police officers surround you, it would probably be something you think about a whole lot

FTFY

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Post by Sharlin »

ThunderSizzle wrote: post #377
arcfour wrote: post #296

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Because you don't apply to a gun company to buy a gun. (You actually apply to the government...chew on that one for a while.)

Well, in my state, you don't "apply" for a gun like you apply for a license. It is just document that you purchased it after the seller runs a background check. The government isn't attesting to your capabilities - that is still on you as a citizen.

But that's an outlier. In normal countries you apply for a license, THEN after you get it, you're allowed to purchase a firearm.

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Post by soulofmischief »

bakies wrote: post #324
soulofmischief wrote: post #220

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By that logic, you should stop paying taxes if you don't want to support terrorism.

I would be in favor of my state government withholding federal taxes, yeah

It might come to that soon for a couple states, but it's going to be a rough time.

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Post by stale2002 »

Sharlin wrote: post #510
stale2002 wrote: post #460

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Are you going around planning terrorist attacks, vigilante violence, sabotaging critical infrastructure in groups or consistently materially supporting those who do? If so then yes. If you aren't doing anything even close to this then no you wouldn't be.

And how large a percentage of those who identify with the umbrella term "antifa" do you think are actually members of violent terrorist cells?

Like the anarchist groups that dress in all black and attack people/infra/stores in the middle of the night during riot?

Its hard to say, because political violence is a spectrum and the border is very blurry between being an organized violent rioter and someone engaging in terroristic activities. Both are bad in their own way.

But fundamentally there doesn't seem to be a huge categorical/technical difference between violent rioting and "terroristic" activism other than that terroristic attacks are simply the more serious/worse version of political violence.

EX: Once it gets to the point of targeting actual critical infrastructure, we can call that terrorism, and just getting into a fist fight at a roudy protests wouldn't be (even though both are technically political violence).

That being said, serious riots can cause a lot of damage and even kill people, but the blame is more collectively spread out towards a large group of people, as opposed to a few small groups causing the large amount of damage.

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Post by mitxela »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #509
vachina wrote: post #492

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We actually need to decouple ourselves such that such threats can be ignored.

> We actually need to decouple ourselves We’re in a globalized world with aircraft carriers and nuclear weapons. The fallacy of thinking a major economy (or significant nation) can decouple from any expansionist regime is a lesson I thought we learned from the first half of the last century.

US weapons are near useless due to prolonged institutional corruption, just like Russian ones. This was learned from Iran.

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Post by yunnpp »

linuxhansl wrote: post #205
andlarry wrote: post #27

Here is the State Department's rationale: https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/20...

Never heard of A/I and I have no idea what they are about, but rather than a government communication this statement reads like an angry rant with lots of unhelpful name-calling. I would expect a government to be professional and just stick to the (proven) facts and avoiding labels; that would also be more convincing. Oh well.

Check whitehouse.gov next. You'll think it's been defaced by a script kiddie.

Re: A/I shuts down

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Post by mitxela »

TMWNN wrote: post #513
micromacrofoot wrote: post #495

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bro if 2k people broke into work looking for you, it would probably be something you think about a whole lot

> ~~2k~~ 250 unarmed people ~~broke into work~~ mysteriously allowed in are looking for you, while dozens of trained armed police officers surround you , it would probably be something you think about a whole lot FTFY

What happened to Brian Sicknick?
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