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Post by gloosx »

shepherdjerred wrote: post #633
gloosx wrote: post #624

Can anyone explain me one thing? Is it some kind of special American sickness to place 51% on top of the 49% continuously? It's obvious to me that this is SEPARATION, and it leads to nowhere but a split. Every poll like this, it is a rocket strike to the commUNITY, essentially splitting it in half, forget about the unity. How come in thew modern world 51% prevail over 49%? How come it is a golden standard in a modern…

Democracy has been defined to mean "majority rules" in American politics. Do you have a better way in mind?

Explain 75% jury court majority to me then? Why such an inconsistency between institutions about definition of "majority"? For sure, Communes instead of Govts seems like a perfectly fine better way. The majorities in such Communes would be tending to 100% not to 50% And we see Mastodon kinda adopted this idea while Twitter keeps 50/50 splits for everyone

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Post by lenkite »

xcrunner529 wrote: post #744
LawTalkingGuy wrote: post #740

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Source that the FBI/Dems/etc only sent dick-pic links to be censored, or proof that the laptop leak contained more than dick pics? Earlier in this thread you made a claim that the leak was only dick pics, have you read a source which claimed that, or is it only that you haven't seen a source talk about anything else? There're these, many of which are verified: https://bidenlaptopemails.com/ I don't know the entire co…

We are taking about Twitter and all the censorship you’re on about. So obviously it should be things reported to twitter to remove.

Umm..in latest release of Twitter files, you had members of the Biden administration reaching out to explicitly ban and de-platform accounts including accounts that simply showcased the CDC's actual data. There was severe and direct pressure from the white house to ban accounts of US citizens.

I cannot think of a more fundamental violation of the US first amendment.

Re: Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll

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Post by skinnymuch »

xigoi wrote: post #601
skinnymuch wrote: post #597

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What leftist did that? Leftists don’t believe in private for profit corporations. It’d be weird for them to care about capital ownership all of a sudden. When was Twitter censoring “right wing opinion”. Do you mean bigotry?

> What leftist did that? Franklin Veaux (a famous writer on Quora), for example. > Leftists don’t believe in private for profit corporations. It’d be weird for them to care about capital ownership all of a sudden. That's what I find the most perplexing about it. > When was Twitter censoring “right wing opinion”. Specifically, it was applying different rules to different groups. For example, hateful posts about white…

> hateful posts about white people were allowed

Example of a hateful post of a white person? I highly doubt this is true. Do you believe calling a white person cracker is hate? Funnily enough, leftist and actually famous (in streaming + political circles) Hasan Piker, a white guy, got de-platformed temporarily because right wingers hate watched him and reported him for using cracker. Cracker comes from the whips cracking...because white people in America OWNED other human beings and still benefit from the systemic racism that is integrated into society.

> Franklin Veaux

I don't think Franklin Veaux is that big of a leftist. If at all. I spent a few min looking him up. I found a post talking about left and right politics. It is filled with inaccuracies and appears to be written by some one who consumes the most basic of news and politics. Here: https://blog.franklinveaux.com/2022/06/7985/

He equates liberals and the left. He doesn't seem to understand what liberal means. This is politics 101. He says "Liberals don’t accept this. Liberals are biased toward egalitarianism; the same rules apply to everybody." This isn't true. By definition liberals believe in capitalism. Capitalism by definition is not "the same rules apply to everybody". The blog post seems more like anti-leftist propaganda. Making liberals seem like they are on the left is so wrong.

Unless you have some evidence that not only shows he's a leftist (a socialist), but can answer why he made such a bad blog post and still keeps it up, he's probably a full blown liberal.

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Post by skinnymuch »

trashtester wrote: post #652
skinnymuch wrote: post #594

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Calling him the most interesting is incredibly subjective. I don’t think he knows any such thing. He seems wildly insecure. Even more than me

Interesting enough for you to post here....

Yeah. I find him interesting because he's a loser. Someone who failed upward and lacks the intelligence he believes he has to have any self awareness or human decency.

If someone on HN pooped on Elon's desk, I'd find that compelling to look into. It wouldn't be interesting in a positive way though. That's what the parent comment was implying.

Re: Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll

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Post by xigoi »

skinnymuch wrote: post #753
xigoi wrote: post #601

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> What leftist did that? Franklin Veaux (a famous writer on Quora), for example. > Leftists don’t believe in private for profit corporations. It’d be weird for them to care about capital ownership all of a sudden. That's what I find the most perplexing about it. > When was Twitter censoring “right wing opinion”. Specifically, it was applying different rules to different groups. For example, hateful posts about white…

> hateful posts about white people were allowed Example of a hateful post of a white person? I highly doubt this is true. Do you believe calling a white person cracker is hate? Funnily enough, leftist and actually famous (in streaming + political circles) Hasan Piker, a white guy, got de-platformed temporarily because right wingers hate watched him and reported him for using cracker. Cracker comes from the whips crac…

> Example of a hateful post of a white person?

Here are some examples I've collected: https://freeimage.host/a/pre-musk-twitter-racism.f55mv

Franklin is left-wing in the modern sense, which is more about social politics than distribution of money. I didn't mean to imply that he was a socialist. Sorry for the confusion.

Re: Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll

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Post by skinnymuch »

xigoi wrote: post #755
skinnymuch wrote: post #753

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> hateful posts about white people were allowed Example of a hateful post of a white person? I highly doubt this is true. Do you believe calling a white person cracker is hate? Funnily enough, leftist and actually famous (in streaming + political circles) Hasan Piker, a white guy, got de-platformed temporarily because right wingers hate watched him and reported him for using cracker. Cracker comes from the whips crac…

> Example of a hateful post of a white person? Here are some examples I've collected: https://freeimage.host/a/pre-musk-twitter-racism.f55mv Franklin is left-wing in the modern sense, which is more about social politics than distribution of money. I didn't mean to imply that he was a socialist. Sorry for the confusion.

Franklin would probably be offended like you with your example. Classic lib take.

(A) You incorrectly insulted leftists. (B) You used Franklin, a huge liberal (like yourself), to make your point. Franklin knows jack shit about politics. (C) You incorrectly stated leftist in the modern sense means liberal. I’m American. I know there’s a world outside the right-wing brain rotted USA. (D) You incorrectly stated modern leftism is more about social politics.

The control of the means of production and thus surplus value going to capitalists vs workers is Capitalism 101.

The analogue of the GOP are the Torys in the UK and the Liberal Party in AU. They are huge liberals. Reagan and the Tory leader of the 80s, Thatcher, ushered in neoliberalism.

You should educate yourself before incorrectly insulting leftist ideology. You sound like a Ben Shapiro or Bill Maher NPC trying to “own the libs”. I shouldn’t have to teach you basic politics.

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Post by skinnymuch »

p1necone wrote: post #640
skinnymuch wrote: post #597

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What leftist did that? Leftists don’t believe in private for profit corporations. It’d be weird for them to care about capital ownership all of a sudden. When was Twitter censoring “right wing opinion”. Do you mean bigotry?

> Leftists don’t believe in private for profit corporations. The left of the political spectrum in the USA is mostly to the right of actual communism.

Hahaha that’s true.
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