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But seriously, what are your motives in defending Facebook so much?
Right, and it's echoed in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy [0] and elsewhere. [0] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ayn-rand/#Intr
It's not that she's evil, just that her "philosophy" is what you said: one person's view (i.e. opinion). She couldn't reconcile many critiques of Objectivism and didn't do much self-analysis on it. So despite how good…
Yep, nailed it. For those of us who still read despite all that, here's the browser extension you've been looking for (Make Medium Readable Again): https://github.com/thebaer/MMRA
> Mr. Trump, who is known to watch Fox News while he is tweeting, posted his tweet shortly after a Fox News legal analyst appealed directly to the president during a Thursday morning segment about the coming House vote.…
Nope. A lot revolves around them, but there are plenty of ultra-rich ideologues pushing their agenda this way. You can find some good investigative research on this in "Dark Money" by Jane Mayer, which details a lot of…
The formula works! If it can get that guy in the White House, it can sell anything. Also, I think it's kind of delicious when a variant like this is used to actually describe a previously "Y/Great" thing (Medium was…
> ... but they returned money when they stopped. After they took a couple mil for themselves :) [0] [0]: http://www.businessinsider.com/secret-founders-pocket-6-mill...
Isn't greed self-centeredness? > society at large is unquestionably a cesspit of low consciousness, and self-centered thinking That's a heck of a personal projection :) And pg disagrees with that last sentiment in the…
Yes, it literally is. You just needed to scroll down the page a little more. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Seth_Rich#Conspiracy...
This is a seriously debunked conspiracy theory [0][1] that damages us all when people continually spread it. [0] http://www.snopes.com/seth-conrad-rich/ [1] http://www.npr.org/2017/08/01/540783715/lawsuit-alleges-fox-...
People in the intelligence community consider Snowden a Russian asset now. Russia could've flipped or co-opted Assange since the Bush years, or maybe it's only now coming out. Either way much of this stuff is…
That's the point -- the CIA, FBI, and NSA determined with "high confidence" [0] that Russia worked to influence us through (among other outlets) the media -- especially social media. It worked, and because of it our…
From the intelligence community assessment [0]: > The Kremlin’s principal international propaganda outlet RT (formerly Russia Today) has actively collaborated with WikiLeaks. RT’s editor-in-chief visited WikiLeaks…
It could be you or your family having connections to powerful people. Being famous. But what's important as it pertains to our conversation: being in an authoritative position, e.g. a teacher, law enforcement officer,…
> You honestly come off as hostile and even childish. You're fabricating complete strawmen and attacking them. > You also seem to be extremely self-loathing, and you want to project that onto others. These are funny…
I was mostly trying to point out how ridiculous camelite's argument sounded. I thought maybe we should instead have a serious conversation about the events leading up to Uber's current troubles, and how they reflect on…
Thanks dang. Removed.
I see what you're saying, but I've laid out many other, less aggressive points and remained open to any good counter-argument. I'll take the downvotes for this, but I think certain stances people are spouting on this…
And trusting people to have free speech is definitely going to be abused by people who want to say controversial things. And trusting people to use encryption is definitely going to be abused by criminals who want to…
> Parent comment said "believe women who..." Luckily we have the power of inference and ability to understand what statements mean even when people use different words -- unless, of course, we have an axe to grind,…
I'm neither rich nor powerful, and I don't feel pressure to do anything outside of ensure my own survival. I mean, I could get a girl pregnant and still have a hell of a lot less to worry about than she does. [edit:…
Generally speaking, as a group, yes -- especially when compared to the social pressures put on women. Yes, that's changing, but we still have a way to go. Happy to hear any difficult and unrealistic social pressures you…
> then you are deliberately stacking the deck against the specific men who are accused of sexual harassment, some of whom will invariably be innocent. This is really a stretch in logic, and the oxymoronic "some of whom…
Power is enacted through multifarious means, with wealth being one of them. Wealth isn't a requisite for power. Generally in the US, positions of power are held by men, because of (or in spite of) an interconnected…
But seriously, what are your motives in defending Facebook so much?
Right, and it's echoed in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy [0] and elsewhere. [0] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ayn-rand/#Intr
It's not that she's evil, just that her "philosophy" is what you said: one person's view (i.e. opinion). She couldn't reconcile many critiques of Objectivism and didn't do much self-analysis on it. So despite how good…
Yep, nailed it. For those of us who still read despite all that, here's the browser extension you've been looking for (Make Medium Readable Again): https://github.com/thebaer/MMRA
> Mr. Trump, who is known to watch Fox News while he is tweeting, posted his tweet shortly after a Fox News legal analyst appealed directly to the president during a Thursday morning segment about the coming House vote.…
Nope. A lot revolves around them, but there are plenty of ultra-rich ideologues pushing their agenda this way. You can find some good investigative research on this in "Dark Money" by Jane Mayer, which details a lot of…
The formula works! If it can get that guy in the White House, it can sell anything. Also, I think it's kind of delicious when a variant like this is used to actually describe a previously "Y/Great" thing (Medium was…
> ... but they returned money when they stopped. After they took a couple mil for themselves :) [0] [0]: http://www.businessinsider.com/secret-founders-pocket-6-mill...
Isn't greed self-centeredness? > society at large is unquestionably a cesspit of low consciousness, and self-centered thinking That's a heck of a personal projection :) And pg disagrees with that last sentiment in the…
Yes, it literally is. You just needed to scroll down the page a little more. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Seth_Rich#Conspiracy...
This is a seriously debunked conspiracy theory [0][1] that damages us all when people continually spread it. [0] http://www.snopes.com/seth-conrad-rich/ [1] http://www.npr.org/2017/08/01/540783715/lawsuit-alleges-fox-...
People in the intelligence community consider Snowden a Russian asset now. Russia could've flipped or co-opted Assange since the Bush years, or maybe it's only now coming out. Either way much of this stuff is…
That's the point -- the CIA, FBI, and NSA determined with "high confidence" [0] that Russia worked to influence us through (among other outlets) the media -- especially social media. It worked, and because of it our…
From the intelligence community assessment [0]: > The Kremlin’s principal international propaganda outlet RT (formerly Russia Today) has actively collaborated with WikiLeaks. RT’s editor-in-chief visited WikiLeaks…
It could be you or your family having connections to powerful people. Being famous. But what's important as it pertains to our conversation: being in an authoritative position, e.g. a teacher, law enforcement officer,…
> You honestly come off as hostile and even childish. You're fabricating complete strawmen and attacking them. > You also seem to be extremely self-loathing, and you want to project that onto others. These are funny…
I was mostly trying to point out how ridiculous camelite's argument sounded. I thought maybe we should instead have a serious conversation about the events leading up to Uber's current troubles, and how they reflect on…
Thanks dang. Removed.
I see what you're saying, but I've laid out many other, less aggressive points and remained open to any good counter-argument. I'll take the downvotes for this, but I think certain stances people are spouting on this…
And trusting people to have free speech is definitely going to be abused by people who want to say controversial things. And trusting people to use encryption is definitely going to be abused by criminals who want to…
> Parent comment said "believe women who..." Luckily we have the power of inference and ability to understand what statements mean even when people use different words -- unless, of course, we have an axe to grind,…
I'm neither rich nor powerful, and I don't feel pressure to do anything outside of ensure my own survival. I mean, I could get a girl pregnant and still have a hell of a lot less to worry about than she does. [edit:…
Generally speaking, as a group, yes -- especially when compared to the social pressures put on women. Yes, that's changing, but we still have a way to go. Happy to hear any difficult and unrealistic social pressures you…
> then you are deliberately stacking the deck against the specific men who are accused of sexual harassment, some of whom will invariably be innocent. This is really a stretch in logic, and the oxymoronic "some of whom…
Power is enacted through multifarious means, with wealth being one of them. Wealth isn't a requisite for power. Generally in the US, positions of power are held by men, because of (or in spite of) an interconnected…