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thelastwave
·5 years ago·discuss
Furthermore, is it really up to a book review site to solve the problem of identity and anonymity on the Internet? Seems like the wrong place in the stack to focus on that.
thelastwave
·5 years ago·discuss
More React will solve everything.
thelastwave
·5 years ago·discuss
No, BLM began in reaction to a hispanic person shooting a black person who was beating him up, and directly led to unprovoked and extremely violent attacks by blacks on white people, literally saying "This is for Trayvon!"

BLM does not really address the underlying problem of conflict but has led to acts of murder and terrorism in the name of racial justice.

It is part of the problem, not a solution.
thelastwave
·5 years ago·discuss
How is Levandowski a whistle blower?
thelastwave
·5 years ago·discuss
According to some sources he was informed if he pardoned Assange the Senate would vote to convict him following the House impeachment, quid pro quo.
thelastwave
·5 years ago·discuss
whataboutism is really just hypocritical deflection, meaning, but we're not talking about the other situation.

it's important to push back when people try to invoke "whataboutism" which is toxic to the integrity of discourse.
thelastwave
·5 years ago·discuss
GP literally proved your point.
thelastwave
·5 years ago·discuss
You understand correctly, and therefore must be downvoted, since we are incapable of actually responding to you.
thelastwave
·5 years ago·discuss
I don't think anyone seriously questions whether the non-approval of Merrick Garland was done in good faith or not. Rather, the phraseology used is whether it was constitutional. McConnell didn't use a pretext, he flat out acknowledged what he was doing, and that it was constitutionally his prerogative.
thelastwave
·5 years ago·discuss
This seems to blur the lines between "hate speech is a thing" and "hate speech should be banned." They are fundamentally different questions, and conflating them invites the normative fallacy.
thelastwave
·5 years ago·discuss
Surprised you're not being heavily downvoted already. (I don't agree with that, just surprised.)

I do however think extreme hate speech is a real thing, it's just misapplied to the point where anything anyone disagrees with is labeled hate speech.

Because at the end of the day, all negativity is based on hate, right? If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all (which is a nice convenient bromide for eliminating real critical thought.)
thelastwave
·5 years ago·discuss
Why is that?
thelastwave
·5 years ago·discuss
And ended up making an AI service that's really good at... lying.
thelastwave
·5 years ago·discuss
Lots of people "believe" that, they just prefer to downvote anonymously rather than try to defend their position.
thelastwave
·5 years ago·discuss
"the actual truth"