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  • At minimum I agree that it was very irresponsible, since the more optimistic interpretation still hinges on them neglecting to give context, which they really have no reason not to.

  • Turns out people get offended when you respond to their propaganda with "So we've been told."

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  • That's what I meant by "effectively a monarchist," so I'm sorry for being unclear.

    Speaking for myself, if I was confronted with a line like that, I'd simply say that I support democracy (majoritarian rule, which in our society necessarily means proletarian rule) and to the extent that a historical project wasn't democratic, I don't think that's what we should do, but letting capitalists run society has the same basic problems as having any other type of minoritarian rule. "But what if people support something bad," That's what political agitation and education are for, you can't depoliticize politics in a class society, but at least the people have a common class interest that encompasses the vast majority of the population and can be appealed to, unlike with a ruling elite.

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  • No, I don't know what BRG uses, I was using they/them to be gender neutral (no pronouns in bio either).

    If that's the comparison, then yeah that's ableist, but I think it's hard to tell in part due to the sheer absurdity and also the fact that the "disabled slaver" thing is a meme like I said before. You might be right though.

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  • Historically there certainly had been a lot of child labor in China (not toddlers, though), basically like in any other developing country except that China was bigger and had many more factories than the other examples, and there were of course many teenagers sent to work in various capacities in the Cultural Revolution, but it's not like that now though.

    The people who are more up-to-date complain about suicide nets, 996, and penal labor. Ironically, the most infamous issues with Chinese workplace suicides (and accompanying sweatshop conditions) were from the operations of Foxconn, a Taiwanese company.

  • Turns out people get offended when you respond to their propaganda with "So we've been told."

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  • What does her faith line actually mean? Does she think you're effectively a monarchist and it's a question of having faith in a monarch?

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  • Can you say more to connect these two ideas? What do you think they are actually trying to say?

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  • I don't think they are saying it for any sort of ableist reason, they are just making fun of Discourse. For example, you sometimes see radlibs say "actually some disabled people had no choice but to keep slaves" and things like that. The point is to make fun of tokenizing lib idpol rhetoric.

    At least, I'm pretty sure . . .

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  • I don't mean to be a doomer but what is "releasing the files" going to do?

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  • I think it's quite rhetorically convenient for radicalizing people, just like CIA admissions are. They generally don't produce spontaneous waves of socialists, but if you make the effort to consider how to leverage this information for a given audience, they can help.

  • i found ground zero for lots of weird little guy emojis

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  • This one would actually be a great emoji

  • Sees 200 half naked teen boys standing in piss in vomit in a moldy basement in pitch black darkness Actually, this is really good and cool as hell!

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  • Does this mean we can engage in ritualized abuse of the editorial staff of the Free Press? How many hundreds need to die from this bullshit before it's too many? Of course these freaks love traumatizing people, so there's no point in asking about that.

    I checked a bunch of mirrors and the paywall remained, so they really want to make you pay money for their dogshit paleocon ragebait, which is not a good deal.

  • Epstein had his prostate removed but the body in his cell had an enlarged prostate.

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  • As long as the discussion isn't promoting harm to marginalized groups I don't see the problem.

    Undermining our ability to reasonably assess what's going on with the US and Israel should be regarded as equivalent to promoting such harm for obvious reasons.

  • Epstein had his prostate removed but the body in his cell had an enlarged prostate.

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  • These photos have been floating around the web, and they could very well be fakes. In fact, I'd bet they probably are fakes, but their existence proves that photos are not convincing proof in this day and age.

    What kind of argument is this? "Fake photos mean that photographic evidence means nothing"? Even with fake pictures, if they convincingly have a date and time you will get people to investigate it in a story as big as this one, and what matters aren't a couple of contextless photos but what people are able to dig up when pointed in a specific direction.

    If he really were still alive and were, for example, arrested (again) for something, he would almost certainly have a new furbished identity and the associated documentation. The real Jeffrey Epstein was confirmed to have multiple passports from different countries.

    If the dude has been captured, you can't just use a fake ID as a magic ticket to not be identified. He's still the same organism, there are countless ways of identifying him based on existing evidence in a situation like that.

  • Epstein had his prostate removed but the body in his cell had an enlarged prostate.

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  • Because Israel wants its operatives to know they've got their back no matter what despicable shit they're doing for Israel. They want them to know they will not be abandoned by Israel, even when imprisoned. It keeps them from turning to save their own skin.

    The Hannibal Doctrine country wants its agents to know that it will put itself at massive risk to keep them alive?

  • Epstein had his prostate removed but the body in his cell had an enlarged prostate.

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  • i'm shocked that this many people buy into this.. wow.

    Yeah, I already consider myself to have kind of a pessimistic attitude about HB and this shit just makes me sad. It's pathetic and I thought people were at least better than this but they are literally at sub-Hasan levels of ability to analyze this.

  • Epstein had his prostate removed but the body in his cell had an enlarged prostate.

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  • I think I'm on the side of "he's alive in Israel" though.

    Why? It seems seriously unreasonable to think that they didn't kill him and instead took an already very hazardous situation and gave themselves another catastrophic liability.

  • Epstein had his prostate removed but the body in his cell had an enlarged prostate.

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  • Trying to get specific about punctuation and then saying that a subordinate clause is a parenthetical because it's acting like a normal subordinate clause is unhelpful, and also you're misreading it anyway because that's not what makes it read as more likely a hypothetical question. What makes it obviously more likely hypothetical is that it's asking about a situation someone can be in, that they can still need Viagra rather than do still need Viagra. Phrased another way, the question is "It's not deductively true that people with high T don't need Viagra, because someone with high T may not have a prostate and that could result in them needing it, right?" Like if I say to you, "You can be handsome and still have trouble getting laid if you're interpersonally annoying, right?" There's no suggestion that I'm claiming any of those things are true about you, I'm just indicating a situation using the general sense of "you." In my experience, people often use this wording to ask about themselves (whether their current situation or one they might be worrying about being in in the future).

    It would be miles more normal to just word the original question "Despite having high testosterone, do you still need Viagra because you don't have a prostate?" or something like that (you can reorder the items, of course) if it was asking about Epstein's own condition.

  • Kissenger?

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  • Because it'll be a modular part to attach to a custom mask of the person you're intending to use it with.

  • Gavin Newsom tries to connect with a black crowd: "I am like you… I'm a 960 SAT guy… I can't read…"

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  • America was the Cum Town all along