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Captainant

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  1. 14 hours ago, Beau Vine said:

    My daughter went with her best friend to the Baptist church in Wimberley one time when she was in high school.  And that time the sermon was about how Christians are persecuted for their religious beliefs.  About how the courts didn't allow them to discriminate against gays even though the Bible tells them that homosexuality is a sin.  She came home literally about as mad as I've ever seen her.  I was mega-proud. 

    I grew up southern baptist, and it's incredible how central the thesis of "christians are the most persecution religion in America" is to their belief structure

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  2. 7 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

    But I also understand that you are not able to fairly assess my actual words because of your lingering resentment over getting called out for your conspiracy theory nonsense, as well as you projection of understandable frustration at the medical community. 

    I'd appreciate it if you'd stop lying and misrepresenting what I said about the alfabank DNS logs two years ago. I said that it alone is not proof of anything nefarious, but it is a piece of unexplained forensic evidence that indicates something nefarious could be happening - especially considering that trump and alfa changed their explanations for them multiple times. But please feel free to quote and cite what I actually posted to support your lies.

    But sure, please do continue to misrepresent what I said to deflect from criticism directed at you. Very cool.

  3. 1 minute ago, Anastasis said:

    BTW, "medical industrial complex" is terminology used by the dogmatic HCQ devotees.  You can watch Ron Johnson's senate hearing to catch it dropped a few times.

    thank you for letting me know, I don't want to get lumped in with them. I just wanted to highlight you spend a bunch of words to attack the FDA for moving slowly while navigating the minefield of politicization, while neglecting to mention trump's damage to that agency. 

    7 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

    Or you can just continue whining about the medical industrial complex that is delivering an end to this pandemic. 

    They'd fucking better have a solution to the pandemic, they've been raking in record profits and delivering shittier care than ever. I'd hope that they're doing more than just scrooge mcduck-ing into giant money pools and paying out big paydays to their shareholders

  4. 2 minutes ago, The Dog said:

    who could have guessed that zero content moderation past what is required by law could fuck up their ability to secure advertiser business to their site??

    I didn't know about their "jury" process for a moderator panel that tracks and scores serial offenders though, that's a decent innovation to reduce the per-person load of moderation tbh

     

  5. Interesting that the medical industrial complex stooge thinks the FDA is in the wrong more than trump actively impeding pandemic control measures and throwing out the pandemic response playbook. Or ya know, wasting limited medical resources on procuring HCQ and other snake oil remedies without a shred of evidence of efficacy.

    Both sides indeed, annie. Both sides.

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  6. 9 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

    I have yet to see a compelling argument that the juice isn't worth the squeeze

    For one, it's an overly broad measure to implement because "fuck Facebook and Twitter". As someone who makes a living thanks to the internet, I'm not real big about the rules of the road being changed for everyone to address edge cases of bad behavior. 

    I'd much rather see rules/legislation around microtargetted advertising and data collection, ideally something like a US-GDPR. That measure alone would break FB and TW's business models but not flip the table over for everyone else. Not to mention ya know, us normal folks getting privacy by default back. 

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  7. 1) go make a section 230 thread

    2) if sec230 is repealed, copyright holder abuse of platforms will be next-level and the internet as we know it will go away in favor of a corporately-moderated model. Think DMCA notices are bad now? Hoo buddy

    3) why the fuck is a communications act amendment being included in a defense authorization act? This is dumb shit and we are all worse for you suggesting it's a good idea, Syd

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