zeke5123a
13hr ago
If free speech is protected in the UK, why are there literally thousands of arrests for tweets?
Easy: the UK defines free speech as the ability to say X but not Y. Suffice to say a dog is not a cat even if the government says it is a cat. Likewise, Europe lacks free speech even if they claim they have it.
zeke5123a
13hr ago
I think the meme is annoying precisely because the people who use it don’t really understand Christianity but instead think it’s just the hippie version.
zeke5123a
13hr ago
He rightfully said that in order to think through what’s true you have to risk being offensive (ie not all truths are inoffensive).
Your second line of thought is interesting it isn’t obvious why for example the trans person’s right to not be offended over pronouns as opposed to the non trans person who finds gender theory offensive. That is, if a position is offensive on both sides why is one side given precedence?
zeke5123a
20hr ago
I’m reminded of the Cathy Newman Jordan Peterson interview where she asks why should his right to speech be more important than her right not to be offended.
zeke5123a
21hr ago
My favorite part about this is there is zero discussion of whether is it true; just whether they dislike the content.
zeke5123a
1d ago
I don’t really care because soccer is dumb but it would be like one team in the NFL gets to play without a salary cap. Sure seems like massive competitive advantage.
zeke5123a
5d ago
It’s funny you cite height. Do you know the odds of playing in the nba if you are 7 feet tall or higher? They are multiple orders of magnitude better than if you are below 6 feet tall.
So it is with rich people. Who is a better investor: random GS VP or Peter Thiel?
zeke5123a
6d ago
Leftist for a summer burned down parts of major American cities. One famous example was in Portland where they literally sieged a federal courthouse for days on end.
Compare that to a few hours of a protest that got a bit violent. You are out to lunch if you think the right is treated with kid gloves and the government attacks the left. It’s the exact opposite.
zeke5123a
6d ago
I think the South Africa white farmers are a great target for asylum (reasonably productive people that are under real threat as a minority). I also think most other asylum claims are BS.
Stated differently, the radical position is the prior asylum position. Immigration is not popular writ large.
zeke5123a
7d ago
It seems to me the problem with law is its universality. We need hard paternalism for the bottom 10% and classic liberalism with protections for everyone else
zeke5123a
8d ago
You don’t need to be an aryan race warrior before the race establishment right gets upset.
zeke5123a
8d ago
The right and left polices the “far” right wing (no one wants to be called a crypto Nazi) thereby prioritizing moderation as opposed to purity. The far left is tolerated and thus more and more results in purity spirals.
zeke5123a
9d ago
It’s not just that. The confidence that it “started” at the wet market relies on trusting the PRC. That’s a huge leap.
Moreover, there are thousands of wet markets and a handful of places like WIV. Quite the coincidence if it started at that specific wet market.
zeke5123a
10d ago
That’s just not true. We have the bat lady at WIV along with Barrick talking about doing GoF there. Fauci in his own emails stated they were doing GoF at WIV.
This became a political football because Fauci perjured himself. But even Fauci’s definition was GoF (ie they were doing things to viruses to see what would happen but weren’t sure it would gain function).
zeke5123a
10d ago
Wait. The same damn logic applies for zoonosis. Why aren’t you demanding that every wet market in the world be shut down? Why aren’t you demanding massive sanctions until countries stop wet markets / trade in exotic animals? Why aren’t you sending in Seal Team Six to take out owners of wet markets?
Edit — most lab leak proponents believe China did this—with the U.S.’s help— accidentally. Making a mistake is not causes for war.
zeke5123a
10d ago
There were a lot of emails from Fauci etc suggesting a concerted cover up. Of course we knew some but not all of this before.
zeke5123a
10d ago
But if you know John is a criminal involved in fraud that changes your calculus
zeke5123a
10d ago
The basic problem is it relies on accepting info from PRC (who wants to lie) and from US government (who through Fauci also lied). The rootclaim debate didn’t have the benefit of the Paul data dump that was pretty damning.
zeke5123a
11d ago
I think the other poster is suggesting that machines don’t “do it better” but spam better.
And if Newman isn’t an idiot, she would realize it’s not a general right to be non offended but the obligation to not say things considered impolite by tptb
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