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Is this comment directed at me? I did provide a counter argument, and I didn't downvote or flag anyone.

In Europe, it's used to treat sick large animals, which are very expensive to replace. (Cows cost over a thousand dollars) In India, it is fed to 100% of healthy chickens to make them grow faster, because their immune systems don't have to deal with bacteria anymore, and so more energy goes into growth. The number of reproducing bacteria being exposed to antibiotics, (and therefore with a chance to develop immunity) is orders of magnitude higher with what Indians are doing than with what Europeans are doing.

Invasion of privacy doesn't require an actual invasion into a person's private life. It includes publicizing a person in a false light [...]

Could you explain that a bit more? I would be very shocked if something as subjective and vague as "publicizing a person in a false light" would be an invasion of privacy worthy of first amendment exemption.

Most community banks shut down or got bought up as a result of the past 30 years of lobbying from big banks. My town's bank had operated independently for almost 100 years before being bought up a few years ago. Now my choices are BoA, Wells Fargo, or stashing bills under my mattress. Thanks crony capitalism.

According to that wikipedia article, the German law translates Volksverhetzung into English as "incitement to hatred". So no, saying that Germany has banned 'hate speech' is not an oversimplification chosen by the media. You are intentionally conflating politically incorrect opinions about immigration (aka 'hate speech') with child porn and violent threats.

How about, "20% of Europe has at some point been conquered by Muslims."

True. But you shouldnt remove words from the headlines of an article being cited.

In the spirit of standardization, I think all systems of speaking besides American English should be made illegal in all countries. That way, no one will have to pay translators to unnecessarily switch back and forth between equivalent languages, or have to put up with any of those stupid British accents.

You can't deny the economic advantages of this. Who cares about losing cultural heritage? That's just for obstructionists like those filthy Americans. /s

We just export all this pollution to China. Instead of a good unionized manufacturing job with a pension paying $25/hr, the average American now scrapes by makes minimum wage working odd hours at a Starbucks with no benefits. We need massive tariffs on dirty Chinese imports so clean Made in America products can compete. Otherwise we're just subsidizing the destruction of the environment in third world countries and making income inequality in the US worse by making working class Americans poorer.

How are people going to get better at English if we remove all the parts of the language that make it colorful and expressive?

The important thing to note here is that the 'mainstream' news sources and Blue Checkmarks have all that influence because their political adgenda is aligned with advertisers and so they have tons of money to self-promote. (See the adpocalypse on YouTube) They dont have all that influence because their political slant is vastly more popular or more accurate than non-corperate (aka alternative) news sources. That's why the niche for alternatives to them exist.

Plenty of fake news on both 4chan and CNN, just different fake news. "Hands up don't shoot!" vs. naming the wrong man as the Vegas shooter

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2015/0...

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/10/googl...

I think Theresa May (and tens of thousands of bureaucrats) should be able to see everything on your phone at all times. Not anyone else's, just yours.

Like rape? I don't think so.

You totally missed his point. Wikileaks does not pretend to be unbiased. They are willing to speak truth to power whereas your "accredited journalists" do nothing but cower and cover up for it. Who do you think is paying for that accreditation? Middle class families or billionaires?

If it had been legitimate dirt on Russia or Trump, the NYT or Washington Post would have published it. That means this guy was attempting to discredit Wikileaks by passing them bogus intel like the "Trump dossier" mixed with already public info. Wikileaks made the right call, and you sound mad about it.

the banks didn't worry about the risk because they trusted the government would help them out

This is euphemistic for the banks stealing money from taxpayers through crony capitalism.

a popular plugin called REST

Why cant tech 'journalists' get someone who knows what they're talking about to proofread their articles?

Don't people think this is sexist? If men and women are equal shouldn't they be treated the same in all situations?

I agree. Soros and the Koch bros are two sides of the same coin. They both advocate pro-globalization policies, Soros the social aspects, and Koch the economic aspects. It's clear that globalism has massively benefitted the ultra-wealthy at the expense of the lower and middle class, and one way they justify the madness is by funding these propaganda organizations.

What bugs me is how often reports from "Think Tanks" and NGOs are uncritically reported as news by the media without disclosing their donors.

What's your phone number?

Then maybe ad networks aren't the solution. Maybe it's Flatr or a browser like Brave that automatically pays websites you visit a few cents worth of Bitcoin. The current solution of creepy privacy-violating ad networks must go, and alternatives won't develop organically until there is pressure on publishers to find alternatives.

It's more like when the book store asks you for your phone number, home address, and driver's license before they will accept your credit card, and so you simply pay them with cash.

Yes because criminally corrupt executives can not be extradided, but if Julian Assange steps outside he'll get a bag over his head and a one-way trip to Guantanamo Bay.

1) Anything not politically correct is bigoted.

2) Anything bigoted is unacceptable.

3) Anything I find unacceptable should be beaten down with ad hominim attacks instead of properly heard out and debated.

Got it.

Do you mean these replies?

Al Binnie-Lubbock @alastairis · Jul 26 Replying to @MikeStuchbery_ and @PrisonPlanet I enjoyed this thread apart from the ableism in the first tweet. Not cool.

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Mike Stuchbery Mike Stuchbery @MikeStuchbery_ · Jul 26 I apologize unreservedly. I will do better.

What are you even talking about. I can not figure out what you are saying, could you clarify? What is the wrong example? The multiple examples in the comment you replied to?

Can we please have a conversation on the abuse of Federal plea bargains and insanely high sentencing guidelines? Thousands of Americans every year plead guilty in federal court to crimes they did not commit because they face insanely high prison terms if convicted. Often Federal sentences are several times longer than ones in state courts for the exact same crimes.

What is the actual source of this? Hiw do I verify this really came from NC?

Not a planned outcome.

Sure, but the people responsible clearly don't care, as evidenced by the tone of the article.

Drug addiction is the result of the weak border [1], and a depressing job market [2], which is also the result of the weak border [3].

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/us-heroin-coming-from-mexican...

[2] http://www.gallup.com/opinion/chairman/181469/big-lie-unempl...

[3] https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/03-16-16%20Bo...

The fact that they dont have more platforms and more trains is dehumanizing because it causes overcrowding.