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Why would the government care if you're left or right, as long as you are a faithful consumer.

  > he had finally started focusing on violent crime instead of, “quality of life” crime like shoplifting and vandalism.

Worked in New York.

  > this disregard for the English language is truly despicable. You ought to be ashamed.

  > Says who? Some prosecutor? 

  > If a man takes a Valium, he won't be charged with anything. 

[0] https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/women-arent-always-sent...

  > Tell the world you will stop development until alignment is figured out. 

This is a tremendously naïve take on the situation.

Everybody knows it's safer to live in the country, but that's not the argument he's making. He's saying it's also safer to live in any other city. I don't know if it's a great methodology though, going per sq mile.

Talk about a bad faith argument. Nobody took away NY Times blue check except themselves when they refused to pay for the subscription like everyone else. Just like they won't let me view their articles without a subscription, so they should understand how that works as well as anybody.

A garment district holds no strategic value, so that wouldn't necessarily carry over to manufacturing.

Shady sourcing = the actual laptop and the contents which later proved to be 100% correct. Also, Zerohedge was banned for quite awhile for the same thing.

You want to increase depression, this is how you do it.

People need shit to do, and as much as we lie to ourselves that everyone is a budding artist who if only freed from the bounds of work would create the worlds next masterpiece - that is just not reality. Most people would actually sit around getting high/drunk, playing video games, watching porn and being miserable.

  > companies can potentially produce 10 times as many products/services

They banned NY Post for reporting on Hunter Biden's laptop and the contents showing "10% for the big guy" in reference to his father getting kickbacks on some shady Ukrainian and Chinese deals that Hunter facilitated.

  > despite the fact that their bill was basically Romneycare.

  > Millions of innocent civilians in the middle east aren't as happy about it though.

So it's no different than it was before, so what's the problem?

I think most people against censorship are still against it. I just find it ironic that the people who supported censorship before are now up in arms.

I'm old enough to remember when we were told Twitter isn't the government so this isn't a free speech issue and if people don't like it they can build their own platform and blah blah blah..

Does that still hold now?

As we've heard millions of times before when the shoe was on the other foot, this is not a free speech issue. Even more so now that Twitter is a private company.

Someone else mentioned this, but there are a couple million government employees, a change in Administration doesn't really impact that in any meaningful way because the federal government is absolutely massive. NPR does have a bias towards the US-centric neoliberal order, regardless of which party is in power. In that sense, it is at least partially funded by government and parroting pro-US government messaging.

It's nowhere on the level of some countries but it's not exactly an independent media outlet and we shouldn't pretend it is.

Can you elaborate?

I disagree with this completely. I've been spanked a couple times by dang and it was warranted both times. And although I felt I was correct in what I posted, the tone wasn't right for this place, hence the warnings. That sort of thing is precisely why HN hasn't become Reddit-like.

  > I'm sure Trump's blatant attempts to do so as confirmed by several members of his own administration are particularly outrageous to you. Strange that you didn't mention it.

Bail is designed to ensure you show back up for proceedings, and to protect the community if you present a danger to others. If you don't present a danger to others and you aren't running anywhere, then personal recognizance makes sense. It's an imperfect system but the solution is to give personal recognizance bail to more people not fewer.

You didn't answer the question. We promised to give a billion dollars, then threatened to withhold it if they didn't do what we wanted. That is not a gift or a donation, that makes it a bribe. That was also a clear example of coercion - and it was done by our current President who was VP at the time.

I'm sure you were well aware of this and many other examples and yet you are on here pretending we don't use those tactics in Ukraine. Why?

So which one is this an example of - not coercion or not bribery? Or not both:

https://www.wsj.com/video/opinion-joe-biden-forced-ukraine-t...

  > Unreliant on Chrome?

  > What do you think diplomats do?

Or wait, how many coups do you think the US has actually been involved in since WWII?

Then again, the fact that you claim the US uses no coercion means you're probably trolling and I fell for it, so well played.

Remember when people were cheering that the Biden Administration added 87,000 new IRS agents. Surprise surprise..

Brave is a separate fork and completely unreliant on Chrome. It also is the most privacy-focused browser so it's the opposite of "tracking-supported software".