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Comment Re:Mixed Feelings (Score 1) 153

What I want to know is what makes you qualified to know if some blogs you just gave me links to are fair and accurate? I would also like to know your credentials for being the arbitrator of every single message to decide what people are allowed to say or not say?

I gather that you should be in charge of everything. No one should say anything without running it by you first. That they have control over their own expression and not you is surely a mistake in the design of the universe, reality and all that is entailed.

I believe you're making the world worse.

Comment Re:30 year long panic over IRC servers (Score 1) 308

The real problem I have with this is that sure we can shut down parler so that genocidal maniacs can't spread their racist conspiracy theories to others but what do we do about their ability to tell people the say lies when not on the internet? Many lies are spread through word of mouth so even if we taken down these sites they have a fallback.

Comment Re:Mixed Feelings (Score 1) 153

Zuckerberg isn't here right now but you are. You call Zuckerberg a white supremacist with no real evidence to that claim. I find you absolutely reprehensible. You realise you can be judged for what you call things too?

Given you immediately display a tendency to call things anything you like without any proper basis for it can you give me some examples of these lies and can you show me you've also checked to see if your ideology is held to the same standard. You're claiming that your belief system and political faction never lies on facebook and is never racist. That's a might bold claim.

Lets see some examples. I don't trust your judgement. I want to judge for myself.

Comment Mixed Feelings (Score 1, Insightful) 153

I'm not always a fan of Zuck the Cuck but I think he's not really the worst. He looks like a ship to me battered in the storm. All the jealous folks and part of him still remembers what it was like to be on the internet in the olden days of the wild west when it was anti-establishment and they're trying to make him the establishment. He annoys everyone but I think somewhere deep down he's anchored. I think he's actually terrified for as powerful as he is he's being spun around and around like nothing before. With all his riches he thought he'd earn escape from the ravages of life only to find the ravages of high life far more treacherous. On the inside I do not truly believe that he abides by what his company is doing despite being unethical in its inception.

Comment Re:Basically, what this tells the world is.... (Score 1) 281

It's become normal today for people to scream whataboutism when their double standards are exposed. I don't think you know what whataboutism even is.

This is a major component of why people looking at the US from the outside see it in a state of collective cognitive decline. You don't have universal standards and high standards only selectively exists so you can get your own way and support your own side. This is for example why many only see their opposing side as having any adverse impact and not their own side.

I'm not complaining about police brutality. I'm complaining about the misinformation that's saying there is or that is exaggerating it. This is again another double standard in practice. We see the media censoring everything that doesn't politically align and calling it dangerous but then when you have things like a misleading video that shows someone dying of poor health and drug overdose calling the police officer a white supremacists murdering a black person. When people reveal the actual details in the case they are censored from social media under hate speech rules despite that they are primarily pedants pointing out misinformation that is dangerous and has led to significant violence.

The USA is not a nation of evenly applied standards. It has become a corrupt nation. It now ranks in there with the third world.

Comment Re:Good (Score 0) 288

There's something I'm trying to explain to people who come up with conspiracy theories like yours. What you're missing is that there's two entirely difference psychological processes at play and behavioural patterns. The ones you're talking about work the most on the left. They have the left under thumb. Take a look at this: https://transparency.tube/

People on the left all massively consume big news. People call this legacy media. There's an expected process occurring where the internet kills TV, radio and the news paper. The same as TV killed radio or cars killed horse and cart. On the right big news is dead apart from fox and you'll also see big news only has a small share of the over all audience. The right takes their information from many more small and diverse sources than the left. Meanwhile the left primarily takes the news from big agencies that are basically all the same. All adapting the same to the same audience with convergent evolution, all laterally synchronised including a quorum system and are effectively like different breasts on the same single beast. They all sell the same thing but different packaging. Even the talk shows primarily talk about events seen in the same news channels the left is watching.

People on the right are different. It's not a mother - baby relationship with the press. They consider themselves equals and think on even terms. They will challenge what the press is telling them and their own loyalties are often more important than the press's loyalties. You see this now with a massive shift away from Fox news. People on the right still believe in things like the right to think for yourself. You can see they're actually more progressive as they have embraced the internet where as the left is a fully captive audience for traditional established media.

They don't realise that there's basically half the population but mass media be is news media or social media doesn't cater to them. The ultimate result is that there will be a kind of demonopolisation that's naturally occurring though legacy media which now includes traditional monopolies like google will fight against it. You're seeing a natural split toward something like AMD and Intel.

The result of monopolies in things like news media that only caters to half the population gives people on the left a false sense of belonging evenly to the masses when this is not the case. They think they're in the middle when they're shifting well into the far left. Things go completely uncontested on that side. There aren't two sides on each issue. In essence you have a system that treats half the people as if they didn't exist.

The result will be a huge shift away from these platforms. It's an absolutely enormous market. I'm tempted now to pitch in and take advantage.

Comment Re:Basically, what this tells the world is.... (Score 1) 281

This is a lot of WHO propaganda that it was really going to magically save the day but Trump came in at the last minute and stopped them. I don't buy it given the WHO's performance when it was on the stage.

The principle problem here is that you and other people are obsessed with trying to find out in all the ways how Trump is wrong and everyone else is right as though it's a perfect world without Trump. You have no idea how you look to an outside observer that can think for themselves. Trump doesn't make America look bad. His opposition does. No one is perfect but there's this incessant nit picking and refusal to work with Trump from an opposition that's unilateral and then complains when Trump acts unilaterally.

You complain about Trump and COVID-19 but when it was kicking off his entire party and administration was suffering yet another denial of service attack from a malicious impeachment. As Trump closed travel to China his opposition was going down to China town to make some kind of political statement some of them even declaring hug a Chinese person day. In the middle of a lockdown where people were arrested for being alone swimming in the sea anti-police rioters, many of which were simply criminals, were allowed to go out in droves and chaotic riot in response to a string of false allegations of police brutality not a single one of which the mass media classified as misinformation.

No one actually takes you seriously or anything you say seriously. You just say things. You'll say anything you can to get your own way and you're also voting for the kind of world where anything you say or those who say what you would say goes.

The problem isn't Trump. It's you. That's what I'm seeing. I'm looking at his opposition and shaking my head. The thing is they make out Trump to be ten times worse than he is so they that permits them to react ten times worse and at the end of the day it's only his opposition that are ten times worse.

Comment Re:Basically, what this tells the world is.... (Score 1) 281

Do you think we always treat the USA so good? A lot of people who fall in hate with Trump have some maligned social instinct. It can work well enough in close quarters like the playground, office politics, social club, popularity contests, etc but only specifically to the ones they're exposed to and not at scale. Humans haven't evolved to operate at scale and a lot of people don't seem to realise when they're out of their element.

If I sold my house, then gave all the money out splitting it between everyone on the street then sure they're love me but once I'm without a house and without money then what? It's not always as good a thing as you think if people like you and when you're engaged in politics making collective decisions you might be giving away other people's things that isn't exclusively yours to give, like giving away the country. "Just don't give away the homeworld." the planet's ambassader said as he left his attache in charge to tend to other affairs.

Just because we're allies doesn't mean anything goes. Before any of this stuff happened my country released a dossier against Trump to smear him and try to over through him interfering with the USA's election. I don't expect Trump to be too happy with us. What goes around comes around. We weren't your allies when we all turned on Trump before he was even elected. Most people completely skirted over that scandal.

I really have to ask the question how far do you think the USA needs to go for its allies. Does you need to let in more immigrants for your allies? What other domestic policy or military interventions do you need to do to please your allies? What about Israel and Britain? Biden has offended people from both.

Comment Re:Basically, what this tells the world is.... (Score 1) 281

If you think that the most important thing is how other countries see your country and if you think it's only Trump that ever impacts that and only negatively then you're incredibly naive.

Only so many people really care about the WHO internationally. I don't. Lots of people don't. In fact I think that's a good standard. The WHO funding should not be guaranteed but based on results. Not doing it like that is part of the reason the WHO has started to deteriorate in the first place.

People are wary of things like leaving the Paris accord except that broadly across the USA companies, institutions and federal agencies are autonomously and voluntarily doing what they can to bring down emissions anyway and the Trump administration has not has a significant impact on that barring specific contested issues. The global agreement is also not really what a lot of people want either. It puts a lot on developed nations that are already going that way anyway and doesn't focus where the real problem is which is on developing nations. Certain approaches are naive like they need to splurge on oil to develop like develop nations might have and don't really look more at what is possible. Nations that are developing have many different paths available compared to before.

It's not a simply affair but at the end of the day you have to ask what impact does it really have? The way people are reacting to it is as though Trump released the entire next 100 years worth of CO2 into the atmosphere in 4 years. Nothing like that happened. There's this stuff you read about in the news paper, end of times stuff and then there's reality.

Internationally the US already trashed it's reputation under Obama. A lot of people like Obama as a personality but the fact is the USA he presided over has awful things under its belt such as Libya and Syria. You just can't pit wars against things that are more minor and immaterial like leaving the WHO.

As the beacon of Democracy the USA has also severely damaged it's reputation with the way this election has been run. Though he's a part of it that's not really on Trump. Your country as a whole failed to conduct a proper election being too busy politically sparring with each other and botching up measures to try to make the election COVID-19 resistant while also maintaining integrity.

If you're American and you think you can control how we see you with simple dumb stuff like voting for Biden then you're a joke. We see you how we see you and you have to do a lot more than that if you want people to see you in a positive light. We look at you and we go you're pretty pathetic if Biden is your answer to Trump. How is that a candidate that's any better or fit for purpose? At best you're replacing one low standard with another.

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