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Comment Not ironic at all... (Score 1) 431

What YouTube staff did here was stop this instance of their social media platform being used to foment white nationalism (Why are we using that term anyway? I thought those types hated political correctness?). That it still happened in the first place is a case in the point that the spread of such antisocial ideology is endemic to social media. No irony, just evidence of the issue that the hearing is about.

Comment Re:Cruel and unusual (Score 2) 260

"Crime" being a larger and larger number of acts that really shouldn't be labeled as such. Like drug addiction, or paying various fines for things that ultimately amount to being poor.

Private for-profit prisons are fascistic, plain and simple. Collusion of government and private interests to institutionally exploit the people. In the pursuit of profit, the for-profit prison industry lobbies the government to increase the number of incarcerable offenses so they make more money incarcerating, under the guise of being "Tough On Crime". The officials that enact what the private prison lobby pushes for are predominantly of one political party in particular.

Comment Re:The right to be wrong (Score 2) 324

What if the right to be wrong affects others detrimentally? "Don't tread on me!" says the Gadsden Flag. The trodden upon in this case are those who can't be vaccinated, and to a lesser extent those who have vaxxed since vaccinations are not a perfect shield in a similar manner to seatbelts against crash injury. They are emphatically not the Pro-Pestilencers, as they cry to be.

The freedom to recklessly swing one's fists about ends at another's nose.

Comment Re:They are paying taxes, just more direct (Score 1) 147

You mean paying to improve things that you could personally benefit from rather than what society at large needs for everyone to benefit, including Amazon? That's what I see going on here. Refusal for such huge megacorps to pay taxes like Amazon does is refusal to pay for the upkeep and improvement of the social structures that make success for everyone possible. That's the true theft, not taxation.

And now Amazon has their claws in those schools who now have to do what Amazon wants them to do or else the funding gets pulled. We saw it happen in NYC with the whole HQ2 deal.

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