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Comment Re:You're misusing genocide and literally (Score 1) 312

There's a whole wikipedia article about denial of the Gazan genocide. Your post here has a bit of #2 (deflecting all blame to Hamas) mixed with #9 (asserting all civilian destruction is collateral damage), plus a ton of #6 (demonizing Israel's enemies while emphasizing Israel's alleged superior moral character).

Meanwhile, Israeli officials have been saying for years that they want to remove all Palestinians from Gaza. And guess what? Ethnic cleansing is genocide.

Comment Re:Right?! How is zero growth bad? (Score 1) 339

Do you think people just sit around and consume services? Where do you think they get the money to pay for houses or products?

People have jobs, and they contribute to society. Each person increases demand, sure, but they also increase supply by being part of the labour force.

If you really believe what you say, you might as well push for a China-style one child per couple policy.

Comment Re:It's automated plagiarism (Score 0) 94

You mean because it learns just like people do from our common cultural heritage?

No, because it flagrantly violates copyright in a way that normal humans are not allowed to do.

Remember, the point of intellectual property is to incentivize creation not to allow authors to block the creation of new works.

Why can't I publish Star Wars fanfiction, while OpenAi can? Why are we automating the fun parts of life, like artistic creation, while humans are stuck doing the miserable, tedious labour? Copyright is meant to incentivize creation by people because only the creative output of people has value.

Comment Re: What's the problem? (Score 1) 265

I'd point out that the problem is that folks who advocate for these good-sounding (no hungry, no homeless, no discrimination) policies and the Communist/Socialist methods of achieving them aren't too up front with the actual methods they want to use to get there. They want to steal. I'm not talking about theft (that's done by stealth). I'm talking about robbery (theft by the threat of force).

Is this the libertarian "taxes are theft" meme? I've never known progressives to be unwilling to acknowledge the fact that public services and infrastructure are funded by taxes. Even the ones libertarians like, like the military, police, and judicial system require funding, and taxes are the best way to do that.

They'd rather sloganize with things like "Don't speak when a black women is speaking."

I've never seen someone on the left put this forward as any sort of policy proposal, so I'm not going to talk about it further.

Then they appear to really want to take that to the next level by trashing 1A with "hate speech" laws.

All societies place limits on people's freedom for the sake of public safety; it's the old "your right to swing your fist ends at my nose" thing. In a democracy, there are bound to be discussions on where exactly the balance between safety and freedom lies, and the contention from progressives is that the harm of hate speech outweighs the value of allowing it. Nowhere on Earth is freedom fully prioritized over safety; even in the US, it's illegal to post an open bounty on someone's life, for example.

And not to devolve into whatboutism, but with Trump recently trying to criminalize flag burning, it's not like Republicans are better than Democrats on this issue.

COVID made all those intentions quite clear and put them all in the open, including that shocking numbers [rasmussenreports.com] of lefties wanted concentration camps for CV19 policy refuseniks.

It seems like Rasmussen Reports is not particularly credible so I'm not going to go into this too deeply, but your link mostly talks about Biden supporters. If your claim is that Joe Biden is far left, then you have a fundamental misunderstanding of progressive politics.

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