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Similar to the argument that climate change denial needs to be an offence punishable by the law now because it contributes to inaction and puts a significant amount of human lives at risk. I guess there's also some kind of streisand effect that needs to be considered.
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8th April 2019, 14:24 | #4802 |
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Interesting twitter thread, Jacinda and Chch fallout:
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8th April 2019, 15:03 | #4803 | |
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Not that this will happen. Once the consequences of climate change start devastating the world, we'll quickly revert to totalitarianism.
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8th April 2019, 15:07 | #4804 |
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Jacinda hero trope is a clickbait strategy to increase revenue because the press needs to make money somehow and the current way of doing that is via advertising. If OP in that thread can't see that, then OP needs to take a deep breath.
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8th April 2019, 15:35 | #4806 |
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Not to derail too hard, but Ab's absolutely right.
Take a popular anti-vax facebook page for example:
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8th April 2019, 16:59 | #4808 |
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I need to figure out how to sell vials of my cum to suckers as some sort of holistic wellness product.
Did you know that vaccinations have mercury in them? Fucken mercury! My cum has NO mercury!
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I just want to understand this, sir. Every time a rug is micturated upon in this fair city, I have to compensate the owner? Last edited by CCS : 8th April 2019 at 17:00. |
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It's all lies: CCS eats seafood and everyone knows the mercury levels in seafood are too high.
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8th April 2019, 19:19 | #4810 | |
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This Man Actually Thought Injecting Semen Into His Arm Would Cure His Back Pain https://www.health.com/sexual-health...-for-back-pain |
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8th April 2019, 20:46 | #4811 | |
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BAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!! It begins...
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8th April 2019, 23:09 | #4812 |
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Well no one can say for sure that the semen in his arm DIDN'T clear up his back pain...
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15th April 2019, 13:28 | #4813 |
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For some reason I naively thought the police keeping lists of citizens was considered the domain of fascists and tyrants.
Forty percent of us flagged by police Guess I was wrong. Or was I?
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15th April 2019, 14:11 | #4814 |
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If only they flagged Tarrant with a few more alerts eh
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15th April 2019, 15:22 | #4815 |
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What's a Tarrant?
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15th April 2019, 15:39 | #4816 | |
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15th April 2019, 15:44 | #4817 |
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Doesn't look like anything to me.
I think back when we were fighting fascism, we were building a society for everyone, this being what protects us from dramatic acts against ourselves. As opposed to watching everyone who might perchance act in a rational manner from their own perspective. Looks like we've lost that fight.
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15th April 2019, 16:56 | #4818 |
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I strongly urge anyone who gives a shit about anything to listen to the current episode of Sam Harris's podcast:
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15th April 2019, 19:29 | #4820 |
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We all have implicit beliefs about ourselves, the world, the future. These beliefs aren't arbitrary but form from our genetic inheritance, our developmental environment, the sum of our experiences, in a complex dynamic.
All this is of course an infinitesimal sliver of all potential inheritances, environments, experiences. And so two people can have starkly different beliefs that are completely coherent with all they are and know. Given our beliefs are the basis for our decisions and actions, one person can rationally decide something that for another would be a completely irrational decision.
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16th April 2019, 01:23 | #4821 | |
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16th April 2019, 13:44 | #4822 |
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So the next potential Brenton Tarrant shouldn't be actively sought out or monitored because their actions are rational when seen their own perspective?
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16th April 2019, 16:14 | #4823 |
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... a perspective created by social media bombarding the guy with racist rhetoric his whole adult life?
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16th April 2019, 19:11 | #4824 | |
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Maybe. Perhaps we do need to embrace totalitarianism and a police state, instead of just skirting around the edges? What do you think?
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18th April 2019, 01:39 | #4825 |
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I think your favourite fallacy is Slippery Slope.
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18th April 2019, 15:08 | #4826 |
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Maybe follow the discussion a bit closer. I'll help you:
1) I raise concern about lists being kept about private individuals by the police. 2) Somehow pxpx links this to a recent event of dramatic violence. He doesn't elaborate. 3) I bite, make the point that such events are expected given current circumstances: society is not for everyone. 4) pxpx asks for clarification. 5) I comply. 6) pxpx links my clarification back to a recent event of dramatic violence. He doesn't elaborate. 7) I enquire. 8) Something something slippery slope? I don't really know what meaning anyone puts on the text they read, but it often seems beyond anything I've said or meant.
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18th April 2019, 15:22 | #4827 |
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Did anyone get the point I'm trying to make with linking an issue of Police 'flagging citizens' to the man responsible for the Christchurch Mosque Shootings? I thought it was pretty fucking obvious lol.
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18th April 2019, 15:51 | #4828 |
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Are you making an obvious point now about how you disagree with this point, by making it clear we all have the same knowledge and experience and therefore explaining oneself is always unnecessary? Only stupid and wrong people need to explain themselves?
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18th April 2019, 22:25 | #4829 |
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I’ve obviously been away for too long because this sure as shit doesn’t sound like New Zealand:
https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/18...-of-modern-nz/ |
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See: Most of my posts in this thread.
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19th April 2019, 00:30 | #4831 | |
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Another Spinoff article looked at aspects of why.
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19th April 2019, 01:13 | #4832 | |
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19th April 2019, 09:00 | #4833 |
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Shit's fucked, yo. NZ is a low wage economy - get out while you can.
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21st April 2019, 13:16 | #4834 |
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Ethiopia is building possibly the biggest civil works project in northern Africa - the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Nile.
Problem is inland farmers in Egypt depend on the floods that won't happen because of this dam. Sudan (further downstream) is much less effected. It will be interesting to see how long before conflict between Ethiopia and Egypt breaks out, be it "Terrorist attacks" or actual war.
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21st April 2019, 14:53 | #4835 |
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Yeah, I've been watching that for awhile. Looks like it will eventually become an opportunity for a resource/power grab by foreign powers, as is their wont.
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21st April 2019, 18:40 | #4836 | |
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Let's do something then, because it seems like waiting for a caring government is a fool's game. I've been checking out some "sponsor a kid" programs in NZ: https://www.variety.org.nz https://www.kidscan.org.nz/get-involved/support-a-child Who's in? The pure hilarity of a kid getting shoes or a full lunchbox because of a bunch of antisocial video gamers on a web forum aside, if a few of us commit to chipping in every month it'll be easy. |
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23rd April 2019, 17:44 | #4839 |
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You must be confusing me with someone who isn't a Green voter.
Right so you and crocos are in... any other takers to sponsor a kid? |
23rd April 2019, 18:49 | #4840 |
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It still feels strange voting Green, because it used to be the party of idealistic hopeless fuckups. Nowadays I realise pretty much all the parties have got hopeless fuckups and selfish idealogues mixed with their competent folks, and the Greens have some very competent folks.
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