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New comment by asdf21 in "Resignation Letter"

asdf21 — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 21:48:30 +0000

Lol, what?

So were you able to find a "academic source" that audited the media in this way?

New comment by asdf21 in "Resignation Letter"

asdf21 — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 16:43:49 +0000

Exactly who else is going to cover the % of negative media coverage on Trump, in your mind, other than a "right wing" source?

New comment by asdf21 in "Resignation Letter"

asdf21 — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 16:35:40 +0000

Also, you're completely wrong about Fox. I don't generally watch mainstream news period, but one day it was on in a hotel, and like you, I expected neutral to positive coverage on Trump.

It was just the opposite, like 20 minutes straight of "Russia Gate," just endlessly hyping up and trying to validate the scandal. If Fox is a friend of Trump's, he doesn't need enemies.

New comment by asdf21 in "Resignation Letter"

asdf21 — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 16:28:54 +0000

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/rich-noyes/2019/11/12/i...

96% Negative Spin from the main 3 networks.

>Silent on Economic Success: Despite record highs in the stock market and a fifty-year low in the unemployment rate, the President’s handling of the economy was given a stingy 4 minutes, 6 seconds of airtime during these six weeks, or less than one percent of all Trump administration news (645 minutes).

New comment by asdf21 in "We are all prisoners of groupthink"

asdf21 — Fri, 10 Jul 2020 16:32:14 +0000

No, it's nothing new... here is an article about the same thing from 2017... unless they have changed, BLM is a separatist movement.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/07/black-lives-matter-ra...

New comment by asdf21 in "We are all prisoners of groupthink"

asdf21 — Fri, 10 Jul 2020 14:58:42 +0000

>Imagine using your career position as a platform to argue that Black Americans should use “separate but equal” facilities in 2020.

Isn't that one of the core tenants of the BLM campaigns? "Separate but equal" community policing for African American neighborhoods..

New comment by asdf21 in "We are all prisoners of groupthink"

asdf21 — Fri, 10 Jul 2020 14:50:43 +0000

>You're free to register transwomen-are-men.com or get-the-blm-facts.com

For now... there have been other domains whose registrars have been repeatedly banned / revoked for "hate speech", Daily Stormer comes to mind.

New comment by asdf21 in "U.S. Supreme Court deems half of Oklahoma a Native American reservation"

asdf21 — Thu, 09 Jul 2020 17:27:36 +0000

Well, sorry, I don't know anything about native American reservations... but I assume people just can't move into them willy nilly.

New comment by asdf21 in "U.S. Supreme Court deems half of Oklahoma a Native American reservation"

asdf21 — Thu, 09 Jul 2020 17:03:10 +0000

Dumb question... but can I still move to Tulsa?

New comment by asdf21 in "U.S. Supreme Court deems half of Oklahoma a Native American reservation"

asdf21 — Thu, 09 Jul 2020 17:02:22 +0000

He's obviously mocking the use of the word... can people here not understand context?

New comment by asdf21 in "Professor solves 240 computer science exam problems in 4 hours [video]"

asdf21 — Wed, 08 Jul 2020 00:27:52 +0000

Agreed. The reason its not that way is that schools are mostly state-run daycare programs, setup so that parents can work, not a genuine implementation of skill building.

New comment by asdf21 in "The wild economy of tabletop board game funding"

asdf21 — Mon, 06 Jul 2020 11:29:39 +0000

Got popular in 2005 - 2006 in California

New comment by asdf21 in "Ask HN: After Slate Star Codex, where are the nuanced discussions?"

asdf21 — Fri, 03 Jul 2020 00:19:15 +0000

We definitely know different groups of people.

New comment by asdf21 in "The neoliberal era is ending. What comes next?"

asdf21 — Fri, 03 Jul 2020 00:15:13 +0000

From the get go, it was estimated that 80% of the world population would be infected within 18-24 months.

All the shutdown was intended to do was to "slow the spread" from the 18 months to 24 months, and to hopefully keep hospitals from being overwhelmed.

Once we knew how infectious it was, Covid was always expected to infect nearly everyone eventually, whether the economy was shut down or not.

New comment by asdf21 in "Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r/ChapoTrapHouse"

asdf21 — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 08:06:03 +0000

If you start posting substantive points arguing against socialism / big government you get warned. If you argue about the warning you get banned.

YC is not really any better and the main mod is a self-admitted (although he took it down now) far leftist.

One time I found all the UBI threads and every flagged / mod warned post was someone arguing against UBI (that’s apparent a flame war), but endless idealistic rambling about how great it would be was totally fine.

New comment by asdf21 in "Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r/ChapoTrapHouse"

asdf21 — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 08:04:17 +0000

If you follow spez at all that shouldn’t surprise you.

Hell he directly edited the comment database on the_donald one time

New comment by asdf21 in "Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r/ChapoTrapHouse"

asdf21 — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 08:02:07 +0000

I met him years ago, he was never ok

New comment by asdf21 in "Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r/ChapoTrapHouse"

asdf21 — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 07:37:02 +0000

You literally can’t debate any controversial issue / cultural topic without it being called “hate” now...

New comment by asdf21 in "Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets funding for development"

asdf21 — Sun, 28 Jun 2020 01:25:15 +0000

You mean it's fine to let some groups get away with much more, out of guilt.

New comment by asdf21 in "Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets funding for development"

asdf21 — Sun, 28 Jun 2020 01:22:45 +0000

So you know who you're talking to?