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Ironically captured by a religion.

“I trust that every animal here appreciates the sacrifice that Comrade Napoleon has made in taking this extra labour upon himself. Do not imagine, comrades, that leadership is a pleasure! On the contrary, it is a deep and heavy responsibility. No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be?”

To be fair, that's because he leveled the playing field that was tilted in favor of the elite establishment consensus. They aren't supportive of a platform with free speech. ie, speech one disagrees with. Team Establishment was happy when it censored opposing viewpoints and it's no surprise, although unfortunate, they migrated to regressive platforms where that still occurs.

I didn't realize how many these laws have piled up until recently. Earlier this month, in order for the Biden administration to start building along the South Texas border, they had to waive 26 laws! How can anyone, but the largest of entities, deal with that. YIMBYs have no chance when any one of those can be invoked by a NIMBY.

That literally always happens with every presidency.

Good luck gaslighting the working class into believing their day to day situation is something it's not. "Don't believe your lying eyes. Your grocery bills and rent and gas and car and healthcare didn't go up, and you're closer to owning a house than before! It's the bad people telling you otherwise. Trust Us. Four Legs Good, Two Legs Bad."

That entire category of laws are commonly used to apply selective leverage. NIMBYs love this one trick. They can be selectively waived too. In fact earlier this month the Biden administration waived 26 laws in South Texas to allow border wall construction.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/05/politics/biden-administration...

The laws waived:

National Environmental Policy Act

Endangered Species Act

Federal Water Pollution Control Act (Clean Water Act)

National Historic Preservation Act

Migratory Bird Treaty Act

Migratory Bird Conservation Act

Clean Air Act

Archeological Resources Protection Act

Paleontological Resources Preservation Act

Safe Drinking Water Act

Noise Control Act

Solid Waste Disposal Act

Archaeological and Historic Preservation Act

Antiquities Act

Historic Sites, Buildings, and Antiquities Act

Farmland Protection Policy Act

National Wildlife Refuge System Administration Act

National Fish and Wildlife Act of 1956

Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act

National Trails System Act

Administrative Procedure Act

Eagle Protection Act

Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act

American Indian Religious Freedom Act

Federal Land Policy and Management Act

That's what NYT, BBC and others reported and a lot of people still believe those outlets. They even sent push alerts blaming Israel for killing hundreds of civilians at the hospital.

He's perfectly self aware that he has rejected his own class. It's weird that people think that's impossible or something and insist that he must be one in the same.

Missed opportunity to call them Exporters

If there's an upside here, it's that humans will now be forced to refine their BS detectors.

In doing so the species would improve critical thinking skills which can be applied to all information regardless of source. Which, I agree, was often BS to begin with. But in theory would be more difficult to skirt on by without notice if humanity upgraded their critical thinking.

Further, is it true that Google factors in whether sites have ads?

Spare your righteous indignation. You can't suddenly act like there is a test or standard when self-id has been the rule all along, and furthermore is acceptable to change one's identity as often as desired.

Their government has become totalitarian.

We thought we were going to escape a CCP style social credit score in the US, but big tech has an exploitable loophole in the administrative layer.

It's amusing they recognize NPCs that uncritically repeat the establishment narrative and question nothing, but don't recognize they are doing the same thing in reverse.

"I Support The Current Thing" vs "I Oppose The Current Thing"

"For the children" is how they sell removal of freedoms and justification for putting the general population under surveillance. The managers know what's best for all of us!

Populism is a response to corrupt and incompetent establishments. There's nothing competent to drive out by the time populism rears its head. It was already long gone.

In the past scolds were attracted to evangelical churches.

Those are no longer in fashion, mostly limited to one day a week, don't pay well or at all.

Now they can excercise their scolding from on high in the administrative layer of colleges and Fortune 500s all week and get paid for it.

> The university asked him to fill out the requisite papers, including a statement that affirmed his belief and work in diversity, equity and inclusion.

Affirm that you believe in and will comply with our religion. That's bold. Is that even something explicitly religious colleges do? "Sign here to affirm your belief and work in Catholicism"?

What a strange time we live in.

You have to assume they would want to limit their audience, which why would they?

They would prefer everyone using their app and not artifically limiting to a subset.

That's only something governments or captured corporations do and Twitter/X is neither. Although that could change and worth raising the possibility. Is there any way they could institute a hard constitution-like policy that could prevent it from ever sliding down that slope?

Do you have any links to those forum posts?

It's projection. The people making that accusation are themselves all-but-literally exterminating individuals from society. They are engaging in dangerous levels of othering using a cloak of false kindness.

That's all projection and appeal to emotion to justify censoring and bullying people into submission. How many people have had their characters assassinated, ostracized and fired, sometimes commiting suicide as a result, just because they said the wrong thing now or in the past according to the current moral fashion police. How many are self censoring and falsifying preferences to appease the authoritarians. They say it's about kindness and respect, inbetween destroying the next individual's life. Authoritarian bullies cloaking themselves in a veneer of kindness and moral fashion is not new.

There's a few things happening

Preference falsification from engineers, which was normalized after James Damore had his character publicly assassinated. Throwing rotten tomatoes at him and screaming "shame shame" before chopping off his head was a warning to everyone else to keep quiet or echo the correct opinions.

There's a lot of tribal signaling and "don't hurt me I'm one of you".

Then there's a new brand of engineer, and some old gen converts, who are true believers in the new religion and programming is just a lucrative way to participate in late stage capitalism as a wage slave. Many among them are aggressive bullies and codify their beliefs into CoCs and concern themselves with purity testing.

That's right. Authoritarian censors found an exploit. They couldn't use the government to clamp down on civil liberties because of the pesky constitution, so they invaded the administrative layer of big tech. It's not the engineers who built the web and these companies with Silicon Valley ideals. They were never intended to be used this way and are secretly horrified.

> play moral police at the moment

Moral fashion police

Censors made the same argument with the Printing Press and since time immemorial. Censorship has always been on the wrong side of history and it still is.

Speaking of abusing systems, censors end up being the worst bad guys who imagine themselves as the good guys protecting you from the bad guys.

EFF understands the long history of this issue.

Communist China is responsible for nearly 2/3rds of CO2 emissions since 2000. In the US it's been going down for the past decade.

You also have to keep in mind the American entrepreneurial culture or DNA which has born fruit unlike any other system, and is even responsible for the very platform we're using right now. That's all about this idea that any individual can change the world.

> More than 100 deaths have been confirmed, and roughly 1,000 people remain unaccounted for.

It's been two weeks now. Does this mean that roughly 1,000 people died?

Think of how stupid the average 16 year old is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.

Nope, they've been brainwashed to think it's "reasonable taxation" and the solution is always more taxation despite massive waste, fraud and corruption.