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That’s totally different than saying straight guys naturally find gay people disgusting.

> Straight people, particularly men, have a strong physiological reaction to male homosexuality that doesn't really exist with female homosexuality.

That’s blatant homophobic apologia. There is no physical basis for a negative reaction to seeing gay people. That is a product of millennia of straight people banishing homosexuality from their society and perpetuating a hatred and taboo of gay people. I have never observed any non-homophobic straight person holding in their vomit when I kiss my boyfriend. The fact that you think observing gay people causes straight people to naturally have a negative reaction says a lot about what you think about gay people and homophobia.

I just viewed the original Daily Mail and Redstate stories. I think there’s a huge difference between reporting the facts of a story as is important in a free society, and publishing extremely personal and private nude photographs of you without your permission for all the world to see just for the tabloid salacious pornographic shock factor.

I fundamentally disagree with the judge in this case. These were not shocking pictures of a crime let alone a serious one. Even if you think holding a bong in California in 2017 or a tiny tattoo of a run of the mill iron cross on her hip suddenly justifies it as depicting a crime, there is still no difference between describing it in text and showing it in picture. These are private vulnerable photos of someone naked. There is no public interest in allowing what is essentially revenge porn to be distributed of someone just because they’re a public figure. If your naked photos are used without your permission and weaponized against you and you’re not committing some crime in them that the public has a right to know about, it’s revenge porn plain and simple.

This is not just smelling of misogyny, a long past of weaponizing women’s sexual side against them, but homophobia, as the “shock” factor comes in part from her being naked with another woman.

Frankly, you cannot claim you value the right to privacy when it comes to Apple and Google etc. but then say, yeah showing someone’s nude photographs to the entire world without their permission for nothing more than a pornographic and homophobic shock factor is A-OK because it comes from the sacred media.

There are reasonable limits on freedom of the press. Very few, but this case is undoubtedly one of them.

That’s the problem that cryptocurrency originally tried to solve, but of course that comes with its own set of drawbacks and shortcomings.

The fundamental problem is that the US Dollar was not designed for digital transactions. When bank networks came into existence, they stopped trading physical bills and just started flipping bits in their privately owned databases.

What needs to happen is the Federal Reserve needs to create a digital Dollar system that is secure, is accepted everywhere, and can be transacted quickly with zero fees. Erase the bank networks and turn banks into customer service centers who are given custodial powers (credit, chargebacks, rewards, etc) over your wallet in return for fees.

The government could even levy taxes over the entire US economy this way. No more tax dodging and loss of trillions in public funds. No more TurboTax.

He lied and continues to lie to keep making money as a motivational speaker.

When you’re under constant attack since the beginning of time by homophobic straight people, particularly in the political realm, your existence is political. If a liberal Supreme Court didn’t luckily strike down bans in many states in 2003, it would still be illegal today to be gay in Texas. Bans were struck down because they were enforced. Educate yourself on Gay life. You owe it.

This guy’s rant against liberals/ode to tech startups is illiterate and contradicted by his own notations. There’s practically a second separate essay down there explaining how he ‘creatively’ interprets data to mean what he wants it to mean. If you have to do that, you’ve written something really quite sloppy.

This started long before. Remember when outlets like Bloomberg made a big deal because ads were running on random 5-view YouTube videos with objectionable content? It’s about money, not your culture war.

Clearly you have no appreciation for hard work when you equate someone working a job at a McDonald’s with laziness and playing video games.

Yet another person learns what millions of everyday people have learned throughout history: your relationship as an employee with a large corporation is one of minimal give and maximum take. People like the author are the types that give far more than they should and ironically make the situation worse because they hide the failure of the incentive setup through their voluntary overworking (money coming out of their pocket instead of the company’s). If the company was exposed to the true cost of their incentive structure, unwarped by the guy or gal found in every department that pointlessly kills themselves for the company, then the company would be forced to adjust itself, and thus make this guy less disgruntled.

Might as well not post it if it’s behind a paywall.

Wealth and race is inextricably tied in the US though. Any wealth issue like gentrification will inevitably bring up racial passions as well.

A president is threatening the Georgia officials to change the results in his favor, no different than the way we know he threatened Ukraine’s president and I’m sure countless others in the private and public world we don’t know about.

This is blatantly criminal. But no one will prosecute him.

If you’ve ever worked for Walmart, you’ll realize they’re #1 because they’re a monopoly, not because they’re particularly smart.

It’s the Uber model: win by bankrupting the competitors who allow employees to make a good living. Amazon contract employees have low pay, no benefits, no union, no protection, no vacation. All the things that Americans are entitled to in exchange for 40 hrs/week.

The Uber model wins by destroying society.

“Virtue signaling” meaning standing against homophobia. Just say what you mean.

Current Affairs should know a thing or two about lies being free...

A) a 2/3 requirement would mean nothing gets passed, benefitting the only party that gains by obstructing legislation, the Republican Party

B) it doesn’t matter how high the bar is set when one side refuses to do their half of bipartisan responsibility (see impeachment)

When people are strictly divided, the barrier to pass something should be lower so that elections change things again. A government that can’t act might as well not exist. There’s no point in holding elections if legislators never pass any change. The liberal values that make the West free depend on civic engagement.

That is insanely optimistic. You absolutely cannot live on your own on anything near $10/hr in any low cost area.

Everyone in western society is owed a good well-paying job so long as they’re also willing to work for it. It’s our birthright and expectation. You can believe that no one is owed that and that everyone can just work for pennies from Walmart as America and the Western world continues to go down in flames.

As an American I see it from an American perspective. So a job loss here is a loss of wealth here, no matter what country it gets transferred to. The globalist perspective is one that damages every single person in the West whose society relies on a healthy well-paid middle class, that is now well-gutted, and we’re seeing the horrible chaotic effects of it over the past 5 years. Every father who made $25/hr at a plant years ago now has a son who makes $9/hr at a Dollar General, and both father and son are happy to back the next Hitler or Putin so long as he promises to make their lives great again. The transfer of wealth from Western society to poor societies is demolishing all of us. The US is rapidly becoming like Putin’s Russia and Europe is still in danger of falling apart despite its stronger safety net. Globalism has made freedom and prosperity very precarious these days.

Exporting working class jobs from a higher cost of living area to a lower cost of living area is on the whole a loss for the vast majority of people who are not wealthy and a gain for those who are wealthy. It’s a blatant wealth transfer from the masses to the wealthy few. So Americans get cheaper cars but no way to pay for them, and wealthy Americans get record levels of wealth.

Globalism is a sham and it’s surprising to still see someone parrot its hollow logic that only makes sense if you look at it in the short term and on a small scale instead of as a long term society-wide trend.

We can’t afford anything but trillions in borrowed money show up year after year anyways.

So clearly from that list, the proliferation of social media is what has led to the radicalization of the right wing.

Someone without morality or guilt or shame or a conscience can’t really be called a human being. Someone who displays the same sociopathic traits and narcissistic love for their traits as Chaos Monkey’s author seems to would’ve made a fine Nazi commander.

USB-C should’ve been the premium cable- high power charging and fast data transfer guaranteed. USB-A should’ve been used as the cheap cable for simple connectivity and lower power charging. Devices would naturally sort themselves out over time depending on their price bracket and the volume savings over time of USB-C production.

Instead, the Forum destroyed the entire purpose of USB-C from the getgo by allowing the “universal” cable to be disintegrated for cost-cutting purposes. Now it’s no longer universal. How were they this dumb?

There is almost always more than one highly qualified candidate.

They’re not allowed to take tips and are paid garbage wages. Don’t get too excited.

Lots of back button hijacking as well.

Step 0: be born in the position to ever be able to have the opportunity to do something like that in the first place