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yeetawayhn··on On Blankfaces
This is just a rephrasing of "it's not okay to be intolerant to the intolerant"
yeetawayhn··on I Was Robbed in San Francisco While the Cameras Rolled
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Ringbearer
yeetawayhn··on Vaccinated Americans now may go without masks in most places, the CDC said
I know people who had masks before the pandemic
yeetawayhn··on The Florida Deplatforming Law Is Unconstitutional
>You are not Twitter or Facebook. Stop pretending these giant social behemoths are people, they are not.

The problem is that people who have such opinions refuse to understand that they have made a category error and how broken their premises are.

yeetawayhn··on A CBP contract shows the risks in connecting your vehicle and your smartphone
Mazda, Mitsubishi, Nissan
yeetawayhn··on Court: ‘ghost gun’ plans can be posted online without State Department approval
The Declaration of Independence is not a legally binding document either.
yeetawayhn··on Court: ‘ghost gun’ plans can be posted online without State Department approval
Why not? Couldn't the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights be a "rhetorical trick"?
yeetawayhn··on Supreme Court to Decide First-Ever Gun-Carry Case
So the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights is religious?
yeetawayhn··on Twitch will ban users for 'severe misconduct' that occurs away from its site
"Corporations are people too, my friend."
yeetawayhn··on They Just Moved to Austin. Now They Want to End One of Its Traditions
Generally whites moving into a nonwhite area has been exemplified by colonialism, which is the community being coerced into integrating with the colonists.
yeetawayhn··on Media trust hits new low
Of equal importance is reading the actual citations. Sometimes the short conclusion is misleading of the quantity of evidence that goes the other direction.
yeetawayhn··on Gun sales rise in past year, especially among women and African Americans
> The conversion of the British gas supply to North Sea gas

There was a complete prohibition on CO containing gas. Go read the story again.

yeetawayhn··on Gun sales rise in past year, especially among women and African Americans
Except when most of the guns used in crimes come from within the state, how are you going to scapegoat those other states?
yeetawayhn··on Gun sales rise in past year, especially among women and African Americans
> Imagine you live in a neighborhood where people have guns and actually use them. Wouldn't you be a bit stressed out and thus being more prone to make errors, communicate incorrectly, both as patient but also as nurse/doctor?

No, have you never lived in a rural area?

yeetawayhn··on Steven Pinker Wants to Repair Campus Culture
> EDIT: Downvoters, I'm really interested in hearing your opinions!

Best guess is that they just very strongly disagree with your points but have no rebuttal. So a downvote has to do.

yeetawayhn··on You can't censor away extremism or any other problem
Is Hispanic Lives Matter a shibboleth? How about Asian Lives Matter?
yeetawayhn··on Gab has been hacked and 70GB of data leaked
If it feels good, doesn't that make it reasonable?
yeetawayhn··on “Silicon Valley’s Safe Space” has misinformed readers
I'm not a rationalist. It does sound like you have been burned significantly based on the extensive comment that instead tries to attack this notion you have of them, rather than actually answer the question. The level of your trauma was not so apparent at the beginning, and I hope you work through it someday.
yeetawayhn··on “Silicon Valley’s Safe Space” has misinformed readers
Well, without any data it's impossible to say. ;)
yeetawayhn··on “Silicon Valley’s Safe Space” has misinformed readers
That's a cop-out of an answer, and one that makes people less inclined to believe in the entire story.
yeetawayhn··on “Silicon Valley’s Safe Space” has misinformed readers
Which beliefs burned you?
yeetawayhn··on “Silicon Valley’s Safe Space” has misinformed readers
I was referring to the "When the President does it, that means it's not illegal", claiming that it's okay for them to do what they do to regular people but not okay for regular people to do the same to them.
yeetawayhn··on “Silicon Valley’s Safe Space” has misinformed readers
> That quote is just suggesting they do to journalists what journalists do to other people.

The infamous Richard Nixon quote comes to mind.

yeetawayhn··on “Silicon Valley’s Safe Space” has misinformed readers
Why?
yeetawayhn··on The US Is Seeing a Spike in Anti-Asian Hate Crimes
Antoine Watson

Yahya Muslim

Yep, definitely sounds like average Trump supporter names...

yeetawayhn··on Anger and Fear as Asian American Seniors Targeted in Bay Area Attacks
>I’m guessing 99% of us figured this was an income-level (class) thing at first glance but they didn’t mention their income levels either.

They did mention where they found the suspect:

>A tactical unit served the warrant and arrested Watson and Goo at a home on the 500 block of Lisbon Street in Daly City around 8:45 p.m. Saturday.

Zillow reports that block as having million dollar homes.

yeetawayhn··on Anger and Fear as Asian American Seniors Targeted in Bay Area Attacks
The 84 year old was from Thailand, which is just as far south as India.
yeetawayhn··on Anger and Fear as Asian American Seniors Targeted in Bay Area Attacks
Also the suspect names give it away:

Antoine Watson

Yahya Muslim

yeetawayhn··on NYT reporter falsely accuses tech investor of using a slur
Unless you want to be a heretic.
yeetawayhn··on iPhone's Adult Content Filter Blocks Anything 'Asian'
It's literally a category in Doordash.
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