Dang it, lost my post....
You don't necessarily need to be severely mentally handicapped to be deceived.
My dad started without running water or electricity and today has wireless fiber optic Internet and a 3d printer. The world has changed a lot since he was a kid, and sometimes stuff just changes and it doesn't seem to make much sense.
My first computer struggled to draw a circle, but later my PC could fully emulate that computer while doing 20 other things, which is kinda insane when you think about it.
Plus governments and politicians make advertisements and announcements through Twitter all the time, and that loss of gravitas has consequences...
As a basic test of competence, maybe voting should be restricted to property owners. If you can't manage a piece of land you shouldn't have a way in the management of the nation...
You don't necessarily need to be severely mentally handicapped to be deceived.
My dad started without running water or electricity and today has wireless fiber optic Internet and a 3d printer. The world has changed a lot since he was a kid, and sometimes stuff just changes and it doesn't seem to make much sense.
My first computer struggled to draw a circle, but later my PC could fully emulate that computer while doing 20 other things, which is kinda insane when you think about it.
Plus governments and politicians make advertisements and announcements through Twitter all the time, and that loss of gravitas has consequences...
As a basic test of competence, maybe voting should be restricted to property owners. If you can't manage a piece of land you shouldn't have a way in the management of the nation...
I see what you mean, but on the other hand I can buy a whole bunch of stuff if I have my bank card by just tapping it. No code, not even a signature, just tap and go.
I can and did get a birth certificate, a critical piece of ID by just visiting a website. Using that I could get a bunch of other critical things but the process was really easy. I also update my health card, my driver's license, my license plates online with very little verification. I can send money from my bank through text messages or email.
And then for voting, in my country you actually have to display some ID to say you are who you say you are, but apparently showing ID is racist in the US so you just say you're someone and you can vote as if you are that person. Didn't 2020 have mail in voting without any real verification? None of that was a joke, it's true somehow.
So it's tough. You get up against these questions and often freedom of speech gets bent because there is a line where even under ideal constitutional law speech isn't protected because it appears to be intended to deceive and violate someone else's rights instead of being an expression of actual opinions or facts. I think reasonable people could come down on either side based on their personal experiences.
I can and did get a birth certificate, a critical piece of ID by just visiting a website. Using that I could get a bunch of other critical things but the process was really easy. I also update my health card, my driver's license, my license plates online with very little verification. I can send money from my bank through text messages or email.
And then for voting, in my country you actually have to display some ID to say you are who you say you are, but apparently showing ID is racist in the US so you just say you're someone and you can vote as if you are that person. Didn't 2020 have mail in voting without any real verification? None of that was a joke, it's true somehow.
So it's tough. You get up against these questions and often freedom of speech gets bent because there is a line where even under ideal constitutional law speech isn't protected because it appears to be intended to deceive and violate someone else's rights instead of being an expression of actual opinions or facts. I think reasonable people could come down on either side based on their personal experiences.
Trump ran with the meme, but when Obama was talking about Fake News, he was talking about news sites or chain emails containing things that were not true (and not "well maybe from a certain point of view" not true, but straight-up untrue things) and unsophisticated people accepting them as fact.
The other thing being, I'm not sure what the joke or meme would be -- it just looks like something played straight. It looks like a reasonably polished ad for something that would be useful but isn't real.
And I know comedy! I watched an Amy Shumer movie once!
The other thing being, I'm not sure what the joke or meme would be -- it just looks like something played straight. It looks like a reasonably polished ad for something that would be useful but isn't real.
And I know comedy! I watched an Amy Shumer movie once!
https://www.aier.org/article/how-government-prolonged-the-lobotomy/
In the process of doing research for a post I found this article, which is really chilling.
People talk about the prevalence of lobotomies, but with 94% of lobotomies being performed in public institutions after just a few months of an individual being committed, with the remaining 6% in private practices or asylums, and in those cases as a last case scenario after years of failed treatments. I don't think anything in the media ever properly portrays that.
In the process of doing research for a post I found this article, which is really chilling.
People talk about the prevalence of lobotomies, but with 94% of lobotomies being performed in public institutions after just a few months of an individual being committed, with the remaining 6% in private practices or asylums, and in those cases as a last case scenario after years of failed treatments. I don't think anything in the media ever properly portrays that.
I think this is one of them.
Honestly, I can't help but think it's sorta reasonable to call this not ok...
Imagine if a candidate you like didn't win and it was solely because someone convinced some part of the voter base to do something that wasn't voting. Imagine if a chunk of electioneering became trying to convince less sophisticated voters to do something that wasn't voting. I don't think that's a positive future.
Now, there could be an equal protection question here -- Were there similar posts on the other side of the political spectrum that were not prosecuted? If that's the case I think there's a constitutional argument to be made due to the differential enforcement, but as for whether the act itself is sanctionable conduct, I can't help but think it probably should be.
Honestly, I can't help but think it's sorta reasonable to call this not ok...
Imagine if a candidate you like didn't win and it was solely because someone convinced some part of the voter base to do something that wasn't voting. Imagine if a chunk of electioneering became trying to convince less sophisticated voters to do something that wasn't voting. I don't think that's a positive future.
Now, there could be an equal protection question here -- Were there similar posts on the other side of the political spectrum that were not prosecuted? If that's the case I think there's a constitutional argument to be made due to the differential enforcement, but as for whether the act itself is sanctionable conduct, I can't help but think it probably should be.
Rage Against the Machine cucked hard (maybe they always were), but they had some good lines in their music.
Mic Check asks: "Who has the power, that be my question; the priest, the book, or the congregation?"
People seeking power think if only they can get the book and become the priest they'll have power over the congregation. They don't realize that the congregation choose to follow the book, listen to the priest, and that can go away at any time -- then they're angry that the book and their collar means nothing as people turn away.
Mic Check asks: "Who has the power, that be my question; the priest, the book, or the congregation?"
People seeking power think if only they can get the book and become the priest they'll have power over the congregation. They don't realize that the congregation choose to follow the book, listen to the priest, and that can go away at any time -- then they're angry that the book and their collar means nothing as people turn away.
Fools don't realize the precedent they're setting right now.
A study in contrasts. "They're not gonna stop and they should not stop" vs. "Go home" -- In my view, the moment this pandora's box is successfully opened, it's coming for the idiots who opened it first.
A study in contrasts. "They're not gonna stop and they should not stop" vs. "Go home" -- In my view, the moment this pandora's box is successfully opened, it's coming for the idiots who opened it first.
Youtube showed me that video on autorotation, which I found really odd because I think the establishment media should be cast into a volcano to appease the almighty god of.... whatever needs to be appeased that week...
It isn't where they make their money, but letting something that important slip through their fingers really illustrates that they don't realize how much of their value lies in just holding intellectual property.
>While Yascorp may have allegedly waterboarded civilians in Latin Americ
Come on, who hasn't done *that*?
Come on, who hasn't done *that*?
I feel like the fact that they didn't fight harder shows how little they understand about where their value as a company comes from. Which is true.
Remove the American installed regime, and install another American installed regime.
And then after they won the Taliban rank and file were like "they expect us to keep to office hours?!"
Macaulay Culkin has a line from an interview I really liked. "I wanted to drink beer and have sex and smoke pot, so I did."
Never give up on your dreams, bros and Jane does.
Never give up on your dreams, bros and Jane does.
After 2001 there's been a thriving market of non-professional information technology professionals. We call them NEETs. Also called "home security enthusiasts"