Trump indicted in Stormy Daniels hush-money case by Zapped in politics

[–]thoughtcriminal 21 insightful - 3 fun21 insightful - 2 fun22 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

It's a lose lose.

If Trump wins or the case is dismissed (most likely imo) it's because it was clearly a witch hunt, given the weakness of the charges.

If Trump loses it's because it was clearly a witch hunt, given the weakness of the charges.

Considering every past (and current) president in my lifetime has committed literal war crimes and never been tried, it looks like a witch hunt regardless. Imagine spending 6+ years, including the largest and most expensive federal investigation in history trying to find something to jail Trump over; and the best they can come up with is falsifying a business record which is usually just a misdemeanor and is already past the statute of limitations. Amazing.

Maybe if Bragg focused on crime in his own state instead of Orange Man it wouldn't be such a shithole.

Uhmm… What? by BenitoGreen99 in TumblrInAction

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What a braindead take. No one is contesting the "trans" part of "trans women". They're contesting the "woman" part.

If lesbians like strap-ons then they can surely take my (lady) dick by BenitoGreen99 in TumblrInAction

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Sounds like sexual assault with extra steps.

Curious about owners of Saidit how do they make any money from this website? by thomastheglassexpert in AskSaidIt

[–]thoughtcriminal 14 insightful - 1 fun14 insightful - 0 fun15 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'm pretty sure it doesn't make money and /u/magnora7 just pays the hosting costs out of pocket.

I never knew Saidit had quarantining by [deleted] in SaidIt

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Apparently the mod there kept censoring people in bad faith, lost mod privileges as a result, and subsequently left for poal.co.

There's not much there, here's a peek if you don't want to verify your email: https://i.imgur.com/gGUSBOz.png

If you want to know why Saidit is a ghost town, look no further than /u/wonderwoman by mongre in SaidIt

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It would literally only take like 1-2 other persons posting non-shit content to counteract this. I highly doubt this person is solely responsible for the lack of content on saidit. I had never even heard of her before this post.

How Propaganda Replaced Journalism and the Dangers of Third-Party ‘Fact-Checkers’ by scrubking in politics

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I don't think people realize how incredibly dangerous "fact checks" can be. They're easily one of the most potent propaganda tools. For starters not all issues can be condensed to true or false, or even true/false on a scale. You can fact check something with context selectively stripped or added. You can fact check a statement in full or in part. You can add or remove qualifications. You can fact check an opinion, or state an opinion as fact. You can misrepresent a claim. You can lie with statistics or draw conclusions. You can use grammatical cues to set a tone. "Fact check" inherently has an air of authority that implies an objective truth.

All of this gets condensed to a headline "Fact check: true" or "Fact check: false" and people don't read further. And even if they do they don't have the critical thinking to evaluate these issues.

The short sightedness is staggering. Ever feel like you're surrounded by idiots? by [deleted] in whatever

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If anyone ever asks you why cryptocurrency should be a thing, this is a prime example.

I think I got omicron by magnora7 in whatever

[–]thoughtcriminal 8 insightful - 5 fun8 insightful - 4 fun9 insightful - 5 fun -  (0 children)

Hope you get well soon. I've been taking D3 + K2 supplements hoping to fortify my immune system a bit. I got a couple jabs back in May but I'm not quite sold on the booster yet. As you said this may be a blessing in disguise if the symptoms are mild and we end up with broad natural immunity.

GOP disinformation campaigns are working. by [deleted] in politics

[–]thoughtcriminal 8 insightful - 4 fun8 insightful - 3 fun9 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

are told regularly that satan worshipping pedophiles have taken over the public schools

Well that's not what your headline says. It says the gov is run by pedos, which isn't farfetched at all considering Epstein was a thing. The push against public schools probably stems from the fact that people who claim to be on the left constantly defend pedos with terms like MAP and misrepresent bills that protect young children from being taught about sex in a school setting as "don't say gay".

GOP campaign in lock-step with the reduction of education funding, teachers leaving their jobs because of low pay

The dems currently control the house and the executive and have for 2 years now, not the GOP. Shame they did nothing about this except attempt to label any concerned parent a domestic terrorist.

The worse reddit gets the better it is for us by yabbit in WatchRedditDie

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This is true. However there's a problem. Pretty early on these platforms realized that if they take a heavy handed approach to censorship it results in mass exodus. That's how reddit initially gained popularity years ago (mass exodus from digg). So they are careful now to ban in small increments instead. It makes it much harder to organize a move and keeps the outcry to a manageable minimum. This is why I think it's so important for every online community to have a bunker set up in advance. By the time you're being targeted by censorship it's already too late.

Amazon Alexa is a “colossal failure,” on pace to lose $10 billion this year by [deleted] in technology

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Tax write-off and they still get to train their AI with all your private conversations for free.

'Plus sized models' barred from club because bouncer thought they were 'too big' by [deleted] in NotTheOnion

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tiktok """models"""

so basically just fat chicks. based bouncer.

Did they just classify everyone in this sub as a terrorist? by Orangutan in conspiracy

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I do not trust the US government and neither should you.

How did this place become a liberal shill hole? They seem to live in an alt reality. by [deleted] in politics

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Man I hope so we're certainly due for a wave of freedom

Alec Baldwin says he didn't pull the trigger by [deleted] in news

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inb4 he tries to spin this as guns bad and dangerous and need to be banned. He definitely pulled the trigger.

Saidit.net Canary #19 by magnora7 in SaiditCanary

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This message exactly matches the previous one for anyone wondering. So no change since the last canary

"I'll beat the shit out of my kids for using a slur" by Keri10 in TumblrInAction

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This is the logical end result of equating speech with violence. Punch a Nazi!! Punch your kid for being edgy!

Justin Bieber Paid $1.3 Million for a Bored Ape NFT. It’s Now Worth $69K by [deleted] in cryptocurrency

[–]thoughtcriminal 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Who would have thought that verification of ownership of a digital asset which can be copy/pasted freely isn't actually worth millions of dollars. He should sell it at $69k and cut his losses.

Anyone want to help be content admin for saidit? by magnora7 in SaidIt

[–]thoughtcriminal 7 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

I wouldn't mind helping out on those terms, though I would probably need some clarifications on the rules first. I browse /new frequently.

These ‘Don’t Weigh Me’ Cards Are Game-Changing for Doctors Appointments by [deleted] in fatpeoplehate

[–]thoughtcriminal 6 insightful - 5 fun6 insightful - 4 fun7 insightful - 5 fun -  (0 children)

Might as well just print out a card that says "I'm obese" and hand that to the doctor instead.

Name-calling is now against Saidit Rules by thoughtcriminal in whatever

[–]thoughtcriminal[S] 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

It wasn't against the rules to converse in the lower tiers as long as the conversation was already happening there. If it was in place, it wasn't being enforced. And if it is being enforced, saidit's rule are stricter even than r*ddit in this regard.

I probably will leave if it stays in place, but I'd rather have a conversation about it first.

Why isn't the internet free? by yabbit in AskSaidIt

[–]thoughtcriminal 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Free as in liberty or free as in beer? It's not free as in liberty because institutional interests seek to control the flow of information. It's not free as in beer because infrastructure costs money.

Cornell charges students $1,800 for racially-segregated rock climbing class, frantically scrubs website when confronted by scrubking in politics

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You can do this with google business. They asked me if my business "identified as women owned" or "identified as black owned." Clicked them both because it's meaningless and gives me an automatic advantage over anyone who didn't click it. I still show up in regular search results. But now I also show up in the "black owned" results they promoted this last month and "women owned" they will probably promote this next month (woman's month). Stonks. I'll do it again for "LGBTQIA+ owned" in June if they add that.

Just reposting the pyramid of debate as a reminder for the new influx of users. Didn't know where else to put it. by piss in whatever

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You can converse at any level of the pyramid but repeated dragging the conversation down the pyramid can result in action against your account.

https://saidit.net/s/SaidIt/comments/j1/the_saiditnet_terms_and_content_policy/

This guy likes to send police to check on people he disagrees with, oh and force his wife to work two jobs by ID10T in TumblrInAction

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Here's an example of him advocating doxxing (and a bunch of others supporting it), didn't take long to find.

https://old.reddit.com/r/MtF/comments/141szmd/post_to_ramiugly_ended_in_transphobia/jn26wm7/?context=3

Pretty standard stuff from the party of tolerance and inclusion.

The logic of the left by [deleted] in politics

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STOP THE COUNT!

AZ is such a clown show.

Mod abuse? I was banned from s/IdeasForSaidIt, though I did not break rules, whereas I responded to a person who could only make personal attacks, and is a mod by [deleted] in AskSaidIt

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I only glanced through the comments but I see at least 2 comments from you calling others stupid/idiotic as well as some ad hominem. That being said, the person you were talking to was also conversing in the lower tiers of the POD so I don't think that should result in a ban personally. You weren't really dragging the conversion down the pyramid, it was already in the gutters to start with.

What are your honest thoughts on Bernie Sanders? by mortyposter in politics

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In 2016 I would have voted for him over Trump, but it was Killary instead so I voted third party. Now he's a sellout and a grifter, no way I would vote for him.

How Propaganda Replaced Journalism and the Dangers of Third-Party ‘Fact-Checkers’ by scrubking in politics

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Your first two arguments are self defeating. We need fact checks to deal with misinformation, but no one who reads misinformation cares about fact checks? Then we don't need them, right?

Including sources doesn't negate anything I've said. Let me give you an example: https://apnews.com/article/ap-fact-check-final-debate-trump-biden-4d304cf7ce7dee9c228f48bd9b76e8f7

The very first paragraph implies Trump is responsible for all the lies in the entire debate ("set the tone").

Next paragraph Trump "misrepresented the reality of the pandemic" and "insisting against obvious reality" whereas in the paragraph after Biden "was selective on the coronavirus and other matters." The former being a subjective opinion on Trump's part presented as obviously flawed, while the latter is an objective lie on Biden's part presented as "selective."

Coronavirus section: First statement by Trump the fact check starts "No, the coronavirus isn’t going away. It’s coming back." (condescending tone asserting No immediately). Then it says the numbers are rising and cites statistics. But the numbers rising in the short term doesn't mean the overall trend isn't down. The numbers were still below the peak and the stats cited only look at a specific arbitrarily chosen time interval. You can pick any two points on a covid chart and paint a different picture based on the interval you choose. This is an example of lying with statistics.

The next fact check in this section Trump criticizes the response of blue states and Biden says the red states are the ones having spikes in cases. The fact check states: "Neither of them is right. Coronavirus isn’t a red-state problem or a blue-state problem. It’s a public health problem that affects people no matter where they live or what their politics are." That's not a fact, it's an opinion being presented as a fact. And blue states do factually have higher death rates overall (although citing any statistic in a vacuum is misleading).

Next one, Trump states that 2.2 million were projected to die. Fact check says false because that projection was only if nothing were done. That's adding a qualification. But beyond that it's also false. There were epidemiologists who predicted 2.2 million as the "worst" case and 1.1 million as the "best" case.

You're not wrong that the people susceptible to misinformation don't trust fact checks. But people paying attention don't either, because the fact checks are often just as biased and incorrect as the blatant misinformation. They're just disguised better.

So do you really think the solution to this mistrust is to further attempt to gate keep and control information? You stated correctly that people already don't trust the fact checks. So that solution seems antithetical. Instead, there needs to be a move in the other direction. Allow the free and unadulterated exchange of ideas in the public, presented as they are and without qualification. There will still be misinformation and people who fall for it, but at least you're working to regain trust by allowing people to come to their own conclusions.

This pro-mask “study” is why you should NEVER “Trust the Science” by zyxzevn in CorruptScience

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There's a ton of bad science regarding the effectiveness of masks that people cite claiming it's proof masks work and mandates were justified. Yet when you present them with good science that concludes that masks most likely have no effect, they claim it's not enough.

One of my favorite "bad science" studies on masks that often gets cited is this one from the CDC: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7106e1.htm

They even have a nice graphic that shows you the percent increase in safety like it's an RPG and equipping a mask boosts your stats or something. The study itself is complete garbage which is also noted by the tiny barely legible text at the bottom of the image which states "Not statistically significant."

Vulptex has decided not to enforce bans on the spam accounts, but he will still ban me for rule violations. This is unacceptable selective enforcement of the rules by DrRaccoon in SaidIt

[–]thoughtcriminal 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I understand where you're coming from, but ultimately they're different beasts. 20 posts about bone conducting headphones is annoying but it isn't going to get saidit taken down. Posting something graphic or inciteful might. I don't know the details of the current hosting arrangement but I know saidit has had issues with that in the past.

If you posted your rule violation test at 2am like the spam bots do it would probably stay up longer.

Jason is right, Saidit will never grow. At least in its current state. by bucetao6969 in SaidIt

[–]thoughtcriminal 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

As someone who has been an internet nomad for years now, I can tell you I'd much rather participate in a few small niche communities I enjoy like saidit than a larger one. Not saying we shouldn't try to grow, but keep in mind what you're asking: if you like saidit and the saidit community in its current state, a large influx of new users would likely erase or at least drastically alter the community's identity, as well as raising other issues like hosting and site rule considerations. You may quickly find yourself outnumbered by people who want the community to take a different path than you.

no right by aaarrgh in whatever

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The whole raise the taxes thing became a complete meme once Congress started printing trillions on a whim. Even if you taxed the 1% at 100% Congress would have spent it all only a few months into the Biden admin. And all that printing has already caused our taxes to go up via the devaluation of our wealth.

'It was a mistake': Ex-Twitter safety chief FINALLY admits censoring Hunter Biden's laptop story was a huge error by [deleted] in censorship

[–]thoughtcriminal 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Yes - about what is known, not about what the GOP want to claim.

How do you propose we discuss unknowns then, or things that are inherently unknowable? The mechanism by which we would determine if something is known or not is also free discourse. We gain knowledge through experience, not through unelected information aristocrats deciding the truth for us.

It was "known" that the Sun orbited the earth until it wasn't.

Hence we can wait until we have better information.

The current consensus is that it's real. The censors who you are defending for censoring it are no longer censoring it because they no longer classify it as misinformation. Are they correct or not? And if not, why defend the censorship at all when there's such an obvious example of them getting it wrong?

The emails that have been available for a long time were not particularly useful for the GOP misinformation propaganda

I'm not sure what the duration of the availability of the emails has to do with their veracity, but if you know of a way of breaking cryptographically secure email signatures please do tell.

You cheapen your responses by blaming everything on the GOP. Let your arguments stand on their own.

'It was a mistake': Ex-Twitter safety chief FINALLY admits censoring Hunter Biden's laptop story was a huge error by [deleted] in censorship

[–]thoughtcriminal 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

AKA: don't spread misinformation!

Free and open discourse is by far the best way to determine if something is true or not. Playing hall monitor by censoring "misinformation" only hinders that process. Twitter's reasoning for the ban had nothing to do with "misinformation" anyway. It had to do with releasing "hacked" info even though no hacking was involved and the laptop was obtained legally.

ALSO: We DON'T know that happened to that laptop BEFORE April 2019.

Why does this matter? If we apply this logic to evidence in general we can dismiss all of it. Generally, we don't know what happened to something before it was obtained. However, we have pretty strong evidence at this point that the laptop is authentic. The FBI subpoenaed it from the shop owner so clearly they thought it was worth looking at. Multiple news organizations have independently verified it, neutral 3rd parties have verified it, timestamps and file system indexes are consistent, journalists have vouched for it, the emails (which are cryptographically signed) have been corroborated with their recipients, it contains personal pictures of Hunter, etc.

What happened? by Musky in cryptocurrency

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Spotify to Take Down Neil Young’s Music After His Joe Rogan Ultimatum by [deleted] in news

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Wow so brave of Neil to stand with big tech and mega-corporations against dissenting voices and dangerous concepts like free speech. The Pfizer CEO told me Joe is literally responsible for millions of deaths. Joe is platforming dangerous anti-vaxxers who don't know any better. Like Dr. Malone - the guy who created mRNA vaccines and is himself vaccinated.

Jason Miller’s ‘Free Speech’ Social Media Platform Gettr Bans Users Without Explanation by BravoVictor in politics

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☑ Hosted on AWS

☑ Hate speech rules

I don't know what people expected

On the news sub story about the first death with Omicron, a comment simply saying "Let's not panic" is downvoted and then removed by the moderators by [deleted] in MeanwhileOnReddit

[–]thoughtcriminal 5 insightful - 4 fun5 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

This 100%. I can't find any source that confirms they died from omicron. They died with omicron.

At least one person infected with the Omicron variant has died

At least one person in the UK has died with the Omicron coronavirus variant

The United Kingdom has reported its first official death of a COVID-19 patient who had the omicron variant

Most people who have omicron only discover it after they're already hospitalized for something else because the symptoms are mild compared to other variants.

Vulptex has decided not to enforce bans on the spam accounts, but he will still ban me for rule violations. This is unacceptable selective enforcement of the rules by DrRaccoon in SaidIt

[–]thoughtcriminal 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I don't ban the spam accounts either, it's pointless and it takes a lot longer than just clicking the spam button to remove them. There are hundreds of these accounts and they just make new ones. Vulptex and I and the other content admins are volunteers, we do it for free. We aren't always on to remove the spam immediately (the bulk of it comes in around 1-3am my time). User reports do help though, so thank you for those who report them.

Never forget that the lab leak was a “conspiracy theory” that the New York Times’ head Covid reporter called “racist.” If you think I’ll tire of recalling this, my friends, you are wrong. by Chipit in DownTheMemoryHole

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Not just the NYT. The Lancet, which is arguably the most prestigious medical journal in the world called it a racist conspiracy theory as well, in an article signed by 27 scientists (26 of whom just happen to have ties to Wuhan).

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30418-9/fulltext

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9980015/26-Lancet-scientists-trashed-theory-Covid-leaked-Chinese-lab-links-Wuhan.html

SaidIt Docker edition released by [deleted] in SaidIt

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Very cool, thank you for this.

Twitter permanently bans Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene by Drewski in censorship

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I think it's totally cool and good that a major tech oligarch working directly with the government censored the speech of a sitting US congresswomen for the abominable crime of quoting a statistic simply because it was framed in a way that doesn't conform to the institutional narrative.

The institutions that seek to control the free flow of ideas in the information economy obviously have our best interests in mind. That's why any challenge to their ideas is labeled dangerous misinformation. The Pfizer CEO told me that these people are literally responsible for millions of deaths, and he seems pretty trustworthy. There are even direct financial ties between Pfizer and one of the main fact checkers Twitter uses - Reuters. It's for our own protection.

This doesn't seem like a threat to our democracy at all.

The World is Laughing as Biden's Screeching Handlers Keep Acting Like Clowns. Might as well be on a leash, ain't that right Joe? by Chipit in politics

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How far we've fallen. Even Biden seems lucid enough to be embarrassed by this.

Laura Loomer Blasts Republican Party Leadership for Being Hypocrites Who Are 'All Talk, No Action' on Censorship by scrubking in politics

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She's absolutely correct. The republicans have done nothing about it for 4 years and it's gotten to the point that I'm not sure it even matters anymore. The propaganda and bias is so strong that even if the Biden emails for example were not being censored, no one will believe them anyway.

We already have direct evidence Adam Schiff lied to the public about there being a connection between Trump and Russia. We already know Russiagate was a hoax. We already know Hunter/Biden did the same thing they impeached Trump for. None of it matters, facts don't matter anymore. It's a very dangerous game and we're all playing it. I'm not sure getting rid of the censorship will fix anything at this point. We've waited too long, we're in the midst of an information war and freedom is losing.

'Republicans [+Manchin &c] fuck regular people over at every single opportunity' by Schwarzenigga in politics

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Dems pushed it through as a separate bill knowing it would fail rather than packaging it with the other one. Empty posturing, they didn't want it to pass either. Keeping it separate to blame Rs is politically expedient and makes an easy trap for ideologs creating headlines like OP. Hell, they didn't even have to bring it to a vote if they didn't want it to happen.

Even r*dditors are able to recognize this:

https://old.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/za1zc6/the_senate_passed_it_80_to_15_railroaders_wont/iylhgzs/

Your premise isn't wrong, our congress absolutely doesn't give a fuck about us or workers rights. Your mistake is falling for the D vs R paradigm instead of recognizing it's a trap to keep us fighting each other instead of them.

San Francisco police can now use robots to kill by [deleted] in news

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What happened to defund the police?

Tennessee bill would criminalize drag shows by bb3 in Freedom

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Misleading headline. Importantly, they're only banning them on public property or "In a location where the adult cabaret performance could be viewed by a person who is not an adult".

Joy Reid Claims Republicans 'Have Taught People the Word Inflation' For Political Gain: 'Not Part of the Normal Lexicon' by [deleted] in MediaAnalysis

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Reid tacitly admitting she didn't know what that word meant before Republicans taught it to her.

Anyone want to help be content admin for saidit? by magnora7 in SaidIt

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What is involved exactly? How many hours/day would someone be expected to devote?

I might be willing to help out though I doubt you want me based on my recent post.

Name-calling is now against Saidit Rules by thoughtcriminal in whatever

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This rule has been in existence for almost 4 years, largely unenforced.

If the rule wasn't enforced or documented for the last 4 years it effectively didn't exist. I'm not sure how you can in good faith call my post misinformed or in error based on an undocumented rule that was never enforced that apparently you already knew about.

It still is.

POD dragging isn't the standard anymore. The bottom tier is now outright banned.

We've already had Opie & Anthonie, Ice Poseidon 2, etc.

IP2 was forcibly removed due to Saidit's host iirc, not a specific rule violation.

So far as I know "leaders" and public figures are fair game.

Cool interpretation, I hope it's right. Would be nice if the rule explicitly clarified it.

IMO, you're trying to make a mountain out of a molehill.

I think there's a significant difference between allowing discourse at any tier of the POD and banning dragging down, versus just straight up banning any discourse in the bottom tier regardless of context. The former is an imperfect but effective way to control discourse. The latter bans an entire category of speech, a category which is allowed even on r*ddit, without taking context into account.

Supreme Court Agrees To Hear Case That Could End Use Of Race In College Admissions. #stopasianhate Unsurprisingly, the Biden administration is siding with Harvard and other elitist universities. by Chipit in news

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Friendly reminder that 48 democrats voted in favor of racial discrimination https://i.imgur.com/atxWFOR.png

Which is weird because I was constantly told Republicans were the racists.

Mocking anti-vaxxers’ COVID deaths is ghoulish, yes — but may be necessary by Drewski in politics

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It should be clear that opposing vaccine mandates as a substitute for opposing vaccination itself is a fundamentally incoherent position.

Opposing mandates isn't a substitute for opposing the vaccine. I am vaccinated. I oppose the mandates. Both can be true.

Obviously, the mandates exist because these diseases threaten not only infected persons themselves, but the community, meaning anyone they come in contact with. That’s the folly of the anti-mandate argument: It places a perverse conception of individual “freedom” in opposition to the communal interest.

Yeah, except we know that these vaccines don't stop or even reduce the spread which was conveniently left out of this argument. The only correlation between the vaccines and the spread of covid is a small positive correlation in places that are highly vaccinated. They don't serve a communal interest at all in that regard.

government mandates have been with us for untold decades. We require drivers to wear seat belts

Not in my state we don't (and we have some of the lowest car insurance rates in the country)

Vaccine mandates themselves have been part of the educational system for longer than anyone can remember in every state in the Union

Vaccine mandates for well tested vaccines that have gone through years of trials and been approved by the FDA. And religious exemptions to those mandates have largely been upheld. Covid vaccines are novel. We know they're experimental because our understanding of how they work and what kind of protection they impart has changed since they were rolled out just a year ago. We have never allowed the Federal government to use "emergency" powers to mandate vaccines for all employees via OSHA - this is a first.

Russia Blocks TorProject.org and Begins Blocking of Wider Tor Network by Drewski in censorship

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glowies

CBS News Bans Reporters From Using the Word 'Transgender' To Describe Transgender Nashville Shooter by Oyveygoyim in propaganda

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“The shooter’s gender identity has not been confirmed by CBS News,” the network’s executives insisted in a Tuesday memo obtained by The Post. “As such, we should avoid any mention of it as it has no known relevance to the crime. Should that change, we can and will revisit.”

On principle this approach is fine, but I guarantee if it was a white cis male or a Trump supporter they'd mention it at every opportunity regardless of its relevance to the crime.

U.S. taxpayers gave $400 Billion dollars to cable companies to provide the United States with Fiber Internet. The companies took the money and didn't do shit for the citizens with it. by HibikiBlack in conspiracy

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Don't worry, we gave them even more with Joe's infrastructure bill and I'm sure they'll use it for good this time.

Why Society Needs Conspiracy Theories & Conspiracy Theorists by zyxzevn in conspiracy

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Nowadays conspiracy theorist is synonymous with free thinker.

Authoritative sources are limited to small mostly homogenous groups of information aristocrats, who only allow a narrow band of acceptable thought and discourse.

Conspiracy theorists are free to get their information from anywhere and test those ideas against the collective knowledge and discourse of everyone else.

Rumble.com disables access for users in France by [deleted] in Internet

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Decent first test of their stance on censorship. Would have been better if they just told France to fuck off though. Let France build their own firewall if they don't want to participate in the internet.

Redditinaction by CleverFoolOfEarth in TumblrInAction

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I tried to read through some of the comments in that thread and I just... these people's brains must be wired differently or something. There are so many contradictions I legit can't understand what they're saying.

Opinion thread: How to survive the vaccine mandates? by TheJamesRocket in debatealtright

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It's not about the vaccine it's about the mandate. My body my choice. I am vaccinated but this is a hill I would die on. If my job forces me to prove my vax status, I will quit my job. The state should not be able to force a medical procedure. And if you lay down and let them, you will never get the right to bodily autonomy back.

Take a step back and look at the broader picture. Why is there any support for the mandate at all? Because if you don't get the vax you're killing grandma, obviously. Ignoring the fact that this is untrue (there's no significant different in spread rates among vaxxed/unvaxxed populations), that dynamic can be applied to almost everything. If we are willing to give up our freedom and bodily autonomy for safety against a virus with a 0.5% death rate among the unvaccinated, imagine what else we'll be willing to give up.

Australia has concentration camps for covid where people who have tested negative for covid are forcefully being detained against their will. Read that again. This is only year 2.

I don't get it. by Gravi in NotTheOnion

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I guess all these other countries and their medical experts fell for dangerous misinformation /s

When the covid authoritarianism ends, never forget threads like this. People will so easily call for the death of their neighbors after only 2 years of propaganda. by thoughtcriminal in whatever

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I always forget imgur is a social media site now. If you click on the link and scroll down there are user comments similar to r*ddit. Anyway this thread hits all the big talking points:

  • they're all going to die
  • random shit about muh Trump
  • insurrection
  • muh russia
  • they should have segregated hospitals
  • i hope they die
  • westerners are dumb
  • freedumb
  • super spreader
  • insurance shouldn't pay if they get sick (this is coming from the health care is a right party)
  • the science is settled
  • they are anti-vax (even though it's an anti-mandate protest and many of them are in fact vaccinated)
  • just because you can't get a job or go shopping for food doesn't mean you're being oppressed
  • it's not against the law to not be vaccinated, you just can't participate in society in any way
  • just take the jab and shut up

Mocking anti-vaxxers’ COVID deaths is ghoulish, yes — but may be necessary by Drewski in politics

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Shalom

ironic

Cornell charges students $1,800 for racially-segregated rock climbing class, frantically scrubs website when confronted by scrubking in politics

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DNA evidence to prove

Ah yes, I can't wait to live in the utopian society where I'm asked to provide evidence of my ethnicity and a DNA profile to the state so they can determine where I am on the privilege hierarchy prior to looking at my resume. Only then, will we all be truly equal.

GOP's 'Fiscal Vandalism and Political Sabotage' Prompts Second-Ever US Credit Downgrade:Republicans were warned that their repeated brinksmanship and deficit-funded tax giveaways for the wealthy and big corporations would have consequences by bananahammock in politics

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What a sensational headline. The debt ceiling has literally always been used as leverage by Congress. When the GOP does it it's "vandalism" and "sabotage." If the roles were reversed it would be "heroic" and "brave"

If you want to read the actual reasons for the downgrade instead of partisan quotes about how evil the GOP is, it's the first link in the article:

https://www.fitchratings.com/research/sovereigns/fitch-downgrades-united-states-long-term-ratings-to-aa-from-aaa-outlook-stable-01-08-2023

It is confirmed, Said it is compromised. by [deleted] in whatever

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Having bad opinions isn't against the rules - if you don't want them to gain prevalence ignore them and block those who espouse them if you wish.

this site is being brigaded by extremists running ops from your old fork of Notabug

It is confirmed

Just making a claim and stating "it is confirmed" isn't very persuasive. What evidence do you have?

Trump indicted in Stormy Daniels hush-money case by Zapped in politics

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If Republicans and Saiditors want to have a shred of authenticity, they should admit to the necessity of the rule of law for everyone.

That would be fine with me, but that's not what we're seeing. Trump, Biden, Obama and Bush haven't been indicted for their war crimes or the deaths of innocent civilians they ordered. Biden is on video openly admitting to a quid pro quo with Ukraine, why isn't he being impeached? Why didn't we impeach him when he distributed covid funds based on race and gender in direct violation of the civil rights act?

Instead we're going after Trump for a clerical error. Not even a federal charge, this is coming from the DA of a state he doesn't even live in.

That's why it looks like a witch hunt. Every past president (including Trump) is a criminal and their crimes are far more egregious that falsifying business records. If you want to indict them all for their war crimes I'm all for it. Instead we seem to be spending an immense amount of time, money, and resources on the only POTUS in my lifetime who didn't involve us in a war.

Canada's Trudeau Enacts Emergencies Act, and Crypto Is Included by Maria88800 in cryptocurrency

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Incredibly short-sighted take. Imagine someone you hate gets elected and when you try to protest against them for something you believe in they just freeze your bank accounts, label you a terrorist, and seize funds donated by supporters of your cause. And when you cry out against it they just point to this event, which you and others cheered for, and say if they could do it for the truckers they can surely do it for you too.

Neither tyranny nor freedom are free... by JasonCarswell in canada

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Imagine being one of the poor fucks who literally died to secure the rights of r*dditors who can't even handle some honking without having a mental breakdown.

R-A-C-I-S-T! In 2003, Joe Biden fillibustered and voted against nomination of a black woman to the Federal bench by [deleted] in politics

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He tried to fuck over Justice Thomas as well, there's a good documentary on it called "Created Equal Clarence Thomas In His Own Words" which was removed from Amazon for wrong think.

Shocking survey shows women today generally support censorship and totalitarianism while men prefer free speech and liberty - Patriot Rising by Rastafoo in news

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Women's suffrage was a mistake.

Inanity in the form of navel-gazing about personality and calling it gender by CleverFoolOfEarth in TumblrInAction

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I'm just gonna call you by name and think of you as a mental illness.

Leaked chats reveal evidence of hate crimes by U.S. fascists by AXXA in news

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All the article mentions in terms of crimes is non-violent vandalism and defacing statues?

BLM did that for a whole summer + riots + arson + murder + autonomous zones and no one batted an eye. They seem like a far bigger threat to me. They are black-supremacists and racists, there are far more of them, and they have the backing of the institutions.

As long as people are turning a blind eye to the violence of BLM and Antifa I'm not going to be convinced that some retarded vandals are a threat.

BLM kill count: 25+ (just in the summer of 2020)

Patriot Front kill count: 0

Supreme Court blocks Biden OSHA vaccine mandate, allows rule for health care workers by [deleted] in news

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Thank fuck. It was 6-3 as well which is encouraging.

r/forwardsfromhitler & r/forwardsfromklandma are unironically alt-right goldmines. by radicalcentrist in debatealtright

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Yeah a number of people have known this for a while. /r/AHS is a great way to find based subs too. You can completely avoid censorship on r*ddit as long as the content is presented with the correct framing.

Trans prisoners ‘switch gender again’ once freed from women’s units by jet199 in NotTheOnion

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That's awfully convenient brave.

Rumble Inc., The Neutral Video Platform, to go Public Through Combination With Cantor Fitzgerald's CF Acquisition Corp. VI (Nasdaq: CFVI) by BravoVictor in news

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Not neutral for long with the big money involved and they already ban people for "hate speech"

Google voluntarily de-lists The Pirate Bay by Chipit in censorship

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These are the search results for "the pirate bay" from a Netherlands IP address in case anyone is wondering. Top result is just a proxy to the pirate bay. It is definitely IP based, even searching on google.nl from a US IP worked fine.

Geneva High School football coach, 51, dies unexpectedly by [deleted] in news

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Impressive, very nice. Let's see his vaccination records.

Star Trek by Dragonerne in debatealtright

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IIRC the Ferengi were supposed to be a parody of the worst aspects of capitalism, not the Jews. You're not the first to make the comparison though.

Rules by AXXA in SaidIt

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I'll be honest with you, if something as innocuous as name calling is against the rules, I'm out.

Whoopi Goldberg suspended from 'The View' following Holocaust remarks by [deleted] in news

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Being a jew is like the cheat code for idpol. You get all the privilege of being white with all the oppression of being a jew.

Connect the dots. When in doubt, always, always, follow the money. by [deleted] in Coronavirus

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He moved to amazon (against unions and employees have to piss in bottles) and apple (lobbying in favor of forced labor laws) instead. What a hero.

Short Answer: No. Long Answer: Nooooooooooo, and here's some niggers. by Tarrock in politics

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n word

noooooooooo delet this I can't bear to see it!!!

Saidit.net Canary #19 by magnora7 in SaiditCanary

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That's just when the last canary wast posted, I edited my post to make it more clear

White House nigger: "Our hearts go out to the trans community, as they are under attack right now." by Oyveygoyim in politics

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Imagine if a white Christian guy shot up a school and killed some trans kids, then planned a "day of vengeance" for Christians just a couple weeks later while the White House openly states that Christians are actually the victims.

They are complicit in any violence that follows from this, they're actively encouraging it.

Good news: Bard is somewhat less restricted than ChatGPT, for now. by EternalSunset in technology

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"for now" being the key part. I'm sure Google intends to thoroughly neuter it once they have enough data to do so.

It gave me some unethical advice about an MMORPG when I asked (and just qualified at the end that I shouldn't do it), GPT wouldn't answer the same question. It wrote a positive poem about Trump without complaining. When I asked it for resources for free sheet music it refused until I specified "legally free" sheet music.

It kinda sucks compared to GPT in its current state. I'm just hoping we get a decent LLM AI that allows us to take the training wheels off and get unadulterated replies.

Substack writer Matt Taibbi says IRS visited his home while he was testifying in Congress: Cruz, Musk weigh in by [deleted] in politics

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That's odd. I was told Biden's 87,000 new IRS agents were only going after the ultra rich, not a journalist testifying before Congress about government malfeasance.

If you could encapsulate saidit in one comment by Site_rly_sux in whatever

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Sir, this is a Wendys