There is no evidence of mass formation psychosis

thoughtcriminal · 2021-12-01T16:59:20+00:00

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.

thoughtcriminal · 2022-02-01T01:41:56+00:00

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

thoughtcriminal · 2022-01-03T09:12:29+00:00

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.

thoughtcriminal · 2021-12-21T22:29:00+00:00

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.

thoughtcriminal · 2021-04-02T19:08:15+00:00

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.

thoughtcriminal · 2022-11-22T23:30:09+00:00

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

thoughtcriminal · 2022-11-14T14:31:13+00:00

tiktok """models"""

so basically just fat chicks. based bouncer.

thoughtcriminal · 2022-11-03T13:50:02+00:00

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.

thoughtcriminal · 2022-01-29T15:55:15+00:00

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

thoughtcriminal · 2022-01-21T19:00:49+00:00

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

thoughtcriminal · 2021-12-14T01:37:34+00:00

glowies

thoughtcriminal · 2021-12-14T01:35:46+00:00

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.

thoughtcriminal · 2021-12-01T22:51:44+00:00

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

thoughtcriminal · 2021-02-20T01:17:40+00:00

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.

thoughtcriminal · 2023-06-04T23:56:54+00:00

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

thoughtcriminal · 2023-03-30T22:24:16+00:00

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.

thoughtcriminal · 2023-03-27T22:02:56+00:00

Sir, this is a Wendys

thoughtcriminal · 2022-11-29T16:18:23+00:00

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

thoughtcriminal · 2022-11-22T23:27:55+00:00

STOP THE COUNT!

AZ is such a clown show.

thoughtcriminal · 2022-11-22T23:07:27+00:00

Sounds like sexual assault with extra steps.

thoughtcriminal · 2022-11-17T23:48:15+00:00

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

thoughtcriminal · 2022-11-10T15:30:54+00:00

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.

thoughtcriminal · 2022-02-09T10:16:38+00:00

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

thoughtcriminal · 2022-02-02T21:17:34+00:00

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.

thoughtcriminal · 2022-02-01T01:48:32+00:00

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.

thoughtcriminal · 2022-01-28T22:08:40+00:00

Imagine being so bad you get fired from a voluntary unpaid position in a subreddit about not doing any work.

thoughtcriminal · 2022-01-28T22:02:32+00:00

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.

thoughtcriminal · 2022-01-27T05:38:57+00:00

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

thoughtcriminal · 2022-01-11T15:58:44+00:00

Very cool, thank you for this.

thoughtcriminal · 2022-01-09T01:54:23+00:00

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.

thoughtcriminal · 2022-01-03T20:41:30+00:00

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.

thoughtcriminal · 2022-01-03T09:41:13+00:00

That's awfully ~~convenient~~ brave.

thoughtcriminal · 2021-12-21T19:04:03+00:00

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

thoughtcriminal · 2021-12-03T00:51:54+00:00

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.

thoughtcriminal · 2021-04-02T21:51:02+00:00

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.

thoughtcriminal · 2020-10-15T14:28:42+00:00

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.

thoughtcriminal · 2023-07-27T18:36:27+00:00

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."

thoughtcriminal · 2023-07-25T19:35:18+00:00

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.

thoughtcriminal · 2023-07-01T21:12:18+00:00

I'm going to refer to women as "bonus holes" from now on.

thoughtcriminal · 2023-06-18T10:44:27+00:00

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.

thoughtcriminal · 2023-03-31T14:29:17+00:00

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.

thoughtcriminal · 2023-03-29T20:55:25+00:00

Yeah should have looked at who I was replying to first lol

thoughtcriminal · 2023-03-28T02:15:29+00:00

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

thoughtcriminal · 2023-03-24T20:11:00+00:00

The walls are closing in!

thoughtcriminal · 2022-12-02T14:27:32+00:00

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.

thoughtcriminal · 2022-12-01T02:51:33+00:00

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.

thoughtcriminal · 2022-12-01T01:14:53+00:00

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.

thoughtcriminal · 2022-11-30T22:48:40+00:00

What happened to defund the police?

thoughtcriminal · 2022-11-22T01:56:51+00:00

Looks like Elon is moderating based on emotion instead of principle.

thoughtcriminal · 2022-11-19T03:16:45+00:00

All I know is she's a black woman and is not a biologist.

thoughtcriminal · 2022-11-15T14:30:48+00:00

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.

thoughtcriminal · 2022-11-10T15:46:47+00:00

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".

thoughtcriminal · 2022-11-10T00:22:53+00:00

Just block him then?

thoughtcriminal · 2022-11-08T21:58:57+00:00

Seems like there was a big bank run on the FTX exchange

https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-price-hits-2-week-lows-as-ftx-bank-run-drains-btc-reserves

thoughtcriminal · 2022-11-04T22:24:47+00:00

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

thoughtcriminal · 2022-02-15T19:20:06+00:00

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

thoughtcriminal · 2022-02-09T09:16:51+00:00

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

thoughtcriminal · 2022-02-09T09:13:19+00:00

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.

thoughtcriminal · 2022-02-07T21:59:43+00:00

Things won't change (as you're insisting for unnecessary drama), but it will be easier for admins.

So things won't change but things will change for the admins (since it will be easier). Which is it, both statements can't be true.

(as you're insisting for unnecessary drama)

ad hominem, don't assume my motivations or make baseless attacks on me. We're talking about saidit and its rules.

It's always been there.

This is misleading. Repeating it doesn't make it true. You stated yourself that the rule was unwritten and unenforced. So effectively and practically and for all intents and purposes, it didn't exist.

Let's have a conversation about your momma raising whiners

Mentioning my mother which is irrelevant to this discussion seems like it would constitute dragging down on the pyramid.

thoughtcriminal · 2022-02-07T21:15:56+00:00

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.

thoughtcriminal · 2022-02-07T20:30:33+00:00

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.

thoughtcriminal · 2022-02-07T16:54:13+00:00

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

thoughtcriminal · 2022-02-07T16:46:11+00:00

I would argue that if the rule as its being enforced is different enough than what's written that it requires clarification - that's a modification to the rules. I'm not sure who falls into the category of knowing these "unwritten understandings" but I didn't and it doesn't seem M7 did either.

The written rule also doesn't answer any of my questions about it above. Does it apply to public figures? Is satire allowed? How about meme or shitposting subs, should they follow cordial debate rules in the comments? Name calling is allowed even on r*ddit.

I've called people names without being warned or banned. So if this is an existing rule it's not being enforced unambiguously, or at all. A clarification implies the enforcement standard will change, or it would be pointless to call out.

thoughtcriminal · 2022-02-07T07:55:00+00:00

So is name calling just completely against the rules now? It used to be fine as long as it wasn't dragging down the POD, so if you were already conversing there it wasn't an issue. At least this was my understanding from asking mag a few years ago. A sub like /r/roastme (allowed on r*ddit) would be completely banned from saidit in this case. This automatically rules out an entire class of subs around shitposting, memes, satire, etc.

It says you won't consider severity of the insult. So saying "you are a bit silly in the head" is the same severity as "you are an abject retard"?

Does the name calling rule apply to public figures?

Also is there anyway to see the previous version of the rules so we can know what changed?

thoughtcriminal · 2022-02-02T19:37:29+00:00

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.

thoughtcriminal · 2022-02-02T15:55:44+00:00

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.

thoughtcriminal · 2022-01-30T04:48:56+00:00

n word

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

thoughtcriminal · 2022-01-26T23:52:14+00:00

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.

thoughtcriminal · 2022-01-25T04:56:47+00:00

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

thoughtcriminal · 2022-01-24T22:31:41+00:00

I little incursion would probably be okay though.

thoughtcriminal · 2022-01-24T22:29:45+00:00

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.

thoughtcriminal · 2022-01-24T22:17:27+00:00

Yes his opinions are shit. Just block him if you don't like him.

thoughtcriminal · 2022-01-20T20:43:03+00:00

Maxine dragging the convo down the debate pyramid lol. Blacks support voter ID so there's that.

thoughtcriminal · 2022-01-20T04:38:29+00:00

Fake news https://i.imgur.com/21lc67C.png

thoughtcriminal · 2022-01-18T21:41:53+00:00

Wait are you telling me a politician is telling his constituents what they want to hear with hopes that he will be reelected? That's fucking insane dude I don't believe you.

Good thing that only applies to the GOP. The Democrats are all completely forthcoming and honest and only have our best interests in mind, which is why the entire Democratic platform is completely aligned with the interests of elites and major corporations, whom they work with directly to control "dangerous misinformation" and decide what opinions we are allowed to have (for our own good). Follow the money.

thoughtcriminal · 2022-01-14T02:09:44+00:00

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.

thoughtcriminal · 2022-01-13T23:13:27+00:00

Don't forget if inflation went to 0% tomorrow you'll still be paying the inflated prices for goods. As more people notice the inflation more people will spend their money quickly to get out of the dollar, which will lead to more demand and shorter supply, which will lead to higher prices, etc.

If you have any big purchases planned over the next year or so, now is a good time to make them.

thoughtcriminal · 2022-01-11T20:25:47+00:00

Shalom

ironic

thoughtcriminal · 2022-01-11T16:28:55+00:00

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.

thoughtcriminal · 2022-01-09T02:03:18+00:00

☑ Hosted on AWS

☑ Hate speech rules

I don't know what people expected

thoughtcriminal · 2022-01-03T21:41:44+00:00

Politicians who repeatedly tell lies

You could have just said politicians.

Remember when Adam Schiff (D) objectively lied to the American people multiple times about having evidence of direct of ties between Trump and Russia. When questioned under oath he said the opposite. Why is he still allowed on twitter? That seems like pretty dangerous misinformation given the current political climate. Remember when he doxxed a journalist? Remember when he lied about Russia again just this last November?

Remember Russiagate? Remember when the FBI bugged the Trump campaign based on the Steele Dossier which was known to be false at the time they used it as an excuse to bug the Trump campaign?

Why are all the people involved in this still on Twitter?

Remember when they lied about Trump saying fine people on both sides? Remember when they lied about Trump saying you should inject bleach? Remember when they lied about Trump firing tear gas at people for a photo op? Remember when they lied about 5 people dying on Jan 6?

Remember when they told us the summer of 2020 was mostly peaceful when more people died in those riots than all black people killed by cops in the entire year prior? Remember when Trump was banned from Twitter for "inciting violence" in his tweet that told people to act peacefully and go home? Remember when the Hunter laptop story was silenced because it was "stolen" or "hacked" when it was actually legally obtained?

Remember when they lied about Sandmann? Rittenhouse?

Remember when Biden promised in his campaign that he would never do vaccine mandates? Remember when Pelosi said they don't have the authority to do vaccine mandates? Remember when Fauci said vaccine mandates were unethical and if someone refuses the vaccine that's the end of the conversation? Remember when Fauci said masks don't help? Remember when Fauci said masks help? Remember when Fauci said 2 masks isn't better than 1? Remember when Fauci said 2 masks are better than 1? Remember when Fauci claimed there was no gain of function research at Wuhan? Remember when the NIH claimed there was?

Remember when they told us ivermectin is just horse dewormer? Remember when the Lancet published a fraudulent paper on hydroxycloroquine?

Remember when the WHO said covid doesn't spread person to person? Remember when Pelosi said to go into chinatown at the beginning of the pandemic? That sounds like it qualifies as dangerous misinformation.

Remember when Kamala encouraged Americans to not get vaccinated because it was the "Trump vaccine"? I guess that one is only okay if you're in the right political party.

Remember 15 days to slow the spread? Remember when we were told life would go back to normal after 2 jabs? After 3? After 4? Daily pills?

If you're going to play this game there won't be many politicians or institutions left on social media.

thoughtcriminal · 2022-01-03T20:32:16+00:00

And you think Twitter isn't big corp? You think big pharma, who are making record profits (in the billions) from vaccines this year, aren't benefiting from censoring anything that could affect their bottom line as "dangerous misinformation"? You think that the interests of big tech, big corp, big pharma, and government, all being completely aligned on censorship and "misinformation" is a good thing? Beneficial to society? Can't possibly go wrong?

I don't give a fuck about MTG or what she thinks. The alternate universe you're talking about is one where information is democratized instead of being gated by the data barons of the institutional narrative. The difference between us and them is that we don't seek to censor, and we encourage doing your own research and coming to your own conclusions. Meanwhile the data barons are writing articles about how critical thinking is dangerous and the science can't be questioned.

I stand for the rights of the free exchange of ideas for anyone, regardless of their backing or ideology. Has nothing to do with D or R. They are both running on the same platform of "not the other" and don't give a single fuck about you or I.

thoughtcriminal · 2021-12-01T22:45:02+00:00

I've had good results with https://namecheap.com

thoughtcriminal · 2021-04-02T21:56:37+00:00

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

thoughtcriminal · 2021-04-02T20:54:43+00:00

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

thoughtcriminal · 2021-04-02T19:23:00+00:00

Oi, do you have a license for those thoughts!?

thoughtcriminal · 2021-02-20T01:14:57+00:00

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.

thoughtcriminal · 2020-10-15T14:49:12+00:00

It's a religious dogma with no moral code.

thoughtcriminal · 2020-09-30T16:57:29+00:00

You would have to be an idiot to not avoid taxes to the best of your ability.

thoughtcriminal · 2020-07-01T17:47:01+00:00

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/

thoughtcriminal · 2023-08-04T14:52:48+00:00

inb4 he commits suicide by 3 shots to the back of the head

thoughtcriminal · 2023-08-03T02:11:48+00:00

It's material that he knew that the Democrats didn't fix the election

That will be incredibly hard to prove short of him openly admitting it on record. Someone telling him he's wrong doesn't prove he knows he was wrong nor does it prove he believed he was wrong. This is already a high 1A bar but it's even higher for the POTUS acting in what he believes to be a matter of public interest. 1A protects wrong opinions and even lies (in most cases). You have a right to believe the election was stolen even if you're wrong and even if you've been presented with evidence to the contrary.

These look like the weakest charges against Trump so far in my opinion.

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