I think getting rid of 230 is a bit chaotic in the short term, but in the long run it allows new paradigms of publishing to appear - the ones where it is you who publish, store, and control content. Remember how in 1990's there were personal homepages. It could evolve into something that looks like we are used to today, i.e. the comments are integrated as if there was a central site that hosts all of them, but technically it is you who host your comments, and so they can't be censored or removed. Kind of like in early 2000's RSS readers were popular, and google reader was your google news. It is the change that happened later, when these giant sites appeared, but maybe it doesn't have to look this way for true, technology-guaranteed freedom of speech to exist. Maybe we should not want censorship-free twitter or see parler as better twitter - until they grow big and start censoring. Maybe big, centralized website is not the real answer. Other argument for getting rid of 230: de facto, all these platforms behave like publishers today anyway, so why not set things straight and declare them who they are. With 230 in place today, they can hide behind platform protections, but enjoy the benefits of publisher control, so f it. Even if the "world" (haha, the world of twitter and facebook) has to burn, maybe we should stop seeing it as catastrophe, and get more energy to take care of the real world, and stop clinging to these fake unimportant things that look like they are a lot, but in reality it is us who make facebooks of the world such critical meaning and make them important. So, see what happens now - facebooks are under a threat, and our first instinct is to protect them, the status quo, the convenience of having them around. We hope that it is possible to make them behave in accordance with the 1st Amendment, we have a dream of an ideal facebook. But in 1776 there was no facebook and it was possible to speak and communicate.
Shapiro is elitist, maybe a conservative elitist, but he never was one of us. Just like the snob Ann Coulter - she is on the other side of the Hollywood snobs, but she absolutely wants to be the establishment, so that the roles are reversed, but that is the only difference. Our movement is counter-elitist. Shapiro may be fun to watch when he presents some conservative arguments, so watching the "best Shapiro moments" is the best you can get. I would not go to him for daily political commentary - the timing of his show is not great, it is always obsolete information by the time you listen, he is boring, and also he is not a great inspiration. I remember listening to his show a few times during the early stages of Covid, as he was shitting his pants, that is never fun or productive to listen to.
Tim Pool is ok so far, in my opinion, if you can tolerate his rants or imminent civil war predictions. He is informative, at least, you don't have to agree to all his commentary.
Rogan's shows could be interesting to listen, but I wouldn't trust the guy, I would not want a friend like him. Maybe a neighbor who comes over for BBQ and has entertaining stories to tell, but I would not trust him to rely in him as on a friend. The same for Rubin, only that Rubin's show is not as interesting as Joe's. I don't like how these guys threw Stefan Molyneux under the bus. They invite him and talk to him as if they can trust each other, but later when it is politically inconvenient, they refer to him as "that Molyneux guy". I would not have problem with them if they were not too warm to him in the first place. No, Rubin is in this for the money, Joe is for the money and for his ego.
This version is my favorite: https://youtu.be/FLfvXjKMwtI
I always do the same! Plus, I do drop it just a few days before the election, even though my ballot is filled in and ready to go weeks before, so it would be harder to know how much votes to counterbalance, up to the last moment. And I suspect that massive fraud is going on for years, and WA is not as blue of a state, but I have no proof, other than seeing Culp yard signs everywhere, and Inslee winning 50.14% - i.e. just a tiny bit over the half, and more than 35 other candidates combined, and that's during covid and CHAZ. Doesn't make sense.
Very, very weak justification, that misses a lot of what I said. It seem to explain the logic on the surface, but ignores the fact that you don't do local referendums on a part of territory that wants to secede, russian soldiers without chevrons in Crimea, the fact that Yanukovych fled, the fact that he flees to russia (while presumably not being a russian puppet), the fact that he didn't have to flee but chose to, the fact that masked russian soldiers were in Crimea months before he fled, the fact that Crimea and Donbass "want" to form "independent People's Republics", only to join russia at the first convenience, the fact that deal with russia Yanukovych was about to sign would de-facto end Ukraine's independence, you introduce a false dilemma of a choice between the EU and russia, while not assuming that Ukrainians might wanted to put Ukraine first and get rid of a corrupt president, regardless of Merkel or putin, reject russia deal first and deal with EU later. And the fact that it seems to always go this way with russia's neighbors - first Georgians were living ok for decades, then "suddenly" decided to attack their fellow citizens, and russia was ready to "help the oppressed", then it happens in Ukraine. russia does tolerate some visibility of independence of its neighbors, until they exercise it, or until they make russia's corrupt putin, who rules for over 20 years, look bad. russia has nothing to offer, it is not a picture from that postcard, it is a rotten country living up to the ideas of corruption and enriching the elites. I cannot wait for it to break apart, preferably into "People's Republics" with no rule of law, so that they reap what they sow, and every time I hear that russian soldiers kick the bucket, I celebrate.
You are bringing the talking points of the russian propaganda machine. I wonder how people in Ukraine lived peacefully, then boom! Just as the moment is right for the neighbor russia, decided to go and kill their fellow citizens. Just as in Georgia a few years before that. I wonder, who's next - Belarus, Kazakhstan, or Latvia.
I am one of these ethnic russians from the east of Ukraine. Spoke russian at home, but never wanted a foreign guy (putin) to "defend" me. I grew up a Ukrainian, and I've only been in russia a single day of my life. I've never felt any inconvenience. I did respectfully learn the language. russia is a foreign country to me. Now I'm in USA, so solely based on the fact that I can speak russian, putin is gonna "defend" me here? No thanks.
No one would seriously talk that "ethnic russians are doing this-and-this", this is BS. Yanukovych was russian puppet, just see where he escaped to - he lives in russia now, and can't go to any other country. He WAS corrupt. What the maidan did was right. It wad internal Ukrainian affair, no need to explain to russia or any other neighbor. And at this moment when Yanukovych ran away, and country was weakened, russians stabbed in the back, like they always wanted.
russia brings their soldiers, like cowards, without chevrons to Crimea and they host a "referendum". Ukraine like many countries does not allow local referendum on territories leaving the country. It was not legitimate.
russian national, Strelkov-Girkin starts to shoot Ukrainian SBU and border patrol on Donbass. Weakened at that moment Ukrainian military tries to get back control. Thousands of russian citizens cross the border, disguised as "Donbass miners" are shooting them. Militia groups, like Red Sector are helpful - anyone defending and dying for the country is honored. And you call them "neo-nazi" militia, that isn't going to convince anyone in these days. You listen to the American left, every Trump support is "neo-nazi". Just like to Biden and others, Kyle or Proud Boys are "neo-nazi militants". putin and russians had no business to send troops/volunteers to Ukraine - it is a separate country, you don't do that, you stay behind the border. Interestingly, that ethnically a big part these russian invaders are not even slavic - they are buyats, yakuts, chechens - just like during the Mongol Orda times. Even the slavs would speak with moscow and st.peterburg accent/use their specific regional words, and would not know how to use subway, as they came to my birth city of Kharkiv, trying to disguise themselves as "locals", and walking in support of "People's Republic of Kharkiv". My school friends, football hooligans (="nazis", in russian propaganda terms), would rightfully beat the crap out of them. But thanks to these hooligans my birth city lives peacefully today.
Yep, Biden is corrupt, he did pressure Ukraine to fire the general prosecutor. I've heard about the story years before it reached American media, and for what I know, it is true. Ukrainian president Poroshenko told the prosecutor, basically, "you know, we are in a tough situation, and if you are a patriot, please leave". Biden should be jailed for stealing the American taxpayers' money. Yes, probably multiple actors were trying to use the situation to their advantage, Biden, or Soros, or whoever. But it is expected, to some extent - life is complex, nothing is for free, and no one will save you but yourself. So Ukrainians had to balance between all them, and I'd say, take the money from Soros, take the weapons from Satan if that's the only option - but keep the russia away. And, by the way, as a nationalist, and someone who gree up loving America and capitalism, as opposed to russia and communism, I naturally supported Trump since 2016. Every leader should put their country first. I could see through all these BS claims, that he's a "putin's puppet". And Present Trump helped Ukraine way more than Obama. All he is saying, that Obama sent blankets, and he sent anti-tank weapons, it is all true. He pressures russia diplomatically, with NordStream, while calling putin a great guy XD. Much better than Obama who was verbally tough in public, but "flexible" with putin when in private.
Communism is cancer! Sounds a bit cliche, but it is a good analogy. Just look at the crazy social discourse ideas it generates. How come we seriously discuss abolishing police, nuclear family, green new deal? First two are not even the "new bold ideas" without paraphrasing - bolsheviks and trotskists did it a century before the modern hipsters.
Something new is coming! - https://twitter.com/akioleann/status/1266606866185912323
Unfortunately, it's only the premium processing that's been suspended. This is almost nothing. The quota (85K/year?) has been filled on April 1st as usual, like nothing happened.
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I want these exact stickers (wording is perfect) delivered by mail. How?