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on Monday February 06 2017, @09:17PM
from the is-there-an-all-fake-news-sites-are-liars-paradox dept.
from the is-there-an-all-fake-news-sites-are-liars-paradox dept.
Over the last few months, we've talked about the weird obsession some people upset by the results of the election have had with the concept of "fake news." We warned that focusing on "fake news" as a problem was not just silly and pointless, but that it would quickly morph into calls for censorship. And, even worse, that censorship power would be in the hands of whoever got to define what "fake news" was.
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Bad Idea or the Worst Idea? Having the FTC Regulate "Fake News"
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poverty, n.:
An unfortunate state that persists as long
as anyone lacks anything he would like to have.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday February 07 2017, @12:02AM
The "stages of grief," and grief itself, are luxuries. I cannot afford them. So I don't have them. Instead, I have what I've always had: pure, clearsighted, simple vision. I've seen this show before; it never ends well. And it's always small-time nobodies like you who think you stand to gain from this sort of chaos that are cheering it on, to your soul's peril.
People like you appear in every era, and in every era, their fate is the same...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday February 07 2017, @02:24AM
LMAO - you're the only one with clear vision. Yeah - got it.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday February 07 2017, @03:26AM
One of many. I'm just a lot less polite about it than most. If that bothers you? Then gb2/hugbox/, Runaway. Don't make me come for you with the belt like your daddy did; you may find women are even worse.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday February 07 2017, @04:04AM
You're being downright silly now. You actually want to try to CREATE a mysogenist? Women are going to love you for that.
Good luck to you or anyone else coming after me anyway. I'm not a helpless pre-teen anymore. Funny thing about abusing children. The children tend to grow up, but all you have to look forward to is growing old. The children will get their vengeance, eventually.
And, no, your vision isn't any clearer than Joe Redneck Sixpack and his family. Keep telling yourself that it is, but that doesn't make it so. Liberals/progressives are no less gullible than conservatives. You're just listening to a different pied piper.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday February 08 2017, @01:21AM
Masturbation is public is illegal. Put that tiny thing away before it gets caught in yer zipper.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday February 08 2017, @03:07AM
There you go again - obsessing over my equipment. You're just not right, 'zumi.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday February 08 2017, @05:55AM
Then stop wasting oxygen and electrons replying to me. You have these moments of occasional lucidity that make me think you can still be saved, but by and large i see you becoming more and more nihilistic and amoral. You won't break the cycle, so maybe you need to suffer more until you have motivation to.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday February 08 2017, @02:53PM
Don't try to save me - I'm perfectly happy where I am.
As for oxygen and electrons - they aren't yours, so you have no say over how I use them.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday February 08 2017, @06:57PM
You aren't even close to perfectly happy. No one who was happy would act like you do. But you know, that's fine; I'm about out of drive to invest in people like you. The country's in a tailspin and now I have to focus on survival. You can join the real whackaloons we've got here in hell.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Sulla on Tuesday February 07 2017, @02:55AM
First they came for the x, I was not an x so I did nothing
Then they came for the y, but I was not a y so I did nothing
Then they came for the z, but I was not a z so I did nothing.
The warning we are supposed to take from this is that as a z I need to make sure and stick up for the x. When this all began I had the opinion that if it goes down the way the x fears, I will step in as a z. Unfortunately the x decide rather than be helped they would rather call z a monster. As this has progressed, I will end up waiting for y before I decide to act. Because y isn't calling me a monster. Guess in the end I will become what I fight, but at least I wont have to deal with x anymore.
So good job doing the job of the fascist by choosing to divide us yourself. All z cared about was someone who at least lied about caring and trying to find them employment, and for that they are told they are privaledged and the problem of all the worlds ills. Now they care about making x shut up, congrats. Hard to say "I am x and I am not the problem" while rioting and destroying the goods, homes, and persons in y, z, lmnop.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam