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A Pakistani counter-terrorism court has sentenced to death a man who allegedly committed blasphemy on Facebook, a government prosecutor said on Sunday, the first time someone has been handed the death penalty for blaspheming on social media.
[...] Shafiq Qureshi, public prosecutor in Bahawalpur, about 500km (300 miles) south of provincial capital Lahore, said Raza was convicted for allegedly making derogatory remarks against Prophet Mohammad, his wives and companions.
"An anti terrorism court of Bahawalpur has awarded him the death sentence," Qureshi told Reuters." It is the first ever death sentence in a case that involves social media."
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Hacking's just another word for nothing left to kludge.
(Score: 2) by art guerrilla on Monday June 12 2017, @02:42PM (3 children)
1. well, well, well, appears our li'l runaway is capable of a certain amount of learning...
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2. 'authoritarianism' (as ALL THE REST OF US describe and know it) is NOT sometimes a 'good thing', EXCEPT in the weird exceptional cases you will make up where someone had to take quick, unilateral action to save someone else... those cases don't demonstrate how 'authoritarianism' is 'useful', merely that you will not admit defeat...
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3. of course, one of the hallmarks of authoritarians is that if Big Daddy says X is 'bad', then all the authoritarian followers will have their two minutes of hating X without questioning... if Big Daddy says tomorrow that X is 'good', then the authoritarian followers will pivot on a dime and say X is 'good', without questioning why they are now 'good'... compliant, obedient, and vicious to those questioning Big Daddy's authority and orthodoxy...
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4. i don't recall that the author referred to talked about this, but my take is that -in retrospect- of course it makes sense that 25% of the population as a whole are authoritarians: weaker, stupider, less competent nekkid apes glom onto the biggest, fattest, sleekest, most 'successful' nekkid ape they see, and do everything Big Daddy nekkid ape does, eat what Big Daddy nekkid ape does, go where Big Daddy goes, and hate who Big Daddy tells them to hate...
OF COURSE that is a successful strategy for the less capable nekkid apes to blindly follow a successful one...
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday June 12 2017, @09:16PM (2 children)
My curiosity: do you take Runaway as some kind of moron?
Or did you intend to use the "willingness" term and, in the spur of the moment, the "capability" just flew from your fingertips?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 3, Interesting) by art guerrilla on Saturday June 17 2017, @12:02PM (1 child)
1. no, i do not take runaway as a moron, except sometimes... 8^)
(ahem, we are ALL ignorant of MOST things, we are ALL susceptible to moronicity... yeah, this moron just neologied the shit out of that...)
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2. in point of fact, i have on different occasions defended runaways arguments, or at least right to make them... unfortunately, his hyper-rational, super-strict, calvinistic, and draconian take on issues usually ignores one tiny factor : human beans and their confounding behaviors...
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3. and -yes- my meta-point was i find runaway (like a LOT of people) far too prone to kneejerk authoritarianism in order to 'solve' (ie NOT solve, suppress) problems in society... again, EVERYONE thinks: IF ONLY those idiots would do like i tell them, it is all for their own good... (says a thousand kings, a thousand dictators, and 7 billion runaways...)
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Saturday June 17 2017, @12:34PM
+1. Twice.
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in the context of:
So I take your diagnostic is "a common case of age-related degenerative kneejerkism, with authoritarian pronation" rather than unwillingness or lack of intellectual capability.
You see, in their youth, humans have a wide horizon of choices, reactions and thoughts. As we progress through the age and experience, this horizon reduces to a point; this is what is called "the personal Point of View about life". Happens to most of us, the only difference is the position of that point.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford