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On the Daily Dot:
The Facebook pages of Richard Spencer, the alt-right leader who was famously punched in the face last year, have been suspended.
The pages for the National Policy Institute, a lobbying group of sorts for white nationalists, and Spencer's online magazine "altright.com," vanished on Friday after Vice sent the social network an inquiry about hate groups. They had a combined following of almost 15,000 followers.
The action was taken just days after Mark Zuckerberg emphasized during his testimony before Congress that Facebook does not allow hate speech. But it wasn't until Vice flagged the accounts that Facebook suspended them. The social network said in a statement that it identifies violating pages using human monitors, algorithms, and partnerships with organizations.
(Score: 0, Troll) by khallow on Monday April 16 2018, @04:14AM (6 children)
Feel free to try to include yourself among that number at some point. Seriously, it does seem that there's a real mind somewhere behind that mask, but we rarely get to see it.
As to the rest of your post, you did get a rise out of me, but it's just not worth it to express it in words. As I said before, I respond to thoughtful debate. But when it's not, well, you might get a good response out of me or you might not. Seems to me that one should get something more out of an aristarchus debate than just pushing the same worn-out buttons [soylentnews.org] that have been pushed for years.
(Score: 1, Troll) by aristarchus on Monday April 16 2018, @09:33AM (5 children)
Yes, of course, thought so. People advocating white supremacy are just plain stupid, because anyone can see that white people are not all that smart. And, even more damning, those white people who try to advocate white supremacy are among the stupidest members of the human species. So we are going to censor you, if you want to go down that path, khallow, and to your credit I have not seen you explicitly do so, yet. But if you do, we will not have a thoughtful debate about your theory of racial superiority, we will instead post news stories about your affair with your step-mother-in-law/landlady in the trailer park, mutandis mutandum. And you will be very, very ashamed. Until that, keep pushing the whole "private property incentivication" and "prosperity gospel" snake-oil. And, oh, remember to deny climate change again. You need to meet your quota for the month!!
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday April 16 2018, @01:28PM (3 children)
I'm not doing that. You're not doing that. So completely irrelevant. Why don't you go bug Ethanol-Fueled (whose views still aren't white supremacy, but at least much closer to that than mine)? His permaban doesn't seem to be working.
What I've written on that subject (the latter, the increasing prosperity of humanity everywhere) has been backed by actual evidence (for example, here [soylentnews.org]). Two thirds of humanity as a whole has seen substantial increases in wages over a recent 20 year period. Something big is being done right.
As to "private property incentivization"? It's its own incentive. There's no need for additional incentivization and I have never proposed such.
Exactly. Why again are you being a jerk to me for things I haven't done "yet" (nor ever will)? Where were you when we had people ranting [soylentnews.org] about genocide was justified because the target did it first via mere immigration.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by aristarchus on Monday April 16 2018, @06:40PM (2 children)
Done "right", alright! Like 1%, Old Skool Big Business Republican Right! Oh, my dear and furry khallow, has it ever entered your head to assess metrics that seem to support your ideological position, so that you might see that an increase in wages can actually be a decrease in relative income, and a lowering of standards of living?
Please, tell us more! I just love Vienna Sausage Economics!
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday April 16 2018, @11:35PM
The links address that. For example, from the link [voxeu.org] showing a huge improvement in the well-being of all humanity. First, they define "real income":
Then view figures 1 and 2.
So collectively - after correcting for inflation and differences in price levels, the world got a lot wealthier over the period 1988-2008 with around two thirds of the entire human population seeing large improvements over that time period. I'm oversimplifying the interpretation a bit, but it's showing the best improvement ever in humanity to date rather than some spurious artifact. Who received what depends on the country. China did a lot better than India, for example. And some did worse such as the lower classes of Japan.
At this point, it's looking pretty good with several decades track record, and looking to get better. Sure, we could embrace radical doubt [soylentnews.org] and assert without evidence that the presence of some confounding factor, like an all-powerful evil deity, is throwing off our economic numbers. But what would be the point?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 17 2018, @04:05PM
If you were to buy some stocks . . .
Oh never mind. You would choose stocks that would leave you destitute. Don't bother.
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by Runaway1956 on Monday April 16 2018, @09:45PM
For certain values of "stupid", that may be true. On the other hand, a white supremacy regime in Europe did a damned good job of fucking up half the world when it threw a temper tantrum. If those people were so stupid, why did it take all of the rest of the world's power to stop them, and a couple of allies? It would seem that those Nazis were pretty damned intelligent, to have done so well, up until they fucked up with Barbarosa. You may or may not argue that Hitler was insane - but not even insanity negates a high intelligence. The bastard was crazy, AND smart, not to mention cunning and charismatic. That was a very, very VERY dangerous combination. Had Hitler not began losing touch with reality, he may very well have overrun Europe and it's allies.
It really isn't necessary to display your ignorance here. Politics, prejudice, racism, religion, and similar traits are no more an indicator of intelligence than height, or hair color, or the language you speak.