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socialistfuck  ·  3871 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Was the police response to the Boston bombing really appropriate?

No, no it wasn't. Way out of line. The caught the guy after they had ended the lockdown of Boston.

socialistfuck  ·  3886 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Mozilla's Gay-Marriage Litmus Test Violates Liberal Values

By your logic you can't call segregationists racist because not all of them are demonstrably so. What a crock of shit.

socialistfuck  ·  3901 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Justice Scalia's Past Comes Back To Haunt Him On Birth Control

If dick pumps are covered then so should contraceptives.

socialistfuck  ·  3901 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Another way to harm Social Security: wreck its customer service

Seems similar to the tactic Congress is using to destroy the Post Office.

socialistfuck  ·  3906 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: US intelligence oversight group from 1975 says things are way worse now

This is why activists have to push just as hard (if not more so) against private data collection and exploitation.

socialistfuck  ·  3908 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Wall Street Investors Take Aim at Farmland

Great, just what we need. Further wall street speculation in commodities necessary to life.

socialistfuck  ·  3908 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Wall Street Investors Take Aim at Farmland

Yeah, speculation was the wrong word to use.

I made the changes, I originally made the assumption that people would know what stingrays are.

So the article fairly quickly points out that the group that was given studies to read about it actually DID end up changing their minds, all but the most stalwart. So the MoJo headline is misleading, in my opinion.

socialistfuck  ·  3920 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Obama knew CIA secretly monitored Senate intelligence committee, senator claims

I'm not sure that this would have come to light if it weren't for Snowden.

Disappointing how?

socialistfuck  ·  3939 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Comcast Agrees to Buy Time Warner Cable for $45.2 Billion

From what I've read Comcast has well placed former employees in the antitrust divisions that would scrutinize this merger. And of course they are planning a lobbying blitz in order to push it through. There is no way in hell this should be allowed.

Yeah, but it's not like that revelation is overly new. Just brought into the light recently.

socialistfuck  ·  3940 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Julian Assange's Lawyers: Follow Swedish Law, Interrogate Him in the UK

This has been Assange's legal stance for quite a while I believe.

socialistfuck  ·  3941 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: DEA redacts tactic that's more secret than parallel construction

Do you have any articles your recommend about that?

I was under the impression that they can't use evidence against someone that they obtained outside a warranted investigation into a known crime. Is this true?

socialistfuck  ·  3948 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Fire destroys Argentine bank archives

I hope people's debts burned up.

socialistfuck  ·  3950 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Footage released of Guardian editors destroying Snowden hard drives

What damage?

socialistfuck  ·  3967 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: KILLYOURPHONE.COM

Turning it off doesn't necessarily mean they can't track or tap you. There's a reason that Snowden asked Greenwald to put his phone in the fridge during their meeting in HK.

socialistfuck  ·  3968 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Inside Merkel's Greece

It's the democracy that's benefiting the population, not capitalism.

socialistfuck  ·  3971 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 'Man of peace'? Ariel Sharon was the champion of violent solutions

Democracy Now also had good coverage.

socialistfuck  ·  3976 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Year of the Great Redistribution

Right to work is a misnomer. It actually allows workers to freeload of the negotiations of labor unions without paying dues to the union. It's already a guaranteed right to not have to join a union as a condition of employment unless the company itself forces you to in your contract.

socialistfuck  ·  3976 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Year of the Great Redistribution
socialistfuck  ·  3985 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How to ease Britain's housing crisis? Harlem has the answer

"The catch was that you had to make a commitment to live in the property for three years; this deterred speculators."

As it should be.

I think the concept Matt is laying out is particularly hard to explain to people. Even though I see the morality of his argument I'd have a hard time getting the point across to others.

Seems modern Whigs (I don't know much about the original party) is pretty much american libertarianism re-branded.

socialistfuck  ·  4046 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Rape Is Caused by Rapists, Not by Underage Drinking

A large portion of rapists are serial rapists.

socialistfuck  ·  4052 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: US politics' true bipartisan consensus: capitalism is untouchable

Fair enough, "just like" might have been unintentional hyperbole. How would you describe the USSR economy, then? It certainly wasn't socialism.