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by tptacek 1022 days ago
It's nothing personal, I just hate the feeling that I have to interrogate every sentence of someone's writing to find where they're smuggling in the weird fascist stuff. If they're just Orson Scott Card-style LARPing about international conflicts, well, we can do better than this, right?

You're more familiar with this blog than I am (this being the second time you've brought it up here). Is there some qualification they have on this issue that I didn't know about? I'm happy to stop bringing this up if there's some particular reason to take them seriously.
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walterbell 1022 days ago
I'm not a fan of filter bubbles. There are many HN threads where discussion/comments are superior to source article. Often, any weird -ist or -ism source content can be filtered by reason rather than interrogation. My comments cite words, not the person.

> LARPing about international conflicts, well, we can do better than this, right?

Pointers to better material would be greatly appreciated, on the topic of potential US-cartel conflict in the context of US election debates, https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/10/gop-bomb-mexico-fen...

> Republicans suggest everything from terrorist labels to an invasion to decimate drug cartels in Mexico ... U.S. Northern Command assesses that 30 to 35 percent of Mexican territory is ungoverned, giving space for the drug cartels to roam free. Should the U.S. launch military operations in Mexico, a crush of people would find their way to U.S. ports of entry seeking asylum and their claims would be stronger by fleeing an active war zone involving U.S.-labeled terrorists ... There are other complications, such as what the terrorist label would mean for people selling drugs online or shipping them — would a FedEx delivery person be jailed?

Leaving aside election debates on hypothetical conflicts, NYC Central Park is being considered for housing asylum seekers, flowing today into NYC from the US southern border. More and better analysis is needed. https://www.axios.com/2023/08/03/new-york-city-central-park-...

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tptacek 1022 days ago
I'm not a fan of filter bubbles either, as the term is normally defined, but I'm comfortable with the idea that there are limits to the things you can believe and still be taken seriously. If you non-ironically believe that the Earth isn't spherical, and that there's an "atmosflat" rather than an "atmosphere", I'm comfortable disqualifying your science takes. So it goes with The International Jew.

I don't have a better source! If this source is actually good, rather than someone, again, doing the thing Orson Scott Card so notoriously did, of fanfic'ing international politics and military conflicts, that'd be a good thing to point out! Is it?

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walterbell 1022 days ago
> I'm comfortable disqualifying

Client-side kill switches FTW. Hopefully we will also have browser plugins to combine private ignorelists with webs of transitive (dis)trust.

> If this source is actually good

It's the only source I've found on this specific topic, since I don't follow Republican debates. It's full of typos and rambling, but has motivated me to seek more material on the topic.

As for human prejudice, I defer to Steve Martin in Roxanne, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1nYEH6EDwM

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