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by pjc50 830 days ago
That's a problem of Republicans making things up, though. Criminal accusations are apparently free speech.
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Propelloni 830 days ago
That's not a problem of one party making things up. It's the fallacy of defective induction, aka. faulty generalization.

Are there cases where state institutions infringe on peoples' rights? Yes. Do they do it all the time? No.

Is Donald Trump a selfish liar? Yes. Are all Republicans selfish liars? No.

It's making me sad to see it here on HN so often.

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macinjosh 830 days ago
The Biden admin literally sent an IRS agent to the house of a journalist at the same time he was testifying on capitol hill about government censorship online. The IRS has guns and police power. It wasn't a coincidence. They use it to intimidate people they don't like.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/irs-committed-alarming-civ...

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lupire 830 days ago
Original publisher of article, not MSN cloakspam site:

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/irs-committed-alarming-c...

The Taibbi visit is certainly fishy. But knocking on his door to intimidate him when he's not there is weird tactic to be intentional.

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