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>I am sure that there is some abstract art that is intended not to produce any emotion whatsoever

It's not abstract, but Jeff Koons, probably.

Maybe read the article.

Seriously, I bet these are the same people who were shitting on the Hyperloop!

Who is suggesting that every shareholder be jailed?

>The propaganda of trying to make US and China government appear the same [...] is one of the most heavily used tools in China’s online propaganda arsenal.

The government could do some very easy things to remove this tool from China's toolbelt. Like you know, prosecuting rich people when they've earned it.

> how else would you be able to see that worrying signal without answering the question they asked?

Was anyone ever refused entry because they had an image poking fun at Kamala Harris? There, your question has been answered.

Free is better.

This has been going on since at least the mid 1970s if the graphs in the article are anything to go by. How will you blame the screens then?

> Same with my money in the bank.

I’d love for this to be the case, but we’re going to need laws to make it happen. Banks will have to be forced into it and probably also shielded from liability in case the user does something dumb.

Maybe we can force them into providing APIs for us while we’re at it so I don’t have to pay Plaid if I want to build an app to track my finances.

> every government since the mid-2010s has been elected on the explicit promise to build more houses, they cannot do so because of the electoral consequences

This doesn’t add up. Promising to get more housing built is getting these people elected, but they can’t make good on this promise because then they will lose their election?

> Political Correctness has a similar idea that by adjusting the terminology we use, we can purge biases and historical implications and speak in a purer way.

You either misunderstand political correctness or are trying to make it sound more nefarious than it is. It is nothing more than an effort, sometimes overdone and misguided, to not say things that make minorities feel bad. It’s nothing more than an attempt to broaden what’s considered good manners.

If anyone serious thinks political correctness is going to end racism, I certainly haven’t seen it.

> Psychoanalysis has its own idea of repression - where a person struggles to BLOCK our associations between ideas, memories, and words in order to try to stop one thought from being contaminated by another, intolerable thought.

It’s been a while since I took Psych 101, but my memory is that, according to Freud, repression is subconscious. There’s no struggle possible because there is no intent. It’s also about memories and emotions, so if it WAS an intentional act, it’s not an attempt to control language. It wouldn’t be about trying to not think of the word cat, but trying to not think about that time when your cat died.

Did you read the article?

Did you read the article?

>The cop said, “You’re under arrest,” grabbed her arms, and pulled her out of the room. “I can do this all night. I get paid by the hour,” the cop added.

Two sentences showing precisely why no one can trust the police. Not only are they completely unaccountable, but they will trample your first amendment rights and do so with smug amusement in full public view. These are the kinds of people we're supposed to be happy to give massive surveillance power to?

It’s been over 150 years since we killed a bunch of tyrants here, and even then a lot of the tyrants got to live.