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Comment · 2 years ago
I do hope for your optimistic scenario, but I do not expect it.
Comment · 2 years ago
Yeah the stench of that is quite nauseating at times...
Comment · 2 years ago
Ah yes someone always rolls out the false dilemma of "the only options are completely unregulated capitalism or completely top down command economy communism".

It'd be shorter with the same meaning if you'd just scream "traitorous commie!!!!1111"

Comment · 2 years ago
Yeah like all those external pressures that have kept private mega corps from polluting, monopolizing, pervasively surveiling, brutally exploiting labor, and generating false "science" that maintains their dominance even in the face of huge global negative effects... Oh, wait...
Comment · 2 years ago
So because you don't like this naming scheme no name should be allowed at all?
Comment · 2 years ago
Talking about and analyzing the problem might lead to mitigating or even substantially fixing it, which would remove its usefulness as a rhetorical attack on attempts to solve social problems.
Comment · 2 years ago
Yes, sadly this is an easy way for people to dishonestly claim to themselves and others that any attempt to solve problems (other than the "problem" of how to generate ever greater wealth disparity which somehow never gets included in this) is completely worthless
Comment · 2 years ago
There is a trap here of saying "thus we shouldn't do anything about problems" rather than the more reasonable "we should be prepared to iterate on our efforts".
Comment · 2 years ago
Exactly, it's going to turn out that it didn't work well but it will still get used harmfully.
Comment · 2 years ago
Doing a "job action" like that because people have lost trust in your profession isn't going to restore that trust.

The only thing that will is to stop being trigger happy menaces to public safety.

Comment · 2 years ago
This is going to turn out to be the new phrenology, completely flawed, but it won't stop phobic types from using it to "prove" their antisocial theories.
Comment · 2 years ago
Your positioning it as "entitlement" is gross. Expose yourself to "ads" that are intrusive and tracking you, deliberately deceptive to drive clicks, spread lies and bigotry because nobody curates the content, and sometimes malware vectors if you want, but it doesn't make you morally superior, it makes you stupid.
Comment · 2 years ago
About the only thing he got right is the noise problem...
Comment · 2 years ago
I grew up in it. I participated in it, until I got out into the world enough that I realized how wrong I was.

For this specific case, no of course I can't be sure, I don't know the specific neighbors.

Comment · 2 years ago
Because they're racist and "crime" is a dog whistle for "existing while not white".

It's incredibly tiresome.

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