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Ashli Babbit, officer sicknick, and a few others all died due to a conspiracy theory spread on Facebook. Many others are threatened every day because of these conspiracy theories.


By this reasoning you could call critical race theory a conspiracy and say it "contributed to real death" through the 2020 summer protests and riots.


Untrue, but also off topic.


For people who cream themselves over good documentation, why are there so ma y people who refuse to read the mueller report? It's not that long.

Who am I kidding, we all know the answer is that you think by ignoring the facts insulates you from realizing the republican party and their leader colluded with a foreign adversary to influence the election


I dunno if there was actual collusion, but it was definitely shady as all hell. I do think this was a case where the cover-up was worse than the crime.


I read it, and it doesn’t say that at all. Why lie?


Sorry but this line

> (and a lot of times, it's cheaper outside of Amazon).

is not true. Amazon does not let sellers list products on amazon for a higher price than than what they list on the sellers website. It's 100% against TOS and they will shut down your listing if it's your first offense and will permaban you from selling if you continue to do so.


It's not often someone (100% sure you're a republican) just admits that they think some people's votes are more valuable than another.

All lives matter, right?


People on 4chan say dumb shit like that a lot. I'd avoid that place if I were you


The funny thing is that 4chan and twitter aren't that different in terms of hate and troll. They were at some point, but the lines keep blurring. Sure you can find places in twitter that aren't toxic cesspools, but you can also find that in 4chan (/m/ for example).

The weirdest thing is that people in twitter is doing 4chan tier stuff under their real names and faces, which is just baffling to me. I always thought the whole 4chan loltroll hate machine thing was because of anonymity, but I'm starting to reconsider that stance.


Anonymity wasn't why the 4chan hate machine would fire up--it was because a few people could look like a lot of people. It looked like you had a mob right at hand.

Now, there are a lot of people, and bots besides.


Hmm, that's an interesting take. I always thought it was the "I can say whatever and they'll never know it was me, mwahaha the perfect crimeeee!" or something.


People have never had a problem with their names on atrocities when they had other people at their back.

The Salem witch trials are an obvious example, to me.


Other people (or maybe the same people saying dumb shit) also say brilliant things there. Dissuading use of a platform of a certain type over another (like this forum)is irrational.

We need better software for displaying said content, not banning the content entirely.

Also, freedom of speech isn't what most people think it is.


Agreed, the signal to noise ratio is poor, but there are some really thought provoking comments in there. Wasn't some decades old mathematical problem solved by a random 4chan post?

Curious what you mean by the freedom of speech not being what people think it is?


Wont that 100 dollars of data be worth exponentially more if companies had to pay us for collecting it?


It doesnt post anything without your permission. And you can long hold the notification to suppress and never see them again. It's not that big of a deal


I don't agree that it's a fringes issue at all... Trump is filling stadiums with people making racist chants. These aren't the fringes of the right


Here in Los Angeles (Specifically Sunland Produce in Sunland) Honeycrisps are available nearly year around for 99 cents a pound. Not on sale. It's insane, I've lived all over the place and the price actually shocks me every time i go in.


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