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Twitter as a private company has the right to censor false and harmful information; it is not censoring anything else.

Nobody goes to the stock market for safety; but you know this I assume. You go to the stock market for risk relative to reward. Investing in one stock is risky. Investing in a diversified basket of stock and bonds over longer time periods is much less risky; but you know this I assume. Bitcoin...

Exactly the point I was trying to make (among other things). Though not so much with regard to the liberal-conservative continuum, as (in America) what it meant to be a Republican or a Democrat. As examples, Lincoln's Republican party of the mid-1800s has morphed into today's Republican party...

Thanks for stating your opinion. The Constitution and Declaration of Independence were actually fairly radical for their time and are much more liberal documents than conservative documents. But liberal and conservative were much more similar in those days (as they were in America up through the...

Assuming you are serious I would be curious to understand how you get to this statement. Conservative during that time was more in alignment with someone like the British politician Edmund Burke (best conservative writer of that time), and conservatives of that type have more in common with...

"...the deterrence effect, we believe, has merit." Context you moron. You didn't even let one brain cell fire before you re-posted that quote out of context did you.

Are you kidding? Trump was Putin's Butt buddy and the joke of the world. Putin would have invaded weeks ago with someone so incompetent in office. Biden is at least competent and following a strategy if you read foreign policy news. Biden knows way more than any of us and gets daily intelligence...

There are 2 main problems these days with these discussions (that show a failure of educational systems more generally). 1. Conservatives throwing around terms like Communism, Marxism, and Nazism in meaningless ways just because they don't like what their political opponents are doing or saying...

Shrug... I guess I would just encourage you to try to get out and actually observe what is going on rather than filtering your views through abstract principles.

If you understand the science, the comparison is a fair one. The (non-experimental) mRNA vaccine injections are statistically one of the safest thing you can do in your life. Statistically you have a better chance of being shot by a toddler (at least in America) than of being injured by a...

Your framing still does not change the fact that the overall protests were almost entirely peaceful. what you are doing is similar to saying that because a small percentage of criminal insurrectionists stormed the capital during the January 6th, that makes all people who protested Trump's loss...

History shows literally the opposite. Today's conservatives are blinded by abstract principles with no empirical basis. Krugman may get some things wrong but he is right most of the time.

Your comment is a basic media literacy fail. I live in the Seattle area so I saw the actual ratio of unlawful to peaceful protesters. 10s of thousands of peaceful marchers and perhaps a 100 or so violent protester maximum. But on TV things are framed to sensationalize. For instance, you might...

Bugy's perspective is nutty and extremist and does not represent the main street reality in America or the perspective of most average Americans. My extended family who were all once Eisenhower style Republicans have over the years become Democratic Party members as Democrats are currently the...

The BLM violence was an extremely small part of the overall protests and Democrats and protest organizers did condemn the violence. Otherwise, you might recall that violent protesters were arrested and protest camps like the CHOP on Seattle Capital Hill were forceably removed after a couple of...

What are Bitcoin's fundamentals?

I think there is a major reality bubble on this list; people really need to get out more. Dishwasher's are being paid more because those kinds of jobs suck, and nobody wants to do them when they have better opportunities in other jobs. In my neck of the woods the teenagers who used to do...

"Communist" these days is just a reactionary Republican code word for "moderate" by people who want to see the middle class burn. Pelosi is to the right of Eisenhower on almost all issues for anyone who actually studies (or lived through) earlier American history.

Large percentage of the Ukranian population are military trained and have said they would fight a Russian occupation. Poland, Turkey and others have said they will give Ukraine military supplies. I guess Putin has forgotten the lessons of Chechnya and Afghanistan.

People are dying just as much with Omicron if they are unprotected. Vaccines and prior infections are less protective against symptoms, but still protective against serious illness and death.