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osculate_posterior_p 4 points ago +4 / -0

If we’re funding them, they’re not independent.

Also why should I give a single fuck about their media?

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osculate_posterior_p 4 points ago +4 / -0

That “share” button. Or the “login with fb” button. Or any ad they serve you.

All those make requests to their servers and those requests carry cookies

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osculate_posterior_p 14 points ago +14 / -0

Men raised only by women don’t know how to be men.

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osculate_posterior_p 3 points ago +3 / -0

I can’t remember which podcast it was, but I saw someone go down a long list of “old Hollywood glamor” headlines after the Golden Globes. About a ton of different actors and from a ton of different outlets. Obviously coordinated

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osculate_posterior_p 21 points ago +22 / -1

At this point we can use “Season 2” as a verb

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osculate_posterior_p 13 points ago +13 / -0

Both stationed at Ft. Bragg too. This stinks of the three-letter crowd

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osculate_posterior_p 2 points ago +2 / -0

No kidding. Satire is only about a week ahead of reality these days

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osculate_posterior_p 6 points ago +7 / -1

“ Pepe the Frog and swastikas are the most common extremist symbols found on Steam “

Not exactly equivalent are they? I hate how manipulators mix something minor with some awful.

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osculate_posterior_p 1 point ago +1 / -0

Article 1 of the Constitution established the census. It’s one of the few things that actually is their job.

They’re also the only ones that can publish crime data. But that should be about the individuals committing crimes. I want a government that thinks about individual citizens not demographic groups

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osculate_posterior_p 1 point ago +1 / -0

Part of the problem is that there are just 4 big publishers. Consolidation down to the point where it’s possible for all of them to be reading from the same play book. If there were 1,000 publishers at least some of them would be on a different page

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osculate_posterior_p 4 points ago +4 / -0

This is how politicians in Brazil always campaign. Big barbecues. Booze. Music. All free. No speeches, just vote buying.

They’re not just importing the third world, they’re importing third world politics too

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osculate_posterior_p 5 points ago +5 / -0

Future generations will regard the rainbow the way we regard the twisted cross

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osculate_posterior_p 1 point ago +1 / -0

What was that thing about hats?

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osculate_posterior_p 14 points ago +14 / -0

I didn’t see the original 5 guys post. For me it was the “gamers are dead” articles that opened my eyes.

Then I saw the same playbook in comicsgate and sad puppies. All that was prelude to 2016.

Then I started thinking back and saw that the rot started a long time before that. Like the day I realized every single article on io9 was about being gay, black, or female. Or a gay black female. Or that time Scientific American had a message from the editor saying that they were going to “make a stand” and be political… but the articles already were.

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