Board 8 > Freedom, Liberty, Ron Paul - Now I ain't sayin' he's gone alt-right... [dwmf]

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Didn't a case in Texas prove that a guy doing that towards another guy is grounds to justify homicide in self defense?
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JeffreyRaze posted...

Didn't a case in Texas prove that a guy doing that towards another guy is grounds to justify homicide in self defense?

Maybe she should have shot him on the spot then, rather than wait 50 years and try to murder his reputation instead.
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If a woman does that to another woman then they should both be shot for depriving the universe of hot lez action
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I hate when someone cool hosts SNL because I always try to watch it and it's always incredibly lame and super slow. At least Chapelle had that great monologue for like 8 minutes, but Donglover hasn't had anything like that yet.
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that's why you just watch the monologue and any performances

SNL is college skit club level comedy
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There was no monologue though is my point, but the performances were great

Also Chappelle had a couple good skits too
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https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/07/politics/melania-trump-unveils-platform-be-best/index.html

"be best" is pretty great engrish for an eastern european trophy wife
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http://reason.com/blog/2018/05/07/cops-helicopter-airbnb-black-women

Not quite as good as that time a British cop called in the helicopter to shut down a party that played a racist youtube video, but close!

Fyffe-Marshall says it took more than 45 minutes to resolve the misunderstanding, during which time the police accused them of lying and claimed they had never heard of Airbnb before.

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http://quillette.com/2018/05/03/paul-krugman-understand-intellectual-diversity/
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Does Paul Krugman Understand ____?
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the comments from reason are gold

Airbnb is not something taught at police academies. It's a lot like the 4th Amendment that way.

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SmartMuffin posted...

"In the 60s a guy tried to kiss me but I said no and then he stopped."

What a horrible rapist!

he's not a "horrible rapist," but he's still a douchebag for trying to kiss a woman who's not interested in him at a work-related meeting.
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http://reason.com/blog/2018/05/08/google-to-purge-ads-for-bail-bond-servic

state makes horrible policy
private sector steps in to try and make it a little less horrible
google decides to punish private sector because the policy is so horrible

why dont they ban the government from advertising I wonder?
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http://reason.com/blog/2018/05/08/illinois-police-dog-trainer-warns-k-9s-m
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isn't google the private sector?
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Trump is private sector, Google is deep state. That's why it's okay when Trump chooses who is and is not allowed to associate with the US, but it's a first amendment violation if someone blocks you on gmail for sending dick pics.
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but it's a first amendment violation if someone blocks you on gmail for sending dick pics.

uh, maybe you should re-read the article?
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You're the one who never even reads the articles you yourself post. I obviously wasn't referring to that article.
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oh, what a weird time to make a random comment about something we weren't even discussing then
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It's pretty normal to discuss your interpretation of events right after you interpret something
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/pay-russia-first-agenda-putin-takes-ax-military-200025066.html

better than Trump

can we vote for Putin in 2020?
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SmartMuffin posted...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/pay-russia-first-agenda-putin-takes-ax-military-200025066.html

better than Trump

can we vote for Putin in 2020?

Depends on if Trump makes it to his re-election campaign.
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Putin would definitely continue to raise US military spending though
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https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2018/05/google-bans-bail-bond-ads.html

some more detailed and in-depth analysis, which im sure foolmo will ignore because criticizing google means you must just be a secret racist I guess?
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pretty sure foolmo just made the point that google is a private company (which i also made).
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oh cool I guess that means they can never do any wrong ever and are above all criticism
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SmartMuffin posted...

oh cool I guess that means they can never do any wrong ever and are above all criticism

you're the libertarian here
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SmartMuffin posted...

oh cool I guess that means they can never do any wrong ever and are above all criticism

...said nobody ever.
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oh cool I guess that means they can never do any wrong ever and are above all criticism

That's the impression I normally get from you, yes. Not "the free market punishes corporations for their mistakes", but "the free market prevents corporations from making mistakes".
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MalcolmMasher posted...

oh cool I guess that means they can never do any wrong ever and are above all criticism

That's the impression I normally get from you, yes. Not "the free market punishes corporations for their mistakes", but "the free market prevents corporations from making mistakes".

Competitive pressure means that, in the long run, companies who make bad decisions will be out-competed by companies that don't.

But that doesn't stop me, in the sort run, from pointing out that this is a dumb decision.

As the article I posted points out, what made Google a successful product was offering broad access to information. The more they restrict information in the name of social justice, the less overall value they offer to society. They are now doing the opposite of what made them popular in the first place.
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Also this is particularly stupid because it doesn't even achieve the ends they want. Bail bondsmen help keep poor people out of jail.

This would be like if a libertarian version of Google banned ads from H&R block because taxation is theft. Except that H&R block aren't the ones who decide to have an income tax, and that what they actually do in practice in real life is to help people have less of their money stolen.

It's just bizarre. This isn't a simple matter of "they're being SJW and I don't like SJW." It's a matter of "They're virtue signaling in a way that actually does harm to poor minorities who they claim to want to protect."
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having read the reason article, i still don't get how google refusing to run ads for certain companies is them "punishing the private sector." if gamefaqs decides they don't want ads from some porn site on here, they're not "punishing the private sector" either.
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SmartMuffin posted...

As the article I posted points out, what made Google a successful product was offering broad access to information. The more they restrict information in the name of social justice, the less overall value they offer to society.

Google's popularity is tied to giving you the information you want quickly; there's nothing "broad" about it. There's even a meme about how no one ever looks past the first page of results.

Also this is about ads, not information services. No one uses Google because its ads are so great (aside from, I guess, advertisers).
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what made google a successful product was that it was a super simple website that loaded super quickly. THAT was what made it appealing to people. nobody gave a fuck if its search results were different from the ones generated by altavista or yahoo search or whatever.
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There's even a meme about how no one ever looks past the first page of results.

Also this is about ads, not information services. No one uses Google because its ads are so great (aside from, I guess, advertisers).

The ads are at the top, and in the first few search results. I'll bet a lot of people click on them.
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SmartMuffin posted...

some more detailed and in-depth analysis, which im sure foolmo will ignore because criticizing google means you must just be a secret racist I guess?

lmao that "he will definitely ignore this!!!" baiting only works on people who actually ignore things. I respond to literally everything (to my detriment). You're the one who will go from 2 posts/min to total silence the instant you realize your position is untenable. Which is fine, it's an easy shorthand that all of us understand by now.

But you're the one ignoring the main point here, that Google can show whatever it wants in its results, and if it feels it can show BETTER results by removing things, then it will do that. That is the core of its service from the beginning.

And in fact a company that big SHOULD feel a duty to society to create social pressure, because that's how free association causes change in the free market. I don't get how you keep forgetting the absolute basics of liberty like this. If you disagree with their choice then fine. But acting like the prison and bail industries, who are literally cartels for the corrupt justice system, are the free market good guys in this situation is obviously disingenuous.

Also if you're cry about google/youtube banning you for saying the n word then you're not a secret racist, it's pretty evident.
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just gonna reiterate what foolmo said, but lol @ muffin mocking foolmo for "for sure ignoring something." of course it's not like muffin ignores at least 70% of the arguments that are made against him or something.
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right after that jab against foolmo muffin literally ignored three posts i made in that google argument. you can't make this shit up.
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Also when you constantly vomit out meaning-vacuum phrases like social justice and virtue signaling, don't be annoyed that people don't spend effort wading through all the garbage to engage you in a considerate and productive argument. Who are you trying to impress, ulti?
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Wait was Trump so desperate to find a lawyer he had to get Giuliani?

Can't make this up
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foolm0r0n posted...

Wait was Trump so desperate to find a lawyer he had to get Giuliani?

Can't make this up

Are you just now seeing this?
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Yeah
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You missed a lot of television interview gaffes last week then! Super incriminating stuff.

Followed by getting forced to come out and say Ive just been on the team a week so I dont know all the facts yet.
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I didn't miss those, I just chose not to watch 20 hours of Giuliana speaking which apparently makes ME the crazy one
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https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/09/609697466/mormon-church-will-sever-ties-with-boy-scouts-create-own-youth-program

Official predix - this organization won't exist 10 years from now
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http://reason.com/blog/2018/05/09/new-york-times-editorial-board-thinks-ub

literally punishing success
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https://abcnews.go.com/US/uss-fitzgerald-officer-pleads-guilty-role-deadly-collision/story?id=55021772

oh hey, turns out it was a female officer

complete and total dereliction of duty resulting in seven deaths

sentenced to three months of half pay

ive seen enlisted dudes get in more trouble than that for getting unauthorized tattoos
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SmartMuffin posted...

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/09/609697466/mormon-church-will-sever-ties-with-boy-scouts-create-own-youth-program

Official predix - this organization won't exist 10 years from now

the Scouts or the Mormon thing
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Scouts

Mormons will be like half the country within 100 years
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foolm0r0n posted...

I didn't miss those, I just chose not to watch 20 hours of Giuliana speaking which apparently makes ME the crazy one

Oh, well just know in hindsight that he said all of those things while acting in a capacity as Trumps lawyer
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