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- Comment on necessary read 2 days ago:
Sure, but whether you’re talking about military might or economic might, more people is more leverage. That was my point.
- Comment on Apparently Palantir can access the content of social media accounts that were deleted a decade ago. 3 days ago:
This “too dangerous to exist” argument is seemingly more true for nuclear technology, but the world recognized the threat and came together to manage it.
I will grant you that database and ability to search it lends itself easily to popular oppression, but it still requires thinking, breathing humans to do the oppressing.
Most technology is not dangerous without psychopaths in power, and damn near everything is dangerous with psychopaths in power.
- Comment on Apparently Palantir can access the content of social media accounts that were deleted a decade ago. 3 days ago:
I came here to make this comment less cogently. You have it exactly.
Now, does it violate US law and multiple Executive Orders to search the database to get dirt on US Citizens and use it against their election campaign? Yes. Yes it does. But this administration thinks laws are for sissies.
- Comment on necessary read 3 days ago:
I think the argument to make space for them is more practical that compassionate. WTF are we going to do if we just refuse to speak to or have any dealings with 1/3 of the working age population. Are we relocating all Trump voters South of Virginia and splitting the Union here?
Setting aside our own authoritarian problems for a second, if you want to have a wealthy country that can oppose authoritarian regimes (like China and Russia), you need all 350 million of us. (And you need Europe, India, and democratic Asia on board, perhaps even some middle eastern countries, all people you may have philosophical differences with that you have to learn to work with).
- Comment on necessary read 3 days ago:
The US has needed rank choice voting since Nixon at least.