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Eh. Maybe a little deraily, but not that much. It's usually somewhat more coherent(ly on-topic), though.

I mean. The thing is isp you seem to be falling into that trap of thinking it was maybe somehow better in the years before. TV, radio, print media. Same things, even fewer upsides or ability to crosscheck et al, so forth, so on. If we're more asleep at the wheel than usual it's not by much, and the ability to move things in other directions is considerably more of a thing.

It's just, y'know. It's easier to see just how much of a thing it is, nowadays, and there's less filter/memory loss involved.

The lazy (and/or insane, if conversations are actually involved) person's existentialism, you seem to be saying >_>

Wow, looks like the internet free speech types will have a legitimate complaint for once.

Why do the admins even have the power to silently edit things... I guess if you're the CEO and you want to do it you can just ask someone to implement it :/  This is why professional PR is a thing.

It's... fairly obvious why? Being able to deal with infringing material is important (particularly on stuff as free ranging as reddit and its ilk), and sometimes doing it without bringing attention to the issue is as well. Can be abused, obviously enough, but that doesn't mean the tool itself is the problem.

Especially not in the ameripol thread, politics thread for the land of the washington memorial, contender for the largest strongest dong erected for a dead man.

... that said, if there was actual solid evidence -- something that only the furthest right of right-wing nutjobs could deny with a straight face -- of foreign hackers swinging states, I'm about 80% sure what you would see would be a lot of very, very pissed off conservatives, never mind the rest of the country. Do remember that for all they've been kinda' shrugging at trump fellating russia, the GOP is still the party of nationalist xenophobes. They can doublethink their way through a lot but they'll also flip and start screaming for very literal murder at the drop of the right sort of hat.

Lol sure. Good argument there, not even gonna detail why.

... detailing shouldn't be necessary. This whole tangent was started because someone (me) wouldn't have backed at 20 if they couldn't back at 16. They didn't lose $4 in this case, they kept from losing $16, or gained however much over the eventual sale that would have enticed me. And, y'know. I'm not exactly some kind of freak of nature, just someone on a tight enough budget the difference makes a difference. If you want break even points, it'd take a bit over a fifth (125) of that five hundred being in similar positions to completely offset the entire potential "loss" of that 2k from losing 500 instances of 4 bucks.

Not to paraphrase the article, but rather to prime the reader, I ask: Must everyone with an identity answer for the excesses of the few? What if that few work for what they see as the best interest of the identity?

Eh. They don't have to answer for those excesses, really, so long as they're actually just of the few. For all the extremes have been an issue the bigger issue has always been the rest of the folks that support and enable them. Y'ain't really gotta' speak up but maybe don't give them money and vote for 'em. Be leery about what they're supporting, that sort of thing. Don't have to run around shouting denouements, but keep that shit out yo' house as much as it's safe to do so.

As for the best interest thing, fuck that noise. Best interest isn't zero sum in regards to the stuff being talked about and never bloody has been. If those few see the situation as being so they're no longer working in your best interests even if they've deluded themselves into thinking they are. They've gone from someone sharing your identity to someone actively attacking it, at that point, and should be reacted to accordingly.

... thaaat said. Again, it's worth noting that turnout wise, the increase in dog whistling and outright whistling didn't really help much, exactly. Maybe helped depress things, but it didn't increase the voting share to particularly notable degrees. It's going to be an issue, particularly if the left-wing media keeps sucking the alt-right and co. off, too, but it's questionable if there's actually been much of a rise in it. So far as that front goes m'personally not really sure if there needs to be much change in direction. What we've been doing over the years seems to be workin', maybe not as quickly as'd be nice, but working. Reacting to this shit like some kind of jump scare instead of somethin' we've known was there the whole time might not be particularly wise.

You just gotta remember a massive boom in regards to geological timeframes can coincide with generations worth of a historical one.