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• On the post: Emails From License Plate Reader Company Hack Show Lobbyists Writing Legislation And Handing Out Talking Points To Congressional Reps

  

  Wendy Cockcroft ( profile ), 13 Aug, 2019 @ 05:09am

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  That's because there are no controls on where they get their money from and how much they can spend. If all elections were publicly funded we wouldn't have this problem.

• On the post: New Report Further Clarifies Foxconn's Wisconsin Deal Was An Unsustainable Joke

  

  Wendy Cockcroft ( profile ), 13 Aug, 2019 @ 05:07am

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  Agreed. The way I see it, if you have to offer a subsidy to get a company to set up in your location, all the company will be interested in is getting the subsidy. Companies exist to make money, that's all. If they can't make money off the products and services they provide, they can't make money. Any subsidies should be paid retrospectively on completion of stages agreed beforehand; i.e. if they don't get the factory built on time in the manner promised, it's all on them. If they don't set up the number of jobs as agreed, it's all on them. Don't. Reward. Failure.

• On the post: New Report Further Clarifies Foxconn's Wisconsin Deal Was An Unsustainable Joke

  

  Wendy Cockcroft ( profile ), 13 Aug, 2019 @ 05:02am

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  Indeed, bob. And I can't help thinking that the clue was in the name... but there you go.

• On the post: New Report Further Clarifies Foxconn's Wisconsin Deal Was An Unsustainable Joke

  

  Wendy Cockcroft ( profile ), 13 Aug, 2019 @ 02:33am

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  It's Doublespeak, AC, where "Socialism" means "Anything other than transferring money from the poor to the rich for zero compensation is morally dubious." They don't want to give us a leg up, they want to chop our legs off and boil them down for soup, or something. We don't matter to them.

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  Wendy Cockcroft ( profile ), 12 Aug, 2019 @ 06:37am

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  And if this blog is as censorious as you claim it is, why post here if you know your comments are likely to be hidden? I avoid online places I don't like, I don't hop into the comments to complain about them.

• On the post: After Missing Cord Cutting Trend, Nielsen Falls Apart

  

  Wendy Cockcroft ( profile ), 09 Aug, 2019 @ 05:18am

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  Is Bakula the whiny one who plays the Basset Hound-loving captain on one of the new Star Treks that I never watch? I caught a few minutes of one episode where his dog had peed on something important and the natives became a bit restless over it. Whine, whine, whine. I turned the telly off just before I completely lost the will to live and haven't watched the show since.

• On the post: NY Times Joins Lots Of Other Media Sites In Totally And Completely Misrepresenting Section 230

  

  Wendy Cockcroft ( profile ), 09 Aug, 2019 @ 05:12am

  Re: Anti-hate speech on the internet is a never ending solution.

  Assuming there's enough of it to counter the hate speech. In theory, your "solution" is simple and works perfectly. In practice, not so much.

• On the post: UK Lobbyist's Long-Running Astroturf Efforts Shows Facebook Will Never Be Able To Stop Fake News, Ban All Conservatives

  

  Wendy Cockcroft ( profile ), 08 Aug, 2019 @ 05:28am

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  Methinks it's "Statements I disagree with/hurt mah feelz."

• On the post: Using Restorative Justice To Deal With Internet Trolls And Jackasses

  

  Wendy Cockcroft ( profile ), 08 Aug, 2019 @ 05:22am

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  [Sad but True]

• On the post: Why Is Our First Reaction To Mass Shootings To Talk About Censorship?

  

  Wendy Cockcroft ( profile ), 08 Aug, 2019 @ 02:37am

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  Precisely. The ability to spray bullets into a crowd increases the body count. Having to reload would slow the shooter down.

• On the post: Why Is Our First Reaction To Mass Shootings To Talk About Censorship?

  

  Wendy Cockcroft ( profile ), 07 Aug, 2019 @ 06:45am

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  Also, limiting the number of bullets a gun can fire would also lower casulaties. If the shooter had to reload after six shots, people would have more time to get to safety.

• On the post: Why Is Our First Reaction To Mass Shootings To Talk About Censorship?

  

  Wendy Cockcroft ( profile ), 07 Aug, 2019 @ 06:41am

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  Yep.

• On the post: Why Is Our First Reaction To Mass Shootings To Talk About Censorship?

  

  Wendy Cockcroft ( profile ), 07 Aug, 2019 @ 06:41am

  Re: Re: propaganda for violence

  Also, the concept of violence as a solution in and of itself. Something bugging you? Shoot it.

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  Wendy Cockcroft ( profile ), 07 Aug, 2019 @ 06:38am

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  I daresay it's the right time to bring this up again: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolverhampton_machete_attack It's easier to defend yourself from a nut with a knife than from a nut with a gun. Why? Knife nutters have to get up close and personal to get at you. Gun nutters don't. They can kill you from a distance.

• On the post: Why Is Our First Reaction To Mass Shootings To Talk About Censorship?

  

  Wendy Cockcroft ( profile ), 07 Aug, 2019 @ 05:34am

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  You forgot the fact that violence as a solution is a notion so deeply embedded in your culture that you don't even notice it's a problem, SDM.

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  Wendy Cockcroft ( profile ), 07 Aug, 2019 @ 05:32am

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  I'm fairly liberal and conservative, Stephen. I don't want any homeless people to die at all. House them and help them find work.

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  Wendy Cockcroft ( profile ), 07 Aug, 2019 @ 05:30am

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  They're also incredibly rare. The last one didn't kill anyone, people dived out of the way in time and the driver was arrested before he could do any real harm.

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  Wendy Cockcroft ( profile ), 07 Aug, 2019 @ 05:28am

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  The politics is the problem, nasch. Public opinion is beginning to change but it'll be a long time before there's enough will to find a way. Countering gun lobby speech with anti-violence speech is one way. Perhaps a charity dedicated to gun buy-backs and amnesty for people handing in guns would be a good idea. That'd get the guns out of the hands of the more reasonable people, it's the hardcore you'd have to worry about. A nationwide campaign to instill a sense of responsibility for others might also help but the sooner you accept that the problem is cultural, the better. You'll have to change the culture around guns and gun possession to change the behaviour and attitudes that lead to gun violence.

• On the post: SLAPP Suit In Virginia Tries To Silence Historian Highlighting Ancestry Of Guy Suing To Keep Confederate Statues In Charlottesville

  

  Wendy Cockcroft ( profile ), 06 Aug, 2019 @ 05:14am

  Re: ... let's just brush that under the rug shall we?

  See, if you're going to cry 'defamation!' because someone mentioned your family's super racist history, it kinda helps if you're not involved in a lawsuit meant to preserve monuments to racist losers(in both meanings of the word). ^This. People won't think you're a git if you don't act like one. Attempting to get the government to force someone to stop calling you a git while you're in the process of acting like one ain't a clever thing to do. I can see both sides of the statue argument: people want to believe their ancestors were heroes and want to be associated with that. To call out the behaviour of the ancestors knocks a big hole in that, which is what they're so upset about. Given that the erection of these statues was a racist act in and of itself, the idea being to remind the non--white population to "know their place," I can see why there is a desire on the part of some people to take them down, to effectively say, "It's over, you can come out now." I think a reasonable compromise would be to put up statues of people of colour near the Confederate ones, the idea being to provide a juxtaposition, like the Fearless Girl and the Wall Street Bull. I daresay that would provide the counter-speech required to both knock a hole in the "heroic racist" narrative and to provide a view of people of colour as being worthy of being remembered with honour.

• On the post: Enough With The Myth That Big Tech Is 'Censoring' Conservatives AND That The Law Requires Them To Be Neutral

  

  Wendy Cockcroft ( profile ), 06 Aug, 2019 @ 05:03am

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  What Paul says. Imagine just leaving such people to get on with their lives, bereft of the wisdom you wish to bestow upon them. Number of resulting casualties: zero.

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