We understand that the current law does not appear to make this distinction, but we want that distinction to be made.
lol, maybe you understand that now - after months or years of everyone who knows the law explaining to people that they are wrong when they insist that the publisher/platform distinction already exists. It finally got through most people's heads that the distinction they dreamed into existence is not real, and so you pivoted to calling yourself a "reformer" who "wants" that distinction added.
Notably absent, of course, was the intermediary phase where you "reformers" took a breath, acknowledged that you had critically misunderstood the law and been loudly repeating an utterly false claim, and spent some time learning and listening before demanding that the law be changed to render your false claims into reality.
I don't play favourites (mostly)! And I think the readers notice a lot more patterns than I do - I'm generally not thinking so much about who has won in the past or how often.
Indie artists talking about their own experience with copyright and the recording industry and how it doesn't serve them is something I always like to highlight though, for sure.
Fair enough - and I didn't think you were saying it's what you want or anything.
But I do think a whole lot of people are being shockingly casual about raising the specter of America sending its army to forcefully stop its heavily-armed and militarized police which, again, to me sounds like undeniable civil war.
Fair point. Though at the moment it is mostly ground forces being discussed for actual use against the protests, so that tends to be the main comparison coming up
To be honest, before even getting to the difference, I have a lot of issues with the way this frequently-raised comparison between cops and soldiers paints the US military as being totally innocent of misconduct and atrocities.
I understand what you mean but they are issued official service weapons, trained to use them, and authorized to use legal deadly force. The fact that their training sucks and they ignore most of it and exceed their authorization with impunity doesn't change the fact that they are trained killers.
If political leaders order the police to stand down and they refuse, then we can talk about whether a different government force is required to step in, at which point America is in a state of full-blown civil war.
Until then, I refuse to engage in the "which force of trained killers with guns do we want on the streets?" discussion.
I can certainly understand how some parts of the world with entirely different political situations might have a different immediate opinion about the presence of soldiers on their streets, but please don't act like you're completely unfamiliar with the idea that "soldiers occupying domestic cities and policing the civilian populace is a bad thing"
I'll just quote what I said on Twitter about this:
People who say "I don't like the idea of troops on the streets but if it reduces police assaults, isn't that a good thing?" are trying to trap you into accepting that you live in a fascist hellscape and the only question left is what flavour you'd prefer. Don't play their game.
I don't know what damn time zone you're in, maybe you're on a raft in the middle of the pacific and it was the wee hours of the morning for you, the point is it was released less than 24 hours ago. The incident itself happened a mere 20 hours ago or so. There's no "couple" days either. You're just lying.
Since that video was released late last night, you cannot have watched it 10 times "in the past few days", though I will generously chalk that up to the fact that time is getting hard to keep track of right now
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Re: Where It's Headed
This is a uselessly vague and abstract definition of fascism that allows you to apply the label to virtually anything you want.
Any attempt to describe fascism in a way that is completely divorced from any consideration of structures of power and coercion is, frankly, nonsense.
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We understand that the current law does not appear to make this distinction, but we want that distinction to be made.
lol, maybe you understand that now - after months or years of everyone who knows the law explaining to people that they are wrong when they insist that the publisher/platform distinction already exists. It finally got through most people's heads that the distinction they dreamed into existence is not real, and so you pivoted to calling yourself a "reformer" who "wants" that distinction added.
Notably absent, of course, was the intermediary phase where you "reformers" took a breath, acknowledged that you had critically misunderstood the law and been loudly repeating an utterly false claim, and spent some time learning and listening before demanding that the law be changed to render your false claims into reality.
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Re: Wow.
I don't play favourites (mostly)! And I think the readers notice a lot more patterns than I do - I'm generally not thinking so much about who has won in the past or how often.
Indie artists talking about their own experience with copyright and the recording industry and how it doesn't serve them is something I always like to highlight though, for sure.
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Re: Who should decide this issue?
Hi is this your first time in a representative democracy with the freedom of public assembly? Because this is how a lot of important things happen.
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Fair enough - and I didn't think you were saying it's what you want or anything.
But I do think a whole lot of people are being shockingly casual about raising the specter of America sending its army to forcefully stop its heavily-armed and militarized police which, again, to me sounds like undeniable civil war.
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Fair point. Though at the moment it is mostly ground forces being discussed for actual use against the protests, so that tends to be the main comparison coming up
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To be honest, before even getting to the difference, I have a lot of issues with the way this frequently-raised comparison between cops and soldiers paints the US military as being totally innocent of misconduct and atrocities.
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I understand what you mean but they are issued official service weapons, trained to use them, and authorized to use legal deadly force. The fact that their training sucks and they ignore most of it and exceed their authorization with impunity doesn't change the fact that they are trained killers.
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If political leaders order the police to stand down and they refuse, then we can talk about whether a different government force is required to step in, at which point America is in a state of full-blown civil war.
Until then, I refuse to engage in the "which force of trained killers with guns do we want on the streets?" discussion.
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I can certainly understand how some parts of the world with entirely different political situations might have a different immediate opinion about the presence of soldiers on their streets, but please don't act like you're completely unfamiliar with the idea that "soldiers occupying domestic cities and policing the civilian populace is a bad thing"
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Well I'm a Canadian who comes onto this website because he works here, but keep it up with these scathing and highly accurate critiques
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I'll just quote what I said on Twitter about this:
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I don't know what damn time zone you're in, maybe you're on a raft in the middle of the pacific and it was the wee hours of the morning for you, the point is it was released less than 24 hours ago. The incident itself happened a mere 20 hours ago or so. There's no "couple" days either. You're just lying.
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Well yeah me too I was just curious to see what excuse he would concoct. My top bet was "I meant to type 'hours'"
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Since that video was released late last night, you cannot have watched it 10 times "in the past few days", though I will generously chalk that up to the fact that time is getting hard to keep track of right now
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well nothing that I can actually reply to
yes that was the idea but goshdarnit you found a way
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Re: Side note
The editorial called for an "overwhelming show of force" to back up "outnumbered police" and the commander-in-chief of the military is Donald Trump.
People, as a rule, do not ever "react positively" to soldiers locking down the streets of their hometown.
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this is the only logical explanation for how a raving maniac got elected for the presidency
Yes, Trump is everyone's fault except the 63-million people who voted for him. Mmmhmm.
Man the fuck up, Mommy-loving women-man-boy liberal titty-sucking truth seeking pussy-WOmen!
63-million people of which you, I'm certain, are one.
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What the biased reporters wanted was for an editorial board to reject the opinion piece BEFORE publication
Um, that is the op-ed editors' job. To accept or reject editorials. They do it all day long, and they reject far more than they accept.
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Re: A slightly different perspective...
No law enforcement officer in his or her right mind would confront an excited crowd without protective gear
Well, not unless it's a white MAGA crowd: https://twitter.com/AdamParkhomenko/status/1256941104383045632
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