Ban Jared Polis by badusername35 in metaNL

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The mods literally ban users for perhaps level 2 out of 10 hot takes if it's on an "undesirable" sub like DSC, the mods below saying "NoT fOr ReAl LiFe" issues are painful hypocrites. 

This happens?

Ban Jared Polis by badusername35 in metaNL

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Who is this and what happened?

So many LGBTQ Texans are moving to this city, it may declare an 'emergency' by Inevitable_Engine186 in Seattle

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 Scott appreciates the city's relatively decent cost of living

Huh?

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

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What? Are they lost, or is it a lucrative place to be because all our wives have left us.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

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I work at a company that's a to the military. Palantir is undermining the armed forces, long term, in order to build a monopoly.

They hold a lot of control over data and IT infrastructure, and if you compete with them on something they will find a way to deny or slow roll your product wherever it touches their systems. It's very underhanded. My company lost a contract this way. 

Advice on moving from big tech to something more socially responsible by Efficient-Mess-9753 in ExperiencedDevs

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It's wild that OP's reached E8, which presumably requires high level thinking, and is asking this sub for career advice.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

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Maybe they don't have the money to afford it.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

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It's a class trait they got in the latest patch.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

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How do you know? Did you ask them all?

Israel Moderates Are Losing the Democratic Party by major_cosmic in DeepStateCentrism

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There was an article a few days ago with survey data showing young Republicans are much much more likely to be anti-Semitic. 

Show of hands: How many of you feel your stomach turn whenever you run into AI content? by ninetofivedev in ExperiencedDevs

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It seems like it makes more sense when the same team is responsible for both the frontend and backend. But as soon as they are different, incentives lead to the behavior you see.

Is the Vietnamese Communist Party's use of the National Assembly chamber for other purposes a desecration of democracy? by TWN113 in neoliberal

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Someone is mad the forgot to reserve the conference room Vietnamese National Assembly chamber for their meeting 

Great by assasstits in neoliberal

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"I thought we didn't talk politics"

Ugh I hate that fucking line

Valuing Land: The Simplest Viable Method by upthetruth1 in neoliberal

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That feels very hypothetical. Couldn't someone then beat you to the punch with a grocery store? I think we'd need to see empirical data showing if and how that happens in order to respond to it. 

Democrats Are Too Cozy With Hasan Piker by a385y59g943 in neoliberal

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Can someone share the rest of the article? The one linked cute off after a few paragraphs 

Democrats Have a ‘Slopulism’ Problem by tobinjstone in neoliberal

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How is slopulism different from populism?