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    More sex jk The newest firestorm put live stream video codecs back into the web player but that service (rabbit?) is dedded, would be nice to figure out how to watch movies together in SL again
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    WSB as far as I know is both the left and right it is not political. Just people who hold a resentment against hedge funds as they were responsible for betting away the economy in the past. Looks to me like they are *****tin bricks now that they've been shown that ordinary people can manipulate the market too and make them lose all their money. Of course the media is going to try to paint it as a culture war, it gets clicks and they're sweating bullets that something actually united the left and the right against a common enemy.
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    Let's just hope that if we are they don't switch it off for a while
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    Not much will change but we'll live underwater
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    I miss sitting on those spinning roundabouts as a kid in the playground nyoom
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    People who can't communicate concisely. My boss does not know how to write a short email. Every single one is like 8+ paragraphs long. I usually end up pulling out a piece of paper and writing a conclusion of each paragraph just so I can begin to understand what he is trying to say. I work with software which is a creative process, anything that interrupts my train of thought can mess me up for hours. It makes dealing with him very stressful. Headache inducing.
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    The ability to create worlds and have your friends with you in your world as you do it. I'd never create a game because I wouldn't be able to share my world with others or let others live in it as I'm making it. Years and years of my life would be spent on my own. I create on SecondLife because I'm with my friends, and my friends can also create and put into my world. I can't overstate how much that 'made' SecondLife for me.
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    I find this to be disingenuous. You don't actually provide anything but rhetoric here. You describe Trump as Authoritarian but do not appear to have anything to really back that up. You describe those who disagree with you as 'deflecting' but appear not to be prepared to provide anything to the topic yourself. Every time you've entered the topic, you immediately end with "exits the topic" - You're not actually here to discuss, just to push your narrative, you leave before anyone gets a chance to even talk to you. Likewise, this is just rhetoric with no substance. You accuse me of being a witch, but in the end of the day you cannot prove you are not a witch yourself.
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    I'm failing to see how "Go home with love & in peace" is an incitement to violence. We livin in loopy land or what
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    Hitler started wars, he did not end them.
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    Actually I sympathize with this more than you know. I do not think that Trump should have said that. When Trump entered office I did not celebrate at the time, I didn't like him. I was convinced he was a bad person and it was a sad event for me. Trump grew on me over time for a number of reasons. First there was so much hate directed towards him, without anything good written that I started to think that I am not getting the full story, the demonic creature they make him out to be is unrealistic for a human being to the point of ridicule. Around the same time, my country was on a witch hunt, calling anyone who voted Brexit a racist, bigot etc. I had actually voted to remain in the EU. I was a labour supporter, a lefty. My countries flag was being portrayed as a hate symbol. Something clicked in my head, and I realized that people were projecting so much hatred onto my country and characterizing it in such a hateful way that my country could never hope to be a good place as people had just decided its fate was bad and gave it no chance. Around that time I decided to let go of the EU and believe in my own country instead, not because I felt good about leaving the EU, but because I wanted to believe in my country and the people in it and give it a chance to succeed in the direction it was going. I felt more and more betrayed by the people I used to support who were so eager to throw my country under the bus as the worst place on earth and disenfranchised by them. Trump was advocating for his country and his people and describing them as good people, whilst the left could only say bad things about their own people. That is why I started to like him. Over the years I've watched him do things that I think are good things, ending conflicts, bringing troops home, putting his own people first, protecting the borders so that people can continue to have job security and support their families. When the WHO was telling Trump to accept flights in from China, Trump still stopped the flights and put his people first. His opponents describe him and his supporters as white supremacists but I've watched those rally's and people of all backgrounds support Trump, I just don't think it's true. Paint me as a Nazi if you really like, but I don't think Trump is 1/10th as evil as people make him out to be. He has his flaws, I don't like when he puts people down to raise himself up, I think he can be distasteful at times. But ultimately I think he has done more good than harm even if nobody will acknowledge it.
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    This to me reads like incitement. Everyone who is slightly right of left is an alt right extremist. It reads like a witch hunt. It doesn't read like someone who is being intellectually honest, or wants an honest conversation it reads to me like someone who is trying to rile people up to have a fight. It would be like if I was to say everyone who leans left is a Communist even those who describe themselves as just somewhat liberal. How about some sensible talk rather than just hate rhetoric?
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    We don't say that when people say e.g. to 'fight for women's rights' that they are inciting violence. To me this seems disingenuous or uncharitable at best. Especially when Trump explicitly said in his speech to protest peacefully. It seems to me like an attempt to pin blame on Trump for something he didn't incite at all.
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    So as long as I tell myself that anyone around me is a Nazi, I am justified in punching them. Got it. So when the media goes around calling people they don't like "Nazi's" we can agree that the media is irresponsibly inciting violence. Thank goodness that doesn't happen. Oh wait..
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    What speech are you talking about exactly because I can't find this You did, you took a quote from me saying I can't find examples of Trump inciting violence, and showing examples of people on the left inciting violence and said:- "Comparing a D list celebrity holding an effigy to insurrectionists is ridiculous." Which was not the comparison I was making.
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    I think you've lost the plot
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    I shouldn't have to, but the arguments you put forward I think you are being disingenuous, because you intentionally attempt to downplay the actions committed by people on your side of the fence by suggesting I am comparing incitements of violence to actual violence, which is not correct.
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    These two lines here are where the comparison is being drawn. I can't find where Trump has incited any kind of violence, and I have watched many of his speeches, I can find many examples of people on the left explicitly inciting violence. If you want examples of people on the left actually committing violence there are plenty of those too. Perhaps a few headlines will help jog the old noggin, a small taster of the sort of thing that has been going on for the last year. - "A 60-YEAR-old Donald Trump supporter was shot dead in broad daylight near his "Vote Trump" banners as cops investigate a "political motive."" - "Leftist Journalist, BLM Activists Charged in Firebombing of Arkansas Cop Cars" - "Antifa praises shooting of two black teens as victory against fascism" - "SPD: Rioters tried to trap officers inside burning precinct using rebar and concrete" Lest you forget that there are plenty of inhumane extremists on your side of the fence too. I'm not advocating for you to give up your values, I'm advocating for some common sense and preparedness to accept the fact that your supporters and beliefs are not infallible either.
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    I don't know that it was the 'Proud boys' who were involved in the Capitol rioters. I think it is more than fair to compare the BLM riots to the riots at the Capitol. Both saw a break down of law and order, both caused untold damage, grief and distress. Both seemed like acts of terror in the eyes of the other side. Both were fighting for causes they felt were righteous and just. And both were wrong.
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    In much the same way that BLM could and should have protested peacefully. And in reality many did, the same is true of Trump supporters, it was only a minority who became violent and they were rightfully condemned and I condemn those who engaged in it. I think that is worth remembering that politics is more complicated than good vs evil, no matter which side of the fence people are, they think that they are on the good side and have their reasons to believe so. Riots are never OK and the media should be condemned for justifying them and everybody across all parties should condemn riots regardless of if it is in support of their cause or the other side.
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    But again that is not honest framing is it, that's not what they're doing, they are obstructing it because they think that the outcome isn't the genuine will of the people, they think it was rigged.
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    Was it? I am not so sure. The majority of people on the right seem to think that their cases went unheard, evidence went without investigation and seem to describe a complete lack of transparency. In a lot of cases courts simply refused to hear the evidence.
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    OK fair enough although I feel it fair to say that it was mostly the left who engaged in the BLM riots. Still, the argument remains the same. I can replace the words 'left' and 'right' with 'one side' and 'other side' it still makes sense You describe one side as fighting against an institutionally sponsored wrong, but describe the other side as fighting an institution which can 'do no wrong'.
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    But again this is a dishonest viewpoint isn't it. You describe the left as fighting against an institutionally sponsored wrong, but describe the right as fighting an institution which can 'do no wrong'.
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    I find this sentence to be intellectually dishonest. You paint it as good vs evil but the reality is not like that at all.
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