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@mattyglesias "Ma chère Michelle, my regiment leaves Paris tomorrow. While I distrust Emperor Napoleon, and am doubtful of victory, I do anticipate an abundance of benefits from marching to Moscow."

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@rueuv0 @ljmontello That's awful, and I'm sorry. Rape is evil. But not all sex is rape. Not all porn is coercive. What's the point of pretending that independent adult content creators are in any way analogous to rape victims?

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@ljmontello I have multiple friends and partners who are independent adult content creators, inc 2 who got a short into HUMP! last year.

Yes, there are awful abuses in the industry - and there are ethical, independent workers. Why is it so important to you to pretend otherwise?

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@rueuv0 @ljmontello Jesus Christ! What the hell? How do you conflate a rape victim in El Fasher with a camgirl in Queens?!

Sure, self-commodification under capitalism has elements of coercion, but that's just insane.

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@ljmontello @rueuv0 There are a lot of independent sex workers and worker-owned adult entertainment studios out there. I don't know if they all prefer it over writing poetry, but we agree that they prefer it over starving. Why use unethical exploiters as a rhetorical weapon against workers?

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@rueuv0 @ljmontello We can play "no clean hands under capitalism" all you like, but at the end of the day that perspective helps you feel righteous more than it helps self-employed sex workers &c. survive and thrive.

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@ljmontello You're right, but I do think it's fair to distinguish between "thing that is fine, but is often produced in a way that isn't" and "thing that cannot by definition be produced in a way that is fine."

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@Purity_Troll The winner of the "AI race" will be the nation that self-harms the least before finally acknowledging that LLMs are not a precursor technology to AGI.

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@oldsoundcard Despite having only 13% of diamond babies, Black-coded pigeon demons commit >50% of ... I guess melting the baby, or something?

It's true: this slop is so incoherent the racism kinda just slides off.

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@ting_bu_dong2 @mattyglesias @brianbeutler You're illiterate. Illiterate!

Read the words, Clod Rains. Ossoff is not "one of the left's own."

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@mattyglesias Is there a word for "negative palindrome?" For something like Abundance, that somehow means nothing forward *or* backward.

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@mattyglesias "It is worrying and sinister that people continue to dislike my entire political philosophy, both in general and in particular."

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@BenjaminPDixon Saying that Black people should support Israel because Jewish people have historically faced oppression is like saying Black people should vote GOP because the Democrats were historically the party of slaveowners.

Yeah ... *historically*. Who's doing the oppressing *now*?

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@Purity_Troll I know there's no such thing as a sincere question in the internet, but I am genuinely curious: what is the objection here? CSAM = bad. If there's no C, there's no SA. What's wrong with just ... M?

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@steve_f1_fan @sq_eternal Sounds like a lie. But so what if it were true? Some athletes are better than others. If Wemby decided to join my local rec basketball league he would destroy the competition, and the # of people demanding he be kicked out for having a physical advantage would be ZERO.

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@uhel @jonathanchait 1) Antisemites don't mind being called antisemites.
2) Piker et al. object to being called antisemites.
∴
3) ???

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@infinite_jaz Arm. The. Palestinians.