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There’s no solving a problem if theres no ability to look at it in the first place.

This is the other magic trick that happens in America that I can’t figure out fully.

I’ve had the chance to talk to people across stripes in America, including people with significant seniority. I’ve made this point in more refiner points for YEARS now, well before Trump.

It’s not a point that people like to acknowledge. Like here ! It’s a massive issue, one that deserves its own conversation, and it’s reduced to a “whining about it”.

Step up for gods sake.

Here! this is a simple way to move forward, this is how I started to resolve it - why does free speech matter? In layman’s terms, it matters because it’s in support of a market place of ideas. In that case is it ok if you have a market place which has a monopoly? What happens if it’s ok for say… junk food and cigarettes to be sold by the same people who certify it as healthy?

How do you address the issue of advertising incentives that drive part of the escalation in rhetoric.

What do you do to throw a spanner in the free money glitch? Here, and everywhere in the world that is learning to replicate this?

We’re originally meant to be on Hacker news. It’s become VC unicorn hopeful land. Asking these questions, and finding an interest in providing if it’s wrong, or right is part of the most basic flame wars we indulge in.



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