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Michael Tracey
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I'd rather derive income from crowdfunding than censorious tech giants or unethical corporations. The old models are falling apart in real-time. New model: people pay directly for stuff if they find value in it. Seems reasonable:

patreon.com/mtracey
paypal.me/mctracey
Yeah I have a bitcoin wallet too but whatever, tryin' to be legit pastebin.com/QV5SjPr6
I don't explicitly solicit funds often because I know it can come across as obnoxious. But today illustrates why independent sources of revenue are so crucial. Otherwise, journalists / analysts get subsumed into the corporate outrage blob. And you wonder why media is so horrible?
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Why do abortion opponents think they’re entitled to a special exemption in this regard? I morally object to drone strikes, aid to Israel, mass surveillance, drug prohibition, and numerous other government expenditures, yet my tax dollars fund these things
Which is to say: almost everyone ends up “paying for” government expenditures that they “disagree” with. Why do opponents of abortion deserve special privileges to not fund abortion-related programs? If you want abortion outlawed, use the legislative/legal process
I know there are principled tax resisters who risk criminal penalties out of a sense of moral duty. But I don’t think most abortion opponents fall into that category. Rather, they demand a special exemption be carved out to suit their own particular moral objections
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Michael Tracey
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Hold on. George Nader's phone was seized in January 2018 in connection with the Mueller investigation. That phone allegedly contained child pornography. And he's only been charged 17 months later, in June 2019? wsj.com/articles/judge…
Furthermore, he has a long history of entanglement with child pornography, including a 1991 guilty plea? And Mueller deemed this individual a reliable witness?
Correction. He was charged in April 2018, three months after his devices were seized. But he was only arrested this month. Why was he permitted to roam free for 14 months after being charged on child pornography offenses?
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Michael Tracey
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The elite media continues its quest to pressure tech companies into more stringently regulating speech, in the name of combating “extremism” and “hate” -- whatever that means nytimes.com/interactive/20…
Obviously young people falling into YouTube sinkholes and developing wacky beliefs is a real phenomenon. But the solution is to create better YouTube content, and advance better arguments. Not purge channels/videos you dislike under the guise of “safety”
It’s also disturbing, as a general matter, how many young people apparently form a political identity entirely by watching YouTube videos. They don’t read. They just watch stuff. That’s never going to be conducive to deep thinking, learning, and/or reasoning
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