Hey! I’ll have you know that at least one out of every hundred fights looks vaguely like a boxing match!

Yeah, also they’re sourcing from ISW. Which is fine, if proper considerations are made.

But, they were not. Really low-hanging fruit of an article imo.

The VA is a broken program. Where’s the lie? When did I mention civilian healthcare?

You wouldn’t have to strawman me if you had a meaningful point.

Calling the VA socialized medicine is correct.

It is also incorrect. Because it is a broken program.

On the contrary, I’m not conflating two specifics. I’m speaking in general terms about the demonstrable public perception (read: billions of social media users who happily hand over their data vs. the palpable unease over data publication in all walks of tech discussion) and how it is innately hypocritical.

It is perfectly normal and useful to discuss societal contradictions. For example: “We hate school shootings, but we do fuck-all to stop them from occurring.” That statement does not conflate two different vocal minorities, it purports to accurately describe the generalized societal contradiction at hand.

The rest of your post is completely off-topic.

There’s something amusing about people feeling violated by their activity being made public, but not necessarily by corporations hoarding and capitalizing on that activity & data. I mean, one of them is out in the open. The other is pure abuse.