8biteye

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   by 8biteye 2y ago

   Agreed. If it was just stolen land and slave labor that propelled America to a global superpower, then why didn't it work out for India? Or Africa? Both of those places LOVE slavery and both murdered their way into existence (Africa st
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   by 8biteye 2y ago

   Every country in the world stole land from people that lived there before the current inhabitants. Every single one.
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   by 8biteye 2y ago

   Your first sentence is posted as if you're stating a proven fact, but it is a personal/shared opinion based on your digestion of one-sided perspectives on the situation.
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   by 8biteye 2y ago

   But people post these links and one-sided, biased, hysterical links hourly and I can't share my thoughts on it? It's just an echo chamber in here? How does the article above relate to anything hackernews purportedly informs on? Ho
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   by 8biteye 2y ago

   I could be convinced of this. Qwerty is a bonus. 500 for the higher memory model seems steep in today's phone market, however. A cheap android, lineageOS or grapheneOS, Kvaesitso, and f-droid and you have a simple phone. Maybe 100 buck
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   by 8biteye 2y ago

   I mean, the early 70's saw some incredibly pivotal policy changes. The US ended its trade embargo with China. The US dollar flooded European markets. The Vietnam War. The 26th amendment to the US constitution was passed, lowering the v