Convolutional

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by Convolutional 3y ago
I should point out to those not from the US that this is how Americans view the US. There is a lot of crime, the government and NGOs are on the side of the criminals etc. It is up voted to the top as well, with agreement in the replies, t
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by Convolutional 3y ago
There is the war on drugs, locking people in prison due to marijuana transactions. With all the talk of China being a police state, the US has more people incarcerated than China - and China's population is more than four times that of
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by Convolutional 3y ago
> Are you gonna argue with the God of invisible hand? Especially when you consider modern talk of the invisible hand, and then go back to Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations and see his one reference to the invisible hand in the book is
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by Convolutional 3y ago
> Capitalism just has too many advantages, and closer mirrors human nature It mirrors human nature? From the time of the early cave paintings tens of thousands of years ago to the rise of the class system 10,000 years ago, social classe
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by Convolutional 3y ago
The vanishings like the sheriff who had three voter registration workers killed in Mississippi are not common, it tends to be straightforward extrajudicial executions like Fred Hampton. I wouldn't even include the car bombing of 25 ye
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by Convolutional 3y ago
> Thankfully, posting banned ideas or government critical stuff in the US doesn't involve being arrested by the police and being held for months or years. Let me think of groups of people in the US and if they have been treated like
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by Convolutional 3y ago
Not even mentioned is Sihanouk, who had ruled neutral Cambodia since 1941 under various positions, was overthrown in a CIA-sponsored coup in the days before the US invasion of Cambodia. This had the effect of destabilizing Cambodia for the
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by Convolutional 3y ago
> When government won't allow construction of "workforce housing," complain, because nobody's big enough to try to push back and get concessions to make it possible. You'd make a great 19th century robber baron.
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by Convolutional 3y ago
> the government prefers a handful of tech companies which they can control I think you have the order wrong there
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by Convolutional 3y ago
Slashdot was a hacker forum, initially (prior to 1999). This has been a forum seen as an adjacency to a seed/VC incubator from the get-go. People keeping to their roots and not going for the money like Richard Stallman are mocked. St
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by Convolutional 3y ago
> unionising has been a bad stratagy (sic) that loses. That has been true pretty much forever. If lowering hours, raising pay, better working conditions are a losing strategy. > Trying to muscle and threaten the organisation in the wo
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by Convolutional 3y ago
What is the hierarchy in a migratory 50 person hunter gather band? Who is the king or heir? There is no class system and there is no surplus produced, because there is mo reason to produce surplus.
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by Convolutional 3y ago
Behavioral modernity happened over 40,000 years ago, and probably over 50,000 years ago. We can see Chauvet cave paintings, Venus figurines and other evidence of behavioral modernity. The whole world of art-creating humans lived in non-hi
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by Convolutional 3y ago
After the murder, I had to read scores of comments like this ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35456168 ) about the homeless, need for more law enforcement (although the US already incarcerates more of its population t
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by Convolutional 3y ago
Lenin also said communism would be built in the West, not Russia. Circumstances allowed power to fall into the Bolsheviks hands and he decided to take it - to the surprise of Trotsky, Stalin, Zinoviev etc. The second point follows from the
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by Convolutional 3y ago
Karl Marx said capitalists gain profit by expropriating the wealth a worker creates during surplus labor time. There is a conflict in the relation of production between the worker creating the wealth and the heir seeking to expropriate it.
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by Convolutional 3y ago
Developed into what? The hunter-gatherer bands still roaming the Amazon don't have to worry about unemployment, layoffs, crime or a host of other maladies - their only problem is encounters with murderous gold miners from the "de
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by Convolutional 4y ago
I don't even know how to respond to someone talking about how the US has one of the highest rates of incarcerating its people by saying how it is one of the most free countries in the world. Also the incarcerated population is 1500k no
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by Convolutional 4y ago
> Those countries also don’t have issues prosecuting people who commit crime for fear of being prejudicial. The US already has one and a half million people incarcerated, which does not count all those on probation or parole. It has one
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by Convolutional 4y ago
> until residents in SF start voting different The author here confesses his disconnect with the majority of people in San Francisco. This assessment is correct - the author and his views are disconnected from those of the majority of w
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by Convolutional 4y ago
Under what circumstances would Finland be at war with Russia? Lithuania is in NATO, so Russian conflict with any other NATO member drags Lithuania in.
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by Convolutional 4y ago
There are no gymnastics - previously Finland and Russia had a diplomatic relationship. Now if Russia has a conflict with one of the Baltic states, Finland is dragged into it. Before a war between Lithuania and Russia would not involve Finla
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by Convolutional 4y ago
The war hawks here think Russia fully mobilized, Russia which pushed the Wehrmacht back to Berlin in 1945 would have had more than minor difficulty taking over Finland in 1945. Perhaps they should read some history books, even US history b
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by Convolutional 4y ago
You left out Marxists.org (on that list), which contains the writings of Marx, Lenin and Mao. It was blocked for years and even had DoS attacks on it coming from the PRC.
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by Convolutional 4y ago
> “there is no problem because the government can simply create as much money as it wants out of thin air.” So they are implicitly saying that any currency has value because people believe it has value but don’t extend that generosity t
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by Convolutional 4y ago
Twin Oaks in Virginia has been going for over half a century, and other such places exist all over the US. Israel has religious and secular kibbutzim as well. Some hippy communes failed, or just decided to break up, but religious communes f
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by Convolutional 4y ago
> Democratic policies have consistently squeezed the working class into a perpetual grind > The student loan crisis has many starting out in tremendous debt just to be able to work until they die! You might want to check on recent vot
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by Convolutional 4y ago
> The white working class used to be the focus of the American left, but the left abandoned us From World War I to the 1950s or 1960s, the idea that factory workers in Europe, or of European descent, might take over their countries, disp
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by Convolutional 4y ago
> punk as f*ck Those Sand Hill Road VC investments were definitely punk. > the gov't adds through decision taken by ombudsman/committee, the more power asymmetry is added This has nothing to do with whether Bitcoin, or some
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by Convolutional 4y ago
> There were some great magazines of the time like Mondo 2000, and the ethos was real techno-libertarianism, information wants to be free, and all that fun stuff. Everyone was coming off the high of the Soviet Union falling apart and bel

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