DFHippie

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by DFHippie 6mo ago
After a few hundred years historical injustices move down the priority list. France isn't seeking reparations from Italy for the conquest of Gaul, for example.
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by DFHippie 6mo ago
I agree that our economic system is cold, transactional, and cruel. The problem kinder systems always face is that the people indifferent to the cruelty of capitalism, exemplified by these extortionists, are still there in the alternative s
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by DFHippie 6mo ago
That seems beside the point. The ransomware extortionists aren't doing a utilitarian calculation and transferring funds from Exxon to Oxfam. They're taking money where they can and using it to fund a lavish lifestyle and more exto
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by DFHippie 6mo ago
If a business is destroyed by ransomware, all its employees lose their jobs. The business's customers lose the services the business was providing. The families supported by these jobs are now all at risk. All that money goes somewhere
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by DFHippie 6mo ago
So Indivisible, which planned the protest, knew the US was going to attack Iran months in advance and plotted this protest to distract from it? What strategic masterminds! What opsec! The left always seemed so fractious and disorganized, bu
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by DFHippie 6mo ago
Hydrocarbons are not carbohydrates.
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by DFHippie 7mo ago
It's not quite like that, though. 90% of their funding supported candidates that lost or opposed candidates that won -- they opposed the winning outcome. They supported the winning outcome with the remaining 10% of their funds, but her
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by DFHippie 7mo ago
Most people in Silicon valley also are not Musk, Zuck, or Andreesen.
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by DFHippie 7mo ago
Saying you don't think declining birth rates is the highest priority does not mean you think people should not have children.
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by DFHippie 7mo ago
The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity. -- W. B. Yeats
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by DFHippie 7mo ago
Because the US was threatening to take over Greenland by force maybe? There's a reason Denmark rushed soldiers there.
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by DFHippie 7mo ago
Give Germany time. The US and Russia have forced them to rearm.
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by DFHippie 7mo ago
> believe in an "interior enemy" (for MAGA it's the deep state) It's their neighbors, not the "deep state". Renee Good and Alex Pretti were the enemy within. People in inflatable costumes or pussy hats are t
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by DFHippie 7mo ago
I'm skeptical that the nobility were ever particularly noble in the eyes of the commoners.
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by DFHippie 7mo ago
This. I think so much of the fascism and corruption afoot in the world comes from people who believe they deserve things they are incompetent to get. Their sense of entitlement is in conflict with their competence and unrestrained by concer
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by DFHippie 8mo ago
The vetting and training process for judges is a lot longer and deeper than the vetting process for juries (though voting for judges kind of throws this out the window). Presumably part of the purpose of this is to establish whether the pro
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by DFHippie 8mo ago
This seems like a fundamental problem with juries. If everyone knows you, most people detest you, and you can only be tried by a jury which is indifferent to you, is that jury truly impartial? What sort of people could be in Hitler's j
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by DFHippie 8mo ago
I was sued. I was 19 years old working as a painter for a dishonest contractor that paid crap wages. I nosed out of a parking lot after work one day to see around a line of cars turning in and a big sedan ploughed into my little econobox. S
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by DFHippie 8mo ago
Do you think gutting the IRS is going to improve that ratio?
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by DFHippie 8mo ago
Not all public sector jobs are the same. Working for a defense contractor is not the same as working for the IRS. Defense gets money dumped on it year after year. The IRS gets starved year after year.
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by DFHippie 8mo ago
They didn't. Not until Trump started tariffing them. (I don't have time to find references, but Paul Krugman has you covered for data and analysis.) All Trump's policies assume he's playing a single-move game where his i
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by DFHippie 8mo ago
> the civil service has a lot of leverage because most of them cannot easily be fired Unless, as Doge showed us, you ignore the law, fire them anyway, and the SCOTUS says, "Yeah, whatever."
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by DFHippie 8mo ago
That, plus massive influence campaigns from Russia, China, and US oligarchs like Musk and Thiel, are how we came to be living through the current general disaster.
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by DFHippie 8mo ago
This is what you were told the Democrats ran on, not what they ran on. You got all your information from partisans who lied about the other party.
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by DFHippie 9mo ago
The weird thing about Adams was that he believed Trump was Dogbert, not the pointy-haired boss. If he'd stayed apolitical people would have kept clipping his strips and putting them up on cubical walls. Dogbert was not an appealing cha
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by DFHippie 9mo ago
Jeff is actively abetting this.
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by DFHippie 10mo ago
I assume "planting" is a typo'ed "palantir", in which case I agree completely. And it's true inside the US as much as outside.
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by DFHippie 10mo ago
He will die pretty soon. He's just the first stage of the rocket. He thinks he's a pharaoh letting a thousand pyramids bloom, but he's expendable. He'll be gone. People will chisel his name off the monuments he's va
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by DFHippie 10mo ago
That's always the question with this unitary executive business. They believe this is the government defined by the Constitution, regardless of precedent. Do they believe it is a good system of government? Do they believe this is the g
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by DFHippie 10mo ago
X controls Musk, not the other way around. Foreign influence campaigns control X. Thus governments buy the services of a rich patsy to control/destroy their opponents.

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