FearOfReprisal

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by FearOfReprisal 8y ago
Ignoring your first two comments because they're boring. The third one, can you give me a good argument as to why it is not possible to be "too mighty"? Does this state not just create a heightened sense of fear amongst thos
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by FearOfReprisal 8y ago
You have never flown anywhere but Canada, then. I Have to come to GR 2x per year from abroad, and in order to afford it I fly into Chicago and take the train, or buy separate tickets on the 45 minute puddle jumper (which is an Embrayer Air
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by FearOfReprisal 8y ago
The US military is mighty, but not terribly effective. I mean, we're 17 years into the second gulf war. 17 years and we still can't pull-out because we screwed up the first one so royally. I'm writing this from a refugee com
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by FearOfReprisal 8y ago
An act of war by whom? Which nation? Osama Bin Laden was trained in the United States by Reagan's authority when he funded/supported the Mujahadeen in a proxy war against Russia. Fast-forward 20 years to 9/11. Osama Bin Lade
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by FearOfReprisal 8y ago
To be fair, America didn't really win WW2, we hardly even fought, mostly we just supplied Hitler with arms, and when that wasn't fashionable anymore, we supplied the allies with arms.. Then we swooped in at the end to take all the
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by FearOfReprisal 8y ago
Is our military capable? We've failed horrendously at two wars in Iraq and one war in Afghanistan. We like to claim that we defeated ISIS, but let's be real, we defeated ISIS in about the same way we defeated Germany, we let ever
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by FearOfReprisal 8y ago
America isn't based on free-market capitalism, it's cronyism at it's worse. Take Kansas, for example. Israel buys a lot of weapons from us, and they commit war crimes against Arabs for us, so in thanks Kansas has made it ille
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by FearOfReprisal 8y ago
Hey what's your name? I keep a blacklist of patriotic amurrikkkans like yourself so I can make sure that if your resume comes across my desk, I'll get to mock you on Instagram before round-filing your application.
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by FearOfReprisal 8y ago
's/defending what you already have/stealing what others have/g'
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by FearOfReprisal 8y ago
There was a study a decade ago, they found that something like 80% of all bills signed into law in the United States are never read, debated, or even considered by their proponents. When a big business says bend over, American politicians A
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by FearOfReprisal 8y ago
Perfect description of AirBNB, Uber, and Facebooks's operations.
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by FearOfReprisal 8y ago
PS, I've also been told by several friends who have gone through YC, and one who currently works there, that there's an unofficial internal blacklist, and I'm on it. For what it's worth, in the 3 months after I was fired
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by FearOfReprisal 8y ago
I was the 7th hire at a YC start-up which is now worth at least $1bn. I negotiated 2% of the stock in exchange for a 60% discount in salary, and an understanding that my work would primarily be evangelism/marketing, as I was burned out