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by Fins 7y ago
Same thing -- people calling for odious thing Y (whgich, unlike odious thing X doesn't get them kicked out of Twitter) would not care to go to Gab with its tiny number of users. Of course Gab would court those who might actually be int
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by Fins 7y ago
According to their hipster in chief though, actually doing ethnic cleansing is perfectly fine though, if you are Burmese... That's rather hypocritical -- either ban all nazis, or don't pretend that you are not picking sides. And s
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by Fins 7y ago
Even if this were what was originally said... both groups as so large that at the edges there really is no much difference. Antifa may not5 like nazis, but only because both are competing for the same ecological niche.
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by Fins 7y ago
The problem is that Twitter's definition of "nazis" basically is "anyone we don't like, which isn't exactly useful for the overall benefit of humanity. Sort of like how FB recently said that they are going to d
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by Fins 7y ago
Frankly, if you look you can find people equally odious on Twitter as well. but if only people leaning in one direction get deplatformed there, of course they will congregate on a platform where they do not get deplatformed. Both end up as
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by Fins 7y ago
Believing RT to say anything truthful about anything Ukrainian would be rather naive.
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by Fins 7y ago
Uh, is this a real article, or one of those AI-generated ones used to show that you can publish anything as long as you add enough quasi-progressive verbiage to it?
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by Fins 7y ago
Oh, they had enough troops for Manchuria, but of course at that time what happened there wasn't all that important to the mainland, and USSR had little in the way of ability to get there anyway. What Zhukov had shown at Khalkhin Gol, j
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by Fins 7y ago
You can't really move a massive invasion force on wooden rafts. Unless they would've asked form some D-Day leftovers, it's just not very feasible.
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by Fins 7y ago
That's something that Soviets very much want the world to believe, but they have never had shown how they could even possibly get their troops anywhere near Japanese mainland, what with Russian/Soviet/Russian navy historicall
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by Fins 7y ago
Not really. Getting anything useful from the archives is still like pulling teeth, and quite a few documents still have not been declassified. Solzhenitsin only had access to his own experience and interviewing very few people (obviously, t
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by Fins 7y ago
It's pretty hard to get objective and accurate count here; unlike Nazis, Soviets (and I imagine Chinese et al) did not keep meticulous accounting even of people specifically executed, let alone of those keeling over in prison camps de
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by Fins 7y ago
What's wrong with being anti-Soviet?
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by Fins 7y ago
But isn't this what the original proposal in this thread was? Setting an upper limit for how much an individual can hold? Apart from technical difficulties in determining if someone is still running the company, or just pretending to,
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by Fins 7y ago
It is grasping at the straws indeed, to try to come up with any kind of justification for a scheme like this. Esp. when it would be pretty obvious to anyone who bothers to check, that people with that kind of "money" do not have i
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by Fins 7y ago
And that 90% was effective, not marginal rate? Talk about being daft...
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by Fins 7y ago
It wasn't any better before.
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by Fins 7y ago
Ruble wasn't quite as much money as a dollar -- it's value, both relative to other currencies, and relative to goods, was completely artificial. Also, that value was different for different people. I.e., if you were an average c
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by Fins 7y ago
From some family experiences, whatever intelligence services reported to Party bosses, if it did not agree with the Party dogma, it would be ignored. Besides, they lived much better than the average Soviet citizen (degree of inequality was
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by Fins 7y ago
Ummm, no. We absolutely don't. We decide how much one has to pay in taxes, absolutely not how much one can keep in total. Proposal in this thread is for that latter. Arguing old and tired Soviet propaganda tropes of imperialism, theft
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by Fins 7y ago
This would have been far more interesting if it were showing inflows (and outflows, I guess) rather than a static percentage. As is it just shows that in, say, Chicago you still can afford it without being an educated millennial doing &quot
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by Fins 7y ago
45 thousand should be enough for everyone. You can send the excess to me.
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by Fins 7y ago
And of course you are the one who should decide how much every person is allowed to have? Of course, every lefty believes that he will be the one standing in the guard tower, not the one inside the gulag. In practice it usually works out an
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by Fins 7y ago
Are you seriously suggesting that "look-tap-read your name-tap" is quicker, safer, or more convenient than "press one button, which always works the same way and is not going to move, or change in any way, just because Elon n
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by Fins 7y ago
Right, right. And also I am shorting 27 thimgamajillions of Tesla stock, of course. You can't show (least of all on some fanboy Youtube video) that AutoPilot had prevented a crash, compared to a normal person just driving a car. A Te
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by Fins 7y ago
As long as it doesn't have a start button either, it might even be safe enough for other people on the road.
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by Fins 7y ago
Can you (or anyone, really) show that there were, or were not, any lives saved? That there were people killed is quite easy to show, but showing that there were crashes prevented... that does not even seem provable.
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by Fins 7y ago
People die all the time, but when they get in the car, they generally do not agree to be beta testers for an FSD system that one day might be as safe as human driver. Or not.
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by Fins 7y ago
If you were were to believe Russia's patriotic propaganda, they won pretty much everything and anything. This seems to have come straight from the same cookbook.
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by Fins 7y ago
That you can get from any number of other makes, except that they do not slam you into firetrucks, and don't call it self-driving when it obviously isn't.

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