Guy2020

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by Guy2020 4y ago
Wow, I can't believe the "free market" argument is being used to justify top military leaders serving other countries. I guess we aren't a country anymore. Just one big (free) market. Truly late stage capitalism here.
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by Guy2020 4y ago
Sounds like your friends are simply unmotivated to voluntarily work for a system they believe is corrupt. Laziness has always been a capitalist codeword for "noncompliant worker." Also, you have to look at the bigger picture here.
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by Guy2020 6y ago
The government is broke. They will just have to take on more debt to make the proposed business "reparations." I think it's all gone. There's nothing that can fix what has happened to this nation... from the criminal mon
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by Guy2020 6y ago
If that's your position, then people will begin resorting to violence. Your property is only secured by force. Put the people in desperate situations and they will no longer play by the rules which put them at an extreme disadvantage.
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by Guy2020 6y ago
You: The government messed it up. The government needs to fix it. Government: Absolutely! We too would also like to become a larger socialist entity that puts everyone on the dole. We will fix it all for you! Just give us complete control!
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by Guy2020 6y ago
If that was the case, then why aren't our schools teaching white supremacy and nationalism? Isn't the opposite the case? Also, what's wrong with nationalism? Isn't it better to have nations who are interested in the well
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by Guy2020 6y ago
"Fascism," "democracy," what's the difference? There's always an elite class pulling the strings. The world has always been a mess. The only thing that is dying is our illusions. Edit: for those that downvote m
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by Guy2020 6y ago
It's the Borg hive mind.
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by Guy2020 6y ago
> Outlawing unproven medical claims, and actually enforce the law? Would faith based approaches fall under your definition of "unproven medical claims?" I get what you are saying, but if someone wants to take their chances on s
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by Guy2020 6y ago
Thanks!
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by Guy2020 6y ago
> The argument here at best is for good, proven information to be available I believe going to a doctor is the way of accessing "proven information." > eradicating quack therapies based on false claims that don't work b
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by Guy2020 6y ago
Is there a way to read the full paper? Seems like a fascinating read. ( not sure what it has to do with tech though )
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by Guy2020 6y ago
Ultimately, individuals are responsible for their choices in "free societies." I don't want to live in a world where all information is regulated by the government. This is a good story about poor choices made by an individua
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by Guy2020 6y ago
I suppose we would have to reason about the intention/function of the press. As far as I understand, freedom of the press was about the dissemination of ideas. In a democratic republic, the people must have a means of circulating infor
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by Guy2020 6y ago
When journalism is paid for primarily by corporate sponsors, the premise of "objective journalism" is absurd. People have to pay for their news if they wish to have the slightest hope of it being objective, but with the ubiquity o
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by Guy2020 6y ago
Capitalists want to increase their wealth. They have a well defined role in society. Our government is supposed to be a counterbalance to them...but the two have become intertwined, hence the problem. In my view, the will of the people is n
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by Guy2020 6y ago
Ok...the main point is that there is a shadow government that shapes our culture and people's perceptions through mass media and by corrupting influential people for the purpose of endorsing certain ideas/products. In that work, B
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by Guy2020 6y ago
What good are books if we can't direct people at them? That book makes my case. The fact that Bernays was a major advisor for the media complex of America makes the book an even more significant piece of evidence for my position.
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by Guy2020 6y ago
It's funny how people dismiss things so readily by labeling them "conspiracy theory." I just can't imagine looking at a world with such great wealth inequality and coming to the conclusion that this is an equal playing f
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by Guy2020 6y ago
Are you saying there are no mechanisms that allow wealthy people to influence human behavior on a large scale? Please read "Propaganda" by Edward Bernays.
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by Guy2020 6y ago
Because the truth is painful. People don't want to believe things are bad. People will fight tooth and nail to hold onto their perception that we are living in some sort of utopia and that everything is sunshine and rainbows. I don&#x2
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by Guy2020 6y ago
I attribute this to anti-social tendencies rising due to technology addiction. People are getting worse at social interaction. When you spend so much time in front of a screen, it has to have some effect on your ability to socialize. That&#
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by Guy2020 6y ago
This, but also people used to see having a family as being the meaning of their lives. In the modern world, the alternative meaning of life invention is the Career™. This alone, that people have been influenced to believe a career is a repl
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by Guy2020 6y ago
I never said the past was a utopia...I was commenting on the modern disincentives for having children.
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by Guy2020 6y ago
Yes... other comment, see this one please.
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by Guy2020 6y ago
Most of us are not willing participants in this "cult." We're dragged along by the nose.
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by Guy2020 6y ago
Some people have extraordinary wealth and they have the ability to set economic incentives, policies, and cultural influences for certain types of behavior to emerge. There's a hierarchy to our societies, there are people with great po
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by Guy2020 6y ago
Children have become more of a burden than a benefit in many ways. We once had much use for our children. When people were more independent and everyone pretty much had a small business, children were seen as the life blood of that business
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by Guy2020 6y ago
I have dyslexia. The best way I can explain it is that when I read, it's more like I'm sampling from a probability distribution than actually seeing what's on the page. This is why I have difficulty spelling too...because I&#