ILMostro7

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by ILMostro7 5y ago
Meanwhile, even this platform here continues to see plenty of accounts justifying or trying to explain away this deplorable behavior.
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conducive environment; maybe even shared knowledge or spillover from one company to another...
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by ILMostro7 5y ago
Again, not disputing the history. Nevertheless, drawing a comparison to showcase the irony. Especially as the situation in Gaza and West Bank has been ongoing across multiple generations. Forgive the simplistic, cheeky remarks about not
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by ILMostro7 5y ago
In the name of national security, often behind closed doors. Even if the funds are there to hire competent defense, which most of the time they're not, you're fighting an uphill battle.
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by ILMostro7 5y ago
You just mentioned a number of the double standards that exist netween the US and countries with immoral policies. There were uprisings in the ghettos. Granted, they didn't have enough time to form a democratically elected government
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by ILMostro7 5y ago
Or that US media is more agressive in pursuing stories like this outside its own country, for a number of reasons. * Belief in national security. * Unable/unwilling to bite the hand that feeds * Silenced through lawsuits, threats of la
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by ILMostro7 5y ago
The answer may well be that we have mutual interests that span generations, and which have--and continue to--pay dividends. The broader question may be what those interests are and if they are truly beneficial to us in the long-run. I&#x27
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by ILMostro7 5y ago
Agreed. It's never as simple as people may think. Plenty of criticism available, though, against one of our closest allies, which shouldn't be shouted down as merely "anti-semitic" in general. Not to imply you are mak
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by ILMostro7 5y ago
Yet they all tend to be grouped into that category when a phrase like "anti-semitic" is used. If jews criticize Israel, they're labelled as self-hating. Whitewashing in the name of holocaust victims is doing a disservice, t
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What sources are you referencing that make your argument impartial?
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Of course. My argument was intended more of a thought exercise. Sorry about that. I should admit that I saw humour in the parent comment. But, it can be tough to tell sometimes online. Admittedly, it also depends on the reader's s
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by ILMostro7 5y ago
If the majority of companies that rely on Linux use it as a server for some kind of service(s), desktop environments or even graphics are not a priority. That's not to say that such use-cases don't exist. But the focus is, gener
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by ILMostro7 5y ago
What if you do: s/Esperantists/English-speakers/ and "non-English" AFAIK, the English language is very verbose. If there are so many words, many of which have very similar meaning to others, then many of those word
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by ILMostro7 5y ago
Indeed. Although, most of the time when someone ends up in one of those other 2 scenarios, long-term finances are not their primary objective ;)
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That's the mortgage interest rate, not the percentage of 30-year fixed rate mortgages vs. ARM. Categories > Money, Banking, & Finance > Interest Rates > Mortgage Rates Unless you're not arguing against the last part o
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They have enough money to solve any problem, including through acquisitions of potential rival technology. They also have enough influence to steer standards in a way that suits them. I haven't been interested enough to check, but I j
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Quite an interesting read. I wonder if the audio recordings exist anywhere.
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Indeed. Thanks for that perspective. Sad but true.
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Granted. Nevertheless, "survival" might be subjective as well then. Anyway, I'll either have to come back to this at another point or leave it alone :D lest I go too far down the rabbit hole. Thanks
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The tier of exploitation is forced relocation, analogous to PoW camps. PRC makes use of capitalism to develop and grow while relying on force (through coercion, intimidation, violence, discrimination...) for "efficiencies"--for t
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This is unbelievable. When the dictatorship controls the only "truth" about its country--shutting down dissent internally; preventing access to outsiders...--calling any negative information as propaganda; effectively whitewashin
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by ILMostro7 5y ago
OK, so as an example, based on your logic here, Muslim detention camps ("re-education centers") with forced abortions and sterilizations are either lies and propaganda OR they rise to the same level of cruelty as incarcerations an
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by ILMostro7 5y ago
Just another example of "Netzpolitik" ;D Sorry, couldn't resist.
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Just to clarify, do you mean a few videos or many videos? Thanks
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That's not the definition of morality. That's self-interest or self-preservation. Adhering to a set of guidelines or rules with empathy, regardless if it doesn't immediately register as detrimental to ourselves is more like
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by ILMostro7 5y ago
Attaching a term like "wokeness" to minority dissent over decades or centuries of systemic, cultural, economic, political discrimination, oppression, or abuse in an attempt to group every type of challenge that doesn't fit wi
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by ILMostro7 5y ago
Right, otherwise, it's just propaganda and people lying about their own horrific experiences. Got it.
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Wait and see. Maybe they just need to get their version of the Holocaust to get it out of their system. Deep down, they are good people doing horrific things. So, we just need to let them catch up while they repeat history's horrifi
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Yup, cause Civil Rights problem was solved with a law, and black people got exactly what they wanted. Before you start dissecting the argument piecemeal, just pointing out that it's difficult to tell arrogance from ignorance these day
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by ILMostro7 5y ago
Yeah, those abolishinists and civil rights protesters were very unpopular. These "woke extremists" are not sympathetic to how most people around me feel about them.

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