ROTMetro

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by ROTMetro 3y ago
This makes no sense. The conflict started in 2014, you point to an article from 2014, how does that show years of bombs? In addition Russia no longer keeps up the lie that the 'little green men' that invaded Ukraine were just ethn
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by ROTMetro 3y ago
If it's more complex, why not add details of that complexity to the discussion instead your vague comments? You know, add know depth, knowledge, or detail instead of just saying 'but it's more complex'? Perhaps because t
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by ROTMetro 3y ago
What reductionist drivel. Discussion involves making actual points with logic and examples, in this case that would be examples about why Russia's actions (killing tens of thousands of civilians when the year prior to the war only 21 p
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by ROTMetro 3y ago
Instantly to the 'what about' deflection.
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by ROTMetro 3y ago
Dude that is what I said. It's only purpose is so that Congress doesn't have to approve EVERY BOND issue. Congress can for sure approve a new bond issue separate of the debt ceiling. The Dems should put forward a special bond bill
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by ROTMetro 3y ago
Carl Icahn just lost billions betting against the USA. Your comment sounds interesting until you look at all the other countries in the world. We aren't competing with perfect, we're competing with a Europe still coasting off of i
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by ROTMetro 3y ago
The debt ceiling was created so that Congress does not have to pass a new bill for each time bonds are issued. It's purpose is to streamline running a modern country, not to be a weapon against the running of the country. It is not and
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by ROTMetro 3y ago
No need to be so bleak. Your post makes for good scifi but if you look at spaceflight today it's largest proponent is a benevolent individual that exudes empathy, not a soulless company. He is competing with another extremely empathic
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by ROTMetro 3y ago
Come on, they are both equally morally reprehensible as they erode trust in science and lead us towards darkness. Ends doesn't justify the means, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. This is basic level stuff.
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by ROTMetro 3y ago
The Supreme Court has held that anonymous speech is a huge part of the First Amendment as non-anonymous speech has a pretty chilling effect. With a surveillance state you are taking away the 'anonymizing' effect people felt of bei
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by ROTMetro 3y ago
I'm not doing research for someone as disingenuous as you (sorry I don't have a canned response file for reference on Government overreach/abuses) but this was a discussion on this website just yesterday: https://n
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by ROTMetro 3y ago
This. The USA HAS socialized healthcare, just at the worst point of the system to have it and in the worst way for improving outcomes.
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by ROTMetro 3y ago
So artificial market creation by Government mandate?
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by ROTMetro 3y ago
So creating a completely artificial market via forced Government regulation?
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by ROTMetro 3y ago
Seems odd to let businesses and manufacturers determine their own pricing incentives to you?
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by ROTMetro 3y ago
Personally I'd buy whatever car I want and add a radio if I cared that much. I'm not so single issue I would force a limitation on myself like that. But then having grown up in the USA from the 70s to now I love cars way more than
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by ROTMetro 3y ago
In the USA there is a statute of limitations to challenge wrongful convictions, unconstitutional sentences, etc. Imagine that. Yes the government agrees your were wrongly convicted but because you didn't get a challenge together in tim
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by ROTMetro 3y ago
That's called the tyranny of the majority and it is absolutely not the point of small community creation on Reddit. Imagine you create a reddit and put it work to make it popular enough to get attention only to have some other group co
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by ROTMetro 3y ago
I too when presented with facts think to myself 'but who is the person who typed these all out'. Do you have anything specific about these facts that you disagree with, or are you just spreading FUD to spread FUD? Did you eat up a
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by ROTMetro 3y ago
So you point to a change in your local normal climate as showing there isn't... climate change? Just trying to clarify what you are trying to say here?
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by ROTMetro 3y ago
I can't wait until Europe pays for it's own defense. I love that Europeans kept empires as long as it was profitable and then just ran away and left America to deal with the issues/conflict borders they created and then have
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by ROTMetro 3y ago
Think of walled off 'private communities' with HOAs. My take is people want the internet that self selected for only the certain social groups/classes of people that could afford the internet in the early 2000s without having
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by ROTMetro 3y ago
And the Islamic Golden Age itself is an oxymoron as much of the historical knowledge was Greek (large parts of these conquered lands had sizable Greek populations) and the many contemporary contributors were either non-muslim or raised in c
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by ROTMetro 3y ago
To be fair many of these Arab lands were forcibly conquered and much of the institutions were vestiges left over from pre-conquest and/or contributed by conquered people/cultures. 'International' banking has a different
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by ROTMetro 3y ago
Why? If something is named after someone, if someone popularized something, why do we need to make is some larger deeper anything? It's funny that this comes in an article about the Islamic Golden age period where people's identit
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by ROTMetro 3y ago
Interesting that al-Rūmī like so much 'Arab Golden Age' or 'Islamic Golden Age' contributors was of Greek descent. I really wish the balkanizing narrative wasn't forced around this era of history I think humans woul
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by ROTMetro 3y ago
Don't forget in China these little people have way higher attachment to their homes. They are often ancestral homes. The people that would be happy to be 'forced to move' have already moved to the city in most cases, with onl
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by ROTMetro 3y ago
Being the devil's advocate, when my mother was dying of cancer there were forest fires here. She had to leave the area and stay at a hotel far away at great cost/physical discomfort (at that point she had a hospital bed at home).
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by ROTMetro 3y ago
For those interested in getting started, Knobcloud.com has cheap Ableton Live intro licenses. vital.audio is a super cool free(ish) virtual synthesizer, https://www.spitfireaudio.com/bbc-symphony-orchestra-discove... is a f
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by ROTMetro 3y ago
I strongly disagree. My lower class sets of grandparents both had pianos. Other family members had violens, accordions, portable little organ things. Making music was the norm before the radio just like the original poster said. Do you thin

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