Ray20

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by Ray20 2y ago
They were following the orders of their immediate commanders, just like any soldiers are supposed to do. Prigozhin's "chain of command" at that moment was part of the government's chain of command
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by Ray20 2y ago
I suppose it's called in english "chain of command" - it is not about loyalty, it is about execution of orders. Literally any army in the world are built on this principle. More then this, that "mutiny" was not abou
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by Ray20 2y ago
>who literally own a 60k strong army Prigozhin had never own an army. He was just high-ranking Putin's clerk. He "owned" a 60k army in a meaning, in which any general owns an army. >Russian style oligarchical hellscape
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by Ray20 2y ago
>Libraries exist as a benefit to society, they aren't supposed to neatly fit into absolutist capitalist ideals. Libraries fit perfectly fine in the absolutist capitalist ideals (because they exist as a benefit to society), it is ite
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>It's probably worth exploring where'd you get such a maximalist idea Have you explored where's you get the idea that it'n not the case?
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by Ray20 2y ago
>They had an enviable job of bringing so many people out of extreme poverty and have done well. Literally zero work is required for this. You just need to stop keeping people in extreme poverty - and that's it.
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by Ray20 2y ago
>but clearly there is some overlap with the gift ethos as well. No, there is not. Even more, "value to others to the best of their ability" directly contradicts this "freedom value"
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>most land owners, elected officials, capable owners of organizations take meaningful or genuine good faith efforts to address open corruption in their spaces And I am saying that zero percent of them do that. And somebody saying that Du
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by Ray20 2y ago
>The fact that it was wound back by the head of the EU's executive branch - Breton's boss - demoted the statement to "the opinion of the commissioner". I don't remember anything about "the opinion of the com
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by Ray20 2y ago
If we start weighing "social harm vs benefit" and not "where the bits go" - we quickly come to the Third Reich and "social harm vs benefit" of the Jewish people.
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>that includes people from Russia, China or the US believing they are the ones who are truly free, and everything else are totalitarian shitholes. In Russia, China or North Korea - nobody believes that.
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>In some ways they seem more authoritarian than even China and Russia Not even close. You are just poorly informed about the situation in Russia or China.
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by Ray20 2y ago
In the context of this thread, freedom of speech always meant exactly that.
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According to this rule, approximately 100% of officials must be thrown out of their jobs right this second. I think you are mostly correct about irresponsibility, incompetence, and excuses, but I don't see why there should be legal con
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by Ray20 2y ago
>Just check that the VPS provider doesn't forbid torrenting/etc. in their ToS They almost always do. But many of them forbid only in tos, and not exactly do something about it
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by Ray20 2y ago
Downloading via torrents by default implies distribution (from technical point of view).
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by Ray20 2y ago
All the data (status of human rights organizations in this area, statements of officials, law enforcement agencies, the reaction of "democratic" institutions to such cases when they leaked to public) shows, that after civilian are
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by Ray20 2y ago
>The Ukrainians will decide for themselves Does not seem like it. They are not asked. They are banned from leaving the country. They are captured right on the streets and forcefully, under threat of death, sent to fight in war. > They
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>There is nothing for the Ukrainians to "negotiate" about other than Russia leaving their land. Are the Ukrainians aware of this? Because massive forced conscription and closed borders for leaving are strongly pointing out agai
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>no one trying to figure out how to actually bind the productivity increases together with UBI Because we not only figured that out, but already implemented this several times in practice. Productivity decreasing until there is nothing t
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by Ray20 2y ago
>how does the money affect competition, both for goods/services and labor? We have the entire 20th century, when many countries tried exactly that. Production is decreasing, labor participation decreasing, good availability decreasi
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>This is propaganda from people who benefit from the system that rewards owners of capital who fear community ownership of the means of production. The Capitalist System does not imply restrictions on community ownership of the means of
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by Ray20 2y ago
There is no problem with the investments size, China had way less investments. The problem is in the amount of work and production regulations, which in some cases just doesn't exist in China.
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>but professionalism is important and this screams immaturity. Using knowledge that you have to create a competing product is professionalism, using Legal threats to eliminate competitors - is not.
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>People bought all of these things before plastics. Yes, and that was dangerous and inconvenient.
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No, we are not. It is just Western-centrism, and you for some reason forget, that there is 5 billion more people on the Planet, for whom the consequences of the fight against CO2 emission is more dangerous then the global warming. The same
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>Particularly when that tactic is derived specifically from Russian dezinformatsiya techniques I think it is incorrect to call such tactics "Russian dezinformatsiya techniques". It's rather "leftist techniques".
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So what? This doesn't invalidate my argument.
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>Ukrainians want a sovereign democratic country, and they are willing to pay a very high price for that. Doesn't seemed to be true, considering Ban for men's leaving country, forcefull conscription and cancelled elections
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>Why do you think Russia would not have invaded Ukraine if the NATO had not been expanded? Because the main reason for the full-scale invasion of Ukraine is a miscalculation about resistance. With the expansion of NATO, the prospect of i

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