Ray20

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by Ray20 2y ago
Aren't in Japan average selled fiction book is way smaller?
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by Ray20 2y ago
>Aren't people buying more indie and early-access games than ever? Yes, but people also make more games than ever, and this "more" is way bigger.
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by Ray20 2y ago
>They just don't have anyone with the knowledge nor the capital to hire the people who then know who else to hire. Doesn't seem to be true. They pay celebrities (for their boring bs books that no one read) enough to build a doz
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by Ray20 2y ago
> the fact that their country is so insular, tightly controlled and technologically backward A totalitarian country can invest billions of dollars from the federal budget into propaganda in another countries. You don't need technolo
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by Ray20 3y ago
>actual polling says that most don't even want to negotiate There is no actual polling. You just can't have polls when for "wrong" answers people may be imprisoned, sent to war or killed. This polls have nothing to do
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by Ray20 3y ago
> The United States is a representational republic. > make decisions in regards to war effort Why is that matter? USA - is not a part of the conflict > It's not the job of civilians to take this into our own hands It is litera
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by Ray20 3y ago
>I don't really see how you can disagree with that. I don't really see how you can agree with that. What is the fundamental difference between a civillian and a professional politician? >basically just saying "Ukraine s
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by Ray20 3y ago
>A million here, a million there. What’s the difference? Like you said - the difference is a million here, a million there. >They’ll still be impossibly wealthy even if everything goes tits up. They will millions less impossibly wealt
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by Ray20 3y ago
>Again, where do you think these reforms come from, exactly? From the federal government. That's the whole point. >they could've easily formed internal agreements to simply not lower their own standards No.These policies wer
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by Ray20 3y ago
For 20 years before the crisis, the American government promoted numerous policies to lower mortgage lending standards. The 2008 crisis is a natural price for such policies. "Corporate/private greed" - is an explanation aimed
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by Ray20 3y ago
>investigating what the actual laws and regulations were over in China This is always impossible in totalitarian countries. Where there are clear rules, there are possibilities to use them against those who wrote them - and this is exact
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by Ray20 3y ago
Yeah, and he also gave many speeches and writings about how he is fighting Nazism in Ukraine. Are we seriously going to discuss Putin's speeches? This Putin's rhetoric did not exist before the 2014 revolution in Ukraine.
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by Ray20 3y ago
>The invasion of Ukraine is primarily a desire of conquest. No. It is personal desire of Putin to remain in power. Conquest has nothing to do with it either.
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by Ray20 3y ago
Putin has exactly one strategy: to remain in power. The revival of the empire has absolutely nothing to do with this. The annexation of Crimea was needed not to revive the empire, but to discredit the idea of revolution in Ukraine that happ
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by Ray20 3y ago
>Navalny was definitely against bringing back Crimea to Ukraine. This is a classic liberal position. You just can't give away a piece of the country against the will of people who lives there, no matter international law or what els
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by Ray20 3y ago
Why don't you try leaving your laptop on a park bench for a couple of days? Maybe because not all people are like you? And even more people, most people I would say, are not right-wing absolutists and they in all seriousness believe th
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by Ray20 3y ago
That's kind of what ten years in the gulag for a wrong opinion do to public opinion.