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by Timon3 19d ago
IMO it's obvious that such numbers can only be judged long after the respective government/presidential term has ended, since the effects of their actions obviously reach much further than their last active day due to the changes
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by Timon3 19d ago
Sorry, but I can't take anyone seriously who just brushes off all the batshit insane moves Trump has been making. No, previous US presidents didn't turn the US into a fascist hellhole.
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by Timon3 19d ago
That much was obvious for a long time to anyone paying attention. But I honestly believe that their success at newspeak-ing so many concepts was one of the final nails in America's coffin. I hope I'll live until their fascist phas
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by Timon3 21d ago
Sure, so far the funds came from Russia, but the US government has openly talked about increasing their funding. I don't think that their propaganda is fully dependent on Russia. IMO their strategy was really easy to observe during&#x2
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by Timon3 21d ago
Why do you think so? The US funding won't suddenly stop, especially given how much the GOP hates the EU. Plenty of other rich people too. Unless there are objectively good reasons to expect this we must stay vigilant, since if we gam
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by Timon3 21d ago
Consider that trust still declined so much more under the current government. How do you explain that? No matter who did Nordstream and why, there are rational reasons that explain why the different parties might have done it. Even when y
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by Timon3 21d ago
> We need to help each other remain democracies, as the alternatives are so much worse. Trump and his cronies are openly attempting to break the EU apart via funding and amplifying right-wing movements across the EU. These movements are
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by Timon3 21d ago
I'm not as optimistic as you are, because a component of the rightward shift is the international collaboration of the respective movements' leaders. For example, US republicans closely worked together with Orbans party and German
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by Timon3 22d ago
If anyone should read this far, consider that this person has no issues with misdemeanors sometimes being punished with death. Then consider that we know of numerous cases where legal immigrants, completely innocent of any crimes or misdeme
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by Timon3 22d ago
JKR frequently uses her huge platform to publicly denigrate and humiliate trans individuals, including by sharing private, unflattering or even intimate pictures of them which she receives from her followers. Just recently JKR shared upskir
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by Timon3 22d ago
Not sure you meant to reply to me, since my comment was referring to JKR. Nevertheless - I can empathize with your perspective if you believe he just said "he doesn't like people that move to his country and poop on the streets&qu
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by Timon3 22d ago
I feel obligated to point out the weaselly nature of this comment: > People in the US are literally protesting criminals, including sex offenders who raped children, from being deported out of the country. That is a fact. People are prot
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by Timon3 22d ago
Nice try, but this one's too obvious :)
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by Timon3 22d ago
Why, because I pointed out that your "continued" analogy fundamentally misrepresents the situation? IMO it is much more weaselly to push your agenda through deliberately manipulative comments that mislead the reader into viewing e
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by Timon3 22d ago
DHH wants to deport entire groups REGARDLESS of whether they've done anything wrong. So either you shared this example while aware who you are defending, or you do not understand what your words imply. > But then people like you com
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by Timon3 22d ago
Nope, you don't get to dismiss the detail that DHH wants to deport people regardless of whether they've committed crimes. Let's fix that in your analogy: "The new landlord started evicting tenants of the same ethnicity a
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by Timon3 22d ago
1. The government is already mostly focused on the needs of the rich, so this is anything but guaranteed. But say the government tries to force the rich - how, the military? Depending on the number of robots and how much military equipment
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by Timon3 22d ago
Why would the people who have control over this enormous automated labor force agree to taxation? How will you make them pay up if they tell you "no" and hide behind their robot army?
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by Timon3 22d ago
But said history was not peaceful. Business leaders repeatedly attempted to use these transformations in tons of ways to screw over workers - for example, the only reason we no longer have lots of small children being mangled or killed at t
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by Timon3 22d ago
It's entirely possible for the pie to grow and for your piece to still end up smaller than it was before. This should be obvious.
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by Timon3 22d ago
To stick with your analogy, why should that allow you to throw out every tenant who shares the ethnicity of your troublesome neighbor?
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by Timon3 22d ago
You're not engaging in good faith if you reduce every criticism to "they're not 100% with us". People have explained their views well enough for you to understand where they're coming from.
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by Timon3 22d ago
The woman got radicalized by her political audience. Given all her publicly espoused views as well as documented activism (including financial backing for almost any anti-trans activism), you're going to have to offer actual argumen
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by Timon3 22d ago
A large number of games on Steam don't use any DRM, you can just copy the files and use them wherever you want. So no, it's not the same.
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by Timon3 23d ago
Don't get me wrong, I'm not disagreeing with you that giving food to the poor is almost always a good action! My objection is strictly with the "net" part, because IMO calling almost anything on its own a "net posi
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by Timon3 23d ago
I think there are many facets to readability. For example, YAML is frequently held up as much easier for humans to read than JSON, but even after many years of reading and writing YAML in various domains, no other format causes me anywhere
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by Timon3 23d ago
Even read this way, it doesn't make logical sense. It's a great example of newspeak - corporations know people use "opt-in" as a purchasing signal, so they're trying to redefine the word by abusing it enough times.
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by Timon3 23d ago
While the action itself maybe be positive, that does not mean the net sum of their actions is positive. It's entirely possible to earn money doing something good or neutral, only to use it in ways that cause comparatively greater harm.
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by Timon3 24d ago
> Perhaps the IAU didn’t attempt to exert any influence over the general public and perhaps they have had nothing to do with the legions who have since been irritatingly telling people that their words are scientifically incorrect, as if
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by Timon3 24d ago
Do you have examples where data definitely shows an exoplanet that hasn't cleared the orbit? Since the accurate detection of small non-glowing objects becomes exponentially more difficult as you look further out, that seems like a perf

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