VictorPath

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by VictorPath 4y ago
In 1910, Emma Goldman wrote "The Traffic in Women" about how the supposed efforts against sex traffic in the day had nothing to do with helping women, and were all done for other purposes. 112 years later nothing has changed from
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Is this a parody piece or are people expected to believe this whole thing?
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As a worker, I create wealth. There is also a parasitic class of heirs who are LPs for VCs, or who get dividend, rent and interest checks - rentiers expropriating surplus labor time of those who work. Yes, my attitude towards them is abou
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Last Sunday Wikipedia had a generic definition of recession. Then the second paragraph was changed so that the US would be in a recession under the definition. Then, as the title says "Wikipedia has blocked editing recession". S
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In 1974, President Ford had Whip Inflation Now buttons printed up, and 1981 was seven years later. So Volcker's dramatic raise was in that context. Whereas people are more used to a more moribund economy since 2008 with very low inter
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> Arthur Miller's dull This is more a reflection on the author than Miller. I didn't find his discussion of art and politics from the Depression to McCarthy dull, it illuminated some thinking from the period. > self-serving
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Aside from things like Bloody Sunday where the British Army opened fire on Irish marching against internment of Irish in concentration camps without trial... The DaSilva report, Stevens inquiries etc. showed collusion between English milita
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Also as historical records show, and as some in the western braintrust noted at the time, the idea that Stalin was foisting revolution onto Korean communists, it was somewhat backwards - local Korean communists fighting the Japanese and the
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> confiscation of their property and land Observe the colonial/imperial mindset - gun-trotting French sail to the Caribbean and steal land from Taino Indians, and kidnap and enslave Africans to do the work. Then back home, the king
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> Hunter-gatherer cultures were also only ever one bad season away from starvation/famine Huh? Famines, disease outbreaks and such were much more common at the beginning of the agricultural revolution. Hunter-gatherer bands were m
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> It seems that the smartest, most sincere, most dominant communists the world has ever seen... became capitalists. Karl Marx said socialism would start in the most economically advanced country. Marx was just one member of the IWMA, wh
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> Is this why African countries were so prosperous before the scramble for Africa kicked off in the 1870s? African countries were prosperous. In sub-Saharan Africa, hunter-gatherer bands often worked less than 40 hours a week (as observ
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> Capitalism's doomsday has been predicted as relentlessly over the last couple centuries as the religious version, but neither seems any closer. From the 7th/8th century until the 15th century, the feudal mode of production pr
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The article gives its sources, and I can go to Linkedin myself to verify its veracity. You're making an argument from authority that I should ignore the source since some authority said to - incidentally a source discussing how "f
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There is that, and there is also the fact that the average wage has fallen in the past century. Odd that the graph shows how much better the average family is off than in 1960, 60 years ago. As the graph shows, 1960 to 1970 was the largest
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90% of music market share in the US belongs to three companies. Warner Music has a 12.1% market share. Sony has a 23.4% market share. Universal has a 54.5% market share. Over half the market share of music in the country is from one comp
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> Everyone pretends that racism in America is just that, when it's actually classism born of racist roots Americans will easily hand the mantle of national oppression over to Ukrainians, but even though the US Supreme Court recently
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> Eastern Europe as a bunch of client states of the USA dutifully doing the bidding of somebody in the CIA That would only be the case if Victoria Nuland was handing out food in Euromaidan Square encouraging Ukrainians to overthrow their
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> More recently, the Asian-American Studies Department posted to its website a statement accusing Israel of settler colonialism, racial apartheid, and so on. So they're accusing Israel of the same thing multiple UN resolutions have
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Scientists have no idea why 302 neuron nematodes go left or right, the idea that a social scientific study like this is coming to the conclusions they come to are absurd. The original Pioneer Fund funded Minnesota studies very rarely studie
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This is the real story behind the story - a giant corporation creating a dangerous situation for the sake of profit, a government which does not protect people but corporate profits, and a small town that sits by and allows this to happen,
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> jamming people of the same age in a room for 6-7 hours at a time is far less effective... This may be true, if one is raising a philosopher-king or something. In life I'm thrown into situations where I'm jammed together with
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As I said, "they have not been observed much to kill one another, unless humans artificially modify their feeding environments and territories". You linked to a page with a large picture at the top of a feeding station where &quo
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Chimpanzees certainly don't engage in warfare, unless you want to anthropomorphic chimpanzees and change the nomenclature of warfare. While chimpanzees certainly hit each other, they have not been observed much to kill one another, unl
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> Obviously if the Saudi had been there involved in 9/11 directly or indirectly they would have been a invaded the next day 9/11 happened because al-Qaeda said the US had already had invaded "Saudi" Arabia eleven year
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After World War II a lot of public housing projects popped up, which were nice communities for working class families. Nowadays this is almost forgotten as public housing has been starved for decades, and is only thought of in most communi
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Local politics here is run by real estate interests and government does little. A local business wanted an underground garage, and had its curb open up onto a crosswalk. This kind of thing happens all the time. There is too little reside
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In the case of China, the answer would be - fight off the Japanese, then fight the US backed KMT, launching speak bitterness rallies against large landlords along the way, pour troops into North Korea in the 1950s, start a great leap forwar
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> American armed forces and weapons (and our tax dollars and political system) are what protect all of you from annihilation. While this sounds like something Otto said in A Fish Called Wanda, I can assure Europeans that many Americans a
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> Europe...a government and social safety net that is rapidly becoming unaffordable Germany has had national health for 140 years, and people have said it is "rapidly becoming unaffordable" for 140 years. I talk to older people

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