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by afutd 6y ago
Although I agree with the thrust of your edit, I’d actually be okay with making the swap if a black person from an underprivileged background told me that terms made him uncomfortable. But somehow it’s always a white woman from a privileged
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by afutd 7y ago
Are you sure what ICE is doing is really all that much different and what’s instead dramatically different is your awareness of every even borderline thing ICE is doing now? Just how familiar were you, or are you for that matter, with the f
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by afutd 7y ago
Somehow I have a feeling that nearly all the engineers working on it have a clearer idea of the overarching function of the application than you do.
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by afutd 9y ago
Can we send you back to the lawless borderlands between England and Scotland?
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by afutd 11y ago
What you are missing is that "good schools" doesn't actually mean good schools. It's a dog whistle.
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by afutd 11y ago
It's both or neither depending on how you want to look at it. The problem isn't any website or subculture, the problem is the entire overarching culture being created by digital natives that are coming into their own. Internet ind
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by afutd 11y ago
The 1980s called. They are in dire need of more cold warriors and want you back.
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by afutd 11y ago
It's not freeloading. It's a voluntary trade for value. In any event, your logic is flawed. A person can easily be a net contributor over a lifetime without having children. And someone who has children, can easily be a net drain
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by afutd 11y ago
If they do all think we westerners are crazy (and I'm certainly not going to take your word for it), that isn't enough of a downside to leave us with a shortage of potential immigrants. Your argument about freeloaders is just plai
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by afutd 11y ago
This comment is akin to the farmers who tell us we need to subsidize them because without them we will all starve. There are hundreds of millions of people who would very much like to come to the United States. They are ready and willing to
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by afutd 12y ago
> I served my country to get it. Served the intersts of the military industrial complex maybe. Killing random people on the other side is not of any use to the rest of us.
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by afutd 13y ago
"'We think the governance has opted for ubiquitous law enforcement.' Pham whistled softly. Now every embedded computing system, down to a child's rattle, was a governance utility. It was the most extreme form of social c