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by aguaviva 2y ago
The comedian never said that Puerto Ricans as such were garbage - that was a fabrication of the media. Of course he did. It's called innuendo, and everyone knew exactly what he was getting at. If you say an entire neighborhood, cit
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Correction: a better phrasing would be "pretends to be an isolationist", given the sibling remark in relation to his not-so pacifist support of the 2002 Iraq War: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42070803
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Also, if you can explain your description of Trump's "abnormally pacifist record" in view of the fact that, when push came to shove back in 2022, Trump went along with the neocon slaughterfest just like everyone else: In
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by aguaviva 2y ago
He is a "moderate" on foreign policy (not a Cheney/Bush war hawk) Which is hogwash, because at the time Trump went along with the Iraq war just like everybody else, of course: In the interview, which took place on Sept
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Dick Cheney is responsible for murdering millions of Iraqis. Even if we just accept the hypothesis that Dick Cheney was responsible for every single death in the Iraq War -- and we simply accept the highest of all available estimates (bec
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by aguaviva 2y ago
I hereby take back any and all snark and irrelevant verbiage. I'll see if I can get back to you at another date. Until then, you may find this article interesting: https://direct.mit.edu/isec/article/44/
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Just to promote the sanctioned opinion on Ukraine? My own strategy is to completely ignore what the "sanctioned opinion" (whatever that means) on a given topic is, and to work the factual chronology and reasonably verifiable rep
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by aguaviva 2y ago
It's not just that one comment - it's nearly every comment. The fact that that nearly every thread on that subreddit is basically a giant echo chamber should also be telling you something. Criticisms of Sachs's take are easy
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by aguaviva 2y ago
The reasoning you're expressing here is basically: "Heck it's plausible , right? Therefore it might as well have happened. There's no need to actually substantiate that it did. It suffices to just have a gut feeling
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by aguaviva 2y ago
I'm absolutely certain that if Trump was in the White House the full on invasion of Ukraine would not have been started. Not because he's some exceptional negotiator or because he brought peace, but because he was doing such a gr
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Both the Israel and Ukraine wars started under Biden Did Biden "start" the Israel-Hamas war? Or even do anything to conceivably precipitate it? Since the answer is "no" -- why does this count as a war "started un
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Never mentioning his abnormally pacifist record which is more important? Because he's nothing of the sort. He's an isolationist (more or less), which is a stance designed to look like pacifism but in fact is very different,
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Joe Biden can barely walk down the stairs without tripping. Which is why he left the race back in July. Did you miss this fact? Kamala had a "phone" call with an undecided voter just yesterday and when she showed the screen it
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by aguaviva 2y ago
I can't stand their constant divisive rhetoric and is why I voted for Trump and the Republicans in 2016, 2020, and 2024. I'd be curious what your gut reaction was to the comedian that Trump's team hired to open at his rally
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by aguaviva 2y ago
It also isn't accounting for Russia trying to get a permanent peace deal 2 months into the conflict. That's not the behavior of a country bent on conquest. When invading powers think they've prevailed and have their prey ov
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by aguaviva 2y ago
No they weren't. It was discussed quite openly with no backlash at all, e.g.: https://www.vox.com/politics/2024/2/8/24066529/biden-special...
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Or just the last in a series of similar shilling! You're in explicit violation of site guidelines. Recommend you stop: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by aguaviva 2y ago
It looks like you've made another factual misrepresentation.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Except in all those wars of theirs which, like the current one, were essentially optional for them. In which, after taking a sufficiently harsh beating for the sake of basically nothing, they threw in the towel, and went home. Like all the
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by aguaviva 2y ago
This information was in a variety of sources. Meaning you aren't actually aware of any.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Certainly the ballpark size of the ca 1897 population is relevant. Just not the fine grain of whether it was 3 or 5 or 8 percent. Either way, the commenter's salient point still stands: like all Zionists at every point in the histo
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by aguaviva 2y ago
BTW a more guidelines-compliant response to what you're asking would have been: "What leads you to believe that that's actually the case (that NATO was about to, or was likely at some point down the road to do that)?" Gi
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Per the UN Genocide Convention, which defines genocide not just in the totalistic sense (as practiced by Nazi Germany for example) but as "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or reli
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by aguaviva 2y ago
In itself is a substantial matter -- but you aren't using it that way. And again, it's a matter for Ukrainians to decide. To a first order approximation, I think we can trust that as a society, they know what they're fightin
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Except that's not what NATO has been doing (nor is there any evidence that it ever had that intent) -- and it certainly isn't the reason Russia's current regime (not Russia as a country) started this war. It's just the
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Read the guidelines. The topic scope is definitely not centered on, let alone restricted to "tinkering and product-building". In fact it explicitly says that it "includes more than hacking and startups." While the sco
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by aguaviva 2y ago
An entirely useful and thoughtful writeup (and not really all that political) -- why was it flagged? Just one nitpick, in regard to the pronouncement at the very top: One thing about Germany, and Europe in general, is that it’s relatively
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Do you understand the distinction between: (1) Filing up at the tank so you can get to your shitty job and feed your family -- i.e. an activity that is essentially non-optional ; and (2) Going on a vacation more than halfway around the wor
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Perhaps it may be more instructive to look at not just the past 2 years, in which there's been a global mini-recession (due largely to the Ukraine war) - and more broadly, how Germany has been doing compared to other countries over lon
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by aguaviva 2y ago
But that special status should not extend giving Israel a pass for its policies of territorial expansion and ethnic cleansing, considering Germany's history between 1933 and 1945.

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