alentist

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by alentist 5y ago
> both Ho Chi Minh and Fidel Castro come to mind as exceptions What do you mean?
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by alentist 5y ago
> on the command of a Republican President to hang government officials and overturn an election Literally never happened. The fact that you're parroting this lie shows how deeply media bubbles have disconnected people from reality.
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by alentist 5y ago
Where did you read that? Because it's definitely not true.
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by alentist 5y ago
Why don't you stop soapboxing and address the comment you're replying to?
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by alentist 5y ago
You're casting more vague aspersions. > the author has started from his prior positions and then constructed an argument that reinforces them There are two ways to interpret this: 1. You're accusing the author of making an argu
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by alentist 5y ago
> What, pray tell, do you consider to be my assumptions? I don't know, because you didn't engage with the content of the article at all. You merely casted nasty aspersions on its author. > I am not attacking the guy personal
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by alentist 5y ago
Your entire comment is an ad-hominem. And a nasty one at that. Frankly, it sounds like you're projecting all these negative things because you hate to see your assumptions challenged.
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by alentist 5y ago
That's incorrect. Essentialism is more like the claim that there is a territory in the first place.
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by alentist 5y ago
What do you mean by "physical evidence"? As Bart D. Ehrman (a non-Christian New Testament scholar) explains: The reality is that we don’t have archaeological records for virtually anyone who lived in Jesus’s time and place. Who w
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by alentist 5y ago
Your comment was indeed full of caricatures: > Or take the church's silly little pro life movement. Do you notice that it's directed against women? Pro lifers never take out billboards that say 'Men, don't have sex wi
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by alentist 5y ago
> I'm under the impression that Chris-as-singular-historical-figure is accepted based on lighter evidence than we require for other historical figures. You're under a false impression, and are spreading a myth [0][1]. In fact,
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by alentist 5y ago
This is a more apt description of your own comments, not least because you misattributed a completely fictitious "argument" to the GP. Perhaps your anger is clouding your ability to understand the GP's comments, which have be
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by alentist 5y ago
Why "fiction"?
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by alentist 5y ago
Not according to historians [0]. The definition of genocide is [1]: genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group From [0]: Witnesses testi
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by alentist 5y ago
> The goal... ...is not as important as the result. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unintended_consequences > A free market solution chooses to not serve poor people, so it can be cheaper for richer people. Your cl
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by alentist 5y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27816914 And yes in practice. Cuba trades with China, Spain, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands. https://oec.world/en/profile/country&#
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by alentist 5y ago
Brazil, Mexico, China, and Russia are also among Cuba's top trade partners.
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by alentist 5y ago
No. Cuba trades with China, Spain, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands. https://oec.world/en/profile/country/cub
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by alentist 5y ago
> And that comes with significant pain to major companies many of which don't bother. Source? > The reason why all of these coubtries are in Canada or the EU is But they're not all in Canada or the EU. Brazil, Mexico, Chin
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by alentist 5y ago
You're claiming most libertarians are anarchists. Do you have a source for that? As far as I know, it's far from true.
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by alentist 5y ago
https://spectatorworld.com/myth-stolen-country-america-new-w...
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by alentist 5y ago
> Yes, they do. No, they don't. Canada, Spain, Netherlands, Germany, and Italy are among Cuba's top trade partners. https://oec.world/en/profile/country/cub
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by alentist 5y ago
No, they're not. Cuban officials say the cargo carrier of Colombia-based Avianca Airlines declined to carry the aid to Cuba because its major shareholder is a U.S.-based company subject to the trade embargo on Cuba.
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by alentist 5y ago
> The US threatens to sanction any country doing business with Cuba. It also heavily limits who can do business with Cuba. That's a lie. Cuba trades with China, Spain, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, and the Netherlands.
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by alentist 5y ago
> fairly common, South Korea does it for example and so do a few African countries Source? To prevent goalpost-moving, the restrictions we're referring to are: The government will protect "human capital" in its decision-m
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by alentist 5y ago
> Emigration is legal for 99% of Cubans though. Do you have a source for that? This [0] suggests otherwise. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27813742
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by alentist 5y ago
> It is certainly not perfect That's an understatement. > controls on who can obtain passports are sadly the norm in the entire world These restrictions are far from "the norm in the entire world".
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by alentist 5y ago
Indeed. Stalin effectively ended the NEP in 1929, eliminating private ownership of farmland and collectivizing agriculture under state control. By 1931, he had reimposed state control over all industry and commerce [0][1]. And thus came the
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by alentist 5y ago
> Support the Cuban Revolution. Why should anyone support a Communist regime that over a million Cubans have risked (and sometimes lost) their lives trying to escape? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Cub
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by alentist 5y ago
> the US threatening anyone who trades with Cuba That's a lie. Cuba trades with China, Spain, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, and the Netherlands.

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