alentist

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by alentist 5y ago
Only the US. Cuba trades with China, Spain, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, and the Netherlands.
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by alentist 5y ago
You're referring to the New Economic Policy [0]. For both, the purpose was not only to get foreign investment, but to improve internal economic efficiency, since collectivization and central planning were lethally inefficient [1][2]. [
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by alentist 5y ago
> Cuba is not stopping anyone from leaving That's a step in the right direction, if true. Do you have a source for it? This older article [0] says: President Raul Castro said the regime will still decide who can renew or obtain pas
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by alentist 5y ago
That doesn't answer the question, which is about emigration illegality being "not uncommon".
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by alentist 5y ago
> Same thing, surely? No, not the same thing at all. Forcibly stopping your citizens from leaving your country altogether is not the same thing as another country stopping them from entering theirs. Communist countries have historically
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by alentist 5y ago
Cuba trades with Venezuela, China, Spain, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, and the Netherlands. The rise of China is due to the economic reforms [0] launched in the late 70s by Deng Xiaoping and continued by his successors: The Communist Party auth
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by alentist 5y ago
> fleeing on boats is really not uncommon To escape a country, or to enter a country? The example you gave is the latter. Do you have any examples of the former?
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by alentist 5y ago
There's nothing to challenge since none of them justify the claim.
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by alentist 5y ago
Nothing there justifies the claim.
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by alentist 5y ago
> No, they don't. Why not?
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by alentist 5y ago
Link?
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by alentist 5y ago
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-revealing-vote-on-anti-asian-...
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by alentist 5y ago
"X has never existed perfectly/completely, therefore X should be abolished." Do I understand you correctly? And what are you suggesting it be replaced with?
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by alentist 5y ago
> a fixed lens he allowed himself to view the world through That's true of any philosopher. > to Aquinas, those Neoplatonists from whom he derived his cosmology and philosophy were nothing better than pagans Ahistorical nonsense.
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by alentist 5y ago
https://www.wired.com/2013/07/we-need-to-stop-focusing-on-ju...
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by alentist 5y ago
> Do you know what the term "or not" means? Yes. Do you know what a disjunction is?
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by alentist 5y ago
> Literally claims it's a manmade weapon released intentionally in the first paragraph. Do you know what the word "accidentally" means?
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by alentist 5y ago
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/journalists-illustrating-ho...
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by alentist 5y ago
> I was talking about Chromosomal differences between humans, NOT gene-level differences. Since the former includes the latter, your excuse makes zero sense. It sounds like a convoluted attempt to obfuscate the fact that you thought &quo
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by alentist 5y ago
So your position is that a person is female simply by virtue of claiming that they "identify as" female. Is a person black simply by virtue of claiming that they "identify as" black? > I didn't skip Biology 101.
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by alentist 5y ago
So which category does it fall into? Don't dodge the question. > it seems like an attempt for you to paint "your opposition" by the beliefs of its extremists That's exactly what you did in your original comment. Talk
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by alentist 5y ago
Which category does this fall into? https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/000306512110085...
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by alentist 5y ago
> everyone knows it "Everyone knows" what? This? > no discourse is so dogmatic and blind and unable to question its own values as the American one I can't imagine how sheltered from and ignorant of the rest of the world
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by alentist 5y ago
> Well, I didn't know that race is determined by your chromosomes. TIL I guess. Is that sarcasm? Do you know what chromosomes are? > And I don't see how someone would identify as black if they aren't By simply claiming
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by alentist 5y ago
> I want these people to be recognized as what they identify; women. Even if they don't have the right chromosomes, there is atleast a dozen reasons someone might still have grown up as female or identifies female. Replace gender wi
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by alentist 5y ago
Do you feel the same way about race?
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by alentist 5y ago
More name-calling? I accept your concession.
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by alentist 5y ago
> I’m going to go out on a limb, and guess Wrong. Looks like your psychic powers need a lot of work. But thanks for further weakening your "case" with more baseless assertions. Furthermore, I checked your profile and it looks l
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by alentist 5y ago
Instead of this knee-jerk reaction, why don't you first read the comment I'm replying to? > it'd be handy to include why its a comparable situation akkartik made that bizarre comparison, not me.
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by alentist 5y ago
The Khmer Rouge was a left-wing (Communist) genocidal regime.

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