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by balance_factor 9y ago
An easy way to test this article's hypothesis would be to sit down with the old hands who help organize these protests - let's say, some of the old former SNCC and Black Panther types advising the younger Black Lives Matter organi
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by balance_factor 9y ago
> polarization What polarization is there in Washington? Or outside the beltway? What are the two poles? How people feel about transexuals? I don't see any polarization. The two parties are close together on almost everything.
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by balance_factor 9y ago
Six years ago Chomsky wrote an open letter that said actions Hugo Chavez were taking were an "assault on democracy". How exactly is that "torturing the data to make Hugo Chavez sound like a good leader"? When Chavez wa
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by balance_factor 9y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by how "he has been proved devastatingly wrong about Venezuela". When Chavez was first elected, Chomsky noted how the oil wealth of Venezuela was finally being shared beyond a small coterie of weal
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by balance_factor 9y ago
One of the ironic things about this is the right has fought for years to empower corporations, and disempower workers, then goes apoplectic when Google Inc sees him as a liability and disposes of him like a used tissue. Damore sees the lef
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by balance_factor 9y ago
When the military threw out the elected Chavez in 2002 and replaced him with the head of the business federation, who promptly dissolved the parliament, the New York Times applauded. The 2009 coup of the elected Honduran government, by mili
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by balance_factor 9y ago
The zeitgeist has shifted? The zeitgeist hasn't changed since 1847, when Marx wrote about the character of monopoly in The Poverty of Philosophy. It hasn't changed since President Harrison signed the Sherman Antitrust Act in 189
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by balance_factor 9y ago
> the vibrant art and propaganda narratives of Soviet children's books The media children consumed in the Soviet Union was a propaganda narrative. Luckily for us in the land of freedom, the media children consume on television in t
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by balance_factor 10y ago
> Funding is not the issue. There are all sorts of issues around mental health, drugs, tolerance in certain neighborhoods, political corruption, inefficiencies in government Ho-hum. People become homeless because they don't have m
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by balance_factor 10y ago
In the case of RenTech's Medallion fund, the capital is provided by the people managing the fund, so the provider and customer are the same person.
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by balance_factor 10y ago
The capital in RenTech's flagship fund is 100% from the employees of Rentech. These guys are managing their own money. So the idea they're screwing customers on it is false, they are the customer. I think they have some other f