balaz

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by balaz 1y ago
Yes, the idea of the death of God also gives me shivers.
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by balaz 1y ago
By "we" I will understand that you mean Africans. Otherwise, you might be committing one (1) colonialism. So, ask the rest of Africa how that has gone for them.
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by balaz 1y ago
How will they stop local competitors exactly? Will they send goons to trash the place?
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by balaz 1y ago
That is only true if the chains are better than the local restaurants. Which, admittedly, is true far too many times. So maybe those local restaurants should improve or close. I'm not here to give handouts, and neither are the users of
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by balaz 1y ago
Your gratuitous use of the word "violence" doesn't help your argument the way you think it does.
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by balaz 1y ago
I reject the entirety of your comment but this point struck me: >It also destroys every restaurant's natural advantage of closeness - if you run a pizzeria and your food is not horrible, you can naturally expect people from about 2
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by balaz 1y ago
I’m not even American.
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by balaz 1y ago
Those lists are a joke. They show how much the priorities of the government align with those of the newspaper they are printed on.
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by balaz 1y ago
Who sees Spain as a modern democracy? Only those who benefit from the rampant clientelism.
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by balaz 1y ago
One of the reasons the best time to make sure every first-world country is self reliant was yesterday; the second best time is today.
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by balaz 1y ago
Telegram is not related to the government of Russia.