balthasar

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by balthasar 9y ago
> "you cant fight the system" but we can die trying : ).
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by balthasar 9y ago
What they are going to create a new class? Move up to the next one? Class mobility is a fallacy that was invented to support the hierarchy. Its not an alternative system in any sense.
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by balthasar 9y ago
I find it extremely boring to fetishize the immaterial and neurotic divisions of the bourgeois.
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by balthasar 9y ago
Its very difficult to convince people who are immersed in a certain way of living and a certain social order that there exists alternatives.
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by balthasar 9y ago
He speaking metaphorically. It makes little difference if the situation is contrived by a cabal versus many actors acting independently.
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by balthasar 9y ago
It does seem silly to start a health insurance company when it will only be a couple of years before we nationalize health care.
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by balthasar 9y ago
Americans are slowly becoming more radical as a reaction to economic pressures. With each side's policies alien to the other, compromise becomes impossible. Eventually one side will have to win out and then things will get very interes
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by balthasar 9y ago
A third party is not necessary. Both of the current U.S. political parties are very easily co-opted.
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by balthasar 9y ago
Considering the U.S. government was just shutdown over a purge of immigrants I'm not sure what more proof you need.
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by balthasar 9y ago
Americans are slowly becoming more radical as a reaction to economic pressures. With each side's policies alien to the other, compromise becomes impossible. Eventually one side will have to win out and then things will get very inte
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by balthasar 9y ago
The entertainment industry has always had pop culture icons making more than skilled-professionals. Are you getting social media confused with companies who innovate just because they both use computers?
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by balthasar 9y ago
He is pointing out the arbitrary nature of the algorithm the workings of which was determined through research. The psuedo code is obviously not the point. The reader would have to either be ignorant of the discussion to make this mistake
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by balthasar 9y ago
What you are describing is a problem in all representative democracies.
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by balthasar 9y ago
Every democracy has varying levels of efficacy. The government there may be authoritarian but its not a dictatorship.
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by balthasar 9y ago
Venezuela is a democracy.
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by balthasar 9y ago
A very small percentage of venezuela's economy is controlled by government.
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by balthasar 9y ago
And right back to where he started. Its contingent on the UK to decide Assange's fate and their is no indication that they have changed their mind.
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by balthasar 9y ago
This is so clever and effective that I guarantee it will never gain traction.
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by balthasar 9y ago
Why do you keep giving CEOs barrels of money?
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by balthasar 9y ago
Yr right. Rent control doesn't make sense in a bull or bear market. Only when the market is stable.
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by balthasar 9y ago
its just sensationalist nonsense.
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by balthasar 9y ago
yr right they are a very stable and egalitarian power house.
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by balthasar 9y ago
they are truly disgusting.
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by balthasar 9y ago
nice
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by balthasar 9y ago
Its crazy that one of the most dysfunctional third world countries borders the most powerful and prosperous. Weird huh?
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by balthasar 9y ago
Sorry for the confusion. I wasn't agreeing with "government intervention leads to wealth concentration" I was stating that people who bring this up do not believe it is a given that "extreme wealth inequality is inevita
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by balthasar 9y ago
I have seen it argued that government intervention leads to wealth concentration, that in a free market competition is supposed counteract this.
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by balthasar 9y ago
What is the climate change industry?
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by balthasar 9y ago
His wealth came from siphoning off profits from his employees and charging exorbitant prices for his products. The monopoly microsoft held was used to strangle smaller companies out of the market. None of these actions were directly targe
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by balthasar 9y ago
Looks to be half. https://www.cnbc.com/2016/11/09/trump-spent-about-half-of-wh...

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