berdario

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by berdario 3y ago
I didn't flag it, but to understand why others would: https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202104/1220654.shtml See also https://redsails.org/the-xinjiang-atrocity-propaganda-blitz/
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by berdario 3y ago
China does have one such alliance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-North_Korean_Treaty_of_Fr... Of course "talk is cheap" is an hyperbole, since there can be a lot of mutually beneficial agreements that do
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by berdario 3y ago
Yes, prosperous. But as prosperous as the US? And being prosperous doesn't mean not being dependent. Japan agreed to the Plaza accords https://youtu.be/pU_yyadYgG8 Other Asian countries probably are going to be careful
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by berdario 3y ago
Not every country is sanctioned equally: Iran is flying mostly western planes, and there were plans to buy more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air#Future_fleet_plans DPRK is only flying Russian planes: https:&#x2
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by berdario 3y ago
You're wrong. "Spending per cent of national income" it went down every year, from around 2009 until the pandemic. https://obr.uk/forecasts-in-depth/brief-guides-and-explainer...
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by berdario 3y ago
The concern of tax rules being unclear and causing confusion and distress is a real concern, but that's off topic. Uber willfully misunderstood tax law to their advantage. Were most other taxi companies charging VAT as tour operator ev
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by berdario 3y ago
You tell me, since you believe that apparently no heinous crimes committed by western soldiers are being hidden. > Soldiers and Marines were instructed to look the other way in the face of violent child abuse, even when it took place on
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by berdario 3y ago
Exactly, moreover... His comment > I was specifically talking about sexual violence. Makes it clear that he tried to move the discussion away from recognizing civilian suffering and opposing the countries which oppressed most of the worl
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by berdario 3y ago
> But the scale is different, that's what people like you are refusing to see. Our main disagreement seems to be the scale of the civilian casualties (and other war crimes, which is of course in proportion to that). https:/&#x
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by berdario 3y ago
> Do you think its terrible that Russia rapes and tortures civilians in Ukraine?. I think it's terrible, just as much as it's terrible that the US rapes and torture civilians in the middle east. But that's inflammatory lan
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by berdario 3y ago
I don't think you're wrong, this change was widely advertised in 2020: https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2020/11/18/youtube... https://support.google.com/youtube&#x
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by berdario 3y ago
> There is no systematic rape and torture involved in America's wars Please.. https://capl.army.mil/case-studies/wcs-single.php?id=78&titl... Read about the My Lai massacre about torture in Abu Ghraib About
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by berdario 3y ago
> But its been 150 years and none of that is true, we're still getting better at doing things, and human appetite for consumption hasn't really slowed down. Citation needed. There have been several innovations since Marx's
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by berdario 3y ago
You're telling on yourself: there's no espionage going on. > asked Yeshitela to make statements in support of the independence of the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic This is what the Russians asked Yeshitela to do, and what
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by berdario 3y ago
Of course it contributes to the conversation: 1- it calls a spade a spade: we already have theories of how Capitalism works, and none of the other replies named it. Giving a name to the problem is the first step in fighting it. 2- it explic
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by berdario 3y ago
I feel like you're trying to poke holes in other people's arguments, and not really engaging with an open mind. The straightforward answer is: you don't need a warrant to risk ending up in jail. I'm not a German jurist,
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by berdario 3y ago
We're talking about criminal proceedings here, it's not a "talking point" for which you can doubt its veracity. There's plenty of corroboration https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/0
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by berdario 3y ago
Of course you don't "end up in jail in the west". First they freeze your assets, and only then if you're foolish enough to subject yourself to the due process, you might end up in jail. There's an handful of people
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by berdario 4y ago
web.whatsapp.com requires you to be already logged in the mobile app. Unless you install the Whatsapp .apk on a desktop (ChromeOS?) I don't think you can easily use Whatsapp without a smartphone
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by berdario 4y ago
> the truth is somewhat in the middle True, but what we're witnessing now is a middle, not that middle... (moreover, if both Labour and Tories feel offended, that doesn't mean that the BBC is actually being fair in doing it
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by berdario 4y ago
The problem is not only Sharp, the BBC is widely known for being partisan https://www.medialens.org/2019/the-arrogance-of-bbc-news/ Of course "most corrupt organization in the world" is hyperbole, and I
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by berdario 4y ago
> “They tend to always produce negative pieces about…” is quite an unevidenced statement. There are whole books of evidence for that https://www.medialens.org/2017/preferred-conclusions-the-bbc... > what’s the ga
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by berdario 4y ago
This is a defeatist attitude that will not help improve our society. Sure, there are some reasons for the mistakes (my assumption is that since Europe survive almost unscathed SARS, the importance of having usable stockpiles wasn't as
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by berdario 4y ago
He's been sarcastic: "through amazing coincidence"
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by berdario 4y ago
> Most of our population isn't gung ho about going off to die somewhere This is the media's job: if the US accepted 1M covid deaths, it can accept a similarly massive death toll in whichever military confrontation the US might
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by berdario 4y ago
Inflation is measured ex post facto. TRY against EUR has been pretty stable from January, but the August 2022 rate compares the difference from August 2021. It's not cumulative every month. If TRY against EUR will stay stable until Jan
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by berdario 4y ago
You don't need amazing internet. I played Stadia (and other game streaming services) in 8+ different places across Europe. OTOH, what really kills the experience IME is the jitter. Even if you have decent latency with Wifi, a brief spi
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by berdario 4y ago
Yeah, but if you're not aware of this gotcha, the extension takes the choice away from you. It's good that the parent post highlighted this issue. I don't care a lot about cookies, but if a website is abusive enough that they
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by berdario 4y ago
> ...or whatever, and need the damn TOTP code to telework _right now_. Do you? Really? "Your lack of planning is not my emergency" Unless you're the founder+owner, I'd expect that tech support at your company wouldn&#
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by berdario 4y ago
Sure, Mossadegh didn't try to move away from USD, he just tried to nationalize their oil industry. In both cases, those are acts contrary to US interests, and trying to argue that we shouldn't consider the US reactions as part of

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