boona

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by boona 10y ago
> the long discredit campaign began You think too little of Hillary. She broke the glass ceiling on that one and did it nearly all be herself.
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by boona 10y ago
> The left just didn't realise the extent of people that believed that lie. Believing what lie?
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by boona 10y ago
> who pledged to roll back LGBT rights You mean the man who will likely have a homosexual man (Peter Thiel) lead his transition team. > stop Muslims from entering the country I don't agree with this, but I also don't agree w
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by boona 10y ago
> those are the ones that any sane person would be against That's the kind of elitism that put Trump into power. That aside, I'm glad to see that some leftists are starting to come around to the idea that through trying to figh
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by boona 10y ago
>Walk a mile in their shoes and maybe you'll understand why some people get offended at things you don't get offended at. In the western world we're incredibly tolerant to other people's religion, lifestyles, etc. If
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by boona 10y ago
> so I'm assuming he thinks we can somehow talk retail stores into offending their customers again I don't believe that most people are so intolerant as to allow themselves to be offended when they hear "Merry Christmas&qu
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by boona 10y ago
"For years, technologists and other utopians have argued that online news would be a boon to democracy. That has not been the case." It clearly has. Had it not been for Wikileaks, and various online news organizations we would nev
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by boona 10y ago
... and the other sets up her own email private server which got hacked by a [taxi driver]( https://www.rt.com/news/362417-hacker-guccifer-clinton-roman... ). As intelligent as he can be, if he was able to get in, it&#x2
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by boona 10y ago
There's a lot more back story. [Here is a video]( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqD8lIdIMRo ) of Putin explaining that we're essentially on the brink of a major world war, and that the average citizen in the weste
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by boona 10y ago
Actually the issues are closely linked. For example, look at the Davis-Bacon Act which according to the National Center for Policy Analysis "the 1931 Davis-Bacon Act, requiring ‘prevailing’ wages on federally assisted construction proj
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by boona 10y ago
I wonder if it's due to their censorship policy lately. Facebook seems to have been doing the same to a lesser degree, but not so openly.
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by boona 10y ago
>we have an arrogant economic royalist lamenting the consequences of women having a political voice ... but equally clear that he has no novel, reasonable justification for disenfranchising women. Hilarious! This is exactly what I'm
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by boona 10y ago
>mathematically and logically correct There is nothing mathematical or logical about value judgements. Those are two fields that pride themselves in that. You are deciding that the opinion is idiotic because it's not your own opinio
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by boona 10y ago
I would love to hear WHY he's skeptical. I'm sure he's heard all the traditional arguments like we have, which means he has additional information that I don't. Don't you think it's more intellectually honest t
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by boona 10y ago
The EU experiment has failed. The currency alone is proof of that. And now that several of the member states are economic sinking ships, the stronger nations are saving themselves before they go down with them. It'll be interesting to
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by boona 10y ago
>That is a myth ... You don't okay. I'll stick with the numbers. >try to travel a bit. For people who have actually been around the world I don't live in the United States, and I've done plenty of traveling. I&#x27
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by boona 10y ago
>gutted and underfunded social services The US spends so much, that social security and medicare combined have nearly 33 trillion dollars in unfunded liabilities. To give you a sense of scale, that's half of the world's gdp. In
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by boona 10y ago
> the end-game of libertarian "the government should enforce property rights only" The alternative is government, but this is clearly a case where they've failed. Federal, state, and local governments haven't provided
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by boona 10y ago
>there was no transaction fee on Dankort transactions. It was practically a public subsidised credit card system. i.e. You and non-participating parties were paying for it through taxes. So the transaction fee was hidden by layers of bur
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by boona 10y ago
Thank god the US is so innovative because they would never be able to reach their goals.
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by boona 10y ago
"Stealing" jobs, is that the narrative we're suppose to subscribe to? Or are they breaking up a government backed monopoly and democratizing it. I personally don't care if there aren't any net new jobs if they'
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by boona 10y ago
To know why this is a bad idea, you might want to watch this video titled The Myth of the Rational Voter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKANfuq_92U .
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A Confession of Liberal Intolerance(nytimes.com)
50 points by boona 10y ago|95 comments
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by boona 10y ago
So Qaddafi wanted to create a gold backed currency to complete with the French Franc? Tisk tisk, that's how wars start. https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/12659
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by boona 10y ago
"Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada grabbed international headlines recently with a simple explanation of a cutting-edge technology called quantum computing." While dodging a question about his understanding of economics. For
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by boona 11y ago
Had liberals (or north-american libertarians) been able to win the battle for words, we would be discussing "making it illegal for low skill workers to get jobs", not "minimum wage".
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by boona 11y ago
Ugh, that's what I get for reading a Guardian article, little substance, an insult to liberals (or North-American libertarians), and finally a safe space for third-wave feminists, never mind that they have now become the dominant group
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by boona 11y ago
Dear CEO, I've made some bad decisions in my life and it has led me to living in a place with astronomical living costs, and my only being worth $8 an hour on the market. Instead of taking responsibility for my life and my circumstance
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by boona 11y ago
>Is this satire? Why do you say that?
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by boona 11y ago
I started getting political in the Bush era. I was understandably anti-war, anti-corporatism what with the close ties to Halliburton, etc. When Obama came into power I naively thought the left would be just as hard on him than they were on

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