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by brickfaced 2y ago
It's easy to solve once you realize that the US has no strategic interest in Ukraine.
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by brickfaced 2y ago
Votes.
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by brickfaced 2y ago
You can tell Russia whatever you want, but you can't threaten the existence of the Russian state with American military might backed by the credible threat of nuclear weapons. That has a significant chance of provoking a nuclear Russia
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by brickfaced 2y ago
For a foreign head of state in the White House on a state visit sitting next to the President in front of cameras, you mean? Or did you mean someone else in an entirely different context?
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by brickfaced 2y ago
The first Trump administration lifted Obama's ban on lethal aid to Ukraine and supplied and trained Ukrainians on Javelin anti-tank missiles, night vision devices, counter-battery fire radar systems, and secure battlefield communicatio
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by brickfaced 2y ago
Calling the recently-elected Vice President of the United States "bitch" in Russian, on camera, in the White House, was probably not the right way to appeal to the American people. https://x.com/MyLordBebo/sta
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by brickfaced 2y ago
You're right, he won 49.7% of the popular vote compared to Kamala Harris' 48.4%. Many states like Arizona and California took weeks to finish counting and I had not checked the final numbers. If you're curious how most Americ
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by brickfaced 2y ago
You don't speak for all or even most Americans. A majority of US voters selected Donald Trump as their President. I'm pleased with the President's pushback on the disrespectful, high-pressure bargaining tactics Zelensky tried
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by brickfaced 2y ago
All President Zelensky had to do was say "thanks for your support" and have the hard conversations behind closed doors. Instead he tried to use high-pressure negotiating tactics in front of the cameras, on Donald Trump of all peop
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by brickfaced 2y ago
I'm willing to believe you mean what you say and are posting in good faith, but please read this comment and others on its link and tell me with a straight face there's no strong lib-left bias in HN's community moderation: h
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by brickfaced 2y ago
I promise not to exceed the level of unmoderated flamebait, vitriol, hatred and froth directed at me and my ideological cohort by the average HN poster.
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by brickfaced 2y ago
Getting everything I voted for and more.
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by brickfaced 2y ago
Sure, here are some remarks on news dot ycombinator dot com https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43141350 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43141963 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4
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by brickfaced 2y ago
It's not an illusion. I've been on HN across various accounts for over a decade. There is a hard liberal-progressive tilt to comments and post flagging which has been documented and remarked upon by others on sites where such comm
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by brickfaced 2y ago
Yes, I and others on the right support full-blown authoritarian fascist positions like "freedom of speech"
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by brickfaced 2y ago
I hope you're never in charge of anything in which other people find meaning and community.
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by brickfaced 2y ago
This is a very sad and soulless way to view Bond's story.
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by brickfaced 2y ago
I'm not getting paid to do your homework for you
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by brickfaced 2y ago
Taboos on incest and cousin marriage are what actually made the difference there, along with harsh winters
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by brickfaced 2y ago
>And now the USA workers wonder if it was all actually a good idea? We were never asked.
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by brickfaced 2y ago
Yes, the human brain
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by brickfaced 2y ago
>I'm American, so I've never lived in this kind of nation. "What is water?", said the fish
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by brickfaced 2y ago
You would never apply this reductive, solipsistic lens to any non-white ethnicity or culture and I think you know it
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by brickfaced 2y ago
What do you think a nation is? Is it a sports team or economic zone that hands out name tags to whoever steps off the boat with the right attitude? Or is it a specific group of people in a specific place with a shared language, lineage, cul
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by brickfaced 2y ago
This type of solipsistic kumbaya slop is running face-first into reality, fast. People are different. Groups of people are different. Nations of people can be very different. They differ in meaningful and important and obvious ways. You&#x2
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by brickfaced 2y ago
The USSR never did pay us back for the massive, unprecedented, war-winning aid we delivered to them under Lend-Lease. Half a million trucks, thousands of tanks, tens of thousands of airplanes, millions of tons of food. And what did we get o
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by brickfaced 2y ago
1,200 men of the same ethnic and religious background of the median American, brought over in a one-time arrangement in the wake of the most destructive war ever fought, versus 100,000 Indian H1B visas granted annually. That's just Ind
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by brickfaced 2y ago
The US didn't win World War 2, break the sound barrier, or put a man on the Moon only or primarily due to immigrant workers. We scoured the country's public school system for the sharpest young minds, sent them to institutions of
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by brickfaced 2y ago
Having known several great EEs in FAANG who did exactly that job, sometimes paying Chinese income tax due to the length of their stays at the factory, that is my impression as well.
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by brickfaced 2y ago
OK but as I'm not a mentally-ill X poster I don't use that one

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