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by c_crank 3y ago
I'm not assigning any moral value by calling him a 'superhero' only pointing out that he can represent a side, and that side does not even hold the majority of the wealthy.
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by c_crank 3y ago
For as much as any man in 21st century America can claim to stand for the position of the superhero rich man trying to dictate policy in favor of industry, he does. He argues for less regulation, less taxes, even such quaint things like fre
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by c_crank 3y ago
The politicians the ultra rich buy are the ones pushing policy in the opposite direction of Elon Musk.
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by c_crank 3y ago
How many people would be willing to trade medicaid for something as simple as inflation reduction, I wonder?
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by c_crank 3y ago
Reality: Americans have not been ruled by the superhero-like ultra rich for decades, and are starting to notice that little is improving and much is getting worse.
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by c_crank 3y ago
The whims of the morally aggressive Western elite substitute for heavy handed regulation from top down. Although recent moves have been made to try and institute a CCP style bureau of misinformation even in America.
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by c_crank 3y ago
Not that a big a deal, honestly.
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by c_crank 3y ago
We're still waiting for the Big Functional Language that will actually provide a noticeable benefit in correctness in a real world context.
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by c_crank 3y ago
Would there be so many ineffective tutorials and bad analogies if having to use monads really wasn't a problem?
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by c_crank 3y ago
>Seems to have done pretty well [1], all things considered. If being a democracy with elections is all that matters, yes. Putin's Russia fits that bill.
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by c_crank 3y ago
The SPD, right. My mistake.
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by c_crank 3y ago
>I don't understand this point. Classic liberalism is a set of ideas that gave birth to many forms of government - are you trying to make an analogy? If so, it doesn't track very well for me. The government in America based on
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by c_crank 3y ago
The movie overdramatizes history to make Einstein seem more significant. Einstein never worked on the Manhattan project, and the Nazis were earnestly working on their own attempted nuclear device. They just didn't finish it first. The
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by c_crank 3y ago
The war was fought the way it was with the goal of preserving American lives compared to Russian ones. If the Allies wanted to preserve Russian lives, the best way of doing so would have been to do the Normandy landings years earlier, inste
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by c_crank 3y ago
It seems odd to say the Nazis lost a technology war when the Allies worked very hard on recruiting Nazi scientists as soon as the war ended to harness their expertise in fields like rocketry. They had their strengths and weaknesses.
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by c_crank 3y ago
The last strategic offensive the Nazis mounted in the Soviet Union was in 1943, which failed. The failure at Stalingrad occurred only months earlier. The Eastern Front at the time was already using 80-90% of Nazi material and manpower. I an
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by c_crank 3y ago
>For example, there is no version of WWII that doesn't involve Hitler wanting to destroy communism by conquering the soviets, and even just that one thing basically means there was no real path to victory. It's easy to imagine
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by c_crank 3y ago
The allies were also investing their own resources into the bombing fleets. In the economy of war, an extra tank or artillery gun or fighter bomber produced far more valuable and clear results than another strategic bomber.
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by c_crank 3y ago
Hydrogen only exists as a liquid at very uncomfortable pressures and temperatures. Water can be split into its separate components. It's much easier to gather water than it is liquid Hydrogen, and if one wanted to make a gas station, i
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by c_crank 3y ago
>Still, deaths mean decreased workforce which is already strained by the military draft. This imagines a strain on the workforce that never really existed. Industrial countries can and have staffed factories and repair crews with women a
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by c_crank 3y ago
Why does man fight in losing wars? If he gives up too easily, he might lose fights he actually had a chance of winning. Or perhaps he does it to satisfy a sense of honor he and his community hold. That it is better to die fighting than to l
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by c_crank 3y ago
The war was over when soldiers surrendered and stopped shooting. The course of the war was predictable when Germany invaded the USSR. If the allies had done no strategic bombing at all, both of these things would still be true.
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by c_crank 3y ago
Production of arms unaffected by loss of raw materials continued throughout the bombings. The classic example often used is ball bearings, whose production increased up until 1945.
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by c_crank 3y ago
Most of their resources were still being sent to the Eastern front during the entire extent of it existing. Most significant damage to German fighting capabilities came from tactical strikes by the US airforce during and after the Normandy
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by c_crank 3y ago
Classical liberalism is a government, a regime, and it has been overtaken and is being replaced already. Hence why classical liberals feel surrounded by sharks.
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by c_crank 3y ago
Any of the gas they 'mined' (ignoring the immense difficulties of trying to mine liquid hydrogen) would be stuck on the platform without a rocket to carry it out of orbit. It would be much, much easier to stick a base on Ganymede
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by c_crank 3y ago
>Your comment seems to imply the German forces on the Eastern front weren't reliant on the German industrial capacity targeted by the Allied bombings. The bombings did little to disrupt said industry. Though there were deaths and da
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by c_crank 3y ago
"The classical liberals seem much like the old Tsarists, happy to wax poetic about a regime they were incapable of defending or restoring."
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by c_crank 3y ago
In reality, the Nazis didn't surrender until after Berlin was taken and all but a few pockets of resistance were eliminated. The bombings may have let them know things were turning around, but they didn't drop their guns.
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by c_crank 3y ago
Throwing nukes into the equation does change things. It was also well time with the Soviet Union entering the war, which is often unmentioned.

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