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by cazum 8y ago
Most people don't really have a narrative that explains the recent rise of nationalism. In America, they blame Russia because that's easier than taking a critical look at why a voting majority of people in their country think buil
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Is there any mechanism in Westminster politics, or any democratic political system for that matter, for invalidating election results if it is determined that an external state interfered with the process? If it was found that Russia interf
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You being able to take a bus to work does not mean that the majority of people in America can as well. A large number of jobs are filled by people who cannot afford to live anywhere but in a different city than where their employer is locat
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Oil industries have the financial resources to influence policy, public opinion, economics and business practices. Individuals do not. Blaming the consumer for buying bad shit when there is not only no equivalent on the market, but an activ
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A single line unix command run on KiwiFarm's servers could replace every instance of "archive.is" with "archive.today" in posts. Nobody is going to attempt a high profile take over like this for something that can b
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Watch "The Lobby" by The Electronic Intifada. It will shed a lot of light onto what you're describing.
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It's not a matter of "easy" or "hard", it's a matter of how much money you're willing to spend on processing asylum claims. Hiring more immigration lawyers, building more offices, hiring more officers for
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People don't suddenly become politically aware at 18. Paying taxes and graduating high school doesn't grant you deep political insight. >The biggest impacts on their lives are from their parents' circumstance or decision m
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yes, but that's going to be more a result of financial restrictions, not lack of real desire.
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There are many more obvious reasons why someone might want to seize an archive domain without needing to delve into ridiculous gamer gate conspiracy theories. Besides, stealing the domain doesn't delete any content on the servers.
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>laws are the ethics of the society Law is the attempt at legalizing ethical principles. Quite often the laws fall short of the actual ethical consensus of the society due to the fact that the members of the society ultimately have littl
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Theres plenty of ways to compare and separate the Republicans from the democrats, but war is really not one of them.
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You're implying that both the quality of care and the amount of medical research done is a result of the profits of the medical companies. I'm not sure that this is the case.
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The author does in fact use the term Social Justice Warrior, which I agree, is an unproductive disparaging term used to dismiss people, which is why I used the term cuck. Perhaps it's an escalation of rhetorical force, but I don't
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I agree with the terms, I just don't see how the author has determined that progressives have universally decided to stop there, and not follow through in a meaningful manner. Deplatforming, for example, is meaningful praxis for a lot
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Our author seems to be quite drastically mischaracterizing the intentions of what he calls the "contemporary left": >The contemporary left’s concern is with the underlying biases that bolster the racism that remains. It seeks,
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What is "racial angst"?
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The Bush rule is that "wetlands will keep their federal protection" The Obama rule is "farms near those wetlands cannot do bad thing to the wetlands" By repealing the Obama rule, they are inherently repealing the Bush on
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Both of your links involve armed combatants fighting IDF. nobody is calling those people civilians. I'm calling these people civilians: https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.haaretz.com/amp/israel-news&#x2
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>Israel does better than anyone else in the world at minimizing civilian causalities, but accidents are a fact of war. Israel regularly shoots and kills unarmed civilians for standing too close to a fence. >So, what other options does
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>I don't see how we have a free market without the possibility of a Jeff Bezos rising to the top. Abolish the concept of a CEO. If the company is run democratically, as a cooperative, where every worker has a say in how the company
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by cazum 8y ago
>I'd rather someone give away $100M compared to $0 even if its peanuts for them based on their personal finance. Yes, it's good that he has given away some money, and this money will do real good, it's important not to let
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Your idea that these laborers are victims of "homeless crack addicts manipulatively employing the victim narrative" is such an extreme miscalculation that I wonder if you even looking at the data honestly. The amount of money that
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Reminder that the reason he is doing this is to trick you into thinking massive top-heavy wealth accumulation can be sustainable or in any way "good". If you need any evidence that this is anything but a PR sham, read this: https
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I should have written "one of the largest", not the largest, my apologies.
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If we're just going to attribute anything that happened during capitalism as a result of the "free market" then I get to say that communism invented satellites, discovered stem cells, and cured maternally transmitted HIV. Ele
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Both of those things sound very good. Corporate growth for the sake of growth is what got us to an atmospheric carbon dioxide level of 400PPM. If your idea of a company's success is how much profit it accrues, maybe it's time to q
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>The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a cybersecurity vulnerability warning for users of Medtronic's CareLink 2090 Programmer and CareLink Encore 29901 Programmer devices. Medtronic is also the company that made vulner
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For a while in the early-mid 2010s, /v/ and /pol/ were rallying points for what we would today call the alt-right. To this day, the pervasive politics of most of 4chan are hard right, leaning into ethnostatism. You'
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>Mixing software with politics never ends well in a democracy. This is just so obviously absurd, in order to give you the benefit of the doubt, I need have to assume that you and I must have functionally different definitions of what &qu

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