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by ch4s3 10mo ago
Jimmy Lai is more courageous and principled than anyone you've probably ever met in your life. He'll die in prison for his belief that speech should be free in Hong Kong.
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by ch4s3 10mo ago
Here's a contemporary report from the NYT[1]: >The ballot was not a secret one. Separate polling places were provided for those voters favoring dissolution and those against, and the vote had to give his name, his address and the nu
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by ch4s3 10mo ago
It's always going to be near impossible to get money back out of Cambodia, which is the implication in the post. You can trivially figure out where the author of the post lives too, but I'm not sure there's much usable advice
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by ch4s3 10mo ago
I don’t have the book I’m looking for handy but the consensus opinion of historians of Iran is that it was an illegitimate move, as explained by Ervand Abrahamian in “ Evolving Iran: An Introduction to Politics and Problems in the Islamic
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by ch4s3 10mo ago
He stopped the voting when he had enough friendly members, contra the constitution.
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by ch4s3 10mo ago
Well the vote was a sham with no secret ballots and separate voting tents for yes and no votes. Armed members of Tudeh were at almost every poling station, there were wide spread reports of members of Mossadegh's party voting multiple
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by ch4s3 10mo ago
A referendum held outside of the legal process after he probably lost the previous election.
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by ch4s3 10mo ago
> What's problematic is Phoenix agriculture is the focus on extremely water hungry crops like alfalfa and not really the presence of agriculture in general. This is entirely an artifact of arcane water law in the US. Any rational al
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by ch4s3 10mo ago
> increasing the power of the majlis Right up until he was about to lose an election, then he suspended counting votes and tried to dissolve the Majlis in alliance with the communist party.
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by ch4s3 10mo ago
I think it’s just a super complicated story. My post above doesn’t even touch the rural urban divide or the role of the Mullahs or Tudeh and the communists. The whole thing was a second from exploding for years.
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by ch4s3 10mo ago
Essentially, yes. Lots of places manage water poorly. You're basically making my point for me.
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by ch4s3 10mo ago
Mossadegh was elected but was also illegally trying to dissolve parliament. >at the very least it disproves your unspoken assertion that the Iranians are primarily to blame for their problems I'm very clearly stating that the Shah i
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by ch4s3 10mo ago
My point is that western behavior has really nothing to do with Iran going on a foolish dam building spree, or over pumping in a foolish attempt to grow water hungry crops in arid mountain plateaus.
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by ch4s3 10mo ago
Ultimately comments like this deny the agency of people who actually make decisions in these countries.
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by ch4s3 10mo ago
This is sort of a bad and inaccurate summary of a much more complicated situation. Mossadegh was trying to dissolve parliament and was in conflict with the Shah before the British got involved. The Shah was already planning to try by consti
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by ch4s3 10mo ago
How did iRobot hurt anyone? It seems like Warren hurt their workers by denying them the opportunity to keep their jobs. Moreover the whole home robotics industry no resides in China where the companies are run in an even more authoritarian
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by ch4s3 10mo ago
It’s not the government’s job to punish them either, and in this case Warren destroyed the jobs of many of her constituents. Ahh yes workplace democracy, famously tenable for high tech companies.
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by ch4s3 10mo ago
> Opposing one purchaser does not imply supporting another purchaser Opposing the merger in this case necessarily meant embracing iRobot going out of business. Their financial position was clear, and no one else was in that business vert
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by ch4s3 10mo ago
So every small business loan should be a taxable event?
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by ch4s3 10mo ago
How is Chinese market consolidation a healthier market outcome here?
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by ch4s3 11mo ago
On this one particular issue. There are certainly things blocked by Russian search engines which have to comply with a rather lengthy list of banned sites since about 2012.
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by ch4s3 11mo ago
> The fact that different ancient languages have completely different grammatical structures, for example, provides some evidence of this It really doesn't provide that evidence. Proto-Afroasiatic the oldest agreed upon hypothetical
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by ch4s3 11mo ago
Yeah, the people who spoke early Indo-European languages used chariots and wagons, so the land expansion makes sense and you can even see the appearance of those languages reflecting terrain to some extent.
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by ch4s3 11mo ago
It sounds like the problem is living in the suburbs.
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by ch4s3 11mo ago
It’s a tariff on DRIVING in Manhattan, the place in America you least need to drive.
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by ch4s3 11mo ago
You'll obviously buy fewer things that way, and I can't see that making business sense.
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by ch4s3 11mo ago
This is a stupid assertion, plenty of people like being plumbers, or otherwise working with their hands. There no logic in your argument just classism. I’m not friends with the guy, he’s just done good work for me at a fair price. I have a
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by ch4s3 11mo ago
You have no basis for your assertion, it's just classism. You seem like some sort of cartoonish basement-dwelling weeb. You're not mr. fucking spock, get over yourself.
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by ch4s3 11mo ago
Yes, its kind of a shitty way to approach life. Assuming that a plumber beats his wife is a really extreme form of classism and you sound like kind of a miserable piece of shit.
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by ch4s3 11mo ago
> Netflix rarely creates excellent content; instead, it frequently produces mediocre or worse content. I'm really concerned about them ruining the Magic Mike franchise.

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