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by danielschonfeld 5y ago
I don't think you have explained the reason for the capital accumulating more at the one side of the margin. Or maybe I just didn't understand?
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by danielschonfeld 5y ago
In case it wasn't evident enough from this and my historical comments, I obviously whole heartedly agree. But that doesn't change the fact, this is who he and his regime was marketed as to Americans in the 2.5 years post 9/11
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by danielschonfeld 5y ago
There seems to be a general case of amnesia about the way the Iraq war was sold and I'm not quite sure why. While the fairy tale of WMDs was a multiyear effort the US has undertaken, first and foremost as a response to 9/11, Sadda
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by danielschonfeld 5y ago
Thanks for sharing this insight!
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by danielschonfeld 5y ago
Curious to hear more. Do explain please
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by danielschonfeld 5y ago
Agreed and the answer to your question of why? This is the power engine of the American economy and dream. Our economy is based on us engaged in a conflict for which we print money and hand it to government contractors to later make its way
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by danielschonfeld 5y ago
One can only hope. But first we need to fix ourselves from that PTSD that 9/11 left us with, though I am not sure we can stomach that. I wonder if the Germans ever came to terms with their WWII shame? Hard to tell. From my encounters w
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by danielschonfeld 5y ago
It never means a damn thing. It’s always the same story book for the US. And each time you have a fresh batch of recruits from the poorest neighborhoods of every major city ready to “fight for our freedom” and be discarded after like we dis
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by danielschonfeld 5y ago
I think this is the best comment I’ve seen to date on this topic. From beginning to end, word for word.
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by danielschonfeld 5y ago
Can anybody sleep these days? Happy to know I’m not alone :)
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by danielschonfeld 5y ago
every other day, when this topic comes up, someone comes here full of themselves pretending like we've all come to consensus about what happened that day, mean while study after study shows 50% of Americans are split on what transpired
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by danielschonfeld 5y ago
While logical to assume, that's not a given. I think some of us want to believe that the keys to those said images are uploaded encrypted to the cloud. And the ability to sync between devices just means adding more keys to your accou
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by danielschonfeld 5y ago
Admittedly the Yugoslav wars are not my strong suit in history, but if protecting genocide is all that is American, it makes you wonder where have we been the past decade when it came to Yemen. Same with the Uyghurs in China. Same with th
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by danielschonfeld 5y ago
I agree with the poster below me. While the financial crisis might be more of a root of all problems in Millenial and generations that followed minds it’s not where it all started (I am a Millenial) Also don’t forget 2008 was the year of th
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by danielschonfeld 5y ago
Not as vast as you think [1]. Also as of late it appears the victims don’t want their president there in their 20th reunion for similar reasons. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polls_about_9/11_con...
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by danielschonfeld 5y ago
It won’t be the first time in history, Americans and with them the “western” world turned a blind eye to who’s backs their hedonistic party was carried over. If you look at what was life like. What people cared about. What songs sang about.
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by danielschonfeld 5y ago
The answer to that is a personal one and I suggest for anybody on either side of any argument to recall Nietzsche’s saying - Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
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by danielschonfeld 5y ago
I am with you. But I think I know what it is, you touched on it and almost had it. It was indeed peace, we almost had it, world peace - feeling utopian and all loving in the 90s. Then came 9/11. It’s the single point in history where j
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by danielschonfeld 5y ago
To echo that sentiment. Does anyone believe Google under Sundar Pichai actually believes in anything open and private, given how many google employees during his reign have tried to organize against what google stands for, only to be shut
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by danielschonfeld 5y ago
Not to take away from the MO strong towns publishes on their front page. And the topic at hand. One has to remember that strong towns origins are from a yarning to building human scale towns and not machine scale ones. I think any conversat
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by danielschonfeld 5y ago
Fixed, thank you.
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by danielschonfeld 5y ago
1) Life isn't fair. I know it's cliche, but these 4 simple words contain so much in them that rings true to so many places and situations you'll be in life. Accept it. 2) The contrast to that is that nobody has it all. Espe
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by danielschonfeld 5y ago
Is it going to take 20-30 more years for the same kind of articles to be made on the war on terror and our portrayal of 9/11 and everything surrounding it, until we finally wake up and realize it was a story sold to us?
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by danielschonfeld 5y ago
How is it that in the year 2021, visionary infrastructure project is investing in an old and slow rail network? Why can Dubai work on hyper loop and for us Amtrak is the best we can come up with? Maybe our politicians are a bit too old for
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by danielschonfeld 6y ago
Can someone please explain to me the appeal of telegram (as opposed to signal)? Maybe I don’t understand something or am too old but how is it a safe haven compared to WhatsApp in the wake of the WhatsApp debecle. I just fail to understand.
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by danielschonfeld 6y ago
Time and time again lately this issue comes up on HN as if it’s a single sector affected by the same umbrella of broken politics and broken system we have. It isn’t. It’s the same old, rinse and repeated. America’s evolution of the free mar
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by danielschonfeld 6y ago
> The level of militarisation of said police; A government has to have a place to throw all that expensive high tech combat gear that $686.1 Billion buys you. What better place than their local communities' police units? Making gro
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by danielschonfeld 6y ago
> Is America really such a police state now that you are just supposed to submit to anyone in a uniform? Yes. It has been since Sept 11th 2001. (And every single day since, that we stand idly as a nation and refuse to look further into
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by danielschonfeld 6y ago
A better question to ask is how many of those pilots have progressed in their careers and moved on flying as captains for other world airlines. Having based their privileges on fake foundations. This problem is ripe in aviation and it’s all
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by danielschonfeld 6y ago
I think the reason is that there is no interfacing between federal money and their currency, it's the equivalent of bartering only with the agileness of currency notes instead of cows, lamb and sheep. To your question, if cryptocurren

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