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Read about how a 25 year old American girl, Ronni Moffitt, who was a fundraiser and opponent of Chile's dictatorship, was killed by car bomb, along with Orlando Letelier, in Washington DC in 1976 by Chile's intelligence service. C
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> often-documented regular raids from /other/ hunter-gather bands, including torture, rape, murder and slavery. There is no slavery in migratory hunter-gatherer bands, I can't even conceive how that would function. Slaver
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How many hours a week does an adult man in a hunter gatherer band deep in the Amazon or in sub-Saharan Africa work? Anthropologists say usually less than forty hours, which means less than most people here. Not much money, but they don&#x2
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There was an economist who predicted this in the 19th century https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tendency_of_the_rate_of_profit...
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In 2010 there was an international campaign of clemency for an Iranian woman who was going to get the death penalty. The campaign said she was imprisoned for adultery. She was in prison for adultery - and also murdering her husband, with
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In 2006, a satellite repairman in New York City was imprisoned for allowing people to watch the television channel al-Manar, which is run by a political party which holds over 10% of the seats in Lebanon's parliament - Hezbollah.
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Maybe they'll do a report on the Free Liberty USA passing a law to put Tiktok censoring in their hands.
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A common western rebuke to countries that had communist revolutions were that the revolutionary leader stayed in power for decades until their death. Joseph Stalin. Mao Zedong. Fidel Castro's power passed to his brother five years b
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> There's nothing about the Muslim Brotherhood pertaining to "modern governments built around such ideals as individual rights, rule of law, checks and balances, multiple political parties..."...Better to deal with a secul
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So what you're saying is the West wanted (and funded and armed) tough governments that kept a lid on things as opposed to "modern governments built around such ideals as individual rights, rule of law, checks and balances, multipl
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With regards to central planning, neither China nor the US is fully in or out of it. China still has Five Year Plans and some central planning, but Deng Xioping took steps away from it in the 1980s. There's a mythology the US has no ce
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> While I'd love to see many parts of Africa and the mideast embrace the enlightenment values that have created our modern governments built around such ideals as individual rights, rule of law, checks and balances, multiple politic
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> The heritability of IQ, from twin studies and via other traditional methods of measuring heritability, is way higher than the author of that article implies. It's as high as 0.8. No one here can seem to be able to prevent an LLM f
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These studies are very flawed for several reasons, the main one being "separation" which is a very loose definition of separation. If identical twins grow up together but some time in childhood one is sent to live with a relative
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> I've come to believe that acceptance of crime is a choice by officials. Many low level crimes I've witnessed are trivial to catch. > And it's only a handful of people engaged in this low level crime. Arrest a few. An
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"Defense" spending (the US is currently involved in "defense" by its involvement in bombing Yemen, Gaza, Russia and other countries) is considered very narrowly - you don't count veteran's benefits as military
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It shows what kind of economic system we have that the parasitic idle class has imposed upon the class which works, when the one kind of loan you can't shake is one you sign up for before you're allowed to drink alcohol, under hig
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That would mean lifting the Venezuela sanctions, Cuban embargo, and so on. I'm for it. The US has a dry foot policy specifically for Cuba, encouraging people to seek asylum in the US. The US involvement in Central America - from Hondu
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You see this in cross-Atlantic history education too. In US and European history, everything seems to flow out of Europe, or at least the Mediterranean. Menes becomes king of Egypt around 3150 BC. Then we fastforward to Honer and the Oly
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That would make this whole article bogus. Actually it didn't add up to 106%, although the reality doesn't matter. That the mud the CIA, NED etc. throw on Venezuela is all that matters.
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Lapham: "America in 1957, I sought enlistment in the CIA and sat for an interview with a credentials committee...prepared for nothing less, I had spent the days prior to the interview reading about Lenin’s train...the width of the Fuld
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> Gen Z are the richest generation in all of American history on a median per-capita real income basis, compared to older generations when they were the same age. Per capita? Not at all. What source says that? More of Generation Z live
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> per-capita Anyone looking at this chart can see the asterisk in it - adjusted by household size This is not a per capita income chart. It even says it is not in the chart. More of Generation Z lives at home in their 20s than baby boom
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This discusses what "elites" think a lot, but does not discuss why that matters From 1950 to 1979, times we think of more stable families, the Gini index in the US never went above 39. From 1993 to 2019 it never went below 40. T
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CIA-backed groups in Miami were bombing Cuban hotels in the 1990s. They were bombing Cuban passenger airlines, killing many civilians. They were burning sugar fields. Of course there was also the Bay of Pigs invasion, the theft of Guanta
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> externalizing a threat Yes, it's illustrative of the USA. Due to monopolies, lack of local control of infrastructure etc., a feature is rolled out that grinds hospitals, airports etc. to a halt. Surely due to forces we're s
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> taking a risk You are only taking a significant risk in production investment in an unplanned economy. So it is tautological, circular reasoning. Capitalists want an unplanned economy and then say they deserve their profits for the ri
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At least half of the recent YC batch is in AI, and building models is not cheap (or startup cheap any how).
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The US had a tax rate of over 90% for the wealthy in the 1950s (although with loopholes they could push it lower, like now). Didn't seem to have much of an effect on the wealthy, and the US working class did very well.
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> they can still buy stocks on the open market Well that's my point - people who do the work and create the wealth don't get that wealth in wages, it is parasitically expropriated by stockholders. I am arguing on the side of th

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