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by gspetr 5y ago
"Silence equals support." This 'translation' is either ignorance or deliberate malice to mislead people. "Silence is a sign of consent" would be an accurate translation, and even then a saying is just a saying,
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by gspetr 5y ago
A ton of celebrities pledged to leave if Trump got elected. Well he did. Yet, almost nobody kept their oath. And it's not like they stayed on and took up arms either. And if you don't want people to leave, then that automatically
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by gspetr 5y ago
Depending on where you do it, it might go down about as well as this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDnvXAkMnx8 (Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995) - Bad Day in Harlem Scene)
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by gspetr 5y ago
Stayed? Khodorkovsky hasn't stayed after he got out. And Navalny overplayed his hand. It appears he really thought it was about him, not the movement he had created, otherwise he'd have had his wife run for office, which is what w
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by gspetr 5y ago
>Recall that Russia exited nuclear arms treaties and controls From game theory stand point that is the only course of action to maintain MAD. If you're falling behind in drones and high precision weapons, it would be very disadvanta
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by gspetr 5y ago
They do: https://scooptrade.com/mintsifry-called-for-stimulating-the-...
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by gspetr 5y ago
The Federation is not the entire world, there were at least 4 more entities of that level who were distinct, and weren't particularly keen on joining the Federation. Star Trek: Birth of the Federation captured this quite well in its en
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by gspetr 5y ago
Production of opium and its derivatives before it was under US control and after. These are the only 2 numbers you should look at.
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by gspetr 5y ago
>What was senate thinking This is not comparable to how one gets elected to an upper house in most countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federation_council_of_russia#E... These are rubber-stamping yes-men of a si
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by gspetr 5y ago
2 developers I'm in contact with are moving from St.Petersburg to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladikavkaz and then to Georgia even as we speak, 1 by train, another by plane.
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by gspetr 5y ago
Let me address the last paragraph of your comment. Vast? No. Majority? Most likely. You do not need to take my word for it, you can look for 1st hand accounts from people who were P. election observers from the opposition. I'll at leas
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by gspetr 5y ago
No worries, 21st century got you covered! Russia + Ukraine combined amount to some 25% of global wheat export alone, not to mention how global fertilizer prices will skyrocket in the months to come, causing prices to increase for a lot of f
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by gspetr 5y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwynHUEPo54&list=PLR1VVi2S5x... "NBC CAUGHT Spreading Literal Nazi, Deep State Propaganda | Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar" Not a fringe or right-wing source, especiall
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by gspetr 5y ago
Mainstream media figures are buddy-buddy with G.W. Bush, so what are you talking about? https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ellen-degeneres-defends-george-...
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by gspetr 5y ago
The presented "solution" isn't one at all, see Iran.
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by gspetr 5y ago
What is the point then? White collar workers just flee the country: See Venezuela, Iran, etc. Even Russian Revolution itself is an example of this trend. When white collar workers become "inconvenient" they get purged as enemies o
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by gspetr 5y ago
The article omits any discussion of this point, that is why I asked the person familiar with the field whether they have insights to share.
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by gspetr 5y ago
>there would be no women Grandmasters. Why bother commenting at all without bothering to put in effort for even a cursory search? There are 39. Including 2 last year. Full GMs, no prefixes.
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by gspetr 5y ago
That depends on your definition of good money. I've heard Ben Finegold say that 30 years ago only about top-30 could make anything resembling a decent living in a developed nation, while nowadays, even adjusted for inflation, the prize
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by gspetr 5y ago
What's fascinating to me is that the article makes no mention of female performance in chess whatsoever, which has historically been underwhelming compared to men, seeing how the strongest female player ever never made it into even top
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by gspetr 5y ago
>In Romania thousands of unarmed people stormed the seat of government and that led to the overthrow of the government. Wikipedia says[0] it was "the only violent overthrow of a communist government". Violent does not sound una
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by gspetr 5y ago
>Mass manipulation is quite cheap and easy in the age of Facebook. You don’t think this occurs? "Cheap and easy" != effective. The alleged Russia intervention appears to have been on the order of several hundred thousands of do
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by gspetr 5y ago
>Russia and others have done a great job at sowing dissent. This has been debunked by non-corporate journalists like Glenn Greenwald, Matt Taibbi, etc. After 1.5 years of investigation, unlimited subpoena powers and 10s of millions of do
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by gspetr 5y ago
>oops, you used the term 'TDS' in another comment. The jig is up TDS is a term also used by actual, you know, leftists. Like Bernie voters: https://www.reddit.com/r/WayOfTheBern/comments/ext4tn&#x
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by gspetr 5y ago
>Muslim ban You do realize Biden recently banned travel from 8 African countries? >"build that wall" Type into any search engine "kamala harris says do not come" The irony here is off the charts.
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by gspetr 6y ago
The problem is that YouTube explicitly promotes "credible and authoritative" news sources, but these are the same sources that tell you: Case 1: Leaked Podesta emails and CNN https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjDLcvO
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by gspetr 6y ago
No, but the reason is less important than the pros of this outcome. Would you condemn a man who saved a child from a burning building because he wanted his 15 minutes of fame and not because it was the right thing to do? I'm deliberate
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by gspetr 6y ago
The Nazi concentration camps still stand. Furthermore, when people vandalized Auschwitz's notorious "Arbeit Macht Frei" (Work sets you free) sign[0] it was restored. If even Jews wish to preserve the concentration camps for t
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by gspetr 6y ago
> core Republican positions: support of free trade and being against protectionism and tariffs This is not the case, as (or at least has not been since Reagan) there have been 2 main tools of regulating/restricting foreign imports b
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by gspetr 6y ago
>I think it is important that the system they are changing to is better for Mongolian people, not tourists. This very charitably assumes that this is the will of Mongolian people and not just the will of the government. Nowhere in the ar

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