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> If you want to play silly word games, the CCP have never held power in Taiwan, while one of the parties in Taiwan, the KMT, have held power on the Chinese mainland so ‘reclaim’ could only go the other direction. It's a lecture tha
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Timothy Snyder talks about this idea of "Myth of founding," particularly in regards to Ukraine. You would probably enjoy this lecture titled "the genesis of nations" from his history of Ukraine lecture: https:/&#x2
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Have you ever been to Taiwan? Can you really not separate coerced opinion from opinion? "Do you want to claim independence [and potentially be killed or economically punished for doing so]?" "Do you prefer the status quo [kno
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Arguing for border changes based on history can justify any border change. It's not functionally any different from "might makes right" because the invaded is unlikely to agree with that historical interpretation, nor are out
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Not to mention that many farms will be lacking migrant labor due to mass deportations. "Work will set you free from your addiction."
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> disbelief that this is the new status quo This is called denial or shock, which is a natural result of grief.
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This is an administration that openly is talking about annexing Canada, as well as invading panama and Greenland. It's an administration that has literally said "we want government workers in trauma." Historians are actively
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> "elect me and I'll solve your problems." Isn't that a function of living within hierarchies? Can you describe a system of change where one person is not ultimately responsible for the changes? Unions exist as a stru
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Hope is not a strategy.
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Take my warning or not. You are definitely out of your depth. Here's an entropy primer: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/01/primer-information-the...
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Sounds an awful lot like Pavlok. If you have the willpower to hit the shock yourself device, why don't you have the willpower to not do the action that merits shocking yourself? If you can manage your attention/motivation well eno
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I think people focuses too much on how slavery was bad for the slaves and not enough on how slavery being profitable for slave owners is bad for society. If slavery is too profitable for the slave owners then it makes it too tempting to cre
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Regardless of the implementation details of education post-DoE, the symbolism alone is horrific.
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The American/western aristocracy has nearly perfectly entrenched their power with housing policy. Housing is the major wealth store for the middle and lower class. Most in the middle and lower class will spend major portions of their
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Once someone proves they are bad faith, you can never listen to what they say again, you can only watch what they do. Everyone who has ever lived with a narcissist slowly comes to understand this through much pain. Words are just a tool for
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I'm far from a security expert, but I also have direct security expertise, and from the way you talk, I am highly confident that there are a lot of things you don't know you don't know and I think you've failed to imagin
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We are functionally blockading ourselves. If you don't believe trump is working on your behalf then his actions are increasingly indistinguishable from the Russian military directly preventing trade with us.
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DOGE is both a coup and a decapitation strike. Destruction of American prosperity and reputation is achieving it's goal. Of course it's a coup -- Timothy Snyder ( https://archive.is/fNpSS -- https://snyd
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That's mostly correct. Timothy Snyder wrote about this idea directly: https://snyder.substack.com/p/antisemitism-and-antisemitism The flipping of cause and effect language is also directly out of one of his lesson
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We are de facto blockading ourselves with tariffs and making enemies of our trading partners. America is experiencing a decapitation strike (Timothy Snyder -- Decapitation strike: https://archive.is/1xkxK ). Imagine that yo
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> won't impact prices I strongly suspect that wall street has looked at 401k's/index funds as a giant money filled piñata. It is a huge pile of money following a well understood algorithm which makes it vulnerable to attac
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Telegram is Russian owned and run out of a monarchy. Telegram is not anyone's friend. "delete" is also not a black and white concept. There are many degrees of deletion.
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You have a lot more faith in technology than me. There is a strong history of compromising data at rest (such as in phone backups) and getting metadata either directly or through side channels. It's not very hard for me to imagine a sy
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"If guns are used to shut down crime, I don't see a problem with that." Is kind of a cogent argument. In this philosophically exaggerated isomorphism, you seem to be implying that either criminals and crime fighters should bo
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They already know words are meaningless and don't count for anything. Democrats have been trying to use words to get their way or even compromise and republicans fully understand they don't have to pay attention to them at all. Th
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Clearly not asked in good faith. Downvote, flag, and move on.
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That was a directly stated goal of their media strategy, I think by Bannon. This is different though, this is seeing if there is any push back. Do something -> see if there is a response/pushback -> if no response push harder. It
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It feels that way because the actions taken in recent times are historically informed and follow precedent set by successful autocratic regimes. It feels like a bad parody because it's clumsy and you can easily see the parallels, but p
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I think people underestimate how sinister this type of thing is. It's not "haha," and it's not childish, it is a prelude to take away people's rights. TDS is like calling Ukrainians russophobic. It flips cause and e
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Justice comes from solidarity. The weak banding together against the strong. That means if you want justice you have to participate in getting it because tomorrow it will be your own weakness that's taken advantage of. The core probl

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