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by hayst4ck 2y ago
Can you say Bernie is in power? I think he proves my point, especially in regards to the presidential primaries, or maybe that's the point you're making. He was giving a speech to some super privileged college kids not too long ag
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They have to because Walmart has a monopoo-like position. They are so big they are easily able to coerce those they interact with. Walmart has a $180bln revenue, how many states or even countries is that comparable to?
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Different factories in different countries on the tags which seems like a reasonable explanation.
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I don't know if Levis are, but I have absolutely ordered other branded items that are different on amazon compared to in a store, including entirely different and lower quality fabric on amazon. It's not at all surprising for anyt
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Here you go: https://archive.org/details/on-tyranny-twenty-lessons-from-t...
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You will love Snyder. He has hours of talks/lectures on youtube that are all worth watching. One talk he gave was on How could the holocaust have happened : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsKrWLf7Kg4
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FDR's New Deal was widely celebrated. There was almost a corporate coup against him ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot ). Teddy's trust busting was also very celebrated. We used to have stronger unio
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He has a new book On Freedom , too. I haven't read it yet, but I have watched him give excellent talks on youtube, which reference it. I believe his core thesis in On Freedom is that America has focused on negative freedom, when wha
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Affirmative action is reparations by another name. It's like saying I should pay for my ancestors crimes. I am a pretty liberal person, but watching a white male candidate pass the interview but not get a job explicitly because he was
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Democrats are largely controlled opposition. If you ask where democratic power comes from, it comes from campaign donations by America's richest and most powerful people. Bloomberg ran for president under their banner, think about that
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Rickover famously asked Jimmy carter in an interview: "Did You Do Your Best?" Carter replied: "No, sir, I didn’t always do my best." And Rickover asked "why not?" This significantly impacted Jimmy Carter and ev
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Rickover's final testimony to congress in 1982 speaks about this: Corporate Power A preoccupation with the so-called bottom line of profit and loss statements, coupled with a lust for expansion, is creating an environment in which f
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> I've read biographies of Rickover and not all people who lived through this time are complementary. History is written by those who remain in power and Rickover was a man who embodied speaking truth to power. His career was largel
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There is a lot of academic talk about how focusing on democracy rather than constitutionality (rule of law) has done us a great disservice. It turns out voting is much less important than limits on arbitrary executions of power. Everything
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https://archive.is/hVgMf Actual memorandum from whitehouse.gov: https://archive.is/eaX4O
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Here is a Harvard law professor and tech darling (of creative commons), Lawrence Lessig, rebutting your overall point. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw2z9lV3W1g Summary: It feels like we have a government that governs on
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> If the People want to set aside the Constitution No, the constitution has a maintenance cost. The constitution is already set aside if people are not willing to pay that maintenance cost. Solidarity is the price of freedom. Despotism i
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> The People have not given consent to set aside the Constitutional order. Inaction is largely indistinguishable from consent. > autogolpe No. We are experience Russian backed regime change in the same way we have instituted regime ch
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My core point is that this has the appearance of action taken against 23andMe, but not the substance of action.
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> CA AG's options That's a framing that contains its own defeat. Republicans and corporations don't cage themselves by their options, they give themselves options. They work towards and achieve their goals despite "re
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You're blaming the victims instead of the abusers.
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They don't and they can't as long as corporate backing is their major source of funding. Not to say republicans represent people either, republicans unapologetically back unchecked corporate power. Democrats try to serve two maste
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I vote democrat. I really do, but I am upset with democrats because they aren't crafting a world we want to live in and they will take any excuse they can to do nothing or something close to nothing instead of actually doing something.
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As we've discovered with the current federal administration, there is what's in your power (what you can actually do) and there is what's in your power (a convenient excuse not to take decisive action). The AG isn't &quo
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AG exists as part of a system. An AG should be working with a legislative body to give the AG the tools the AG office needs to do their job. This is abandonment of responsibility because challenging corporate power results in reduced corpor
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It's not. It is a pro-consumer Trojan horse. It appears to be pro-consumer, but the vast majority of 23andMe customers will be harmed by the AG abandoning their responsibility to protect the public through direct action against 23andMe
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Who should stop a company from doing things that are unethical, in this case selling genetic data to companies to use for their own ends, rather than to use data to benefit customers. The attorney general for a state as well as the legislat
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With regulations, it really is the type of thing that would benefit a lot of people as well as biological science as a whole in America.
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It's worth pointing out that this is a pro-corporate attack by the US/california government against citizens who have their data in 23andme. This is one more item of clear evidence that it is not the citizens government, but corpo
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Everyone in every position of power wants someone else to be the one to fight, not write letters, not ask nicely, but to fight. To not accept excuses on why an outcome is unachievable, but to make that outcome happen despite resistance, jus

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