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by iammisc 5y ago
The previous administration was broadly right on many important topics regarding the pandemic, that the media was wrong on. 1. Vaccines would be available by the election (they were off by two days, likely because of optics of releasing a v
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Who claimed that? Even the most prominent proponent of the lab leak theory, Donald Trump, said several times early on that he wasn't sure if it was intentional or an accident. In fact, he was pretty clear he thought it was accidental,
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all philosophies are authoritarian and power-hungry. It's not like the libertarians and anarchists just sit by passively and wait.
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Well, speaking as someone who used to live in Marin county, which was the county with some of the highest non-vaccination rates in the country when I was there in 2018, I think they're different. Marin was super anti-vax, but every oth
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by iammisc 5y ago
The idea that everyone who sees the same thing will come to the same conclusion is the height of personal hubris.
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This is my position. I mostly believe that humans are causing climate change, I just don't buy into the hysterics, but i broadly support green tech, less consumption, etc, and invest appropriately in companies seeking this future. I&#x
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I've never heard this argument and I'm around a lot of people who believe it came from China. This feels like a strawman.
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by iammisc 5y ago
You're not going to 'win' if you just call people who disagree with you 'evil'. Man... people claim that Christians are bad for judging, but I've found the entire human population to be happy to not just say th
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by iammisc 5y ago
Well I'm religious (although I guess I 'believe' in man-made climate change), so here goes. Of course, every religion will have different answers. The general Christian jist, often twisted by evangelicals and fundamentalists
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My point is that even with the catalyst of a new regime, no one wa able to form any organized opposition to Taliban.. And yes I totally get the frustration with he state department. I have a neighbor whose son is a state department employee
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by iammisc 5y ago
The masses have not. I visit my parents out in their conservative suburb fairly frequently and life cannot be more different than what's represented on Hacker News. Or at my parish, which is becoming more and more like family.. people
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by iammisc 5y ago
The Butlerian Jihad cannot come soon enough. As time goes on, I realize that certain authors had better insights into the human condition than others. For example, Alduous Huxley has turned out to be more prophetic than George Orwell. I bel
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They're all propaganda, not just RT and Global Times.
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by iammisc 5y ago
> No comparision between FDR/Truman/Ike and the buffoon class of Bush/Obama/Trump. As much as I would love to rag on Bush, Obama, and Trump, you have to realize that FDR, Truman, and Eisenhower had an extremely homoge
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by iammisc 5y ago
> but it has only continued to grow in terms of users That's because I make a new account everytime I'm doxxed, banned, or censored. Now that you mention it, I realize that the reddit blocking, censoring and quarantining system
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I don't think i've ever been to reddit.com without an /r/ after the name.
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by iammisc 5y ago
The nice thing is as alternative tech platforms rise up (communities.win, ovarit.com, ruqqus, rumble, etc) we will see a more decentralized web and these tech giants will soon be forgotten. Hopefully, they'll take their toxic VCs with
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by iammisc 5y ago
Oh I did... and rolled my eyes.
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Or even more telling... the breakdown of Indians by religion.
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Well, i'm indian, and I was told by a college professor in a history of immigration class that I am white because I believe in things like hard-work to better my family's situation, education, etc. The book he had us read was all
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by iammisc 5y ago
It also ignores the most important diversity, which is diversity of thought. Having ten employees of ten different races who all think the same is hardly diversity. EDIT: Getting downvoted by the 'diversity' crowd I see :)
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This confirms my theory above that the most important resource is people, which the united states handed to the Taliban in droves by occupying the country for the last twenty years. The look of a Christian country occupying a Muslim one is
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When it comes to popular resistance movements, you are underestimating the most prominent force of all... that of persuasion. The Taliban had to just sit back, do nothing, and preach at the mosques about how the evil christians were coming
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by iammisc 5y ago
> If the government can require private media to carry government messages, the first amendment is toast. Currently, the government is directly involved in Facebook and Twitter's moderation decisions, by their own admission, and the
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by iammisc 5y ago
> I am skeptical this was the "right" path, broadly defined. Yes, it was the wrong path. I am sceptical too. But even with some modicum of a different government, they were uninterested in doing anything to actually prevent the
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by iammisc 5y ago
And the US policy towards Germany and Japan was one of utter indifference until the Japanese and Germans explicitly declared war on our country. Moreover, unlike Afghanistan, the Germans and Japanese (especially the Japanese) displayed an a
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by iammisc 5y ago
So I am also an American and mainly read American news. However, you must realize that American and Western news sources are extremely biased and insular. It's difficult to find English non-western sources, but there's one that st
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> still stronger than expected. They're only stronger than expected if you let the US media and US intelligence services set your expectations. If you had come to your own conclusion, you would have realized that the Taliban is one
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Right, by and large the women of Afghanistan supported and enabled the Taliban, along with the men of Afghanistan. The Taliban enjoys little opposition and lots of support. Look... Afghanis have had more than a decade to organize for the ev
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At this juncture it is very difficult to see because we are seeing a broad realignment and resurgence of non-interventionism. For example, it is quite clear that the GOP war hawks are no longer popular, and nation building has become anathe

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