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by ianleeclark 5y ago
> The men and women who were involved in the CIA had just seen a terrible world war that had led to a massacre of tens of millions of people At which point Dulles saw fully fit to start sneaking Nazis out of the way of justice. They were
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by ianleeclark 5y ago
> Alex Jones's biggest sin is he's boring. Not the Sandy Hook stuff? Surely that's got to be at least in the running.
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by ianleeclark 5y ago
> His previous sentence mentions "pure capitalism" which makes the one you quoted make more sense. I read it as, "why talk about pure capitalism when we're not even in capitalism?" I've seen far more conflat
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by ianleeclark 5y ago
> No one is in a capitalist system. We are all in a capitalist system. Capitalism doesn't mean free markets, it has a much wider definition than that, and doesn't require free markets.
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by ianleeclark 6y ago
We've had a few months to turn off an option in Github to change this behavior. I believe there was even an email that went out and a thread on HN concerning this change. Any conversation at this point is just whinging to the void to f
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by ianleeclark 6y ago
> The people storming those buildings think an election was stolen from them, and no amount of 'fact check' thinkpieces in the NYTimes is going to convince them otherwise Even with strong measures these people aren't going
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by ianleeclark 6y ago
Poor american left. When the right storms several capitol buildings, y'all're still the ones to bear the blame.
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by ianleeclark 6y ago
And now you understand Foucault.
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by ianleeclark 6y ago
As another commenter mentioned, diesel fuel and fertilizer are ubiquitous. Tannerite, as you specifically mentioned, can be purchased in bulk by tens-of-lbs at single stores. In fact, you're likely to save a good chunk of change doing
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by ianleeclark 6y ago
> Making RV full of explosives and exploding it in a right place not a small feat. I don't see why not. The United States is absolutely stuffed to the gills with explosive materials. Tannerite is basically everywhere, for example.
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by ianleeclark 6y ago
> dare people to vote against or veto it. Why vote against it or veto when you can just never bring it to a vote?
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by ianleeclark 6y ago
> Declaring that you have no choice is a result of the inability to confront the weakness to acknowledge the unpleasant decision. Not everyone believes that these choices exist. The author offered the POV--although unstated--that the com
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by ianleeclark 6y ago
Absolutely. I was always a huge fan of the originals and other old-school RPGs like Baldurs Gate, and this is one of the few that actually scratches that itch. The game is highly interconnected and every choice has a realized impact.
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by ianleeclark 6y ago
New Vegas was a standalone game with expansions of its own. Fallout 4 came after it. A lot of people consider New Vegas to be the only good one to come after the first 2, but I can't commentate on that, as I stopped playing the fallout
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by ianleeclark 6y ago
> What I would have in mind is policy more guided by econ 101 I have a degree in Economics. The first they thing teach you in Econ 201 is to ignore everything that happened in Econ 101: it's useful to learn to read graphs, but every
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by ianleeclark 6y ago
> Interesting, from what I can tell the mainstream seems crazy far left and in favour of all kinds of interventions to 'smooth rough edges' and worse. I'd like to see some examples. > In the US the Republicans are again
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by ianleeclark 6y ago
> do remember early HN and even early reddit being much more pro-market It shows you have registered in 2007. Quite a lot of history has happened since then which may have altered people's opinion of the pro-market narrative. > A
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by ianleeclark 6y ago
I'd hazard to guess there's no way to, "by your logic," someone who's already crossed the threshold of equating a working train system to slavery.
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by ianleeclark 6y ago
I'm really confused at how you went from: > A conspiracy theory is something that the other political side believes in, but which your side rejects fully. to (paraphrase): > both sides can harbor the same conspiracy > There ar
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by ianleeclark 6y ago
> A conspiracy theory is something that the other political side believes in, but which your side rejects fully. Not all conspiracy theories have political stratification. In fact, what is often incorrectly considered the Ur-conspiracy t
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by ianleeclark 6y ago
> Simple writing is clear thinking ... They're signs of lazy writing, lazy thinking, and a desire to impress the reader with how smart the author is. "Simple writing," is perspective-based. If I were to take a introductory
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by ianleeclark 6y ago
The thing that not enough people bring up is the rampant robocalling. Before I left the US around a year and a half ago, I was getting 2-3 calls a day. Basically, if I ever got a call from a number not in my contact list, I would never answ
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by ianleeclark 6y ago
You could have a market of simple exchange without profit-seeking behavior. A market is just a collection of social relations wherein people exchange things.
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by ianleeclark 6y ago
> Zero-grow and shrinking economies can allocate resources well through markets. Capitalism isn't "a/many market(s)." Capitalism is much more than that, and one of those constituent pieces is profit-seeking.
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by ianleeclark 6y ago
> You can never be truly neutral, but that's not an excuse not to try. Has it ever occurred to you that maybe a magazine doesn't want to be neutral? Maybe that's their competitive edge, maybe that's what their custome
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by ianleeclark 6y ago
I'm not saying, "people are biased, therefore anything goes." I'm saying: chasing neutrality is akin to chasing a unicorn.
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by ianleeclark 6y ago
> You link to this article as if the French Revolution isn’t indicated as the inspiration of the movement No matter what way you cut it, the absolutely brutal chattel slavery was the inspiration of the movement, not Robespierre.
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by ianleeclark 6y ago
There is no neutrality in reporting, so you might as well have something that wears their bias on their sleeve.
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by ianleeclark 6y ago
I'm not really interested in defending one regime or another, but let's try not to have death squads raping nuns this time.
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by ianleeclark 6y ago
It should be acknowledged that this strategy ultimately ended up with the Taliban and our 20+ year occupation of Afghanistan and various massacres throughout central america. > The presidency of Ronald Reagan in the United States was mar

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