int_19h

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by int_19h 10mo ago
The "world at large" mostly consists of workers, so things that are beneficial to workers are also beneficial to it. > your elevator stops working when the elevator operator is sick Can you point somewhere outside of US where t
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by int_19h 10mo ago
That's not an intrinsic part of being in a union, just a particular way they have been implemented in US. The fundamental point of the union is to be able to negotiate as a group. That is valuable regardless of the industry.
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by int_19h 10mo ago
You still need humans to supervise them. Just a lot less.
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by int_19h 10mo ago
According to my own relatives, friends, and acquaintances in Russia, where I'm from. You don't need to tell me about "hiding opinions". The majority support is regardless of all that, though.
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by int_19h 10mo ago
That's not quite true even today (it all depends on how loud your non-support is), and was even less true prior to the war. The majority support Putin not because the alternative is prison but because they genuinely believe that he&#x2
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by int_19h 10mo ago
I'm Russian myself, and quite frankly, I think that Europeans who think they can play ball with Russia and not get burned are idiots.
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by int_19h 10mo ago
I'm not defending Russia here. Yanukovich was ousted for good reasons (and arguably he carried out a coup first when he reverted the country's constitution). My point is that, if we don't invade other countries only because t
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by int_19h 10mo ago
I'm referring specifically to the people who support the military action in Venezuela, which is a subset of those who voted for Trump. Like you say, most of them care mainly about domestic issues. However there is a crowd that is all i
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by int_19h 10mo ago
Israel is easy to sanction economically speaking. US is a lot harder. And I have no doubt that Europe can pull it off in principle. But can you afford that while also ramping up your defense spending to the levels necessary to stand up to R
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by int_19h 10mo ago
It's not an either-or, lots more people starve during wars as well.
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by int_19h 10mo ago
I was born and grew up in Russia, and all my life I heard people like you telling us that NATO is going to invade any time now. Maybe it's time for you to wake up and realize that this was never a threat to begin with, just a justifica
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by int_19h 10mo ago
The problem is that there's no "we". Tens of millions of Americans support the Trump regime and its actions in Venezuela. Coincidentally, they are also the ones who have most of those firearms.
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by int_19h 10mo ago
I'm proposing that we don't invade anything. But if we're going to invade some country on the grounds of making it into a democracy, one does have to wonder why we don't start with the countries that are very proudly and
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by int_19h 10mo ago
> But what are we doing? Twerking in front of ICE in frog costumes? Once again, the people who are broadly approving of violence as a way to solve problems, and who actually have the guns, are largely supportive of what ICE is doing. Man
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by int_19h 10mo ago
The question isn't how many Venezuelans oppose Maduro, but rather how many Venezuelans wanted US to invade their country to oust him.
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by int_19h 10mo ago
FWIW Russia was initially quite happy with "independent" Ukraine provided that their guy Yanukovich was in charge. It was only when he was ousted that they switched to open invasion tactics. So from that perspective, I don't
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by int_19h 10mo ago
Countries that "defend itself" don't annex territories of other countries.
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by int_19h 10mo ago
MAGA is quite literally a cult of personality, so that's hardly surprising.
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by int_19h 10mo ago
It tells me that doing that is a meaningless performance. If it weren't, they'd actually try to actively ban it. Look at all the anti-BDS legislation for an example.
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by int_19h 10mo ago
You know what's worse than a shitty economy under a dictator? Your family dying in the rubble of a bombed house.
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by int_19h 10mo ago
> I guess it’s the only way the American people will get a grip, if the rest of the world starts punishing the US and its allies economically. I doubt that. It's far more likely to backfire into increased support for aggressive righ
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by int_19h 10mo ago
> I hardly see how this could be considered anything but an absolute win It has only been a few hours, so nobody knows what is going to follow. Even if US does not engage further this may well trigger a civil war in Venezuela with massiv
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by int_19h 10mo ago
As I recall, Trump specifically campaign on the promise of no more wars.
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by int_19h 10mo ago
I can't speak for other countries, but the regime in Russia has popular support. And if "every Venezuelan you know" is someone who immigrated because of Chavez and/or Maduro, then you have an extremely biased sample to g
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by int_19h 10mo ago
Why talk only to displaced Venezuelans though? If you want meaningful data, your sample shouldn't be biased. What is the overall proportion of Venezuelans supporting this action?
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by int_19h 10mo ago
It's true that Russians didn't vote to attack Ukraine. Nevertheless, the invasion had broad popular support at the beginning.
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by int_19h 10mo ago
The question is whether it's the majority of Venezuelans. I have no doubt that there are many who hate Maduro and his regime - for very good reasons - but that's true of many authoritarian countries that nevertheless have the &quo
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by int_19h 10mo ago
War of aggression is itself a crime.
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by int_19h 10mo ago
America's armed populace is a relatively small percentage of its citizenry, and predominantly leans right populist, so...
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by int_19h 10mo ago
It's also worth remembering how the UN (which was really mostly US in practice) fought in the Korean war: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War#War_crimes There are very good reasons to avoid that kind of thi

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