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by ionised 7y ago
You're breaking the site guidelines.
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by ionised 7y ago
My partner grew up in Poland and Ukraine and lived there through the collapse of the USSR and I've spent plenty of time in both countries. Believe, me I know how much they fucked up. That doesn't change the fact the US engaged in
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by ionised 7y ago
> Larry Summers, when he was "advising", didn't make a secret of the fact that he didn't really care who "owned" most Russian assets provided it was in private hands. Ideology over practicality. Lovely.
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by ionised 7y ago
> after all people didn't starve before Russia had modern farming equipment. Yes, they did. You don't know your history or are deliberately ignoring parts of it. Russia and the Russian Empire was always struggling to produce en
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by ionised 7y ago
The West contributed more than you think. The famines in the USSR were partially caused by US trade embargoes on the USSR preventing them from buying modern farming equipment and grain supplies. That's not to say the USSR itself bore n
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by ionised 7y ago
> Malthusianism has been thoroughly debunked at this point. It really hasn't, it has merely been updated, and yet people like yourself deliberately ignore the revisions and always focus on the obsolete original argument from the 170
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by ionised 7y ago
> > let's be honest here. Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Thailand and many other countries have these laws, and while I disagree with them on many points, they deal harshly and swiftly with the dregs of society. And what paradises thos
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by ionised 7y ago
And you want to hold that up as something immoral by...repeating it?
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by ionised 7y ago
It doesn't make things right. Nothing ever will, but it's better than the alternative.
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by ionised 7y ago
We shouldn't.
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by ionised 7y ago
Are you sure it's not just a case of armchair engineering as in the case of armchair psychology? Lots of HN comments pretend to know everything about depression and its cures despite posting totally incorrect information on the subject
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by ionised 7y ago
Sorry, but accusing others of whataboutism doesn't detract from your own double standards: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism#Criticism Others have criticized the usage of accusations of whataboutism by A
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by ionised 7y ago
> Maybe a better term would be satisfying? That covers that the individual parent benefits but also doesn't imply that having children is hurting others. I certainly wouldn't say satisfying, because you are deliberately ignorin
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by ionised 7y ago
Why are you and the poster above you (espeed) posting the exact same sentences under different user names?
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by ionised 7y ago
Honestly, yes. The United States meets its own definition of a rogue state.
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by ionised 7y ago
Might be referring the the fact that it is a barbaric tyrannical state.
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by ionised 7y ago
Is revenue the only thing you consider when looking for a new role?
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by ionised 7y ago
Animal Farm was a critique of Stalinism and the hijacked Bolshevik revolution more than anything, and it's a good one considering Orwell himself leaned socialist (which Stalinism certainly was not).
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by ionised 7y ago
You don't have a deterrent to begin with.
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by ionised 7y ago
$$$$
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by ionised 7y ago
This is simple corporate sycophancy.
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by ionised 7y ago
> would be happy to be alive That's debatable, honestly. You can't possibly know the child will be happy to be alive or will live a life without suffering, it's a gamble. Most people alive on Earth today I would wager expe
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by ionised 7y ago
Thankfully, the EU disagrees with you as do a growing number of people around the world.
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by ionised 7y ago
There a few places you can go with no little to no government if that's what you prefer. I guarantee you'll be crying to come home in short order though.
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by ionised 7y ago
My evidence (as I explained above) is the entire field of evolutionary biology and the fact that we are still mammals with the same instinctual drives behind our reproduction. What's yours, beyond a sense of disgust at the suggestion t
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by ionised 7y ago
Or change the law.
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by ionised 7y ago
We separate plenty of human concepts from evolution and nature already. Choosing not to do so here seems arbitrary. And I wasn't so much casting a moral judgement on the selfishness of the act. I was just pointing it out as a selfish a
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by ionised 7y ago
I think this is the revisionism to be honest. Chrome became as widespread as it did because it was bundled like crapware with installers for various pieces of software and they plastered scare-mongering banners all over their service tellin
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by ionised 7y ago
How is Firefox any different in that regard? It's exactly the same, go to the Firefox add-on store and install uBLock Origin.
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by ionised 7y ago
> And, aside from that, you're just plain wrong. Convincing argument.

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