javert

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by javert 11y ago
Thanks, but I know that. It's just that I want to write a comment, post it, and move on. I don't want to go back, leave the tab open, and have to remember to try again in 10 minutes, 20 minutes, 30 minutes, and so on. Today, I act
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by javert 11y ago
It's not nonsense. The latest case is trying to completely fuck over Google just 'cause. Oh, here's another one: Tall poppy syndrome. That unspeakable evil is not present in the U.S. I was horrified to hear about it.
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by javert 11y ago
> You're certainly technological leaders in most fields for the understandable reasons of wealth, size and necessity This ignores the history of capitalism, which is more important than the factors you mention. And capitalism was a
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by javert 11y ago
I wouldn't even say that. By "land of freedom," I really meant in the past and in essence, but not in practice today. The spirit is still there, that's all. Tell me a place in the world where I can live without being tre
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by javert 11y ago
I was not born into a rich family. But extrapolating from my own experiences, I can tell you, your description is unlikely to be an accurate description of what makes life hard for the rich person. (Still, I appreciate your coming to my def
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by javert 11y ago
Love seeing that American flag on the side of American spacecraft. This is truly a land of freedom, technological innovation, and unprecedented human happiness. A few people alive today have forgotten that, but most people alive today have
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by javert 11y ago
No, but I went to a state university in my home state (so very cheap tuition)---so I'd say in this regard I was in the same boat as many just plain middle class people.
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by javert 11y ago
> What about kids from wealthy families who don't have the stresses the rest of us do in early adulthood That crap doesn't need to be in the article. I had a ton of trouble in my early 20s becuase unlike every other person in
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by javert 12y ago
Probably almost any of them. All the British accents I've ever heard sound less American than the Traistain de Cunha islanders.
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by javert 12y ago
Makes me want to be in school again. Wait... haven't finished grad school yet. Damn.
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by javert 12y ago
They sound pretty American. More than British people, for example.
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by javert 12y ago
> an EU BSD fork Why fork it? That is completely stupid. Do you want to have the EU version of North Korea's Red Star Linux? Do you want to make it so Google doesn't work properly on EU BSD?
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by javert 12y ago
So you're saying the Nazi Holocaust and the U.S. invasion of Vietnam are equally onerous, because both involved destruction of crops? That is comparing fundamentally different things based on a single non-essential concrete. The most i
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by javert 12y ago
No, Vietnam did not have the same callousness involved as an entire nation's effort to wipe out an entire race of people. Vietnam soldiers were a bunch of misguided young American cannon-fodder that didn't want to be there. Some
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by javert 12y ago
This is nothing like the Holocaust. There was no attempt to wipe out civilians en masse simply to kill civilians. To liken this to the Holocaust is massively disrespectful to the Jewish people, Holocaust victims, and the Americans who fough
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by javert 12y ago
Technically, the pizza idea won't work, because more people will enter the market and compete on price. Doesn't apply for telecom since it's all monopolized and new competitors can't enter.
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by javert 12y ago
First, I am in a strong position to talk about philosophy. Second, Marx made Stalin possible by setting up the necessary intellectual framework of class struggle, capitalism as oppressive, dialectical materialism (denial of reason and free
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by javert 12y ago
Piketty's arguments are cherry-picked. No, I haven't read the book, and no, I'm not going to take the time to look up sources for you.
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by javert 12y ago
Black culture. However, it doesn't really need to be fixed. All that needs to happen is for individuals to decide that they want to live rational, virtuous lives. If you doubt that black culture preaches the opposite, listen to (modern
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by javert 12y ago
Thank you. This needed to be said, and it is all that needs to be said. You are being treated in a grossly unjust way by being downvoted.
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by javert 12y ago
I'm not trying to approach them for dating.
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by javert 12y ago
I'm already friendly in equal measure to people of all races. You are right that white people being friendly is an issue. But that is the fly in the room. Black culture is the elephant. Admittedly, though, white culture has been in dec
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by javert 12y ago
There are a lot of reasons for this, perhaps even more important reasons, but yes, black women are unapprochable as a white man. While other people interpret my normal social awkwardness/aloofness as just what it is, black women tend t
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by javert 12y ago
In the US we had segregation, not apartheid. There is a difference. As a white man living in the South, we still have segregation in practice. I rarely had interaction with blacks because they did different things and took different classes
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by javert 12y ago
He wants to defend Marx but there is no defense, so he does something to attack me instead. It's a classic disinformation tactic. I don't know that for certain, maybe he's just actually curious, that's why I just answe
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by javert 12y ago
I'm not saying that philosophy professors don't increase economic output. I'm saying they don't contribute anything at all . In general---I think there are some good ones. And I think a lot of the contribute positively
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by javert 12y ago
Yes.
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by javert 12y ago
Marx is a good example of why philosophy can be very dangerous. Marx's ideas have literally caused the deaths of millions in Soviet Russia, Communist China, Vietnam, North Korea, Cambodia, Cuba, and probably others. Besides keeping peo
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by javert 12y ago
Having a lot of professors living on the public dime and not contributing anything back is the effect of a rich (and decadent) society, not the cause .
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by javert 12y ago
In the US, many scientists are government vassals. They are not to be trusted, either. Probably true elsewhere, but I only know the US.

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