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by joejohnson 6y ago
Seems odd they don’t mention the architect at all. William Crawford Smith was an officer in the Confederate Army. The Nazis also had an obsession with neoclassicalism. Monuments to the Greeks and Romans were a part of both southern US whi
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by joejohnson 6y ago
This is by no means the main takeaway from Homage to Catalonia, but it’s an interesting corollary to today’s liberals who seek preservation of a system which hurts the working class. Look at the how effective the US Democratic Party was at
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by joejohnson 6y ago
George Orwell’s memoir about his time in Spain during the war (“An Homage to Catalonia”) is a great book. He has a wonderful mind for seeing the politics behind all of the confusion and propaganda from all the factions that formed after th
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by joejohnson 6y ago
There was an earlier discussion on the Matt Taibbi post here but it was quickly flagged and pushed off the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24888639
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by joejohnson 6y ago
It would seem the commenters on this site are mostly Americans who don’t know that their two-party system only represents two flavors of pro-capitalist neoliberalism. But left and right political spectrum and the corresponding terms have m
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by joejohnson 6y ago
This is incorrect. Just because the two party system has suppressed anything to the left of the democrats does not mean liberals are in any way “the left”; there are many leftist voices in the US (Matt Taibbi, author of the post you’re rep
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by joejohnson 6y ago
The left did not suppress this story, liberal media did. You’re responding to a post criticizing this suppression written by a leftist.
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by joejohnson 6y ago
This story has “62 points” and was posted 43 minutes ago (at the time I’m posting this comment) but as soon as I read the story and hit back in the browser, it was pushed off the first three pages of articles. What happened? Did this stor
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by joejohnson 6y ago
The US is certainly not cheaper for two products that everyone has to buy: healthcare and housing. Switzerland is significantly more affordable than the US because the price of these two goods (which are human rights) are regulated.
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by joejohnson 6y ago
The replies to this are amazing. A popular leader enacts policies which prevent multinationals from extracting the resources of Bolivia (including a lot of lithium, used in batteries), the leader is then pushed out in a coup which is suppo
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by joejohnson 6y ago
A lot of people seem to be missing the reference here. Musk tweeted support for the coup this summer: https://m.imgur.com/gallery/9X7X5Fw
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by joejohnson 6y ago
Here’s a good interview with Morales from last month talking about the coup, the election, and the multinationals that tried to suppress MAS in Bolivia: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/10/evo-morales-interview-bol.
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by joejohnson 6y ago
The corporations have been running the country since it was a nation.
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by joejohnson 6y ago
I honestly can’t tell if you are joking or jokingly trying to be an example what the parent comment is describing: numb to corruption when an example is done through “legitimate” means right in front of your nose.
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by joejohnson 6y ago
Universal healthcare is too expensive, how would you ever pay for that?
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by joejohnson 6y ago
I have had the opposite experience; USB-C is working fine for me on my MacBook Pro. I have a few legacy USB-A accessories that I can easily use an adapter for. Never had a problem.
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by joejohnson 6y ago
> Gauntlet thrown down The corporate media in the US and UK is no more diverse and pluralistic than the major corporate-funded political parties they identify with. This kind of media mirrors the same flaws as the Republican and Democrat
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by joejohnson 6y ago
why the downvotes for asking this question?
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by joejohnson 6y ago
Interesting how they reiterate over and over how right-wing media proliferates on the platform but imply that centrist/liberal propaganda does not. Is there evidence of this?
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by joejohnson 6y ago
The US is in a death spiral and the income bar required to ignore the problems in society will soon be high enough that nobody can pretend neoliberalism is working anymore. The question is will people see one another as allies and try to r
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by joejohnson 6y ago
I also upgraded and it migrated my alarm and woke me up at my usual time... Also, the sleep alarm is still visible at the top of your alarms list in the Clock app. Not sure what the confusion is here.
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by joejohnson 6y ago
The debate around safety in nuclear power is kind tangential to the larger issue: what do you do with all this radioactive material when you’re done with it? This is a much trickier issue and is largely why countries like Germany have start
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by joejohnson 6y ago
US, Canada, New Zealand and Australia are four of the “Five Eyes” surveillance community (the fifth is the UK) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes
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by joejohnson 6y ago
Every startup I ever worked at was like a family until the money started to run out; then you very quickly realize this “we’re a family” rhetoric works exactly one way and those 60 hour weeks you were pulling for free lunches and a signific
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by joejohnson 6y ago
Clicked on four countries in Western Europe and then the United States and they were all the same pop song... not sure what I was expecting I guess
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by joejohnson 6y ago
This dashboard covers all of NY state
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by joejohnson 7y ago
The Instacart workers should encourage any scabs to instead join the strike so they can work together to demand better wages and conditions.
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by joejohnson 7y ago
This doesn’t make any sense; if you print 14 trillion dollars, in doesn’t matter whose hands you put that money in, you get the exact same level of inflation.
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by joejohnson 7y ago
Yes, I think that would be a much more equitable way to stimulate the economy. That, or loan/debt forgiveness programs, would benefit poor and working people over large corporations and their boards. Matt Stoller has covered this legi
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by joejohnson 7y ago
Good to see hard data supporting this, but this was always obviously the case. Only reason there was even a conversation was because Airbnb lobbied and placed ads in specific markets to mislead renters about their economic impact.

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