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by kieselguhr_kid 4y ago
I know this is some kind of sarcasm but I'm not sure what kind of sarcasm it is.
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by kieselguhr_kid 4y ago
Look, the obvious point here is that you can't take someone's pretext for war at face value like the fuckhead who thinks it's okay to starve Yemeni children because of Iran did. There's always some kernel of truth to han
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by kieselguhr_kid 4y ago
They haven't taken a single major city in Ukraine except Kherson and Mariupol, two major Ukrainian cities. JFC.
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by kieselguhr_kid 4y ago
The displacement of Ukrainian children is awful, but also occurred in all these other conflicts. The flow of refugees is also awful, as is the imposition of the conqueror's ideology, but that happened in Iraq too. All the other effects
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by kieselguhr_kid 4y ago
People are downvoting this but it's like...objectively true: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Ukrainian_presidential_el...
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by kieselguhr_kid 4y ago
The taking of Mariupol, all of Luhansk and most of Donetsk have been successes. They've been hard fought, grinding successes, but successes nonetheless.
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by kieselguhr_kid 4y ago
The study of Iraqi deaths is ongoing and I suspect that the confirmed civilian casualties from direct violence is an undercount, but regardless we should also be counting excess deaths caused by the deterioration of the country's infra
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by kieselguhr_kid 4y ago
I have two major critiques here: 1. There's no reason to think the criminal invasion of Ukraine will result in victory for Ukraine. The Russians will fall short of their maximal goals, but they're having significant battlefield su
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by kieselguhr_kid 4y ago
I don't think there's any evidence to suggest that density itself is the cause of higher rates of mental illness. Density is more likely to correlate with exposure to car exhaust, for instance, and programs to care for mentally il
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by kieselguhr_kid 4y ago
I'm waiting eagerly for the day when people in the west can grow up enough to learn from Soviet city and housing policies. Too many people just turn their minds off when they hear that godless commies did it.
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by kieselguhr_kid 4y ago
I live in one of the "complete neighborhoods" in Portland and it's really nice. I can walk to the grocery store to buy fresh food for each day, and I'm less than fifteen minutes by foot from three public parks (and a tin
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by kieselguhr_kid 4y ago
It's misallocated through an enormous network of private contractors, ineffectual nonprofits and government bureaucracies. The unaffordable expenditure (public housing or at least publicly funded housing) is completely out of that budg
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by kieselguhr_kid 4y ago
No city can adequately fund these programs, and San Francisco certainly doesn't build housing for the homeless, have an enlightened drugs policy or have adequate mental health care. San Francisco and other coastal cities mainly differe
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by kieselguhr_kid 4y ago
It actually isn't. You know trans people know this better than anyone else, right?
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by kieselguhr_kid 4y ago
What we really need is a holistic approach to a lot of these issues. Ending the violent prohibition of drugs, building and providing housing for the homeless, better and more accessible mental health programs, denser cities, better transit,
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by kieselguhr_kid 4y ago
I want to make clear that I agree completely, but I've been injured in two car crashes in my life. Once, I was a pedestrian and crossing the street in a crosswalk with a signal when an old lady drove into me and then drove off. We had
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by kieselguhr_kid 4y ago
I think this is a weird take. You could analyze every human interest piece this way. Is that what the NYT does with Page Six? I read that and then don't think about the fossil fuel or tech companies' influence on their stories? Ju
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by kieselguhr_kid 4y ago
Seriously. It'd be one thing if this was about tensions in the South China Sea but this is a story about peppers for fucks sake.
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by kieselguhr_kid 4y ago
I'd also be interested as to what parameters could possibly be tweaked such that capitalism would find it unprofitable to commodify food or at the very least more profitable to distribute it to those who can't afford it. Massive s
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by kieselguhr_kid 4y ago
Doesn't the fact that it's reported in state-owned media suggest, although not prove, that it's not state driven? Why would they invite extra scrutiny to their disinformation campaign by publishing an article about it?
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by kieselguhr_kid 4y ago
OK but what's the upshot wrt this story? Now that someone knows about its connection to the CCP, does it change how we ought to think about it in any way?
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by kieselguhr_kid 4y ago
This false history is a literary achievement. Writing such a plausible pseudo-account and convincing so many for so long is impressive. I guess they should take it all down but I'm kind of sad that there aren't any comparable proj
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by kieselguhr_kid 4y ago
Welcome to every city in America. If one armed dude scares you, I got bad news about your whole country.
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by kieselguhr_kid 4y ago
There's a few nice ones and a few shitty ones. It's like any other city in the US, in that the working class neighborhoods have been gentrified or neglected to various extents, but nice working class neighborhoods have not yet ent
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by kieselguhr_kid 4y ago
If Portland makes you afraid for your life maybe don't go outside ever again. It's only scary if you're afraid of other people.
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by kieselguhr_kid 4y ago
It's really nice here, actually. But don't come if you don't want to.
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by kieselguhr_kid 4y ago
This particular act of vandalism is getting attention because Laurelhurst is a very wealthy neighborhood. All of these affected houses are worth at least $1M. The worst impacts of this crisis have been in homeless people themselves and in p
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by kieselguhr_kid 4y ago
That's not how anything works. Your sensibilities being offended is not the same as materially disrupting the operations of the business.
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by kieselguhr_kid 4y ago
> If you grab a megaphone and start disrupting a whole factory floor by using it to try to get people to organize for better rights while you're supposed to be working, that seems like it ought to be a fireable offense, where organi
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by kieselguhr_kid 4y ago
Yeah, but this lawyer is almost certainly right. Firing people for taking concerted action is illegal in the US. Why chime in at all if you don't understand the subject?

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