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by kofejnik 6y ago
> Sure, the Soviet Union. A government literally made inequality go away with the stroke of a pen. You have no idea what you're talking about, just stop. Source: born in USSR
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by kofejnik 6y ago
google gives "reflecting on history", which seems in line with the parent comment
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by kofejnik 6y ago
> I regard these cases as deplorable but inevitable in other words, acceptable casualties in the war you're waging. nice.
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by kofejnik 6y ago
> One guy getting fired is a drop in the bucket. If you're willing to ruin innocent lives to further your cause, then I cannot comprehend how it makes you morally superior to _them_ (whoever _they_ might be) Are you keeping the scor
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by kofejnik 6y ago
exactly, dogma cannot be questioned
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by kofejnik 6y ago
> qualified devs all seem to be overbooked. did you try giving them more money?
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by kofejnik 6y ago
Love your China example! Germany under Hitler also was a dominant superpower, if you forgot. So you just reinforced my point that communism is a totalitarian aggressive ideology, pretty similar to Nazism. So yeah, _all_ real world outcomes,
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by kofejnik 6y ago
since all real-world outcomes of communism have been consistently horrible, and since communists killed several of my ancestors - no, I am not going to look for nuances. If nazis should be punched, so should communists. Maybe if North Korea
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by kofejnik 6y ago
> There is a difference between communist and Stalinist/Leninist though only to communists, maybe. From where I stand, Leninism/Stalinism/Trotskism/other -ism are all extreme totalitarian ideologies
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by kofejnik 6y ago
> calling yourself "communist" or even just agitating for democratic control over means of production is enough to be "canceled" in the sense that most large employers will be wary to higher you and our mainstream med
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by kofejnik 6y ago
strongly disagree; it is mostly universally agreed that regulating crime via society means (i.e. lynch mobs) is bad; same applies to speech, I believe
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by kofejnik 6y ago
does it include losing your job for wrongthink?
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by kofejnik 6y ago
>>"Here is a story I heard from a friend, which I will alter slightly to protect the innocent. A prestigious psychology professor signed an open letter in which psychologists condemned belief in innate sex differences. My friend
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by kofejnik 6y ago
do you think dang himself is without bias?
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by kofejnik 6y ago
> bigotry, doxing, attack mobs Reddit is currently full of these, and it's apparently Ok when it comes from correct side of political spectrum
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by kofejnik 6y ago
refusing to bake a cake for a gay wedding is not discrimination?
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by kofejnik 6y ago
if everyone is making $70k, everything simply becomes more expensive (so it doesn't matter if they make $70k or $700k)
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by kofejnik 6y ago
> worse outcomes for society as determined by who?
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by kofejnik 6y ago
> slavery, pollution right, so if you get pizza delivery, you're probably Hitler running Deep Horizon. What a nice way to argue your point.
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by kofejnik 6y ago
I'd much rather be tracked by Google than CPC
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by kofejnik 7y ago
... or maybe this "landlord" is a parent who just rents out their old small house, and is now unable to make the rent or car payments
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by kofejnik 7y ago
You can't simply "protect the salaries", government isn't some omnipotent god who simply needs to do some hand-waving to fix things. There isn't a fountain of wealth that the government is hiding from us! You can pr
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by kofejnik 7y ago
interesting... what if mandatory severance and other (supposedly) nice things are the reason those countries are underdeveloped?
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by kofejnik 7y ago
> But it's not in society's best interest. 1. why are you so sure? What makes you an authority on the whole society's interests? 2. even if so, are you saying that collective interests trump individual rights? This is soc
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by kofejnik 7y ago
yeah, housing should not be a commodity and should not be subject to market forces; instead, a benevolent committee of compassionate people (well-read into marxism, of course) should decide who gets to live where
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by kofejnik 7y ago
As a European, you benefit immensely from being a member of NATO, you might be a part of Russia otherwise. To think US and China are equally bad requires an astonishing degree of naivety
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by kofejnik 7y ago
something something Maybe monad
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by kofejnik 7y ago
> geriatric vampire class of rent-seeking housing supply hoarders. why so salty?
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by kofejnik 7y ago
this is one of the things that Russians got right; you had to show up in person (and show your passport), or provide a notarized sale contract, if you want to transfer a .ru domain. At least that's how it used to be, could be different
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by kofejnik 7y ago
> Mr. Greenwald encouraged the hackers to delete archives that had already been shared with The Intercept Brasil, in order to cover their tracks. so he was an active participant, according to prosecution

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