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by l3mure 3y ago
> point is McArthur was probably right That's funny, because MacArthur's whole justification for driving to the Yalu and bombing Chinese hydroelectric plants there was that the Chinese would NOT get involved like they did. Real
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by l3mure 3y ago
> but never discussions when these agencies shut down a botnet https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35445867 (121 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37310772 (171 comments)
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Yeltsin shelled Russian parliament 30 years ago – U.S. praised “superb handling”(nsarchive.gwu.edu)
1 points by l3mure 3y ago|0 comments
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by l3mure 3y ago
The Post article says: > The law was later deemed, in part, to be unconstitutional by a federal court, which found that it violated the Sixth Amendment guarantee of a trial by jury. Which appears to be incorrect: https://www.p
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by l3mure 3y ago
> The solution to reduce crime is also logical and clear, but politically unfeasible: extended incarceration. Some form of 3-strike law is on the books in a majority (28) of US states (including NY), so they clearly are not politically u
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by l3mure 3y ago
Fascinating. Within the past 2 years, the US suffered 98 people killed in a condo collapse, and a fairly serious (though thankfully non-fatal) bridge collapse. There's also the especially egregious case a bit further back of the New Or
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by l3mure 3y ago
> In July 2021, another occurrence of tofu-dreg construction happened in Zhengzhou in Henan province where the entire city was put at a standstill due to torrential rains and flooding. The city was referred to as a “sponge city” because
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by l3mure 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firestone_Natural_Rubber_Compa... > In May 2006 , the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) released a report detailing the state of human rights on Liberia's rubber plantatio
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by l3mure 3y ago
Sounds almost like some old slogan, "life unworthy of life" was it?
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The worrying democratic erosions in South Korea(newyorker.com)
44 points by l3mure 3y ago|40 comments
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by l3mure 3y ago
> Before China switched to free markets, they had an equal distribution of all income economy. You might want to check it out. Hmmm I'm checking it out right now. Seems like life expectancy jumped massively under Mao, is that bad?
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by l3mure 3y ago
The haole plantation owners who seized Hawaii were probably saying the same thing back in 1893.
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by l3mure 3y ago
> he assumes that the West is doing the same Of course it is? The CIA was openly crying in the press a couple years ago about their Chinese network getting rolled up, and later touted the establishment of a "China Mission Center.&qu
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by l3mure 3y ago
> The US also has some experience with the practice [1], but fortunately those days are way behind us. You must have been in a coma for several years after 9/11. There's also the recent anti-China initiatives by the Justice Dep
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by l3mure 3y ago
> we have a strong division between state and industry Lmao
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by l3mure 3y ago
You may have heard some not so nice things about us the past few days, forget all about that!
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The lonesome death of Frank Teruggi(timshorrock.com)
2 points by l3mure 3y ago|1 comments
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by l3mure 3y ago
Another sad angle on the 1973 fascist US-backed coup in Chile. > In 2015, two former Chilean intelligence officials were convicted as accomplices in the murders of Teruggi and Horman. The Chilean court said that the crimes were also the
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Cop City indictment prosecutes dissent(nymag.com)
23 points by l3mure 3y ago|3 comments
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by l3mure 3y ago
> Defend the Atlanta Forest recruits, it warns; people post things on the internet and hand out zines. They prepare for arrest by writing the number for a bail fund on their bodies. This is all common political activity, which Georgia se
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by l3mure 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Rudolph > His stated motive was an opposition to "the ideals of global socialism" and to "abortion on demand," both of which he claimed were condoned by the U
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by l3mure 3y ago
> It's not the engineers who built the web and these companies with Silicon Valley ideals. They were never intended to be used this way and are secretly horrified. Such a laughable statement given that Silicon Valley was from the be
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by l3mure 3y ago
> The United States was told last year that Saudi security forces were shooting, shelling and abusing groups of migrants, but it chose not to raise the issue publicly. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/26/wor
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by l3mure 3y ago
South Korea and the KCIA is a great example of this, where the KCIA was doing all kinds of wild stuff to maintain a West-approved military dictatorship. And of course the KCIA was created by and modeled after the US CIA. [1] > In July 19
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by l3mure 3y ago
> The American West was settled with people with no money. Gee, almost like massive parcels of land were given away to incentivize that. Truly one of the dumbest statements I've ever seen on this website.
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by l3mure 3y ago
DEA too as the article mentions. I've been on a bus that was stopped in the middle of the route to walk a dog through it. Pretty fucked.
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The Far Invisible(hedgehogreview.com)
1 points by l3mure 3y ago|1 comments
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by l3mure 3y ago
An exegesis of the relationship between technology, theology, and society in the works of Thomas Pynchon. > Whatever his religious belief or unbelief, theological elements are central to his imagination, and over the course of his long c
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Patrol dogs are mauling prisoners inside the US(insider.com)
14 points by l3mure 3y ago|3 comments
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by l3mure 3y ago
> You know, not everything and everyone is a hitler-comparable situation. Explain why the mass killings I mentioned do not qualify.

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