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by lurk2 11mo ago
> No, it's a cynical marketing exercise designed to make people think that. The grandparent comment is referring to MAGA the demographic, not MAGA the political machine. How could the political machine have sold hats (or immigration
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> The app allowed users to make lists. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRNEUc5k7Jw
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> How are businesses going to get money if there are no humans that are able to pay for goods? By transacting with other businesses. In theory comparative advantage will always ensure that some degree of trade takes place between complet
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> In fact realistically speaking it is the far more likeliest possibility. What insight do you have into this issue that would suggest this is true?
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> The only thing BRT is good at, is making it easier to get start because you initially don't need ground infrastructure. The only thing rice is good at is being a cheap source of nutrition.
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He’s being obtuse, it isn’t common knowledge at all.
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> What do they teach in American schools? Apparently not even basic geography? This doesn’t fall under the category of basic geography. I can guarantee you that the majority of people you attended school with would not be able to locate
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> Seems like most of China's modern cultural export came from Hong Kong, and even that has stopped. You’re probably right. I’m just saying that 20 years ago the label of being “Made in China” meant something was cheap and bad. The b
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They don’t have a huge culture industry yet (or at least, not one that appeals to English-speaking audiences), but they’ve become a lot more prominent on the internet in the last 5 years due to better infrastructure and integration into var
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The usual patterns that crop up are: 1) Lack of institutional knowledge. No one even knows how to get started and bringing in foreign expertise may be prohibitively expensive. 2) Economics don’t pencil out even in higher income countries co
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This article doesn’t support your conclusions; it states that these pages were being ran out of Macedonia and Kosovo, primarily for profit. > A 2018 BuzzFeed News investigation found that at least one member of the Russian IRA, indicted
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by lurk2 11mo ago
Looks like you’re right: https://xcancel.com/nikitabier/status/1992382852328255743
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Interesting read. Thank you for sharing. Was there ever any evidence that they hit their projected metrics? A million followers after a year seems ambitious.
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> What political interest does a Nigerian have in swaying US opinion? They’re grifters; their interest in American politics is commercial. Indians were targeting Trump supporters with fake news for ad revenue as early as 2015; this is a
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> They ran about half of the largest US identity focused Facebook groups (Christian/Black/etc) during the 2020 US election. Can you provide any citation for this and the approximate date when this was revealed? I’ve been hearin
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> Where are all these Israeli accounts? The Department of Homeland Security, for one. Edit: Link removed as I was disinformed by a /pol/ PsyOp.
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Interesting. The extent of Russian influence I noticed peaked in the Spring of 2016. Lots of self-professed fascists were converting to East Orthodox Christianity and subscribing to the idea that Russia, Iran, North Korea, and China formed
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There were a number of accounts that got doxxed in the last year that were demonstrated to have Indian owners. Engagement farms have been doing this since Trump’s first term; the goal is primarily ad revenue, not political influence. I didn
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> The network was small: just 49 Facebook accounts, 85 Instagram accounts and 71 Twitter accounts in question. This is the pattern with all Russian influence operations; they’re always implied to be ominously large and end up being laugh
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Anyone who follows the space closely has known about this for at least the last year. It was quite common for these accounts to make slip-ups that revealed their country of origin and to subsequently be doxxed by ideological enemies or riva
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> This is another piece of a mosaic that is going to reveal that grey zone warfare by Russia against the west has much larger scope than most people are aware of. Are you people ever going to let this idea go? Almost all of this activity
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Yes.
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An inane, intentionally bad-faith reading of my comment that you fell back on because you know you don’t have the requisite background knowledge to refute anything I’m saying.
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> In other words, we're likely to do more harm than good by imposing interventions because we cannot accurately predict their outcomes. This doesn’t follow from your premise. > We know central planning doesn't work Europe co
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American living standards have declined from their peak in the mid-to-late 20th century. If you’re under 40 you will likely be materially worse off than your parents even if you are better educated than they are. It isn’t like this in the d
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> Actually the value is not in the material itself but in the variety of the shapes. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7Fw7bZoPyVU
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> Whenever "the poor" are debated, it seems that people always assume they're totally incapable of helping themselves. You just argued the bike wouldn’t have been sufficient to pay the debt. How would the owner have helped
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> Now imagine the provider hates you. That’s the best part.
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You never know until you need to find something and can’t find it.
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Does this have something to do with China or are you just throwing things at the wall to see what sticks?

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