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by meeuwer 3y ago
The exploited software is conveniently developed and controlled by Iran’s adversaries. In another episode of the geopolitical sabotage show, “In January 1982, President Ronald Reagan approved a CIA plan to sabotage the economy of the Soviet
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by meeuwer 3y ago
Whatever the number, it was “worth it”. https://youtu.be/RM0uvgHKZe8
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by meeuwer 3y ago
Definitely. People don't hate the game, they hate losing at the game. Problems can be either solved in a constructive way (we see that's not going to happen) or in a nonconstructive way (societal explosion or breakdown of some sor
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by meeuwer 3y ago
My impression is that the government tried to 'solve' the problem with one main constraint in mind: to never allow the prices go down in any meaningful way. Hence the ham-fisted attempts to instead tweak taxes and ease credit cond
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by meeuwer 3y ago
Who said the test has to be self-administered? “This isn’t a litmus test unless the solution even knows what the pH range is”.
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by meeuwer 3y ago
Leaving aside your focus on political views (even though the test I proposed is more about getting better informed than diversifying one’s beliefs and prejudices), what’s the typical case you’re getting at: do people have unique sets of pol
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by meeuwer 3y ago
I meant it in a more technical sense, as in “I start my morning by checking 4-5 news outlets from different corners of the political field and try to figure out what’s really going on by comparing the narratives”. That of course is not suff
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by meeuwer 3y ago
There’s a simple litmus test for independent-mindedness: does the person in question do the continuous work of collating “news” and narratives from all across the spectrum? If not, they’re likely going with “the current thing” of their pref
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by meeuwer 3y ago
If the SVB debacle taught us anything, it is that even the most libertarian free-market aficionados love their “nanny state” when it’s them who’s in trouble.
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by meeuwer 3y ago
First, no need to be rude. Second, a certain Mr. Stoltenberg would like to add a prequel to your non sequitur: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf5xEBwBhds
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by meeuwer 3y ago
This is funny. Did you assume I was rooting for Trump because of my comments about the Bidens? Sorry, I don't have a dog in this race. In my book if something looks like corruption it is likely corruption, regardless of which side of t
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by meeuwer 3y ago
And again moving the moral goalposts. One minute it's an existential struggle between good and evil, the next minute it's "well, it's a gray area, you actually are allowed to shell nuclear power plants, everything that&#
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by meeuwer 3y ago
> The safety and security officials will allow the agency to possibly perform a forensic evaluation of shelling that has occurred at the plant, Bloomberg reported. This evaluation could be used to hold attackers of the plant responsible
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by meeuwer 3y ago
A cushy job at a domestic propaganda outlet is a bit different from selling access to a top US official to foreign oligarchs. That's if you believe that it was strictly about 10% for the Big Guy and didn't involve undue political
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by meeuwer 3y ago
> ... it should be clear that "just asking questions" only applies when the answers are already well known, where the question embodies a point refuted a thousand times, and where the questioner exhibits willful ignorance. If,
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by meeuwer 3y ago
Here's a funny weird little fact. The IAEA inspectors and even Mr. Grossi himself have been documenting and even 'hearing' shelling 'on a regular basis' while present on the ZNPP premises. But they've never att
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by meeuwer 3y ago
Just curious, how do you rationalize Hunter's employment at Burisma? Was it his business acumen or maybe background in natural gas? Or something else altogether?
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by meeuwer 3y ago
He also emphatically denied any wrongdoing after being named in the Panama Papers. What's the point you're making?
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by meeuwer 3y ago
It's great when corruption and influence peddling can happen out in the open. When it can become the official policy. Right? > "The truth is that I was forced out because I was leading a wide-ranging corruption probe into Buris
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by meeuwer 3y ago
I agree, politicians can be hard to follow at times and Joe is no exception. He's notorious for confusing and incoherent ramblings like this: "I looked at them and said, ‘if the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the mone
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by meeuwer 3y ago
The problem here is that the main suspect has control over both WaPo and those who hold the guy in jail. Oh, and over the countries that carry out the investigations too. Essentially, you're asked to disregard the motive, the capabilit
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by meeuwer 3y ago
Don’t know about the guy, but the outlet seems spook-infested. Bigwigs connected to the Council on Foreign Relations, the German Marshall Fund, etc. By definition they have and promote a US-exceptionalist worldview. Apparently, Dalio’s open
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by meeuwer 3y ago
Funny, I too thought of that very video the moment I’d read the news. Rich was barely managing to feign just enough engagement without appearing rude. Happy he has escaped.
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by meeuwer 3y ago
When a corporation runs out of money, the managers get an assignment to hand out a high number of performance improvement plans to their direct reports. Those who can leave, prefer to resign. Those who can’t, stay and play along and face ei
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by meeuwer 3y ago
Indeed, it seems to be a large corporations thing.
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by meeuwer 3y ago
They prefer stealth layoffs here in the Netherlands. The end result is the same: you’re out, but with no severance and gaslit AF. Thanks Rutte, I guess?
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by meeuwer 3y ago
Bingo. Housing in the Netherlands has become a cult demanding increasingly more human sacrifice. Sometimes I wonder if “demographic transition” in the developed world is nothing more than a side effect of the neoliberal housing policies.
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by meeuwer 3y ago
Appreciated this video too. It helps one understand that the lenis/fortis opposition is broader and arguably more useful than the voiced/unvoiced one even in English.
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by meeuwer 3y ago
Obligatory mention of Mark Fisher and his talk "The Slow Cancellation Of The Future". [1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCgkLICTskQ
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by meeuwer 4y ago
One doesn’t have to be American to consider themselves to be in the US camp. I live in a NATO country and the pro-US propaganda here is even worse than in American outlets and much more consolidated because of the de facto media monopoly. H

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