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by minimuffins 11y ago
> I’ve spent a career working 50 to 70 hours per week...This post is not me complaining that work is hard and I want to do less. Would that be so wrong? How many of us are tired of the Do What You Love And Work Will Set You Free mytholo
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The US propped up the Mubarak regime for decades. That was instrumental in creating the conditions for their revolution. The US only stopped its intervention when supporting Mubarak was obviously not viable anymore. Sadly it seems like t
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by minimuffins 11y ago
I agree with you that a lot of the warfare over the years was actually "terrorism" in today's lingo. > Islamic imperialism in the 1000's and terrorism are linked How do you think they are linked? I know ISIS rhetoric
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When do you think colonialism started? Christopher Columbus? The British Empire? Check out these pre-Islamic colonizers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_history_of_the_Roman_... What were those expansionary b
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How do we know leaving the Mideast alone would not work? We've literally never tried it. Not since then end of World War II anyway. Human civilization may not be a naturally "stable system" but Western intervention in the M
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"Twitter doesn't care about protests because it won't make them any money" -> Too cynical "Twitter DOES care about protests because it will actually make them lots of money" -> NOT CYNICAL AT ALL
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Jacobin is explicitly socialist. It's no surprise to find "extreme left" bias in a radical left magazine. Bias != "unreliable" though. No institutions exist outside of politics or ideology and the ones that claim
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> The top 50% of Americans are better off than the top 50% of people in Sweden So just hope you're not in the bottom 50%? We should also think about what "better off" actually means. Maybe a healthy society cares about mo
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"Ads help us to be more informed about what products are available to us" (paraphrasing) A kind public service! We should really be paying them, but the advertisers inform us for free! Asking about the ethics of hiding ads seems