mladenkovacevic

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by mladenkovacevic 10y ago
Why does everyone think that hacking the DNC amounted to "hacking the election". Did anyone complain when Iceland PM resigned as a result of the Panama Papers leak and the large-scale protests that ensued? You wouldn't say th
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by mladenkovacevic 10y ago
So unless someone dedicates themselves full-time to holding every elected politician accountable they are considered apathetic? I'm sorry but that's not realistic, people have lives to live and survive through.
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by mladenkovacevic 10y ago
Not just big money but also dark money. We don't even know half of the organizations and individuals that our representatives are beholden to. But feel free to state your case for why outsized spending on political influence is a good
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by mladenkovacevic 10y ago
This is an easy one. No it's not
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by mladenkovacevic 10y ago
Only way to "exert political pressure" is to get big money out of politics by any means necessary.
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by mladenkovacevic 10y ago
If it did change, I don't think that minor point disputes the deportation trend under Obama. What percentage of overseas immigrants take this risky (and expensive) route of arriving at a US border without a visa or some other immigrati
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by mladenkovacevic 10y ago
They act shocked because they don't genuinely care about people being deported, families being ripped apart, providing support for displaced people, or just in general not displacing people in the first place with wars and disastrous e
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by mladenkovacevic 10y ago
In general terms you are right, but at its lowest level there exists at least a division between the owners of the means of production, and the workers. I believe the workers themselves are further divided into two classes - those favoured
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by mladenkovacevic 10y ago
No actually the 2.5 million doesn't include turn-aways or self-deportation which both add to the final number.
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by mladenkovacevic 10y ago
Yeah god forbid everyone invests their fair share in building a fairer and better society. Crony capitalism is like a flesh eating disease. It encourages everyone to look solely after their own individual interests. Then once a portion of s
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by mladenkovacevic 10y ago
No, clearly she's not a waterworks engineer. Not critiquing her work specifically, but if she has no power to reverse a situation why do a 10,000 word article on her work. I am criticizing the role of media in the service of preserving
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by mladenkovacevic 10y ago
Another paragraph that reeks of moderate-liberal propaganda: "A young man said, “I think the concern is that because we’re a Hispanic community we’re not going to have the same help.” His parents had brought him to Michigan from Mexic
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by mladenkovacevic 10y ago
Maybe they can redirect all this wonderful behavioral science to train the politicians to actually care about ordinary lower-income citizens so they can fix the fucking pipes instead of placing the responsibility on tax-payers by teaching t
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by mladenkovacevic 10y ago
Has mainstream media devoted so much attention to analyzing and reporting on fake news that they were unwittingly seduced into producing their own? Those dastardly Russians, this must've been their evil scheme all along to besmirch the
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by mladenkovacevic 10y ago
Yeah that's just simplistic enough for lazy centrists who would rather not put into question their absolute support for the status quo and the official "truth". Iraq aftermath already caused enough turmoil for their precious
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by mladenkovacevic 10y ago
There was one story that came out recently about an incident at US's nuclear base in Okinawa but that account is now being challenged by several former officers: http://www.stripes.com/news/special-reports/fea
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by mladenkovacevic 10y ago
The focus on his intelligence is a distraction. He's a war criminal. Who cares how smart he is. This is like discussing something written by Leni Riefenstahl titled "Hitler was a better artist than you."
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by mladenkovacevic 10y ago
The editing artifacts on that RT video are unavoidable.
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by mladenkovacevic 10y ago
It's interesting to note that the hack that likely got access to Podesta emails and subsequently handed those emails over to Wikileaks is recorded in the leaked emails themselves. It was a typical phishing email scheme easy to recogniz
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by mladenkovacevic 10y ago
They've never lied before to protect their own interests before so why start doubting them now right?
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by mladenkovacevic 10y ago
But it seems to be way more than a hand-wavy "feel it in our bones" certainty. Critics seem to focus on casting doubt on very specific issues with the story and then proceed to write off the entire narrative without analyzing the
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by mladenkovacevic 10y ago
Massaging what? Which agenda? Don't they just usually release a dump of whatever information they have which is as close to transparent and impartial facts as you can get, but it's also exactly what most people criticize about the
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by mladenkovacevic 10y ago
I don't think that's the relevant point here. That's merely his opinion, and being a Russian, certainly he is more willing to give his government the benefit of the doubt. What's more interesting is that he is willing to
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by mladenkovacevic 10y ago
I don't think your comment is naive. Given some basic life necessities and niceties such as food, shelter, personal freedom, financial security and access to social services, most people would rather do the "correct" thing an
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by mladenkovacevic 10y ago
May the force live long and prosper with you :)
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by mladenkovacevic 10y ago
Title should be: "Here's a narrative that makes me feel good and righteous"
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by mladenkovacevic 10y ago
Do you by any chance mean Star Trek and Alibaba films?
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by mladenkovacevic 10y ago
The casualty numbers are out there.. no need for "seems" Anti-coup casualties: 161 civilians and police officers Pro-coup casualties: 104 military I'm no fan of Erdogan's "reforms" after the coup, but there&#x2
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by mladenkovacevic 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston%27s_Hiccup
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by mladenkovacevic 10y ago
And then the culmination: So, for the logo. What if it’s something random? Something unexpected? Hear me out. What’s minimal, human, wordless, and edgy? I’ll tell you what…a toe. Exactly, it’s brilliant. I’ve mocked up a few designs myself

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