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by mushbino 5y ago
How so? No NATO countries involved in this scenario.
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by mushbino 5y ago
I work with a lot of Chinese nationals and they know far more about tiananmen than westerners. Look up operation yellowbird.
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by mushbino 5y ago
Alcohol is banned for everyone in Australia? Imagine how that would go over.
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by mushbino 5y ago
This is why the US relies heavily on immigration. Keeps profit margins higher.
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by mushbino 5y ago
Why is the issue low birthrates and not an economic system that relies on perpetual growth? Is there a more sustainable system?
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by mushbino 5y ago
I just finished the book Fantasyland by Kurt Anderson. Much of our reality and especially our worldview is constructed and bears no resemblance to reality.
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by mushbino 5y ago
The success of that type of system relies pretty heavily on having an informed populace. It's worth noting that in the US almost all of our media is owned by just a handful of corporations. We can vote on things all day long but it doe
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by mushbino 5y ago
I I think you make some good points as far as general cultural attitudes exacerbating the problem. To an extent, I also think the same can be applied to all drugs. These are social, cultural, and health issues more often than they are crimi
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by mushbino 5y ago
Massive investments in black communities. Comparing the treatment of the Irish to 400 years of institutionalized chattel slavery is absurd on its face. Also, again, ignoring everything else I mentioned. Some books you should check out to le
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by mushbino 5y ago
That makes sense. The tough part is that the real solution is uplifting Eastern European countries, but that's a huge challenge. In the short-term, is the cost of property theft worth creating a more draconian society? That's the
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by mushbino 5y ago
How does violent crime compare?
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by mushbino 5y ago
This is the main difference. We have relatively poor social safety nets in the US and no real regard for rehabilitation. We keep trying to put bandaids on a broken system and it just compounds the suffering.
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by mushbino 5y ago
Where in this analysis do they account for slavery, Jim Crowe, mass incarceration, redlining, systemic racism, etc? Or is the feeling that these things have no significant impact?
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by mushbino 5y ago
This is true. Their success in life is generally valued by their governments.
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by mushbino 5y ago
Crime rate is strongly related to poverty. Stronger punishments don't change that and in fact have the opposite affect. If we work on that we can make some progress. The US has the largest prison population in the world by a large marg
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by mushbino 5y ago
I've traveled extensively through the Balkans and when people ask what it's like, one of the things I say is that everything is old, brand new, and under construction all at the same time.
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by mushbino 5y ago
To really solve the housing crisis we'll need to use this device to print some affordable land first.
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by mushbino 6y ago
This past year we should have pushed for "Temporary" universal healthcare coverage.
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by mushbino 6y ago
If you join a union you're protecting child molesters? I think you flew a little too close to the sun with this FUD. Dial it back a bit so it sounds a little more sincere next time.
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by mushbino 6y ago
You mean it will lead to an organization where Nations are like, United or something along those lines?
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by mushbino 6y ago
This is my experience with Paxil. I can't say I would be here today if it weren't for that. Everyone has different brain chemistry and you have to try different things until you find something that works. Now, I can finally get ou
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by mushbino 6y ago
Annie's was more "in the spirit" of the healthfood movement that started in the late 60's. It was a small company using mostly natural ingredients and it was popular in most healthfood stores, if anyone remembers those.
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by mushbino 6y ago
Honestly, it depends on where the added up $1k/month is going.
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by mushbino 6y ago
I used to grab Eatsa every day for lunch. It was really the only customizable, healthy, affordable, and fast lunch options around. It was packed all the time too. I was super bummed and surprised to learn they shut down. There's defini
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by mushbino 6y ago
How does 230 address hypocrisy? Or are you just airing a personal grudge?
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by mushbino 6y ago
To be fair, times change and professors tend to be from a much different generation than the students. During the Vietnam war many professors thought the students were going too far in protesting. Professors can teach the students HOW to th
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by mushbino 6y ago
If by "everyone" you mean wealthy and powerful men, then yes.
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by mushbino 6y ago
At a certain point the messenger becomes the message. There is a big difference between isolated events and patterns.
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by mushbino 6y ago
You're setting up straw men and attributing lots of arguments to me that I'm not making. I spent a month in Kyiv last year, went to the Holodomor museum, and just finished a book about it not too long ago. The famine was very much
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by mushbino 6y ago
Honest question: where do you get the information that you're operating on? It sounds like you're just presenting opinion and you don't know a whole lot about Soviet history, gulags, or the US prison system. You do know that

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