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by mushbino 6y ago
I'm open to being wrong if you have evidence to the contrary, but you've only been offering anecdotes and ad-hominems.
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by mushbino 6y ago
The height of the US prison population was in 2008 when about 1,000 in 100,000 U.S. adults were behind bars. In the Soviet Union at the height of the Stalin purges is was about 714 to 892 imprisoned per 100,000 USSR residents. From here: h
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by mushbino 6y ago
A relatively small percentage were political prisoners, but when you compare the number of people who have received very lengthy sentences for minor drug possession, in some cases life, how is that any better? Not to mention Jim Crow in the
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by mushbino 6y ago
I was in St. Petersburg and Moscow last year and spent a month in Kyiv. I've been to Czech and Slovak republics the year before. Albania, Croatia, Slovenia, Montenegro, Bosnia, North Macedonia, Serbia, Belarus. Next on the list is Geor
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by mushbino 6y ago
He was fighting for his country. If someone invaded the US during the Trump, Bush, or Obama depending on who you dislike, we would all be fighting to defend our country regardless of who was in charge. Defending your was of life, family, co
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by mushbino 6y ago
What part is inaccurate and where did I say anything contradicting what you're saying? I've studied Russian history for many years. We know much more about the gulags since Glasnost and the opening of the archives. We can now comp
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by mushbino 6y ago
Times change and sometimes things that were once acceptable are no longer. Can you comment on this image from one of the books the publisher stopped printing: https://i.insider.com/4f6c8135eab8eae014000062?width=1100&fo.
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by mushbino 6y ago
I believe she was.
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by mushbino 6y ago
How is this whataboutism? I'm in no way apologizing for gulags, but the "Socialism and Marxism always leads to utter destruction" take is so tired and insulting to those who actually study history and political science. Also,
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by mushbino 6y ago
You're commenting as if Capitalism and Imperialism are squeaky clean, which is incredibly far from the truth. Just to give a little more context, Solzhenitsyn was a Fascist who supported the Germans during WWII and openly supported Fra
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by mushbino 6y ago
Cut off services and have them go where? Also, how do you ban someone from a city? This is just a purely NIMBY response and not in any way realistic or helpful. You just really don't like it in your backyard and want it in someone else
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by mushbino 6y ago
These cities are considerably larger and the homeless can be corraled somewhere out of sight. The difference is that in SF you have to see them.
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by mushbino 6y ago
You mean more artificial islands built on landfill.
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by mushbino 6y ago
Force them out of cities to where exactly? It doesn't sound like you've thought this through. What OP meant was that it will take a federal initiative, meaning something that will cover every state and local jurisdiction. If they&
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by mushbino 6y ago
So you're saying the homeless and mentally ill in San Francisco are just lazy and grifting the system? There's plenty of data available to show how naive that statement is. What would be your proposed solution?
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by mushbino 6y ago
This is textbook double speak.
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by mushbino 6y ago
What do they do in the conservative cities that's more successful?
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by mushbino 6y ago
Yes, networking is inevitable. Transparency and accountability are hedges against this, but incentives aren't there short of some sort of massive public pressure.
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by mushbino 6y ago
Thank you! It's not something I ever talk about, but it means a lot to hear, even from an internet stranger.
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by mushbino 6y ago
Just to add to this; I've been sober for a number of years and I remember reading about how alcohol companies specifically target people in recovery. After reading this, the targeted ads on TV and in magazines became very apparent. Kno
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by mushbino 6y ago
The Atlantic slave trade started because they ran out of natives to enslave. There weren't enough of them because around 95% of them died.
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by mushbino 6y ago
This is a wildly inaccurate, simplistic, agenda driven take. I was going to give some additional perspective, but you've covered about 40 topics, and all of them poorly.
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by mushbino 6y ago
If someone comes into your business to promote racist and bigoted causes, and promote violence, do you have the right to kick them out?
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by mushbino 6y ago
"Free speech" in these instances means bigotry and calls to violence. Also, we're talking about private businesses here, you can't be that naive.
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by mushbino 6y ago
That's exactly right and journalistic standards have been a reflection of the zeitgeist, for better or worse. It's never tended to be fair to those who have no power at all. Historically, the fairness and honesty part has skewed m
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by mushbino 6y ago
Everyone is talking around in circles here about what truth means and how journalists should handle bias. Truth in terms of journalism means, is this a story made of facts that would benefit the average citizen without regard to physical an
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by mushbino 6y ago
Violating TOS gets you removed from a platform. Is that controversial? I assume HN can do the same.
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by mushbino 6y ago
Why would Reddit want to expose themselves to the risk when they can hide behind Section 230?
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by mushbino 6y ago
CJR just recently did a hitpiece on another journalist that was filled with provable lies. Once shown irrefutable evidence that they got many of the facts wrong they refuse to do a retraction. I would love to see real truth to power journal
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by mushbino 6y ago
He said he had trouble finding these online but there's a huge list right here: https://adele.uxpin.com/ And here https://designsystemsrepo.com/design-systems/ It's more visual design focused

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