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by nec4b 3y ago
>>Because they will be sanctioned and bombed to oblivion if they don't. Now, tell me how this is not a "wealth extraction" economy. TIL, people buy iphones and use facebook, because they are afraid to be bombed otherwis
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While I agree what we currently have in the west is not sustainable, I disagree the reason for it is individualism or Enlightenment. Other much less individualistic countries have the same or even worse problems with fertility (Japan, South
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A country which ranks 12th on the economic freedom in the world. Calls it self capitalist welfare democracy is now an example of successful socialist country?
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>>There are many functional, non-authoritarian socialist countries. Can you name one?
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If they can't be even accused of dumping Bud Light cases (you say even this was devised by the intelligentsia), what is then the most egregious thing the poor did?
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I guess both, one hand they don't have the time to come up elaborate ideological concepts/fantasies and on the other hand they don't really have the power to change anything. If the most egregious thing you can be accused of
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>> Let’s consider the contrary. Do poor people sometimes hold highly questionable beliefs, promulgated by institutions, and does professing these beliefs in expensive and flamboyant ways confer status? I would consider those beliefs p
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by nec4b 3y ago
Thanks for making HN more entertaining. I do feel sorry for those cultures that didn't come up with computers, they can't read your comments, because that would be cultural appropriation.
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>> all of the Arab world wants Israel to disappear Most, but not all of them. >> Israel would like Palestine to disappear There is more than a million Palestinians living and working in Israel as its citizens. They hold position
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Who would you defend in not you children and wives?
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I had Nuremberg trials in mind. I don't like what you imagine as justice though.
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They have a fanatical enemy today who will not negotiate or stop hostilities until Israel is gone. Again how should they solve this problem now?
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Why? Do you believe those that supported Nazis were not responsible for atrocities of Nazism?
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You missed with your analogy. Germany (Palestine) wasn't happy with what it got, started a war, lost it. It became radicalized, Nazis (Hamas) came to power and sought to utterly exterminate some of its neighbors and some groups of peop
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What would you do if you were the leader of Israel? They have pulled out of Gaza in 2005. Hamas goal is destruction of Israel, I doesn't want any peace talks.
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>> That's one women, and a strange example to cite Why? She an example of a very well known women completely in charge of a future empire in the 16th century. I thought it was clear there were also untold numbers of ordinary wome
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So in short I guess you agree not everything stems from wealth inequality.
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>> Everything stems from this. And how do you explain how very poor countries where the top 1% have wealth comparable to wealthy American peers and 99% of the country has less income American middle class had 100 years ago and they ha
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by nec4b 3y ago
>> In the past that you're talking about, women were not allowed to be independent, i.e., own property or obtain jobs that could support a family. That is maybe half true or not true at all. Women could own property and could be
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by nec4b 3y ago
No, because you can't really ban lobbying. If you tried it would just move behind the curtains instead of being transparent and in public. I don't know about you, but I rather know who pushes for what.
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For the same reason black card is considered exclusive and prestigious. Maybe you are the problem, associating everything with race and in if in your mind black is inferior, then everything using black as an adjective would be negative for
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How come you didn't fix it? I'm sure it would have taken you only 5 minutes to find it and 2 more minutes to write a fix.
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>> Adults in bad marriages do not make for good parents. Children exposed to abusive marriages are predisposed to considering abusive marriages normal, therefore perpetuating the cycle. Do you believe majority of bad marriages are abu
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Do you like answering a question with a question?
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You don't share it with your wife or kids, roommates,...?
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Like a shareholder company? So they should pay dividends to non stock holders?
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When you play sports and your team is winning, do you stop trying to give a chance for the competitor team?
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So your logic doesn't apply for your home, for your neighborhood or your city? Does it hold for you state or do you need to become completely independent country?
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At what square footage does it start holding then? At what point do you start caring more for others than your family and vice versa?
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by nec4b 3y ago
So it's inconvenient for you to open your house to anyone?

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