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by peisistratos 8y ago
> PRC occasionally threatens Taiwan and says they own/control them Huh? The PRC has said Taiwan and the mainland are one country since 1949, and the Taiwanese government has said the same since 1949. The previous Taiwanese preside
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> Burning cars and breaking windows isn’t peaceful protest. Neither is burning people alive in Caracas, but that doesn't stop Macron from supporting the riots in Venezuela.
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> This kind of dictatorship and purges of competent people certainly lessened the capabilities of Soviet Union, lead to the unexpected result of the Winter War, and greatly increased the losses of USSR in the coming great war. It's
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Tens of thousands of Finnish workers gave their lives during the Finnish Civil War because they preferred a Soviet Finland to the bourgeois, Nazi-aligned country it became.
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> "fascism" which is about the establishment of an ethnic monoculture Fascism comes from the Italian (and Latin) word fascism. Mussolini talked little about an ethnic monoculture - in fact there were even some prominent Jewish
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by peisistratos 8y ago
> competition between companies to provide good working conditions and pay in a free labor market Sure - but we could live in an alternative universe where Steve Jobs, Eric Schmidt, and all the other billionaires conspired to drive down
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> How dare humans have to work for their food? The point is that there is a class of humans who do not work for their food - the heirs. The Saint Grottlesex aristocracy who expropriate surplus labor time from those of us who work and cr
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by peisistratos 8y ago
> if you need to shift the language to extremes to persuade people you are doing so by "borrowing" from those extremes As in what, calling an economic system the "free market"? Which has nothing to do with markets as
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by peisistratos 8y ago
I think you are making his point. Put all those things together, plus his loony policies, you have a better case against him - in 2020 (or perhaps sooner). This overblown Russian nonsense, which is a lot of smoke for so small a fire, dis
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by peisistratos 8y ago
I concur. I dislike Trump's comments about Mexican immigrants as rapists, his recent annexation of Syria's Golan Heights and so on and so forth. My comment history will attest to this. People on the left who are not part of the
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I listened to Jordan Peterson and what he was talking about was not particularly radical - instead of a modern, rational, scientific, agnostic view of the world he had more pre-Enlightenment Dark Ages notions about the Bible, the supernatur
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The chart in the Bloomberg article is pretty great. Delong is left-leaning by the way, meaning not just conservatives see this as nutty. Left leaning Paul Krugman sees MMT as nutty https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/
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by peisistratos 8y ago
In 2005 Yale kicked David Graeber out for his political beliefs. Yale is giving this Christakis awards, yet we hear an endless lament over student backlash to the stereotyped Halloween costume comments. It is hard for me to grasp how the T
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> using historical events to justify political resentments that are very current and very local There is no lack of continuity though. In 1609 the English stole land from Irish people during the plantation of Ulster. In 2019, the six c
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As an American citizen, I wish the amount of surveillance done on me by the state security forces was as limited as this was.
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by peisistratos 8y ago
> I for one, am glad the majority can't just decide what the taxes are. The majority are those who work and create wealth. The minority are the heirs who expropriate surplus labor time from those who work. It is an old idea, James
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It's funny how the USA is in its 17th year of war and occupation and drone strikes in Afghanistan, about 40 years after it sent Osama bin Laden there to wage jihad and overthrow the secular government - yet we hear not about that in th
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by peisistratos 8y ago
> Deadspin...a stupid libertarian dystopia > Y Combinator...Thirteen of them had an altruistic or international development focus SSC mentions criticism, and then counters with the couple of hundred grand of "altruistic" mon
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by peisistratos 8y ago
> In all of the utopias we studied -- from Plato's Republic through Thomas More's Utopia and including Marx's Communist Manifesto Strange this is mentioned as the communist manifesto contains a whole chapter criticizing Ut
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As I said in the other comment, the Aztecs do not figure into this, they were not hunter-gatherers. An Aztec slave empire is obviously not a hunter-gatherer band. Having a slave empire de facto means you're not a hunter gatherer any
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by peisistratos 8y ago
There is evidence of war in the past 10,000 years, little before. Prior to 500 years ago there was little modern contact with the Americas, Australia, parts of sub-Saharan Africa etc., so observation of lack of conflict in hunter-gatherer b
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by peisistratos 8y ago
Koches, Waltons, Mars's, Johnson's, Newhouses, Catgill-Macmillans, Coxes, Pritzkers, Hearsts. The first link is shot through with holes, I would not know where to start. The Fed's Survey of Consumer Finances says otherwise.
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by peisistratos 8y ago
> War has been the natural state of man for millions of years He mentions tribes, and there is no evidence of tribes existing prior to 10,000 years ago. Which is about 25,000 to 30,000 years after the cave paintings in Chauvet and El Ca
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by peisistratos 8y ago
The top earners are the heirs who collect dividends, interest and rent - the rentiers in documentaries like Born Rich. They are unwilling to work, as the real hourly wage has sank in the US since the early 1970s, they have reaped all the b
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tendency_of_the_rate_of_profit...
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> If someone invents a tool and sells it for a profit - who was exploited? Is it not possible for everyone to be richer than they started and also create wealth?? As I said, when, after the electricity bill etc. is paid, created wealth i
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> if someone else makes money it somehow precludes others from doing it? There is an easy way to see that and it is if the median inflation-adjusted hourly wage has risen in the US since the early 1970s. Or if inflation-adjusted weekly
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> the negative effects on frogs haven't been replicated The liable chemical company responsible for atrazine said they could not replicate the study. > Alex Jones What layman commentators say about a published paper has little be
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> point out the index fund billionaire. We all want to meet that person who's winning so hard, by doing nothing. Are you joking? Look at the Forbes 400 richest. Look at the Fed's Survey of Consumer Finances. The person with p
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by peisistratos 8y ago
> that opposition leaders are in prison Like Lula in Brazil? Trump and the US are celebrating Bolsanaro. Lula is lucky, the opposition leaders have been murdered in Honduras, where the US helped overthrow elections. I'm happy the U

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