quirkafleeg

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by quirkafleeg 9y ago
As I said in my post, the essential Japanese condition for surrender was that the Emperor remain in place. After rejecting that, thus prolonging the war and using the atom bombs, the US ended up keeping the Emperor in place (ie accepting th
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by quirkafleeg 9y ago
Particularly when it's not even true. The Japanese wanted to surrender long before the Bomb was dropped, on condition that the Emperor remain in place. The US insisted on unconditional surrender, prolonging the fighting and resulting i
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by quirkafleeg 9y ago
>> You can never morally justify war against civilians, sorry. > Civilians are responsible for their governments. So the attack on the WTC was justified in your opinion?
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by quirkafleeg 9y ago
So instead of a potentially interesting thread about this device, what it (supposedly) does, how it compares to tech or practices here, we should have another all-been-said-before-1000-times discussion re-stating the boringly obvious about
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by quirkafleeg 9y ago
He's comparing this device's tracking with Google's tracking. Why are you pretending you don't realise that?
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by quirkafleeg 9y ago
> Can you vote and pick a guy from another party? Do other parties exist at all? Can you start your own party? All you're illustrating with this one is that the US does a better job of faking democracy. If China had a pro-establishm
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by quirkafleeg 9y ago
You could say what the differences are that you think he can't see, instead of acting as if "no" is a good enough argument or rebuttal.
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by quirkafleeg 9y ago
I don't think you understand what you're quoting. https://www.google.com/search?q=china+economic+"inevitably+l...
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by quirkafleeg 9y ago
> even BBC Two recent examples of BBC 'impartiality' https://twitter.com/maitlis/status/854308223838371840 https://twitter.com/bbcnickrobinson/status/85500451929767936... Wi
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by quirkafleeg 9y ago
Doesn't work for me (outside Europe). Didn't work from US server too. Did work from UK VPS. So maybe only works within Europe, or has some other IP/location restriction.
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by quirkafleeg 9y ago
> If Google started to detect the pattern of someone slipping into madness and did what they could to start to refute things, to sprinkle in some helpful counter-points with their diet of pure nonsense, maybe we can save people who'
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by quirkafleeg 9y ago
> there was an actual sexual harassment case filed in an actual court against Tesla, but almost no one heard about that because the media loves Tesla. I'm always skeptical of these kind of claims about "the media", and if
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by quirkafleeg 9y ago
> Otherwise you will end up accepting false claims I think you mean "may". A lack of hard evidence backing up a claim doesn't necessarily mean the claim is false.
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by quirkafleeg 9y ago
> Instead of arguing the topic, you keep on shifting the argument to ad hominem attacks. Actually I'm specifically addressing what you're posting, which is quite difficult when so much of what you post is completely vacuous, li
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by quirkafleeg 9y ago
> I never once stated that I visited any red-light districts Your words: " If you've ever spent any time in these areas , it's a pretty disgusting sight. 10x different from the scene in other red-light districts (which a
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by quirkafleeg 9y ago
> They wouldn't choose this arrangement if they had any other decent options on the table. So they should choose a different shitty option just to keep guilt-wracked foreigners like you happy instead? > How many prostitutes in th
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by quirkafleeg 9y ago
> You don't need to explicitly visit the red light district in Thailand Then why do you do it? > since it's literally everywhere [...] literally at every corner [...] it's literally _everywhere_ Maybe you should have a
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by quirkafleeg 10y ago
It's not even a case of "blowback" - such as could be argued about 19th century US imperialism and militarisation in Asia leading to it being dragged into WWII by Japan - his argument seems little more than the USA became a u
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by quirkafleeg 10y ago
> No, what's creepy are the flocks of western men who travel each year to southeast asia for sex. What's creepy is visiting the red light areas of Thailand (and other countries around the world), as you admit you do, then prote
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by quirkafleeg 10y ago
> Having traveled through S. East Asia extensively, the old/fat/ugly westerner with the young, lithe, Thai girl is a pretty common sight. Love is "blind" but let's not kid ourselves. If the "young, lithe, Th
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by quirkafleeg 10y ago
Are you seriously pretending to think he's claiming Bangkok is the same size as the City of London?
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by quirkafleeg 10y ago
> Can't [publicly funded education] be considered a "socialist" policy? Are there people who think it isn't?
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by quirkafleeg 10y ago
There's only one comment that says simply "this happens in the US too", and it's unclear whether it's trying to excuse the Russian authorities or simply pointing out that authoritarianism is not limited to Russia (R
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by quirkafleeg 10y ago
> replying to me instead of metafunctor cause we reached the limit of nesting for comments I don't think there's a limit (at least not at this point), just that at a certain depth there's a delay before the reply link appe
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by quirkafleeg 10y ago
> things break somewhat regularly [...] reboot at least once every two days [...] it's a buggy piece of shit [...] 10-15 years behind Mac OSX or Windows [...] make something that doesn't suck Your comment would be more interest
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by quirkafleeg 10y ago
Hate to do this, but since it's a common mistake also repeated in the reply, it's Colombia.
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by quirkafleeg 10y ago
> These people will ban the Internet before giving up power and that will probably be met with relative apathy by the population - "well, if we have to suffer for our motherland, we will...". After the UK laptop ban on flights
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by quirkafleeg 10y ago
Don't forget the USA, where they lynch black people.
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by quirkafleeg 10y ago
Can't be that many spy shop related assassinations in NL, so probably this guy, Ronald Bakker. http://nltimes.nl/2015/09/10/police-huizen-murder-gangland-a... A search on his name brings up Dutch results
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by quirkafleeg 10y ago
> The US has roughly 110 guns per 100,000 people What is this based on, or what am I missing? From what I've repeatedly read before, it's more like 110 guns per 100 people.

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