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by rbecker 6y ago
> Women and children first into the lifeboats, remember? More than just an empty phrase: of the passengers on the Titanic, 72% of adult women survived, 50% of children, and 16% of adult men: http://www.icyousee.org/titani
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> Colonisation was a betrayal No, it was simply conquest. For example, the Umayyads did not betray Hispania when they invaded, because they never had any allegiance to Hispania in the first place.
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I'm curious where you found this information, because the best I could find was that negotiations regarding those conditions were never finished: To this end, Stalin and Molotov strung out the negotiations with the Japanese, giving th
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You misunderstand - the belief is not that the US could have won the war even without the bombs, but that "bombs vs. invasion" was a false dichotomy, and that Japan would have unconditionally surrendered around the same time witho
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> Likewise most people don't realize how much more death there would've been on both sides if the US invaded Japan by sea. That's begging the question - was a US invasion the only alternative? https://www.comm
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This article elaborates that the bombings probably weren't necessary: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24093814
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> You do realize that Japan did not surrender after the complete and utter destruction of Hiroshima. Were you hoping I wouldn't check the dates? Hiroshima was bombed on August 6th, Nagasaki on the 9th, and Japan surrendered on the 1
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I suppose we'll have to weigh your assurances against the historical record of: > In a 1960 interview, Bard reiterated that "the Japanese were ready for peace and had already approached the Russians" about capitulating. &g
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Twitter censors all links to BitChute(reclaimthenet.org)
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In this context, IP includes trade secrets, industry know-how, and human expertise. Strip away the IP, and only inventory and manual labor is left.
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A common misconception. “Modern corporate law does not require for-profit corporations to pursue profit at the expense of everything else, and many do not.”: https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/04/16&#x
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For an arbitrary mental construct, it is remarkable how closely race matches clusters in a principal component analysis of the human genome: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Worldwide_Admixture_...
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All your examples are consequences of inflated property prices. When I complained of inflated rents, the complaint over property prices was implied. By subsidizing rents, you also subsidize property prices.
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"Counter-trolling", supposedly: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45052534 Helpfully the tweets have since been deleted, so it's all speculation and hearsay, unless someone saved them.
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Really a stimulus is just subsidizing inflated rents. And landlords are using the threat of mass homelessness to coerce the government into that subsidy.
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It is worth noting the article author may be motivated by prejudice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Sarah_Jeong#Actual_langua...
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> Neither side is a fan of either of those things coming at the expense of working class Americans. Except the parties representing those two sides.
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> What such a comparison would prove? Prove? No, what can be learned . If you want to fix healthcare, you look at countries with working healthcare systems and see what you can copy. Same here. And there's plenty of countries with
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How is it not relevant? When studying any phenomenon, why blind yourself to all data except that from the US? Comparing with other countries is the first thing you'd do when looking at public transport or healthcare, so what makes th
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How easy was it to distinguish the "advertorials" from legitimate articles?
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> Blacks in America are poorer, suffer higher rates of unemployment, lower educational attainment and are forced to live in higher crime areas as the result of decades of racist housing policies and centuries of oppression. How do they f
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Google puts ads organic search results, so there's a good chance your users will click your ad instead of the search result. And if you don't advertise, then your ad-buying competitors will show up in search results ahead of your
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They have to abide by them, not enforce them (unless a court order makes them). There's no law against distributing operating systems that allow running of programs that break the law.
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So were his statements accurate or not? The article doesn't bother to say.
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Coca-Cola just engineers the environment to maximally exploit human weaknesses. But it is ultimately the people's fault for not being iron-willed über-mensch and resisting temptation. Whatever the people do to fight this, they should d
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by rbecker 6y ago
Since the press release didn't bother to, lets compare UC Berkeley's (UCB) admissions [1] to California's demographics (CAL) for 2018 [2], to see how much work on diversity they have left to do: UCB %
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In other words, the only thing Freedom House did that was different was training non-doctors, while before (and elsewhere) doctors were used. That the article heavily and falsely implies neither ambulances nor doctors were used (the 5th p
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> It's somewhat tedious that whenever an article claims a black man, or a woman, were first in something someone will leap in with "well, actually...", especially when their well actuallys are often wrong. I assure you it&
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A brief glance at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_ambulance shows this wasn't even close to the first ambulance service, and I don't understand how this myth could have started. Using a strict de
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by rbecker 6y ago
> nothing in "investigative reporting, [..]" is, what I consider news. q.e.d. At this point I don't think there's anything I can say that will convince you. But yes, if you invent some contrived definition of "ne

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