sacrificedcapon

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by sacrificedcapon 7y ago
1) Right. And the holocaust was perpetrated by germans who were elected by citizens in a fair and open democracy. The extermination of the native americans were perpetrated by americans who were elected by citizens in a fair and open democr
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by sacrificedcapon 7y ago
By nations, I'm guessing you mean "nation-state". Some elites ( globalists ) want to destroy nations today for the same reason elites in the past destroyed tribes to form nations. They create a bigger "slave and land bas
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by sacrificedcapon 7y ago
Perhaps that's why "panic" is in quotes. Also keep in mind some believe that a lot of "animalyness" is also "plantyness". http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20170109-plants-can-see-he
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by sacrificedcapon 7y ago
You do realize that saudi arabia, china, russia, etc all have laws in place to hold newspaper editors responsible for printing "truth" right? > This is what has kept our society well informed and critical thinking for a hundred
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by sacrificedcapon 7y ago
Neither party is for stronger US labor unions. Both parties are pro-globalism and pro-free trade. It was under a democratic president that China attained Most Favored Trading Nation status. It was Clinton, in the 90s, who did most of the le
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by sacrificedcapon 7y ago
Is it possible to enforce american spelling ( especially in the title )? Behavior vs Behaviour? HN is an american company and gitlab is an american company so people who participate here should use correct american spelling. The gitlab post
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by sacrificedcapon 7y ago
Your "morals" precludes anyone from working at any major company. Let alone companies like WashingtonPost who helped start many illegal wars and led to the death of millions of innocent people with their lies. Using your logic, th
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by sacrificedcapon 7y ago
That's the inheritance of instinct rather than the inheritance of learning. If one generation of wasp colony "learned" that building their structures under blue canopy was good (researchers protected these structures) and red
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by sacrificedcapon 7y ago
In our industry's defense, our industry is relatively young. In other words, the industry is too busy making history to appreciate it. I'm sure as time passes, we'll start to appreciate the history of the industry more and mo
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by sacrificedcapon 7y ago
It isn't just social media. Google's censorship of their search results predates censorship on social media by a few years. It feels like a century ago, but traditional media and the elites attacked Google until Google gave in on
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by sacrificedcapon 7y ago
Did you try changing your name to Netflix, Etrade or American Express? I swear, no matter how many times you mark their emails as spam, they eventually wind up back in your inbox ( admittedly in the Promotions section rather than the Primar
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by sacrificedcapon 7y ago
Agreed that the number of extremist leftists are small in the US. Unfortunately, many of those "Tumblr-like social justice warriors" work in the academia, media and government and wield disproportionate power. And if you haven&#x2
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by sacrificedcapon 7y ago
All you have to do is read the history of newspapers and journalism. Almost exclusively, they were created by financial, industrial and political elite to influence the population. They were never created to make money. Alexander Hamilton d
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by sacrificedcapon 7y ago
I hate to burst your bubble, but fundamentally, all advertising is a "scam". It's to get you to buy stuff you really don't need. Also, the print newspaper industry isn't as clean as you think. http://paul
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by sacrificedcapon 7y ago
I think you missed his point. Neither china nor russia censor "politically correct" speech. Of course their view of "politically correct" is different from ours and others. Europe, Islamic world, Africa, etc all protect
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by sacrificedcapon 7y ago
Not as encompassing as Feynman's lectures on physics, but Euclid's Elements is an excellent mathematical text.