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by shard972 8y ago
I said this somewhere else but it's a fools errand to take left/right understandings from one country and just apply it to another country. Most people refer to left/right in terms of it being a snapshot between two competing
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> I think this would depend on what you consider liberalism. For instance, I think two of the most important components of liberalism are the autonomy of the individual and the consent of the governed. I would say these two aspects defin
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Well to say the DNC is right wing is a bit rich i think. If your taking your localized view of right wing from a country which is not the USA then i would say your abusing the terms right/left which aren't ideologies in themselves
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> Liberalism and the word liberty in and of itself no longer means anything concrete It means a lot to those who can understand the liberalism is the underpinning ideology of the west post enlightenment. All you have to do is understand
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Google’s censored search engine could actually help Chinese citizens(washingtonpost.com)
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Liberalism itself isn't right wing at all. Consider that in the USA at the moment liberalism is most concentrated within the democratic party as most neo-liberals have left the party post Trump. Steve Schmidt and Joe Scarborough are tw
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A lot of americans don't approve of many things the government does but we don't call them a dictatorship oppressing the people. Plenty of western countries are involved in censorship on a smaller scale but that's not conside
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> the PRC is still in the wrong Ill just leave it here by saying that to even label something in another culture as "wrong" you first have to understand that the word "wrong" is deeply entrenched in western culture an
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That's just your opinion. Other companies can have other opinions too, as long as the law doesn't force us either way.
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> They wouldn't because most of the western democratic countries are now actively preventing China from stealing their technologies. Thats all kind of small considering the kind of information that has already been dropshiped out wi
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If you want to make it in China then yea, you probably shouldn't be too hung up on human rights. It's not some universal concept that has applied throughout the world for our existence so it's quite rude to pretend like China
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Ok even if i don't like those actions a startup shouldn't worry about those issues. I might have political views but I don't bring them to work. If something is so bad then that's for the governments to sort out, we are
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Not sure why that parent comment was flagged, he was just pointing out the fact that companies value profit, everything else is optional. Is that not allowed to be uttered around here anymore?
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> Lord help us if the Chinese government somehow gets its hands on a superior weapons tech, or smarter AI. Why wouldn't they get their hands on that? With companies like HPE existing as now defacto chinese companies I just don'
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I'm sorry but this argument that "X silicon valley company is just a private company and has no responsibility to free speech" is just not going to fly in the coming years. I just read another HN article about how amazon just
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Which to me begs the question, shouldn't companies be doing more maintenance to ensure fires don't get out of control? If you really believe climate change was responsible, why were they asleep at the wheel? Otherwise it just seem
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Need to maintain the debt. Countries like the US would face serious questions if they re-projected population growth into declines as that would mean there will be less workers around in the future to pay taxes to service the debt.
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Very true, especially now when successful integration rates seems to be plummeting as we see 3rd generation immigrants reverting back to the anti-social behaviours that exist in the countries they come from. Also when you consider migrants
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> What's cheaper - a Burger-Flip'O-Tron for a million dollars + an expensive maintenance contract, or a $500/month migrant worker who you can replace for any reason whatsoever and find another one happy to take their job?
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And break your oath to uphold and defend the constitution?
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> it doesn’t matter if your friends are gay or not; the fact it’s a hateful insult that tells gay men they are lesser is enough. I didn't say that, you said that! Why would you think gay people are lessor to straight men? > Imag
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> Just because something doesn't offend you specifically (even if you are part of the group something offensive is being said about) doesn't mean it isn't offending anyone. I couldn't care less if someone is offended.
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That sounds like a way to accelerate the lack of accountability. If i wanted to reduce accountability of american companies, I would make it so you could only by US stocks through unified stock. You would just have 0 ability for anyone to a
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Which society stands to become richer? The country that sold it's beaches to a foreign company, or the foreign country which operates the business and owns the profits? To the extent this is politics, I guess you could say it's a
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Why would nationalism stoke tensions between citizens? The point of nationalism is to unite the society around the nation. It seems to me that multiculturalism if anything leads to more tensions as it seeks to add more groups that don'
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I think there is something wrong with a culture that feels the need to supress what is effectively amateur comedy going on within small groups. Targeted harassment sure, that's not something to just blindly protect but as a homosexual,
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Since when did such a statement rely on hard emperical evidence?
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> His notes also referred to the fact that only three percent of Facebook employees are African American and five percent Hispanic. What was the point of this note? To point out how facebook needs to work harder on their diversity cultur
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Looking forward to CNN, MSNBC and CBS all interviewing BLM leaders to ask them what they think about this.
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I wonder what affect San Jose being a sanctuary city has on these increases. It would seem me that a policy that encourages illegal immigrants to live in your city is neccisarily going to increase the supply of home dwellers, putting more d

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