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by skylan_q 10y ago
Reason cannot be applied here. It's all emotions and narratives. People will believe anything bad about the Nazis and nothing good no matter what. Silicon valley is actually politically tone-deaf and immature.
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Nazi soldiers didn't eat. They subsisted on raping children! We must defeat Hitler now before it's too late!
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Don't use that site for any insight. Nate Silver had Trump at a "1%" chance of winning the GOP primaries. He then admitted that he got the call wrong because he really didn't have any models and was just spitballing with
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National security issues brought into question vs. possible scam. Different issues. One disqualifies handling of sensitive info and public records, the other, trust in being ethical.
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weirder you have to admit, (fears of things going one way or another set aside) it's been pretty entertaining.
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Local elections have more of an affect on our lives than national elections. They determine if there will be a draft or a war or what trade policy is?
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Thanks.
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by skylan_q 10y ago
Someone update the title to mention: June, 2014
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Kenneth Rogoff has an interesting résumé: international grandmaster of chess So is Gary Kasparov, who doesn't even write any of his propaganda in Russian. So was Bobby Fischer, vicious anti-semite. This shows that he's great at
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600 people Holy smokes. I didn't know it was already that large. What are they doing with 600 people that they were unable to do with 30? I haven't seen anything novel come out of there for a long time. Maybe Atom?
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Official wars between geographic factions and nations coming to an end in the west. Fourth generation warfare only starting.
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It wasn't real socialism canard. …the story about the two fellows in the Soviet Union who were walking down the street and one of them says: Have we really achieved full communism? Is this it? Is this now full communism? The other on
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Ask yourself what those studies measure and if you can honestly consider those measures fair measures of quality, quantity and equity in providing care. It usually boils down to $5,000 for surgery X in one country, $8,000 for same surgery i
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Everyone rations. The difference between the US and the single-payers is that more care is given and better care is given vs. the rest of the world where gov't budgets are constrained so care is constrained. I'm in Ontario and I c
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Equality for all is much better than improvement for the 1% and misery for everyone else. Don't be dense. You know there are happy mediums. * Read your Wilkinson and Pickett. Aside from perhaps the environment, equality is the politi
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by skylan_q 10y ago
Liberalize healthcare to allow anyone to provide it. Did you know that before the AMA was created that doctors had to do house calls or face living in abject poverty as a result of the market being flooded with healthcare professionals?
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Single payer systems ration the amount and quality of care given. When you ration the amount and quality of care given, you can drive costs down.
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I am in Canada. Animals have a MUCH higher quality of healthcare in Canada than humans do.
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I live in Canada so I get "free" healthcare as well. Norway's system of delivering food isn't a full socialist/single-payer model, so you wouldn't get breadlines there.
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help 5 people, hurt 100 people. the idea that SS and medicare are great and have done wonders is what's causing the country to go broke and costs to skyrocket. it was never good in the first place. you see the benefits when the program
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free market systems are dynamic and adjustable to real-world inputs in a way that no planned system can match in terms of providing the most service/product to the most people. what people really want when they push for socialized medi
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i couldn't in any good conscience support single-payer or socialized medicine it's the same economic model that created breadlines
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different options with respect to coverage, for one
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The media produced there comes of the same forms/motivations telling the same stories again and again. 1) Profit-driven 2) Gov't-funded (state welfare art to reinforce state propaganda tropes) 3) Promotion of a social cause everyo
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You can access it as a consumer, but you cannot use it in the continuation of culture. Very important point.
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there's much more to memes than image macros that's like saying "seen one painting, seen them all!"
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no, i'm actually being genuine. i can only watch pulp fiction so many times before i realize the same movie is being made over and over again
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it is. for me, memes were part of rehabilitating political views I might have never considered as legitimate otherwise
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fill some sort of creative void memes are the only culture we're producing right now
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tired: I CAN HAZ CHEEZBURGER wired: #dicksout for Harambe

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