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by smhost 5y ago
maybe in movies. governments mostly tend to lie about things they did badly, not about long-term accomplishments that can be fairly easily measured against their previous record, currently level of expertise, etc.
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by smhost 5y ago
this also isn't the type of thing that governments tend to lie about. it's not like a scenario where a contractor overpromises and underdelivers and government media has to do damage control. they're also not announcing some
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it really is a great challenge, because for example america will have to rethink its habit of paying for today's excesses by harvesting the labor of future generations. it's a completely different inter-generational relation than
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by smhost 5y ago
sports betting was legalized in 2018 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy_v._National_Collegiate_... )
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by smhost 5y ago
It's crazy. I always subconsciously assumed that Red Delicious apples were how apples have always been (because they taste/look so much less appetizing than the other ones, therefore they must be the most "natural"), and
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by smhost 5y ago
> The beauty of maths is that it exists independent of all other considerations. This seems to be where Perelman comes from. Okay, so why publish at all? Why not just sit in mathematical nirvana in a cave, having discovered the math-God?
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by smhost 5y ago
I personally don't care whether it was or wasn't terrorism. Either way, you and I are never going to know (barring a Russian whistleblower). I was just commenting on the bizarre and coordinated behavior of the U.S. media.
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by smhost 5y ago
It was remarkable how quickly U.S. media accepted the "it wasn't terrorism" line after years of going on about how the Russians are the most comically evil superterrorist masterminds who are destroying the fabric of blah blah
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by smhost 5y ago
It's all of the above. A large, unproductive rentier class creating a barrier to capitalist dynamics contributes to a stagnant economy, which generates popular discontent and erodes government authority.
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by smhost 5y ago
A liberal state is not capable of granting religious freedom. All it can offer are religious rights, which means that you are allowed to imagine that you are Christian (or whatever other religious affiliation), and you may dress up in funny
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by smhost 5y ago
> Perhaps a particular chimp or gorilla was having a really bad day and just went out looking for a fight. This doesn't necessarily contradict the food competition or climate change hypothesis. To the individual ape it might seem t
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> their industrial underdevelopment which was partly due to their economic and political system I'm sorry? They went from a peasant society immediately to defending against multiple foreign invasions (including the U.S.) to fighting
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by smhost 5y ago
and then there will be a million "Top 10 things the government doesn't want you to know" videos that amplify whatever it was they were trying to censor
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by smhost 5y ago
What? No. I specifically referred to the Total War speech, not to election posters. You seem fixated on making your own point unrelated to what I was saying.
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by smhost 5y ago
> They promised to fix the economy, fight unemployment, fight back against the unjust Versailles Treaty, support families, bring political stability and make other countries respect Germany again, etc. You're missing one component,
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by smhost 5y ago
When you introduce the notion of "logical sense", you're already deviating from an objective standard. For example, Amazon's warehouse bathroom policy is logical from a profit-maximizing perspective, but it's illogi
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by smhost 5y ago
Well, not exactly. The ideological trick is to package pain and hardship and to sell it as something wonderful. It's not really even about promising good things in the future. That only works for part of the population (essentially the
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by smhost 5y ago
> They do them because they're easy If you want to see a counterpoint to this, watch Goebbels' Total War speech. You can absolutely mobilize a great mass of people by promising them pain and hardship. Similar idea with JFK&#x27
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by smhost 5y ago
> they could not be seen as other than opportunistic and exploitative I find this a bit hypocritical considering the incredible opportunism and exploitation represented by the WTC, as well as Bush's immediate command to spend money.
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by smhost 5y ago
Maybe micro-celebrity personality cults, where micro-communities develop a design language that only has meaning within their bubble, and they practice consumer rituals around their idol's birthday, for example.
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by smhost 5y ago
the pinephone is the best option in terms of its platform design, but it's just so underpowered
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by smhost 5y ago
Well, America isn't a Europeanist project. It's an autonomous project, for one. Second, I don't trust the fact that the myth of America as a beacon of individual liberty became dominant just when America started to roll out i
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by smhost 5y ago
> besides for healthcare Ignoring people's actual health in exchange for more expensive things seems like a backwards metric.
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That's a recent myth about America and doesn't have much to do with actual American history.
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by smhost 5y ago
It doesn't. The point is that neither does recycling, or whatever.
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by smhost 5y ago
You mean it would just be more evidence that communist republics aren't the best way to run things for America . China seems to be doing fine.
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by smhost 5y ago
I think you're misunderstanding. Learning not to live according to the fears of the American Empire doesn't mean learning to be opposed to the American people or to break alliances. If anything, it should our job to lecture Americ
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South Korea has been less of an ally than it has been a client state of the U.S. "Ally" implies some degree of autonomy for both parties. South Korea has never really had the opportunity to act for itself, and when it has, it has
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The South Korean position locally is actually not that challenging in a particular sense, despite typical media exaggerations. It's almost straightforward. SK has strong economic and cultural ties to its neighbors that can be accessed
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> Take a look around the neighborhood. Maybe that’s the point? Probably not, since South Korea maintains pretty good relations with its neighbors. South Korea (as well as the rest of the world) doesn't see the U.S. anymore as a rati

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