sonotathrowaway

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by sonotathrowaway 4y ago
At least they had actual tangible impact, Trump pleaded guilty to running a fraud and is barred from operating a charity. If conservatives didn’t have double standards, they wouldn’t have any standards.
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by sonotathrowaway 4y ago
It also completely ignores the monumental toll the war is having on Russia, the economic and political upheavals resulting from the war, and the political and social consequences of mobilization. Pretending like Russia is coping with this w
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by sonotathrowaway 4y ago
You should balance it out with some Ian Bremmer, there’s plenty he says that is true but that doesn’t mean that the situation will unfold quite dramatically as he portends.
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by sonotathrowaway 4y ago
When you look at actual numbers instead of glib sound bites, the argument starts to fall apart pretty quickly: In 2019, gas imports via pipeline cost Germany $30 billion, representing only 0.75% of its GDP, and the overall value of the coun
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by sonotathrowaway 4y ago
Probably Putin - you know, the guy that pays him to not leak Russian documents.
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by sonotathrowaway 4y ago
And when he censored Russian whistleblowers that gave him documents on Putin’s involvement in Syria? I wonder if his television deal with Putin compromised his “radical transparency”.
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by sonotathrowaway 4y ago
By a Trump appointed judge, of course.
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by sonotathrowaway 4y ago
This is hilariously slanted.
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by sonotathrowaway 4y ago
China has the fastest aging population in recorded human history, along with some of the worst demographics. What exact advantages do you see in that?
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by sonotathrowaway 4y ago
This is one of those opinions that sounds smart but doesn’t make any sense to anyone with more than a passing familiarity with it. A large chunk of experts do not see China as the likely world next superpower, many experts are debating if C
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by sonotathrowaway 4y ago
> The student petition protested that Jones’s class was too hard and that students lacked resources and help. It did not say the professor should be fired. > “We urge you to realize that a class with such a high percentage of withdraw
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by sonotathrowaway 4y ago
No, the CIA was not wrong about Saddam. It knew internally that the regime was not producing weapons, and communicated that clearly to Bush, repeatedly. Bush decided that he could force the CIA to manufacture evidence, so he installed polit
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by sonotathrowaway 4y ago
The linchpin of your argument seems to be that we need to believe the official reason given, and that the CIA would never lie to the American public. That sounds naïve to anyone with even a passing familiarity with American history.
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by sonotathrowaway 4y ago
The idea that it won’t be used by a cops partner to arrest bystanders to prevent their filming is patently laughable, and verges on being a bad faith argument. It’s clearly the intent of the law, and the idea that it won’t be used for such
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by sonotathrowaway 4y ago
> Building on the existing literature, we just published a working paper based on a sample of 10 OECD countries since 1970 that isolates the impact of inflation from other factors driving income inequality. > After accounting for the
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by sonotathrowaway 4y ago
> Building on the existing literature, we just published a working paper based on a sample of 10 OECD countries since 1970 that isolates the impact of inflation from other factors driving income inequality. > After accounting for the
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by sonotathrowaway 4y ago
You’re trying really hard to find something to be offended about. You could go write for the WSJ - they need more hot takes about why rich people getting poorer is actually a tragedy.
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by sonotathrowaway 4y ago
I don’t think it’s really been proven that high inflation hurts the poor more than rich - wealthy people hate inflation as it eats into their returns on capital. They don’t make for sympathetic victims, but fortunately the WSJ has never bee
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by sonotathrowaway 4y ago
It’s not even a good faith argument, people cannot prove they’re not biased. It’s just your basic lazy conspiracy theory thinking dressed up as cynical aloofness.
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by sonotathrowaway 4y ago
“Hurl unfounded and baseless accusations of personal corruption” is not the scientific method either. Trying to pass off conspiracy theorist “disprove the negative” arguments as reasonable discourse is intellectually lazy, at best.
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by sonotathrowaway 4y ago
So does intent - trying to prosecute someone for the indirect benefits they gained as a victim of crime is morally perverse.
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by sonotathrowaway 4y ago
Reading the tweets it seems like he’s pulling a sleight-of-hand. He’s describing the cost of capital for startups, then describing the effects of a weaker market for software engineers. Those are two separate things, but he doesn’t bother t
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by sonotathrowaway 4y ago
Support would be the least of their worries. Triggering a direct NATO response would mean fighting first class armies, not their deprecated weapon systems.
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by sonotathrowaway 4y ago
What about those claims exactly do you consider nonsense?
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by sonotathrowaway 4y ago
Thoughts and prayers, apparently.
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by sonotathrowaway 4y ago
A small price to pay for the privilege of running an unregulated government sanctioned monopoly.
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by sonotathrowaway 4y ago
That sounds like a recession.
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by sonotathrowaway 4y ago
Trying to write off the rest of the deaths as improper sleeping doesn’t really make sense to me - that’s like saying that since the majority of strep cases can be treated with broad spectrum antibiotics, therefore MERS doesn’t exist.
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by sonotathrowaway 4y ago
I wonder if the measurement of the over-developed dive reflex is capturing survivor bias.
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by sonotathrowaway 5y ago
This is nonsensical. Caring about disparate mortality rates doesn’t make you the “ultimate racist”, and trying to frame white Americans attitudes as the fault of people willing to speak about the issues they see is just a cynical attempt at

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