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by tdeck 9mo ago
Your description reminds me of a blind guy I know who is interested in architecture, and began to collect scale models of famous building so he could feel them and experience their architecture. Eventually he took an interest in buildings t
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by tdeck 9mo ago
Might be time to check with history and see how fascist governments have historically sought resources to boost their domestic economy...
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by tdeck 9mo ago
The famous "snake oil" salesman sold jars filled with beef fat mixed with capsaicin and turpentine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clark_Stanley
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by tdeck 9mo ago
Even those of us with an internal monologue aren't using it most of the time. I doubt I've ever though "now let me scroll down to the next comment", for example.
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by tdeck 9mo ago
I've seen situations where experts put different colored water soluble dye on different spots outside the house, so that when it leaks through you can determine the source. Presumably that's within reach for an individual as well.
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by tdeck 9mo ago
Similarly I used to write Python on my Motorola Droid with the slide-out keyboard. But my touchscreen typing style these days relies heavily on auto-correct and trying to enter code is a real exercise in frustration.
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by tdeck 9mo ago
Please educate yourself on the history of US "interventions" in south and central America.
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I don't understand why your comment is phrased as if it contradicts me?
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It was about giving US companies control over the profits from the oil industry and crushing an unaligned country in the region to turn it into a US puppet state, not just to carry barrels of crude oil home.
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by tdeck 9mo ago
While that might certainly be true in the abstract, it isn't worth much. Most people would probably eat less meat if they knew exactly what was happening to the animals in that process. We'd eat less chocolate if we really thought
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by tdeck 9mo ago
Most people in Crimea supported annexation by Russia. Does that make that one OK?
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by tdeck 9mo ago
My question wasn't about whether he was popular, it was about whether people approve of this specific military action by the US. People can hate their leaders and still not want a foreign country directly replacing them.
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by tdeck 9mo ago
What's kind of shocking to me is that no matter how obvious they make the motives this time, and how clearly Venezuela doesn't pose a threat, I'm still reading the same Bush-era justifications ironically being offered in the
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by tdeck 9mo ago
So if China came in and "helped" the Venezuelan people to get rid of Maduro, you'd feel the same way? Of course not.
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There have been uprisings that weren't coups in many countries in the world.
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Why? They accomplished their goal (making money in Iraq for US business interests, expanding the power of the presidency massively) and have suffered no consequences.
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by tdeck 9mo ago
> Most people from Venezuela are happy Maduro is out. Based on what? There's a poll already about the US bombing Venezuela and kidnapping Maduro? There's a big difference between removing a leader through a legitimate domestic
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by tdeck 9mo ago
Sounds like an opportunity for some lucrative contracts to go to US companies, while forcing the new Venezuelan government to foot the bill.
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The history of central and south America is littered with such events, committed by the US. I guess that's why those countries are all so safe and prosperous. Nicaragua and Haiti got it twice so they're doing fantastic right now!
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by tdeck 9mo ago
Trump won less than 50% of the popular vote.
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by tdeck 9mo ago
As an American, I think we make this excuse too often. People have opposed and overthrown their governments more effectively under much harsher circumstances.
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> this increasing threat What threat? There is no threat to the US from Venezuela. This is another Banana war.
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If the last 2 years of Gaza genocide didn't do that, I'm n not sure why this would. They'll spend the first 20 minutes talking about how bad Maduro is and the next 5 minutes saying this is "misguided" and didn'
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by tdeck 9mo ago
I think in the case of the two companies I mentioned, they were managed very differently in the other countries. K-Mart, for example, had fallen out of favor with shoppers well before it was bought by private equity.
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by tdeck 10mo ago
Interesting fact. It reminds me of how K-Mart is apparently big in Australia despite having died a slow and pathetic death in the US. Or how Yahoo is still a thing in Japan.
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It's like Walmart. Some things under their own brand (for example, Craftsman tools and Kenmore appliances were their brands), many things were third party brands.
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Everyone wants peace and safety on their own terms. It's not a virtue to remove all context from your analysis of the situation. The overwhelming majority of Isealis want to maintain a system of violent apartheid that benefits them exp
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Also, when you're rich you get a certain amount of "soft power" for free. People look up to rich people and rich countries. Just pick your favorite rich guy who has demonstrated himself to be an execrable human being for deca
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There aren't two sides in genocide.
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by tdeck 10mo ago
I'm not sure why this is so heavily downvoted - it's an interesting question. The PRC's official position is that Taiwan is part of China, so perhaps Taiwanese equipment does count.

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