theblobawakens

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by theblobawakens 2y ago
I don't know why I read the last part "medieval services are literal life and death services".
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by theblobawakens 2y ago
You suffer from a superiority complex.
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by theblobawakens 2y ago
Russia's professional army plus reservists was about 2.1M before the war. Add 2-300K volunteers who signed up since to replace professional soldiers departing, out of patriotism or because pay was increased 3-4x. Even with all that, Ru
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by theblobawakens 2y ago
>what exactly are you getting at here. I don't disagree with you. I merely wanted to add that whatever anybody is saying left or right, it probably wouldn't have worked had he tried an actual coup. From a rational POV I don&#x2
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by theblobawakens 2y ago
He will do morally much better, if he succeeds in funding the development of said cure, and in actually making it. But he will be competing with more interesting propositions, investment-wise, in he form of subscription drugs. Ergo, "w
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by theblobawakens 2y ago
A lot of people : "hold our beers"
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by theblobawakens 2y ago
I don't think it would have worked. The Joint Chiefs had publicly announced 6 months prior during BLM riots that if Trump would issue such an order to the Sec. Def., the generals and staff officers of the COCOM wouldn't execute it
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by theblobawakens 2y ago
You are making the assumption that there exists such a thing as a rational "homo politicus" as much as economists used to think there was a rational "homo economicus" they could count on. Really not wanting to defend Tru
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by theblobawakens 2y ago
Starts way earlier
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by theblobawakens 2y ago
>modern examples of societies who achieved moral progress But we haven't achieved moral progress. G7/G20 countries have essentially merely physically outsourced slavery out of sight to second world factories and third world hel
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by theblobawakens 2y ago
For having taken that choice - getting off socials for ideological reasons - and now being left to do exactly what you suggest - phoning everybody regularly - I have realized that the cost in time is, in fact to trivial at all, quite the op
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by theblobawakens 2y ago
If, instead of selling a product, when one gets regular huge investments from second/third world regimes, which are in reality to pay for salaries 19K+ regional language moderators and censors, 500 programmers for censorship and relate