thingswecantsay

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by thingswecantsay 2mo ago
I would critique this response. You're citing specific examples; I hesitate to call them 'anecdotes', they're clearly real, but I don't think they are a strong rebuttal vs the statistics of population-wide case-stu
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by thingswecantsay 2mo ago
This is absolutely the case. Look at the price/performance on chinese phones or cars vs. those available in the US. Especially given some of the explicit claims in our declaration of independence regarding trade restriction, it boggle
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by thingswecantsay 2mo ago
The sad part, to further reinforce your rebuttal to the parent, is that the high costs weren't even enough to push me out for many years, I am fortunate to be a high enough earner that I was on the beneficial side of the unfortunate &q
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by thingswecantsay 2mo ago
I feel like you're not reading my whole comment vs. picking pieces, or are conflating my responses. I explicitly said I was responding to both parents, and enumerated my response to each. (To be evenhanded, I could also have been uncle
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by thingswecantsay 2mo ago
That response disregards the thrust of my point, as well as the parallel to the famous quote "war is the continuation of politics by other means." If a population does not believe they have more productive options, that is what wi
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by thingswecantsay 2mo ago
To respond to both you and the parent at once. 1. While dragonwriter's point is not entirely wrong, I also wouldn't say I agree either. Czar Nicholas was "prosecuted" quite rapidly after the russian revolution. 2. The p