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by thrance 5mo ago
I don't know about that. The GOP has been talking about the southern strategy for a while now, before the world wide web was even a thing. Our current neoliberal economies are starting to show how bleak the world they ushered is, creat
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> A non-zero rate of firearms ownership allows the people who aren't antisocial to suppress those who are antisocial and maintain peace. Do you have an example of such a place? What you're describing is called vigilantism, and
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> The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which
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by thrance 5mo ago
Notice that how hard a diploma is to get is completely irrelevant to literacy rates.
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Banks and economists base their predictions on very optimistic timelines of the strait reopening soon. The alternative is truly apocalyptic.
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> The moment the world stops relying on oil, This isn't happening anytime soon.
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Not the first time I've seen this absurd "I'm fine with American imperialism" take on here. You must realize that if Iran is such as it is now, it's purely a reaction to the authoritarian regime of the Shah previous
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> One may dye their hair green and wear their grandma's coat all they want. Capital has the ability to subsume all critiques into itself. Even those who would critique capital end up reinforcing it instead... Joyce Messier in D
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They made a right-wing Fox News? Why? Isn't it enough already?
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The Oldest View is really great. And it's surprisingly deep if you care to look into it a little.
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Indeed, but poverty being the most important factor in the general population doesn't mean than some groups exhibit different behaviors.
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American manufacturers suck because of rampant financialization, not unions. They have prioritized the needs shareholders over those of consumers for a while now. Your hatred of workers striving for better working conditions is disturbing.
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It's extremely dishonest to frame it as "if workers get good working conditions then consumers suffer". The reality is that Rockstar is extremely profitable. The crunch they impose on their devs with every single release shou
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Do you just ask questions to waste time or do you actually care about the answer? React to my other comment first.
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> It's spent too inefficiently. Source? With all the ruckus DOGE made, they just couldn't find that many inefficiencies. They ended up cutting marginal things just to look good (to their fans, who think 5M a year to keep Ebola
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Oh, won't somebody think of the multi-millionaires???
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It's more like a combination of factors that make child abuse more prevalent: lack of access to the outside world (" we are in the world but not of the world "), a strict patriarchal hierarchy in the home that puts children a
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Similarly, even if I fail to see the link between my previous comment and your question. Israel is a settler-colonial project whose ultimate goal is the creation of a Jewish ethno-state where Palestine once stood. Logically, it requires the
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Maybe just ban algorithmic recommendations? And advertising too for good measure... More seriously, the more I think about this issue, the less I believe it can be fixed by technical solutions.
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> Child abuse is not an official sanctioned thing in Mormonism. The purpose of a system is what it does.
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You do not know what this word means, please consider educating yourself before using it again.
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For now. Corporations rule the world, and there's nothing that a few bribes here and there can't fix. Hell, they've gotten the right to vote, in spite of all common sense and constitutional arguments. What makes you think the
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No, if you wanna fix or ban PE, ban PE. PE is just a really easy and safe way for financiers to make extra cash, with huge externalities that everyone else pays for. The people benefiting from this are those who already have a lot of capita
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What? People made electricity manually for centuries, collectively? And who were the electricity rent-seekers? Electricity has almost always been a public service.
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China is still riding the high of its economic miracle, that lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty, which is why the population is so complacent toward their authoritarian government. For now, at least.
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I believe you're simply (correctly) identifying the lack of class consciousness that is rotting our civilization. If everyone believes they are smarter than everyone else, and will be able to come up ahead in the rat race, then there&#
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These people weren't completely idle for one, and Rome was subsidized by the rest of the Empire, from which it extracted wealth and resources.
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In what ways? Provide examples.
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Surely, you must have taken on yourself to correct this blatant mistake (that you curiously won't link to)? Can you name this "notable person"?
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A pointer to a pointer to a pointer to a pointer of integers.

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