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The people who work in that city shouldn’t be forced to commute 3 hours in and out?
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The French well earned their reputation as running the most barbaric slave plantations in Caribbean history in Haiti, where they explicitly instituted a race based society, where the color of a persons skin determined their social value. Yo
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>One thing that still baffles me is why did the DNC choose a for profit consultant over the United States Government. This is brilliant thinking, the DNC should have given the FBI more material to leak to Guiliani. Then Comey could have
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>don’t need to point this out, because it’s just an undercover way of diminishing the point being mad That’s the feature though, not a bug.
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Seeing as those same America First party people are the same strains of America trying to sell the upside of neo-nazism, I’m going to go with yes? Sorry I’m not edgy enough to sell myself on the upsides of racial and ethnic cleansing...
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Roosevelt definitely saw the war coming and prepared for it. He was hampered by the strong isolationist feelings at the time but he never gave in to them, and was careful never to run too far ahead of public opinion.
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>If you venture to the extremes Isn’t this just moving the goalposts? We’re not talking about a fringe Republican here, we’re talking about the president of the United States, along with the senate majority leader and the speaker of the
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I’m halfway through the 5 and its an amazing resource.
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3) you’re missing tons of history here, especially in ‘79 when those wahhabists who were great friends of the Saudi family committed a coup and the ulama demanded power in exchange for their blessing in putting the uprising down.
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3) The Saud family is understood to be more liberal than the general Saudi population and MBS had to supposedly overcome powerful conservatives to start with the (social) liberalization agenda. How true is this, and what are the implication
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I use vscode (primarily because I don’t have sudo rights to install visual studio) and I’ve researched the difference between the two and have never found a more concrete explanation of the differences than a vague “Visual Studio focuses on
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HN previously discussed a Bank of International Settlement Report on Central Bank Cryptocutrencies - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15278063
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“”” Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Gov
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You’re proposing that my having the freedom to not be forced to spread another persons message is actually me being censored? That seems like a pretty convoluted way to say “I want to force this company to continue hosting this site despite
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This is a nonsensical argument- the first amendment doesn’t apply to private corporations, unless your argument is that any random internet company is literally the United States government.
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There’s probably too much room for political gamesmanship in a complex tax base for that to get traction, sadly.
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Yea, seriously. >or the fortuity of foreign agencies not knowing his personal cell number I find it incredibly difficult to believe that professional intelligence services don’t have his cell phone number already.
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>Lobbying is a way for the rich to legally shortcircuit democracy. It’s legal corruption and as bad for democracy as the illegal counterpart. Lobbying is the lifeblood of American democracy, and the system was expressly designed for it,
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As someone who used to sell a very similar product, most people understand that those prices are estimates and a just a starting point in determining a fair price. Others would insist that I match whatever numbers they found online - our st
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“Excuse me? Do you have any idea how telecommunication companies work? Do you know anything about our systems? But I'm glad you have the time to share your view with us. ^Käthe” And doubling down as well, that’s a bold strategy.
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I asked a plumber about those once and he laughed and said there’s no such thing as a flushable wipe - but they’re great for business.
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Thank you for the thorough reply, and for arguing in good faith. I disagree with (1): I don’t see this as a ‘both sides’ issues, and I don’t believe that the left, as a whole, has been as amenable to inflammatory propaganda as the right has
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You’d probably be interested in the book “How democracies die” by two Harvard political scientists. They walk through the warning signs of a failing democracy and how many others have collapsed - and the answer is actually yes, there are pl
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The American far left creates and disseminates far less propaganda than the far right does, although I’m open to hear evidence otherwise. For whatever odd reason it seems that the left in general is far less amiable to inflammatory propagan
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Could you give me a rundown on American far left propaganda tactics you think I’m not aware of? Could you give me a rundown on why you believe the far left invented modern propaganda tactics? As far as I can tell, most modern propaganda tac
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>If you search her name on twitter, around 40% of what you see is right wing conspiracy theorists who assert, without evidence, that she was a member of ISIS. I also noticed a smaller percentage of people asserting, again without evidenc
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Amazon wishlist api
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The majority of cases are settled by plea bargains, which don’t have a jury and minimal involvement by a judge. Many proposed reforms of the criminal justice system try to address this exact fact.
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Or comments (after a certain age, which they say would disrupt threads), although it’s entirely possible to delete the author of a comment whilst leaving it intact (an option they do not offer)
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For those unaware, Alsup is the judge who won plenty of respect when he rightly called out Oracle for trying to inflate the importance of some lines of Java: http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20121127123047...

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