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by turar 10y ago
Do you have any references to support your claim that before 1914 travel was more restricted for someone of similar means from Asia, Africa, or Latin America?
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by turar 10y ago
It's not easier if you're from the wrong country, or surprise, of wrong color or religion. Refugee crisis is still here. So saying what you said can just as easily be labeled racist.
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by turar 10y ago
> nothing (and surely not naive techno-optimism) prevents it from coming to the West. Well, if you stop dividing people into "West" and not West, and consider the whole world without artificial borders as just humanity, it&#x27
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by turar 10y ago
So, you're OK with unlimited immigration from India then? Otherwise your whole "personal freedom" excuse falls flat on its face.
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by turar 10y ago
Here's a good discussion on this: http://siderea.livejournal.com/1260265.html?format=light
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by turar 10y ago
You're right that it's one-sided toward neoliberal doctrine. In addition, I would suggest Keynes, as well Marx, or even Kropotkin's "Conquest of Bread".
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by turar 10y ago
At the same time, for kids to play together, you need to get lucky and have other kids live nearby. A grid system is much easier to navigate for kids, even if their friends live 4 blocks over East and then 2 blocks North. In a cul-de-sac ne
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by turar 10y ago
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cr9hqjsWcAA_liW.jpg [Fig. 1]
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by turar 10y ago
> Historically, every attempt to build a socialistic society has led to tyranny. http://wrightstories.com/attempts-to-fly-before-the-wrights/
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by turar 10y ago
In practice any countries that tried going the socialist route were immediately sabotaged and undermined by capitalist countries, notably the United States. When you are threatened from outside, authoritarianism becomes easy to take hold. T
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by turar 10y ago
And continues to be an alien for years, and sometimes decades. You only stop being an "alien" after naturalization ceremony. "Alien" terminology is not some emotional made up word, it's a real term that America call
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by turar 10y ago
Would you say that someone living in, say, Argentina, or Mongolia, also lives in zero fear of being invaded by any other country?
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by turar 10y ago
I found that this collection of Chomsky snippets expands on this quite well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPp69gKVe9o
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by turar 10y ago
"When Japan surrendered, the US was faced with a choice: Either disarm, as we had done in the past, and enjoy the prosperity that comes from releasing so much wealth and energy to the private sector, or maintain ourselves on a full mil
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by turar 10y ago
The guy sounds like an asshole. His bemused depictions of friendly border guards reek of self-superiority and total lack of empathy.
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by turar 10y ago
One problem with mid-rise apartment buildings in North America is that they're of wood/plywood. It's one thing to live in a plywood SFH by yourself, but quality of life decreases (at least for me) rapidly in a mid-rise arrang
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by turar 10y ago
What particular stories of human rights issues, as distinctly separate from embargo-induced economic hardships, did he talk about?
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by turar 10y ago
What about jumping up and down while giving your update? That could literally become an Amazon version of "how high" meme.
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by turar 10y ago
It's available to those in power, whether at global level (the US/West), or local level (e.g. local government). Not really a Muslim/non-Muslim thing. And it's not something unique or new. https://en.wikipedi
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by turar 10y ago
But isn't thr closer you get to pure capitalism, the closer you got to neoliberalism? Are public institutions and utilities supposed to exist within a purely capitalistic model?
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by turar 10y ago
At Aleynikov's trial, prosecutors used the name of Subversion to imply nefarious intent.
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by turar 10y ago
>> If the US has, in fact, "finished" developing, then the future of the S&P will be bleak. Most of S&P are global corporations. They're considered American simply by virtue of having headquarters in the US.
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by turar 10y ago
You don't need to ride a bike to get crippled by a car accident. You can choke on a piece of food while eating dinner. You can fall in the shower awkwardly and get paralyzed.
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by turar 10y ago
These queries were from UK only.
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by turar 10y ago
This doesn't explain "What is the EU?" being the second ranked search query.
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by turar 10y ago
I always thought Canada would be a safer place in case of a nuclear exchange. I wonder whether there are any Canadian cities which are targeted by Russian nukes at all.
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by turar 10y ago
a.) In 1919 Russia was not nearly as advanced as the US or Europe. b.) Unlike the US, Soviet Union came out of WW2 with cities destroyed, and 20% of its population killed, most of them able-bodied men in their prime. Yet, by 1984, the USSR
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by turar 10y ago
The US benefited from WW2, while USSR had a large amount of their infrastructure destroyed and 20 million of most productive members of society killed in their prime. Yet they still pulled it off.
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by turar 10y ago
It might be hard to explain, but the process and odds of an American/Westerner getting a Russian or a Chinese or an Indian visa are not quite the same as the other way around. But again, to truly understand one needs to be a non-Weste
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by turar 10y ago
Well, you can start with the fact that being able to dart from country to country without first begging for a visa at the consulate of each country is a huge privilege in itself.

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