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by vkou 10mo ago
> You’d have to be blind to ignore the massive overbuilding of property in China, which they are now demolishing. Is it all being demolished, or is 95% of it being moved into? Because all those ghost cities that China was building that t
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by vkou 10mo ago
They are only fine because Vietnam is useful to the US as a regional counterweight to China.
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by vkou 10mo ago
> That seems insane to me. That's because it is, and the people pushing for this are.
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by vkou 10mo ago
Egypt has always had one foot in each camp. The US' treatment of Cuba is the better example. It's doing none of the things the parent poster listed, yet it's still treated by the US as a pariah state. Uncle Sam doesn't c
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by vkou 10mo ago
The Saudis are doing all of those things, but we turn a blind eye to that. The Cubans are doing none of those things, but they are still at the top of America's shit list. Something makes me think that those aren't the reason for
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by vkou 10mo ago
Give the scholars full editorial control of the newspaper the public is getting their news from, and you might get better public understanding of their scholarship. You generally can't hold someone responsible for what someone else say
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by vkou 10mo ago
Do you work on ad platforms? If you did, that imagination would be reined in quite a bit. The gist of it is that the platforms carefully curate what data they provide to their customers. They don't want to give anything low level away,
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by vkou 10mo ago
Nothing. It has nothing to do with this.
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by vkou 10mo ago
If I only ever had to interact and transact with people and organizations and services that respected me, my life would be amazing. Unfortunately, life is not a song.
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by vkou 10mo ago
The advertisers don't get the raw data feeds necessary to do that.
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by vkou 10mo ago
The rules for ships are a bit different for rules for cars. There's a number of countries (some of them land-locked) that sell flags of convenience, but in that particular case, it's possible that didn't happen.
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by vkou 10mo ago
You're conveniently ignoring all the wild shadow docket decisions in Trump's favor with no provided justification. None of that sets a precedent . There's also a giant bloody spectrum between 'policy that had a bad outc
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by vkou 10mo ago
It's consistent in that it largely lets Trump do almost anything he wants without ever setting a binding precedent that will allow a Democratic president to do whatever he wants. It is consistently corrupt.
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by vkou 10mo ago
You're working in toxic workplaces . Most of them aren't like this. (I believe you when you say that most of yours are like this.)
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by vkou 10mo ago
The Russian playbook. Just wait until opposition candidates start getting disqualified for an unpaid parking ticket (while the incumbent had his fingers in a tank assault on the Duma, or three different election fraud conspiracies and one f
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by vkou 10mo ago
The scope of the attacks are entirely different. Putin's imperial adventures are driven by Ruso-dominated pan-slavism, Trump's are driven by oil. Entirely different, just like a tiger shark is different from a tiger. /s Both
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by vkou 10mo ago
Oh, no, that's just a macro observation of the countries that the US desperately feels the need to regime change. (Fortunately, fellow travelers can always be found to retroactively support such activity.) The part that's relevant
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by vkou 10mo ago
Strange how this humanitarian concern only comes up when they have oil, or are somehow geopolitically relevant. (You may also want to look into the US' track record for installing dictators throughout the Americas. It's not great.
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by vkou 10mo ago
No, but it can freeze the assets of its perpetrators.
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by vkou 10mo ago
> What's the threshold, three? The threshold is an organization organizing it. Getting 100 people out demonstrates your political power to your supporters and the people you seek to influence. Getting 1,000 people demonstrates that
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by vkou 10mo ago
1. This is a bit of a selection bias, since they are in the US, they aren't going to be the ones in the line of fire. It's all upshot for them. 2. Turn back the clock two decades ago, I'm sure plenty of ex-pat Iraqis wanted S
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by vkou 10mo ago
Pretty sure there's a pretty big friggin difference between [Democrats/Romney and Bush republicans] and [MAGA republicans]. The former are nearly indistinguishable between eachother. The latter are something entirely different, an
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by vkou 10mo ago
It worked to push me to unsubscribe.
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by vkou 10mo ago
In the US, twenty day wait list for a broken toe, seven month wait list for a neurologist, five month wait list for a deviated septum surgery, and good luck finding a PCP taking new patients. This quality of service costs me and my wife ~$2
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by vkou 10mo ago
Whether or not non-productive individuals who don't do any work can own the means of production and reap the majority of the economic surplus from it is somewhat tangential to the question of who pays for whose healthcare. There are pl
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by vkou 10mo ago
> All thanks to Trump's silly tariffs The tariffs were just half of it, the attacks on national sovereignty were the other, and Pierre being his usual shallow and despicable self on the campaign trail were the third. If Carney (or a
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by vkou 10mo ago
I don't think anyone in the world besides the deranged fanbase wants to see this.
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by vkou 11mo ago
It's not a 'suicide pact', it's a clear commitment that the government will not ban speech it finds inconvenient. It's not done a great job of living up to that promise.
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by vkou 11mo ago
Ah, but that same populist left is inconvenient to the valuation of my RSUs, so we're going to have to put a cork in it, maybe we can revisit it once I have enough[1] money. --- [1] I will never have enough money.
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by vkou 11mo ago
Once this problem is 'solved' at the federal level, what makes you think the feds won't similarly solve it at lower levels.

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