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by w0de0 4y ago
This isn’t a competent news article. I’m not commenting on Bolt Financial’s unethical choices, but simply on the poor, slightly insulting Axios style and format. Particularly egregious is the line which begins “Yes, it's welcome news…”
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> What's the real issue with Cuba? Castro nationalized assets and resources that belonged to US corporations. > Sanctions on Venezuela? Again, Venezuela took the unacceptable step of nationalizing their oil assets. But is this no
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-F ','
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The platforms themselves, expressions of free enterprise and free association, are part of the discourse - not merely a location. We're not, and never really have been over the full course of the information age so far, in need of new,
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At the very end of his interview, the Jeep suit discusses electric vehicles’ silent boon - a revelation to me. I’m left longing for cities at peace - cities bustling, yet freed from combustion’s incessant white noise.
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I would balk at accusing any charity of "asinine moral purity tests." A charity explicitly prefers altruism over gain from moral conviction. One can hardly expect them to optimize for financial gain, even if there exists a compell
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More Gender Equality in Less Religious Societies: Study
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by w0de0 5y ago
Recent declamations from climate science - particularly the UN report - give the strong impression that “reducing [our energy supply’s] carbon footprint” does not match the urgency of the crisis. Most economic and geopolitical boons promis
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by w0de0 5y ago
These sanctions are not about inducing revolt. I imagine most policymakers and citizens in the West are clear-eyed about the hopeless political apathy in Russian society. It’s been 30 years of economic engagement and rising prosperity for t
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I think, in the final reckoning, a people are always complicit when evil is done in their name, by their leaders and countrymen, & with their money. Few wish to hear that “people aren’t to blame for their governments” while Ukrainians d
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by w0de0 5y ago
Stop responding to comments like this. Like do you actually still believe they care about epistemology? Lol. Ignore the casualties of information war instead.
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No, "Russian control over a key sector to their economy" is not a plausible analysis, imo. You do not specify, but may I assume you refer to Russia's LNG leverage? It is not reasonable to seek just-so geostategic facts, or si
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by w0de0 5y ago
I'd dispute that - I think they actually timed their policy shift well. Their export control policies were hugely symbolic, a totem of guilt. The Germans genuinely, and to their significant credit, feel the moral weight of their nation
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I believe you misapprehend the crisis if you believe the outcome will be solely determined in the west’s choosing or not choosing to “let Russia.” The west is doing much more, at significant risk of escalation, than could have been reasonab
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by w0de0 5y ago
"Intervention" is maybe older than you think [0] - definitely older than America's post-war empire. I do not know what is and is not a "western propaganda kitchen," but "intervention" is likely not from on
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by w0de0 5y ago
Your question is rhetorical - forgive me. > Why doesn't this scare people to death? The human hierarchy of fear seems sorted by proximity and tractability, not a rational calculus of risk and probability. Abstract threats, or those
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There are no "powers that be," this is just a popular reduction used to construct simple thoughts. There are humans, existing in a complex society. All meaning is negotiated all the time. All the expectations of behaviour from whi
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by w0de0 5y ago
The frustration got the better of you, and so here you are responding in anger to foolishness on the internet! No matter, happens to all of us. Have some relevant comedy as a salve: https://youtu.be/5muY64Oyp10
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The phrase is one sprung of the zeitgeist of euphemistic war-words conceived in the communion of cable news and State Department press briefings. This trend of imprecision has been nurtured by the moral cognitive dissonance that was inheren
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by w0de0 5y ago
We have had thirty years of peace among the great powers. It’s been seventy years since armies last clashed in conventional, large-scale armored warfare on European soil - or perhaps anywhere. Through these years humanity learned to expect
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by w0de0 5y ago
Indeed, I see your point. China’s reaction to this crisis has elucidated for me the fact that its government is a complex institution with separate power bases (cf. Putin’s lonely autocracy). It’s clear that at least some of those nodes ear
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You’re right that this is a form of escalation. You’re right to see danger in such further provocation of a nuclear rival - of an autocrat lost in historical delusion and bloody revanchism. I believe you’re wrong to think the escalation is
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Statistically? Statistically Russia has killed more Slavs than any other nation and is presently running up the score.
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> you forget about the balkan wars in the 1990s I mentioned no wars specifically, and so could have forgotten none. Specifically in this war, in the Balkans: Which territories did America conquer and annex? Who, specifically, did Nato de
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I haven't the least idea what your OP comment was, and was not speaking to it. I do hope you weren't arguing Russia's war is just, or America should let the nukes fly, or some similar poison! I was simply responding to your i
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You may choose to believe that America's empire, its history, and its reasons for existing, are identical with Putin and Russia's reasons, means, and goal in this war. If you believe this - if you believe all morality is so relati
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> I don't know that NATO has the guts to give Putin that bloody nose. Your analysis seems rational in this moment. But: the policy and personality of a democracy is liable change rapidly and radically in a way no single actor ever w
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chernobyl to me personally just represents the corruption and total failure of communism Thank you for sharing this. It gives some weight and reality to what I claimed above: 'in the Slavic societies of post-Soviet eastern Euro
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I'm not quite making any argument, to be honest - definitely not that HN is immune. Just idle observation - conversation :). I do see the spam propaganda, the obvious paid trolls, &tc. We both ignore them, I'm sure, and I igno
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Russian propaganda of the past ~decade has become extremely skilled at sounding reasonable to contrarian thinkers, and at fitting in to the broader Western zeitgeist. RT, less official media - perhaps the FSB itself - now cultivate native i

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