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by wfo 9y ago
I don't think anyone was ever necessarily under the impression these workers are all landowners living dream lives in some socialist utopia. They just didn't think they were eating products created literally through domestic slave
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by wfo 9y ago
I've never heard of a manager who is content with $100,000 and does not immediately wish for the position a couple rungs up up on the ladder where they can make $150,000 or $200,000. Nobody is content with stagnant wages, management or
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by wfo 9y ago
Sure there are subtle implementation details, but let's not put the cart before the horse. The political and moral will to do it comes first, the details of how to work it out happens later. If we get to the point where the actual ruli
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by wfo 9y ago
You might get along with your boss, your boss might seem great and be a nice guy. You might even be friends. Hell, he may even mean well and genuinely want what's best for you. But always remember: 1) At the end of the day your boss&#x
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by wfo 9y ago
It also led to the classification of homosexuality as a mental disorder. And, e.g. the chemical castration of Alan Turing. But at the same time if you've ever spent time with people with serious dehabilitating mental illness, it's
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by wfo 9y ago
Counterpoint: his apology was not a calculated tactic to garner goodwill for nefarious purposes so he therefore does not care what "points" he will, by your judgement, gain. It was an honest, human attempt to do the right thing.
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by wfo 9y ago
Actually, one-off mistakes for the poor are not forgotten and buried, they translate to brutal imprisonment and abuse for years. The wealthy (i.e. "important") get away with permanent collective shaming and it's a complete jo
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by wfo 9y ago
First I'll say that surveillance is a consensus among people in power no matter how you slice it. It is, depending on your perspective 1) about governments expanding government power, something the powerful in government always want or
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by wfo 9y ago
HN/reddit/twitter is a horrible barometer for how people act in the real world; there is no negative consequence or conflict if you attack someone or accuse someone of something online. Nobody is developing personal friendships on
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by wfo 9y ago
The monopolist ISPs that are regularly voted by far the most hated companies in the country are making plenty of money and doing just fine. If you want to talk about antitrust action against the big 5, I'm absolutely with you -- they a
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by wfo 9y ago
It is certainly not "shorthand for people I disagree with", nor is neoconservative. In fact neoconservative ideology is a superset of neoliberal. The word is usually used in a derogatory fashion, yes. Stalin, Steve Bannon, Marx, S
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by wfo 9y ago
I think the post you're replying to was tongue in cheek and not propaganda i.e. "we technically didn't change vote totals, we just assassinated democratically elected leaders and installed brutal puppet dictatorship regimes
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And indeed there were people arguing against high school education across the board for everyone: not all students needed to go to high school, they were better served not learning any history or mathematics or science or civics or ethics o
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by wfo 9y ago
Very good points, I think fundamental to this is the reliance on the weird mixed theory/application version of calculus that is taught in our institutions: a great deal of it is generally just developing a bag of tricks to help you fin
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by wfo 9y ago
I disagree with you on 4): there are quite a few insightful interesting discussions on HN about politics I've observed and been part of. They have changed my mind and made me think about things. I find political comments on HN to be no
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by wfo 9y ago
You're right. I should give you the benefit of the doubt and make the real argument, which is that if a government provides a platform for you to make commentary, it does not necessarily mean you are a shill for that government; rather
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by wfo 9y ago
Indeed the neoliberal consensus is that he and anyone who rejects it should not have any say in the government and extremist neoliberal ideology has taken over much of the elite power structures in the UK (as well as the US!) If saying nice
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by wfo 9y ago
And yet the alternative, large corporate interests with no bounds or regulations, is so, so much worse. The government is chosen by the people. This is not Saudi Arabia. If people do not want May, if they care about being free, they will vo
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by wfo 9y ago
There has been a huge partially successful smear campaign against Corbyn, some written by reputable politicians, some like this so laughable and ridiculous that only the already convinced manage to read through the whole thing without rolli
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by wfo 9y ago
A hundred 20 year old kids rioted one time against people they perceive to be nazis and were managed by the police, which is definitely the same as a modern mostly free society actively sliding into authoritarian dictatorship.
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Amy Goodman hosts a show on NPR, a U.S. government news station. She is literally a mouthpiece for Trump and the U.S. government.
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Government subsidies are also responsible for a large part of the food production infrastructure -- not only is one of the biggest problems behind food transporting it from production to market, which is completely government subsidized (if
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by wfo 9y ago
Internet companies have a lot of social power and a lot of mind share and general good will among the population. They were a huge part of stopping SOPA. They could fight hard against non-neutral ISPs in the same way, blacklisting and banni
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No actually it does not. The government subsidizes food production and food for the poor HEAVILY. Also food is cheap and plentiful to create. And most importantly, food is easy to steal; the one important factor in a functioning free market
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Good list, but one is missing: (6) basic health care is not a market and pretending it is has been nothing but a moral and economic catastrophe in the US.
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Freedom of speech and freedom of the press are tangentially related but very different from each other. It's very possible to have a free press but without freedom of speech (e.g. journalists can report on anything they wish, corruptio
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by wfo 9y ago
No. More like if you are on Comcast, you can't access Twitter. If you're on AT&T, you can't access Facebook. When you sign up for your ISP, you get to choose between Amazon and Netflix, and you can't change your mind
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It is, and they are. There is a wide variety of governmental standards programmers have to follow in a wide variety of industries (healthcare, education, banking, defense/military, etc) and programmers manage not to bribe their way int
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The DA office can always just lie in person, mislead people (who cares if there's an official stamp; how many regular people know literally anything about the law?). At the end of the day if a prosecutor says "obey or you will be
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by wfo 9y ago
Freedom doesn't necessarily have anything to do with dealing unless you redefine it with extremist libertarian ideology. The freedom to make fair and reasonable contracts among parties that all fully understand the terms and do not hav

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