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by wqaatwt 2y ago
Surely this is sarcasm? Yes absolutely. China. You have to give away 50% of your local subsidiary just to operate there. And why do you think Google and Facebook don’t even offer their services there?
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
Literacy is a rather straight and easy to measure concept. Critical thinking is somewhat more subjective and harder to evaluate (i.e. I wouldn’t give a passing mark for your comment).
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
> For obvious reasons. For starters me and you (let alone other people) probably have a very different of what “critical thinking” even means besides the very basic stuff. It’s like “world peace”…
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
> Just teach the populace critical thinking Let’s JUST invent practical nuclear fusion and sentient AI while we’re at it. Both would be probably significantly easier to achieve..
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
That’s a weirdly obtuse argument to make.
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
> the narrative was not under their control Is the narrative on other platforms under their control? What does that even mean? US hardly has coherent narrative these days anyway or at least it changes every 4 years. Regardless what benef
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
And your point is? I mean you might agree or disagree but obviously the problem was a foreign entity controlling it and not the tracking part. Also the keystroke part seem technically entirely not true and location is only partially correct
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
Most voters didn’t vote for that candidate though. They voted for a more moderate and not pro-Russia independent who was effectively guaranteed to win in the next round. Establishment parties obviously didn’t like that outcome.
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
> america and americans should be able to view any media and still come to the best conclusions I’m rather confused how do you think that is somehow connected with: > horrible crutch that suggests america is already dead and gone If y
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
> destroying all independence of thought." Not all of it. Just some of it. No need to see everything in such a black and white way. Also Orwell was obviously not talking about major entities run by other countries. Do you think he w
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
> Or is the US just too much of a moral actor to do this? US government has massively more oversight because of still somewhat functioning legislative and judicial systems. Also free press is still a thing (compared to Russia anyway..)
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
I don’t think Zuckerberg is a major donor. He gave some pocket change to Trump’s inauguration but was there anything more? He kind of sat out this election cycle (despite being a major Democrat donor previously) because I guess he saw where
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
> videos appear genuine and wholesome That doesn’t mean they aren’t hyper-optimized for monetization, though
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
Swords are usually made a by a single or a handful of people at most. Nuclear power plants or walls that are supposed to cover an entire border require thousands of workers and engineers. At that point the organizational/management asp
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
> I only see evil from one side Then by (your own admission) you are a rather horrible (i.e. extreme/fundamentalist) person. If you purposefully decide to ignore or even justify atrocities committed by one side. At least you have en
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
> Strategic bombing doesn't work Well.. that’s debatable and obviously not conclusive. Opportunity costs, not direct effectiveness is a bigger concern.
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
> significant foreign intervention during the modern Same applies to pretty much every western country besides perhaps Switzerland and to a lesser extent Sweden. Anyway I think you’re going back far too much. Countries like Algeria, Moro
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
> This is the kind of stuff that happens on TikTok: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdXhx-yECOc still confused. Is this supposed to be an example of “bad” or “good” content? Because I can’t (perhaps due to lack of empath
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
If I started claiming that the Welsh are refugees from Atlantis would that make me a leading Celtic scholar?
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
Well yes extremist radical Zionists are about on the same level as moderate Islamic fundamentalists. That’s kind of the problem.. > yitzhak rabin So you wouldn’t consider him a Zionist then?
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
To be fair so did the French. e.g. occupying the Rhineland after WW1 vs the Schuman Plan. If they were inclined to punish Germany even harder than the first time it probably wouldn’t have worked out that well.
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
To be fair Germany would have recovered economically on its own with or without the Marshall plan (ECSC was much more impactful than the Marshall plan..) Most Arab states generally don’t do that well economically even without any foreign p
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
I fail to see the connection… NI is free to leave the UK whenever they want to. Same applies to French Guiana. They aren’t oppressed by anyone (not anymore.. anyway)
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
> how many German civilians were killed? You’re saying that if they had the capacity to bomb Berlin and other German cities they would have decided not to do that?
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
> how do call Whataboutism? Both sides might be wrong and commit horrible acts at the same time. However Israel can potentially change its policies (even if that’s unlikely). Hamas OTH is just objectively evil. The fact that they have a
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
> still calls them terrorists I’m sure that if you asked most people in Europe or the US they’d would agree. I’d bet on average more strongly than before the war. I mean Israel is deeply flawed, oppressed and is committing war crimes. Ca
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
Except Zionists are capable of establishing and running a democratic state (however flawed according to some it might be). It would be silly to pretend that’s even remotely close to being an option for Hamas. For starters modern Islamic fu
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
> Ashkenazis are from Khazaria and converted to Judaism between 740 and 920 AD Probably not worth reading your comment past this sentence. You’re confusing something… They are from Eastern Europe through the way of Germany and probably I
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
> it's because you do not care. I personally do it mainly because I don’t want to be associated with certain types of loud ideological fundamentalists and zealots. I might occasionally use Linux or even BSD in private without telli
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
> elevating And I shouldn’t have the right to do that because? I don’t really play any competitive online games but I’d certainly rather install anti-cheat software than garbage like Crowdstrike if I was forced to choose. Anyway differen

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