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by wredcoll 3mo ago
History.com says: > Feudalism is a term often used to describe the social, economic and political conditions that existed in Western Europe during the Middle Ages. At its core, it was a system in which a landowner, or lord, granted a pie
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by wredcoll 3mo ago
Maybe we should have elected Hillary Clinton then? (This is a reference to Bill Clinton's extremely successful "Reinventing Government" initiative which actually balanced the federal budget until the next republican came alon
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by wredcoll 3mo ago
I'm not certain you're right, but I think this opinion deserves considerably more (fair) discusson than it's getting. Lots of replies either personally benefit or just assume the "way things are" is the best, but th
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by wredcoll 3mo ago
Yes, you can but does that ability benefit the population/nation/market as a whole?
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by wredcoll 3mo ago
Why was musk/spacex so interested in having the rules broken to include spacex stock? Do you think maybe there was a reason that involved musk benefitting??
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by wredcoll 3mo ago
What even is "true capitalism"?
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by wredcoll 3mo ago
The term "capitalism" was literally only created for the purpose of writing criticisms of the (then) current system of markets/trading/taxing/investing. Try actually defining capitalism in a way that doesn't a
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by wredcoll 3mo ago
> thousands of people that do DoD/DA-civilian work that are sitting back collecting paychecks while doing almost nothing. A majority of them being retired military that got grandfathered into the positions so to speak but aren'
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by wredcoll 3mo ago
I mean, they're hardly blameless.
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by wredcoll 3mo ago
Oh hey, you sound like you study in the field, is it truly possible to treat/cure T2 diabetes in obese patients by basically fasting based weightloss? I saw some studies/articles about it a couple of years ago and then nothing rec
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by wredcoll 3mo ago
I agree with you on the general principle that we should demand better privacy protection from the government, its agents, and the corporations that claim its citizenship. Arguing about who has killed more seems mildly pointless since it re
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by wredcoll 3mo ago
Sure, Obama (and friends) got the ACA passed which, among other things, forbade health insurance companies from refusing service to people with "pre-existing conditions" as well as also forbidding lifetime caps on services needed
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by wredcoll 3mo ago
The parent post adds zero value, why start now?
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by wredcoll 3mo ago
Your comment seems to frame this as a "two sides issue" as if it was a see-saw and you can only move back and forth between one side and the other with no room for nuance or alternate directions. Governments can do a lot of things
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by wredcoll 3mo ago
That's not a hot take, it's just boring old racism.
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by wredcoll 3mo ago
I mean, the republicans constantly pay for things nobody wants, so uh, what's the issue here?
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by wredcoll 4mo ago
People do listen to it and enjoy it but to some degree it becomes a marketing problem. I don't know how to weight the moral issue of someone missing out on a song they would love and instead getting a one they merely like because the a
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by wredcoll 4mo ago
> An old book could seem socially "problematic" from a 2026 lens (especially for young people for whom that is before their time), Or, you know, you've just read the old books already because they came out 10 years ago and
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by wredcoll 4mo ago
Do you have proof of any of that?
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by wredcoll 4mo ago
I'm not trying to balance the budget here, just find a few billion for research.
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by wredcoll 4mo ago
How depressingly unamerican.
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by wredcoll 4mo ago
I know it's fashionable to say stuff like this, but you know what's also a rounding error by that logic? THE SCIENTIFIC GRANTS WE'RE DISCUSSING. Like, sure, 600million for a ballroom is small compared to the annual interest p
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by wredcoll 4mo ago
Oh hey, a good faith argument. I thought about going and googling for more studies supporting my position, but I'm not sure if that actually has much of a point? Maybe I can come up with a stronger/more defensible argument: crea
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by wredcoll 4mo ago
> "real" diversity of thought isn't allowed under globohomo. The goal, of course, is handouts for race communists and to further solidify communist control of political What the fuck?
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by wredcoll 4mo ago
Have you considered middle clicking instead of leftclicking?
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by wredcoll 4mo ago
He says in a comment on hackernews.
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by wredcoll 4mo ago
Trump's ballroom. Trump's "irs lawsuit settlement fund" The salaries of all the lawyers being paid to justify illegal and discriminatory executive orders. ICE's budget. TSA's budget. "Border Wall" con
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by wredcoll 4mo ago
But not as smart as bernie madoff, who had much better results, right?
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by wredcoll 4mo ago
So when are you going to talk about the scientific grants?
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by wredcoll 4mo ago
Mate, if you had to make a new account just to try posting this nonsense, it might be time for some self-reflection.

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