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by xster 9y ago
These are really interesting points. I'm not an expert but I'm not sure the last point is as simple. - The US does use subversion to ferment political instability, more or less using the same channels it did to overthrow national
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by xster 9y ago
Title: "The US Army: prepare to die! buahahhahahaha" Article: The US Army says if you're facing imminent death due to natural or unnatural causes, the US Army is under no obligation to mobilize itself and somehow find the cur
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by xster 9y ago
Seems like a sensible theme to explore but is this data or conjecture? I'd make a similarly anecdotal conjecture that you'd be met with rigorous debate but your social character standing won't be affected by bringing this top
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by xster 9y ago
Oh I totally agree with you. I feel shutting this down is rational too. I just figured it was the theme of this thread and of the original article.
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by xster 9y ago
> Liberals are tolerant of anything except being conservative As a non-American liberal, I'd argue 'liberals' are tolerant of anything except non-American liberals. Try bringing up progressive topics in polite company and
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by xster 9y ago
Can someone ELI5 this?
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by xster 9y ago
Thanks for the voting records link!
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by xster 9y ago
Genuinely curious. I think these things are all kinda relative anyway. What's the frame of reference / point of comparison?
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by xster 9y ago
This may be totally flippant but I feel like to be constructive in this case, the 'reference' totally depends on the target audience's travel experiences. In the simplest case, the 'reference' could just be to live
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by xster 9y ago
They can sell a LinkedIn Premium equivalent service. X people used your face as a swap in for a pornstar. Y$ a month and you can see which state they're from. Z$ to meet the top 10 reviewed individuals near your zip code.
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by xster 9y ago
This is basically Ruby Koans for every language?
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by xster 9y ago
It's almost 2018 and you're still peddling intolerant anti-sensationalism wrongthink? Get with the times! /s
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by xster 9y ago
Is this still answering the original topic though? None of these wikis have deep life and death financial interests tied to their content like news and indirectly political world views does.
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by xster 9y ago
Are we on the same thread? Your comments seem unrelated to the post you're responding to. > You admit that the OP was correct that things were different under the Obama administration What are you referring to? > "The only w
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by xster 9y ago
I agree. I'd opine the most impactful and negative aspect that impacts today's social landscape though is still the telecommunication act of 1996.
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by xster 9y ago
Identity politics is just today's means of mass control as an evolution on the use of violence or religion or some such. Classic Orwell vs Huxley. Getting the oppressed to self-drain oxygen by subdividing everyone into every which way
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by xster 9y ago
Seems like a strawman. The media landscape's merging and anti-competitiveness started way back in the Clinton years and textbook revolving doors continued right up to Trump with Tom Wheeler being a textbook regulated becoming a regulat
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by xster 9y ago
+1. I do wish NPR is fully publicly funded and gets some degree of medium term immunity from the current legislative and executive branch (media as a fourth branch of government / res publica?). Now it's just a mouth piece for ric
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by xster 9y ago
Is it because authenticity leads to a better artistic production value or is authenticity an end to itself? I hope I'm not being insensitive or flippant. I'm just hoping these discussions leads to some sort of insight or solution.
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by xster 9y ago
I don't know anything from painting and never thought about painting or buying paintings so I don't really have any context. Is the main antagonism against this phenomenon that: a- It's not local? b- It's not one of a ki
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by xster 9y ago
Technically legal https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/930510825617543173 is the name of the game. Smear than obscurely retract is the news of 2016.
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by xster 9y ago
Maybe another way I'd frame the issue is that there are 2 orthogonal themes. 1, whether the structural incentives of the institution is altogether aligned with the interests of the common working people ( http://fair.org&#x2F
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by xster 9y ago
I love it! So awesome. I'd love to make a mobile app for it. Is it an abuse if I just pinged https://harvestsignal.com/api/v1/public/whatsfresh/[zip code]? I don't want to spam you but I doubt
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by xster 9y ago
I feel like they're solving the right problem. Not sure if it's the right solution though. If 2 years down, Android and ChromeOS merged their foundation components and Pixel 5 switched between Android UI and ChromeOS UI when docke
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by xster 9y ago
Corporate media like NYT and WashPo etc that writes things like you must be crazy to not believe there are WMDs in Iraq are not serious news sites. Rich != serious. And hegemonic news smearing all sources of independent journalism and grass
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by xster 9y ago
Wow, this is the most clear, succinct way of expressing it I've seen so far. The beginning of a new era!
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by xster 9y ago
Assume I temporarily freeze all other thoughts and fully accept that there was such a thing as 'election interference from Russia focused on dividing the left', that would be them tossing out their one in a lifetime chance to get
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by xster 9y ago
I used to read r/politics multiple times a day before it went south right around the time of the Democrat's California primary when the DNC nomination was sealed (on a day when no voters voted and the nomination was determined by
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by xster 9y ago
I mean if we don't look at the global context and zoom deep into the micro day by day chronological narrative level, I'm sure we can say all overthrows are inevitable. We can say that the Shah delivering a royal decree to dismiss
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by xster 9y ago
Don't really know how it works, though I wonder if some of the filters in Prisma are implemented in similar ways.

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