xtian

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by xtian 3y ago
Biden and Trump are not the empire.
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by xtian 3y ago
My stance is that the desire of the adult in this very exceptional situation to access pornography slightly more conveniently does not outweigh the benefits of doing something about children being exposed to sexual content.
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by xtian 3y ago
I’d like to know more about the principles of the “coalition made up of people who make adult entertainment” referenced in the article.
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by xtian 3y ago
Yeah so let’s not pretend we don’t know whose interests are really being represented here.
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by xtian 3y ago
I explained that. And the first line of the article references a “coalition made up of people who make adult entertainment”
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by xtian 3y ago
A federal lawsuit will be way more “annoying” than acquiring an in-state license, installing a VPN, or any number of other alternatives. Seems like this person is a front for moneyed interests.
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by xtian 3y ago
These are mere personal preferences. Any connection to a broader agenda is a conspiracy theory.
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by xtian 3y ago
What if a country's economy doesn't make widgets at all but merely controls the system of international finance which is premised upon its own debt?
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by xtian 3y ago
Who cares about taxes when you can print money?
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by xtian 3y ago
This is a profoundly myopic analysis, and I’m surprised it holds any sway on a forum which prizes itself on “disruption” thinking. This is the equivalent of predicting Facebook will never overtake MySpace in 2006. The immediate trend is tow
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by xtian 3y ago
How is it similar?
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by xtian 3y ago
Nicely done take on the form. The original game of this type was a Japanese Java applet known as "Falling sand game". I'm not sure it's preserved anywhere though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallin
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by xtian 3y ago
Is this the threshold of credulity now for extraordinary claims? The authorities arrested people so they must have done something wrong? This way of thinking seems fraught historically.
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by xtian 3y ago
I know there are about a billion articles in Western media claiming this, but what's the actual evidence?
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by xtian 3y ago
> China had secret police stations in the US trying to capture Chinese dissidents What's the evidence for this?
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by xtian 3y ago
> "Mr. Yu observed a culture of lawlessness within the company," the suit says. "This ByteDance culture focused on growth at all costs. The attitude was to violate the law first, continue to grow, and pay fines later.&quot
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by xtian 3y ago
You think so? According to the media your description would apply to everyone who voted for Trump.
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by xtian 3y ago
You are only proving your ignorance to anyone who knows what those two terms mean
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by xtian 3y ago
So no answer to my question. In the US can anyone be a corporate board member? Or is it gated by myriad social factors such as having attended an elite B school and proving yourself as a loyal servant of Wall Street bankers?
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by xtian 3y ago
Do you not live in the US or what?
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by xtian 3y ago
What percent of boards in the US are staffed by Democrats and Republicans (our one party with two names)?
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by xtian 3y ago
The kolkhozes were not owned by the state in the Soviet Union. State-owned enterprises represent about 20% of total employment in China. Ownership is simply contingent and limited according to determinate social ends (as opposed to the tota
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by xtian 3y ago
Has it occurred to you that most other places make barely any manufactured goods at all compared to China? Particularly basic materials like steel. How do you factor that into your calculations? The US will look pretty good on your chosen m
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by xtian 3y ago
“environmentally destructive population increase” - Wow, that’s one I didn’t expect to hear openly so soon.
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by xtian 3y ago
Oh yeah, the multinationals are so afraid of regulations from the captured state which further entrench their existing monopolies. They’re so afraid of the military being dispatched from the centers of international finance to suppress and
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by xtian 3y ago
I’m no longer moved by the linguistic arms race to describe the outputs of unproven computer models in ever more extreme terms. Are you educated on Chinese policy in this area?
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by xtian 3y ago
Everyone who talks about China’s “horrible” emissions always avoids referencing cumulative, per capita, or, even worse, cumulative per capita numbers because they really interfere with the desired narrative.
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by xtian 3y ago
Yeah the American people outnumber the FBI by a huge margin
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by xtian 3y ago
Beautiful green ecofascism. You are truly on the cutting edge ideologically.
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by xtian 3y ago
What about cumulative emissions?

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