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by yourbandsucks 8y ago
I should have said "primary message". Edited, thanks. That said, the primary message is basically the entire message in a world of soundbites.
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by yourbandsucks 8y ago
One of the biggest markers of ideological blindness is when people lose their ability to do basic arithmetic. The United States is 65% white. How you gonna get to 51% of the vote when your primary message to white people is "check you
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by yourbandsucks 8y ago
Except we never hear about Y and Z. Let's say you lived in the Jim Crow south, and noticed that a lot of laws were only enforced against black people, despite being broken by white people all the time. Is it whataboutism to complain? I
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by yourbandsucks 8y ago
Ron Wyden is a national treasure. One of a very short list of DC politicians who make any effort whatsoever to understand tech.
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by yourbandsucks 8y ago
More interesting result: broken out by company, the "poor leadership and lack of direction" answer ranges from 15-35% of the vote, and it's the companies with a very public lack of direction that top the list. Meanwhile, Face
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It DID happen. Check the numbers in both 2000 and 2016. The first time, it lead to a million dead Iraqis, the second time we are living through right now.
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It reminds me of some of the extreme positions the NRA has taken. Like talking about arming all teachers in response to school shootings. Nobody thinks that's a good idea, whatever you think about gun rights. I'm realizing that
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by yourbandsucks 8y ago
That's a great list. Let's put it to the test: Find a Chinese person over the age of 40. Ask them if they've experienced 2 economic systems in their life, then ask them if the first one was communist, and the second one was
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by yourbandsucks 8y ago
Leninism and maoism both died the instant their namesakes died. I don't care about the difference. They were both tools to control populaces, not straightjackets restraining leaders. Both strongmen did whatever they could and wanted
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The decision making process is different and the decisions are different. It's different. Perceived lack of transparency[1] does not change that. [1]: There are vastly different levels of transparency for, in order: Foreigners, rur
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by yourbandsucks 8y ago
Thank you! It's an oligarchy! Not a dictatorship! But they're not near-equivalent. Group vs individual. Politics are entirely different. Both deemphasize citizen rights but that doesn't make them the same! Why are people
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by yourbandsucks 8y ago
Yes, it's a terrible human rights disaster but that doesn't make the Chinese government a dictatorship. Running internment camps or Jim Crow didn't make the USA a dictatorship, either. Bad deeds don't change the defini
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Sure. But words mean things. Slapping a bunch of incorrect trigger words together terminates thought.
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"communist dictatorship" is inexact enough to be outright dishonest. Their economy is obviously capitalist. And although Xi has been leaning towards more dictator-like behavior, they haven't been a dictatorship since Mao. It
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by yourbandsucks 8y ago
The problem, as you pointed out, is that it has nothing to do with thinking and everything to do with hating. You could give conservatives great environmental solutions for free, and they'd still reject them, because they know liberals