yourbandsucks

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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
Eye of the beholder, brother. Poster asked for feedback. I thought I was being economical.
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
Facts are rarely black and white. Look at USA reporting about Venezuela or Cuba. It's factual, yet it also implicitly takes sides. Which facts? How are they presented?
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
China wasn't a signatory. You're right that it was corporate captured but the original goal was geopolitical. Edit, cite: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Pacific_Partnership
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
Mmm, yeah, lack of critical thinking combined with a nationalist, "we're number one" media environment. We would never be like that.. I mean, we're better than them. We're number one.
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
We should establish a checklist of common ideologically biased fudges. Sounds like you're doing the "pretend SS and medicare don't exist" fudge, right here.
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
Yeah, that's my point. That's actually the only place I saw it reported. I checked the WP, NYT and Fox News that day after seeing it here. Nothing. Maybe there was a story hidden in the back that I couldn't find, of cours
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
So your argument is that all the people spreading the news of that kid in HK being shot were surprised ? They didn't sound surprised to me. They sounded elated and fulfilled that they were right about the 'bad guys'. News st
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
Free press checkpoint RE: Iraq. They shut the internet off there last week to try and suppress ongoing protests/unrest. It's been reported a little, but hardly wall to wall like the Hong Kong thing. Why? Nobody sent out orders t
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
"Listen to how woke I am while I call a billion people robots"
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
Mmmm. Look at the size of this subthread. It's like catnip. And I said I'll use whatever pronouns people want, already, in one of four short grafs. Yet it didn't stop you from wondering if I'm some 'stealth enemy&
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
I'm gonna wade in hip-deep here and suggest that, given the size of the transgender community, the heat and hype of these issues are completely unwarranted. No hate towards anyone and I'll call anyone whatever they want as far as
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
Why the hell are pronouns a centerpiece of a CoC? Just be nice to people. For fuck's sake.
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
Devil's advocate: sports referees never admit a mistake, either. There's a calculus where the upsides of correcting a mistake are outweighed by the downsides of inviting more gamesmanship of your decisions. (I know nothing about
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
It's way off topic considering they were talking about 90s Seattle and you don't seem to be. Anyways, it read like tongue-in-cheek humor to me.
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
Gonna have to ask you for a cite on that one. Climbing costs energy, as does lift. Piston engines and electric both get better mileage than turbines. I could see it for a 13 hour flight, maybe. Train tracks don't cross the Pacific,
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
6h vs 18h for a trip are two different universes. Sleeper trains are cool and all but a shorter ride is better.
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
Politics again. Grant was a lousy president afterwards, and the south needed a hero. Thus their storylines diverge. In fact, given the political needs in ensuing decades, there's really no need for the "story" to reflect th
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
Hannibal gets more credit as a result. Note, I'm not necessarily saying Caesar was bad. He did win, as you say. But he had significant materiel and troop advantages against the Gauls and against Pompey. Maybe we should credit him mo
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
But there's context for all of those things, and I can rationalize them with my 6th grade civics understanding. Those other people, who's history I don't understand? Oh, they're just bad.
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
Disagree. People rationalize. Change the motivations and you get a different sincerely held rationalization. Look at TFA. Decades of a top US ally being a human rights disaster, noone in the media cared. Until one journalist is killed..
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
Julius Caesar was one of the greatest generals according to a history written by the victors. Namely, him. Not that I'm saying you're wrong, but invading Parthia would be a rather different story than invading Gaul.
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
Giveaway: Using the phrase "create wealth" instead of "get rich".
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
And it would help their preferred races, too. But it wouldn't play nearly as well on HN or Twitter.
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
So if we had Chad the legacy admission against Darnell with a single mother, I could see what you were talking about... But that's not what's at stake here. Chad is doing great, legacy admissions are alive and well. Meanwhile Cl
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
Did you just predicate your argument on the absence of government?
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
Certain countries like Ireland? Hmmm... I wonder when that clampdown on Irish visa grants is coming..
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
Lying to yourself for the greater good? I've been involved. Will continue to be. It's still the truth. Ask yourself, how come when America's chief global rival does bad things, it's cause for condemnation, but America
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
Yup. And honestly, everyone outside of the valley wants to take the valley down a notch. They're easier to hate than Wall Street, even. Seems like a slam dunk for popularity.
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
Fish don't know they're in water. https://sivers.org/fish The fact that we have the illusion of choice between candidates who will all do mostly the same things, and won't affect the bureaucracy that much an
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
Can they, though? We've got the test case in front of our face right now. Want to place some bets on anybody elected being removed before 2020? How much you want to bet that in 2020, for the umpteenth time in a row, we get a choice b

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