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by zpeti 5y ago
I’m sorry how does Germany ceding territory and paying reparations to the Soviet Union help any current Eastern European country? Not to mention my post was also about mongols, ottomans, and Soviet occupations.
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by zpeti 5y ago
As an Eastern European, when do we get an apology and reparations from: Mongolia, turkey, Russia? In fact Germany as well for the 2nd world war? How are rules around these apologies and reparations decided? Seems it’s super popular right no
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by zpeti 5y ago
As a result of the tech bubble popping greenspan lowered interest rates for 10 years to almost 0, effectively meaning banks could lend any amount of money, but also couldn't earn any money from actual interest and needed to find all so
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If you sell a house these days, the buyer might be a pension fund(wsj.com)
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by zpeti 5y ago
I'm in eastern Europe, pay isn't too bad, rent isn't too bad, our city is getting developed, new buildings etc. We have lots of water, May was actually one of the coldest I've ever experienced. We had hardly any lockdow
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by zpeti 5y ago
Except you are lumping in all white people as powerful. Which I profoundly disagree with as per my point in the first comment, what about someone who's white but has been generationally poor? It is absolutely ridiculous to call these p
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by zpeti 5y ago
As soon as you make civil rights selective and for only certain people, it’s a political view. Either it’s civil rights for everyone or you are taking some sort of political stance. Whether that’s repressing a minority (past) or repressing
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by zpeti 5y ago
Wouldn’t enforcing action be bette than raising rates? The amount of innovation google is stifling with their hand on both sides of the market must be significant at this point, I doubt the online ad market has many new startups in it at th
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by zpeti 5y ago
I believe in free speech but only when it suits my political views. That's not free speech. And just to counter your actual point, what about a lousiana white person who's family's been living in poverty for 100 years? Do the
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by zpeti 5y ago
It’s so great when natural language usage/evolution is overwritten by bureaucrats, for god knows what reason. Wonderful.
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by zpeti 5y ago
Literally any new variant has been called by its origin in the last year: -kent/brit variant -indian variant -california variant What are you on about?
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by zpeti 5y ago
Most of the stuff I've seen recently is not criticising the "apartheid policies" (debatable) of Israel. It's actual anti jewish rhetoric.
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by zpeti 5y ago
Israel, a nation with a strong national identity, a small nation not a multinational organisation, generally governed by right wing governments, hugely successful in terms of meritocracy, good entrepreneurial spirit. Filled with a nation of
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by zpeti 5y ago
This is the correct answer. The amount of anti-semitism shown during this recent Hamas Israel conflict in the woke left has been very worrying. We are likely to see a big resurgence of anti-semitism in the next period. It's more and mo
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by zpeti 5y ago
Cambridge analytica got data from surveys on Facebook. You know who was “given” data by Facebook that others couldn’t even dream of? The Obama campaign. A fact that is very much forgotten by the NYT and every other Cambridge analytica hater
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by zpeti 5y ago
Unpopular Opinion: people making these sexist jokes do actually think they are jokes. They aren't using them to push people down. Most people are nice people and don't realise they are being assholes and pushing people down. On th
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by zpeti 5y ago
The question almost no one knows the answer to is - is YouTube actually profitable? My guess is no. We have this amazing resource with an amazing amount of content, yet it is probably subsidized by one of the largest companies in the world.
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by zpeti 5y ago
But they did it because Trump is evil and he said it was China. Being anti trump justifies anything.
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by zpeti 5y ago
No, wait for the scientific evidence. But both trump and the media took a stance without any evidence, pro and against. Both are just as bad as each other.
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by zpeti 5y ago
History is littered with people dismissed for out of the ordinary ideas. Galileo, Semmelweis, Heisenberg. Women’s right, abolishing slavery. But even the current mRNA vaccine developers were dismissed for 15-20 years as unimportant.
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by zpeti 5y ago
Also we are in a thread where reporting on a virus that has killed 3m people is in question at these big outlets. There are few bigger issues. This is very worrying for these supposedly less partisan outlets.
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by zpeti 5y ago
It’s very easy to come to that conclusion about your own sides media. Perhaps you should ask some republicans about how objective the NYT is, and ask for evidence. You might be surprised.
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by zpeti 5y ago
Well, luckily for you most big discoveries for humanity were made by people who were mocked, so it didn’t work. Still doesn’t seem like the right thing to do though, especially if we consider ourselves an advanced scientific civilization.
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by zpeti 5y ago
Taking medical advice without evidence from “anti trump” is just as bad. If you are making decisions not based on evidence but on personalities, you are going to make huge mistakes.
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by zpeti 5y ago
The issue most people rightly have here, is almost all mainstream news outlets said with certainty that it wasn’t a lab leak. That certainty also needs evidence. Or should. Coming to conclusions either way without evidence, when it suits ce
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by zpeti 5y ago
The trouble is the NYT and others still claim to be objective and not really partisan. They still market themselves as the bastion of real journalism. At least with fox and oann you know they are fully partisan.
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by zpeti 5y ago
It was extremely worrying to me that the same happened with Hydroxychloroquine. Now I know that the scientific community proved that it doesn’t work. Fine, good. But the media dismissed it before that was proved. Because trump said it. Now
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by zpeti 5y ago
No, this was the sleight of hand by the media. Almost all people dismissed as conspiracy theorists said most likely lab escape doesn’t mean genetically engineered. But straight away that’s how it was reported in the media. Basically twistin
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by zpeti 5y ago
> This feels so much like the Iraq "weapons of mass destruction" fiasco. Any time news outlets are credulously repeating the words of "government officials," you need to seriously devalue the reporting. Depends what y
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by zpeti 5y ago
> Poland and Hungary (not to mention Turkey a bit further away) are already leaning dangerously close to the kinds of abuse of power only seen in dictatorships Please show me examples in Poland or Hungary of opposition voices being silen

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