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Kwakigra

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  • "Modern" problems require modern solutions

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  • If there was an internet meme based on the premise that somone is trying to play a record with a bent needle, I would probably need someone from the generation familiar with common phonograph problems to explain that to me. I didn't know bent needles were a common problem for phonographs until I looked it up just now.

  • You're guilty cuz angy

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  • I know I told you my vulnerability to being accused of things I didn't do, but this tendency doesn't apply to internet comments. I don't expect to have good faith conversations with anonymous strangers. I wish you the best with whatever you're trying to accomplish.

  • You're guilty cuz angy

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  • I don't think you understood what I wrote. You are offended on my behalf and I'm not offended. If you have difficulties with emotional regulation as well and are offended for yourself, that would be perfectly legitimate.

  • You're guilty cuz angy

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  • As a qualified cptsd haver, I am in no way offended by this accurate portrayal of my defensiveness when I feel like I may suffer damages over something I'm not guilty of. I assume others get upset about this as well.

  • Exclusive: AI Error Likely Led to Iran Girl's School Bombing

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  • Israel would look very different if they didn't have the total impunity the US provides especially recently. Everything the Israeli government has done has been the US's responsibility for decades. The US doesn't give Israel privileged treatment because they've been tricked. They do it because Israel is primarily their own colony that they want to see made permanent.

  • Exclusive: AI Error Likely Led to Iran Girl's School Bombing

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  • Here it is. The ultimate purpose of AI technology. Corporatism has all but eliminated any accountability by almost all Western leaders, and now there will be no accountability at all as long as this paradigm of implicitly trusting the most untrustworthy people in the world persists.

  • Middle East war could be decided by who runs out of missiles or interceptors first, analysts say

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  • It could, or it could be decided the same way every war the US has waged for decades has been decided. It has been well established for all the world to see that even though it is not possible to outproduce the US's military industrial complex, it is possible to win anyway if you don't surrender for as long as it takes the US public to stop tolerating throwing away their children's lives for nothing. The US military's logic that weapons are all it takes to win a war has been tested over and over again it and it's proven false very consistently. Iran can only lose if it surrenders. We have no victory condition again so we can't win.

  • Looking for someone to talk to

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  • What places and time periods are you interested in particularly?

  • Whats the flaw of the "Nothing to Hide" argument?

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  • The police show up at your door. They tell you they need to search your house. There's a group of them so there's no way you would be able to watch all of them while they search your house. You have no idea why they would want to search your house. Would you feel comfortable letting them search your house since you have nothing illegal? Would you trust them?

    Better yet, would you be comfortable allowing them access to search your home at any time with or without your knowledge or consent?

    Is there a major difference if the police's searches are only of your digital devices? Do you trust everyone who seeks the job of warrantlessly probing through the private documents of strangers?

  • China’s ‘Rat People’: When Education Can’t Deliver on Its Promises

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  • I like how we have reached a world economic stage where we have way more people than jobs available and the proposed solution of multiple governments is to increase unplanned pregnancies.

  • I've been seeing a lot on /r/journalism where people are just saying "if we break up the conglomerates, things will revert to normal"

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  • Come on Sisyphus, we need to roll the boulder of corporate hegemony back to the top of the hill again. Surely, this time it will stay.

  • DND fulfills our deepest fantasies

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  • This but actually. Dnd is not the best system to live out the group's actual fantasy of social revolution, and that's what my groups tend to want to do.

    Come to think of it, can anyone here suggest a good rpg system to simulate working people siezing the means of production from the bourgeoisie?

  • Germans have lost faith in the US, survey reveals

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  • The greatest enemy of any right wing chauvinist is a right wing chauvinist from a different culture.

  • What do you think of people who CONSTANTLY talk about religion?

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  • Addicts. They were/are in a vulnerable place and a religion took advantage of them nurturing their vulnerability and dependency to profit from them. It was this or heroin basically. It would be nice to live in a world which doesn't traumatize people and then profit on their trauma-driven trigger responses.

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    Is using the n word without implying they are being inferior racist or being a pottymouth?

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  • It is racist. I hope one day you will undersand why it is instead of becoming defensive about it. Just know that regardless of your intentions or understanding, when you say this word other people will correctly interpret that you are being racist.

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  • There is a major difference between conquering people and claiming the places they reside as part of empire versus drawing lines on a map and claiming to legally own the land itself.

    When the Romans were conquering their empire in Europe, they weren't claiming land and claiming that those who resided on that land were now subject to the Roman Empire. This is however literally what Spain did during the Reconquista and what the conquistadors did in the Americas afterward. It's also how these thigs tend to go today.

    The Romans, like the Aztecs, conquered groups of people and forced them to be subjects. The land they were on was less important than the people themselves being subjugated to the hegemon. If a subject city's population decided to abandon it and establish their city elsewhere within Rome's martial reach, the Romans would keep the people rather than the useless unoccupied land.

    Feudal estates and fiefdoms are a kind of proto land ownership but even this was distinct to how we would consider it today. Claims were much more vague and impossible to enforce without the cartography tools we have now. Again, they were claiming ownership of the nation as a people, not a nation defined by borders and acreage.

    Of course there was plenty of disagreement as to which hegemon runs which settlement. The disagreement was not that two governments had a legal claim to the same piece of defined land, but things like "God chose me to rule whatever I can reach, and I can reach you" or simply "I can beat you in war, so these people are mine."

    People "owned" their homes and used whatever land around it to farm, but not as in they had a legal claim to the whole piece of property and a franchise to do with that landed property as they pleased. They owned it because they resided there and could keep up what they were using. Wealthier people had more people to manage more territory in their behalf, but even this was more about the subjects than the land they lived on, which was understood to be incidental compared to how we would see it today. Unoccupied, unused land miles away from where anyone lived was not being fought over. Wherever they lived domination of people was fought for.

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  • Conflicts over land ownership didn't start until the Reconquista just before the modern era. Prior to that the idea that people privately could own land didn't exist. This idea was very helpful for colonization and it is not natural.

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  • The bit at the end starting with agriculture is much smaller relative to human history. Homo Sapiens attained our present taxonomy about 350,000-500,000 years ago. Agriculture, armies, and empires as we now know them all started around 10,000 years ago.

  • Risk

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  • There are some cogent points in there, but the author fails to realize that the problem with capitalism is the capitalists themselves. The issues they complain about are the inevitable consequence of allowing capitalists to own the means of production rather than the people. Capitalists care less about being patriotic and doing good deeds than they do about their capital holdings, and an investment in corruption and cronyism is one of the safest bets capitalists with sufficient power can make.

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    Israeli troops raid, order closure of Al Jazeera's West Bank bureau

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    Google illegally maintains monopoly over internet search, judge rules

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    Demon Parent Vs. Devil Parent, an Analysis of Evil Parenting Styles

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    Girly Girl Productions - Coked up friend adventure!

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    Deja Vu (But Worse) - Biden vs. Trump ft. "Weird Al" Yankovic

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    Why do you choose to continue living?

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    The Lesser of Two Genocides

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    My One-Step Guide to Turn Soup from Watery Crap into Something You Would Want to Eat