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RaskolnikovsAxe

@ RaskolnikovsAxe @lemmy.ca

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  • Melinda French Gates on Bill Gates in Epstein files - 'Painful times in my marriage'

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  • No one thinks about that on an Internet forum and policing that seems incredibly petty. Especially when you do it by calling someone a dipshit.

    Unless you go out of the way to tell people what pronouns you want, then don't be upset when people pick one.

  • 'The Chinese government bans all new investment in Israel'

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  • A lot of what you say is reasonable discourse that can be seen as defending a political ideology that you feel strongly contributes to a better world. There's nothing wrong with that and I commend you.

    But then you say this

    Personally, I would rather China take a more millitant anti-imperialist stance than their current passive stance. There's good reason to believe this will be the case in the future, as younger generations in China are more millitant...

    and you collapse into the "I'm about to start smashing skulls in the name of my ideology, and I'll do so until I've inadvertently built an empire".

    So you and your ideological bedmates have decided that you have the moral clarity to decide who gets attacked in the name of anti-imperialism. The world has certainly never heard that angle before, I'm sure you'll be the first.

  • Melinda French Gates on Bill Gates in Epstein files - 'Painful times in my marriage'

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  • If you don't specify pronouns there is no way for anyone to know your gender on an Internet forum, so your derogatory animosity comes across as particularly petty.

  • Your friends are still acting like everything is normal in America. What do you do? All Americans live in a “dual state.” Here’s what that means — and how to help others see it.

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  • This response is a perfect example of the lowered expectations in the US.

    What happens if you lose your job? I'm not sure I'd want to have job security and health care coupled together.

  • Witness told FBI Trump threatened to ‘disappear’ girl and have her ‘whole family killed’

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  • I don't think you understood what I meant when I referred to liberal justice systems, because you can't conceive of any understanding of the word liberal unless it's in a portmanteau with the word retard.

    The many demonstrable downsides of the death penalty (and lack of any evidenced differential benefits) goes well beyond Louis CK. Congratulations, you just discovered that comedians rehash ancient and serious political and philosophical discussions for laypersons. But you may wish to read the original material.

  • Witness told FBI Trump threatened to ‘disappear’ girl and have her ‘whole family killed’

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  • Ok so you're not talking about CSA in general;, in fact you're not talking about any crime in particular, but rather the power possessed by those who perpetrate them?

    How would this work? Is torture ok? How do you determine who is powerful enough? How do you prevent uncertainty and/or other powerful interests hijacking the justice system?

    You know what's easier and remains in line with fundamental values of liberal justice systems? Just no death penalty. Start by actually enforcing laws against the powerful, with penniless and impotent lifetimes spent in prison. Avoid creating martyrs and endless cycles of violence and retribution.

    And in the case of CSA, again, avoid creating piles of dead kids. If all of these criminals thought they were facing the death penalty the crimes and corruption would just get worse, to absolutely no benefit to us other than satisfying emotional blood lust.

  • Witness told FBI Trump threatened to ‘disappear’ girl and have her ‘whole family killed’

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  • These crimes are horrendous, but I'm guessing you haven't really thought about the implications of the death penalty very deeply, and in particular in relation to crimes of CSA. For one thing, it's a sure fire way to end up with a lot more dead kids.

  • Witness told FBI Trump threatened to ‘disappear’ girl and have her ‘whole family killed’

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  • The original comment was about Clinton's blowjob only. I was very clear in my question, and constrained it to that only because at the time you had not explicitly extended it to all of Clinton's involvement with Epstein.

    Now that you've decided to do so, I'll preface by saying I'm Canadian, and I don't give a shit about Clinton, so if indeed his involvement is as bad as Trump, then punish him the same. Obviously they should be punished - as the law is intended to do - according to the severity of their crimes. I will say this: The Trump involvement in the last drop has been nightmarish, if even 5% is true, and I can't help but consider that the Justice department is incentivized to release material that amplifies Clinton's involvement and diminishes Trump's, and if this is the best they can do then Trump is truly a monster.

  • Woman Told FBI Trump Abused Her at 13, Epstein Files Reveal

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  • How do you judge success or failure?

    How would you respond to the claim that at the very least it permanently rewired the concept of legitimate government based on ideas like nation, citizenship and rights, even if the outcomes of that rewiring were neither linear nor immediate? Creating institutional templates, accelerating modern politics and seeding democracies?

  • Witness told FBI Trump threatened to ‘disappear’ girl and have her ‘whole family killed’

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  • Are you suggesting that Clinton getting a blowjob from Lewinsky and then lying about it is the same in kind and degree to what is alleged in the released pages of the Epstein files?

  • Pierre Poilievre wins leadership review with 87.4% approval

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  • New one will be Cross The Floor.

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    Canada separatists accused of ‘treason’ after secret talks with US state department

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  • We have concerning overlap, but what the last decade has shown is that Canada is culturally, politically and economically different from the US. And we want to remain so.

    Your facile comparisons have all the insight of a high school bong session.

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  • Very "Not even wrong" energy. LLMs have made everyone an aspiring cosmologist (why is it always cosmology and not solid state or materials or any other field more tightly coupled to experimentation?).

    I have a physics degree, but the page didn't load fast enough. There may be something here. You can consider me skeptical, though. Phrases like 'water geometry', combined with about a dozen buzz words, set off my BS detector.

    Publish in arxiv to start. Then seek a reputable journal.

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  • Generally considered to be the most educated country in the OECD, so arguably objectively smarter than the US, which is rather further down.

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  • Technically legally closer to sedition, but nonetheless they are traitors to me.

  • You can’t beat Canada’s far-right with a broken electoral system

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  • Added my shame to the original.

  • You can’t beat Canada’s far-right with a broken electoral system

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  • You're right, fixing it now.

  • You can’t beat Canada’s far-right with a broken electoral system

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  • My God I'm an idiot.

    I was talking about Leslyn Lewis, and I'm out to lunch. I saw "right wing" and went in a completely different direction.

    Punish me with downvotes, I deserve it. I'm leaving it up.