casiotone
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Perhaps you could also put "Don't equate Nazis with the people they genocided" in there. I will not apologize nor will I stop attacking abhorrent people like this. It says a lot that my post is your priority and not the rest of the comments in this dumpster fire of a comment section.
Oh no, your mind is clearly too far gone. I only want you to feel a deep shame.
> Instead, the trick is to befriend them. Show them that there's nothing to fear.
This doesn’t work[1]. Allowing parasitical ideology the space to express itself only emboldens it.
[1] All of recorded history
Pathetic. Their neo Nazi activity is my business because it’s infecting my community, it’s beating members of my community up and leaving them dying in the street. It’s making my community unsafe for people who have done nothing wrong. This capitulation of yours to dangerous, vicious belief systems is beneath contempt. We fight intolerance because it is never benign. It does not affect you but it affects others and you are willing to turn a blind eye and pretend everything is fine, because when YOU walk home, nobody is going to stomp your head into a curb.
I trust BuzzFeeds investigative journalism about as far as I could throw it without an advertorial falling out
How much? All of it. The US population has been brainwashed for decades into believing fighting for workers rights is paradoxically, counterproductive to gaining workers rights.
Just as soon as they chip in with some real journalists
Nowhere in the comment you replied to was it suggested that it would be achieved by undemocratic means. Ironically, in your comment you imply that democracy consists of lawmaking by whoever has more money.
100% of people who receive the death penalty are murdered. This is unacceptable.
Right - but it's not like Google is unwillingly complying with surveillance. They are happy to comply!
> To it's (partial) credit, Google is as open as it can be about governmental requests for its vast troves of information.
No credit should be given. Google and the states it works with are not adversaries.
> heterodox/Marxist economists like Ha-Joon Chang
Clearly this discussion is going nowhere if you believe this is a good description of Ha-Joon Chang.
The US existed, and was prosperous, before the Second World War. How the US economy functions in the postwar period really has no relevance to how it got to the position it was in before that. I do hope you’re not suggesting that a single protectionist act having a negative result means that 100 years of protectionism was actually bad for the US.
Protectionism was very effective in developing economies. Once your economy dominates and functions mainly by extracting value from submissive developing nations (who are not allowed to enact the same proteionist rules that allowed the US to become so powerful) free trade becomes beneficial to you (but not the other party)
It would be quicker to just look at the US, where protectionism has resulted in it becoming an economic superpower.
But that obviously wouldn’t meld with your free trade boner very easily
Read the first sentence of your post. That's why it's necessary.
> I haven’t seen many good proposals for reform though.
You're not reading the right colour books.
> Patents don't hold back global progress any more than capitalism keeps people in poverty.
Thanks. I was worried I would go the whole day without spitting out my drink.
The Mirror could be described as further left than the Guardian lately.
The past few years especially has seen a shift in the Guardian's position well to the right to the point where even calling it centrist is probably not correct. This is likely a consequence of falling sales and reliance on advertisers - you'll see a large number of sponsored articles on it these days for example.
You mean aside from the fact that MEPs - the politicians sitting in the EU government - are elected by the general population?
I run the following browser-based apps, concurrently, every day:
Atom (electron), Discord (electron), Spotify (electron-like), App Store (webkit), Steam (webkit), Safari, Chrome.
I have all of these running, without a single problem. Performance is great. I don't need a "heptacore 16GB RAM machine" to do it - I run all of this on a 2016 Retina MacBook. The 8GB RAM, 1.2GHz dual core Intel M5, passively cooled ultrabook.
So, what was it you were saying again?
I'm sure you'll be surprised to find that many people do think that would be morally good.
You appear to have confused communism with capitalism. It's ok, we all make mistakes - but please try harder in future!
The universe is roughly 13.8 billion years old.
The science of Marxism-Leninism is always relevant.
You have neatly sidestepped answering both my question and your rephrasing of my question. Would you care to answer either of them?
Statistically, how many attacks have been prevented by torture?
> So it's barbaric to torture a terrorist or someone who can help you stop one?
Yes, it's barbaric to torture anybody for any reason.
Empathy is key.
Your abuse of traumatic events to support the horrific crime of torture is shameful. You are no better than those you claim moral superiority over.
> To me it is simple. Every single life is important.
Except, apparently, the life of your torture victim. This comment is a disgraceful defence of barbaric practices.
Congrats on completely perverting what Bukowski meant and also being a big old idiot
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Enjoy.