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by Archio 2mo ago
>But if you get caught stealing bread, and your response is "My life's screwed", you couldn't afford the risk either. >If you are in the unfortunate position of not being able to afford bread, eat something less ex
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by Archio 7mo ago
>That crowd only seems to care if they can actively oppose Israel or the current administration Can you think of any motivating reasons for the crowd to focus on Israel specifically? Last I checked, the American government isn't sen
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by Archio 7mo ago
That's because most left wing Americans don't support the Iranian regime. People that ask "where are all the students on campus that were protesting Gaza" do so because taking action on injustice, in a way that demands a
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by Archio 7mo ago
We (the US) just bombed Iran last summer. We are moving the largest buildup in decades of armament and materiel to Iran's doorstep RIGHT NOW, and it seems extremely likely we are about to bomb them again. What exactly do you want to ha
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by Archio 8mo ago
>We accept the risks with humans because those humans accept risk. It seems very strange to defend a system that is drastically less safe because when an accident happens, at least a human will be "liable". Does a human sufferi
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by Archio 8mo ago
It's hard to imagine how any driver could have reacted better in this situation. The argument that questions "would a human be driving 17mph in a school zone" feels absurd to the point of being potentially disingenuous. I&#x2
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by Archio 8mo ago
>Well you could rally in support of more action, or protest outside an Iranian embassy for example You're describing methods of protest, but not demands. What specific action do you believe Americans should demanding from their repr
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by Archio 8mo ago
It's a fair point to say that the counterfactual is hard to draw up. I will point out the main reason it's hard to come up with, is the fact that American aid, weapons sales, and diplomatic support for Israel has been so constant
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by Archio 8mo ago
Do you sincerely believe that financial sponsorship is the primary impetus causing Americans to voice dissatisfaction in US support for Israel? That is a fascinating perspective.
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by Archio 8mo ago
I appreciate your understanding here. Another way to put it: the point of protesting generally isn't solely to express being upset with an injustice. It's to get some actor/stakeholder - usually one's government - to DO
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by Archio 8mo ago
I don’t know if you are American, but I am. Sure, I don’t support Iran giving Hamas weapons. The issue is that Iran isn’t my government and they certainly don’t give a fuck about my opinion. The human tragedy in Gaza is enabled directly by
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by Archio 8mo ago
“it's a fair criticism though because of the general vitriol about Hamas and Gaza.” Ok, you’ve convinced me. I now firmly support reducing billions in American aid to Iran, curtailing Iranian use of American bombs, and diplomatic cover
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by Archio 3y ago
Do you understand what happened in the opioid crisis, and why people are mad at the Sacklers? They weren’t hapless naive actors that didn’t fully understand “the implications” of the drugs they were selling. The effects of opioid addiction
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414 points by Archio 4y ago|325 comments
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by Archio 4y ago
I don’t care a nit about Sanbergs personal life either, but I certainly DO care that she can apparently silence news stories from phone calls. I feel like the content of the story itself is pretty irrelevant here. Are you saying wealthy peo
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by Archio 5y ago
So what? George W. Bush's approval rate was even higher after 9/11, is each American personally responsible for his legacy? 10% of the Chinese populace is still over a hundred million people, am I to judge each of them as people a
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by Archio 5y ago
You're missing the point. 70% of Americans voted for the president in the last U.S. election. Regardless of whether or not my candidate won out, I don't view criticism of my government's policy as a personal assault on myself
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by Archio 5y ago
This is the thing. I'm not claiming to have an "ideal" version of China, or claiming that I have an understanding of what all Chinese people "really want". It's a country with over a billion people, within whic
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by Archio 5y ago
You absolutely can separate the two, and it has nothing to do with colonialism. The reason you can is because in a society where freedom of expression is curtailed, there is (and always will be) a difference between what an authoritarian go
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by Archio 5y ago
I'm on a 15" macbook pro and also only see ads below the fold. Is it difficult to imagine that most users around the planet aren't working with 27" monitors or whatever size it is you have?
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by Archio 5y ago
Strangely enough, my introduction to this brilliant poem came from Dennis Hopper’s coke fueled rendition of an excerpt in Apocalypse Now. I wonder why Coppola chose If.
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by Archio 5y ago
Don’t you see that an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind? Hey you know what, at least we can both criticize the West’s atrocities and not fear being disappeared by an authoritarian government.
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by Archio 5y ago
Yeah bro, there were kings and feudal lords and chieftains and emperors (like Rome) all over the rest of the world for thousands of years too. To say that the Chinese are incapable of democracy because being ruled by an autocrat steadily in
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by Archio 5y ago
To clarify, do you live in a city? Respectfully: you bought your house — not the neighborhood around your house, and everything in it. It's true that it's OK to have mixed densities of housing, but I think it's an unrealistic
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by Archio 5y ago
To comment on psychedelics in such a way betrays your lack of knowledge about how they work both chemically and practically.
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by Archio 5y ago
I'd like to ask people who were kids in the 80s and 90s if they are aware how many Vietnam soldiers were addicted to heroin upon returning, and what kind of effect that had.
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by Archio 5y ago
Were they microdosing, or repeatedly consuming full doses of psychedelics? Were "this and that chemical" psychedelics at all, or drugs of unknown type and providence? What is the connection to this discussion, which is about adult
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by Archio 5y ago
Has it occurred to you that on an English-speaking board, posters in non-English speaking countries might be more likely to be spouses/expats? Just as the same would be true for Japanese speaking spouses on a Japanese board?
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by Archio 5y ago
Arguably as well, South Korea is underneath significantly less geopolitical threat than Taiwan.
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by Archio 5y ago
The question on everyone's mind, why didn't Apple make the spelling the way that it was when Mexico sold California in the mid 1800s?

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