Convolutional

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by Convolutional 3y ago
Reddit management is in the process of learning from what had seemed the boon of unpaid labor, that the struggle of management and ownership against the unpaid moderator workers is over control of the means of production and the relations o
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by Convolutional 3y ago
> every normal weather event San Francisco and the PNW being covered by smoke every summer is not a normal weather event, and now it is starting on the East coast. The east and southeast is also being hit harder by hurricanes, and they
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by Convolutional 3y ago
It's bizarre how the US attempted to block Cuba from getting the Internet, and still blocks Cuban Internet through many means ( https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/other-site-policies/g... ), but the
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by Convolutional 3y ago
Regarding MKUltra - the only reason we know what we know about it, after the CIA director directed in 1973 that all documents on it be destroyed, is that some of the MKUltra documents were mislabeled and not destroyed. They were discovered
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by Convolutional 3y ago
Aha, so during the Opium Wars, in this battle, the US invaded China, killing hundreds of Chinese soldiers and capturing four forts, but you have some definition in your mind where "the opium wars didn't involve the US". The
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by Convolutional 3y ago
> face a Jury of your peers Like the Arab nationalists being waterboarded in Guantanamo Bay? Although some of them the US realized it picked up the wrong guy and released them. Incidentally, Guaantanamo Bay is occupied by the US military
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by Convolutional 3y ago
> Or go to Middle East and call out their leadership and see what happen The US and Europe have spent over a century backing despots in the Middle East and putting down or helping put down popular movements by force. The US doesn't
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by Convolutional 3y ago
So who was fighting the Chinese during the Battle of the Barrier Forts?
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by Convolutional 3y ago
> the price paid by their own children If French workers allow Macron to jack the retirement age up, the price surely will be felt by their own children.
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by Convolutional 3y ago
Income does not corollate exactly to relations of production, but it is a decent enough independent variable. CNN 2020 exit poll - income over or under $100,000. The majority above voted Trump, majority below voted Biden. https:/&#x2
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by Convolutional 3y ago
> I was amazed when living in SF how many of the homeless are not locals. Not even Californians! I visited the Bay Area a number of times and only met one person who was born locally. "Not even Americans!" in many cases.
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by Convolutional 3y ago
The US backed radical Islamic jihadists to overthrow the secular government running Afghanistan. The US president invited them to the White House, then armed and funded them https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commo
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by Convolutional 3y ago
> Japan was invading Asia and Germany was invading Europe. Many of the things that exacerbated the Bengal famine were due to defensive measures designed to avoid even worse deaths if those invasions were successful. You're talking a
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by Convolutional 3y ago
> A left wing pressure group identifies the article publisher as a right wing pressure group. If we look at the author section of the website, it lists former members of Mitt Romney's presidential campaign, members of the American E
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by Convolutional 3y ago
The act is the act of suppression, which they were involved in. They did not participate in the delay portion of the suppression, nor does it say they did.
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by Convolutional 3y ago
The first sentence blames the delay on the dictator of Guatemala, quite explicitly. Then in the next sentence it says the CIA aided in the suppression of the novel, which it did. The text never days the CIA delayed the novel, it says the C
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by Convolutional 3y ago
You would think if it was inaccurate, the inaccuracy could be quoted from and pointed to. You do not do so. I see claims there is an inaccuracy there. I see people doing paraphrases and inventing conditionals and saying they are inaccurate
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by Convolutional 3y ago
> The claim specifically made in the article that the delay in publication from 1936 to 1946 was due to CIA action through a front group. It doesn't say that anywhere in the article. You've created a conditional in your head t
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by Convolutional 3y ago
> Since the CIA did not, in fact, exist, any claims of what the CIA tried to do are self-evidently false, and need no more rebuttal than the date the CIA came into being. The CIA did not exist prior to its establishment in 1947, to use y
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by Convolutional 3y ago
> 1946 the book was published, 1947 the CIA was created. Right. So what is inaccurate in the piece? I don't see anything that contradicts this.
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by Convolutional 3y ago
> And this produce what is objectively an historical howler right at the start. What howler? You quote it ascribing actions to the Guatemalan dictatorship in the 1930s which is accurate. Then you claim the piece says the CIA was active
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by Convolutional 3y ago
It didn't. Nor do the sentences you quote say that.
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by Convolutional 3y ago
This piece covers a period of time from the 1930s into the 1960s. What is actually inaccurate? The CIA was doing the things the piece mentions from its inception onward.
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by Convolutional 3y ago
Do you mean the entrepreneur who killed the angel investor, or the fire chief who sprayed a homeless man (the last in a series) and the homeless man fought back in self-defense?
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by Convolutional 3y ago
> It was a symbol of fear and oppression The Russians, invaded twice by Germany in the 20th century, sought to withdraw completely from Germany, if it became a neutral country like Switzerland or Austria. The West Germans continually re
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by Convolutional 3y ago
> look at what happened to Hong Kong as an example You mean the violent breaking off of it from China by the imperial "enlightened" United Kingdom? Its massacre of Chinese protesting UK imperialism in the 1960s? What a hilario
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by Convolutional 3y ago
> nor do I believe in the kleptocratic crony carnival that is Russia. The rush to privatize everything in Russia came from the West - particularly the US. The US encouraged Yeltsin (who Putin was a protege of) to use tanks to shell Russ
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by Convolutional 3y ago
> our economy which has gotten more and more efficient, and reward a few hundred thousands (or millions) of people who happen to be able to produce disproportionately more things And where do the heirs expropriating surplus labor time fr
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by Convolutional 3y ago
The massive incarceration rates in the US don't seem to be solving anything, although you don't think they're enough. The US has the highest incarceration rate in the industrialized world yet in your view it is barely incarc
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by Convolutional 3y ago
Well don't trust China's numbers, and compare the US incarceration rate to those of any industrialized country's numbers that you do trust.

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