IllogicalLogic

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by IllogicalLogic 6y ago
If Assange leaked Chinese intelligence secrets, would he be free right now? I expect so. I'm not sure the whole "China is uniquely evil" idea that is expressed in these comments stands up to even the smallest scrutiny.
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by IllogicalLogic 6y ago
>How does a country declare a Cold War, anyways? Simple, just don't cooperate with western capitalists looking to plunder an area, a Cold War will be declared shortly after.
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by IllogicalLogic 6y ago
>I don't think anyone would disagree that she's a pawn in a geopolitical struggle, but it also sounds like she absolutely and intentionally violated US law Someone that didn't visit the US was arrested for "breaking U
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by IllogicalLogic 7y ago
Sounds like a surviving version of Victorian "blame the victim" thinking. It was a popular and heavily flawed idea that the people the British invaded and robbed (of food in many cases), if faced with food shortages, should have j
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by IllogicalLogic 7y ago
I find people's lack of knowledge about what makes Bitcoin valuable interesting. The reason Bitcoin is valuable is because the work required to create one is significantly harder than Fiat currencies and it is one of the only truly sca
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by IllogicalLogic 7y ago
You have proof that no mass decryption (or attempts) occur/have occurred? I'm not as optimistic. History shows human nature tends to work as we expect when US economic/security interests are involved... https://wik
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by IllogicalLogic 7y ago
Not whataboutism, if the case can be made that 350 million people need protection then the case can more easily be made for 1.3 billion people. Wikileaks also showed us that US agencies were engaged in industrial espionage, stealing German&
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by IllogicalLogic 7y ago
I don't buy that idea, western institutions that we generally think of as unique are quite easy to duplicate in Asia if the focus is put there.
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by IllogicalLogic 7y ago
So China is publicly announcing that it's deploying what the Five Eyes have deployed in democratic countries under the cover of darkness across the world (while lying to their citizens, who have a constitutional right to know)? Points
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by IllogicalLogic 7y ago
I read it but I think the reasoning might be wrong.
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by IllogicalLogic 7y ago
What we believe as American consumers and what is economically true are two different sometimes contradictory stories.
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by IllogicalLogic 7y ago
You may overestimate how valuable western eyeballs are, a billion people can recreate this industry with government support quite easily.
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by IllogicalLogic 7y ago
Being the weaker party in a negotiation is a new role for US, we'll get used to it...
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by IllogicalLogic 7y ago
> Calling our rights "privilege" is throwing out the struggle and sacrifice of everyone that fought for those rights. Next South Park should do an episode that shows how greedy western leaders running opium/heroin for the
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by IllogicalLogic 7y ago
The tradeoff where the designer introduces an edge case where a plane crashes unless a pilot has specific additional information? From my understanding of the issue, Boeing just needs to stop the cost saving measures that led to needing sof
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by IllogicalLogic 7y ago
The main reason people turn blueish is because of excessive colloidal silver usage. I expect it is the case for the family in this phony story.
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by IllogicalLogic 7y ago
It will be quite funny if the US inadvertently makes the traditional market system obsolete by becoming too "sanction happy". Kind of like how they triggered a de-dollarization push... China already has a crypto Yuan, there is no
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by IllogicalLogic 7y ago
It's an appeal to "intelligence of operator" to coverup for poor design.
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by IllogicalLogic 7y ago
How about Boeing stops taking cost saving measures that end up throwing unnecessary curve balls at otherwise well trained pilots? At the end of the day, this is the foundation of the problem.
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by IllogicalLogic 7y ago
Maybe we can knock down the Vatican and build this telescope, since we are in the business of ignoring the local's wishes.
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by IllogicalLogic 7y ago
Most of Teddy Roosevelt's wealth (the Delano fortune) came from Opium. So did the Coolidge (Thomas Jefferson's family), Sturgis, Low, Green, Forbes (John Kerry's family), & Russell family fortunes. https://en.
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by IllogicalLogic 7y ago
Let's be honest, they pivoted from WMD to the much larger and vaguer umbrella of "terrorist" or "terrorist supporter". This has allowed the USA and its allies to indiscriminately kill millions since the Iraq invasio
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by IllogicalLogic 7y ago
Facebook's chronic underhanded tactics requires one to ask for confirmation. The onus is on the dishonest party not the victims. Good that he asked... we all should more.
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by IllogicalLogic 7y ago
Could the Andrew Yang 2020 "Freedom Dividend" solve the homeless issue? Yes. Extra $1,000 a month allows these homeless people to move to smaller/rural areas and get cheap permanent housing. We can even create a program where
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by IllogicalLogic 7y ago
If the US priced oil in gold, it would hurt the US economy in a big way, you are correct. This is part of the reason Saddam and Gaddafi were put in the ground, they wanted to do just that. Not only does the US get to print the currency that
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by IllogicalLogic 7y ago
The problems with the Chinese economy did not begin in the 1950s, this is quite a misunderstanding of history. To fully understand China's economic path, you would at least need to study the economic terrain/decisions/outcome
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by IllogicalLogic 7y ago
>Bit more perspective. At the end of 1800’s and start of 1900’s China was still almost feudal agrarian society Starting in the 20th century? Skipping the first 100 years of Western criminality in China is like talking about the Titanic s
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by IllogicalLogic 7y ago
"Despite Joseph's assertions, the middle-aged engineers who were laid off didn't go away and become software engineers – they largely landed up in worse jobs or on the scrapheap." Reminds me of something a popular 2020 c
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by IllogicalLogic 7y ago
The only reason China dropped out of super power status was tremendous sabotage/criminality by the top 5 economies of the world. There rise is not a fluke, this is an inevitability of the planet we live on, India is next and it will ou
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by IllogicalLogic 7y ago
Once the pound became the global reserve currency, the trade deficits started increasing. I expect the same was true for the US. Does this inevitably lead to less domestic manufacturing? I think that's the outcome, yes. This is the cas

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