Overton-Window

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Taliban accumulate massive amounts of U.S.-supplied firepower(axios.com)
12 points by Overton-Window 5y ago|2 comments
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House Democrats Restrict Trump’s Planned Withdrawal from Afghanistan (2020)(theintercept.com)
9 points by Overton-Window 5y ago|0 comments
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by Overton-Window 5y ago
Misprediction? They are simultaneously surveilling everyone in the world and are getting nothing out of it. Confident statements from the administration are no longer worth a dime.
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by Overton-Window 5y ago
Blinken on July 7: “We are staying, the embassy is staying, our programs are staying. If there is a significant deterioration in security...I don’t think it’s going to be something that happens from a Friday to a Monday.” https:/&#x2F
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We are no longer a serious people(thepullrequest.com)
39 points by Overton-Window 5y ago|18 comments
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by Overton-Window 5y ago
It's not that we left Afghanistan. It's the grossly incompetent way we left it.
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by Overton-Window 5y ago
The article was published hours before those later Tweets.
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We are no longer a serious people(thepullrequest.com)
13 points by Overton-Window 5y ago|2 comments
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by Overton-Window 5y ago
It's the side-effect of politicians being chosen for legitimacy (identity), not competency. > The reason for this sudden silence is that in the year 2021, the cream of American society and the flower of its finest universities, can
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by Overton-Window 5y ago
Not your keys, not your data. These compromises only strengthen the argument for decentralisation and pseudonyms.
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by Overton-Window 5y ago
As it should. It was an abject failure. Public military defeat cannot be spun away.
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Afghan abandonment a lesson for Taiwan’s DPP(globaltimes.cn)
4 points by Overton-Window 5y ago|1 comments
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Pelosi Statement on Afghanistan(speaker.gov)
9 points by Overton-Window 5y ago|4 comments
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Drone-Launching Subs, Not Aircraft Carriers, Could Win the Next Battle of Midway(popularmechanics.com)
3 points by Overton-Window 5y ago|1 comments
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by Overton-Window 5y ago
Biden would disagree: > Q Mr. President, some Vietnamese veterans see echoes of their experience in this withdrawal in Afghanistan. Do you see any parallels between this withdrawal and what happened in Vietnam, with some people feeli
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Taliban enter Kabul as Afghan government on brink of collapse(smh.com.au)
151 points by Overton-Window 5y ago|214 comments
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by Overton-Window 5y ago
A theorised benefit at the guaranteed cost of perpetual surveillance. No thanks.
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by Overton-Window 5y ago
What do you gain from carrying water for tyrants? > but mileage delta over time would be insufficient to collect and disburse road taxes based on what is needed/used/traveled the most. This is already reality.
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by Overton-Window 5y ago
Because just like the Apple CSAM fiasco, end-to-end surveillance is the point.
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by Overton-Window 5y ago
The media exists to program you. The easiest way to distort reality is present the world as a black-and-white dichotomy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splitting_(psychology)
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Thinking of the Children(maxhodak.com)
7 points by Overton-Window 5y ago|0 comments
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by Overton-Window 5y ago
> I can't tell you how many times I've heard someone complain about non-plastic straws...even my 83 year-old uncle who lived through WW2...can't stop moaning about the tiniest inconvenience in his life. Because it is obvio
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by Overton-Window 5y ago
> or a average monthly income, during the last year
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by Overton-Window 5y ago
The US alone is 4.25% of world population: https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/us-population... Focusing on curbing emissions regionally is as futile as instating a "no peeing" section of the pool.
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by Overton-Window 5y ago
Yes. Repeat every 6 months.
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by Overton-Window 5y ago
You're twice as likely to be murdered in parts of the San Francisco BA. https://www.statista.com/statistics/984826/homicide-rate-cos... https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/Homi
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by Overton-Window 5y ago
Their handlers have them on a tight leash.
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What’s wrong with the cultural elite? (2017)(ft.com)
1 points by Overton-Window 5y ago|0 comments
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by Overton-Window 5y ago
> “It’s less about making money off that inventory, at least initially, and more about who can get the most inventory the fastest.” > iBuyers have recently shifted “to a free-for-all, acquire at any cost strategy.” At present, both Op
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by Overton-Window 5y ago
> World Economic Forum: Welcome to 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better https://twitter.com/wef/status/849459333486317568

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