Schmerika

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by Schmerika 3mo ago
> America might have still lost, so there's a claim to a Pyrrhic victory. Might have?? America has spent - at the lowest possible estimate - at least 8 trillion dollars on the "war on terror". Probably more like 20-somet
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by Schmerika 3mo ago
> children got killed because their school was used as a ground base to fire rockets from. I don't really know how to talk to people who think killing children - by the tens of thousands - is ever justified, but maybe this will help
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by Schmerika 3mo ago
More than 14,500 children were killed by Israel in that period. 14,500 / 154 = more than 94 children per resolution. Seems fair. How many children did "Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Russia, China combined " kill in this period,
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by Schmerika 3mo ago
Hind Rajab. Sidra Hassouna. Reem and Khaled. The premie babies at Al-Nasr hospital. Over a hundred bombed hospitals. The Irish president's sister kidnapped and abused. Assassinating negotiation teams and scientists. Murders of whole fa
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by Schmerika 3mo ago
> There's lots of physical labor jobs that pay more. More than a billion? ... Let's keep things in perspective here.
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by Schmerika 3mo ago
Are you saying that with the awareness that this will be used to remove privacy from social media?
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by Schmerika 3mo ago
To be perfectly honest, I actually do think we should stop all the both sidesing - but only after following it to its logical conclusion. Have _both sides_ actively collaborated in genocide? ... Yes. Therefore, _both sides_ have breached
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by Schmerika 3mo ago
And law.
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by Schmerika 3mo ago
No, we can not stop with the both sidesing. We are here in many ways as a direct result of the last admin, particularly the way they threatened tech companies. This moved tech companies to feel emboldened to go all-in on Trump. Don't t
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by Schmerika 3mo ago
There are actually quite a few trillion dollar industries that exist thanks to "side projects". Apple was Woz's side project, once upon a time. Adsense came from Google's 20% time. Social media started as a side project.
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by Schmerika 4mo ago
Yes, he thinks his moral stance is the correct one, and lives by it. ... And?
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by Schmerika 4mo ago
> it's clear the author thinks his' is the moral stance If you don't think your moral stance is the correct one - then why aren't you changing your moral stance? Why do you have one at all? It's ok to have stro
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by Schmerika 4mo ago
Some people care about things beyond their own immediate self interest. Some don't, and find it hard to believe others really do.
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by Schmerika 4mo ago
Apologies for reading your comment in an antagonistic way, but, I couldn't find a better way to read it. If you're saying that it was just about adding context, okay, but I think there's a way to do that with out painting thi
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by Schmerika 4mo ago
> a smaller story Sure. Any one person's story will be smaller than the whole picture - is that your whole point? What are you proposing - that we ignore stories like this until we fix healthcare? Because if that's not what yo
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by Schmerika 4mo ago
If we weren't heavily complicit in rapidly accelerating fascism, as a direct and immediate outcome of those stories and others like them, then I might agree. But we are, and I don't. Ignoring those stories as deliberate policy so
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by Schmerika 4mo ago
> people will just assume the whole chain is bad. The whole chain is bad. We're far past the point where the company bigwigs should have fixed this. It's not like they don't know. > The bigger story is an elderly man
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by Schmerika 4mo ago
> any competent criminal defense attorney I don't think 'going to town on illegally obtained evidence' works as often as you believe it does [0, 1]. And think back - how many people went to jail for national and/or in
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by Schmerika 4mo ago
Supposing that to be true... Does justice depend on what every other country is doing?
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by Schmerika 4mo ago
> "anyone with an opinion different from mine must be a paid shill" Not remotely what I said. One of the better HN guidelines here is to try and interpret comments you read in the best possible light. I recommend it. What I act
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by Schmerika 4mo ago
Sure.
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by Schmerika 4mo ago
> You obviously disagree, and the fact that you do proves the point that it can get a lot worse. Are people being thrown in camps for what they say? Are they being gunned down in broad daylight in the street for peaceful protest? ... If
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by Schmerika 4mo ago
Just to be clear: Are you twisting the fact that America hits every metric for fascism into saying it must therefore be a healthy vibrant democracy full of free speech - because someone pointed that out? In a flagged story, that isn'
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by Schmerika 4mo ago
America does have basically every characteristic of fascism on every important list of fascism characteristics ever made. That's actually kind of important to the tech community, considering we are wildly complicit in this . So, maybe
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by Schmerika 4mo ago
Seems like the relative privation fallacy is more and more a key component of an accelerating race to the bottom, across wide swathes of society. Sure would be cool if more people could recognise it.
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by Schmerika 5mo ago
> I'm at least happy to hear that you think America is better now Pretty certain I said nothing of the sort. Given that both major parties in the US are now fully complicit in arming and enabling live-streamed genocide, there's
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by Schmerika 5mo ago
24 was extreme racist pro-torture fear porn propaganda. So yes - definitely had its finger on the pulse of early 2000s America.
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by Schmerika 5mo ago
Not a doctor but I know that some foods, in some guts, at some times can trigger a 'quick-release valve' of sorts. You're not digesting properly when that happens.
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by Schmerika 5mo ago
If humans only work so that they can live, and wouldn't ever work if they didn't have to - then why do so many of our best inventions and advances come from people who didn't give a toss about profit? If we have the technolog
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by Schmerika 5mo ago
> The psyop is perfectly okay. Is it? You really don't mind if everything that gets put in front of you is controlled ? What if the people who talk about class war, the people who speak up about US and Israeli terror and torture an

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