VictorPath

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by VictorPath 4y ago
Eugenics research is disruptive? Why not phrenology?
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by VictorPath 4y ago
> people born with family whealth (sic) Most successful Phillips Exeter graduate doesn't quite have that ring for the Horatio Alger idea that is being pushed.
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by VictorPath 4y ago
Ok let us go down Forbes 2022 billionaires list Musk - father owned diamond mines Bezos - alluded to in article - big loan from parents Arnault - father owned Ferret-Savinel Gates - born with million dollar trust fund, grandfather ran bank,
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by VictorPath 4y ago
The US military just shifted its bloody campaigns in Afghanistan and Libya to a bloody war against Russia, a focus of its new massive military budget while it cries poverty regarding the needs of even its own workers for domestic programs.
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by VictorPath 4y ago
This article goes on about progress for blacks in the US...a half century ago the New York City magnet school Stuyvesant had hundreds of black students (over 300). In recent years the number accepted each year has been 7 or 8 each year, wi
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by VictorPath 4y ago
The security clearance he was stripped of was set to lapse a day afterward anyhow. After all his effort and contributions, he was attacked out of spite.
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by VictorPath 4y ago
The Russian military has been in the Crimea since the time there were British redcoats stationed in New York City, before the USA existed.
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by VictorPath 4y ago
Karl Marx said unemployment was a foundational necessity of capitalism (although not the feudalism that preceded capitalism), so I don't see this program lasting long ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserve_army_of
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by VictorPath 4y ago
This was published seven years ago. Its arguments are very sketchy - as if settling nurture versus nature for humans were not social science, as opposed to science. If identical twins are raised in a wealthy household versus a poor househo
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by VictorPath 4y ago
> The only body that makes decisions about Taiwan is the Taiwanese government. It has 100% control of the land within its borders. Being that the Taiwanese government claims Beijing and Shanghai as being within its borders, I don't
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by VictorPath 4y ago
> Taiwan as a sovereign state Does the USA recognize Taiwan as a sovereign state? No. Does the PRC recognize Taiwan as a sovereign state? No. Does Taiwan recognize itself as a sovereign state separate from mainland China? No.
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by VictorPath 4y ago
> we can _learn_ to want to be another gender If that is true, then cookie cutter expected gender behavior can be "learned" as well. In fact much of it was illegal in the US a few decades ago.
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by VictorPath 4y ago
Actually Marx talked a lot about automation. Marx's prediction was this would lead to a lower rate of profit for invested capital which - mainstream establishment sources say is what has been happening.
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by VictorPath 4y ago
It's not like a socialist country could invent things like a satellite, and be the society that figures out how to send a man into space, probes to the moon and other planets - oh yaa, a socialist country is the first country to figure
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by VictorPath 4y ago
The argument he is arguing against is that the workers create the wealth, and profit is that unpaid surplus labor time that the LPs/VCs/founders expropriate from the workers creating wealth. You can't "share" profi
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by VictorPath 4y ago
It's a strawman argument for founders, but I am fairly sure it is made out of ignorance. Let's say a sole founder buys $100,000 worth of Amazon Cloud, Nvidia cards, smartphones etc. Yes, one person is at the company, but others m
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by VictorPath 4y ago
I read this and Chomsky says what I said - the civilian deaths due to the US ground invasion and carpet bombing are ignored. Also, as I said, the US began arming the Khmer Rouge in 1979, and began openly arming them in the 1980s. So if the
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by VictorPath 4y ago
Chomsky condemned the US ground invasion and carpet bombing of Kampuchea, which destabilized the country and I'm guessing the mass death of civilians from does not fit into your genocide definition. In 1975 the coalition led, nominally
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by VictorPath 4y ago
I have to laugh about all these comments talking about the left and pedophilia, as if conservative religious organizations are not rife with child molestation.
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by VictorPath 4y ago
> Prepare to wait for another 30 years until this can be openly and honestly discussed in Germany: until the perpetrators and their then-allies are all dead. In 1977, a date the article mentions, the president of the Confederation of Ger
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by VictorPath 4y ago
> a blind eye to Russia occupying Crimea The Russia military was "occupying Crimea" back when there were British redcoats occupying New York City. The Russian military has been there since that time. The only new development
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by VictorPath 4y ago
> Fertility rates in the US cratered after 2008...These women would probably have more kids if it was easier to have a single income household...Our education system and economy, in particular, causes people to spread out and move away f
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by VictorPath 4y ago
Well let's see which health experts signed it... Roger Severino, vice president of the Heritage Foundation. He's a lawyer with no medical training. I guess his credentials for health is Trump appointed him as an HHS lawyer to und
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by VictorPath 4y ago
Coronavirus hit New Zealand in 2020, and by May 2nd twenty people had died. New Zealand implemented lockdowns and ordered vaccines, although they took a while to come. By the end of October 2021, 28 people had died of Covid in New Zealand
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by VictorPath 4y ago
In France the largest political party until 1956 was the communist party. In 1948 the communist/socialist alliance was almost elected to power in Italy, and the communist party was getting over one third of the vote to 1976 (the Itali
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by VictorPath 4y ago
> Enough people think Gough was bonkers There is much discussion about how in the cold war, a swath of countries from East Germany to China ran as states led by one party. Not much discussed is how many western aligned countries did as
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by VictorPath 4y ago
Three years before this Clinton, the US Congress and corporate media cheered as Yeltsin shelled the Russian parliament with the help of the Russian Army. The idea was to support a strongman Russian president with tight connections to Russi
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by VictorPath 4y ago
> what exactly are you contributing to hacker culture? This is a board run by an incubator investment firm, so I don't really view it as an outpost of hacker culture. I have been reading here over the past week here about private Am
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by VictorPath 4y ago
Five years ago we could see the continuing national oppression of the Lakota by America, during the Dakota Access Pipeline controversy. Imagine if Russia was trying to ram an oil pipeline through the Ukraine right now. Americans complain
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by VictorPath 4y ago
> the corporate environment I found myself in was something I'd never done before and it was completely unsuited to me as an individual There are two things here. There is your (correct!) realization and recognition of your alienat

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