bjshepard

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by bjshepard 9y ago
In almost any category conceivable (police presence on the streets, incarceration weights, bureaucratic oversight), the PRC is significantly more libertarian than the US. It is true that the CIA has invested a tremendous amount of energy an
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by bjshepard 9y ago
If you understand the population distribution in the PRC, have spent time in a Tier 2 or Tier 3 city, and think deeply about economic growth, the idea that the Chinese economy could "crash" is laughable: there is a vast pool of e
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by bjshepard 9y ago
Thank you for saying truth.
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by bjshepard 9y ago
Data suggests shrooms, DXM and/or massive ketamine can reset deep traumatic patterns. Also we recommend checking out internal family systems therapy.
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by bjshepard 9y ago
I'd love to read about this. Been trying to create this kind of worker owned firm in the media space for many years now. Am close to getting it but it's been tough for the reasons that you are talking about: people who aren't
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by bjshepard 9y ago
There's also a genocide against the black nation going on in the US, but they don't talk about that too much, do they.
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by bjshepard 9y ago
The US is a genocidal state and has been one since it began. Any technologists working for the state are complicit in genocide.
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by bjshepard 9y ago
Thank you for this important message. Genocide is going on right now in the US, but at a slow pace, and disguised by bullshit.
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by bjshepard 10y ago
Uber isn't going to exist
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by bjshepard 10y ago
There is not a single Chinese "regime" - the space of contestation of politics is simply different than in the US. There's an enormous amount of sometimes extremely emotionally intense conflict within the CCP.
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by bjshepard 10y ago
We can have micro and macronations.
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by bjshepard 10y ago
The commodification of land is antisocial and bad for other economic agents. Euthanasia of the rentier class is good policy all, including the rentier class.
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by bjshepard 10y ago
Also Thiel as an obvious hand inside the ZuckPuppet.
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by bjshepard 10y ago
No, your essay is not very clear, nor convincing. Wechat is much better positioned to do what Zuck wants to do re: social infrastructure. Given the downwards spiral of the US and European economies, a long short on FB seems more propitious.
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by bjshepard 10y ago
The world will not be accommodating to startups associated with an organization with obvious bad ethics. Thiel helped get a fascist into office. AirBnb is complicit in eviction. This is less political than business advice for anyone. The US
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by bjshepard 10y ago
This is a lie.
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by bjshepard 10y ago
Why should we trust these numbers?
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by bjshepard 10y ago
China has very sane, good government, come actually experience it and stop believing CIA lies. The firewall is a rational way to keep the US deep state out.
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by bjshepard 10y ago
No, you don't.
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by bjshepard 10y ago
This is a plenty democratic place, I recommend coming and observing it with your eyes, asking people here questions, and assessing the history of the revolution yourself.
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by bjshepard 10y ago
There is a great deal of personal freedom in china....don't believe what you read about life here....
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by bjshepard 10y ago
"The idea of a Grand Supercycle bear market may be interpreted to suggest that mankind will never learn from its past mistakes, or become self-aware in a macro-economic sense. The historical study presented in David Hackett Fischer&#x2
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Grand Supercycle(en.wikipedia.org)
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by bjshepard 10y ago
Re: conveying frustration: Ask questions -- once you try to understand a situation, the frustration will recede, at least partially.
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by bjshepard 10y ago
Strategic anticipation of long-term conflict over control of the pacific -- presumably they wouldn't want a failed state, they would want a parliamentary democracy ruled by a "liberal" party subservient to American hegemony.
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by bjshepard 10y ago
The history of the American Intelligence State from the cold war onward suggests that "none" is an unlikely possibility.
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by bjshepard 10y ago
honest question that seems more pointed than it is: how many anti-CCP/China posts did the CIA sponsor last year?
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by bjshepard 10y ago
You can get books in the Shanghai library with a lot of narratives of world history different than the CCP's. Totalitarian is probably not the most fitting word to describe the current state of Chinese society, insofar as it connotates
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by bjshepard 10y ago
A key sentence from the BBC article on the topic: " The strict rules are also seen as a way to foster the success of indigenous net Chinese firms such as Huawei, Alibaba and Tencent."
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by bjshepard 10y ago
“Several days later Murray asked me about a tourist attraction known as the most photographed barn in America. We drove twenty-two miles into the country around Farmington. There were meadows and apple orchards. White fences trailed through

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