brenden2

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by brenden2 6y ago
I appreciate anyone who has the courage to do this. I've done it before, and it's definitely hard. Congrats and I wish more people would stand up for themselves and others. It's always better to receive downvotes and do the r
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by brenden2 6y ago
What people say in debates is irrelevant. The only thing that matters are their actions. People keep falling into the trap of listening to the speeches, but ignoring the actual policies, policy implementation details, and the whole bureaucr
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by brenden2 6y ago
TIL RealNetworks still exists.
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by brenden2 6y ago
Wealth of Nations is such a good book, I implore everyone to read it. I think a lot of people misunderstand what Adam Smith was about, and it's good to go back to the early ideas of what capitalism was meant to be, and how far we have
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by brenden2 6y ago
I just checked and my actual words were "basically changed nothing", which to me means "made some changes, but they were inadequate".
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by brenden2 6y ago
I appreciate your passion, but Obama still didn't follow through with his promises, and whatever change he enacted wasn't enough.
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by brenden2 6y ago
Police accountability, inequality, corporate welfare, domestic surveillance, ... the list goes on.
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by brenden2 6y ago
Just FYI, I was agreeing with the parent (and I agree with you). QE is free money for rich people, and a big slap in the face to the poor.
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by brenden2 6y ago
This is great, thanks for sharing. I would like to point out that it's still cherry picking, and ignores the cases where Democrats voted against sensible legislation. They supported the Patriot Act for example, and recently supported
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by brenden2 6y ago
And yet the gulag is still there. It's a binary thing: either he closed it or he didn't. Clearly he did not.
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by brenden2 6y ago
You can go through the voting records an various bills and see how they voted, it's all public data. I challenge you to do it one day, and you can see the difference between what they say in their speeches and what they actually do pol
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by brenden2 6y ago
The Federal Reserve injected trillions of free money into the markets, so naturally they went up.
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by brenden2 6y ago
So what, we're supposed to wait 100 years for sensible policy? What are you advocating? Why can't we fix things now?
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by brenden2 6y ago
Instead of apologizing, I think people need to understand the system doesn't work. It is fundamentally broken, just like the police. Why don't cops go to jail for breaking the law? Because they are the ones who investigate themsel
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by brenden2 6y ago
This is exactly right. At the end of the day they only answer to the people who write the biggest cheques and pay for the fanciest dinners and vacations they get to enjoy.
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by brenden2 6y ago
What you're saying only serves to support the argument that the tracking is wrong in the first place, IMO. Google doesn't have a right to follow everyone around the web and flex their muscle just because they can. Since they have
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by brenden2 6y ago
And now the DEA has been mobilized against citizens to quell protests and criminalize dissent. The DEA is now the Gestapo.
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by brenden2 6y ago
What Google is doing is wrong. That's literally what the lawsuit is about.
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by brenden2 6y ago
They didn't have helicopters, underground bunkers, and air force one.
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by brenden2 6y ago
For someone in desperation all I hear is further reason to riot and loot. Nobody cares about these people, and politicians keep going on TV saying how they're going to put everyone in jail or shoot them.
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by brenden2 6y ago
If you don't run a viable business, should your business continue to exist? Which one do you want, socialism or capitalism? In a capitalist system, failed businesses are allowed to fail and don't get free money from the government
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by brenden2 6y ago
Assuming they had to pay the full amount, sure, it might make a dent, but it's also a one time event. It amounts to losing ~11 days of revenue, less than 2 weeks.
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by brenden2 6y ago
The pandemic demonstrated that luxury retail is non-essential (you can still buy your Gucci bags online). When luxury retail was closed the world did not fall apart. Nobody is protesting because they can't shop at the Apple store.
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by brenden2 6y ago
That may be true, but as someone who has been actually poor before, and have also known many people who were born into money, I don't think rich people really understand what it means to be poor, hopeless, and also discriminated agai
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by brenden2 6y ago
These are mostly big chains, I think they'll be okay.
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by brenden2 6y ago
It hurts insurance companies, but it's great for anyone who fixes or repairs windows.
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by brenden2 6y ago
Agreed, I (unfortunately) know many of these people. They simply don't understand the problem, and do not want to empathize with "the other side". It's worth trying to help others understand why people are angry. People
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by brenden2 6y ago
Indeed, peaceful protests are good for the status quo because they're easy to ignore. They want you to sit down and be quiet so they can ignore you. Once you start to inconvenience rich people, or god forbid cause the stock market to g
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by brenden2 6y ago
Someone commented and deleted, but in response I'll leave this here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNfqr-rzj5I It's an interview with Cornel West. You may not agree with his political philosophy, but he "ge
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by brenden2 6y ago
I think this plays into the current social unrest as well. People have been trying to separate the looters and protestors, but they seem to completely ignore the extreme inequality that exists throughout the US, especially in this period of

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