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by ceilingcorner 4y ago
Every time I see events like this happen, I get extremely skeptical of the idea that China will somehow replace the US as leader of the world. I’m not sure if I’m justified in thinking so, but I just cannot imagine actions like this leadin
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by ceilingcorner 4y ago
I do think that a pacifist can stand up to violence, but I don’t think working in the defense industry is the way to do that. The more wars I study, the more I realize the genius of MLK and Gandhi. Violence just begets violence.
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by ceilingcorner 4y ago
The opposite, in fact. I used to be mostly neutral about war, but now I would consider myself a borderline pacifist. After studying this war and its causes, I realized that it was the consequence of geopolitical actors (including the defens
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by ceilingcorner 4y ago
There are many people that aren’t religious extremists who think that abortion is, at best, extremely morally problematic. It’s fundamentally a question about the definition of life, not the adherence to certain religious beliefs.
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by ceilingcorner 4y ago
It’s not a minority view, both in the United States and in the world at large. I don’t quite understand why American progressives think they represent the world at large. Neo-colonialism, I suppose.
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by ceilingcorner 4y ago
It isn’t wrong legally and if anything, had the constitution been followed correctly, this decision is how it should have played out in the first place. It is only controversial because some people think their personal opinions on controve
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by ceilingcorner 4y ago
Most other first world nations have more restrictive laws on abortion. Yes, even Western Europe.
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by ceilingcorner 4y ago
Yes frankly this website is not capable of entertaining certain contrarian ideas. Which of course are only contrarian in the narrow societal bubbles they occupy. I blame the downvote mechanism for rewarding echo chambers and punishing outli
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by ceilingcorner 4y ago
If you worked for Amazon, Facebook, Google, or a similar social media / adtech company, I think you’d be doing more real damage to society. The only difference is that these organizations have a better PR department. Crypto has pluses
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by ceilingcorner 4y ago
The whole region was chaotic for centuries. Poland invaded Russia at one point as well. Everyone pretty much invaded everyone else. Certainly no one was “justified” here, I just meant to point out that the article is written to be misleadin
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by ceilingcorner 4y ago
The historical portion of this article is misleading and relies on Western people’s lack knowledge of the region. It makes you think that Sweden then was Sweden today, a neutral peaceful country. In reality, Sweden had spent the previous ce
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by ceilingcorner 4y ago
Interesting that at no point does anyone stop and think, “Gee, maybe tearing down every institution and social obligation in the name of individualist consumerism wasn’t a good idea? Perhaps our ancestors and their thousands of years old tr
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by ceilingcorner 4y ago
There is an exact year: 2008. Two reasons: - Obama is elected with significant help from new social media tactics. Powerful interests realize that tech will shape the future of politics. This leads to less "technology for technology&#x
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by ceilingcorner 4y ago
Sadly it feels like single purchase software is on its way out. All the momentum is toward SAAS.
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by ceilingcorner 4y ago
Perhaps if you had invested your life savings into a business, which was then forced to be shut down, you would have more sympathy.
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by ceilingcorner 4y ago
Yes well that’s the issue with utilitarianism and any other calculated ethical system. You can always justify some horrible things by saying “but we saved X more lives.”
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
Nitter.net is a life saver for this.
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
I have lost a lot of respect for certain very accomplished people because they tweet their hot takes on current issues constantly. I follow you because you’re an awesome musician/writer/entrepreneur/whatever, not because I
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
Baltics are easily neutralized with taking the Suwalki gap. The Russians were also not happy with them joining NATO, but couldn’t do much about it. And Ukraine (Kievan Rus) is the center of eastern Slavic civilization and therefore much mor
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
The world isn’t a Marvel movie with good guys and bad guys. It’s more like Sicario: mostly bad guys with some innocent people caught in the crossfire.
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
I have studied this situation nonstop for the last week and I pretty much have the same opinion as you. If you ask a simple question, Cui bono? (Who benefits?) it becomes clear that it’s ultimately another military industrial complex projec
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
This article is straight up hatred propaganda and should be flagged. If you ever wondered how Americans of Japanese descent ended up in camps during WW2, now you know.
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
Getting employees to accept remote work was a brilliant reverse psychology move by companies. Now industry salaries will drop as it becomes acceptable to hire in low cost regions or abroad. This will happen automatically as the market adjus
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
It’s a bit too complex to summarize, but if you study NATO’s actions in the region, you’ll see that we helped set up this precarious situation. Again, as I said in my initial comment, most of the blame here is on Russia. Nonetheless, the wo
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
Judging from your other comments, you haven’t bothered to educate yourself very much on this situation. Please, be trollish elsewhere and waste someone else’s time.
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
I don’t think anyone is saying that Russia is justified, more that if we want a solution here we have to understand their motivations.
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
If the sanctions didn’t work before, I don’t know why they would work now. I don’t have the answers, but certainly any move toward more militarization of the world is usually a bad thing.
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
From Russia’s point of view, they had many reasons to annex Crimea. It wasn’t just a random act of aggression. Having studied this situation a bit, my conclusion is that both sides are to blame, with Russia being considerably more culpable
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
It is really distressing, not only because it’s ethically wrong to blame groups of people for individual actions, but also because it’s pragmatically against the interests of the West. We gain nothing by escalating this.
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by ceilingcorner 5y ago
Seems like this barrage of sanctions and anti-Russian sentiment will do nothing but push Russia further toward China. I really don’t see the West removing them easily, even if Russia withdrew immediately. No one seems to care about arriving

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