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by disneygibson 5y ago
Try posting / searching here: https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/
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by disneygibson 5y ago
Indeed. Any mild criticism is immediately flagged, downvoted, and deleted. I don’t care how serious the pandemic is, it doesn’t justify mass hysteria. As I said, I don’t see this changing anytime soon. Your best bet is likely Mexico and&#x2
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by disneygibson 5y ago
Of course it’s horrifying, especially since these actions are supported by a majority of the population. There are a few countries with little or no entry restrictions. Mexico in particular is fairly close to Canada and is open. If you are
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by disneygibson 5y ago
This isn’t going to end. There is no point at which things will return to normal. If you think otherwise, I’m sorry but you simply haven’t been paying attention. If vaccine mandates bother you, I strongly suggest moving to a rural area or t
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by disneygibson 5y ago
Tokyo has very few trash cans yet not much litter. It’s a cultural problem, not an engineering or city planning one.
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by disneygibson 5y ago
John Oliver is a biased comedian out for laughs. You should never take his “investigations” as anything more than entertainment.
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by disneygibson 5y ago
About the last thing people in small towns want are arrogant city folks coming in, kicking them out, and moving them to a nightmarish megacity. It might come as a surprise to denizens of coastal cities, but no one in a small town looks at N
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by disneygibson 5y ago
There is much more homogenization today which goes far beyond your point.
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by disneygibson 5y ago
You can think of it as a hollowing out of the middle. As people have become more individualistic, they’ve lost interest in the “middle range” of power: neighborhood, town, city, state. This power structure has collapsed almost entirely, flu
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by disneygibson 5y ago
Reagan survived an attempt. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempted_assassination_of_Ron...
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by disneygibson 5y ago
Considering how the US government has spent its trillions in the last few decades, keeping money offshore might actually be an ethical move. If buying products from a company that exploits workers in X country is unethical, why are taxes us
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by disneygibson 5y ago
You’ve moved the goal posts about five times now. First it was our entire lives indoors. Now it’s just a few months a year in some parts of the world. First it was in the next 20 years. Now it’s by the end of the century. A single study tha
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by disneygibson 5y ago
The author uses the word apocalypse at least five times in the article. I don’t think he was being hyperbolic.
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by disneygibson 5y ago
Because absolutely no climate science says that increased CO2 in the next twenty years will lead to humans living entirely inside with AC’d units? Again, this is basic science. The real effects of climate change will be difficult enough. We
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by disneygibson 5y ago
My complaint is that the author has forgotten what fiction is and seems to think it correlates to reality.
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by disneygibson 5y ago
Do you honestly believe that everyone will spend their lives inside an air conditioned room and with CO2 scrubbers? My assurance is reality. Reality isn’t a science fiction novel. Interestingly you only get these absurd predictions from a v
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by disneygibson 5y ago
The exact same conversation could be had at an obscure religious cult ranch in the middle of the desert. Remember, these people are completely serious. “Dad, I’m depressed and unmotivated about going to college.” “Son, the world is ending i
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by disneygibson 5y ago
I will add more of the quote. The author was talking to his son, who was feeling unmotivated about going to college because the world was ending soon. The author's reply was the section I quoted.
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by disneygibson 5y ago
Because for many people (this author included), this topic is akin to a religion, complete with holy literature (sci-fi) and a high priesthood (scientists and sci-fi writers.) So when a "god" like Stephenson (the word god is use
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by disneygibson 5y ago
Incorrect. He would be hailed as the first African American Secretary of State with a decorated military career that resigned to protest lies and an unjust war. Textbooks a century from now will include his name. It could have been in a pos
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by disneygibson 5y ago
The estimates vary, but between half a million and a million people have died from the war and its aftermath. Not including Syrian Civil War or Libya, which were absolutely consequences of destabilizing the region. No matter how bad Saddam
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by disneygibson 5y ago
Imagine if he had resigned in protest at the decision to push for the invasion of Iraq. He would now be hailed as a hero around the world. Instead, he didn’t. What a waste of an exceptional career.
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by disneygibson 5y ago
HN is a very niche audience. Most of the global population is in China, India, Africa, and the Muslim world (including Indonesia and Pakistan) and the majority of these people do not want nudity everywhere. As usual, a small segment of West
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by disneygibson 5y ago
I’m glad that nude artwork is filtered out from the mainstream, because if it weren’t, the art world would become even more faddish and attention-seeking. I can’t even search YouTube for recipes or offgrid videos anymore, because the top re
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by disneygibson 5y ago
No, it isn’t, and the “moving past X toward a democratic future” is an Enlightenment idea rooted in Western culture, largely enforced upon other states via violence, economic sanctions, and colonialism. As the West continues to decline, so
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by disneygibson 5y ago
The article is quite negative and assumes that Western ideas are inherently superior, all monarchies are bad, etc. To be expected for a left-wing literature journal, obviously, but that doesn’t make it any less culturally imperialistic.
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by disneygibson 5y ago
Not sure how that has anything to do with my comment. I’ll repeat it: the primary reasons which caused Japan to become “imperialist” are directly tied to Western imperialism. The Japanese emperor was mostly a political symbolic figurehead t
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by disneygibson 5y ago
The Japanese emperor concept precedes Western “invade everyone” imperialism by about a thousand years and has historically almost nothing to do with other countries. It really took Western ideas of imperialism to get Japan to be interested
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by disneygibson 5y ago
Yeah I really did not like this article. How about the West lets Japan figure out its own proper government and role for the emperor, rather than continuing to insist that our ways are unquestionably superior? The entire mood of this piece
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by disneygibson 5y ago
The first tweet has a link to the blog post.

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