leurfete

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by leurfete 10y ago
I meet a lot of people whose idea of "getting better" is wealth being more evenly diffused across humanity. If that really is our aim the easiest way to achieve it would be to halt, or even reverse, quality of life improvements fo
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by leurfete 10y ago
Every time I read something like this I think about all my rich friends in Silicon Valley who engage in armchair socialism. Gives me a good chuckle. ^.^
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by leurfete 10y ago
Germans and Italians were also interned. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_German_Americans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Italian_American...
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by leurfete 10y ago
> Your summarization of Marxism as an appeal to jealousy is a reductionist joke. It's common sense. At best, people will support a system where wealth is distributed without regard to individual productivity if they think that they
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by leurfete 10y ago
Every leftist revolutionary thinks that they'll be the one to finally achieve "real communism" and create an egalitarian paradise. It always seems to end up in pogroms though. I think it's because, at its base, Marxism i
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by leurfete 10y ago
I took a look at their sub. I couldn't find any hate speech (though I ignored heavily downvoted comments). I'm also suspicious of "coded hate speech" since that concept grants license to attach racist connotations to jus
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by leurfete 10y ago
Not long friend. Our campuses reflect a growing antipathy toward free speech.[1] Whatever starts there usually ends up in the courts. I've become convinced that the American left is now totally post liberal, in the sense that they cons
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by leurfete 10y ago
Good trolling sir. You had me going for a moment. http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zT09Dy13slc/T3CInkRWjRI/AAAAAAAABI...
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by leurfete 10y ago
Our culture is unique. Mass relocation will probably destroy it. My own dream is to invest some of my earnings back home to prevent that from happening. Our people will probably never become well off, but I still hold out hope that we might
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by leurfete 10y ago
I'm from Kentucky as well. An earmark by Mitch McConnell secured funding for my first job out of university (WKU). He did good work for us in Bowling Green at least. That said, I don't have any illusion that the future isn't
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by leurfete 10y ago
So Facebook will be openly committed to censoring certain information for the public good. What could go wrong?
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by leurfete 10y ago
Being a distinguished engineer at Google is definitely elite. Only a tiny fraction of its 30k employees hold that title and it probably draws a salary in the 1-2% range.
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by leurfete 10y ago
America has a lot of pent up energy right now. It's a good time to rewatch Les Deplorables. :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMYNfQlf1H8
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by leurfete 10y ago
It's enough to help tens of thousands of families and revitalize their communities (they'll be spending most of their earnings somewhere). In Appalachia that could make a huge impact on quality of life.
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by leurfete 10y ago
Seems like having the interior pay its own way by selling food and other resources would be quite a lot more efficient. It would also allow people to govern themselves how they see fit. It's a more humane solution IMO.
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by leurfete 10y ago
Stuff like this is happening more and more these days => https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R6dzZdceT4 (protestors blocking only white and asian people from crossing a bridge).
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by leurfete 10y ago
I'm glad you haven't dealt with it personally, but there are definitely people in tech who view white and asian men as being guilty until proven innocent.
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by leurfete 10y ago
I was involved in an LGBT club for a bit, doing activism and such. Every person involved who wasn't LGBT was called an ally. Some people saw allies in a positive light while other saw them as being merely neutral -- "it's the
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by leurfete 10y ago
We've been headed toward one party statehood for awhile. The American project has failed. "Democratic politicians are the ruling class’s prime legitimate representatives and that because Republican politicians are supported by onl
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A CoC that protects ideological diversity(degoes.net)
3 points by leurfete 10y ago|0 comments
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by leurfete 10y ago
/me Pulls some idle speculation from her behind It seems like FBs censorship tends to reflect the dominant political force in each nation. It's sort of interesting to observe. Islamic Republic => Ban(Atheists, Feminists, Gays)
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Want to help fight blacklisting in the tech community?(thetumboliasociety.github.io)
3 points by leurfete 10y ago|0 comments
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by leurfete 10y ago
I believe that Paul Fussell's "Class" makes the best accounting of the [American] class system. In it there are nine levels: - Top Out of Sight: Billionaires and multi-millionaires. The people so wealthy they can afford exclu
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by leurfete 10y ago
I agree that it sounds ludicrous to claim that one can be 'lower class' at $200k/year, however, I think there's a charitable way to read this position. Perhaps their point is that autonomy is a better indicator of class
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by leurfete 10y ago
You're spinning what he said. I'm not voting this election, but I'm 100% against outrage culture. 'When asked whether he would have supported Japanese internment camps, Trump told Time that he could not say for certain.
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by leurfete 10y ago
No one has called for Muslims to be shipped to concentration camps. Frankly, the most intolerant voices I've been hearing this election cycle come from the left -- calling for conservatives to be purged and blacklisted at every turn. P
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by leurfete 10y ago
Can you back that up with anything specific: evidence, examples...?
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by leurfete 10y ago
"This is him funding smear campaigns for a fascist." This sort of "Trump is literally Hitler" rhetoric is anything but constructive. I'm sad to see that so many in the tech community are willing to operate at this l
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by leurfete 10y ago
In the industrial revolution we mostly automated blunt physical labor. In the AI revolution we will automate intellectual labor. Robots are also becoming more dexterous. I don't think history can guide us here. Objectively valuable hum
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by leurfete 10y ago
I come from the heart of tea-party country. My impression is that people believe government handouts destroy any illusion that one might have of self-sufficiency and instill a sense of helplessness. There could be some merit to this idea. [

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