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by mrangle 1y ago
You may like Girard. I recommend his 5 part series on youtube.
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by mrangle 1y ago
One of Thiel's intellectual mentors was Rene Girard. Thiel has a Girardian worldview, at least in part. Say what you want about Thiel, but Girard is one of the most influential Christian thinkers of the modern era.
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by mrangle 1y ago
>I have found the vast majority of the coverage around his death to be extremely one sided. >His supporters demand that he be treated with the same humanity that he denied others. Speaking of the total post, no one could have written
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by mrangle 1y ago
>A democracy is only as effective as its people are educated I missed that part of the Western Constitutions. It is likely missing because it is a false and self-serving axiom, as well as flirting with being the opposite of democracy. Mo
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by mrangle 1y ago
Reads like the very news feeds have been giving people mental health issues for decades and decades. Perhaps fewer and fewer people believe let alone like to have your patter as their internal monologue. Which amounts to an agreement to hav
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by mrangle 1y ago
> Then, you're arguing for feudalist land ownership customs? >This is a really bad-faith reframing of the parent comment. How so? Very respectfully, perhaps you should read with more care. See here: >those strips were even per
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by mrangle 1y ago
The comment under discussion was the one psychopathically lamenting that well-off peaceful protestors "with babies" weren't met with force. In contrast, no one thinks that the recent LA riots were peaceful.
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by mrangle 1y ago
>Sometimes the riot happens after the teargas and rubber bullets. Gaslighter >Sometimes the riot happens because people whose humanity isn't being respected choose not to respect your property. A psychopath's excuse to harm
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by mrangle 1y ago
The USA is far and away the hegemon country. Pointing out verbiage from nuclear powers doesn't change that.
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by mrangle 1y ago
Maybe the current system is the historical balance.
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by mrangle 1y ago
Of course people with babies didn't riot, and of course rubber bullets can't be fired near them. What are you suggesting?? There's some truly "weird" stuff on HN as of late. Moving on. Perhaps they didn't riot.
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by mrangle 1y ago
>"which even a Calabasan could suffer sudden and catastrophic environmental injustice." What a crazy tactic to switch blame from the City of LA's total failure, to prevent and stop the fire, to the environment. Everyone kn
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by mrangle 1y ago
Swiss banking hasn't been legally feasible for Americans since the GWB era, famously and if memory serves. I'm pretty sure that it isn't offered to Americans.
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by mrangle 1y ago
Even more so that he doesn't govern the local fire services.
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by mrangle 1y ago
That's not happening and there is no strategy. You can't bar anyone from cities. You can't bar them just like they can't bar you. It isn't policy that's driving anyone out. It's pricing, which is above the
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by mrangle 1y ago
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by mrangle 1y ago
What you're missing is that elite prep school admissions to Ivies (for example) virtually all smoke the SAT and are well rounded. The SAT is weighted. If you are going to complain until it completely overwhelms anything else, then you&
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by mrangle 1y ago
Yea "probably". lol
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by mrangle 1y ago
>Hm. I guess you'll need a new excuse. I don't, because it doesn't matter what the authors of that paper assert / wishcast in regard to decades old admissions standards. The only people that take virtually any social
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by mrangle 1y ago
Yes, that's what it means.
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by mrangle 1y ago
More rich people tightly correlate with a broad increase in quality of life for everyone. Almost everyone trusts them more than anything that approaches a revolutionary government (the "soon to be rich" government).
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by mrangle 1y ago
Since most people are lower income, and therefore a high-market share low unit price gas-station drink company like Monster will by definition have to have its largest customer base be from the largest ie: poorer demographic, the only sligh
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by mrangle 1y ago
Your response ignores my points and sounds very North Korean, in defense of a North Korean style voting system.
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by mrangle 1y ago
I do disagree. You aren't quoting a "they", you are quoting one man. Last, by your logic, eliminating voter ID is about winning elections for the democrats.
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by mrangle 1y ago
The problem is that private elite colleges never used just SAT scores for admissions criteria, and no amount of assertion that they did or should will change that fact. Focusing on SAT scores advances a false narrative, and serves to try to
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by mrangle 1y ago
No. One has to be publicly seen to not-vote for the "not-voting" to be a protest. The protest is in the visible lack of turnout, and more relevantly in the lack of turnout of voting blocks that have historically shown up. Still ag
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by mrangle 1y ago
You aren't following the conversation, and your own rhetorical examples are becoming confused beyond comprehension as a result. I disagree in regard to your assertion as to what voter ID is about.
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by mrangle 1y ago
Thank you. I see your point. Colleges, let alone Universities, used to be much fewer in number. It used to be more widely known that the better Colleges, that is mostly the Ivy League and the top Liberal Arts colleges, were the only educati
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by mrangle 1y ago
Is the counter argument that Australia has compulsory voting and that you think it's a fine place? I don't dispute the right to an opinion. You can think that Australia is great and compulsory voting is great and "works"
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by mrangle 1y ago
That doesn't change the discrimination logic. No one imagines that everyone is just fine with what is implied to be the same level of discrimination in accessing air travel that they state is going on when voter ID requirements are in

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