racketcon2089

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by racketcon2089 3y ago
Neither Ukraine nor Israel have reached this hypothetical technological era in which a draft is not required, and those facts are inescapable to any American in those countries observing it. One reason the US military doesn't need a dr
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by racketcon2089 3y ago
A more sophisticated thinker would ask questions like "from which people's perspective?" and "at what point in time?" These questions would give you access to critical insights, one of them is that it's never p
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by racketcon2089 3y ago
>But you're delusional if you think some alternative power would have been gentler. You're saying that people who don't agree with a non-falsifiable claim about hypothetical alternatives are delusional. That suggests a clo
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by racketcon2089 3y ago
I can tell you're not in Ukraine or Israel right now. Would you like to know how?
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by racketcon2089 3y ago
Would the abstract "one" you're thinking of happen to be a middle class college educated American who has never been on the receiving end of American benevolence in the form of saturated bombing of civilian areas, nor been at
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by racketcon2089 3y ago
"All we did was fulfill a contract for a government agency" is the enterprise tech Nuremberg defense.
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by racketcon2089 3y ago
> overall the world is a better place with American hegemony expressed through her military superiority. This seems like a non-falsifiable claim about the future, even if it can be argued for rationally with regard to the past. Have you
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by racketcon2089 3y ago
For whom?
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by racketcon2089 3y ago
Nothing says "we're concerned about AI risk and harm to human life" quite like partnering with the military-industrial complex. It's even better timing to do this while the Pentagon is providing material and intelligence
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by racketcon2089 3y ago
As you said, innocent suffering in a conflict is inevitable. Is the logical axiom that international shipping which is connected to the US and Israeli economies is more innocent than Palestinian children? Is any cargo ship crew more innocen
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by racketcon2089 3y ago
What does the word honest mean, I have no choice but to post here instead of using a search engine
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by racketcon2089 3y ago
This makes perfect sense when you consider that all of the people who will benefit from this will be dead or far away in very large estates by the time the negative externalities become undeniable from a liability perspective.
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by racketcon2089 3y ago
We're talking about Israel intentionally killing their own hostages, right?
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by racketcon2089 3y ago
I don't understand what you're saying: https://www.nytimes.com/1982/08/13/world/reagan-demands-end-... Are you saying that Israel has received less military and economic aid since? Are you sayi
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by racketcon2089 3y ago
Saying that supporting a government which has made dozens of public statements that convey unambigious genocidal intent with the actions that seem in line with this intent is one wrong. Taking military action to apply pressure the first gro
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by racketcon2089 3y ago
It's been over 2 whole years since they removed the confederate stars and bars from the state flag, why always with the prying questions?
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by racketcon2089 3y ago
> These things happen. "It's not a placed to dump inconvenient bodies, it's just a place where at least some of the bodies are people of known identity who were killed by police or corrections officers that cleared themsel
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by racketcon2089 3y ago
We all only have a coinflip chance of inferring tone online so I wouldn't feel bad. It's also possible I misinterpreted both your comment and the OP to a degree. There's a lot of politically driven economic boosterism in the
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by racketcon2089 3y ago
I think your reading is uncharitable. Luxembourg has a 6% unemployment rate, the US has a 3.7% unemployment rate, and North Korea has a 0% unemployment rate. Those unemployment numbers are objective realities in terms of being a reflection
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by racketcon2089 3y ago
No apology needed, and I can believe it! I happen to have some personal contacts in Hue who are in middle but in the divide between northern and southern communists they were treated as part of the south. I know there's some real bitte
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by racketcon2089 3y ago
>In my experience, northern Kosovo and Republika Srpska are the very hotbeds of banging on about Serb identity and national character in the region, more than Beograd. Most definitely! Not coincidentally, they also are dirt poor, ruled b
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by racketcon2089 3y ago
You sound like you’re from Belgrade and have never been to Kosova or Bosnia or even to the countryside. Would you prefer to say “western Balkans” or do you presume to also speak for Greeks, Romanians, Bulgarians, etc. I would engage with yo
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by racketcon2089 3y ago
The ownership class will do anything to stop fascism except allow the public to vote on the continuous upward transfer of wealth from the workforce to the already wealthy. War and nationalism are a surefire way to distract the public and mu
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by racketcon2089 3y ago
I could say the same as an American southerner! The existence of distinct regional identity preexists the state and continues after reunification. The North dominates in their politics just as in ours and there’s resentment about it in both
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by racketcon2089 3y ago
At no point did it exist as an independent entity with popular support, it was first created by the French and propped up by the US. It’s about as credible as saying the Soviet war in Afghanistan was between two competing regimes or that th
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by racketcon2089 3y ago
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by racketcon2089 3y ago
Vietnam won decisively and Serbia lost decisively; measured in destruction it was incomparably worse for Vietnam, but they have no outstanding border conflicts while experiencing peaceful economic development and national sovereignty since
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by racketcon2089 3y ago
I've also lived in the balkans and my work involved tourism, I have to say this does sound like a complaint made primarily by germans and americans. I'm not sure if it's because germans and americans are the ones who get an e
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by racketcon2089 3y ago
Is this your opinion as an attorney who is licensed to practice in Texas and has tried cases in this district before or are you speaking as a layperson? As a layperson I might agree with you, but in these sorts of cases the judges tend to p
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by racketcon2089 3y ago
I think the complaint is worth reading, not because everything in it has already been proven true, but it's important to understand the claims being made: https://static.texastribune.org/media/files/3428af84ca

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