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People have protested the US bombing Yemen https://x.com/davidmryder/status/1746049132027150672 The duration (mostly over already) and death toll are less as well.
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> Israel left Gaza a long time ago So who are those people with guns in between Egypt and Gaza for the past decades? Or blocking Gazan fisherman from fishing for decades? The Zionists leave a settlement in northern Gaza and call that &q
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Yes..people in the past were celibate until marriage - what? Maybe some were, like som are now. From World War II into the 1960s, the median age of a married woman in the US was 20. So maybe many were virgins, if they didn't get toge
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About seven years before he was sending letters to the British Foreign Office of who to blackball during the UK's version of the Red Scare - people like Charlie Chaplin. He even wrote a book a year before this (1984) denouncing societi
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> I know Israel has attempted a 2 state solution 3 different times since 1947, unsuccessful because they were subsequently attacked. That's history. I agree a two state solution has been derailed by attacks. Full implementation of
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> I do prefer drug dealers over Hamas islamists Netanyahu prefers Hamas, he was propping them up prior to the current battles, according to the New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/10/world/m
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> And in a crisis likely won't be useful for buying things that do. In a crisis, the value of gold holds more than that of the Papiermark, or even the US dollar - I can buy only one egg for the two I could have bought five years ago
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You're correct this does not matter this year. But in the 2013 German election, AFD got no seats, and now it has the second most seats. BSW was not around in the 2021 election, they got about 5% of the vote but Die Linke managed not
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> makes it much harder for Russia should they invade If taking over Finland would help Russia, why didn't it do so in 1945 when it was there for the taking, to little protest from the UK and US? Russian had no use for it then, or n
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> The linked Musk comment where a minor political leader is singing kill the white farmers You say he's singing about farmers, so tell us what lyric mentions farmers? There aren't any, you're inventing stuff. The news a
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From 1901 up to FDR's election in 1932, 5 Americans won Nobel Prizes in the sciences. There was not much government funding back then, and not much was going on either.
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> Go back far enough and there was only private industry, and no government funding until the space race basically. How do you think the railroads were built in the US? The bonds of the Pacific Railroad Acts date back to the 1860s. Pre
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Hinton and his students studied for years on US (and then Canadian) government grants. The year Alexnet came out, Nvidia was awarded tens of millions by DARPA for Project Osprey. It's an odd historical revisionism where from Fairchild
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Mexico began celebrating May Day in 1923, before Germany.
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The way they math is presented is off. The US is deficit spending this year, yet you present the interest payment as something separate from the military. Obviously that interest is partially from the military spending the US makes this y
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> Hamas, which is a terrorist organisation. According to the New York Times, Netanhayu was propping up Hamas in the weeks and months before the current conflict ( https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/10/world&#x
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Trump is supported by the people running Silicon Valley (Musk, Thiel, Andreessen - with Tim Cook and Jeff Bezos financing his inaugural), hedge fun titans like Robert Mercer, heartland industrialist like the Uihleins. Plus white, Christian
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Maintaining imperial outposts like Thiepval and Holywood in the north of Ireland, Mount Pleasant in las Islas Malvinas etc. ain't cheap.
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> The cost of servicing this debt — paying interest rather than reducing principal — is already a major budget item, surpassing Medicare, approaching Defense and Social Security levels. Military ("defense") expenditures are alw
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The article goes a lot into puzzling about the ancient past, but we have the last few centuries of descriptions of Europeans meeting hunter-gatherer bands. In virtually all encounters they lived peacefully. Where there was violence they w
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Trump is not doing things that different than Biden in foreign policy - how much more damage can Trump do the Palestinians in Gaza that Biden didn't do? Trump is just more honest, and this embarrasses the professional-managerial libera
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Some other factors - In 1916 the communists dud not want to take over Russia. In 1917, Lenin said they should take the opportunity to take over Russia, and wait for Germany to become a left wing government, the real revolution. This did n
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Keynes wrote about how this can be done, while kicking the can down the road. Basically debt of all types, and government spending. For the US this would be military expenditures and social welfare for the elderly. Of course the can can o
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> It's in the interest of the USA to cooperate and be part of defensive alliances. Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Romania are in NATO. "Defensive alliance" means the US bankrolls and guarantees
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I am tired of being taxed and having the money go to forever wars in other countries. Slaughtering Palestinians in Gaza, destabilizing Russia, and on and on. At least Trump is winding it down in one place. If Europeans think a hardline a
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Trump was elected to do this, so I guess "bots" means the majority of Americans who elected him. He is also surrounded by Silicon Valley money people who support this. Also tech workers who don't want neocon forever wars. (I
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> It's in every countries best interest to do what they can to maintain peace, no matter how far away from home that peace is. How did Victoria Nuland handing out cookies in Maidan Square as a mob overthrew the Ukraine's electe
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And what was happening then? In 1916 a socialist got 6% of the vote for president (by 1920 he was in prison, but still got 3% of the vote). You had the green corn rebellion, 1919 bombings, Seattle general strike of 1919, Boston police str
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The real expropriation are the dividends sent out to stockholders, they don't even have to show up to the office. C-suite bonuses are peanuts compared to this (and one reason they're high is the board wants mercenary executives).
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Aside from comparing me buying some software or a movie and then sharing it with my friend being compared to "piracy" - like a Somali pirate taking over some Tom Hanks type's ship, one question is how is it theft? The answer

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