samvega_

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by samvega_ 3y ago
That's one of the contradictions of capitalism. As wages are pushed down, so does the ability to purchase the wares and services they produce. This also hurts the profits of companies.
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by samvega_ 3y ago
It's not. The author's own dad publically called him out as a liar about his story (I believe the author claimed his dad was dead). It's a fabricated story, like almost all defector stories from North Korea. Stories like his
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by samvega_ 3y ago
The dystopia in the US has mostly to do with the scale of global surveillance, that way surpasses anything any other country is doing, including China, the oppressive legal system that incarcerates an unjustifyably high proportion of the po
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by samvega_ 3y ago
The political orientations you describe don't threaten or oppose the political system, it's part of it and leveraged by the ruling capitalist class as its defenders. A better question to ask is, how does publicly voicing and actin
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by samvega_ 4y ago
That's really a non-sequiteur. The alternative to being critical of state and media propaganda is not the same as retiring from society altogether.
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by samvega_ 4y ago
It's curious that cybercrime in the news is almost always attributed to enemy state actors like Russia, China and North Korea. Don't western countries have hacker groups, other than ideological groups like Anonymous? Blaming North
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by samvega_ 4y ago
ASBMilitary was banned from Twitter. They said their reporters in Ukraine were threatened due to the nature of their reporting, which challenged the Ukrainian narrative we're fed in the West. Of course all Russian-friendly media platfo
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by samvega_ 4y ago
It's part of the information warfare camapign of western media. News media challenging the narrative are being banned or threatened into submission.
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by samvega_ 5y ago
Try and go to a Russia-aligned (or at least not Ukraine-aligned) subreddit, copy a defense of Russias actions, or a condemnation of the Ukraine government, and see how it fares on big subreddits, like r/news or r/europe. You'
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by samvega_ 5y ago
That's not true in general, because import prices go up during inflation, and foreign investments go down, which might lead to foreign investors pulling out, and other effects. The US is in a unique position due to them keeping the USD
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by samvega_ 5y ago
One could draw a comparison between the US and the East India Company, in that they invade countries, overthrow governments and fuels civil wars in the Middle East and Africa (partly) in order to enforce US dollars as the de facto medium cu
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by samvega_ 5y ago
Most money is invested in assets designed to retain wealth or increase profits, directly or indirectly. Their wealth and power is contingent upon that very scheme.
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by samvega_ 5y ago
It doesn't scale, is the thing. You can't walk into a macdonalds and walk out with a billion burgers just because you're a billionaire. What seems to make sense on a micro level is completely nonsensical on a macro level. Mon
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by samvega_ 5y ago
The money they pay also has 0 tangible value. You can't pay humanity out of poverty, that's a ficticious dream. Poverty is a structural problem, and a political one. It has more to do with what other countries are allowed and not
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by samvega_ 5y ago
Which assets are that?
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by samvega_ 5y ago
Kant's critiqe of pure reason was what the title suggests actually, he also argued that logic (i.e pure reason), cannot hammer out ethics (what one ought to do) nor metaphysics (what ultimately is). It's only practical reason whic
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by samvega_ 5y ago
You think the reaction to Snowden's uncovering of NSA's global surveillance program was "faux outrage"?
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by samvega_ 5y ago
No, you're also using the fact that they're unverified as an argument against their credibility. However, that only makes sense if the BBC did make attempts to verify it and would publicize it if true. The fact is that BBC and wes
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by samvega_ 5y ago
That's a bad wording for mathematics. It usually means "sufficiently greater than", and only makes sense as part of a sentence or wider context where what it is sufficient for is clear. "Much greater than" is misl
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by samvega_ 5y ago
Your argument doesn't hold water here, since it assumes that the BBC regularly makes official reports on NATO war crimes in Afghanistan. This is something they do voluntarily very, very rarely, if ever - esp. not recent ones. The BBC w
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by samvega_ 5y ago
These are the sources I know of https://twitter.com/SecKermani/status/1431517279859224579 https://twitter.com/paykhar/status/1431572890521120770 https://twitter.com/laras
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by samvega_ 5y ago
The majority of those who were killed in the actual airport attack were shot by US soldiers, who in confusion and panic fired indiscriminately into the fleeing crowd. This is by the words of several of those who were present and whom invest
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by samvega_ 5y ago
A lot of people have opinions on the class structure in the USSR. What is common to most of these people is that they don't understand or use Marx's conception of class, and instead use their own intuitions based off a liberal per
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by samvega_ 5y ago
Does that account for the extraction of dividends?
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by samvega_ 5y ago
This is one of those things westerners say to make themselves feel better: corruption is what the foreign oligarch are perpetrating. Considering that the Afghanistan war was used to funnel 2 trillion dollars to the military industrial com
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by samvega_ 5y ago
Probably because of GDPR, and similar laws coming into place. You cannot actually automatically hold people under 18 to whatever terms they've consented to on Facebook etc. like you an for adults. You'd actually be required to get
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by samvega_ 5y ago
But it doesn't explain the similarity. Why are they similar? Do they take for granted that the reader already knows CIA's role in the Afghanistan war?
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by samvega_ 5y ago
I always thought deontology (esp. Kantianism) would be a more interesting moral paradigm to implement programmatically. It's all about formalizing what maxims are, and determine whether they are universalizable in a purely formal sense
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by samvega_ 5y ago
What you're describing is practically impossible in a capitalist state, both due to political unwillingness and by juridical obstructions. One has to realize that the main function of a capitalist state is to secure private capital and
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by samvega_ 5y ago
Why is this almost article entirely about KGB and not the CIA? I'd like to know more about CIA's involvement, which is mentioned as well as being in the title, but rather this is all about a story from a different era. Looks to me

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