skinnymuch

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by skinnymuch 5mo ago
This is HN where people using text files only is the best way to do things and being semi-Luddite is the way. FSD is amazing. Any notion it takes more effort to use it than driving is made up.
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by skinnymuch 6mo ago
(1) is written as if other forms of govt like a typical liberal democracy in the west or Europe give their citizens much of a choice.
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by skinnymuch 6mo ago
Ukraine never really had nukes. Only technically. NATO is bad for the world so any one fighting it are pretty cool. Which seems to be Russia and Korea.
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by skinnymuch 6mo ago
“destitution” I am not referring to this. I was referring to the political/economic meaning of the word. Not about not making a lot.
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by skinnymuch 6mo ago
I don’t get what you’re saying. There is a paused civil war due to outsiders (whites, UN, etc) interfering and still occupying half the country. Not sure what you mean what crime did the current outsider occupiers commit after they did a ge
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by skinnymuch 6mo ago
Wage slavery doesn’t literally only refer to wages. I was referring to the political meaning. Not something you can go to the dictionary for.
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by skinnymuch 6mo ago
Those scholars are blowhards. Trump is basically the same as any other time. As you state the US is unipolar in how it treats Others. Aka authoritarian. Blowback was great I should finish that season.
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by skinnymuch 6mo ago
Oh yeah you don’t know what you’re talking about haha. The west isn’t a dictatorship! Only the Others.
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by skinnymuch 6mo ago
I don’t think you know what “communist standards” means. > “North Korea is economically isolated because they refuse to be normal even by communist standards.” “Kim is isolated because she refuses to be normal like the other submissive h
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by skinnymuch 6mo ago
The US has been authoritarian for a long time. What else do you call a society that keeps on humming along while doing various genocides via a culturally embedded Monroe Doctrine mentality.
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by skinnymuch 6mo ago
It is slavery. Chattel slavery is much more severe than what we normally consider slavery. Yet “slavery” and chattel slavery are both still slavery. The reason what you’re saying is so accepted is because we are currently living under a uni
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by skinnymuch 6mo ago
I have the opposite problem. Spending time with people is difficult for a few years now. Even though I was born in the west and have only known this world. Now I will be leaving the west soon. Something I’ve wanted to do for reasons for 1-2
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by skinnymuch 6mo ago
Reminds me of all the Covid data trackers in mid 2020
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by skinnymuch 7mo ago
Not sure what that letter said but open source^ isn’t good and I’m what people would incorrectly stereotype as someone who would love open source as a Marxist [sympathizer]. ^outside of specific scenarios where it fights back against the st
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by skinnymuch 7mo ago
Still seems silly when meme stocks exist and the establishment (like entire media and news apparatus) can and do collude to mess with things (like “Black Monday” ~2021 when all the media and news lied and said wall street bets and meme ston
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by skinnymuch 7mo ago
I’m not the most well versed but isn’t that still insane to be 4x valuation of PayPal? Maybe it’s more PayPal valuation being crap vs Stripe being too high. Adyen is close to PayPal with a PE of 30 (vs PayPal’s sub-10) and Adyen like PayPal
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by skinnymuch 7mo ago
“Used for a specific thing”. Democracy doesn’t mean liberalism. You can’t take a word and make up a meaning. Democracy is a govt that is the will of the people. China is quite literally democratic per that definition. While Europe and the w
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by skinnymuch 7mo ago
It obviously is how? Because they are yellow Asians and not white like you? Hilarious that Europe and the west’s govts are not liked by their people. China’s is. And yet these same westerners act like China is the non democratic and non fre
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by skinnymuch 7mo ago
How can they be democratically independent when the entire continent is controlled by NATO? Democracy means something. Democracy can’t exist while you’re a vassal state.
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by skinnymuch 7mo ago
China existed 100 years ago. Hong Kong is Chinese. I have never come across a person who isn’t a bigot and raging chauvinist who tries to act like the Chinese civilization and the PRC are distinct things. Though not saying you are, you may
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by skinnymuch 7mo ago
Imperialism is whatever westerners don’t like, right? How is China imperialist?
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by skinnymuch 7mo ago
Interesting. I didn’t know there were no US military bases there. Still Taiwan exists as it does because of the US meddling across the world.
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by skinnymuch 7mo ago
Forcefully reintegrated? Colonialism was the forceful part. Not a country having control of its own land. He isn’t demanding any will of the people. Unlike the EU, US, etc, Chinese people are actually happy with their democratic China. In n
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by skinnymuch 7mo ago
The smugness and superiority about how the rest of the world are immoral barbarians and the global status quo of white/western hegemony is amazing and very moral is pretty funny. It’s pretty obvious these same people in the past would’
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by skinnymuch 7mo ago
This thread casually talks about Taiwan being a vassal state of the US during a civil war and Hong Kong being a colony of the British. Yet the world, largely the global south, should intervene and help the global north to exploit the rest o
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by skinnymuch 7mo ago
I’m sure the western chauvinists all over Hacker News and Reddit are actually correct. NATO, US, EU going into East Slavic civilization are the innocent ones. “what's a little colonialism between friends” who has ever said that? Why no
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by skinnymuch 8mo ago
The US has done those stuff since world war 2 ended. Continuously. Trump has hurt things but if anything bringing up things the US has always done as if it is novel under Trump shows how well US hegemony works and will continue to work. Ano
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by skinnymuch 8mo ago
Yep. Future leaders aren’t going to be as outwardly crass as Trump and that’s all that matters to racist/chauvinists like Europeans and many liberals. Something not brought up much/yet is how colonized minds works. Colonized mind
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by skinnymuch 8mo ago
Does not mean too much coming from Europe when the EU wants to militarize and the institution is closer to absolute dictatorship than democracy. Similar to Canada and Europe talking about colonizing the world with the US yet Greenland is an
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by skinnymuch 8mo ago
Europe and the five eyes are far too racist and/or chauvinist for what you’re saying. HN is a great microcosm of liberal (which is western and white) ideals and thinking. You can’t really post about resistance to western hegemony here

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