sol_remmy2

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by sol_remmy2 7y ago
> For what it’s worth, none of my friends put infants in daycare due to the cost. They either got foreign au pairs or hired someone under the table for cash (very common in immigrant communities) I'm hoping your friends are libertar
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by sol_remmy2 7y ago
This is going to create a public internet free for everyone to use. But will hate speech be banned from this public-option internet? Sanders is going to spend 150b on this...I don't want Russian hackers and Neo Nazis benefit from the p
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by sol_remmy2 7y ago
> I support immigration enforcement. Can you state what immigration enforcement you support? The level of hyperbole in your response indicates that you see all immigration enforcement as cruel and unusual.
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by sol_remmy2 7y ago
> The US gov't largely believes itself is ineffective and needs to be privatized and ran like a business. Private businesses are held up as beacons of innovation and efficiency without the "red tape" the gov't has due
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by sol_remmy2 7y ago
How could you forget von Braun?
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by sol_remmy2 7y ago
America should not be compared to a country like Sweden. It should be compared to other giant multi-ethnic countries like Brazil or India or maybe the UK. Also in America, states are given the freedom to create (some) of their own laws. So
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by sol_remmy2 7y ago
The business behind this is a Washington State corporation - LA INVESTORS LLC. Is there anyway to find the names of the investors behind this business? The least we can do is expose the scammers responsible for this
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by sol_remmy2 7y ago
What country is NSO group based in?
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by sol_remmy2 7y ago
> A lot of divisions in America are driven by generations of policy based on racism - from redlining, white flight and zoning policies that changed the structure of cities and are now used as weapons against newcomers and change, to the
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by sol_remmy2 7y ago
Doctors in the US are also grossly overpaid compared to other countries: https://www.medscape.com/slideshow/2019-international-compen... We will need to reduce doctors salaries by atleast 50% if we want to tackle high
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by sol_remmy2 7y ago
Disagree, the most monopolistic sectors in the economy (education, telecommunications, health care) are also the most highly regulated. Some states don't even have charter schools, can you believe that?? They only have one choice for
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by sol_remmy2 7y ago
Have you seen the weird articles on Snapchat Discover? "Why I'm never taking my mom to an x-rated convention again" "How my kitten play fetish makes me feel less alone" "Why I've been dressing like a horse
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by sol_remmy2 7y ago
In America speech is censored by American private companies all the time. Racial or anti-semitic speech is often censored thanks for pressure from civil rights groups (i.e. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/fa
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by sol_remmy2 7y ago
> Myself and many of my friends who have decided to have zero children or only one child rather late in life ... So, how do you address that issue? Telling people to just suck it up and accept childbearing as their duty isn’t going to wo
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by sol_remmy2 7y ago
> you don't choose to get sick and fall into medical debt -- but capitalism underpins the health system that induces that medical debt (which is a major contributor to poverty [0].) The medical system not a free market. It is a hybr
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by sol_remmy2 7y ago
> UAE and Saudi are monarchies This is not as hot of a take as you think. Many reactionaries believe that a monarchy under a good monarch is the ideal government system - much better than a democracy where uninformed voters make so many
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by sol_remmy2 7y ago
> This is a surprisingly common take on the literature, with an unlikely consensus among both the conservative and radical left, libertarians and conservative libertarians, and even many on the conservative side. I hate asking but mind c
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by sol_remmy2 7y ago
> Why is immigration tied to lower wages? Obviously this can greatly vary. In America, immigration is tied to lower wages for lower tier jobs like chefs, construction workers, factory workers. I don't know enough to state immigrati
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by sol_remmy2 7y ago
They're in favor of 1) path to citizenship for undocumented people living in America and 2) greatly increasing legal immigration caps. They're in favor of greatly increasing immigration
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by sol_remmy2 7y ago
> Latin America (where I live) is "west" and those are not very good examples of prosperity. Chile is a good example of a "western" latin american country. Brazil/Argentina are bad examples. Brazil for instance,
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by sol_remmy2 7y ago
Don't you realize most people don't have the patience or ability to be a software engineer? That it is one of the most intellectually demanding jobs in society? And that 4 years computer science education is both expensive and dif
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by sol_remmy2 7y ago
Where do you work? I'm in operations and spent 10pm-3am last night responding to an incident. There's a lady here going bald in her early 30s. Stress is high, responsibility is high, accountability is high, effort is high. I can t
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by sol_remmy2 7y ago
I'm not sure why you're trying to draw a connection between stock buybacks and QE when there isn't one. Stock buybacks are just tax-optimized dividends.
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by sol_remmy2 7y ago
Item #: SCP-3137 Object Class: Keter Infohazard, Cognitohazard Special Containment Procedures: Do not look at this code
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by sol_remmy2 7y ago
While that is true, NYT posts are more highly upvoted than most other frontpage items
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by sol_remmy2 8y ago
That's a very bigoted way of interpreting my comment
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by sol_remmy2 8y ago
Luck has absolutely nothing to do with it. If you attribute America industrializing before China/India as luck, then I will lose trust in anything else you say. By 1915 America had higher GDP per capita than most of Western Europe - BE
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by sol_remmy2 8y ago
Sorry mate, do your research next time
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by sol_remmy2 8y ago
US white, non-Hispanic population: 61.3%.... Swedish white, non-Hispanic population: easily 90%+
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by sol_remmy2 8y ago
Those stats count an immigrant from any neighboring Western European country as foreign born. That makes them highly misleading compared to the US. In the US, a person from a different state does not count as an immigrant.

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