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by throwaway20875 5y ago
We're well beyond your cognitive capabilities in this discussion if you're suggesting that a comparison between powerful ex-directors of the US intelligence apparatus landing post-gig jobs as political commentators at media organi
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by throwaway20875 5y ago
There is no defense of BTC inherent to my point, quite the contrary. BTC is largely irrelevant. What's relevant is that this leader in a South American country has thumbed his nose at the empire and the empire will seek to undermine
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by throwaway20875 5y ago
There are clear conflicts of interests between an independent press and the press being owned by large corporate entities. Aside from that, note the revolving door and cozy relationship between the intelligence arm of the government and med
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by throwaway20875 5y ago
>I doubt any theories of “the media” having anything to gain from conspiring against the country Aside from your sweeping and snide remarks on Americans, this is a woefully naive take. The US derives a lot of its power through the globa
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by throwaway20875 5y ago
Bitcoin isn't the lone currency in the country and the dollar is still widely used there. Expect more of this as the president of El Salvador has invited the ire of the US government by exposing the US's involvement in corruption
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by throwaway20875 5y ago
No greater example of the decline of our society: the contrast between HN's focus and attention to this product announcement and the NSA leaks.
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by throwaway20875 5y ago
Not included in article: photos relevant to the actual mysteries.
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by throwaway20875 5y ago
It's a political move and power grab.
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by throwaway20875 5y ago
This whole circus is about as contrived as it gets, complete with the "think of the children" gimmick. The timing, the theatrics, the manufactured celebrity of a middle manager at Facebook who is doing the "right" kind
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by throwaway20875 5y ago
This reads like a hit piece.
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by throwaway20875 5y ago
>Even with the recent rise in prices, energy prices are still way to low to actually influence choices most people make. No revolution was ever made with silk gloves kind of mentality right here.
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by throwaway20875 5y ago
Good.
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by throwaway20875 5y ago
>All this speculation and capital going a little crazy searching for yield are side effects of an overabundance of capital. The stock market is where savers have been forced to. Pensions included. ZIRP/negative real rates have con
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by throwaway20875 5y ago
>The causality is reversed for public debt though - governments react to deflationary environments by increasing public spending to compensate for the private sector's propensity to save - as a "spender of last resort" as
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by throwaway20875 5y ago
Though there are similarities, the US and Japan have very different circumstances. The US runs twin deficits, has extreme inequality compared to its peers, and extremely high costs for healthcare and education. This is not a recipe for st
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by throwaway20875 5y ago
I don't think it's as straightforward as you propose. Debt is itself deflationary and dampens growth. Public and private debt are already at global highs. Every dollar of debt is far less effective at stimulating the real econo
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by throwaway20875 5y ago
Perhaps this is intended to improve under-employment numbers.
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by throwaway20875 5y ago
The leadership does, but their interests are political so that they may end up in the ranks of the private contractors selling materials and services to the military. It's beyond dysfunctional and isn't well recognized. The mili
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by throwaway20875 5y ago
The slippery slope is real. The power to veto anyone's speech is toxic. Entrusting it to anyone, particularly those in power, is the implicit agreement to forfeit liberty.
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by throwaway20875 5y ago
"Yes, he attended then-President Donald Trump’s rally in Washington, DC, on Jan. 6, but he never entered the Capitol. He was in a friend’s room at the JW Marriott a 30-minute walk away when the Capitol breach occurred. Nonetheless, he
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by throwaway20875 5y ago
It has far less to do with "everybody silently sit in this room and read the paper at the beginning of this meeting" and more to with forcing the driver of meeting with articulating their thinking in writing form. Few understand
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by throwaway20875 5y ago
Thank you Notepad++ for standing against censorship. We need to see more of this.
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by throwaway20875 5y ago
Not true.
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Wuhan Institute of Virology Received $39M from Pentagon(dailymail.co.uk)
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by throwaway20875 5y ago
This hall of mirrors is only beginning. This is truly terrifying. The most disgusting aspect is the blatant lying and hypocrisy: https://news.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/topic/defending-dem...
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by throwaway20875 5y ago
>will be resolved if it ever harms (rich) humans in any meaningful way. I think you're not thinking critically enough on who it will be solved for.
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by throwaway20875 5y ago
Tesla isn't special. Tesla and all other growth companies benefited from the macro landscape of the 2010's. Zero interest rates drove capital out of (low) interest bearing treasuries and bonds and into tech. Look at foreign pur
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by throwaway20875 5y ago
>What a sensationalist title. Technically correct, yes, but misleading in spirit. Most people will see the title and not read the rest of the article, which results in the sentiment: "the only reason why Tesla is still afloat is bec
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by throwaway20875 5y ago
Whatever your brand of politics, events like these are dark clouds on the horizon. We are observing proxied repression of things that run counter to the narrative by private enterprise on behalf of the powerful.
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by throwaway20875 5y ago
They both reference the same CSIS study. One of the quotes from the most recent study which seems to contradict there's a rise in violence: "White supremacists, extremist militia members, and other violent far-right extremists wer

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