whydoibother

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by whydoibother 5y ago
Two regs, less than 30 min old, both trying to launder the bullshit Kissinger did. Odd. > hese are the hard decisions one grapples with as Secretary of State. SoS of an imperialist country. During a time of America's greatest atroci
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by whydoibother 5y ago
Hate to break it to you, but that wouldn’t lead to communism. The people it replaces are useless to the ruling class. At best we’d go back to feudalism, at worst we’d be deemed worthless and a drain on the planet.
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by whydoibother 5y ago
The grid actually produced something useful though.
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by whydoibother 5y ago
Most people are barely aware of crypto, let alone the negative effects of it. Once people become more informed, hopefully more and more people will see what a plague on society it is.
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by whydoibother 5y ago
And thinkers are automata with no empathy or compassion. Stop denigrating people for processing reality differently than you.
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by whydoibother 5y ago
It is easy to talk about this over 100 years. But that also conveniently lets us ignore that the US was founded on the backs of chattel slavery. Turns out lots of forms of governments can hurt people. But at least the communists/social
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by whydoibother 5y ago
> They graciously agreed to return them for China Sorry, but you can't 'graciously' return a colony. It was something they never should have had.
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by whydoibother 5y ago
I wasn't singling a specific party out here. Merely pointing out that the ruling class is largely (neo)liberal. Also, I hate to break it to you, but even if GOP opposition to social programs disappeared overnight, I would wager money t
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by whydoibother 5y ago
>Ask a bunch of drug addicts if they used weed before [heroin|coke|speed|lsd|<insert-drug-of-choice>|aota], most of them will say yes. Correlation != causation. The idea of a 'gateway' drug is absurd. The simplest explana
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by whydoibother 5y ago
>People rarely commit robbery and murder to get another hit of alcohol. Weird. Almost like making it legal, relatively cheap, and easily accessible makes it so you don't have to resort to desperate means.
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by whydoibother 5y ago
The fact you are happy your sister is in prison and not in a treatment facility says a lot about you.
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by whydoibother 5y ago
You do realize you can vape flower/concentrate and eat edibles, right? >Marijuana is a gateway drug, I strongly believe this but open for changing my mind if there is data supporting otherwise. The burden of proof is on you to show
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by whydoibother 5y ago
30 years? The 90s still had police going hard on drug dealers and users. And I didn't realize the Sackler family was skating by cause the DEA stopped arresting marijuana users. Also, on the more conspiratorial side, it is curious how o
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by whydoibother 5y ago
>That’s because the vast majority of things have a clear correct answer. No, they don't. What is correct for rich western liberals often means further poverty, suffering, and death for those who don't belong to that class. The
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by whydoibother 5y ago
I think you'll find both sides are aligned on about 60 or 70 percent of things. This is due mostly to them all belonging to the same class and seeking to advance class goals. Pick a few wedge issues for either side and voila: you have
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by whydoibother 5y ago
The Nazis gave bogus info and were used to kill and torture countless people. You lose any moral high ground when you ally with psychopaths like that and are no better than they are. The US had plans to invade Russia, Cuba, and pretty much
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by whydoibother 5y ago
Dulles brothers laundered money for the nazis during the war. Allen went on to secretly negotiate for surrender of Nazi/SS troops, who were then protected from prosecution and used for Gladio and later ratlined out to South America to
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by whydoibother 5y ago
WW2 (Nazis are fascists) Indonesia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_mass_killings_of_19... Guatemala https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guatemalan_genocide El Salvador https://en.wik
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by whydoibother 5y ago
> there was never any justification to dismiss the lab leak theory that isn't how this works. extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. there is zero evidence of a lab leak besides circumstantial. > censor conversation
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by whydoibother 5y ago
Millions of people were killed by fascist regimes. Many, if not most, funded and supplied by the US gov't.
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by whydoibother 5y ago
The fact that you think it was okay for the US to support former SS officers illegally operating in countries and later used to train South American death squads in torture techniques, all because 'commies are bad', shows how dera
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by whydoibother 5y ago
> 4,000 troops to Syria to fight against Israel in the Yom Kippur war Supporting Arabs retaliating against an illegal land grab by Israel. >They also probably didn't send troops into Somalia Helping Ethiopia defend itself against
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by whydoibother 5y ago
Are you going to play ignorant about the fact that the CIA recruited former Nazis to suppress socialist movements in Europe, without the permission of the states they ran this operation in?
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by whydoibother 5y ago
> This was actually a good thing. Che Guevara was a psychopathic murderer and war criminal. No, he wasn't. >The truth is that Communists have killed more people and been responsible for more human misery than any corresponding mo
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by whydoibother 5y ago
No, it isn't extremely narrow. It is based on the truth, as shown in the article. What purpose has the CIA served other than business interests and anti-socialist ops (tied to business interests, can't have your oil fields nationa
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by whydoibother 5y ago
They don't do it to help people. They do it to advance western business interests, usually at the expense of the people.
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by whydoibother 5y ago
Good overview, but the attacks on Cuba didn't stop after the bay of pigs. The CIA continued terrorist attacks on Cuba well after that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mongoose
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by whydoibother 5y ago
Case fatality rate wasn't inflated, it was deflated if anything. And there is still no real evidence of a lab leak, despite western intelligence continually lying about it.
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by whydoibother 5y ago
Stop trying to tie it to your politics. Some people want real evidence before they scream about things like you do. It had little to do with Trump.
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by whydoibother 5y ago
Nah. People tried that already with bad results. Not to mention, what happens when the foreigners you are exploiting start demanding the same things the locals are? Not only that, but the social and political ramifications of having not onl

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