wormlord

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by wormlord 1y ago
How do I know the earth didn't spontaneously appear into existence yesterday? This line of argumentation is stupid.
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by wormlord 1y ago
The desire to be "centrist" on HN is perplexing to me. The fact that Elon, a white south african, made his AI go crazy by adding some text about "white genocide", is factual and should be taken into consideration if you
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by wormlord 1y ago
Holy shit I can't imagine being so anti-human that I would worship a piece of paper. Pray to your contract Gods bud, I'll live my life the way I want
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by wormlord 1y ago
It also conveniently benefits him greatly.
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by wormlord 1y ago
Remember when Gates refused to lift IP restrictions on the COVID vaccine https://www.wired.com/story/opinion-the-world-loses-under-bi...
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by wormlord 1y ago
Bernie is a good example of the alternative approach. I personally don't think he's radical enough, but he promises people things and makes people feel listened to. If you can establish a two-way street where people feel seen and
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by wormlord 1y ago
From what I have seen, personally, the younger guys that would follow in their dad's footsteps and enter trades do not because of a few reasons: 1. Their dads tell them to go to college because trades are hard on your body. 2. For what
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by wormlord 1y ago
Damn maybe if the democrats didn't kill any progressive or grassroots momentum, or ceded ground to conservatives on issues like the border (Kamala endorsing building the wall) they wouldn't have hollowed out their base of support
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by wormlord 1y ago
See my other response in the thread. It's not about being more right than fascists. Fascists always lie that's their main strategy. If you want to defeat them though you cant just keep acting like a bunch of technocrats. You must
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by wormlord 1y ago
Sure yeah conservative leaders are evil most of us get that. My point is that if you want to WIN if you want to DEFEAT fascists you have to change tactics. You can't just ignore people's complaints and tell them they're wrong
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by wormlord 1y ago
Yeah this completely ignores the fact that many people would rather work on making things with their hands that they can physically see, rather than pushing numbers around on a spreadsheet. This article ignores alienation, cost of living, s
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by wormlord 1y ago
You have too much faith in US leadership.
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by wormlord 1y ago
What could go wrong?
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by wormlord 1y ago
Ask and don't tell people not to be concerned about their own government systems that you know nothing about.
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by wormlord 1y ago
> Are you expecting a perfect system that would never even accost an innocent man? Or do you suggest we just give up and eliminate all such enforcement? Eliminate all enforcement. You realize that it is (or was) legal to walk into the Un
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by wormlord 1y ago
Maybe if you don't know anything then don't comment.
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by wormlord 1y ago
The problem is a large portion of Americans are either ignorant or chauvinists who don't know what happened in Chile in 1973, or anything about history/politics at all for that matter.
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by wormlord 1y ago
Dude come on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_imperialism#Strategy Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Guam, American Samoa, are locations that are directly under US control. The entire western hemisphere is within our sphere of cont
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by wormlord 1y ago
My pet theory is that he was in his 30s when the Plaza Accords happened and they really imprinted on him. If the rising Japanese economy could be brought to heel then so could the Chinese (ignore the fact that Japan was under the US securit
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by wormlord 1y ago
The Five Eyes Nations are part of the US Empire, that is a correct assessment.
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by wormlord 1y ago
You realize that an Empire does not need to be configured the exact same way as the Roman Empire, right? A combination of soft power, clandestine operations, and targeted military intervention is more resource-effective than a constant occu
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by wormlord 1y ago
> The American Empire never existed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...
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by wormlord 1y ago
I think the collapse of the American Empire is no more preventible than the collapse of the British, Spanish, or Roman empires. The issues with the US being the reserve currency has been known for a while now (and was even predicted by Keyn
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by wormlord 1y ago
America's gun culture is very closely tied to its settler culture. Most right wing gun nuts are barely able to conceal their fears/hopes for a race war in all but name. That said, there are plenty of examples of progressive forces
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by wormlord 1y ago
How you are getting downvotes is beyond me. People are finally waking up to the idea that the whole point of the Trump admin is to privatize the government, but haven't woken up to the fact that we are entering an era of state terror.
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by wormlord 1y ago
I think its possible to hold 2 conflicting views simultaneously. I put on my profit optimization hat and take it off when I leave work. I take no satisfaction in seeing someone who has drank the kool-ade getting a wakeup call, it's jus
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by wormlord 1y ago
You are probably gonna get downvoted for lack of empathy but I completely agree. I feel bad for OP, but simultaneously if you are a technocrat who thinks they are somehow insulated or not part of the larger system, you need a reality check.
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by wormlord 1y ago
I get that there's a discussion here over the minutae to be had in good faith. I am not qualified enough for that discussion. My point is that funding a genocidal empire is inherently bad whereas public health funding can have ineffi
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by wormlord 1y ago
> Wasting money in pursuit of public health How do you define waste? If research isn't harmful, but doesn't produce results, is that waste? Are inconclusive results wasteful? What ratio of public utility to cost would you cons
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by wormlord 1y ago
We are all serfs

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