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KDJohnBrown
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About KDJohnBrown
My name is John Brown. Ask me again and I’ll knock you down.
Burned out engineer who just doesn’t give a fuck.
I’ve burned more bridges than you will ever cross.
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Comment #26388428
Very much similar to the Tuskegee experiment. When your opressors experiment on you in the name of science it is logical to distrust the science of your oppressor. Would any Jew in…
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Comment #26388361
Sure. abrahamic religions historically have used violence and the threat thereof to steal the fruits of our labor. For example, No institution profited as much off of the African s…
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Comment #26368862
This has everything to do with American excetionalism. We have funded four failed coup attempts because the leaders won’t play ball with American ideology. Just like us funding the…
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Comment #26368834
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Comment #26368582
-5 points. I forget, it is forbidden here to point out when imperialism causes suffering. Yes it is more politically correct to blame socialism than it is to blame America’s sancti…
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Comment #26368504
Essentially Texans stay fat by lobbying to starve Venezuelans.
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Comment #26367428
It’s a diffetent kind of abuse. The concept of climbing the corporate ladder only really exists for executives, not for corporate wage slaves. As an academic your best career choic…
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Comment #26360522
LA did this like 20 years ago I believe. I’m surprised this took so long.
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Comment #26358367
Because they wouldn’t do anything, they would just kee the money. During Hurricane Harvey 30,000 people in the vicinity of the billion dollar evangelical mega church iwnes by Joel …
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Comment #26356676
There’s an irony here. The adamantly pro-nuclear crowd tends to be just as vocally anti-regulation. It’s stranfe that proponents of a “trustless society” are willing to put so much…
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Comment #26355638
> That money would be spent 100x better in a church charity or something similar. Or in the case of an evangelical mega-church to help pay for the tax free mansions and private jet…
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Comment #26355494
Manufactured outrage designed by Republicans to cover up their attempt to violently overthrow the government. To quote Donald Trump Jr, this is a Nothing Burger.
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Comment #26354694
Interesting historical note, this is how Chef was born. Adam Jacobs of Chef was running a Puppet consulting company (hjksolutions). He ran into a bug (#1010) that he couldn’t solve…
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Comment #26344774
You are clewrly juwtifying slavery. Wvery single white supremacist uses this rhetoric: Native Americans enslaved each other so they needed white Europeans to civilize them. African…
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Comment #26344738
Welsh, british, scottish, all the same. All three groups were slavers, both of Africans and of the Irish, not to mention countless other Asian cultures. You rewrite history, white …
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Comment #26317838
So this justifies it? What’s your address bro, I need a slave.
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Comment #26317814
This is why I supported the IRA. Every attack on England was an attack on evil. This pro-slavery attitude was huge from you people.
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Comment #26315361
This is simultaneously a fair point (the Portugeuse were the first slavers) and a miscategorization (puritans/white european invaders were quite racist and violent from the moment …
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Comment #26294672
To be fair, there are few which have mot suffered the same fate from the British Empire or USA either. This is probably why KSA has never faced any punishment from western powers, …
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Comment #26294436
Tayipp is the state. Türkiye is very much a single man ruled nation.
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Comment #26294431
(“Kemalists” is the correct term here) I have an incredible amount of respect and admiration for Atatürk but he also had his flaws when it came to freedom of speech, expression and…
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Comment #26294373
Who exactly bestows these rights upon people? Governments? Türkiye outlaws free speech through arbitary terror laws (see: HDP politicians imprisoned, members of Grupo Yorum who die…
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Comment #26285731
> Saying this make no justice to the fact that it's Saudi Sunni Arab Muslims, practicing, or not who suffer the most under the regime. Considering KSA’s funding of terrorists, I wo…
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Comment #26285554
Not just VC but all aspects of American life is subsidized by China. High real estate valuations, university operations wnd expansion and the ability foe the government to take on …
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Comment #26285383
The only difference is Marshmallow ultra-zionist claim that Iran was the belligerent dangerous nation trying to “take over the entire region” in contrast to my far more reasonable …