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One thing for sure, democracy is not required to be liberal. West does not seem to understand it.

Eugene has bad air.

You still are living near to Richmond (the other Richmond, though).

Go for it. Neonazism in Baltic countries is widespread and government put a blind eye on it. Report as much as you want truth won't change.

> "forced russification" If you follow the definition literally, then yes. Yet, Russia always was very careful with the culture of the colonies, way more careful than Britain, Fran…

You can try to spin it anyway you want. Stalin, as Georgian, had no, absolutely no feeling towards Ukranians, as for example Finnish people have zero feelings towards Portuguese. T…

Have you ever been to the former USSR? I am not sure about what you mean by "forced russification" - 15 republics of ex-USSR had two state languages one Russian, one local. Almost …

There was atrocities during Stalin times true. However they were purely ideological by nature; not against ethnicities, cultures etc (those were in fact actively preserved) - Stali…

It was not directed against Ukranians as ethnos, period. USSR was not a Russian supremacist country. Remember, Stalin, during whose reign Holodomor happened was a Georgian, Khrusch…

Not sure about it...

If you are from a Baltic country there is no point to argue with you, because the sentiment against Russia and everything Russian, for whatever reason, is so strong, that people ce…

> pro-life atheist, or a pro-gun liberal, I am both. And understand the pain of being a square peg.

On the other hand, Soviets/Russians did not kill the native population of the republics on massive scale, did not have "sits only for white" in the public transit, had 15 republics…

Trump a politician and Trump a businessman are not the same.

The purpose of high minimal wage is to decrease inequality. It cannot become equal tax on everybody, unless you inject money into the system. The ones who are at very bottom would …

There was massive amount of questionavle mergers lately: Altera + Intel, Fairchild + Onsemi, now this. We stepping into the age of monopolies, dear readers.

Yes, but if often was impossible to get insurance with preconditions, Regardless, ACA sucks. So did pre-ACA insurance.

Quartz oscillators are usually made in at leas 10th of kHz range, for whatever reason. Second most stable oscillators are LC and would require large coils for lower frequencies.

> EU countries are as a rule quite far ahead on the curve of progress, see: abortion EU (esp. Scandinavia) has much, much more tight regulations of abortion, compared to English wo…

Dunno, if "drain the swamp" passes, that'de be a very significant change.

Dunno, if "drain the swamp" passes, that'de be a very significant change.

> Sanders forced Clinton very far to the left Not sure about it. Words are cheap.

For white collars yes, for blue collars - definitely no.

The point that BUS DRIVERS working for GOVERNMENT make better wages than BUS DRIVER working for PRIVATE sector. Not that bus drivers in general are rich people.

I do not know how to even reply to that. Bus drivers, post delivery people, municipal construction workers etc. - all have better salaries and benefits than similar private workers…