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> Democracy / constitutional republic is an option for highly intelligent and engaged population. Democracy works best when the population is dumb, scared and disengaged. > Without…

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> Those who wrote the characters of Noah and Manu probably had same ancestors or the story travelled between Levant and Indus region. They can't have the same ancestors because one…

It was just a simple observation. You are reading into things too much. There's no need to be so defensive. Your comment hasn't upset me in the slightest ( rationally or irrational…

Do you have regret? Ever asked yourself why did I do drink coffee just before bed. Have you ever played a game and thought if I do this, then my opponent will do that, so maybe I s…

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Google workers protest China contract. Sentiment of top comments : 'If you work at Google and you have participated in this protest: Thank you.' https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i…

By that criteria, everything is a failure. After all, it's the job of the proponent to oversell you on things.

So does israel. Will politico write a hit piece about that as well?

> After banning TikTok people will naturally start to wonder about regulating Facebook and other social media and this would be a good thing. It's not 'people' demanding anything. …

> Russia is a minor player compared to China, a distraction that was welcomed by China with open arms as it helps divide and weaken the West. How does that follow? The war united t…

It's the same thing as banning. It's banning via a different method. It's more of a ban than china 'banning' US social media for refusing to follow chinese laws within their own co…

Nothing has to push them. These countries want to go nuclear. The only thing preventing them is the threat of american intervention. Japan and South Korea had secret nuclear progra…

For the same reason this post was flagged. Israel. Did you really have to ask? Hard to imagine google workers protesting russia, china or saudi arabia being flagged.

Or they could take the easier and less conspiratorial route and control government by controlling intelligence? Governments act based on intelligence. Intelligence determines who w…

"Easiest" is probably entering illegally and signing up for the military.

The point of H-1B is to lower wages. Not to stabilize them. It's a way to increase supply of labor which puts downward pressure on wages.

You can have a 2-3-4 right triangle if you can find the right axioms for it.

> I have sympathy for news publishers Why? They are the most spoiled, privileged and entitled group out there. Not only did they force google, facebook, etc to give them preferenti…

> Which is why the south fielded close to a million man army What does this have to do with the fact that most south vietnamese wanted reunification? You mean governments are able …

> Do we need to rethink the idea of global social media platforms? Maybe even the idea of a global internet. Yes. > If countries like Brazil or India want to have everything censor…

Thats some deranged historical revisionism. The vietnamese won their war of independence against france ( aka first indochina war). Then the US stepped in to protect 'european colo…

You forgot the best part. Satan has 3 faces and each face has a mouth. One mouth is continuously chewing judas, another mouth is chewing brutus and the third is chewing cassius. Fo…

> It's not like NATO did any major nation building in Afghanistan or Iraq, at least nowhere near close to post-WW2 Germany... so in that point he did keep his promise. What? So he …

> The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of moral crisis preserve their neutrality This is not true. The 'neutrals' were not even granted the honor of a plac…