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br_smartass

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    Comment #15101839

    Damn anarchists and their """""""""big governement love""""""""". Damn! (Explaining: Your post only exposes the size of your ignorance)

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    Comment #14945484

    Funny how this is completely flipped over. The opposite of what you said is true. Or maybe this is just because you're talking about your life in specific, with your specific circu…

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    Comment #14930199

    Or maybe all companies saw the better strategy for the profit of the industry was for people to need to keep buying new phones frequently and so they all removed that option from t…

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    Comment #14234497

    did I hear regime change?

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    Comment #14067099

    Sorry but imho this question shows a lack of knowledge of how much banking is tied to the economic system. They are entities that hold unfathomable ammounts of power. The most expl…

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    Comment #13632203

    Great freedom, huh?

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    Comment #13306081

    As if there isn't a counterpart. Honestly, I've been in farms where simple people lived in with no electricity(my grandparents lived in a farm, and it took some time for electricit…

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    Comment #13281920

    Ah, surely the aristocrats of before would instantly jump at the opportunity of giving up their lifes of free-time, leisure, education, servants, 3-hour-meals, giant houses, countr…

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    Comment #13240564

    I'd like to point one thing: ever since I started getting more interested into etymology, I've sort of fallen in love with words, and came to see them as much more alive and powerf…

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    Comment #12855849

    - Here's the money - Thanks

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    Comment #11625906

    Well, it would be simple/small businessess mostly, and mostly taking the place of phone calling, for example asking for information, ordering something, "signing up" to receive off…

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    Comment #11625825

    Northeast is historically prejudiced against, it's where people used to die of hunger every day because of drought, poverty and hunger, like 10 years ago an image that's probably i…

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    Comment #11625737

    Brasilians are social-network junkies... Whatsapp was 'the messaging app' around the time where just about everybody got a smartphone so it just caught on, and there are groups for…

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    Comment #11452930

    You should read up on the people behind this and the company before making this kind of accusation.

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    Comment #11189618

    Like a conspiracy?

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    Comment #11189557

    "Upon this first, and in one sense this sole, rule of reason, that in order to learn you must desire to learn, and in so desiring not be satisfied with what you already incline to …

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    Comment #11049777

    IMHO this corporatism thing is just 'No true scotsman' for capitalism. If the right is able to do that, then the left should be allowed to get back talking about communism and soci…

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    Comment #11039595

    It's awkward to even have to compose a reply to that answer! Some people reaaaally need to affirm to themselves that everything is fine whatever happens, for some reason. Small min…

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    Comment #11004852

    So, after the innumerous crimes and injustices commited by CIA abroad and home, since nothing was done to the agency, it means it now turned into a free pass? Justice, like a lot o…

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    Comment #10922874

    It's very clearly an exponential curve, 0.001% probably has a disproportional share of 1% and so on.

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    Comment #10922842

    The kind of argument the OP is trying to make makes no sense to me, the only reason I see for us to "trust the market/system" is because it promises the most efficient allocation o…

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    Comment #10905355

    Thats really interesting, thanks! I'll be following this one :)

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    Comment #10899229

    Ever heard of "there's always three sides to every story"? Apart from what the others replied(those networks will show stuff that isn't 'interesting' for some demographic), having …

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    Comment #10899197

    Yep. There's whole different point of views to be seen. People are saying propaganda like it means only the caricaturization of propaganda(i.e.: overt), and, corollarily, like what…