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Thanks, updated link below: seems to have been changed since last time I saw it back when it all happened, sorry! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Bushnell

> cool, very impactful stuff in that job When the job is killing people who stand in the way of US empire. Shameful, I'd say, but shame is not a feeling you seem to be able to feel…

A lot of people on HN have either served in the US mil or are sympathetic, and have successfully solved their cognitive dissonance about killing 10k people for 1 soldier. But you'r…

Thanks for quoting, I wasn't going to read the article, but now I realise the author is obviously onto something and I'd do well to read him.

I think it was your reading that is faulty, the commenter wasn't subtle and didn't undermine anything. Can you stop playing the game of owning people with teenager level zingers ba…

Thanks for surfacing this. As another user says below, Mitchell had more leeway in choosing his investors than most anyone. His is a dispiriting choice.

Bought the documentary and will be buying it for some friends, thanks!

You're strawmanning, or having difficulty reading. Whatever my personal opinions about copyright, this whole thread is about copyright set at 2000 years vs 20, so that answers your…

A famous paper argued that, from 1960 to 2006, nonviolent resistance was twice as likely as violent resistance to achieve its goal: it's a paper that most activists I've ever met h…

This is an edge case. The vast majority of intellectual output loses value extremely fast. If a new Kafka comes along and their writing becomes popular 30 years after publication, …

To your second point: a company (or any kind of organisation) is continuous work. It's a very obvious retort to your analogy. It would be akin to the author writing a book in a ser…

> Is there a spiritual way to kill an animal? How would Jesus kill an animal? Amazing question. I'm not spiritual, but regularly debate this topic with others (including here): thi…

As another sibling points out, creation before the fall, so.the animals and humans in the garden of eden, were vegan. There is also a theory that Jesus was vegan and a belief that …

The idea that wars, epidemics, and catastrophes lead to wealth redistribution is the thesis of "The Great Leveler" by Walter Schneidel: it's not an absolute rule (and as far as I r…

I'm not using this to post religious flamebait, and to anyone thinking I'm attacking their faith: this is not my intent, and I'm for sure not singling out Christianity. I find hist…

As a preamble, I don't want to attack your faith. However, the argument here is not that Christians side with the elite, but that the Church does. The Church has sided with the pow…

Agreed, and the fact that he's not today recognised as a martyr is telling. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_M%C3%BCntzer

No religion is unscathed: joining with the powers that be and lagging behind every ethical development is the rule, for sure, but I had mistakenly believed that at least the foundi…

i discovered this event by reading Sartre's play "The devil and the good lord" (Le diable et le bon dieu): not historical in any way, simply takes the uprising as context, but a ma…

Which speaks to Paul's credit.

An episode of history I had never heard about. 100-300,000 peasants killed. As someone who reads a lot about the early history of religion, the most interesting part of this for me…

Fair. I believe the Empire only ended with Byzantium, and as far as I know the edict was never repealed, but I do differentiate between Rome and Byzantium elsewhere, so I see the p…

Yes, the idea of empire as being something bigger than a kingdom is a popular misunderstanding. However, Rome (and Byzantium) were actually very good at integrating conquered popul…

You seem to have decided that people who are against immigration are stupid, racist, authoritarian, and evil: by all.means, that's an understandable bias, as the most noticeable pa…