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    Comment #40783537

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    Comment #40599613

    > It's sad for a country that proclaims itself to be the land of the free with a healthy respect for property rights. We respected property so much we even counted them as 3/5ths o…

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    Comment #40450431

    Personally, I think they should just start helping Hawaii and Puerto Rico gain their independence instead of taking it out on the sea.

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    Comment #40395801

    > Throughout history, countries around the world have taken other territories as their own. How many of them have ever been courteous enough to allow referendums to break off again…

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    Comment #40395758

    Since you seem to be an expert, would love some similar examples.

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    Comment #40393250

    Can all countries do this, or is it only limited to Europeans? Ship enough people half-way across the world and hold referendums to assert your position.

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    Comment #40345645

    > Fuel economy standards are being used as a tool to get rid of gasoline-powered sedans. Environmental activists generally support this. Were you dropped on your head as a child?

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    Comment #40139615

    Finally, a principled company no longer participating in the corrupt D.C. culture of "lobbying" politicians. Politics as no place in the workplace.

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    Comment #40103055

    chad-xi-do-nothing-win.jpg

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    Comment #35130584

    > At the same time, this is yet another example of changing the rules in the middle of the game. Yellen has just broadcast that FDIC insurance is essentially unlimited, as long as …

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    Comment #31881328

    Yeah, don't like Jim Crow? Just move to a State where you'll be comfortable forehead. Maybe you are already there! The biggest mistake Lincoln made was leaving the Supreme Court in…

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    Comment #31870004

    Kind of wild this pervert is still where he is thanks in part to Joe Biden.

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    Comment #30511915

    > No, but your comment was. How? I don't remember saying the invasion is justified. I was addressing the claims of propaganda.

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    Comment #30511822

    I agree with the sentiment. I was just curious what the other commenter meant.

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    Comment #30511208

    Come up with a new word. Not everything is 'whataboutism'. But more to the point, if it's such a small force why is part of the National Guard of Ukraine. Disband it and send the m…

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    Comment #30510856

    > This country should pay for every war crime they committed. There are no innocence in war. Silent complacency what brought it on. Russian IT giants did nothing to prevent the blo…

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    Comment #30495321

    I thought I was. It's not justifiable to bomb and invade a whole sovereign nation to capture a few criminals. Especially if that nation is willing to negotiate their extradition fo…

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    Comment #30494229

    100x civilians died because of the war in Afghanistan, which was mainly planned in the US. Looking forward to disagreeing with your Afghani twin about the justification for invadin…

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    Comment #30493648

    Just because you've invoked some article amongst your buddies doesn't make a war justified. The hubris is astounding.

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    Comment #30483606

    > He is looking at the west build a fortress around Russia through NATO. Look at US reaction to Cuba and now imagine Cuba having a 100x more tactical and strategic geography in rel…

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    Comment #30307564

    But a really really intelligent AI would try to run them through a neural net and be amazed when it got most of them approximately correct.

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    Comment #30305912

    > What good is it to a person if he can escape a scary regime but can’t take his lives savings with him? What if unstoppable digital cash makes it easier to setup a "scary regime" …