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analogies are not evidence

>There's no discussion of this anywhere, really, since the for profit platform is so powerful that some people are literally afraid to criticize them in public. Really? Every other…

The author even put the word in single quotes because he knew it wasn't really censorship, but still used the word anyway because everyone likes being the victim. Although, before …

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Could you explain what services, primary and secondary income mean in this context and why they matter? Im sorry I don't read German.

He means he disagrees with the people he downvotes. Afterall, anyone acting in good faith would agree with him lol

>investing in your country >foreign direct investment >sheiks owning the sports teams and chineese businessman owning all the prime housing We're saying the same thing

A trade deficit means that, on net, your trade partners end up with your currency and no goods to buy with it. So they start buying up assets in your country. Factories, companies,…

Because an earlier post misunderstood Rand's position and I wanted to clarify it. I guess I should have been more clear. My appologies.

Yup. Heavily protectionist. Thats exactly how an unbiased economist would characterize US trade policy. Stop watching msnbc dude. The USA became the world's largest evonomy with ma…

Lol people won't actually address your point they just downvote your post. Hn is very classy when people bring up politics

The inability to devalue currency is why greece cant recover. The Euro is idiotic.

>In a cross-country analysis of over 125 countries, this study finds that corruption is lower in countries where a greater share of parliamentarians are women. Can people please us…

Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

I totally agree. I was pointing out that church isn't really modern architechture as Rand saw it.

Agreed. It's pretty questionable to tell a Frenchman he shouldn't be proud of the Eiffel Tower because he didnt personally design it.

I agree with you, but only because you seem to have missed the crux (no irony intended) of Ayn Rand's ideology. She hated how even the style of the buildings around her embodied a …

I agree, it is beautiful. But Ayn Rand would have hated it. That design is steeped in European and Christian traditions and symbolism. Those things are all anathema to her ideology…

There are 5 billion impoverished people who would move to a first world country and depress natives' wages to nil if given a chance. Those who haven't done so yet shouldn't be disc…

This is the only comment that gets at the heart of the matter. I would add that culpability is not zero sum. The shooter was 100% responsible, and the others were also partially re…

That's not what the article is about. Its about whole cities becoming unemployed as a result of factories moving overseas, and unfair trade deals signed in the early 1990's. The pe…

Great point about the complexity of the real world. I would add that people who favor simple explanations are more likely to be centrist (supports status quo) because they are less…

So you're saying if fox news set up a 'private' website to host trump's posts and only allowed pro-trump people to comment that wouldnt violate free speech because it is a private …

>Twitter does not magically become a Public Forum, just because the President uses it. If twitter isnt a public forum, then trump should be able to block whoever he wants.