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To be fair, going by the track record, if Venezuela was an oil rich government under a U.S. supported authoritarian, Caracas would look more like Riyadh and there’d be no need for …

In line with your comment, I wish people that believed in the military industrial complex theory would look at the defense market cap more often and realize that, even in their own…

As Sam Harris so eloquently put it: "What's the point of having 'fuck you' money if you never actually say 'fuck you'?"

The tragedy of Chernobyl is it being seen as a failure of nuclear energy, rather than a failure of the Soviet government.

Putting aside his made-up backstory, which is admittedly ad hominem, I've listened to his arguments, notably his video on debt and mortgages. It falls into the same trap as a lot o…

This is how I've felt about politics as of late. It's Logan Paul-KSI tier nonsense, but made worse by the fact that I can ignore Logan Paul and influencers. I can't ignore it when …

He was always right-wing coded so not really a switch, but Andrew and Tristan Tate are two huge ones that did the grift and it's played out for them.

Because the failures of the USSR occurred entirely within the USSR's borders, under its jurisdiction, and were entirely within its power to resolve. Meanwhile, the 9 million deaths…

There is risk to capital. The government does not bail out every business that fails. That's ludicrous. Investors like VCs can and do lose their investments all the time with no go…

It's none of those. It's a representative considering the interests of multiple stakeholders and acknowledging the deleterious effects that well-intentioned legislation can have. I…

Sometimes this translates even down to the individual level. I've watched a lot of police bodycam videos and it's surprising how many people make their situation worse by being lou…

I'd hope we could be nuanced enough to differentiate lobbying and bribing. "Bribing" is what you do in Russia or Tunisia when a cop pulls you over and you slip him $100 to get him …

I don’t think you’re correct in saying “the Western forces deny that any occupation takes place” considering the US State Department regards them as occupied https://www.state.gov/…

No it doesn’t “amount to genocide in all but name”. Genocide is a very specific crime with a very specific special intent. All of what you named are possible without a genocide.

I could be missing something but I don’t think any of those three have ever been convicted by the ICC. The examples are domestic crimes because the argument is that the US doesn’t …

- You act like it’s unreasonable for the United States to not want US citizens held by bodies the United States doesn’t recognize the authority of. No sovereign country would accep…

The US putting a bounty on the head of an internationally-recognized terrorist and leader of a violent non-state actor like Al-Qaeda is nowhere near comparable to an international …

Foreign interference is almost always bad and against the interests of national security. Lobbying on domestic policy actually has some important uses.

> Why don’t we just wait to see how things play out before making that kind of judgment? The car was announced in November 2019 - almost 5 years ago. Delivery was delayed by 2 year…

The media is an important business, but I just don't have a lot of respect for The Intercept as a publication. The two biggest blows I can think of are the Tara Reade story and a s…

What's propagandistic about it? It seems pretty clear from my perspective that the Snowden papers were a high watermark of Greenwald's career. Everything else since then has been a…

I feel like this is equivocating a bit. Scientific papers exist to put forth an argument and change minds, yes. That’s the entire point of science as an endeavor. It’s not perfect,…