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Comment #49011689
The strawman of someone telling to do research of the US commiting genocide in Iran? It's not a serious comment, again trying to split the topic.
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Comment #49009270
> "not trying to take away from Ukraine atrocities but making an effort to try to take away from Ukraine atrocities" Right.
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Comment #49009141
This is just a big whataboustim attempt.
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Comment #49006643
It matters within the context of this comment thread about a company using assets from specific state commiting genocide that had caused more than 2 million casualties in 4 years. …
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Comment #49006385
No, it's simpler than that - there's an ongoing genocide in Ukraine, a country that was at peace and posed threat to no one. The guys that surrendered their nukes in exchange for s…
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Comment #49005084
Why are you trying to divert the topic? You don't think the genocide in Ukraine has enough scale of a tragedy, with more than 2 million casualties since 2022? Isn't this enough to …
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Comment #49004728
Why are you making an effort to split the conversation away from the matter at hand? Isn't the genocide of Ukraine enough of a subject? Because this is a typical pattern. Stay focu…
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Comment #49004509
Well the last time the US committed genocide of a culture was way before any tech company was founded, while Russia is doing it since 2022 - by their own admission. If we count of …
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Comment #49004157
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Comment #49004122
The difference is information manipulation, like misinformation. While there should be a complete sanction of Russian products, cod is cod, it's a consumable that has to follow pub…
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Comment #48917858
In the end isn't this just the long tail of signaling wealth? Having what others don't. Not only they don't have, but they can't have it, and faking it won't cut it. Like a lot of …
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Comment #48830652
I'm not being unable to separate crime from policy, you're the one trying to dilute both as showing a signal to policy change. If this was just a political action to take down just…
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Comment #48822840
Well it isn't much contortionism when you look at the big picture you'll find that corruption is an institution in some countries. For example, you're making an effort to try legit…
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Comment #48822376
There's been a lot of pressure to break the EU for quite some time, and now even the US is also aiming for this. It's a lot of misinformation and funding from too many countries, f…
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Comment #48814616
One thing that stood out to me some years ago and I found interesting is that depending on the language I'm using my thought patterns kind of change. Putting in another term, I thi…
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Comment #48808159
For some time a lot of people though these guys were going to be the "cool" elites that can influence the government positively, and people were willing to vote for this administra…
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Comment #48796247
Not at all, just that tech companies should take action on this matter
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Comment #48784083
With the massive bot networks shoving misinformation and propaganda, it's also a new infrastructure that will destabilize a lot of countries unfortunately.
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Comment #48671484
The problem was mainly the income not following inflation.
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Comment #48657406
Yes my phrasing was deliberately like that because I think that's the general sentiment. I don't think Valve has high margins with this when you factor in assembly and distribution…
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Comment #48656769
I don't think the problem is that there aren't people in the market for it, but more that increasingly products that used to be meant for the average middle class are now perks for…
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Comment #48587367
I think just accepting that is more than enough, the US, and Western countries have been target of foreign propaganda and internal self flagellation for old and new imperialism, to…
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Comment #48552259
How does this comment contribute to the discussion?
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Comment #48547617
Eh, at this point that means nothing, let's see: If it's Russia, the biggest colonialist country in the world, using Neo Nazi "PMC", or trying to annex neighboring countries, it's …
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Comment #48528710
Which internships are better? Explaining things to the US leadership? Or to the Chinese leadership?