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naijaboiler

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    Comment #48593563

    I compare it basketball. Due to the goal being 10ft in the air, it structurally biased against shorter people. You don’t need actually size-ist for it to exist. It’s just inherent …

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    Comment #48593204

    There’s one thing you can guarantee in America. If it puts the interests of high income people vs everyday income people, the policies favoring the rich will almost always win out.…

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    Comment #48241252

    whats all this talk about 20% wealth tax. We are asking for 1% per year, and the rich are still screaming. damn I pay more than that on my house.

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    Comment #48241221

    i hate when people bring it up. everybody that works pays payroll taxes which is around 25% when you count both sides.

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    Comment #48082829

    i disagree with you. The author is pointing at deeper cultural issue of lack of candor that unaddressed allows things like sexual abuse to flourish. It is an organization that is n…

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    Comment #47872566

    Good analogy except a human is several orders in magnitude more complex than that

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    Comment #47872522

    I'm a doctor who used to be an engineer. Deriving things from first principles in medicine is a lie we doctors tell ourselves.the truth is this.we have some really good understandi…

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    Comment #47350971

    it did. GFC was a financial recession no doubt, but oil prices was one of the final things that tipped everything over. Oil prices climbed high, slowed economic activity a bit, and…

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    Comment #46589912

    Conservatives all over have 1 disease. They are incapable of abstract empathy. Until it personally happens to them, or someone very very close to them, they are incapable of notici…

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    Comment #46589855

    big business will always act in the interest of big business. Only a stupid business man will confront the full-might of the executive branch of the federal government heads on, pa…

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    Comment #46589828

    58% of Americans were okay with goverment shooting at protesting students at Kent State shooting.

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    Comment #46491920

    same usually, i read this and see this some flawed or hackneyed tripe. But these ones are actually true and anyone who has had a long career and led people and product will resonat…

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    Comment #46491904

    we are human being interacting with other human beings. what you call "kissing ass" is just learning to influence and work with other humans. It is by far the most useful skill to …

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    Comment #46489299

    those are trends. prior to that, it was nike airforces. A business like Nike can't build their business solely on trends. Trends are cyclical, they can bring you massive windfalls,…

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    Comment #46489243

    turned 40, switched to Brooks and my feet thank me everyday for it. I only wear 1 black brooks adrenaline GTS. Rain, sunshine, snow, indoor, outdoor, running, it doesn't matter. Wo…

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    Comment #46476560

    Correct. Most americans view those targetted strikes as just continuation of the broader wars against terrorism (AQ, AQ++, ISIS affiliates)

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    Comment #46476532

    - against ISIL, againg al-Qaeda - UN Security Counsil resolution All those are either against some terrorist organization or its multi-country sanctioned.

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    Comment #46476425

    Afghanistan was more justifiable. The argument was that it was a failed government that housed a terrorist organization that just attacked US. What Iraq had to with it, i honestly …

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    Comment #46334800

    wrong. confession is the pimary way most people get convicted

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    Comment #46285744

    Exactly pricing discrimination (i.e. selling at different prices to different customers) is absolutely legal and is market efficient in a market with multiple sellers and multiple …

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    Comment #46044546

    you are talking economics. you have to realize America is weird inherently racist country. Enough people here will rather be economically worse off as long as it means their taxes …

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    Comment #46044446

    i just got quoted 300/wk for 2-day daycare

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    Comment #45933770

    That’s exactly and inherently what capitalism is. Rate of return on capital is higher than rate of return on labor. The people with capital continue to pull ahead. And in America, …

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    Comment #45933578

    I think he’s rather arguing that no language is perfectly translatable to another. He only uses “untranslatable word” an instance of that claim

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    Comment #45882463

    No sir, everybody does not break laws. Only people who routinely do like Trump thinks everyone else is doing it. That’s why he’s so sure he can find cases against his perceived pol…