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> What happens if police officers and prison guards go on strike? > When New York police officers temporarily reduced their “proactive policing” efforts on low-level offenses, majo…

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you're completely deranged. socialism/communism is barely mentioned at all in the public school system, and never in a positive light. the genocide of native americans was not disc…

the far-right in Europe is resurgent largely on the back of anti-migrant racism and hysteria, and that's with a crisis involving 5-6 million people. now imagine things with 25 mill…

literally all of them? toxic masculinity is not about the traits themselves being inherently bad, it's about them being elevated to the point of excluding other things, and the unh…

their agenda is less non-White people in the US. it fits with that perfectly.

You sound like a sociopath.

Gandhi was hardly the sole arbiter of Indian resistance. In fact their success in fighting colonial rule was dependent on the reality that there were people like Bhagat Singh who w…

> The use of force by the state to entrench the position and profits of a particular business This is a natural and obvious end following from the foundation of capitalism, which i…

> Drugs in the UK exist but not in an epidemic. Teenagers and students smoke weed and then move on this is not at all true from my understanding of MDMA usage in the UK

> A liberal constitutional democracy does not have any more ability to make you disappear than Facebook does. oh for sure bud "The disappeared: Chicago police detain Americans at a…

there was a post on here a few months ago detailing something very similar, but for video, not audio. I can't recall the name unfortunately. edit found it https://news.ycombinator.…

mutual aid is a wonderful thing

> nor can you make downhill skiing accessible for four-limb paraplegics BS, we can and already have. here's a paraplegic person dropping in on one of the steepest in-bounds runs in…

absolutely, and the scary thing is that > I’m just one giant disaster away from this kind of thing. this is true for the vast majority of Americans, given that somewhere between 60…

> it’s very proletariat. I think you have your terminology backwards here, I figure you meant bourgeoisie

'Per Thomas Piketty roughly 60% of America's wealth is inherited, meaning most of America's riches are owned by people who didn't work for them.' https://twitter.com/_cingraham/sta…

capitalism IS control, at the most basic level control of private property ensured by the state

access to people and information

somewhat unfortunate vicious cycle it seems like, engineers either don't consider the ramifications of what they build or are willing to handwave it away, until it all starts to co…

> It's a necessary evil but I sincerely believe we're all better off except for the million dead Iraqi civilians that is