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Neither Ukraine nor Israel have reached this hypothetical technological era in which a draft is not required, and those facts are inescapable to any American in those countries obs…

A more sophisticated thinker would ask questions like "from which people's perspective?" and "at what point in time?" These questions would give you access to critical insights, on…

>But you're delusional if you think some alternative power would have been gentler. You're saying that people who don't agree with a non-falsifiable claim about hypothetical altern…

I can tell you're not in Ukraine or Israel right now. Would you like to know how?

Would the abstract "one" you're thinking of happen to be a middle class college educated American who has never been on the receiving end of American benevolence in the form of sat…

"All we did was fulfill a contract for a government agency" is the enterprise tech Nuremberg defense.

> overall the world is a better place with American hegemony expressed through her military superiority. This seems like a non-falsifiable claim about the future, even if it can be…

For whom?

Nothing says "we're concerned about AI risk and harm to human life" quite like partnering with the military-industrial complex. It's even better timing to do this while the Pentago…

As you said, innocent suffering in a conflict is inevitable. Is the logical axiom that international shipping which is connected to the US and Israeli economies is more innocent th…

What does the word honest mean, I have no choice but to post here instead of using a search engine

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This makes perfect sense when you consider that all of the people who will benefit from this will be dead or far away in very large estates by the time the negative externalities b…

We're talking about Israel intentionally killing their own hostages, right?

I don't understand what you're saying: https://www.nytimes.com/1982/08/13/world/reagan-demands-end-... Are you saying that Israel has received less military and economic aid since?…

Saying that supporting a government which has made dozens of public statements that convey unambigious genocidal intent with the actions that seem in line with this intent is one w…

It's been over 2 whole years since they removed the confederate stars and bars from the state flag, why always with the prying questions?

> These things happen. "It's not a placed to dump inconvenient bodies, it's just a place where at least some of the bodies are people of known identity who were killed by police or…

We all only have a coinflip chance of inferring tone online so I wouldn't feel bad. It's also possible I misinterpreted both your comment and the OP to a degree. There's a lot of p…

I think your reading is uncharitable. Luxembourg has a 6% unemployment rate, the US has a 3.7% unemployment rate, and North Korea has a 0% unemployment rate. Those unemployment num…

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No apology needed, and I can believe it! I happen to have some personal contacts in Hue who are in middle but in the divide between northern and southern communists they were treat…

>In my experience, northern Kosovo and Republika Srpska are the very hotbeds of banging on about Serb identity and national character in the region, more than Beograd. Most definit…

You sound like you’re from Belgrade and have never been to Kosova or Bosnia or even to the countryside. Would you prefer to say “western Balkans” or do you presume to also speak fo…

The ownership class will do anything to stop fascism except allow the public to vote on the continuous upward transfer of wealth from the workforce to the already wealthy. War and …