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To the coffers of the CCP.

Should we still be giving the benefit of the doubt to a Chinese-owned honeypot in 2020?

Far-left ideology has claimed more lives than far-right ideology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_killings_under_communist_...

OP says: > This is not a conscious act. It's more like gravity. Gallivanting glaciers. Or weather. I'm saying it's naïve to believe this, along with the other incidents mentioned w…

NYT subscribers: to cancel your subscription online, change your address to California and a button will appear allowing you to cancel immediately. Unsubscribing won’t change much,…

It would be naïve to believe the west is immune. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution

NYT subscribers: to cancel your subscription online, change your address to California and a button will appear allowing you to cancel immediately. Unsubscribing won’t change much,…

NPR isn't explicitly biased, but it does lean left. A recent example: > Even In A Pandemic, WHO Believes That Public Protests Are Important > June 8, 2020 5:40 PM ET https://www.np…

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The NYT should be seen as a tech company. The New York Times Company is a multibillion dollar multinational. One can argue that its monetisation has improved even as its audience h…

If you haven't read it, I Can Tolerate Anything Except The Outgroup (archive link required now): https://web.archive.org/web/20200419232247/https://slatestar...

Taleb isn't targeting well-educated laymen when he talks of IYIs. He's speaking of intellectuals who are divorced from reality. As he puts it, "No skin in the game", e.g. economist…

GGS lays out well reasoned arguments for historical disparities, though in the 21st century geographical burdens all but disappear.

There is no going back. The "normalcy" won't return to big western cities. Take a few, e.g. NY, London, Seattle, SF, Paris. Each of these cities were already crippled with homeless…

That's the point. It prevents oligopolies forming (as we have now), short of them producing enough value per user to cut them a sizeable payment. All the problems of big tech disap…

They wouldn't need to. Read ActBlue's own fine print: https://secure.actblue.com/content/fineprint > In the event that a campaign or committee (a) fails for 60 days to cash a check…

But BLM through ActBlue (DNC) aren't skirting those same regulations?

The larger looming issue is we're seeing big tech selectively enforce their rules and guidelines. They've become arbiters of truth and virtue.

Private schooling in inherently exclusive. This is the prime motivator. It ensures their children will only have peers of a similar socioeconomic background.

> suburbia sucks wealth away because the infrastructure costs too much to sustain While cost to sustain is relatively static, the price homeowners are willing to endure for the ups…