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All business, regardless of home country, exploits 3rd world labor. American companies are actually some of the most humane when it comes to this. But let's just keep bashing Ameri…

But it's not foundational to America's success. That's just propoganda for people who want to diminish and belittle America. America grew to its present power due to its industry n…

It's more about introducing HN to some diversity of opinion. I thought we all agreed echo chambers are bad.

Ever heard of industrial farming?

This is true, but it's a matter of abstract ideals vs concrete benefits. Who are we to tell people in a poor community that certain economic development cannot take place because i…

It's hilarious that the continued existence of all species presently on Earth at this very moment has become some sort of moral imperative in the minds of activists. Let's flip the…

It's perfectly reasonable to consider cost - which is what this move entails - when deciding whether or not to protect a species. We already employ this calculus, in that we are no…

Some try, fewer truly succeed. It's one thing to reject your nature, it's quite another to not live in some lingering dissonance as a result.

What? We're far wealthier in the US than the vast majority of the world. It's not propaganda, it's data and fact. Healthcare and education are generally more expensive here than in…

Competition is as innate to animal life as is breathing. It's naive to think we can simply ignore our drive to compete with one another, as naive as thinking we can ignore hunger t…

But violent revolutionaries almost never have credible or effective alternatives to the current system. That's why they have to resort to violence, their arguments for why things h…

It's not just the journalists who tend to be anti-male. The psychological and sociological establishments have been subtly anti-male for a long time. An example of how this anti-ma…

We'll be fine. We already have the tool to save the climate (nuclear), just need to actually use it.

>"that's really weird " Not really, given that our use of pesticides allows us to feed billions of people worldwide at low cost. Rates of hunger in the developed world are almost n…

It may be true that Russia is trying to orchestrate disinformation campaigns around the world, but it is simply preying on feelings that are already quite strong in the West. It is…

China is not Communist or Socialist though. They are basically fascist, or if you want to be strict about the definition of fascism they represent an entirely new form altogether.

I agree completely. I'm saying if we remove anonymity we won't need top down censorship.

I'd like to elaborate on the unity of the different elements of Chinese society you mention. Chinese institutions are all unified under a single structure, and that structure is th…

I believe the age of the anonymous internet is over. It's time for real world identity linked accounts for participating in online conversations. This is necessary for 2 reasons. F…