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Comment #13392908
I'm confused, is Colorado Care actually working in CO right now? Quick search seems to indicate that Amendment 69 has failed: http://www.denverpost.com/2016/11/08/coloradocare-amen…
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Comment #13353091
Just like someone with low IQ and GPA and born in the US is in, but someone with high IQ but not lucky enough to come out of a vagina in the US is out.
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Comment #13303230
Ha, you haven't even seen the super-low salaries yet.
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Comment #13303147
In Santa Monica, does that translate to "don't be poor"?
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Comment #13301292
> Can't see the last few lasting much longer. I believe the remaining ones are effectively TV studios for business channels, so they have a completely different purpose now.
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Comment #13301256
Yes. However, I was merely applying gizmo686's criterion of a crime, "it has to be a standard that was at force at the time of the attack", to Nazis in similar fashion as (s)he app…
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Comment #13298306
Yes. My point was that if atrocities against civilians in Hiroshima or Dresden were not crimes by gizmo686's logic above, then neither were Nazi atrocities, and Nuremberg and Tokyo…
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Comment #13298058
> Keep in mind, that it has to be a standard that was at force at the time of the attack Does that mean that Nuremberg and Tokyo trials were just a farce?
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Comment #13297915
If you actually read both links I provided, you might find them interesting. Also, why shouldn't I quote r/AskHistorians when discussing historical events?
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Comment #13297778
Japan was ready to surrender before they got nuked, as long as they kept the Emperor. There was literally no need to kill all those civilians. https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorian…
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Comment #13297770
What was the point of demanding unconditional surrender when Japan was ready to surrender before being nuked, if it kept the Emperor system?
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Comment #13297296
Well at least one US president actually did nuke civilians, on purpose, twice, instead of merely talking about it. Another fire bombed them. And that's even before Vietnam, Laos, I…
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Comment #13230716
That's my Google Maps traffic experience pretty much daily. The section of the map that I actually need NOW is all of a sudden not rendering exactly when I need it, but hey here's …
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Comment #13211592
> French Wikipedia has a better definition: the elimination of inequality and social classes. So "ownership of means of production" is simply the next step, an answer to an inevita…
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Comment #13209276
Socialism is when workers own their means of production. What you described isn't socialism nor communism.
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Comment #13146250
All those people participated in breaking the laws they saw as unjust. From Underground Railroad in the 19th century to sitting in white-only sections in the 20th. People hiding Je…
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Comment #13142462
I wonder what America would have been like if slavery abolitionists, women's suffrage leaders, and Civil Rights leaders took your advice.
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Comment #13142385
> We are by no means perfect, but I think nations which are able to acknowledge and learn from the mistakes of their past have a leg up on those that try to pretend everything was …
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Comment #13139857
Ukrainians who lived in Crimea got full Russian citizenship too, but I'm not sure if that makes it fair and a done deal for the rest of the Ukrainians. But I thought my other point…
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Comment #13139625
> No, they hate us for our overly zealous anti-communism that drove us to forcefully prop up dictatorships/extremist groups (Panama, Cuba, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, al Qaeda, etc.), and …
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Comment #13139514
Or just google "icebox detention" to see what's happening now, not in the 1940s. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/19/us/photos-show-conditions-...
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Comment #13139432
Because former are inhuman and latter a human? The most jarring part, of course, is that most of "illegal aliens" are rural Mexicans of Native American heritage, being detained in …
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Comment #13097878
That's not true. There are many scenarios how one can live legally in the US for more than 6 years as a non-immigrant. E.g F-1 student visa for 4+2+4 years (Bachelors through PhD),…