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How do I know the earth didn't spontaneously appear into existence yesterday? This line of argumentation is stupid.

The desire to be "centrist" on HN is perplexing to me. The fact that Elon, a white south african, made his AI go crazy by adding some text about "white genocide", is factual and sh…

Holy shit I can't imagine being so anti-human that I would worship a piece of paper. Pray to your contract Gods bud, I'll live my life the way I want

It also conveniently benefits him greatly.

Remember when Gates refused to lift IP restrictions on the COVID vaccine https://www.wired.com/story/opinion-the-world-loses-under-bi...

Bernie is a good example of the alternative approach. I personally don't think he's radical enough, but he promises people things and makes people feel listened to. If you can esta…

From what I have seen, personally, the younger guys that would follow in their dad's footsteps and enter trades do not because of a few reasons: 1. Their dads tell them to go to co…

Damn maybe if the democrats didn't kill any progressive or grassroots momentum, or ceded ground to conservatives on issues like the border (Kamala endorsing building the wall) they…

See my other response in the thread. It's not about being more right than fascists. Fascists always lie that's their main strategy. If you want to defeat them though you cant just …

Sure yeah conservative leaders are evil most of us get that. My point is that if you want to WIN if you want to DEFEAT fascists you have to change tactics. You can't just ignore pe…

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Yeah this completely ignores the fact that many people would rather work on making things with their hands that they can physically see, rather than pushing numbers around on a spr…

You have too much faith in US leadership.

What could go wrong?

Ask and don't tell people not to be concerned about their own government systems that you know nothing about.

> Are you expecting a perfect system that would never even accost an innocent man? Or do you suggest we just give up and eliminate all such enforcement? Eliminate all enforcement. …

Maybe if you don't know anything then don't comment.

The problem is a large portion of Americans are either ignorant or chauvinists who don't know what happened in Chile in 1973, or anything about history/politics at all for that mat…

Dude come on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_imperialism#Strategy Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Guam, American Samoa, are locations that are directly under US control. The entire western h…

My pet theory is that he was in his 30s when the Plaza Accords happened and they really imprinted on him. If the rising Japanese economy could be brought to heel then so could the …

The Five Eyes Nations are part of the US Empire, that is a correct assessment.

You realize that an Empire does not need to be configured the exact same way as the Roman Empire, right? A combination of soft power, clandestine operations, and targeted military …

> The American Empire never existed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...

I think the collapse of the American Empire is no more preventible than the collapse of the British, Spanish, or Roman empires. The issues with the US being the reserve currency ha…

America's gun culture is very closely tied to its settler culture. Most right wing gun nuts are barely able to conceal their fears/hopes for a race war in all but name. That said, …