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Uzi Nissan (nissan.com) died of covid July 2020 and the website is now down

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Post by andrekandre »

pessimizer wrote: post #173
andrekandre wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> You have to put very strong constraints in place to prevent the stronger majority from harming the weaker minority; you have to put the democratic majority in a straight-jacket that limits their possible actions for the protection of the minority. in a democracy aren't all voices (votes) equal? if i have more money and power than you, at the ballot it doesn't matter, you and your weaker friends can overrule me no m…

If I have more money and power than you, your weaker friends will do what I say or starve, but that's beside the point. The point is that if your country is 51% Catholic and votes to exterminate the 49% of Protestants, that's democracy.

  > The point is that if your country is 51% Catholic and votes to exterminate the 49% of Protestants, that's democracy.
has that ever happened in a democracy where everyone had an equal vote and that vote was by everyone who could do so?

Re: Uzi Nissan (nissan.com) died of covid July 2020 and the website is now down

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Post by adastra22 »

exceptione wrote: post #196
Pulcinella wrote: post #165

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Please don’t do a whataboutism. This is about America and the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria, not Russia.

*Iraq* The Gulf War[b] was an armed campaign waged by a United States-led coalition of 35 countries against Iraq in response to the Iraqi invasion and annexation of Kuwait. «The Iraqi military invaded the neighbouring State of Kuwait on 2 August 1990 and fully occupied the country within two days. Different speculations have been made regarding the true intents behind the invasion, including Iraq's inability to pay K…

FYI Bin Laden was not a part of the Taliban.

Re: Uzi Nissan (nissan.com) died of covid July 2020 and the website is now down

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Post by Pakdef »

astrange wrote: post #121
Pakdef wrote: post #114

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> I personally renounced ever buying a Nissan again Personally, I stopped buying Nissan cars because of bad experiences/failed transmissions right after warranty expired.

Not because their Japanese executives had their US executives kidnapped and tortured by the police? https://asiatimes.com/2022/06/former-nissan-executive-greg-k...

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Post by nonrandomstring »

pessimizer wrote: post #171
nonrandomstring wrote: post #59

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> Large Corporations are powerful and will do everything they can to get what they want. In the scheme of ethical philosophy there is, pretty much by definition, the most extreme position of "might is right". The principle text on which is attributed to one "Ragnar Redbeard" [1]. The philosophy is simple. I may rob you, rape you, vandalise, ransack, lie, pillage and kill, for the one simple reason that I am stronger…

> The philosophy is simple. I may rob you, rape you, vandalise, ransack, lie, pillage and kill, for the one simple reason that I am stronger and you are the weaker. And the "rule of law" (insofar as it can exist) must recognise that as my legitimate right. It is obviously an infantile fantasy. Yet I see it echoed in various forms within these pages. No, it's an observation that's almost tautological; if you can't do…

> if you can't do what you want, you're not mighty.

I have to disagree. There are many mighty and powerful people who do not want to rob, rape, vandalise, ransack, lie, pillage and kill.

> If you require reality to conform to your innate sense of justice, you'll distort your perceptions of the world and react to things ineffectively.

Natural Law has its merits, however, innate or otherwise that's precisely what justice is. All governance modes of societies have criminal justice systems which in addition to incarceration and rehabilitation aim to deter/prevent. Yes, that requires a fair society, but to the extent that exists people do not want or need to rob, rape, vandalise, ransack, lie, pillage and kill. They are powerful, benevolent and satisfied.

The only distortion of reality I see is supposing a zero-sum world of schadenfreude and jealousy in which only relative power counts and you can't feel good about your power unless it comes at someone else's expense.

Re: Uzi Nissan (nissan.com) died of covid July 2020 and the website is now down

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Post by bmcahren »

chiph wrote: post #143
1-6 wrote: post #49

I wonder how much not having nissan.com affected Nissan’s business. I’m probably sure it’s tremendous.

Perhaps back when his fight with the automaker was going on. But typing "nissan" into Google has returned the automaker as the 1st result for quite a while now (SEO for the win). Someone would have to type the full domain name into their browser to end up at his site.

Many people who learned computers in the 90s still type in pets.com/google.com/Chevy.com before searching for what they want.
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