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Kissinger picked targets in Cambodia. He gave the instruction to bomb “anything that flies, anything that moves” [1] [2] [1] https://gsp.yale.edu/sites/default/files/walrus_cambodiabomb... [2] https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB123/3%20%20Kissinger...
From your own selected sources, we have Kissinger telling Nixon that the Air Force isn’t designed for this, but has to relay Nixon’s orders to General Haig.
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Kissinger picked targets in Cambodia. He gave the instruction to bomb “anything that flies, anything that moves” [1] [2] [1] https://gsp.yale.edu/sites/default/files/walrus_cambodiabomb... [2] https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB123/3%20%20Kissinger...
From your own selected sources, we have Kissinger telling Nixon that the Air Force isn’t designed for this, but has to relay Nixon’s orders to General Haig.
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Liberty, rule of law etc. For all its shortcomings, the US-dominated part of the world has more of that than the rest.
> Liberty, rule of law Maybe you should read about Kissinger and his relation with the above.
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Reading through the descriptions of the episodes of this podcast it seems a lot like they start with a conclusion and then confirmation bias themselves (and everyone else who already agrees with them). Maybe not the most objective source.
You're expecting a podcast titled "Behind the Bastards" to be an objective source?
anyways for me it was a reminder that the world is not fair.
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That's very common. Basically all elderly people of note have obituaries written by reporters on staff so that an article can be gotten out quickly if the subject dies suddenly. Not uncommonly, the targets of the obituary are of a higher class and have better medical treatment and so live beyond their obituary writer.
In this case, Kaufman died at 71 of an incurable cancer though.
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for me it was the great late Christopher Hitchens and his crusade against Kissinger https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=christopher+hit...
Direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ant6tY-MOIk
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I absolutely would refuse to buy tools from a manufacturer that makes user hostile UX decisions on purpose.
That rule seems like it would lock you out of pretty much all modern technology pretty quickly, to be honest. What do you use for daily computer/mobile use? What white goods manufacturers do you go for? A company will make user-hostile decisions the second it knows (or thinks) it can get away with it with a profit - fully featured, long lasting, sensibly built hardware is, sadly, not actually good for business.
My computer is Linux and most software fully open-source. None of it is user hostile on purpose. I put all the pieces together myself, and if anything is missing I have all the power to change it. For LLM/AI access specifically I am planning to pay hundreds or thousands of dollars to efficiently self-host some of the more open ones.
For everything else it's very much a "least bad choice" type deal since you don't have control as a user. Though, it still makes me feel a bit better every time I pay extra for a product that has one less bad feature than the competition. I'm talking about planned obsolescence, user lock-in, "smart" features, and other stuff I try to purposefully avoid.
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The reasons have much more to do with much better diets, getting better sleep, not working stressful and physically demanding and dangerous jobs, etc.
Turns out that being able to afford a better life leads to a longer life.
In other words, everyone would probably live to ~110 in a perfect, stressor-free world.