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> people born with family whealth (sic) Most successful Phillips Exeter graduate doesn't quite have that ring for the Horatio Alger idea that is being pushed.
The US military just shifted its bloody campaigns in Afghanistan and Libya to a bloody war against Russia, a focus of its new massive military budget while it cries poverty regarding the needs of even its own workers…
This article goes on about progress for blacks in the US...a half century ago the New York City magnet school Stuyvesant had hundreds of black students (over 300). In recent years the number accepted each year has been…
The Russian military has been in the Crimea since the time there were British redcoats stationed in New York City, before the USA existed.
Karl Marx said unemployment was a foundational necessity of capitalism (although not the feudalism that preceded capitalism), so I don't see this program lasting long (…
> The only body that makes decisions about Taiwan is the Taiwanese government. It has 100% control of the land within its borders. Being that the Taiwanese government claims Beijing and Shanghai as being within its…
> Taiwan as a sovereign state Does the USA recognize Taiwan as a sovereign state? No. Does the PRC recognize Taiwan as a sovereign state? No. Does Taiwan recognize itself as a sovereign state separate from mainland…
> we can _learn_ to want to be another gender If that is true, then cookie cutter expected gender behavior can be "learned" as well. In fact much of it was illegal in the US a few decades ago.
It's not like a socialist country could invent things like a satellite, and be the society that figures out how to send a man into space, probes to the moon and other planets - oh yaa, a socialist country is the first…
It's a strawman argument for founders, but I am fairly sure it is made out of ignorance. Let's say a sole founder buys $100,000 worth of Amazon Cloud, Nvidia cards, smartphones etc. Yes, one person is at the company,…
Chomsky condemned the US ground invasion and carpet bombing of Kampuchea, which destabilized the country and I'm guessing the mass death of civilians from does not fit into your genocide definition. In 1975 the…
I have to laugh about all these comments talking about the left and pedophilia, as if conservative religious organizations are not rife with child molestation.
> Prepare to wait for another 30 years until this can be openly and honestly discussed in Germany: until the perpetrators and their then-allies are all dead. In 1977, a date the article mentions, the president of the…
> a blind eye to Russia occupying Crimea The Russia military was "occupying Crimea" back when there were British redcoats occupying New York City. The Russian military has been there since that time. The only new…
> Fertility rates in the US cratered after 2008...These women would probably have more kids if it was easier to have a single income household...Our education system and economy, in particular, causes people to spread…
Well let's see which health experts signed it... Roger Severino, vice president of the Heritage Foundation. He's a lawyer with no medical training. I guess his credentials for health is Trump appointed him as an HHS…
Coronavirus hit New Zealand in 2020, and by May 2nd twenty people had died. New Zealand implemented lockdowns and ordered vaccines, although they took a while to come. By the end of October 2021, 28 people had died of…
> Enough people think Gough was bonkers There is much discussion about how in the cold war, a swath of countries from East Germany to China ran as states led by one party. Not much discussed is how many western aligned…
Three years before this Clinton, the US Congress and corporate media cheered as Yeltsin shelled the Russian parliament with the help of the Russian Army. The idea was to support a strongman Russian president with tight…
> what exactly are you contributing to hacker culture? This is a board run by an incubator investment firm, so I don't really view it as an outpost of hacker culture. I have been reading here over the past week here…
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> people born with family whealth (sic) Most successful Phillips Exeter graduate doesn't quite have that ring for the Horatio Alger idea that is being pushed.
The US military just shifted its bloody campaigns in Afghanistan and Libya to a bloody war against Russia, a focus of its new massive military budget while it cries poverty regarding the needs of even its own workers…
This article goes on about progress for blacks in the US...a half century ago the New York City magnet school Stuyvesant had hundreds of black students (over 300). In recent years the number accepted each year has been…
The Russian military has been in the Crimea since the time there were British redcoats stationed in New York City, before the USA existed.
Karl Marx said unemployment was a foundational necessity of capitalism (although not the feudalism that preceded capitalism), so I don't see this program lasting long (…
> The only body that makes decisions about Taiwan is the Taiwanese government. It has 100% control of the land within its borders. Being that the Taiwanese government claims Beijing and Shanghai as being within its…
> Taiwan as a sovereign state Does the USA recognize Taiwan as a sovereign state? No. Does the PRC recognize Taiwan as a sovereign state? No. Does Taiwan recognize itself as a sovereign state separate from mainland…
> we can _learn_ to want to be another gender If that is true, then cookie cutter expected gender behavior can be "learned" as well. In fact much of it was illegal in the US a few decades ago.
It's not like a socialist country could invent things like a satellite, and be the society that figures out how to send a man into space, probes to the moon and other planets - oh yaa, a socialist country is the first…
It's a strawman argument for founders, but I am fairly sure it is made out of ignorance. Let's say a sole founder buys $100,000 worth of Amazon Cloud, Nvidia cards, smartphones etc. Yes, one person is at the company,…
Chomsky condemned the US ground invasion and carpet bombing of Kampuchea, which destabilized the country and I'm guessing the mass death of civilians from does not fit into your genocide definition. In 1975 the…
I have to laugh about all these comments talking about the left and pedophilia, as if conservative religious organizations are not rife with child molestation.
> Prepare to wait for another 30 years until this can be openly and honestly discussed in Germany: until the perpetrators and their then-allies are all dead. In 1977, a date the article mentions, the president of the…
> a blind eye to Russia occupying Crimea The Russia military was "occupying Crimea" back when there were British redcoats occupying New York City. The Russian military has been there since that time. The only new…
> Fertility rates in the US cratered after 2008...These women would probably have more kids if it was easier to have a single income household...Our education system and economy, in particular, causes people to spread…
Well let's see which health experts signed it... Roger Severino, vice president of the Heritage Foundation. He's a lawyer with no medical training. I guess his credentials for health is Trump appointed him as an HHS…
Coronavirus hit New Zealand in 2020, and by May 2nd twenty people had died. New Zealand implemented lockdowns and ordered vaccines, although they took a while to come. By the end of October 2021, 28 people had died of…
> Enough people think Gough was bonkers There is much discussion about how in the cold war, a swath of countries from East Germany to China ran as states led by one party. Not much discussed is how many western aligned…
Three years before this Clinton, the US Congress and corporate media cheered as Yeltsin shelled the Russian parliament with the help of the Russian Army. The idea was to support a strongman Russian president with tight…
> what exactly are you contributing to hacker culture? This is a board run by an incubator investment firm, so I don't really view it as an outpost of hacker culture. I have been reading here over the past week here…