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- June 4, 2010 (16y ago)
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This is my separate account for nontechnical political discussion. I do not use it to vote; but only to comment when I believe the range of opinion doesn't include anything close to mine.
(I do worry about accidentally clicking one of those irreversible upvote buttons.)
So people can better judge my stances, I do not agree with the ideology of capitalism, nor with nation-states. I believe more advanced societies are possible where political and economic spheres are bottom up and decentralized.
The US has the highest incarceration rate in the world, so it unfortunately looks very American. (If "American" refers to the US alone.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_incarceration_rat...
Yes, sports news is generally held up as the highest-quality news by media critics. They think it's maybe an outlet for people's intelligence, where very sophisticated analysis is common and the audience isn't afraid to…
There are people with far worse jobs (if they have jobs at all), but the solution certainly isn't to shut up. A better solution is to spend a little of your time educating yourself and aiding others with their (and…
I enjoyed this essay, but the author makes unnecessary divisions. Many on the "extremes" have expressed all the positions he describes, to some extent. These aren't really incompatible frameworks, unless they're taken…
When reading comments on articles like this, I wonder if I'm in the minority, or whether people just don't want to get caught publicly supporting a social taboo in front of potential customers and employers. There's…
On China, Martin Hart-Landsberg had a couple informative articles on Monthly Review. (I didn't know Lenovo came from the Chinese Academy of Sciences.) http://monthlyreview.org/100201hart-landsberg.php…
I hope some teachers "cheated" on the tests for principled reasons, not just for personal reward, like this UMass teacher: http://books.google.com/books?id=x3ertj1IcaAC&lpg=PA62&#...
The poster you're responding to is correct. Michael Arrington uses heavy rhetoric, so we should probably translate "handouts" to mean expensive economic intervention which benefits an industry. Silicon Valley's…
That comment uses an odd rhetorical technique -- the poster claims that the article uses "blatant doublespeak"... while ironically writing a long response claiming that he's refusing to write the response that he's…
In response to your question, your post currently has 9 points, and virtually all it offers is an ad-hominem implication (people who are merely interested in this article aren't "critical thinkers", presumably unlike…
This essay from the right-wing thinktank Heritage Foundation is flawed. It attempts to argue that while food insecurity exists, it isn't a problem; those who suffer from it actually have too much to eat, and just don't…