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Comment · 1 year ago
Risking American lives? How many Americans have died in the war as a result of US aid?
Comment · 1 year ago
The reason why terms like nazi, racist, sexist etc did not affect Trump's chances is because his voting base _does not care_ that he is those things. The right wing in America, magnitudes more than the left, does not care about the personal qualities of their chosen candidate, only about whether he advances their agenda. Why do so many nominal Christians vote for Trump despite him being a cheater, hoarder, and a person who otherwise embodies so many of the qualities the Bible cautions against? It is, again, because they will cook up any number of excuses and denials to justify their support as long as he hurts those they consider the enemy. The only way to make the application of those terms hurt Trump would have been to make the population care about them in the first place (beyond the thinnest veneer of superficial handwringing) which would have required a much stronger education system than America has.
Comment · 1 year ago
Not actively malicious perhaps, but prioritising profits over lives is evil. Either you take care to make sure the systems you sell lead to the best possible outcomes, or you get out of the sector.
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Comment · 1 year ago
Is the US responsible for any crime committed by members of ships that fly the star-spangled banner?
Comment · 2 years ago
What is the difference between propaganda and someone expressing their view?
Comment · 2 years ago
I think turning a fledgling democracy into a kleptocratic dictatorship and starting an unjust war that has caused 500k casualties is at least on par with the worst the US has done in recent history like Iraq.
Comment · 2 years ago
Capitalism is a system that inevitably destroys its own guardrails.
Comment · 2 years ago
Arguably it is far more authoritarian to enforce private ownership over social ownership.
Comment · 2 years ago
Tinfoil? That is where we are headed. To handwave away concerns about where the current trajectory is going is very dismissive.
Comment · 2 years ago
Why comment when you have no way of knowing, when the OP is themselves available to answer?
Comment · 2 years ago
>why don't we have more prestigious universities?

Legacy families need prestigious universities to be rare and exclusive so that them having gone there increases in value. They already know that their kids will get in so making top universities more exclusive only has benefits for them.

Comment · 2 years ago
What could we do with more accurate atomic clocks that we cannot do with current ones?
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Comment · 2 years ago
It's not everyone's cup of tea but Kit Kat is an experience you won't find in many other places.

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