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Comment · 6 years ago
Who are you kidding man? We glorify murderers every day, we just call them police officers, soldiers, DHS, etc. The American way of life depends on glorifying murderers as it is a huge portion of our income. I don't believe in violence, and that part of the Unabomber manifesto / his actions where abhorrent.

However, the first paragraph of his manifesto describes the 21st century perfectly.

Comment · 6 years ago
On the reverse, a gaming company with the intent of catering to the zionist crowd could create a CoD-styled game focused on slaughtering Palestinian "terrorists", and it would be a huge hit amongst American jews and evangelicals. There would be no outrage, and republican politicians who spend all of their free time railing against video games would become vocal advocates for gaming.
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Comment · 6 years ago
As a Turk, I Believe that all games I play are of American or Japanese origin.
Comment · 6 years ago
This is why cryptocurrencies are so popular in Venezuela.
Comment · 6 years ago
I'm curious where you get your statistics from? Do they break down the transfer students' details, ie, how many of them are US students and how many are from China? The competition against rich Chinese students for getting accepted into Cal has gotten more and more fierce the past 20 years.
Comment · 6 years ago
When a company uses the word "family" to describe themselves, run for the hills!
Comment · 6 years ago
The problem with the Brunner test is that it is very rarely applied, and applied inconsistently. The test itself is incredibly vague in specifics and is pretty much at the discretion of the judges, who generally always rule on the side of the government, which makes sense, the government pays their salary.

I have one friend who is permanently disabled and spent 4 years trying to get his student loans forgiven. He gave up and fled the USA.

The courts have fought tooth and nail in the interest of their corporate overlords to prevent the Brunner test being invoked.

If more judges do the right thing and allow the Brunner test to actually be applied, it will have a significant impact.

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