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I wrote a fairly long analysis on Naziism vs Italian Fascism buried deep in a comment chain where few will see it. Think I'll quote myself and pin it for those of you who (like me) come here to learn and see new perspectives.
@Oh_Pee_Em
@FischerKing64
@VonKoczalski
I don't know much about Pinochet, but I've studied Mussolini and Hitler enough that I can give a brief breakdown.
First, they have in common:
1) Both were rooted in grievance. Italy was technically part of the winning Allies at the end of WWI, but they sought big territorial
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@PicturesFoIder
I'm all for the public humiliation of the perpetrator, but I don't need to be a spectator for the pain of the wife who still deserves a presumption of innocence here.
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@DonutOperator
He was recklessly speeding down a sidewalk at a speed which makes a collision lethal, as he demonstrated. Next to a park.
If he hit a toddler instead, what does this conversation look like?
Felons need to be stopped. He made his choice. The cop was keeping the public safe.
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@stillgray
100 years ago the answers would have all been, "I've been drafted and I don't want to be court martialed and shot." I'll call this progress.
And they've volunteered. They're allowed to have whatever reason they want and you're in no place to question it.
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@OliLondonTV
If she's not Snow White, there aren't seven dwarves, and it's not about true love, why call it Snow White at all? If there's no nucleus of the original fairy tale, went not just create an original name for an original story about leadership and courage?
I don't get it.
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@powerbottomdad1
When the Iron Curtain came down, my step grandfather had relatives from then Czechoslovakia fly to NYC and call him asking to be picked up at the airport. He lived in San Diego.
True story.
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@xiaoyingying20
@cctvidiots
If the light is red, the bicycle is also breaking the law and running it.
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@PicturesFoIder
Most people are saying Glen, and that's close to the same for me, but the end of that season. The whole thing that worked with the show was creating monsters and then killing them. Negan needed to die after killing Glen, and when he didn't, it lost the point.
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@ChristiCaldwell
I feel like people are misreading this. "I do" here means "I censor MY kids' reading content." Not "I censor YOUR kids reading content."
The librarian is doing the appropriate thing: she's asking the parent if the parent wants to place restrictions. If she were willy-nilly
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@githii
Dude's a school resource officer at a middle school.
I would be calling the principal if my kids were in this district, that's for sure.
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@KyleTrainEmoji
You're looking at a rapidly industrializing country. The west had dozens and dozens of these when the west was going through industrialization.
China's also a wee bit bigger than Poland, and you're emphasizing a single street corner.
This is an entirely dishonest comparison.
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@feelsdesperate
I don't know why this isn't a national scandal. Half of the Top Ten high income counties in the US are commuter counties near DC.
We're being bled. And the things people actually want from the government are in the worst condition. It's all grift.
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@FischerKing64
Only ones who could dare to do this and help bring the country back to normality.
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@txsalth2o
I'm really glad I found a woman that doesn't play these ridiculous mind games. She says what she wants if she wants something, and when she says she doesn't want anything, she means it.
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@wildbarestepf
I never stopped being a liberal. I just came to recognize that the Democrats are completely opposed to liberalism.
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@DE_Gifford
Who's driving 30-45 minutes to get groceries? That sounds entirely made up. You'd have to be in a deeply rural place passing cow pastures on your way to the store for that to make sense.
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@Oilfield_Rando
The Americans remained great through the end.
It's The Walking Dead that turned to crap.
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@MichLKosinski
You call them "closeted MAGAts" and then wonder why they're careful to not broach our debate politics.
If this isn't healthy, it seems like you're a significant part of the problem.
Meanwhile, what's your scientific expertise that allows you to dismiss the opinions of others?
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@mollymcghee
Your bio says, "200% class rage." You'll never be a part of a class you despise. I learned this the hard way. What Marx calls "class consciousness," I call self-sabotage. The poverty mindset is what makes poverty persist.
But also... get out of NY. If you don't value money
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@quikheart
@Rothmus
It's a thing and it's a stupid thing. It was initially a small joke/prank when feeding each other your first piece. It took on a life of its own and ceased being cute, clever, or amusing several decades ago.
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@AqueelMiq
@blackbirdpeeja
If that were true, how have I been able to block people that were doxxing others? Clearly they were guilty and still on the platform.
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@GunnelsWarren
How about "fuck you."
The national debt grows and grows and grows. Taxation isn't stopping government spending, and there's effectively zero evidence (and mountains of counter-evidence) that the government will be less wasteful with that money.
I'd rather Amazon be able to
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@lporiginalg
Didn't realize until the video that the blonde has a septum piercing. That's automatically the
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The septum piercing is repulsive and this is hard-wired into me. It makes me want to wipe at my nose. For the life of me I cannot understand why this ever became a thing.
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@thevivafrei
@rightblend
You're invoking the very context you're not offering. This is unintelligible to someone who doesn't know who this is.
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@RedTailTabby
@SpencrGreenberg
I think this is trolling. This 110 question makes no sense, and is harder than the 120 question, which is perfectly straight-forward but requires the kind of specific knowledge that IQ tests tried to remove decades ago.
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@JamesSurowiecki
And yet those companies in general weren't chased away by things like sex trafficking here before Musk or on IG.
Priorities, I guess.
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@aj_summa1
@historyinmemes
She didn't need to treat him like an inhuman prop.
You're wrong on this one.
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@RogueLou18
@rogeressig
@Alphafox78
You could literally just... you know.... study science and come to recognize this is idiotic.
Do yourself a favor: grab the collar of your shirt and pull up until your feet are off the ground. YOU DID IT! YOU'RE FLYING! Now you never need to pay to fly!
When you realize why
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@DylanMAllman
Gin is bad for your health.
Stage 4 metastatic melanoma is bad for your health.
Necrotizing fasciitis is bad for your health.
Not getting enough sleep is bad for your health.
Not all things that can be called "bad" are comparable. Some are in entirely different categories.
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@merissahansen17
They can't even figure out which way they should be facing.
I've seen Where's Waldo crowds more convincing and organic than this.
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@GadSaad
The blandness is a selling point. I'm not electing a Messiah, a pop star, or a spouse. If I can have a president where I could go whole weeks without seeing his face or hearing about him because he competently does his job, that would be AMAZING.
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@tonygowen888
@PicturesFoIder
No, I mean exactly what I said. I've known of wives that ignore or even cover up the abuses committed by their husbands. I don't presume either guilt or innocence here. I do however actively want to avoid hearing this woman's pain.
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@Cernovich
How do you transition from a degree of sheltering that strict to them eventually being an adult in a college dorm or home to themselves? Making decisions in the absence of parents is a skill that requires practice.
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@RepThomasMassie
@DrTororu
This will kill people. I have a nice, reasonably new, fairly expensive car. Its lane detection system messes up every time a lane splits or merges. It constantly misreads hazards.
The technology to do this reliably and safely doesn't exist.
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@zaelefty
It took all of my patriarchical power to convince my cat to nurse her kittens. She kept wanting to repair old muscle cars on blocks in the front yard while chewing tobacco.
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@cronstintein
@hexprax
So on Mother's Day, do you tend to celebrate and appreciate your own "accident of birth" mother, or do you just send flowers to some random, unspecified mother?
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@VeeBrien
@revoltinghippie
Biased in favor of the law and civility? In a judge? Perish the thought!
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@PatrickBreukers
@JeremyTate41
That seems like a misread of the egg story. My recollection was that someone asked him how he would do it and didn't believe he could. He challenged them to balance an egg on its end and they couldn't. Then he smashed one end of the egg to force it to stand upright and answer
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@mxslaughter
@stillgray
Fine. 105 to 106 years ago. If you went back 100 years, the majority who'd served in the last 10 years were conscripts. And conscription would remain the main source for actual wartime for nearly half a century to come.
The basic point still stands.
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@SapereVincent
@PicturesFoIder
Right? That's about what I'd expect. Caption had me expecting a colony of roaches or something horrific.
It's just a bit of grime. That candy probably gets more contaminated by you touching it immediately after handling coins.
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@Silenttoxic
@Timcast
Except 1) it's not yet summer and 2) there's no drought in the parts of Quebec that are burning.
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@memeticsisyphus
I used have a Confederate flag on my wall.
Why? Because I went to Gettysburg in my preteen years and they sold them in the gift shop, as well as Union flags. I got one of each, as well as a copy of the Gettysburg Address written on crinkly parchment-like paper.
When I got
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@3Rulfano
@xiaoyingying20
@cctvidiots
I what country can you turn right on red without first coming to a complete stop and checking to see that it's safe?
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@historyinmemes
There's a similar case in Seattle in Ballard of a mall that surrounded a private residence on the sides. Old lady refused to sell for any price.
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@MedGold_
@me_on_the_web
Alcohol is very much addictive. Some people drink casually. Some drink not at all. Some people have it destroy their life.
Your assertion is groundless. That which is introduced without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
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@AlecStapp
I really, really try not to judge people by their looks, but then you see an article like this with a facial expression that I can most easily describe as a disapproving sneer. Like she's trying to out-Umbridge Dolores Umbridge. Why?
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@Burgoa65770808
@vocalcry
....where spreadsheets are used for inventory control to ensure that they can buy pretty much whatever they want...
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@Cernovich
How did you safely get three kids from the car to the cart stall to get a cart when you arrived? You do the same in reverse. Take the kids to the stall to drop off the cart, then return to the car.
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@Assafkin
@ExcelHumor
XLOOKUP unifies the functionality of both VLOOKUP and HLOOKUP, and even better, your match column can be to the right of your index column. It can basically do what you used to need to put MATCH inside INDEX to accomplish.
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@mbateman
I'm pretty sure I got gas here when driving a moving truck across south eastern CA. It was far and away the most expensive gas ever, but it was also in the pits of hell and like 119°. I understood perfectly why gas was so expensive.
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@wanyeburkett
He also makes a fairly strong case for a few protective tariffs to reduce our risk exposure to crap like this...
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@LimitedAgain4
@mollymcghee
Answering from experience. And look around. Poor immigrants beat poor Americans all the time because they lack the poverty mindset. I've lived it and seen it firsthand.
Facepalm all you like, but hard working immigrants will keep on proving it. Reality persists.
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@jk_rowling
I hate Alex Jones as much as any decent person, but I'm surprised you don't see how this relates to the TRA vs TERF matter. What he did was horrible, but a power to define orthodox thought and punish heterodox thought is a dangerous thing.
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@davidminpdx
Where's the statement from the victims?
Oh yeah, they're dead and never got the chance to make a statement like this. MZ robbed them of their lives.
Your sympathy is misplaced if you're ignoring the victims and their families.
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@flowidealism
I looked into becoming a teacher when I moved to upstate NY where there was no biotech. Despite having two undergraduate degrees and 240 semester units, the only teaching certification programs were like 100 miles away. It simply wasn't an option.
That said, I'd readily wager
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@StevenHailAus
How old are you, 13? Grow up.
IP is resource that is effectively limitless. We're not using gold bullion for economic activity. This is some 18th Century thinking. Try reading a book or two.
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@300furrybears
@powerbottomdad1
They didn't have money enough for that. My aunt in Maryland drove across a few states to get them.
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@gunsnrosesgirl3
It really depends where you are. We had this growing beside our house for years in San Diego and it never took over anything. San Diego is a desert on sandy clay, so anything being green at all is a feat.
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@Instantregretss
Anyone else wondering if that dude ended up in the hospital or morgue, he walked out:
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@yhdistyminen
Median isn't skewed by extremes. The mean is. Median is the middle of the pack. If the richest person got a trillion dollars tomorrow, the mean would shift and the median would stay the same.
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@sapphonie
@PicturesFoIder
I didn't say otherwise. I'm just saying I have no interest in watching that.
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@DrorHarari
@DavidSHolz
Truth. Took my boys to Yosemite last month, and greatly enjoyed the 2 and 5 year old competing to say "El... ¡Capitán!" in their most dramatic and crisp Spanish accent.
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@CSonic235
@AnarchoCanadian
@SamHarrisOrg
Please describe any manner of context that excuses a position like that.
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@DAaronovitch
@primalpoly
@BBC
So you're telling me he lives in a country where the 1st Amendment protects his ability to hear the critiques of the BBC that are suppressed in the UK.
And his Amazon bio shows he's better educated than you and has lived in the UK working at the University of Sussex, University
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@hemingquay
The same people:
"It's not a big deal because no one believed it."
"Super weird that so many people thought it was believable."
They're at war against all honesty and decency.
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@lporiginalg
Why is the Polaroid camera not also circled? I mean what does that have to do with playing "pirates"?
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@TheSpergScholar
@Cernovich
Yes, and everyone motivated to seek an inside job explanation ignored it.
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@RottenInDenmark
@TuckerSamuelsen
I didn't see that, but I'm glad to be vindicated in my lazy skepticism following Bryson's book. My reaction when I hear "a problem you've never heard of is actually the biggest problem ever!!!" is usually "Press X to doubt."
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@FischerKing64
"Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock."
~Ben Hecht
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@KyleTrainEmoji
And? You're comparing a single street corner to several square miles of the epicenter of a financial district that emerged after being suppressed for he better part of a decade.
Shanghai is the financial center of China. Poland is part of the Eurozone. If you're going to
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@simonateba
You're missing the biggest takeaway:
0- All of her proposals are the economically illiterate things you'd expect from middle school students and every one will make inflation worse.
She's taking all the worst ideas from the 1970s that produced stagflation and pumping them full
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@culturaltutor
Interesting that the seal of the Senate includes iconography both for communism and fascism.
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@travis4nh
I'm torn on this. Generally speaking I would agree with you, but in the Great Depression, it wasn't the farmers that screwed up. It was the banks that screwed up. The Federal Reserve Act gave power over the money supply to the banks—ostensibly to end the cycle of booms and
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@Outlaw_Memes
@AllenYoung92
@MattWalshBlog
Refined sugar and other refined carbohydrates are the largest source of that problem. Processed oils likely next up.
Pasteurization isn't the problem. At all.
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@stormrobinson
@MarketPalmer_
Cursive is the script used to write our Constitution and Declaration of Independence and for that alone is worth preserving.
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@RarePrintColor
@memeticsisyphus
My son was about the same age when we were reading a book that had a fox in it, and he kept insisting it was actually a kitty cat and cracking up when I would correct him.
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@FischerKing64
I discover books now by paying attention to the citations in other books I read or listen to and then tracking those down. Best way to find old and out-of-print books telling ideas that have been tossed down the memory-hole.
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@TRHLofficial
The pre-Nixon gold standard wasn't really a gold standard. It was the Bretton Woods system where we give everyone bank notes, tell foreign governments that they're convertible to gold, but print notes far in excess of the gold reserves available to allow the economy to grow
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@KurtSchlichter
@Cernovich
Fuck Trump forever. For those of us who made it clear we'd never vote for Trump and you chose to nominate him anyways, that's on you.
If they didn't want division, they shouldn't have selected the most divisive asshole in living memory.
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@cronstintein
@hexprax
So did my country. It paid collectively for my education, for significant parts of my health care, to create infrastructure, to protect me from crime and external aggression, etc. People fought and died to save me from having the experience of some of my relatives that needed
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