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RaskolnikovsAxe

@ RaskolnikovsAxe @lemmy.ca

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  • Yes, Christian nationalists, the next world is paradise and this world is a crime-ridden hellhole. Please expedite your passage.

  • An AI startup founder says he's planning a 'March for Billionaires' in protest of California's wealth tax

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  • Someone needs to invent a launch-and-forget autonomous drone model named Luigi.

  • Bitcoin Is Crashing So Hard That Miners Are Unplugging Their Equipment

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  • The point of crypto is to remove control of currency, so does it do that or not?

  • Bitcoin Is Crashing So Hard That Miners Are Unplugging Their Equipment

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  • Except for the brain dead governments that spend our money hoarding it.

  • Bitcoin Is Crashing So Hard That Miners Are Unplugging Their Equipment

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  • You honestly believe power will move away from the banks to you, holding a miniscule fraction of crypto (probably) if you're lucky enough not to have it stolen in a pump and dump? Do you seriously believe that power won't just concentrate somewhere else? That removing economic control won't cause unintended effects?

  • Bitcoin Is Crashing So Hard That Miners Are Unplugging Their Equipment

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  • "you guyz are so dumb, I understand all of this stuff because I hang around on crypto subreddits listening to other wealthy scammers tell me how economics works"

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  • Yeah, fuck banks, give all the power instead to the exchanges, governments and whales. Give up any ability to mitigate or manage global economic crises. That's so much better.

    The naivete coming from crypto bros is amusing. "Let's turn our global economy into history's largest pump and dump scam....as long as I'm not the one holding the bag!"

  • Not Now, Kamala

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  • Uhhh no.

    Again outsider perspective: I think Hillary is perhaps the most representative of American pragmatism, and probably a ball buster in her interactions. Kamala seems a bit gentle, I guess, for lack of a better word.

    As is typical of American politics and in particular Democrats, it's difficult to pin down beliefs or predict what they will actually do in office, and it always looked like status quo based on corporate donors. But status quo is still better than fascism.

    In the end I don't think Obama performed much better than Hillary would have. He had a lot of promise but for whatever reason - constraints, his real personality, whatever - he let a lot of people down as well.

  • 'The Chinese government bans all new investment in Israel'

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  • Good lord man. I'm not having a philosophical discussion about idealism and materialism.

    I'm not religious and I don't believe in the supernatural, if you need to know. I'm by training an engineer, physicist and mathematician.

    I also don't believe that any ideological system can approach perfection, and I'm pragmatic enough to understand that if you believe that, it is borderline delusional.

    I don't think China has a perfect society and I expect I would not be happy there. I'm perfectly happy here with 3 kids, my pets, my wife (who owns a small business), a modest house and a family cottage, on a decent salaried job, in a country with a reasonable approximation of universal health care (I wish it were better), that makes attempts at regulating the excesses of capitalism with social programs and government oversight, that gives some freedoms in respect of rights, that values individual liberty and doesn't get in your business on everything, that doesn't overwhelmingly exert its will outside of its territory, that allows me to build a small consulting business and occasionally rent our cottage, that has a proud military history of which I have taken a small part, that is open to immigrants and ranks very high on multiculturalism and low on racism, that has enormous economic potential with one of the most educated populations in the world, that ranks highly in press freedom, democracy and economic mobility.

    My country has problems, but you're not going to convince me that I'd be better off under a government like China, or a Marxist ideal, even if I thought it would be possible to change this country without enormous violent upheaval in which, very likely, members of my family or friends would suffer and die.

    And as I've tried to say since my very first words on this topic, you're not going to convince me that a government organized according to Marxist thought will be - unlike every other human organization in history (that is, not ideal, but in practice and based on historical evidence and experience) - somehow a utopia that is incapable of oppressing people or attempting to exert its will on others who do not consent to it.

    Having said all of that, my claims are clear. What is your objective in this discussion? Of what are you trying to convince me?

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  • I'm not saying we don't need to interact with them but economic size doesn't tell me anything about their moral, ethical or political stance.

    And I would suggest that pointing to a book describing political ideology as a means to justify how a political ideology is not subject to the same compulsions as every other human political organization has in recorded history - and indeed how China has in modern history - is the very definition of idealism.

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  • No u

  • Witness told FBI Trump threatened to ‘disappear’ girl and have her ‘whole family killed’

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  • I'm pretty sure we couldn't agree on a universal definition that wouldn't be subject to error or interpretation, and after we've killed an innocent person and likely created a martyr and a drive to retribution by some segment of the population, we can't really back out of that mess.

    There's a perfectly workable solution that aligns with the imperfections and uncertainties of justice, and conveniently also achieves the same or better metrics as evidenced by countless studies on the topic. Seems like an easy decision.

    However that won't satisfy retributive blood lust, or make anyone feel like a tough guy when advocating for it, so the death penalty persists where those things are important.

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  • Are you planning to follow me around this whole thread humping my leg trying to get attention? I get it, you hate liberals. Move on bro.

  • 'The Chinese government bans all new investment in Israel'

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  • Because after all the negativity and bad faith, and given the fact that we're all talking past each other, I'm trying to decide if I care enough to attempt to back up and actually try to understand and/or come to a point of mutual perceived benefit.

    And frankly I care much less if the person is notat the very least within my sphere of interest from a political and economic point of view. If the ideas they're espousing have not chance of being implemented where I live, I care much, much less about who they are or what they think.

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  • Well I'll be honest you seem like the only one I can actually having a constructive discussion with, and I urge you to read some of the other replies to me that have insulted my family, suggested I'm a fascist apologist, or even told me to kill myself.

    I don't believe I've gone anywhere near that with any of my responses.

    I hope you can understand that I'm not really seeing any upside to this anymore.

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  • I've responded to about a dozen people, friend. I'm not going to rehash it here.

    Which country do you live in?

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  • What made you think I was Canadian

    I didn't, which is why I don't see why I should care.

    I'm Chinese in China all my life.

    Uh yeah, and you think that China is superior and the rest of the world is full of failed humans and failed states. There is no good faith here. Why do you care to defend yourself or convince others?

    We're talking past each other, as I've said to many others on this topic. I'm willing to acknowledge all kinds of great things about China, including the decision in this article, but I'm fairly certain there is no reciprocity and in fact I'm sure you cover your eyes to many of China's failings.

    But I don't need to impress you, I've got a great life, a good family and a job that makes me happy. Try as you might, you just don't matter to me, which is why I said we should both just move on.

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  • If you're not Canadian why would I care what you think or do, and why would I waste energy on a discussion that is personally insulting?

    kys

    Oh yeah you're a real decent human.

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  • In guessing you get to decide who is an elite.

    Look, I'm all for enforcing our laws and punishing elites and I happen to believe that billionaires shouldn't even exist, but frankly on the three main claimed benefits of the death penalty - deterrence, cost and incapacitation - the evidence is nonexistence or in outright opposition, and would be met with proper life without parole without running afoul of the Blackstone dilemma.