KDJohnBrown

Very much similar to the Tuskegee experiment. When your opressors experiment on you in the name of science it is logical to distrust the science of your oppressor.

Would any Jew in 1950 have willingly taken a German vaccine?

This has everything to do with American excetionalism. We have funded four failed coup attempts because the leaders won’t play ball with American ideology. Just like us funding the coup in Iran which let islamist extremisrs overthrough a democracy because they would no longer let us control their oil resources.

If Venezuela and Iran could sell openly on the free market, texans, alaskans and opec oil riches would plummet.

The entire point or posting this article is to shame Venezuela. “See those ignorant socialisrs! Hahaha!” And you know this. You cancel any comment which goes against the conservative/libertarian status quo. Pointing out the hypocrisy of free market capitalism only being for people who suck the dick of American ahthority is ban worthy then go ahead and cancel me.

My conscious is clear and my hands are blood free. You cannot say the same.

It’s a diffetent kind of abuse. The concept of climbing the corporate ladder only really exists for executives, not for corporate wage slaves.

As an academic your best career choice is to work your way up in one organization. As an engineer the expected strategy is to hop jobs every 2-4 years.

In (American) business, barring some unions, there is no concept of tenure and it is understood you will be fired the moment you screw up or you will quit once the abuse surpasses your level of tolerance.

Either way, as a worker, expect to be abused by management and peers. As an entrepreneur expect to be abused by creditors, vendors and investors.

The only way to avoid the abuse is to be born wealthy and not work.

LA did this like 20 years ago I believe. I’m surprised this took so long.

Because they wouldn’t do anything, they would just kee the money. During Hurricane Harvey 30,000 people in the vicinity of the billion dollar evangelical mega church iwnes by Joel Olstein were left homeless.

Olstein closed the doors of his church and went on vacation. He got a massive government bailout afterwards.

He also received a massive bailout during the pandemic and stull isnt helping the homeless.

Religion generally does nothing but takes credit. Even mother theresa built a billion dollar “medical” empire while letting patients die of gangrene after breaking bones.

There’s an irony here. The adamantly pro-nuclear crowd tends to be just as vocally anti-regulation. It’s stranfe that proponents of a “trustless society” are willing to put so much faith in corporations and governments ability to do the right thing, plan for the future or even exist in the future.

> That money would be spent 100x better in a church charity or something similar.

Or in the case of an evangelical mega-church to help pay for the tax free mansions and private jets, essentially charging the taxpayers twice.

Manufactured outrage designed by Republicans to cover up their attempt to violently overthrow the government.

To quote Donald Trump Jr, this is a Nothing Burger.

Interesting historical note, this is how Chef was born.

Adam Jacobs of Chef was running a Puppet consulting company (hjksolutions). He ran into a bug (#1010) that he couldn’t solve and used up a ton of Luke’s time. Luke worked hard on it but couldn’t reproduce it and after devoting a week or two on it told Adam that he was the only one with this problem and would need to pay him as a consultant for any further effort.

Adam was (is) an incredibly pushy jerk and demanded that Luke, who wasn’t making a penny off of Puppet, put his life on hold to fix this for Adam’s customers.

Luke basically said “fuck you, pay me” so Adam started Chef (a billion dollar company).

User’s sense of entitlement is powerful.

You are clewrly juwtifying slavery. Wvery single white supremacist uses this rhetoric:

Native Americans enslaved each other so they needed white Europeans to civilize them.

Africans enslaved each other and sold them to us so it was OK to make avaracian fortunes doing the same.

You enslaved Africans so it is only fair play for them to invade your nation, rape your women and enslave your populace.

Welsh, british, scottish, all the same. All three groups were slavers, both of Africans and of the Irish, not to mention countless other Asian cultures.

You rewrite history, white wsshing it to make yourselves out to be the great white saviors despite having participated for many centuries.

“Hey the Africans sold their enemies to us so it must be Ok.”

This is simultaneously a fair point (the Portugeuse were the first slavers) and a miscategorization (puritans/white european invaders were quite racist and violent from the moment they landed on Plymouth rock and began stealing from / killing Natives).

To be fair, there are few which have mot suffered the same fate from the British Empire or USA either. This is probably why KSA has never faced any punishment from western powers, they are members of the club.

Tayipp is the state. Türkiye is very much a single man ruled nation.

(“Kemalists” is the correct term here)

I have an incredible amount of respect and admiration for Atatürk but he also had his flaws when it came to freedom of speech, expression and religion.

What’s interesting is all of the liberal turks I know (I live in Istanbul) voted for the HDP in 2015 but are also highly critical of their association with PKK and have since switched to CHP.

Who exactly bestows these rights upon people?

Governments? Türkiye outlaws free speech through arbitary terror laws (see: HDP politicians imprisoned, members of Grupo Yorum who died of hunger protests for not being allowed to sing). Turkiye also has libel laws which basically outlaw free speech. tayipp has successfully sued many thousands of people for speaking afainst him.

Religion? Turks are mostly muslim. Blasphemy, apostacy, mocking the prophet or drawing pictures or him are all punishable by death in Islam.

The concept of universal or inalienable rights is noble and righteous in theory, but imaginary in practice.

Turks have allowed Tayipp to stomp all over the constitution (illegally acting as prime minister when he was president, rewriting the constitution under a state of emergency, violating libel laws by regularly insulting kurds, chp, hdp, christians, jews and zoroastrians, violating the secularity laws and arresting hundreds of thousands of people under allged ties to fetö), and Turks keep allowing it.

Even Atatürk banned turbanli women from working in government.

Turks have willingly rejected western-style free speech for a relatively improved economy and a sense of national pride.

> Saying this make no justice to the fact that it's Saudi Sunni Arab Muslims, practicing, or not who suffer the most under the regime.

Considering KSA’s funding of terrorists, I would say Iraqis, Syrians, Afghanis and especially Yemenis suffer an order of magnitude more than Saudi citizens. The millions of Philipino, Malaysian, Indian and Pakistani slaves in Saudi Arabia aren’t exactly thriving either.

Not just VC but all aspects of American life is subsidized by China. High real estate valuations, university operations wnd expansion and the ability foe the government to take on seemingly infinite debt is significantly impacted by Chinese money. If the CCP forced all Chinese nationals and corporations to withdraw their money from the USA we would be starving in the streets.

The only difference is Marshmallow ultra-zionist claim that Iran was the belligerent dangerous nation trying to “take over the entire region” in contrast to my far more reasonable argument that the only nation in this skirmish whom has done that is the good ol’ US of A.

Racist anti-Iranian propaganda is almost never moderated whereas anything pointing out the reality of the Iranian situation is flagged or down voted to hell.

You wield the site guidelines in bad faith when it comes to Iran.

The “wokeness” of the silicon valley is skin deep when it comes to money.

It’s about giving us coastal liberals fake warm and fuzzies so that we will ignore the source of our employers’ wealth.

“We are super lgbt+ friendly and our CEO is gay. We are so inclusive here is a picture of him with Mohammed BoneSaw, who would gladly behead 80% of the company for being infidels who do not follow wahhabist philosophies”.

Don’t worry. If it comes up in conversation, Somebody will quickly change the subject and say: “women can kind of drive there, and now that Ivanka made it so Israel can trade with KSA and UAE thanks to the ‘Abraham Accord’ it’s all good, man”.

The important thing is that money exchanges hands and the forms have been followed (intentional Dune reference). It doesn’t matter where that money came from as long as it isn’t Iran or North Korea.

This is about disrupting it, crushing some sweet valuations, and making a killing.

Now get back to bitching aboit the homeless people you have to step over on your way to $10 lattes and $15 avocado toasts.

Cash rules everything around me, get the money.

Dollah dollah bill y’all.

(Edits: typos. Neuropathy + small iphone screen makes accuracy difficult)

Two weeks notice? Only if the company cares about reputation, there’s zero legal requirement for notice or severance.

It is also pitifully easy to be denied unemployment. 8 years ago I was laid off from a failing startup with the option of 1 week’s severance or 2 weeks if we signed non-disparage / non-entice.

Everyone who choose 1 week was “fired for cause” and had their unemployment contested. Mine was contested after 4 months and I was forced to pay it back with a 50% “fraud” fee.

In America money talks and bullshit walks.

The irony is that this is why we hop startups every year or two. The only reliable way to get a significant income increase is to level up on popular new technologies at employer A and get employernB ton pay more.

> They are funding proxy wars throught the Middle East.

America is funding proxy wars throughout the midde east too.

> What i am asking you is to recognize that Iran is a global threat to peace and that Israel can offer the best answer. I think that's true.

We are at war with eastasia. We have always been at war with eastasia.

Sorry bro, I don’t subscribe to trumpism, zionism or americanism. No nation is more of a global threat to peace than the usa.

> Israel stops Iran from blowing up or conquering the entire Middle East.

The propaganda poster you paint here is dubious.

Have you ever looked at a map? Sunni majority nations KSA, Syria, Kuwait, and Turkiye probably have a lot more to do with it than Israel.

Having been to every middle eastern / near eastern / Balkan / North African nation except Libya, I’m not too afraid of Iran.

Iranians have always treated me better than Israelis or myy my fellow Americans have, even after finding out I’m a queer atheist.

> I think the tax money given to weapons manufactures is paid back in double by tax.

Broken windows fallacy.

I’m glad I only have about 10 years left. I have no interest in seeing how lame things will turn out.

“We were doing our jobs.”

Hillary Clinton along with Tipper Gore felt that the cause of societal ills in the 1990s were video games and rap. It was ridiculous and how we ended up with “explicit content” labels and absurdly bleeped out music recordings.

Clinton tried to blame the Columbine massacre on Doom much in the same way Dan White tried to excuse his assassination of Harvey Milk on Twinkies.

Around that time Tom Petty had a song censored, every time it played on MTV the word “joint” was replaced with indecipherable word-like sound.

Once the boomers have died off hopefully so will their insane need to resort to censorship instead of accepting personal and societal responsibility.

If we ever have a government which cares about people, the founders, employees and lobbyists for Palantir will be imprisoned for crimes against humanity.

The justification for foreign aid to Israel is always pretty much “but it’s OK because most of it comes back to us via arms sales”. Essentially billions of dollars of American taxpayer wealth transferred to defense contractors laundered through the IDF.