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Ahh yes. Which is why the members of Hacker News were so into solidarity with the Yellow vesters. Ohh, wait its only when Chinese citizens protest that its good.

The State and Revolution - Lenin

I just have to object.

Early science throughout the world came about because of religion, not despite it. Early Muslim proto scientists like Ibn Sina and Ibn Khaldun explicitly did their science through religion and were heavily involved the religious politics of the day. This was also true also of early scientists in europe like Issac Newton.

Also that statement implicitly kinda carries the idea that europeans took over role of the "advancers of science" due to their tolerance and secularism. That was certainly not the case, european christianity in the 16th and 17th centuries was not in any way tolerant/moderate.

Similarly even if we agree that a decline occurred there are a myriad of other factors that could potentially cause a drop in scientific output such as the various consequences of war, the policies of the Ottoman empire, a lack of the urbanisation that occurred in China and Europe etc.

The US's coup in Chile was done precisely to protect US business interests. That's why large companies like Anaconda were so heavily involved in the coup. The thing that all those incidents share in common is that they all started when the nations involved began nationalising or restricting US companies.

A more modern example of this sort of behavior might be the original US sanctions on Venezuela in the 2000s.

The US has started wars to protect foreign investment. The history of Latin America comes to mind. Some examples would be Allende, the bay of pigs invasion and Nicaraguan Contras.

The fact that the US hasn't retaliated much in the tech industry probably just demonstrates that the industry wasn't firmly enough in bed with the government when China began blocking access to google and facebook.

So it's like the US.

The fact that people like the idea of revenge and getting back at their attackers? The fact that corruption is rarely a serious problem as long as a justice system functions relatively ok? Because some parts of America are chaotic hellholes?

Because often it's not that hard for the employee to take credit for someone else's results or just fake them. It also creates a poor set of incentives. It causes problems like when programmers are given a bonus for fixing bugs, resulting in them adding bugs to their code and then fixing them.

Why?

The one thing i really need before i switch to firefox is vivaldi style stackable tabs. Does anyone know if there is any way to get stackable tabs in firefox?

Because the corporate media typically talks about human rights abuses in Venezuela only.

Except when they are manipulating the market or defaming someone.

Can you give some examples? I'm curious.

Please at least try to contribute to the discussion.

What are you talking about? Latin America and Africa have had non stop foreign intervention since the 16th century. Rich angry neighbours / foreign interventions have always created huge amounts of corruption and instability and are the root cause of many of these countries problems.

You also seem to be implying that African and Latin American people are just naturally more corrupt than the inhabitants of other nations which is a kinda bizarre theory.

What do you mean horrendous war reparations? Germany remained independent, lost barely any territory and were allowed to delay paying war reparations. Germany's other allies were far worse of losing far more territory and descending into anarchy all the way up to the second world war.

Hitler got into power because of the great depression and the German populations attraction at the time to authoritarian nationalist political party's not because Germany's war reparations were so horrendous.

Correct me if i'm wrong but wasn't there more then enough food, he just wanted to send it over to England?

He calls people "postmodern marxist's" which is rather contradictory.

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In some places food is abundant. That doesn't mean we should waste it.

I'm an Australian and I'm not ok with our gun laws.

It would be nice if someone at least addressed it.

What do you mean not true? And no I'm not trying to defend Russia's reputation. Millions of non Ukrainian soviets also died in the famine.

Here is a wiki page with several different scholars positions. https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Holodomor_genocide_question

I'm sorry but it is completely legitimate for Cuba to blame the west (mostly the US) for problems the west created for them in trying to force Cuba to change its governments political ideology.

The idea that all Cuban citizens are brainwashed applies also to US citizens. US citizens are also indoctrinated to believe that capitalism is the only way from when they are toddlers.

The Cuban immigrant's bias should at least be taken into account, you are selecting a group of people to interview who left Cuba because they hated the government. Of course they are going to say bad things about that same government.

"And if you ever visit the non-tourist parts of Cuba it's incredibly depressing what socialism has done to them". Socialism has done great things for the people of Cuba considering the constraints they have had put on them by the west. The government has massively increased the average Cubans literacy, improved working conditions conditions and instituted high quality free medical care making it so that wealth isn't the deciding factor on how long you live.

Cuba would be far worse in an alternative reality where Batista stayed in power.

Most historians agree that the Holodomor was not a genocide, just a famine.

I'm not sure why this is being down voted, it's true.

That's a bit much. It's unlikely that even if she was a citizen they would have disappeared or killed her. More like give her a firm warning and lecture and a vague threat or two of what may be to come if she keeps it up.

Because they are the children's parents?

The people who want the bridge built will hold the bridge building group to account.

How terrible. They’re telling us the truth at inconvenient times. Disgusting.