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echo_nevada1on Chelsea Manning: The Dystopia We Signed Up For

> Your explanation of Syria is similarly without rational basis. ISIS was not created by the Arab Spring. It was directly created by catastrophically stupid military actions taken by USA next door in Iraq.

Your rationale is as ignorant as the person you are replying to. The Arab Spring, which resulted in the rise of Syrian & Libyan revolutionaries, was absolutely a major factor in the rise of ISIS.

To suggest that it was exclusively one or the other is ridiculous.

echo_nevada1on L.A.'s crisis: High rents, low pay, and $2k doesn't buy much

But this article isn't talking about software engineers. We can afford places like LA - we're part of the problem.

People like us are willing and able to pay rent in places like LA and have been moving there en masse. People who used to live there are being pushed out.