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Maybe check out this issue of TIME magazine from 1996 http://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19960715,00.html

Chomsky also didn’t mention that USAID and National Endowment for Democracy (NED) funded the coup in 2014. But this is a very short interview, so he can’t go into detail about every time the US has undermined democracy.

It’s not a false dichotomy because he’s not presenting these two ideas as mutually exclusive. Maybe you misunderstood his argument (or what a dichotomy means).

His point was that characterizing the invasion as simply the act of a monstrous, twisted dictator is so simplistic to be wrong; further, it ignores the actions of the US which did provoke a response.

“Want to work”. They don’t want to work, they want a life that they should be able to have at that age after working most of their lives. They are being pushed back into work because their savings disappeared in the financial crisis.

Piece has a rather simplistic view of western democracy. Regular replacement of leaders isn’t useful if they all believe the same general doctrine and work toward the same goals over many decades. The will of the people is not expressed in the western system either.

Theft, colonialism, an international legal system that supports this and never made them pay back the nations they stole resources and labor from for hundreds of years.

It’s incredible the lengths to which the US will go to duct tape together their 1950’s era, individual-rider transportation system. The solution is mass transit, but this offends the entrenched industries (auto companies and adjacent) that control the government so you get nonsense like this.

The US has a very well-funded agency that specializes in coups. They’ve perfected this over almost 70 years of experience keeping the world safe for American business interests.

All of these nice things are happening in many European cities where they have prioritized people over cars. None of this will happen in any meaningful scale or timeline in the US to reverse the country’s decline.

These “progressives” are not actually progressives in any historical or global sense of the word. This is just how neoliberal politicians on one side of the culture war in America have branded themselves.

The liberals who actually wield some power in US government represent their donors and the capitalist class. Those interests oppose anything actually progressive.

53 points from 2 hours ago but already off the front page

This piece is clearly war mongering propaganda, but the discussion in the comments here is somewhat decent. It’s too bad HN immediately kills any concrete discussion about world events like this.

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Well done, Swisscom!

Ha! I played the exact same first game!

https://pasteboard.co/NYP4YfnNj0kk.jpg

Cool idea.

But here’s the first game I played: https://pasteboard.co/NYP4YfnNj0kk.jpg

Perfect example of why this doesn’t really work. I didn’t have enough information to narrow down the possible values that could solve the missing parts of the equation I stumbled on in the remaining tries.

Compare all of this nonsense to how it’s done in Swift. String APIs in Swift are great: intuitive and do what you expect.

Exactly. Don't try to change the system, just worry about yourself and your friend's/family's wellbeing. Even if the country goes to shit, you can certainly live in a nice gated community while those who aren't so fortunate raise pitchforks.

> I know a lot of venture capitalists who hate California NIMBYism, care about climate change

lol citation please!

My ranking (from greatest to least decline): 1. Facebook 2. Google 3. Amazon 4. Netflix 5. Apple

They exist in Europe because of a similar corrupting mechanism; just because the European system hasn't completely dismantled their social systems the way the US is close to doesn't mean that democracy isn't also being weakened by capitalism.

This is about half of all Teslas ever sold in the US https://www.goodcarbadcar.net/tesla-us-sales-figures/

I wish that Apple had chosen to use Tor for their private relay feature instead of building their own (closed) system. It could have been a huge increase in traffic for the Tor network but instead they built a worse version.

The facts are that Oswald was working for US intelligence his entire career and was not the one who actually pulled the trigger to kill Kennedy. The official position of the US government is that there was a plot amongst many individuals ie. a conspiracy to assassinate the president.

Here’s a great book on why you shouldn’t believe anything Vincent Bugliosi says: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHAOS:_Charles_Manson,_the_C...

Oliver Stone has a new documentary this year with more information from newly declassified documents: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/JFK_Revisited:_Through_the_L...

Most interesting is the similar almost-assassinations that were tipped off in the months leading up to Dallas. Similar story, with a CIA asset like Oswald thinking they were tipping off secret service but were likely being setup as the fall guy. More information on why the Secret Service didn’t acknowledge (and buried) these very similar events in the 1963 FBI investigation and for the Warren commission is probably in the documents that the Biden again delayed declassifying this year.

But anyway, it is amazing how many Americans still seem to think there’s some doubt that this was a coup. The US is a very well-propagandized nation. The country has an agency that specializes in regime change, and a president that was very actively trying to reel in this agency was shot in the head. And then the guy they pinned it on was shot in broad daylight as well. And then the president’s brother was running for election, loudly talking about opening up the investigation to his brother’s death and he was also shot. But it’s somehow crazy talk to think any of this might be connected!

This would make sense if you ignore all of the facts of the case and also have no understanding of how the government works.

If Assange is transferred to US custody, there is a strong chance he will be killed (and possibly in a way that makes it look “accidental”). The CIA was actively planning for such scenarios in 2017: https://news.yahoo.com/kidnapping-assassination-and-a-london...

The CIA works through a network of contractors and assets they cultivate over many years and through many layers of intermediaries. There are many levels of involvement beyond directly working for the agency.

Yanis Varoufakis has read Debt, he talks about it often and he and Graeber spoke together many times.

https://twitter.com/yanisvaroufakis/status/13015406941594869...

Exactly. The tallest building in the world (Burj Khalifa) is built in an environment where labor has too much power and human life is too highly valued to build anything complex or ornate. Lol.

Google is this for almost every internal tool and process. The only difference is most never reach step 5 (quitting), so imagine how toxic that culture is.