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David Gondek
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David Gondek
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I wouldn't lead you into paradise even if I knew the way. Because, if I could lead you in, someone else would just come along & lead you right back out again.
Wisconsin Katılım Eylül 2012
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Students see no issue using AI to complete their assignment because they have been conditioned to treat schooling as a means to a capitalist end and not a tool for acquiring knowledge. The proliferation of AI is just making this very explicit for those who didn’t already know.
Hollis Robbins@anecdotal
The bluntest comment I've ever read about why students are turning to AI: “What kind of economy and educational system has made a robot feel more viable, attentive, more dialogic, and more intellectually available than the institution charging students for a degree?”
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President Truman explains that Zionists wanted the whole of Palestine and that the peace deal was a scam to take the land in small doses. May 14, 1948.
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Remember the USA can drone strike a wedding or school 9000km away for 'national security' but other countries are not allowed to defend themselves even within their own borders.
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@DaniMayakovski Impresionante saber que Venezuela no tenía ningún aliado, ahora la pregunta difícil, alguien tiene de verdad un aliado? Si invaden Perú, Ecuador, Bolivia, Argentina? No pasaría nada imagino.
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@bplsxm @DaniMayakovski What does your vision of subjugation look like? Some men spend their lives peeping about to find themselves dishonorable graves while hoping their masters will look kindly on their subservience. But even their masters have no respect for groveling.
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@DaniMayakovski Y está mejor que lo haga él que los chinos … ¿Quién puede pretender ser feliz en dictaduras comunistas? Depredadores existen en Rusia, en China , en Argelia,en en Cuba, en Venezuela, en Colombia y en EEUU… Uno elige según su visión de la libertad
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"Con el petroleo que estamos sacando de Venezuela, nos hemos pagado la guerra contra Irán unas 25 veces, no nos va mal en Venezuela".
El criminal de Trump se vanagloria del saqueo al petróleo de Venezuela y afirma que con el dinero saqueado ha pagado la guerra contra Irán.
Estas alimañas imperialistas roban a un pais para agredir a otro, son asesinos de masas y bárbaros saqueadores de pueblos que deben desaparecer si queremos que la humanidad sobreviva.
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BREAKING: TRUMP CLAIMS IRAN WAR IS PAID FOR AFTER THEY TOOK SO MUCH OIL FROM VENEZUELA
“We’ve taken so much oil out of Venezuela, we’ve paid for the cost of the war about 25 times over.”
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Before the revolution, Cuba was run by the Mafia and a military dictator who routinely kidnapped rural peasants, including children, and strung them up in town squares based on the mere suspicion that they might be aiding the rebels.
Dictator Batista's government troops attacked peasant villages, burned down farmers' homes and destroyed their crops. The army executed a campaigned of bombing the countryside and evacuating whole villages. Anyone who dared to stay behind was labeled a traitor and subject to torture and execution.
All this was happening in the background while rich Americans used Cuba as their playground. The Mob ran the casinos and brothels, drawing movie stars, pop singers and rich businessmen who spent and gambled away their money, which went directly into the pockets of the American Mafia and dictator Fulgencio Batista, who personally raked in millions of dollars a year as his cut of mob activities.
In return, Batista made mobster Meyer Lansky minister of gambling for Cuba and gave him free reign of the island.
Cuba touted itself as the richest economy in the Caribbean in the 1950s, but none of that money went to the peasants, many of whom were literally starving in the countryside.
Meanwhile, notable Americans such as JFK and Sinatra were traveling to the island to take advantage of private orgies set up for them by the mob. The women and girls were provided courtesy of the Mafia, who controlled the human trafficking rings that complimented their gambling empire.
All the while, Batista was allowing Cuba to be used as a hub for international drug smuggling to move heroin into the United States.
Through narcotics trafficking alone, Cuba was more of a threat to the US under Batista than it ever was under Fidel or Raul Castro.
When the Cuban people had finally had enough, they deposed their dictator and chased him and his thugs away. The response of the US to Cuba's revolution was to enact an embargo, attempting to strangle its economy for the past 60+ years.
But despite Cuba having an economy equivalent to that of New Hampshire and a population 3.2% that of the United States, little Marco Rubio is rattling the saber and trying to convince at least a few Americans that Cuba is a threat to the richest nation in the world.
Trump is now illegally blockading the island, preventing oil, food and medicine from reaching its people. The DOJ just indicted Cuba's former president Raul Castro - now 94 - on ridiculous charges and Trump - who's ego is bruised from the debacle in Iran - thinks he has finally found and "enemy" in Cuba small enough to do what he isn't able to do in Iran.
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@Nilverge The dot-com era??? How about the current era since the 2008 crash? These events are all interconnected and indicative of a society based on hedonism and the desire to get a piece of the action.
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"You strangle us for forty years and then criticize us for the way we breathe."
— Fidel Castro, former President of Cuba
Acyn@Acyn
Trump: Cuba is a failing nation. They have no oil. We’re there to help. We’re freeing up Cuba.
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JUST IN - U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard resigns.
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@policytensor @dindle_ @Caleb1Petersen Agreed. Do you agree that both major political parties in the US two party system support Israel as a crucial member of the US empire? How can we have democratic elections if anti-establishment candidates and parties never have realistic/viable access to the process?
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I am not alone on the left for whom compromise with pro-genocide centrists became so impossible that I preferred to see Trump defeat Harris. Unless the Democratic Party can kick its submission to Israel, it should die.
Ilan Goldenberg@ilangoldenberg
I spent the first 10 months of the Gaza war at the White House working on the response, then joined the 2024 campaign leading Jewish outreach. I spent nearly every day on the campaign talking to voters about Gaza. I don't have any data, but based on my experience a few thoughts on the autopsy and the role Gaza played in the election: 1. Anyone saying Gaza had NOTHING to do with the outcome is wrong. It clearly hurt enthusiasm and support among parts of the Democratic base. 2. Anyone saying it was THE reason is also wrong. The economy, the shortened campaign, and the inability to compete in many of the low-propensity voter spaces Trump dominated were all critical factors. 3. Most importantly: this was never fundamentally a MESSAGING problem. It was a POLICY problem. There was too much trauma, anger, and grief across different communities for there to be some magic set of words Harris could have used to make it go away. The only thing that might have changed the politics was actually ending the war through a ceasefire. I’ve said elsewhere what I think the administration could have done differently -- taking a harder line with Netanyahu earlier, applying more pressure, and publicly offering Israelis a credible alternative vision while Biden still had significant popularity and leverage in Israel. But that all would have had to happen in late 2023 or early 2024, before Biden became a lame duck. By the summer, it was largely too late. And to be honest, I’m not sure it would have worked. But I do wish we had tried. 4. One thing I do regret from the campaign: not having a Palestinian speaker on stage at the DNC. I wasn’t part of that decision. It was my first week on the campaign. I don’t think it would have changed the election outcome. But I do think it would have been the right thing to do.
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@dindle_ @Caleb1Petersen @policytensor If we must have a two party system at least one of the parties must be an anti-establishment party.
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@Caleb1Petersen @policytensor all righteous right wingers oppose the republican party and all righteous left wingers oppose the democratic party
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@nxt888 When you back elitists into a corner they inevitably tell you that you are focused on the wrong things. Because the truth is that elitism is morally indefensible. "It's always been this way" and moral relativism aren't defenses. They are admissions of guilt.
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Konstantin, you asked a Black woman where she'd rather live than Britain or America or Canada.
Let's take Britain as your example of tolerant, slavery-ending Western excellence.
Britain did not end slavery voluntarily. Britain ended the Atlantic slave trade in 1807 after decades of organized abolitionist pressure, slave rebellions across the Caribbean, most consequentially Haiti in 1791, and the growing calculation that wage labor was becoming more economically efficient than chattel slavery in certain contexts.
When Britain "abolished" slavery in its colonies in 1833, it paid £20 million in compensation.
Not to the enslaved.
To the enslavers.
The people who had been worked and beaten and raped and bred like livestock for generations received nothing.
Their enslavers received the equivalent of £17 billion in today's money, funded by British taxpayers.
A debt so large that British citizens were still paying it off in 2015.
You read that correctly.
British taxpayers were paying off the debt incurred compensating slave owners until 2015.
So when you ask a Black woman where she would rather live, the answer she gives, if she says Britain, is not an endorsement of British moral superiority.
It is a statement about which available option causes her the least harm.
Those are not the same thing.
And you know the difference.
You just find it more comfortable not to say it.
Konstantin Kisin@KonstantinKisin
What if the west isn't the villain they told you it was? We’ve spent years accepting accusations about racism, intolerance, and slavery without challenging the bigger historical reality: The societies most condemned today are also the ones that led the world in ending slavery, expanding rights, and building the most tolerant nations on earth. That’s the conversation nobody wants to have.
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@Jeff_Cunny @matthewstoller What is your definition of success? I have a feeling it is likely very different from mine. In my value system I'm not wasting my energy...but thanks for your concern.
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@mutex7 @matthewstoller It’s just seems like a waste of energy on your part.
Agonizing over something while having no solution is a recipe for depression.
Humans over millions of years have found ways to adapt and be successful in what ever environment we have encountered. Maybe try that.
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Of course it does. The superrich are the problem! If you neutralize their power, we can start building a good society again.
CNBC@CNBC
Jeff Bezos on the wealth debate: "[Politicians] are using this age old technique of picking a villain and pointing fingers, but the problem is that doesn't solve anything."
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@KiarKini @policytensor Iran has had the ability to build nuclear weapons since at least 2021. It has also had the ability to close the Strait of Hormuz for far longer. And btw, there is a reason the 1979 Iranian revolution was successful. These are inconvenient facts in the west.
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@policytensor Experts say Iran could obtain a nuclear weapon if it wanted to
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Irrelevant. Pape is correct. Iran has followed a policy of getting close to the threshold. That’s a stupid policy. Just get the bomb in secrecy and asap. No, the Iranians are nuts. They have rubbed the bomb in the American face without actually getting it.
Esfandyar Batmanghelidj@yarbatman
Iran first reached the 60% enrichment level way back in 2021. It did so during negotiations with the Biden administration as leverage that could be traded away for bigger concessions. Pape evidently doesn’t understand Iran’s nuclear doctrine or conception of state power.
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