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[#] Mon Mar 31 2025 15:52:17 UTC from Nurb432

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If a overseas manufacturer builds a plant in the US to avoid tariffs, does that really magically make it an 'American product'? It's still a foreign company... 



[#] Tue Apr 01 2025 01:22:54 UTC from zelgomer

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So, what is the difference in the 2 scumbags other than the color of
their hat? Hang them both in the square please, and record it for us
serfs to watch and cheer.


Don't get me wrong, I don't trust Elon as far as I could throw him, but there is a world of difference between the two. One, you said yourself: Elon operates in the open, Soros from the shadows. Elon puts himself out there to be criticized. Second, whether you like him or his products or not, Elon builds shit that people actually want. Soros contributes nothing of value to the world.

[#] Sat Apr 05 2025 16:18:00 UTC from darknetuser

Subject: Countries that are the bitch of another country

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2025-03-31 15:52 from Nurb432
If a overseas manufacturer builds a plant in the US to avoid
tariffs, does that really magically make it an 'American
product'? It's still a foreign company... 


As a country that used to be the place were rich outsiders built their factories...


It makes a big difference.

See, main reason why people in my province didn't starve in massive numbers is somebody built an industrial complex in order to assemble cars. Sure, the capital was foreigner and a big chunk of the profits from the industrial complex were shipped outside, but the opening of the industrial complex meant two things:

1 - Suddenly a lot of unemployed people had a job.
2 - We had access to cheap cars we manufactured ourselves.

Sure, they were shipping most of the cars out of the country to sell to rich 1st worlders and the mother company was keeping the profits, but the benefits were so massive everybody in the country now hates us because they built the factories on our soil instwead of on other counties.

[#] Sat Apr 05 2025 18:39:04 UTC from Nurb432

Subject: Re: Countries that are the bitch of another country

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Something most people forget about. 

Sat Apr 05 2025 16:18:00 UTC from darknetuser Subject: Countries that are the bitch of another country

1 - Suddenly a lot of unemployed people had a job.

 



[#] Sun May 04 2025 23:58:03 UTC from SouthernComputerGeek

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The older I get the less libertarian i become.



[#] Mon May 05 2025 02:27:52 UTC from IGnatius T Foobar

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The older I get the less libertarian i become.

Funny thing about that, isn't it? Almost as if some cultures really are better than others.

[#] Mon May 05 2025 15:06:33 UTC from ZoeGraystone

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Personally i think "cultures" are prone to anti freedom at their core.   Once people band together into some level of organization, things go bad, by human nature.

Mon May 05 2025 02:27:52 UTC from IGnatius T Foobar
The older I get the less libertarian i become.

Funny thing about that, isn't it? Almost as if some cultures really are better than others.

 



[#] Tue May 06 2025 16:30:56 UTC from darknetuser

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2025-05-04 23:58 from SouthernComputerGeek
The older I get the less libertarian i become.


I didn't know you there was a libertarian at all in you XD

[#] Tue May 06 2025 16:33:58 UTC from darknetuser

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2025-05-05 02:27 from IGnatius T Foobar
The older I get the less libertarian i become.

Funny thing about that, isn't it? Almost as if some cultures really

are better than others.



The point of libertarianism isn't that all cultures are equally desirable. Far from it. The point is to try to make it so you can be left alone while you partake in your barbaric cultural practices while your neighbor is lef alone partaking in his barbaric cultural practices, which is better than what we get when we try to convince people to become "one of us" when they clearly don't fit.

[#] Tue May 06 2025 16:36:02 UTC from darknetuser

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2025-05-05 15:06 from ZoeGraystone
Personally i think "cultures" are prone to anti freedom at their
core.   Once people band together into some level of
organization, things go bad, by human nature.

There is a good grain of truth to this, but on the other hand I don't think you can't have a functional society without common grounds. You know, shared values, shared convictions. The stuff we call a culture.

[#] Sat May 10 2025 19:24:48 UTC from IGnatius T Foobar

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There is a good grain of truth to this, but on the other hand I don't
think you can't have a functional society without common grounds. You
know, shared values, shared convictions. The stuff we call a culture.

This is why America was at its best when everyone agreed to follow euro-christian culture, norms, and morals, even those who were not Christian or of European descent. THE MELTING POT FUCKING WORKED.

[#] Tue May 13 2025 23:17:16 UTC from IGnatius T Foobar

Subject: Thought for the day: how to spot an angry writer

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Thought for the day ... possibly a headcanon:

If you're reading an article and the title is in the form of "No, xxx is/does/did not yyy", you can safely assume that the writer is angry and writing from a place of uninformed stupiditude.

Kind of a half baked theory. I'm going to keep watching for it.

[#] Wed May 14 2025 21:31:29 UTC from zelgomer

Subject: Re: Thought for the day: how to spot an angry writer

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Kind of a half baked theory. I'm going to keep watching for it.


Just going from memory, I support this theory. It's kind of a corollary to the one that if a headline is a question, the answer is no.

[#] Sat May 17 2025 15:44:22 UTC from IGnatius T Foobar

Subject: Re: Thought for the day: how to spot an angry writer

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Ah yes, the old Betteridge's Law.  That one really holds up.



[#] Mon May 19 2025 17:10:19 UTC from Nurb432

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So if 'bit' in Tron can have 3 states, that means its  not a bit.  What is it then?



[#] Thu May 22 2025 23:33:53 UTC from zelgomer

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2025-05-19 17:10 from Nurb432 <nurb432@uncensored.citadel.org>
So if 'bit' in Tron can have 3 states, that means its  not a bit. 
What is it then?


From what I've seen, the accepted term for a trinary digit is a trit, but we all know it should be a tit.

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