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drapred7··on Who’s behind the “reopen” domain surge?
Great find Isiebert.

>Almost all of the hate was coming from liberals, many of them egged on by presuming posts from amateur Twitter sleuths [...] None of the hate was from conservatives angry at him for keeping them from using the domains themselves.

This is consistent with the GOP astroturfing the registrations. The Left's response is obviously organic, if vitriolic.

drapred7··on Trump to temporarily suspend all immigration into the US
Wouldn't that just mean allowing more Americans to attend university? I though most people agreed the inflated tuitions were unnecessary for actual learning.

EDIT: Wow, the largest ever tuition increase happened this year, a 3.4% average increase.

https://research.collegeboard.org/trends/college-pricing/fig...

Here's the kicker:

>Part-time faculty and teaching assistants now account for half of instructional staffs at colleges and universities, up from one-third in 1987, the figures show.

>During the same period, the number of administrators and professional staff has more than doubled. That’s a rate of increase more than twice as fast as the growth in the number of students.

https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_4738584

drapred7··on It’s Time to Build
Would it make sense to break out the parent that first brought up Why Nations Fail? I'm curious what the logic is.
drapred7··on It's Time to Act – A Response to Marc Andreessen
What's your opinion on Israel only allowing ethnic jews to immigrate? That would meet your definition of racism.
drapred7··on It's Time to Act – A Response to Marc Andreessen
Ive found proponents of the systemic racism explanation for all racial discrepencies to be extremely hostile to disagreements like yours.
drapred7··on It's Time to Act – A Response to Marc Andreessen
I dont think he would have been called sexist for that. Be accurate and dont flame, especially when you get the big picture right.
drapred7··on It's Time to Act – A Response to Marc Andreessen
Wow. So the "Pandemic Response Team" that Bolton eliminated was really just two people in a white house advisory committee, who had the three people reporting to them moved to reporting to other committee members.

If existance of two people on a comittee were the only thing standing between success and failure, then the US still has some deep systemic problems.

drapred7··on The Multiple Inert Gas Elimination Technique 50 Years Later: Lessons Learned
Can OP give us a summary? It looks interesting but I dont understand.
drapred7··on Elfeed with Tiny Tiny RSS
Every cloud service should be replaced with free software like this running on a raspberry pi in your basement.
drapred7··on ‘We Needed to Go’: Rich Americans Activate Pandemic Escape Plans
No one asking a question like that should be allowed to own anything in my country.
drapred7··on The next American revolution will be televised
>asking the president of Ukraine to investigate a rival for political reasons goes against everything that Washington has been promoting in the developing world for decades: the rule of law and the independence of the judiciary.

Besides the obvious fact that "being a political rival of the president" is not, has never been, and should not become a reason to be above the law, the author clearly hasn't been paying attention to what the US government has actually been doing. Was the invasion of Iraq really about promoting democracy? Was Operation Timber Sycamore about promoting an independent judiciary in Syria? Is backing the coups in Turkey and Venezuela about promoting the rule of law? Obviously not. The US uses that language to subvert other countries for its own geopolitical interests.

The author appears oblivious of what his titular song actually refers to. If your revolution is promoted by the existing power structures then it's not a real revolution. The center left manufactures credibility by pretending to fight a revolution against the center right despite effectively sharing power with them.

drapred7··on You Won’t Believe My Morning
This was cool until it became your typical vapid New Age "why can't we all just get along" nonsense. I get enough of that from every corporate media source our culture bombards us with.

>your world has been advancing exponentially in technology but remaining stagnant in wisdom. You’re rapidly gaining tremendous powers but still behaving like short-sighted primates. The voice of wisdom is there, but it’s being trampled over by political parties, religions, and nations too mired in blind conflict to lift their heads up and see the bigger picture.”

drapred7··on Miracles You’ll See in the Next Fifty Years (1950)
I think aiming to be a responsible housewife has been looked down upon by American elites for a while now.
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