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  1. Your point would be more coherent if any military conflict we've been in this century was even remotely justified. We're creating terrorists and backing dictators. That drones have the theoretical capacity to be more of a precision weapon has been offset by the fact that we use them without limit due to zero risk to the pilots.

    You are the one that needs to grow up, because we aren't the good guys, we're the big bad.

  2. Film at eleven. on The Magic Leap Con (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Silicon Valley country based on fraud and fairy dust. Film at eleven.

  3. I've got a much better idea. If you start a war, you get executed. Then, the only time we'd go to war is when someone with the balls to put their own life on the line for the sake of the country.

  4. The weapons we design are to make profit.for arms manufacturers. The reason that we aren't being bombed is because nobody has both a reason to bomb and the resources to do so.

  5. America should lose their power, but not for your silly reasons. Being powerful sucks, and we're bad at it anyway.

  6. No, a UBI removes control from the handouts. UBI is just welfare without the administrative costs. If you want to control people via handouts, you pull the Republican shit where you have to be not doing drugs, go to Church on Sunday, be working at least 60 hours a week, and never, ever, buy lobster.

  7. Re:Where does the money come from on Are Universal Basic Incomes 'A Tool For Our Further Enslavement'? (medium.com) · · Score: 2

    No, it doesn't, at least not if set up sensibly. We have a big enough per capita GDP to have everyone above the poverty line, and the human labor being wasted in the complex administration of these programs can be utilized in a more productive way.

    Yes, it will be paid out to a wider base, but the average citizen will paying in roughly what they get out, so it's a wash. And we'll get oodles of extra productivity and reduced costs from people being able to afford to take care of themselves, as well as the ability to buy quality goods instead of cheap shit that needs to be replaced all the time.

    And UBI opponents always leave off the best part of UBI: It leaves workers in the position to tell their boss to go fuck themselves.

  8. Japan has a huge aging population, so there are definitely benefits to automation for them.

  9. Re:Contrary opinion on Physics Holds the Key To Performing the Flipping Water Bottle Trick (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The snide isn't because there isn't an interesting explanation. The headline is just incredibly stupid, and is thus derided.

  10. I thought a task that involves physical movement through space would be explained by chemistry or biology...

  11. Re:Great News on The UK is Practicing Cyberattacks That Could Black Out Moscow (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    How the fuck would the UK be within its rights to assassinate a head of state?

  12. Re: More accurately - A **few** FB employees outra on Facebook Employees Outraged Over Exec's Appearance at Kavanaugh Hearing (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    Being any kind of legacy at any part of Yale is undeniably a connection., and he's trying to argue that he got there entirely on his own merits, which is a blatant lie.

  13. Re: More accurately - A **few** FB employees outr on Facebook Employees Outraged Over Exec's Appearance at Kavanaugh Hearing (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm saying he's guilty of being the kind of person Trump ran on stopping, regardless of whether or not he raped Ford. Trump supporters were going on and on and on about the elites and their sexual perversion in addition to vanilla corruption, and then Trump nominates an elite accused of sexual perversion.

  14. Re: More accurately - A **few** FB employees outr on Facebook Employees Outraged Over Exec's Appearance at Kavanaugh Hearing (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    No, it's the uber-rich neo-nobility that are the problem. I'm talking about "old money." And yeah, the Dems are often complicit, and make things worse when they try to pint racism as a direct problem, when it's generally a symptom of the manipulation of elites. The plot is for them to get some poor white guy mad at the Mexicans that are "stealing your job" instead of the business owner that's paying him a fraction of what you'd need to be paid.

    I'm actually pointing to the legitimate part of Trump's populist anger campaigning. A small minority of people in elite circles, you know like the Skull and Crossbones that Bush and Kerry belong to, have a disgusting amount of power and influence, and they use that influence for their own gain, at the expense of the masses. We don't live in a democracy, we live in an oligarchy, and Kavanaugh, like Bush, Kerry, and to some extent Trump (he's permanently butthurt because he wasn't a top-rank elite), are part of the class of oligarchs.

  15. Thre's plenty of evidence for how he sucks off the Saudis and Israel in exchange for their sweet, sweet, money, which would be a slam dunk if 98% of Congress wasn't with him in backing those tyrants.

  16. Re: More accurately - A **few** FB employees outra on Facebook Employees Outraged Over Exec's Appearance at Kavanaugh Hearing (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    You're missing the point. Even if he was innocent of the rape charges, he lied in his response, and lying to Congress was enough to impeach a president. If he was innocent, he should have been honest, but he's blown it already, regardless of his guilt on rape.

  17. Re: More accurately - A **few** FB employees outra on Facebook Employees Outraged Over Exec's Appearance at Kavanaugh Hearing (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    He lied about his connections to Yale, pretending he wasn't a legacy. He lied about what various terms from his yearbook meant, trying to whitewash his past.

  18. Re: More accurately - A **few** FB employees outr on Facebook Employees Outraged Over Exec's Appearance at Kavanaugh Hearing (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    My point wasn't about the parties, my point was that elites are abusive scumbags. That point was a third of Trump's campaign rhetoric, and it resonated because it was true to a significant extent, but it's being ignored now because of which "team" the person in question is on.

  19. Re:The left continues to go batshit over Kavanaugh on Facebook Employees Outraged Over Exec's Appearance at Kavanaugh Hearing (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    Virtually everybody that worked for Bush needs help.

  20. Re:The left continues to go batshit over Kavanaugh on Facebook Employees Outraged Over Exec's Appearance at Kavanaugh Hearing (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    The D's are often hypocrites, but that doesn't make them wrong. If Ted Bundy said "murder is wrong," that would make him a hypocrite, but his words are true.

    Plus, it's not like Kavanaugh is even a real "conservative," he's just an authoritarian neocon shithead. Even if he didn't rape anyone, he still shouldn't be anywhere near SCOTUS.

  21. Re:The left continues to go batshit over Kavanaugh on Facebook Employees Outraged Over Exec's Appearance at Kavanaugh Hearing (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    WTF are you talking about? That dumbass, neocon, silver spoon dickwad has already been caught lying.

    And spare me your "disrespect" angle. All of DC is a bunch bought-off crooks, and SCOTUS had been complicit in allowing the neocons to go authoritarian. But oh no, someone wasn't polite enough to the man that might receive immense power. You're crying crocodile tears, you bootlicking piece of shit.

  22. Re:The left continues to go batshit over Kavanaugh on Facebook Employees Outraged Over Exec's Appearance at Kavanaugh Hearing (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    Kavanaugh has already been caught lying. That's how politicians go down.

  23. Re: More accurately - A **few** FB employees outra on Facebook Employees Outraged Over Exec's Appearance at Kavanaugh Hearing (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    He's already been caught lying, which was enough to impeach a president. If he was even remotely qualified, it'd be a different story, but he's an elitist shitbag that's only in power because he comes from the right family.

  24. Re: More accurately - A **few** FB employees outr on Facebook Employees Outraged Over Exec's Appearance at Kavanaugh Hearing (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yeah, he was a party boy at a school for the elites. You know, the ones that rape children in the basement of pizza parlors? Kavanaugh is the kind of person Trump has been calling to have locked up, and now they're okay with making him a top tier judge?

  25. Re:Vaccine for everyone on Australia Set To 'Eliminate' Cervical Cancer By 2028 (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, but unlike your fictional standards of responsibility, which incidentally, the religious authoritarians generally have the LEAST of, these vaccines exist in the real world. Humans are animals. Animals have sex. Get the fuck over it.