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@FoxgirlGoRawr @hecubian_devil Anarchists are either 1) Will To Power types in disguise who want to be the Lord Humungus figure in charge, or 2) Total pyschopaths who love violence and cruelty for their own sake and want a society where they go unchecked.

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@BlackHumor712 @hecubian_devil Violence would exist anyway, in an anarchist society it would just atomise into different vigilante groups, who would eventually start to coalesce into units of new micro-state power.

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@yourfriendpiper @jlrizzoii @jaarosch Which are?

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@phl43 Iranian nukes are in that 0.01% though

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@romanhelmetguy And the window for ensuring perpetual American nuclear unipolarity lasted for longer than people think. JFK was given the option of preemptively destroying the Soviet nuclear arsenal when it still couldn’t reach the US. Once he refused, it was all over.

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@_kruptos Why? You can shrink the state and then build other defences against a leftist counterrevolution. It does require the state being managerialist in certain areas - immigration, education, constitutional policy - but not the economic sphere.

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@iAmJoshHunt You’re nuts. There’s no way that an election magically reduces the numbers of the Labour left while leaving a centre-left governing majority intact. The only way to do that is ruthless pre-election candidate screening, Cummings-style, which Burnham isn’t prepared to do.

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@hankfrackett @terminallyOL There’s a few hints that the nature of the “backfire” on Voldemort isn’t as simple as Dumbledore makes it out to be. When the OotP go to the Department of Mysteries, it’s being studied in the one room they can’t gain access to.

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@Leigh_Phillips We would still be detecting the evidence / emissions of a civilisation advanced enough to get to this point. It’s biology that explains the Fermi paradox

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@mattlieb Ben is an intelligent guy but he’s hopelessly wrong here. He just shouts over Harris, who is the one talking sense.

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@MacgawdS @LimedIBagels Most successful directors are probably psychopaths to some extent

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@DrMatthewSweet Romana II and the Aztec woman were the only convincing love interests for the Doctor.

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@AspireTechno This is, differently phrased, the Ada Lovelace argument against AI (which is the only one Turning admitted he had trouble refuting).

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@Alex__Pleas @cafreiman It betters the lives of consumers (who are the same people as workers).

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@FilmUpdates Hunter feels like a perfect fit for this franchise.

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@SIGMAPROFESSOR Einstein was a patent clerk, not a plumber. STEM geniuses rarely emerge from manual labouring groups. It’s different for writing, music etc

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@cnw20xx @parallel235 @CalumDouglas1 Agreed, but in an alternative history where Trotsky is the leader he and Tucachevsky decide to try and take out the Nazi threat preemptively. Whether that works, and how the Western Allies react, is a different question.

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@ranman_the @andrew_lilico It’s not really productive if consumers have to subsidise you to do it, that’s the point.

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@parallel235 @CalumDouglas1 The French would have just had their asses kicked, as 1940 showed. The only real force that might have been capable of preemptively stopping the Nazis was a Trotsky-led Soviet Union, and that would have presented its own set of issues (to put it mildly).

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@Bd_irB_ll Best and Eusebio look better than Pele and De Stefano tbf