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  1. “Providing shareholders with blanket protection from the actions taken on their behalf may no longer be a sensible approach.”

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  2. “And it's this split, between cooperative and competitive relationships between people which the internet reveals as being fundamentally subject to political and technical biases. We can work together on the internet, but we can't hurt each-other (very much) and the result is a place in which creative cooperation is easy, destructive competition is hard, and the rules make the game.”

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  3. “No winter war. In the spring, make peace through beauty.”

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  4. “Violence which will not solve the problem is stupid, needless killing. Right now, no path exists by which violence can solve the problem. Therefor, and possibly always, violence remains stupid and needless.”

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  5. “Two principles. Firstly, we do not use force, because we do not have atomic weapons and starting a fight you will lose is stupid. Secondly, the only problem we have here is us and therefore we cannot kill our way to a solution, which also means no atomic weapons.”

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  6. “No amount of reinvestment can refloat an economy which spends half of its tax dollars on war, and spends more than the entire world combined on arms. Until we talk about a comprehensive demilitarization of American society, coalition-based global stabilization, and a true, deep reform of our attitudes and action relative to nuclear weapons, we are going to be broke, and stay broke, in all probability.”

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  7. “Umair Haque wants you to believe that the Status Quo is run by incompetents. The tragedy is that it is not: it is run by the best minds of previous generations, and even with these hyper-competent intellectual elites at the helm, we are still screwed.”

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  8. “we owe it to the American Founding Fathers to notice their ideology, their work and their values in the spirit of every entitled internet user who thinks the idea of government censorship of their feed is absurd, who screams blue bloody murder at tiered access and commercial throttling, and who feels just a little freer for the blinking lights on their router which mean that however oppressed they are when they step outside their front door, online they are free.”

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  9. “I am scared that the current generation of political activists, by seizing on democracy as the cause are completely missing the point. Democracy is a means to an end: good, just government. Right now we have democracy, but without good, just government, and this is the crisis of our times. We have fallen from grace, while retaining our vote.”

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  10. “It’s the logic of empire burned into your head, telling you that you have the right to be wealthy while the poor starve, and while the processes which generate your basic essential services murder the planet you stand on. And you’ve never seen the edge of your sanity until you look at the world, and imagine that all of those other people are just like you, and feel the pain of their lives just as keenly as you do, but with much, much more to really suffer about.”

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