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This is not only revoking his diploma, but establishing a very dangerous precedent in Turkey: "all rights are temporary and can be revoked on a whim"
by anticensor 2y ago
This is not only revoking his diploma, but establishing a very dangerous precedent in Turkey: "all rights are temporary and can be revoked on a whim"
- iLoveOncall 2y agoThis is absolutely nothing new for Turkey.
- ReptileMan 2y ago[flagged]
- necovek 2y agoThat sounds like pretty arbitrary borders you are setting: I don't really see much difference between stuff happening West of Vienna and East of South Korea too (one of those countries has a president who basically tried to stage a coup, and now are back in power ignoring any rule of law).
- gottorf 2y ago> one of those countries has a president who basically tried to stage a coup, and now are back in power ignoring any rule of law President Yoon of South Korea has been suspended since December, as a result of the martial law incident and the following impeachment. (Actually, Yoon's prime minister, who first became acting President, was also impeached and suspended. It's someone else now.)
- ReptileMan 2y agoHe was talking about Trump
- hagbard_c 2y agoIndia is quite big. Any Indians around here want to comment on whether these shenanigans are common there? I have the impression they're not but maybe I'm wrong. Talking about India, Lex Fridman interviewed Modi [1] recently, worth a listen or read. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43405546 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43405546
- eggsome 2y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-rupee_note https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-rupee_note
- addicted 2y agoIndia has its own set of political issues, but as far as I can tell nothing this egregious. Lets consider the fact that after 10 years of Modi and the BJP having overwhelming majorities in Parliament, with Modi’s personally popularity close to all time highs, over a period where many external watchdogs essentially claimed democracy was dead in India, in an election where the BJP was expected to completely whitewash the opposition, not only did the BJP do worse than the previous election, they lost their standalone majority in parliament and had to form a government in coalition with other parties, and were a handful of seat losses away from losing to the opposition coalition. In general the parliamentary system with a figurehead president as well as India’s extremely culturally diverse nature and weak federal government system, and strong judicial system, seems to have kept Indian democracy almost unreasonably effective relative to India’s poverty, education, and development levels.
- harshreality 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardeep_Singh_Nijjar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardeep_Singh_Nijjar
- manishsharan 2y agoNot sure what your point is. Nijjar was a terrorist linked to assassinations in Punjab and committed to destruction of India. A nation , democracy included, has a right to protect itself.
- msm_ 2y agoI have to admit I'm offended. Your arbitrary borders include whole eastern europe, most of the balkans, sweden, finland, estonia, latvia, around half of africa, greece, middle east, basically whole asia, indonesia, india, china, russia, and half of australia. There may be countries equally as bad in that list, but saying everyone does it with "some tiny exceptions" is egregious.
- ReptileMan 2y ago[flagged]
- blitzar 2y ago> "all rights are temporary and can be revoked on a whim" That is the basis on which practically everything I have purchased from American companies (or their subsidiary in a tax haven) exists.
- khazhoux 2y agoEverything?? Or do you just mean digital media?
- tgaj 2y agoEverything connected to Internet
- selcuka 2y agoEverything. For example, try not paying your property taxes for some time to see if it's really your "property".
- SahAssar 2y agoNot paying your taxes is not equivalent to "revoked on a whim".
- outer_web 2y ago[flagged]
- klipt 2y agoA lot of the value of land comes from its neighbors: roads, schools, trains all cost money but make land more valuable. It's only fair the cost of those things comes from taxing the increased value of the land.
- genewitch 2y agoI have a homestead exemption, because I have a homestead. So I don't pay property taxes. Furthermore, my family had their property imminent domained in southern California, where property taxes are quite high, so I'm not sure this comment makes sense, from either direction. "Its your land unless the government really needs it" means it isn't your land.
- overfeed 2y ago[flagged]
- lynx97 2y ago[flagged]
- OKRainbowKid 2y agoDo you not see how preventing your opponent from running for election is different from temporary measures to protect people in a pandemic that has killed millions?