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by pnako 6y ago
You don't like mixing your information sources?
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by pnako 6y ago
The justification for preemptive warfare was the security of Israel, not starting a war with a nuclear power. And I'm sorry to make such a cynical point, but good luck selling a war to go save Muslim people to Western populations...
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by pnako 6y ago
Can we make this thread a sticky?
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by pnako 6y ago
Your source is the OECD, which is basically just Western, developed countries. If you look at the entire world, the picture is different.
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by pnako 6y ago
Because most countries don't have huge immigration programs like this in the first place.
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by pnako 6y ago
A bigger threat to who?
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by pnako 6y ago
They are unwilling to do it at certain wages, yes.
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by pnako 6y ago
You always find one country better than others at anything. But the US is not doing that bad: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_net_migra...
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by pnako 6y ago
Should politicians campaigning on the basis "oil extraction is wrong" be allowed to do so, especially when using that line to enflame energy groups, with the sole purpose of securing votes? And if in power, should they then be all
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by pnako 6y ago
In fact, her own definition is (from Wikipedia): >White Fragility is a state in which even a minimal challenge to the white position becomes intolerable, triggering a range of defensive moves including: argumentation, invalidation, silen
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by pnako 6y ago
There are already good retrospective observational studies out, like [0] [0] Outcomes of 3,737 COVID-19 patients treated with hydroxychloroquine/azithromycin and other regimens in Marseille, France: A retrospective analysis https:&#x2
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by pnako 6y ago
I'm no fan of Soros but in this particular case I was imagining the process of emptying scientists indeed
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by pnako 6y ago
>George Soros spent dozens of millions of his own money to empty a bunch of nuclear physicists Is there anything this monster won't do?
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by pnako 6y ago
This is just you choosing which part of right-wing ideas you like. I could make the exact same argument with the left. "Yeah, saving trees and whales sounds fine, but they should stop it with all the LGBTQ, BLM, socialist stuff" Y
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by pnako 6y ago
There are conservatives outside the US (although some, or many, are also Trump fans).
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by pnako 6y ago
Is there a difference between you asking a government to remove someone vs you asking the mob to remove someone? This is typical libertarian logic, where you completely disregard outcomes provided they come from the market and not the gover
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by pnako 6y ago
I'm trying to make sense of it all. Social media is necessarily going to have racism, idiocy, profanity, conspiracy theories and everything else. If you start having editorial standards, it's not social media anymore. Is Coca-Cola
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by pnako 6y ago
I recently discovered Powershell, in a Windows context. It's weird, but has interesting ideas, and is better than bash for sure. Supposedly it supports Linux, but I haven't actually tried.
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by pnako 6y ago
The last such law in France was just cancelled for being unconstitutional. And in practice they are impossible to enforce for a platform like Facebook, since in the end it's a judge who has to decide what is, and what is not hate speec
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by pnako 6y ago
Everything is being redefined as hate speech, so that's a moot point. "White lives matter" and "it's OK to be white" are not remotely hate speech, yet those sentences are being treated as being "white supr
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by pnako 6y ago
I'm not sure what that's supposed to mean. You might think there is some nuance because the areas with risk of Islamic separatism are not _necessarily_ the same as the high-crime areas where the police cannot easily go. But in pra
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by pnako 6y ago
This is a speech on Islamic separatism in France, by current President Macron (in French, obviously): https://www.elysee.fr/emmanuel-macron/2020/02/18/proteger-le... He is using multiple times the expres
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by pnako 6y ago
Why would it be propaganda? Is it inconceivable for you that such places could exist?
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by pnako 6y ago
In France, there are definitely a few. There are places where even the fire brigade gets attacked. That's why they're called "no-go zones". The police can still go there but only with heavy means; you can't just sen
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by pnako 6y ago
You don't understand the concept of being a people? Citizenship is not an award, it's not something one deserves. But it's not something you can give to anyone either. How do you define yourself? Don't you have a people,
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by pnako 6y ago
I don't know if I'm a world-class engineer, but I'm definitely a foreign engineer. Why should we all end up in Silicon Valley? I'd rather have good engineers around the world than all competing in California just because
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by pnako 6y ago
Why would the EU complain about Trump ending the brain drain? It's a good decision by Trump. It benefits American workers and non-American nations. Win/win. The losers are the Gates and Bezos who are already extremely wealthy. I w
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by pnako 6y ago
Americans are entitled to American stuff more than the rest of the world, yes. That's the principle upon which the concept of nation operates. That notion is disappearing in the US quickly, though, and soon the rest of the world will f
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by pnako 6y ago
What about the American world-class engineers, though? There are great universities in the US. Use them to train young American people. This could even benefit African Americans and other minorities.
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by pnako 6y ago
I would be curious to see some research regarding the racial composition of the police and its incidence on police brutality. Would a more diverse and/or more black police force be less, same, or more inclined to do police brutality? A

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