poweronselftest

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by poweronselftest 6y ago
I think the question is whether these people are actually bigots.
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by poweronselftest 6y ago
This is a Whataboutism predicated on: - the belief in Soviet statistics and - a belief in the comparability of imprisonment in the United States and the Soviet Union.
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by poweronselftest 6y ago
> particularly gold mines. The commenters who compared prisons in the United States with Gulags, where you were sent to dig for gold basically by hand, poorly dressed at -30C for 12 hours. > So, not just prisons or labor camps. It is
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by poweronselftest 6y ago
There was no rule of law in the USSR. Sentencing was arbitrary. Your typical "thief" was quite often a person who inhabited the apartment someone else wanted, or a person who's position someone wanted at work. Write to the au
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by poweronselftest 6y ago
What do you say to a person who cites Soviet statistics in earnest? What do you say to a person who, in one comment, rails against incarceration in the United States, only to say that in the Soviet Union the GULAG wasn't so bad because
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by poweronselftest 6y ago
> What is a gulag? It's a penal colony or a labor camp or a prison. If only. Never thought I would see gulag apologism, but I am not surprised. I guess https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varlam_Shalamov was a facist
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by poweronselftest 6y ago
Memorization is largely vilified in American schooling, and for good reason. But I think if not abused, it is an excellent form of (self-) learning not at all devoid of near meditative qualities. There something special about committing thi
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by poweronselftest 6y ago
I read a big chunk of the Gulag Archipelago in Russian last year and it was, to my surprise, one of the most beautiful things I'd ever read. It reads like poetry, especially the beginning. Now I am thinking: maybe he recited and memori
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by poweronselftest 6y ago
You got downvoted for some reason, but that's a totally legit thing to say in my opinion. However, the problem of Jewish assimilation in Europe was much more complicated than you might imagine. Prior to the United States, not many plac
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by poweronselftest 6y ago
Thanks for answer the question I asked elsewhere on the thread [1]. I think people misunderstood what you were saying. I appreciate your perspective that the Jewish people who were born and live in Palestine now have a right to be there, bu
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by poweronselftest 6y ago
> You mentioned the Syrian refugees. They did come here where I live but unlike in Palestine they don't displace anyone but became part of the populace. No-one is or were forcing anyone to displace Palestinians. The displacement of
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by poweronselftest 6y ago
Referring to Jewish settlement in Palestine as "immigration" doesn't really paint the complete picture, generally. Sure, some Jews immigrated to Palestine/Israel as we think of immigration. But many did not. For example:
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by poweronselftest 6y ago
Wondering why you think 800k Israelis live on Palestinian land and not 5-6 million?