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by ta20240528 11mo ago
To be clear, South Africa didn't present any of their OWN evidence to the ICJ of Israeli genocide. Rather, they carefully and methodically presented hundreds of reports made by OTHER UN agencies which reported on the genocidal behaviou
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by ta20240528 11mo ago
"The ICC somehow managed to create an institution even more useless than the UN." Yet two of the most powerful thugs: Putin and Netanyahu won't go near an ICC signatory state.
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by ta20240528 11mo ago
Perhaps, just perhaps, because Taiwan’s own constitution says there is only one China: them and the mainland? As recently as the 1992 consensus.
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by ta20240528 11mo ago
Norway still publishes everyone's tax returns.
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by ta20240528 11mo ago
"I'm against overrgulation, but when it comes to privacy" Our ancestors survived perfectly fine with telephone directories dropped at every house for free which contained everyone's name and address. Are you sure someone
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by ta20240528 11mo ago
The word you are looking for is "state capture".
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by ta20240528 11mo ago
Well, Ukraine joined the US in its invasion of Iraq. Actual boots on the ground. This has not been reciprocated.
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by ta20240528 11mo ago
Damn, are you sure you're an American? :)
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by ta20240528 11mo ago
The homeless folk can nick the nice thick copper to strike back at the establishment. Or to by drugs.
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by ta20240528 11mo ago
Support for Brexit evaporates when people realise they will have to adopt the Euro. On day one - for past bad behaviour.
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by ta20240528 1y ago
The ICJ ruled that its plausibly genocide. Based on work done by other UN agencies.
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by ta20240528 1y ago
No, I'm saying their/our societies are broken. Wrong values, wrong incentives w.r.t. to the skills required to build modern, well-maintained cities with roads, schools, hospitals, etc. when compared to similar peers in e.g. Asia.
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by ta20240528 1y ago
So any country could go to the moon, build 2nm chips? In your opinion its just motivation. In the real world: there are - sadly - such things as failed states and failed societies.
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by ta20240528 1y ago
"Africans have more repair skills than westerners." … which is why our roads are so much better than those in Switzerland.
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by ta20240528 1y ago
The conditions in the 'Angola' prison in Louisiana are a lot closer to slavery than community service.
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by ta20240528 1y ago
"now pro-Palestinian groups can't post videos of Israeli abuse on YouTube." Perhaps not, but they could courier the evidence on a DVD to the Hague.
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by ta20240528 1y ago
"You can be … law abiding … and bomb weddings abroad" No you can't. International law (e.g. UN charters, Geneva conventions, etc.) once ratified become actual US domestic law.
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by ta20240528 1y ago
"And a 4 year path of any sort seems excessive for a technician" Its not excessive if the purpose is job protection. See also any career that involves interning (law, accounting, …)
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by ta20240528 1y ago
Oh FFS, the USA won't even extradite a dangerous driver who killed a UK teen to the UK - their closest ally and fellow Five Eyes democracy. Even after the woman plead guilty to e UK court (remotely). Its not the great unwashed of the g
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by ta20240528 1y ago
I read somewhere that the USAF has been captured by officers with very conservative Christian expectations. To the point that junior officers don't even drink in public lest its held against them.
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by ta20240528 1y ago
I read it as "substitute for shintoism". Go breath into a bag.
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by ta20240528 1y ago
OP: "So you'd think they'd be able to build a commercial jet liner, no?" Sigh, the OP chucked out a casual insult at the Chinese because - unlike the USA and EU - their society is unable to (to date) build an internation
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by ta20240528 1y ago
So… you'd think the USA would be able to built a nationwide, high-speed rail network? See what I did there?
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by ta20240528 1y ago
I'll grant you that: in many cases individual incentives combine in ways that are lucrative and unintended.
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by ta20240528 1y ago
This is incorrect: the wealthy don't use loop holes. They use incentives explicitly enumerated in the tax code. What else is an incentive for, but that the government wants you to use it? Hell, Google got pre-approval from the IRS for
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by ta20240528 1y ago
Yip, consider how much money banks make by injecting themselves between you and the reserve bank.
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by ta20240528 1y ago
So can Trump and USA. If the west want's the other 7 billion to care, you're going to have to find some principles and live by them. Without exception.
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by ta20240528 1y ago
> For example, the CCP has been on a long, intentional path to destroying all international solar manufacturers via subsidies, dumping, etc. You should see what Microsoft did. Forgetting the corruption the open document format, free&#x2F
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by ta20240528 1y ago
> Germany has dropped from 76% of US GDP per capita in 2015 to only 61% today. Largely because the USA added $6 trillion to their GDP via fantasy 'hedonic' and 'imputed' components.
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by ta20240528 1y ago
I feel I speak for a lot of us when I say that Barrack Obama or Hillary Clinton should have won it. Just to see what happens.

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