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by throwaway3060 1y ago
When having a politically-controversial long-running Major Ongoing Topic with multiple unflagged submissions, is there any obligation to keep some semblance of balance over the submissions that get flags disabled? When the articles making t
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by throwaway3060 1y ago
Governments are still shaping the narrative, it's just that the ones that are most skilled and successful in manipulating social media happen to be the non-Western ones (Think about China controlling Tiktok, or the various Russia elect
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by throwaway3060 1y ago
None of which has anything to do with which countries politicians feel most comfortable visiting. If the political class felt much affinity with Mexico (rightly or wrongly), I imagine that there would be much less talk of a border wall. Cle
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by throwaway3060 1y ago
Those who believe that there is any comparison between then and now generally should learn more about what happened then - and would do well to learn the history of war in general.
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by throwaway3060 1y ago
Empires are not exclusive to the West, and those also ignore the UN. For many of the countries under their thumbs, the West has at least sometimes been acting in their defense.
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by throwaway3060 1y ago
Russia and China would love to get their hands on Israeli tech. Nothing happens in a vacuum.
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by throwaway3060 1y ago
Many (not all) of those countries are fine with when it's a member of the second or third worlds committing atrocities. So no, there's no guts here. They perceive it's in their interest to call out some acts but not others -
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by throwaway3060 1y ago
> the U.S. obviously didn't prosecute a surgical war on the Taliban or Al Qaeda. We invaded, occupied and attempted to rebuild two nation states. Which is why holding Israel to a higher standard than we hold ourselves is odd, to s
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by throwaway3060 1y ago
It would be more accurate to compare to England, France, or Canada. The US relationship with Mexico is complicated.
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by throwaway3060 1y ago
In FPTP, this often ends up backfiring. A politicized issue quickly becomes a polarized issue - the other side takes the opposite view, and both sides then race to the extremes. Compromise becomes less and less possible, because then each s
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by throwaway3060 1y ago
The bigger factor was people staying home because they refused any compromise on the issue. For races that swing depending on turnout, this was enough to tip those races red. Hard to say whether this impacted the Presidential election, but
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by throwaway3060 1y ago
The Confederacy was made of states. Even before the Civil War, each of these had militias. I'm sure Yanukovych would have labelled them a separatist military - but would the remaining institutions agree? We don't have to assume th
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by throwaway3060 1y ago
I don't view civil wars the same way - these aren't individual protestors, but separatist military forces. They are violent by definition. I did say maybe. Yanukovych ultimately fled - presumably he felt his position was threatene
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by throwaway3060 1y ago
Do you believe the results would have been the same under a Stalin instead of a Gorbachev? This isn't to take away from what Poland accomplished then, or to say that such methods can never work in the right conditions. Violent revoluti
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by throwaway3060 1y ago
With more than a hundred people killed by those government snipers. The protestors succeeded, but some paid the ultimate price to do it. If they had a means to defend themselves, maybe there could have been less lives lost. This was Ukraine
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by throwaway3060 1y ago
I hate to say this - but having known refugees from a tyrannical government, I have to shake my head at this. If a population tried a general strike against a truly tyrannical government, pretty soon that government will start bringing out
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by throwaway3060 1y ago
I'm pretty sure America never wiped out 97% of an ethnic group. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circassian_genocide
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by throwaway3060 1y ago
You forget that the Soviet Union's sphere of influence was a lot more than just half of Europe. For the families who left, there is gratitude every day that the Soviet Union lacked the power to control more than it did - certainly not
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by throwaway3060 1y ago
From what hints I've been able to piece together, suppression of religion may have actually gotten worse during the Krushchev years. So it's not quite as simple as there being ups and downs - different aspects of culture got suppr
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by throwaway3060 1y ago
I don't know why the topic of Soviet universities specifically is so touchy, out of everything else. Notice a detail I mentioned earlier - "Jewish person of ordinary means ". As with most things in the Soviet Union, bribes,
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by throwaway3060 1y ago
If you open the comment separately as its own page, it should allow you to reply there. Not trying to claim that they're the same at all, especially not in a physical sense. Maybe in a spiritual or cultural sense the consequences could
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by throwaway3060 1y ago
I don't know where in the Soviet Union you were born. But, the stories I've heard of life outside the cities are completely unrecognizable to the modern American experience outside of the most extreme rural and isolated environmen
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by throwaway3060 1y ago
You said that my claim is false. I'm not sure what true perspective you are referring to that could show that. The situation was far more severe than just "quotas at top universities". That the Stalin years ended in a campaig
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by throwaway3060 1y ago
Funny you mention Jabotinsky. Jabotinsky's beliefs were formed from the proof playing out in front of him, that not even the Ukrainians, the second largest ethnicity in the Russian empire, could get even a semblance of fairness out of
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by throwaway3060 1y ago
Have you ever heard of Protocols of the Elders of Zion? This was the central source of the Nazi's specific claims, even when antisemitism was nothing new to Germany. It was created by a pro-Tsar Russian publishing house. All the conspi
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by throwaway3060 1y ago
Only bits and pieces of culture can survive through such methods. It is enough to escape full assimilation, but only just. All it would take is the whim of another Stalin. The damage is such that those who went through it may not even reali
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by throwaway3060 1y ago
There is so much wrong in this statement, but more history required to explain it than a single post can cover. I'll try to cover only a few right now: - The more famous antisemitic movement in Germany, while still fully responsible fo
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by throwaway3060 1y ago
I'm using "good" to include the prestigious engineering subfields. For those, even minor schools in smaller cities would be barred to Jews.
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by throwaway3060 1y ago
If a kid in the Soviet Union was interested in art and used that to express national memory, then there would be consequences. As an adult, they'd probably be sent to a gulag and never seen again. This is how the Soviet Union crushed n
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by throwaway3060 1y ago
I don't know about Poland, but within the USSR, a Jewish person would be unable to go to a good university without paying a bribe (which for many families was beyond their means). Jewish applicants would get a different set of test que

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