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by walkhour 5y ago
It's funny that you think supply shortages are being overlooked. It seems to me a whole camp of economists thinks it's the sole cause of inflation. And then there's another whole camp that thinks pumping money into the econom
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by walkhour 5y ago
You are simply stating something without backing it by any evidence. How exactly do you know all the money pumped during the pandemic hasn't contributed to the price spikes and that the sole reason is real demand for semiconductors, oi
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by walkhour 5y ago
Tulsi Gabbard was being called a traitor as well a few days ago, by Mitt Romney, which is a crime punishable by death, for saying we should make an effort to keep war away from Ukraine's bio labs, so that unknown pathogens weren't
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by walkhour 5y ago
> Will its devastation come to Kyiv I didn't see any probabilities in the article. If you want to know how likely an event is, most of the probabilities are here: https://www.metaculus.com/tournament/ukraine-con
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by walkhour 5y ago
> The west was able to control most of the globe due to their advances in weapons How did they secure these advanced weapons without being rich in the first place? Like the other comments defending this you're confusing cause and ef
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by walkhour 5y ago
China has committed a genocide over the Uighurs and has also peacefully brought hundreds of millions out of poverty in the last fifty years. These two events are unrelated. Every nation has committed exploitation and genocide but that that
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by walkhour 5y ago
There have been a few books attempting to justify geography it's not as fundamental as Guns germs and steels tries to prove it is. For example: The wealth of nations defends the institutions of a country play an important role and they
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by walkhour 5y ago
This is the reason, exploitation and colonization are the consequences of more power and wealth, not the causes. > How did Europe quickly go from inferior to their neighbors in the ~1200s to colonizing the world by the 1700s This is the
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by walkhour 5y ago
Thank you for sharing!
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by walkhour 5y ago
I'm guessing the health angle wasn't contemplated. Focusing on health wasn't that common before.
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by walkhour 5y ago
I was making the point the US army being superior or inferior didn't matter when it came to deciding the winning side. That it mattered when considering different things, there's no doubt.
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by walkhour 5y ago
Do you think immigration has disadvantages? Could you name them? For some people the disadvantages outweigh the advantages (like offering a solution to birth rates, provided low birth rates are a problem). Immigrants and their descendants c
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by walkhour 5y ago
Racism isn't new in America or anywhere else in the world. The difference between America and the rest of the world is that America has more immigrants relative to its population and in absolute terms than any other country. Out of cu
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by walkhour 5y ago
Are you sure these people are out there besides a tiny minority? Can you name a member of Congress or Senate that opposes all immigration to the US? Opposing immigration hardly has any support in the US, what has support is opposing certain
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by walkhour 5y ago
Whatever verbal logic is given to justify compulsory earlier access it will be just talk until it's actually proven that it has the effect of increasing the birthrate. It may have the opposite effect and then we'll come up with a
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by walkhour 5y ago
> I think he must have simply dismissed the USA as irrelevant This could be the case, however I've never found a convincing explanation of why Germany declared war to the US, maybe it was the German hubris. It's not like FDR wa
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by walkhour 5y ago
Who was understanding their enemies? The biggest mistake of Germany was thinking England wouldn't declare war over Poland, you may say Germany was deluded but why do you think they underestimated their enemies? What enemies in particul
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by walkhour 5y ago
80% of the German casualties happened in the eastern front, and there is where the war occurred and was decided. It doesn't matter if the Wehrmacht was superior or inferior to the US army. A few months after the US was declared war, af
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by walkhour 5y ago
An axiom of every discussion you'll ever have is that all populations have exactly the same mean and standard deviation for every single measurable psychological trait that you can think of.
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by walkhour 5y ago
The likelihood of a "nuclear and radiation accident" before 2024 according to prediction markets is around 13% [0]. I don't see any change in the prediction in the last hours/days. [0] https://www.metaculus.co
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by walkhour 5y ago
Really good movies appeal to different audiences at different levels, if you're looking just for pure action, funny lines, you may find it there, and if you're looking for a deep story, you may find it there as well. So in theory,
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by walkhour 5y ago
There are also differences between Israel and a South African Apartheid. Israel is in a constant state of war and danger of losing its sovereignty. No such justification existed in South African Apartheid. > but I think it is deeply unwi
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by walkhour 5y ago
> Does it not feel dangerous to you, to even start weighing the needs of one ethnicity against the needs of another? It does, I think Israel and its neighbours are in a very dangerous position.
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by walkhour 5y ago
> There is no unified Palestinian government. I’m going to assume you are referring to hamas, who hasn’t faced election since the mid 2000s in Gaza (though to be fair they would probably win again today). I'm referring to whoever de
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by walkhour 5y ago
> Jews have been prosecuted on many parts of the world and on different timelines of history > They have also found refugee in Muslim community from Christian prosecution multiple times Nevertheless persecution seems more likely now i
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by walkhour 5y ago
> there is something inherent in middle eastern culture writ large that makes people utterly incapable of living peacefully together By any means this is the case, but in the current state of affairs, given the amount of hatred in the re
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by walkhour 5y ago
Right, it should only make their concerns bigger if Palestinians have a genuine reason to despise them.
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by walkhour 5y ago
Thank you for the link, why did the Jewish population go from at least 25,000 in 2000 to less than 9,000 today in Iran? Is it a common occurrence for a religious group to dwindle by half in two decades in a country? https://en.m.
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by walkhour 5y ago
Don't get me wrong, I'm shocked as well, I just think that's not enough, you have to at least be able to justify why the two probabilities that I mentioned before are small, which in my opinion, is a hard thing to do.
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by walkhour 5y ago
Sure, but these are the arguments used to justify a Western nation not being able to exist in the Middle East because of having too inclusive values. What I'm looking for is an argument of why the two probabilities that I mentioned are

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