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> were viewed dimly by the Founders Hypothetically that was true. Until those founders started engaging in actual politics and became rabidly partisan. There was a brief period when the Federalists collapsed and US effectively became a s
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> Some places have explicit quotas for different ethnic or religious groups as a compromise to avoid civil war That leads to very dysfunctional outcomes due to obvious reasons. When you vote for the same party/candidate just becaus
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> and the mass-murdering Right, yet mass murdering in the USSR stopped 30 years before its collapse. Of course it was still an oppressive totalitarian state but nowhere close to Stalin’s day. It kind of the opposite. USSR collapsed a few
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
Yet pre Christian societies in Europe were arguably significantly more brutal. Establishing at least some basic principals of universal equality was a big deal (something modern atheists inherited directly from Christianity) e.g. even among
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Yes, STV is non perfect but IMHO it’s worth it to not have party lists. Also one of the main criticism of people opposed to proportional system is the lack of direct representation. STV solves that and even is superior to FPTP in that way b
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Overwhelming majority of soldiers (at least non US/UK) deployed to Afghanistan had very few chances to engage in combat. You’d have to be in special forces to get a chance to shot people on a regular basis, and yeah that’s likely a ver
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
Or just use a sane system like STV with multi member districts.
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It might be hard to convince people to vote for a party made up of random people who might have very contradictory views.
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> but really quiet It’s still gonna be louder than a water cooler if that’s your primary concerns. Otherwise other air coolers are only marginally less silent and just as effective at half (if not less) the price.
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> I'd bet over 50% of the things that you think happened How and why would that change anything in any way? From a rational perspective 5% of those things are way too much already. Much less even... In a rational and sane world Trum
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There is a whole Wikipedia article about UN peacekeepers committing atrocities. Not sure if claiming that on average they have “higher moral” standards than people who sign up for the Norwegian Army is fair (and they at least occasionally f
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In the EU they do care (or rather the advertised price already included all fees, tariffs and VAT). I think they also send everything from EU warehouses because that loophole was closed years ago.
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> You are forgetting No, I just don’t think they are applicable. Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam were are all very poor and rural Germany was one of the main industrial powers for the at least 50-60 years preceding WW2. > Marshall Plan th
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> magine if South Vietnam had remained independent. If it had become a thriving prosperous free democracy That’s not obvious. For starters South Korea was a brutal and oppressive dictatorship during and after the war (not that much bette
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You are denying the agency of the people living there and/or are clueless about the country.. US and Israel started the Lebanese civil war and the enmity between the Christian and Muslim populations? Well in a way.. at least the Pales
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by wqaatwt 2y ago
What about France? ArianeSpace was the SpaceX of the 80s (they had >50% market share of commercial satellite launches). There were plenty of other innovative European companies if you go back several decades. These days? Not so much..
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That’s not sustainable. Best outcome would be ending up like Lebanon. Besides Belgium (and that’s nowhere close) there are hardly any successful democracies that were evenly split primarily on ethno-religious grounds and didn’t entirely col
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There is a lot whole lot of violence in the West Bank, no carpet bombing or tens of thousands of casualties, though. That makes it extremely different.
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Yet his approval rating back in January and February was over 50%. So even those who didn’t bother to vote for him still supported him. It’s still ~45% now when in any sane world it would be in the single digits..
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> It's absurd that people who aren't citizens would be sent back to their home countries I’m obviously referring to everything the current administration is doing not this specific case. > common ground with the left I’d con
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> . But it's absurd to think that will happen Really? The things that are happening now are so absurdly insane that nobody could have imagined them just a few years ago, and you are still gullible enough to say something as silly li
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> One might think that the only process due to such a person would be the opportunity to contest Well a federal judge thought otherwise. The government ignored him and did what they wanted anyway. That’s your definition of due process? &
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I thought that’s what half of America wanted just 6 months ago?
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So you think it’s sane to do nothing and wait till it’s happening when they are explicitly saying they are looking for ways to make it happen? Really? At this when they say something absurdly unhinged and unthinkable and if you still don’t
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> Equating Russia and the US is an extreme take. Perhaps currently. How long do you think we should wait until we can start doing that? At the current pace probably a year or two? I mean.. Putin wasn’t that bad in the early 2000s, nazis
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> Do you condemn Hamas What’s the alternative? Regardless of what Israel did or did not do Hamas could have ended this “war” at any moment they wanted to. None of their actions were in any way remotely in the interest of the people of Ga
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> We should wait for all the facts to come out. Like indefinitely? Trump’s administration is ignoring the courts and there is no real oversight. Also whatever facts come out they will be drowned by all the other insane idiocy that the US
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> It currently dwarfs the number incarcerated by the Soviet Union during the 1930s That was certainly false if you look at the late 40s (not by much, only 2x or so though..) However if you actually think (since you post nonsensical “stat
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> The more i think about it, the less difference i see. You might consider trying not to view the world entirely in black and white then. This sort of sentiment is not particularly productive especially in times like this..
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> but rather the fact we write down what we know, then make those writings available to future generations to build As far as we can tell humans were doing that orally for thousands of years before writing became a thing. You had major c

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