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by nec4b 18d ago
Do you think Turkey can again become a great regional player in the near future? Looking at the population projections for the Balkans and surrounding countries like Hungary, things don't look great long term. Also Austria is afraid to
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by nec4b 21d ago
If you were a native American it certainly felt outrages or do you think otherwise?
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by nec4b 25d ago
Ironically you are making his point. Countries that have stronger respect for property rights dump way less or no garbage in the oceans as the countries where there is no such respect.
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by nec4b 1mo ago
So which economical system enables us to talk to inanimate objects or unborn babies, since you think this is a fault of capitalism? You have a deep misunderstanding of markets and capitalism!
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by nec4b 1mo ago
Again you brought it up.
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by nec4b 1mo ago
A country that can't provide basic goods like bananas and coffee, needs to send millions of it's people to another country so they can survive, represses minorities and political dissidents, has Lukasenko type of dictator for life
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by nec4b 1mo ago
How exactly can you ask an unborn child, a river or a glacier what it wants? Did the Yugoslav dictator ask Kosovars what they want before violently oppressing them?
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by nec4b 1mo ago
You brought the failed state of Yugoslavia as model. I don't have a clue why though. Its economic model certainly doesn't solve any of the existing problems and it would exacerbate them. The forest will burn and rivers will run dr
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by nec4b 1mo ago
No, every one participates. Ordinary people the most, because the capitalist first and foremost need to provide value to us. I'm not sure what do you mean by rivers, glaciers or others not participating in the market? Isn't it evi
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by nec4b 1mo ago
>>Value for who? Value as determined by who? Value for us, real people who have needs. We decide what we want to buy and not some apparatchik on their pedestal. >>Rivers here are drying out. Glaciers are melting. Forests are bur
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by nec4b 1mo ago
Yugoslavia failed spectacularly economically. People had to smuggle bananas, diapers, coffee and jeans among other goods from the neighboring Italy and Austria. Millions of people (Gastarbeiter) migrated to Germany to be able support their
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by nec4b 1mo ago
Do you never have problems with transportation like breakdowns or accidents stopping the traffic for a while or having some sort of emergency where you need to drop everything an take care of it?
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by nec4b 1mo ago
People miss their youth. You can do the same poll anywhere and the results will be similar, whether that place was a communist dictatorship or not. And no it's not a simple fact that people enjoyed their lives. Maybe it was for your fa
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by nec4b 1mo ago
In my experience those are the people who miss the "good" old times, when everything had order and hierarchy. Wikipedia says the communist party in Poland had 3 million member which is about 10% of the population at the time. If y
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by nec4b 1mo ago
He is also probably not aware of how many people Stalin's KGB murdered or that even kids were supposed to report their parents.
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by nec4b 1mo ago
>My family had an absolutely happy life for all the generations that followed WW2. Most likely your family was part of the communist elite. I believe you had a very happy life.
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by nec4b 1mo ago
>> we adapt our societies to become less dependent on it How? Old people need care. Younger people will need to take care of them. When they die, a lot of knowledge will be lost, because there will not be enough young people to learn
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by nec4b 1mo ago
>>Which is? If you need to apologize for defending Aristotle after more then 2000 years after his death, you must be a part of a political establishment which is very out of tune with the feelings of ordinary people and are a part of
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by nec4b 1mo ago
>Meanwhile, the social-democratic countries... Which don't have anything in common with socialist countries. https://www.investors.com/politics/commentary/denmark-tells-...
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by nec4b 1mo ago
I think they are just signaling their political/religious affiliation.
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by nec4b 1mo ago
I'm happy our ancestors domesticated animals, therefore we don't really have to hunt them as savagely as other predators do and we can instead bread them for our consumption. I'm all for having better condition for factory fa
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by nec4b 1mo ago
I can't eat the grass growing in the pastures on the hills around me, but some animals can. Then it's just a question who eats those animals, either us human or other predators. I think it's unhealthy when people start to ant
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by nec4b 1mo ago
Such a weird perspective on human life. Where do you put white Ukrainian orphans compared to black American kids, whose ancestors were slaves on your grievance scale? Btw. you are also cherry picking a biased sample. How do you know which b
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by nec4b 1mo ago
What kind of a line do you need to draw? Isn't it obvious how humans are different from animals for you? Normal humans are innately aware we are different from other animals and we are aware that not all other humans are fully function
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by nec4b 1mo ago
>What's the difference between us and animals? I always find it incredible some people equating animals with people. How do you not see the difference in human range of emotions, ability to do science, technology, arts, etc. Do you
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by nec4b 1mo ago
> Do you think people were eating meat every day throughout human history? This started after WWII with mass agriculture and factory farming. That's why so many cultures have beans and rice as their primary dish: it's a perfect
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by nec4b 2mo ago
Do you have a more credible source than first hand account of dealing with Moroccan government I linked?
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by nec4b 2mo ago
Moroccan government is doing this on purpose and they are not probably the only country doing it. https://x.com/visegrad24/status/2082842354927456322
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by nec4b 2mo ago
What does e.g. Switzerland do with the guns so they don't have such incidents event though the gun ownership is high? Or do you think guns are the issue and not the culture?
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by nec4b 2mo ago
>Meanwhile, the majority of the civilized world solves this with gun control. I don't know what constitutes the civilized world for you, but in Western Europe kids lately get knifed, beaten to death or driven over by vehicles. Also

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