rajin444

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by rajin444 3y ago
Why would the authors say otherwise? Additionally, why is it framed in a way that makes it seem like white people having more of an impact is a bad thing? 10 years ago if you'd told me articles like this were coming I'd have laugh
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by rajin444 3y ago
This logic of selectively applying externalities based on an arbitrary threshold of risk tolerance is not a good argument. We might as well blame all the fat people as well. If they were thinner we’d have saved lives.
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by rajin444 3y ago
> the Republicans were staunchly isolationist They were except for their nominee running against FDR in 1940. His interventionist stance (and otherwise complete lack of political experience) made FDRs victory all but assured. I’m not sur
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by rajin444 3y ago
Weren't they in the process of committing some as these trials were ongoing? I don't think there's a reliable number, but certainly 6 figure and likely 7 figure death tolls for ethnic Germans due to postwar resettlements etc.
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by rajin444 3y ago
With regards to #2, Wendell Willkie winning the republican nomination over the isolationist candidates was extremely fortuitous for FDR and Churchill. There was no real desire from the US population to get involved in another European war,
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by rajin444 3y ago
School shootings are still insanely rare. When you account for high crime areas the likelihood of an average kid experiencing a school shooting is so low it should make you question anyone trying to make it seem otherwise.
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by rajin444 3y ago
The descent from "The vaccine is 99% effective and prevents transmission" to where we're at now was pretty eye opening. It sounded too good to be true and was. Nobody has been held accountable for coercing (and worse) the US
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by rajin444 3y ago
> feudal power structures are no way to organize 21st century business The efficiency gains and - more importantly - resiliency gained by having a single leader with a strong vision are enormous and the reason a single ruler is so promin
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by rajin444 3y ago
Did the study control for race then if genetics are a cause? ie other studies have shown those of ashkenazi descent are more likely to be schizophrenic. I hope this isn’t taken the wrong way - id very much like to know if my genetic ancestr
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by rajin444 3y ago
Aren’t they? Banks are out to make a profit not better the lives of their customers. Certain industries are nationalized for good reason.
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by rajin444 3y ago
Diversity should only matter in that it furthers the level of basketball being played. Diversity because it opens up additional markets is an awful incentive. That they only care about diversity because it makes them richer is very telling.
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by rajin444 3y ago
The focus on group outcomes as opposed to efficacy of the discipline is a sign of a sick culture. Groups are fighting over spoils instead of working to solve hard problems and push humanity forward. Ironically, it’s a complacency enabled by
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by rajin444 3y ago
This whole thread is full of takes like this - “how awful they have the wrong morals and erase things I agree with or don’t erase things I disagree with”. It’s all power games. Trying to pretend your morals are correct is hypocritical.
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by rajin444 3y ago
Do any modern western governments truly represent the interests of their people? They're all suffering from fragmentation and discord. Without high trust culture, they end up balkanizing their people and being ruled by oligarchs. I thi
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by rajin444 3y ago
Ironically enough, one of the strengths of a monarchy is a good king could absolutely prevent this and set the empire on a path to enriching the British populace. And if not they run a high risk of losing their head. Nowadays we’ve all embr
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by rajin444 3y ago
Who defines the best? Who defines unbiased? It all comes down to who you trust.
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by rajin444 3y ago
There’s also a strain of anti intellectualism that assumes every human should be forced through 12ish years of schooling and every human should achieve the same base level of results. Public education for all is not much different than the
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by rajin444 3y ago
No system can fix a corrupt elite. Even Adam Smith acknowledged that capitalism is an abusive system when you have elites that do not have their people’s best interest in mind. A high trust, cohesive populace is the minimum for any societal
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by rajin444 3y ago
No liability for the Covid vaccines (yes, I’m aware there are options that in reality almost never pay out) was a huge mistake. How do you repair a breach of trust that severe, outside of massive propaganda campaigns? And that’s just one sm
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by rajin444 3y ago
Ideally your culture has evolved a common set of norms that enable it to be high trust. Another word for this is “religion”. Additionally, having a more similar than not genetic makeup may be necessary (the diverse society experiment is sti
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by rajin444 3y ago
Ideally! It’s a great time for those with high amounts of wealth to buy up assets from those suffering from inflation. Cheaper stocks, people losing their homes due to unemployment, business going under, etc.
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by rajin444 3y ago
> Human societies never destabilized the entire global ecosystem before No, but Mother Nature has ample evidence of doing so. If we want to continue as a species we need a way to persist after the next apocalyptic natural disaster. We’re
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by rajin444 3y ago
It is a fallacy, but you’re right ultimately one we have to live with. There’s no way to function doing all the research yourself. This is why trust is so critical. The crux of your post was “I trust the intent of the experts because they’r
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by rajin444 3y ago
> Because of this Poles formed this connection between Jews and money and greed while completely forgetting that it was the governments at the time that caused this. I don’t think they’ve forgotten. In much of Europe rulers that issued c
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by rajin444 3y ago
The parent made a point about trust and how all historians are subject to biases. You responded with an appeal to authority, one of the many ways “history is written by the victors”.
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by rajin444 3y ago
> was that they don't allow enough immigrants Why is this the default solution? Shouldn’t we be asking why - after all these years of technical progress - it is not cheaper and easier to raise a family? Where are all the productivit
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by rajin444 3y ago
Is that full quote supposed to be better? I’m not sure what’s being addressed here, but that you feel comfortable reiterating that an entire race is cancerous is concerning to say the least. What is the end goal of this rhetoric?
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by rajin444 3y ago
Sorry, I meant that it'd be ideal for violence to have no place but it does.
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by rajin444 3y ago
> Even if no one is around, if you are assaulted, you can file a report And if you are killed? There is a strong appeal to reducing the likelihood you will die.
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by rajin444 3y ago
I agree, but they do, thus height is important. Why try to pretend otherwise? I’m still stuck on how one can defend “height has no importance”.

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