Yep. The benefits of a pragmatic authoritarian state. Here in America getting people to agree to get better health care for less money is a fight because "muh taxes." In China if something is obviously a better option then they just do it. I don't doubt that they have severe issues that are hidden from view, but at least they have leaders that know the meaning of the word pragmatic.
And it's worth pointing out, since some people forget, that there's more colors in the US than black and white, so blacks don't make up the entire other half.
The majority of people shot by the police in the US are white. Black people are vastly overrepresented compared to the portion of the population they represent, but they don't come close to a majority of victims. Stop getting your information from Tumblr.
What about poverty rates and economic inequality? Social safety nets? Social divisions? Any chance any of those have any effect? The Swiss issue assault rifles to a large chunk of their populace and have (or had the last time I checked) lower homicide rates than Britain. At the same time Obama's election ushered in an era of unprecedented firearm sales in the US, but homicide rates continued dropping until 2015.
Yep. Racism has been redefined by the Left to include "power" you can't be racist if you don't have "power" which conveniently means that they can be as shitty as they want, then claim that they aren't racist because they don't have "power."
Do you think that the ONLY difference between the US and those other first world countries is gun ownership? Do you think that there's no other possible reason that there could be a difference in violence?
Exactly. And this is a very large portion of what 1984 was actually about. People focus on the other things, but the thought control was perhaps the most important and relevant part of it.
Basically. Like all things nationalism can go to far, but a greater regard for your tribe than a tribe on the other side of the world is healthy and natural.
Yep. MS creates ideas and releases them before they are ready. They get shit on, other people (like APple) then take up the idea and perfect it, releasing it to massive acclaim.
The problem isn't that they aren't perfect, it's that the "science" will be done with the explicit purpose of coming up with specific, politically actionable results. Anything else WILL be ignored/suppressed/discarded. The end result of such it the abrogation of rights under a false veneer of scientific legitimacy. This is not people doing legitimate science where the results will be openly discussed and dissenters will get a valid say, it's a political hatchet job using "science" as it's justification.
You're assuming people are rational actors. They aren't. As long as that data is being collected with the specific intention of stripping away rights the collection should be resisted. If the data was being collected to form a rational opinion then we could talk.
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Yep. The benefits of a pragmatic authoritarian state. Here in America getting people to agree to get better health care for less money is a fight because "muh taxes." In China if something is obviously a better option then they just do it. I don't doubt that they have severe issues that are hidden from view, but at least they have leaders that know the meaning of the word pragmatic.
B-b-but when we give money to the rich they'll like...give it all back and make all of us rich! The wealth always trickles down!!!
Just one more bit of evidence that the American Empire is failing. Hard times ahead, I wish we could be preparing for them.
And it's worth pointing out, since some people forget, that there's more colors in the US than black and white, so blacks don't make up the entire other half.
Let's be fair, with the margins as close as they were there's a huge list of things you can point to as costing her the election.
The majority of people shot by the police in the US are white. Black people are vastly overrepresented compared to the portion of the population they represent, but they don't come close to a majority of victims. Stop getting your information from Tumblr.
It's easy to moralize when your life isn't on the line.
What about poverty rates and economic inequality? Social safety nets? Social divisions? Any chance any of those have any effect? The Swiss issue assault rifles to a large chunk of their populace and have (or had the last time I checked) lower homicide rates than Britain. At the same time Obama's election ushered in an era of unprecedented firearm sales in the US, but homicide rates continued dropping until 2015.
Yep. Racism has been redefined by the Left to include "power" you can't be racist if you don't have "power" which conveniently means that they can be as shitty as they want, then claim that they aren't racist because they don't have "power."
Do you think that the ONLY difference between the US and those other first world countries is gun ownership? Do you think that there's no other possible reason that there could be a difference in violence?
Exactly. And this is a very large portion of what 1984 was actually about. People focus on the other things, but the thought control was perhaps the most important and relevant part of it.
It's because he knows nothing of guns and just believes what the media says.
Basically. Like all things nationalism can go to far, but a greater regard for your tribe than a tribe on the other side of the world is healthy and natural.
A lot of things WORK, the real question is "is it the best option?"
Yep. Tradition is 90% of scheduling for office work these days.
They are. They have chosen to not go into STEM as much. The problem is that some people see that as a problem.
Yep. MS creates ideas and releases them before they are ready. They get shit on, other people (like APple) then take up the idea and perfect it, releasing it to massive acclaim.
Obviously.
There's a lot more supercruise capable planes these days. Of course they don't go 2.2 supercruising.
They don't build them like they used to as they are true commodity parts now. SSDs should live for decades in a low-data-writing system.
SSD failures should usually be repairable by swapping controllers. Though I can see a possibility for the NAND itself to be damaged.
Exactly the point. We have a number of cultural issues that need to be sorted out, instead all anyone wants to talk about is stripping away rights.
And the ONLY difference between our countries is access to guns of course. Except for all the other differences.
The problem isn't that they aren't perfect, it's that the "science" will be done with the explicit purpose of coming up with specific, politically actionable results. Anything else WILL be ignored/suppressed/discarded. The end result of such it the abrogation of rights under a false veneer of scientific legitimacy. This is not people doing legitimate science where the results will be openly discussed and dissenters will get a valid say, it's a political hatchet job using "science" as it's justification.
You're assuming people are rational actors. They aren't. As long as that data is being collected with the specific intention of stripping away rights the collection should be resisted. If the data was being collected to form a rational opinion then we could talk.