72 karma · joined March 19, 2017
Ability to choose different paths is far more appealing than suffering under some inescapable dystopian global diktat you have in mind. So yes, we should extend tribal thinking to space. Platitudes like "we are single human race" are as meaningful as saying we are all life.
I was not referring to a nation as political abstract but as a group of people sharing common descent/history/culture/language, inhabiting a particular territory. They do suffer, bleed and weep.
> One side effect of this has been an end to millennia of multiculturalism, often bloody.
You seem to be operating on the premise that caliphates were peaceful multicultural, almost utopian, societies. They weren't. All kinds of crimes against the subjugated people were the norm. And it's not just the massacres, slavery, and the usually stuff but also bizarre practices like the blood tax practiced by the Ottoman empire (young Christian boys taken from their families, converted to Islam, trained into Janissaries, and sent back to kill their own people)
As for Syria/Iraq, it wasn't any pretty under Ottoman rule. Perhaps a quote from Mark Twain's Innocents Abroad describing Damascus massacre can help paint the picture.
They say those narrow streets ran blood for several days, and that men, women and children were butchered indiscriminately and left to rot by hundreds all through the Christian quarter; they say, further, that the stench was dreadful. All the Christians who could get away fled from the city, and the Mohammedans would not defile their hands by burying the 'infidel dogs.' The thirst for blood extended to the high lands of Hermon and Anti-Lebanon, and in a short time twenty-five thousand more Christians were massacred and their possessions laid waste. How they hate a Christian in Damascus!
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Nations as in "a group of people united by common descent, history, culture, and language, inhabiting a particular state or territory" most certainly did exist.
> Within the boundaries of the empire you had peace and prosperity.
Then you don't know much (or anything) about the life of people conquered by caliphates.
Tor nodes are known and it's trivial to detect users using Tor.
> There's also usability to consider - if this results in more people using Tor Browser, or not disabling things to try and work around it, that might be a net gain.
I'm sorry, but that's just ridiculous. Sharp corners on tabs most certainly won't attract more users.
EDIT: Ok I saw the issue with mobile users and some other edge cases. I would still agree with bo1024, it's a weak argument.
We can't. Because some guy posting videos about historical weapons doesn't mean that has anything to do with your kid being safe.
If you can just hop in and go to the hospital by yourself you don't need an ambulance.
On the positive side the mess is a result of an enormous demand. If you had a serious exchange that's taking new users and a quick verification, you'd make a killing.
You might end up as MGTOW because your socialite wife probably won't be on the same page, but hey... No balls, no glory.
10% Holocaust was amazing. We should do it again sometimes.
12% Would you like to buy some knee grows? Only baboons believe the climate change is real.
How could you possibly know that?
Why don't you write one? Would that get you fired?
Given the repercussions that's a surprisingly high number.