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I find these kinds of comparison difficult to parse, especially since even aside from inflation the economies in which these spends are embedded are growing.

I think it would be clearer to express these costs as percentages of the global / societal (e.g. economy of Europe, of greater Chinese sphere, etc) / national economy.

Maybe I'm missing something.

The downvotes to your comment illustrate how deep the rot perpetuated by XCCP, IRGC, FSB, Qataris, etc has gone.

Not to say concern about domestically originating extremism isn’t warranted, but, if you’re downvoting a comment on “I’m most concerned about sources of social influence from the most regressive governments on earth”, you’ve got some serious bias

Just looking at numbers of the effected populations - Ughyers vs (I assume you mean) Palestinians - that's absolute disinformation hogwash.

For bonus points, disinformation hogwash that helps one of the most un-progressive governments in the world (China) extend it's power.

This is getting the most extreme social mind control tool mankind has ever created out of the hands of a government that did Tianemen Square and is doing the Uygers right now. A government who controls all under its purview with an iron fist, and shares absolutely zero common interests with any young person in the west.

The resistance to it on this forum, of all places, is kind of incredible.

“The importance of market power today suggests that corporate tax policy should distinguish between normal returns to capital and above-normal returns to capital, the latter of which is a telling indicator of corporations’ market power.”

The article lost me right there. This approach would generate all kinds of distortions. I remember helping someone with their books with an S corp- the consequence were bizarre.

I’d be way more in favor of some basic solutions which are well understood - an actual minimum corporate tax rate, a real wealth tax, and reinstate the laws whose repeal caused the “financialization” of the economy.

Bronze Age and late Neolithic archeology is the best archeology.

Hidden substructures of our cultures and all that.

A bit of a tangent but this always blew my mind: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/*K%C3%B3ryos

Given what you’re saying is recognized throughout the Jewish world, your downvotes indicate a serious predispositions for the visitors of this forum

Now I know the strategy for our next board meeting…

Case in point, this thread.

I wonder what it is about people in the West over the last generation that eliminates their ability to distinguish between “not ideal” and “terrible”, if the “not ideal” is their home base.

And me of Hamas members parading their dead, sexually assaulted trophies

The West will be the poorer for it

Or communist-light, but the latter ideology doesn’t seem to hold the same sting as a descriptor despite very similar outcomes

Sympathetic to the message, even if parts sound written by someone doing peyote while listening to Lennon’s “Imagine”.

But can someone explain, how is this appropriate for “Nature”?

I think this is basically how I use Excel, with a few other (nice but not game changing) features? Am I missing something?

I think you describe the ideological framework that immigrants in the U.S. have. Because they've had to work hard to integrate they value what they've acquired and work hard to uphold it. The result is they increase social cohesion by their adherence to the country's shared myths/ideals, and as they must generally pursue economic integration are economically productive as well.

How could they leave off Vulcans? Gross oversight

Nice zinger.

That was a lot of words.

One question - are there any patterns with who is involved in this gang violence?

I suspect anyone who wants to address the elephant in the room here will have to choose between accepting support from semi-fascist types or getting cancelled

It's a consensus organization that 90% of Jews right and left don't love but can generally agree on trusting for determining what is antisemitic and what isn't

This is terrifyingly believable

You do your best to kill as few people outside the terrorists as possible, accepting that because any military is not all-powerful and the terrorists are incentivized to and do put civilians in the line of fire, you will not get it 100% right and civilians will be killed unintentionally.

It's the least bad of a set of terrible options.

No, he’s justifying killing the monsters who go out to murder and wipe out families, then put other families deliberately in the line of fire to try and get the opportunity to do it over again

This would be the mother of all heists if it was one - probably to the serious detriment of the western world

These… are not ideologically convenient results.

More generally I’m curious for some deeper research beyond these correlations, but don’t expect it to happen

But in Germany, if you cut in line, huge shame. I’m in Israel, not as many orgy clubs (I assume?) but more people cut in line. There’s shame about different things.

Fair enough, my bad

Edit: I also see the parent comment was substantively edited

I enjoyed his ripping on the activist class, as he’s mostly right there far as I can tell.

Beyond that, wow, this is a complex issue…

Fall of the Western Roman Empire vibes everywhere in the west these days, outside maybe of tech. But even that depends on the infrastructure, human and physical, that the rest of the system provides so it’s just a matter of time.

I console myself by saying we’re just in the low part of Peter Turchin’s secular cycle - but I hope that’s true.

Agreed this was my experience with the SA role

This is the most amazing comment I’ve read in a while.