Visible overseas sudanese diaspora are overwhelmingly South Sudanese blacks due to refugees and the NBA being two of the biggest channels to see them. Northern Sudanese are pretty indistinguishable from Egyptians/Arabs
If they resemble Manute Bol they're generally Southern Dinka. Most people equivocate Sudanese with a 7 foot tall midnight colored stringbean
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1mo ago
North Sudan is primarily Arabs/lower Egyptians who have been beating the fuck out of the South Sudanese who are generally the super tall super dark phenotype
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1mo ago
Exactly. Saying the brexiteers said 'We want far less eastern Europeans' and then going 'sure thing, here's infinity Africans' is pretty clearly not what the Brexit enthused had in mind
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The average Western voting body is increasingly getting pushed to vote for strong populists since those are the only ones they have faith in actually making the requested changes. The center right is dying since they receive a strong popular mandate on immigration then inevitably just let the same unelected bureaucrats who are working on the same assumptions continue the same activities
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I mean if a justified self-defense in my eyes is like a 8/10 I'd give Digwa like a 0.3/10 for it being dark solo encounter with more scope for escalation and Karmelo like a 0.1/10 since even if it were a 'jumping' it was at a school event with considerable witnesses. I just can't see how anybody can be in the Karmelo camp if they've done anything to educate themselves on the facts at all.
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Yes that's true. Which is why most young people are quite militant since they know it's an inevitability that their personal access to the luxury communism will likely be killed off before they get to harvest a cent
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The Xers are already showing serious creaks in the structure. Anybody looking at an age distribution chart has to be very alarmed.
If an old person is totally self-funding their retirement and has an expensive house I have no malice to them. I do suspect they might be happier moving into a purpose-built assisted living community someplace with cheaper land values, but that's their choice. The issue becomes when massive subsidies, far exceeding the individual's lifetime contribution are piled on somebody who is also holding a very valuable asset which is increasingly happening.
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It wouldn't shock me if the repossession also came with a strong mandate to try and realize as much value as possible out of the store's current inventory. Which I assume a 200k collection would comprise a significant element. An overzealous manager could easily try running with that harder than they really should
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1mo ago
Even if Metcalf 'jumped' Karmelo it's pretty hard to see a situation where lethal force escalation would ever be justified unless Metcalf and his multiracial teammates were about to lynch Karmelo for trespassing.
I'd argue Digwa had a slightly more legitimate case for deploying his weapon than Karmelo if only since it was a 1v1 situation on a dark night with an intoxicated person. I can imagine a hypothetical situation in which that could have gone awry enough to justify lethal force self defense. Karmelo Anthony was in full public with 20 witnesses.
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1mo ago
Australia has huge immigration but strong trades protectionism so only like 2% of immigrants end up working in construction
Not in that sense. There's a potential haircut but the great grey migration has to go buy somewhere else which is likely better adapted to their needs. You're confusing this with liquid companies
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If social security is so smart and inevitable due to self funding by everybody why are they struggling to fund It?
Most of the bits of Australia with significant human presence aren't desert. I just recall going into the local elderly couple's house when I was younger and their roof was being barely patched together due to mold which they didn't have funds to rectify despite the lot being worth about 2.5 million AUD due to location. The house was about 100 years old though.
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1mo ago
Exactly. I've moved from a nuclear family society to a clannish one and the elderly tend to have better QOL through granny flats and staying inside the home
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1mo ago
Ohno. Premium real estate drops a bit in pricing and transit issues get mitigated.
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Also ridiculous carveouts in the current pension system. Australia doesn't count the house you live in towards mean testing for public assistance, pension and healthcare so there's a lot of instances where elderly are deliberately sitting on premium real estate (that they don't maintain at all) solely to potentially give it as future inheritance.
I'm reminded of an elderly couple near me growing up where their kids lived an hour away since the suburb had massively appreciated who made their own retirements significantly worse (due to transit and rarely seeing grandkids) by refusing to leave their literally rotting home
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1mo ago
True. I have more faith in the Chinese having the will and the ingenuity to actually accomplish this but the current meta in the West is awash with so much inefficiency and stupidity that it cannot last without alterations.
I'm sure a better scalable approach to eldercare exists but the current trajectory seems ill equipped to arrive there
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Yeah but the government sets forth with many entitlement and implicit vibes then takes them away arbitrarily. End of the day the system has to balance financially somewhat. The seniors of today didn't accumulate sufficient points to get the age target they wanted and it's better to make common sense shifts now rather than be forced through austerity or the day of the pillow in future
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1mo ago
The deal is going to be altered regardless. The Boomer block is still 5-10 years off peak demographic overhang and the system is already cracking. Public funded retirement can continue to exist but either age or provision of care needs to be shifted till the books somewhat balance.
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The meaningful amount of healthy years has expanded hugely? 70 in 2026 isn't what it was in 1970 due to a combination of jobs being far less physically arduous and public health interventions. 65 was picked as a line when most people didn't get there, they were profoundly wrecked on average and there wasn't an expectation of 10 years of meandering cruises.
But yeah the retirement age needs to be a function of where the books can be balanced. If you were incapable of generating enough savings or children to get you there, moving it onto the public purse is ruinous
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Publicly funded retirement is a privilege. The line needs to be kept at a point that enables society's books to be balanced. 65 made sense when a comparatively small fraction made it there and massively costly medical interventions weren't a thing.
If you want to stop working either have enough kids or get enough money that you're not on the public purse.
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1mo ago
US have way more pressure from random Hispanic day laborers in construction than anything in ANZ I believe. Also in a situation where there is a genuine shortage and the Boomer class feel that their right to cheap renovations are being impinged upon I don't see how the unions are totally unbreakable.
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Sure and prostitution used to be a lot more mainstream and casual in the West. Still is in some cultures like Japan
Yeah that's more negative sum though people are very capable of chopping themselves to death without any leverage
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