ChickenOverlord
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ChickenOverlord
2hr ago
Those same people were apparently unaware that the US has full on military installations in South Korea and Germany. That the US is pledged to treat an attack on Norway as an attack on the United States.
What treaties do we have with Israel that are in any way comparable to NATO? We pledge to defend Norway in case of an attack because they pledge the same thing back to us. Is it a lopsided relationship? Absolutely. But we don't even get those same guarantees back from Israel, lopsided as they would be. I'm not inherently opposed to entering a mutual defense treaty ala NATO with Israel, but there would have to be more to it than we just subsidize their military, forever.
ChickenOverlord
7hr ago
I don't have too much to add to what you said, but I think it's interesting to note that Prince Philip's comments in 2002 about Australian aboriginals, specifically him asking if they still threw spears at each other, were vindicated entirely. Even though the Australian media generally still considers him racist over the question, "reality has a rightwing bias" it would seem. I present to you a gang fight in a rural Australian town between two aboriginal gangs, where they literally throw spears at each other (and at a cop car): https://old.reddit.com/r/ActualPublicFreakouts/comments/1gpmasx/brawl_breaks_out_in_remote_aboriginal_community/
Like, I really don't want to be uncharitable to aboriginals, but they have a dysfunction that seems to be on a whole different level than the dysfunction we see in other comparable subcultures. I've been to several Native American reservations throughout the US and gone to school and worked with several natives, I've been in ghetto black parts of cities like Oakland and LA and Baltimore, and I taught several Gypsy families as a missionary in Eastern Europe. All of these groups are doing immeasurably better than Australian aboriginals. Even if you believe that the issues these groups face are due to colonization/slavery/racism/whatever, I don't see how you can argue that Australian aboriginals got treated worse than black chattel slaves in the US. But even blacks the first generation after being freed from slavery seemed to have more civilized behavior than aboriginals centuries after being colonized.
The point I'm trying to make is that blaming colonization for the ills of aboriginals doesn't hold up to scrutiny. Similar to how people point to the Chinese Exclusion Act and the San Francisco Councils of Vigilance Act as proof that historical discrimination isn't keeping present day Asians from succeeding in America, with Australian aboriginals you can point to almost any other aboriginal or otherwise mistreated population across the world and they'll have better results despite often having been treated much worse. Whether that's the Ainu in Japan or the Kurds in the Middle East or the Navajo in America. I just don't see how continuing to lay all the blame on Europeans can continue to hold up to intellectual rigor (though I don't believe my opponents are actually trying to apply intellectual rigor here in the first place).
As a final bonus story about aboriginal dysfunction, because it's simply so absurd that it's hard to believe it's real. Truth really is stranger than fiction:
There was never much in Wadeye, a remote township 420 km south-west of Darwin. It only got its first coffee shop a few years ago. It still doesn't have a public toilet.
But after days of brutal clan warfare, there's even less there now.
About 500 people have fled the township of 4,000 to hide out in surrounding bush after the savage violence erupted and left them homeless.
Famous for its gangs named after heavy metal groups or performers - like the Slayer Mob, Judas Priest Boys, Metallica Mob and, for female locals, the Celine Dion gang, the Kylie Girls and the Madonna Mob - Wadeye has been riven by violence for decades.
But in the latest eruption, one man, 32, is dead, allegedly speared through the head, and another is seriously injured after being shot by a bow and arrow.
Frightening photographs from the township - which is the Northern Territory’s biggest Aboriginal community - have revealed the extent of the war between the tribal rivals.
Likened by some to 'the Wild West', Wadeye has seen pitched battles after dark between rival gang members wheeling around the streets and setting houses and vehicles alight.
ChickenOverlord
19hr ago
Certainly not as drastic as half black half white or half Indian half American, but my dad was Presbyterian (of Scottish decent), my mom was Catholic (of Irish and French descent). They both became Mormon before my oldest brother was born, so they found a new (shared) identity to raise us up as. That would be my advice - find a new common identity you and your wife can share, and raise your kid to identify as that. If you ever immigrate to the US (or Europe). I would strongly recommend adopting being American or being European as an identity. Especially in America, there is nothing that Americans (especially more right wing Americans) love more than an immigrant who goes whole hog into the American identity.
He must be a Luca Goers or Al Bhed Psyches fan.
Edit: on second thought, he's probably not a Psyches fan, the Al Bhed are too Jew-coded.
ChickenOverlord
5d ago
the most offensive examples that i'm aware of are all in the south and all in favor republicans
The ones in the south are all because the Supreme Court has mandated the creation of "majority minority" districts (minority = black in this case) and blacks tend to cluster in urban areas. Though recent court decisions might be changing that (and are actually what prompted Texas's redistricting in the first place).
ChickenOverlord
6d ago
And in practice, there was no free land; drop them in Northern Australia and aborigine advocates would hate them today (even if there were insignificant numbers of aborigines in the area).
A real life example of this is Rhodesia. The highlands where most of the whites settled were sparsely populated because the native Africans were using wooden tools and the soil in the highlands was largely unworkable for them. After Mugabe took power he seized tons of white farmland on land where the natives had never lived.
ChickenOverlord
6d ago
ChickenOverlord
6d ago
Given that pretty much every single model trains against the benchmarks, I'm going to go with the end users on HN reporting running out of tokens way faster (for the same sorts of tasks they were doing on 4.6) over another synthetic benchmark.
Some of them (such as myself) would be (if we were also getting bases, unrestricted access to Israeli defense tech, etc. out of it). But I agree with you that there would be plenty who would not be because they hate Israel for other reasons. But I don't think it's necessarily because of anti-Semitism in all cases, some of the opposition to Israel seems to be because of deranged strains of Third-Worldism as well (and sometimes the two overlap as well).
I do, but I agree that the median American is retarded and ignorant about it. I will point out that the quantity of aid given to Israel is greater than that given to most other countries, so someone could be opposed to it on those grounds (though I admit they usually are not).
I'm personally opposed to almost all foreign aid, unless there is a clear benefit to the American people and taxpayers from that aid.
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