zeke5123
2yr ago
Well that suggests real wages increased ratably.
Imagine a situation where wage increases lagged price increases but stabilized. During the interim, people would’ve need to dip into savings / borrow.
So even if from a flow perspective today everyone is the same from a stock perspective they are worse off.
And we do seem to see that (lower savings, more borrowing) suggesting people’s economic position is more fragile.
zeke5123
2yr ago
It always strikes me as odd that in history we have to find THE reason while in modern times we understand actors are motivated by disparate reasons.
For some people, state’s rights were why the civil war was fought. For many others, slavery was why the war was fought. For others, it was defense of home and hearth.
One final point. If it was solely about slavery, why didn’t Lincoln prior to any shooting use the fifth amendment to secure the slaves freedom while compensating the south? Would’ve in the long run been cheaper than the civil war and probably could’ve more orderly transitioned to a post slave situation.
zeke5123
2yr ago
It also seems like a punk move to do it 160 years later. To me, it seems pathetic.
zeke5123
2yr ago
Well baseball does have the whole “if you throw at our players we will throw at yours”
zeke5123
2yr ago
Agreed. Rotherham is disgusting. Basically “sure we let them rape white girls because we don’t want to be called racist”
zeke5123
2yr ago
Honestly when you saw the riots in Paris and the marches and London maybe it isn’t unreasonable to keep France for the French or England for the English.
zeke5123
2yr ago
If you have X murder and Y petty thefts, an increase in X will likely reduce policing re petty thefts. So assuming resources are constant increased murders would likely lead to less reporting of petty thefts.
zeke5123
2yr ago
It was funny citing TJ as if he was wrong. I would think both the whites and blacks would’ve been better off with a clean divorce (with blacks provided sufficient supplies etc to survive for a number of years until they could be fully established).
zeke5123
2yr ago
It isn’t just Muslims themselves but certain sympathizers. You don’t need a huge number for reduced turnout to result in an R victory.
Also if you will always vote and vote one party, then that party doesn’t really have to do anything for you.
zeke5123
2yr ago
There was no discussion of self determination after because the South lost. The point is that the South believed they had the right to change their form of government and the North said “no you don’t.” That is a violation of self determination. Of course, the reason the South wanted that right was to brutally oppress a minority. But that implies the right to self determination is at best contingent based upon what you will do with it.
As for propaganda, when you read Hamas’ charter which cites to the (apparently happy) day when even trees will call out to Muslims that a Jew is hiding behind them and it is time to kill the Jew do you believe Hamas has zero desire to wipe out Jews? Why disregard their stated intention?
Is your idea that the British solution was somehow wrong? Keep in mind it wasn’t the Israelis who fucked up the British solution but a number of Arabs who couldn’t dare imagine a Jewish state.
Please also inform us how the Jews have been invading Gaza. In 2005 Israel pulled their citizens forcibly out of Gaza. Gaza then attack Israel. I’m sure I will hear something about the disputed West Bank but of course that isn’t Gaza.
Finally you talk about propaganda and then cite to an ethnostate? Really hard argument when Israel is surrounded by theocratic authoritarian governments (including Hamas which hasn’t held an election since 2006). Hell even Arabs have a party in the Knesset. Do Arabs have a bit of a second class right in Israel? Yeah. But funny enough those second class rights are often better than rights in other Arab countries and far better than the rights Jews have in those autocratic countries they are surrounded by. There is a clear difference between Israel and the non-Israelis in the Middle East. It isn’t a hard choice to say which one is better (even if none are perfect).
PS — part of my point was that right of self determination conflicts a lot with other supposed rights. For example, could France choose to keep France for the French by refusing to take in any immigration? I’m sure NGOs would claim that violates immigrants’ rights even if that conflicts with the French supposed right of self determination. So is there a right to self determination?
zeke5123
2yr ago
It is just so inauthentic. I do wonder why pols get such bad advice. Trump has a following because he is his true self. It isn’t entirely what he says but that you believe he is the person saying it.
zeke5123
2yr ago
What about modern how many of the lynchings were correct extra judicial hangings (eg the decedent did in fact rape a woman)? I don’t think extra judicial is good (big believer in process) but it doesn’t strike me as a huge problem if say 39/40 of the annual lynchings were based on an accurate view of crime.
To me, the problem of Jim Crow was more the laws that made it difficult for blacks to earn income etc.
zeke5123
2yr ago
I thought of not because the South and Gaza map 1:1 but because the right to self determination is at stake with both.
zeke5123
2yr ago
Perhaps imbedded in A but Robert E Lee was a man of honor. Shame that his state was fighting to persevere something dishonorable.
zeke5123
2yr ago
Were the videos of the Oct 7 attack meet with delight or dismay in Palestine?
zeke5123
2yr ago
If Palestine is from the river to the sea that means Israel does not exist. Now does it mean the necessary genocide of Israelis? No but in practice it will
zeke5123
2yr ago
Below, there is a discussion of the civil war due to Robert E Lee statute being torn down. The other main event of the day is the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
I would say as a general matter the biggest supporters of Palestine in the US are progressives. Progressives also hate the confederacy.
Question is can you separate them? The south was arguing for their right of self determination? Of course, imbedded within that is they wanted to savagely deny that right to blacks held in chattel slavery. Likewise, the Palestinians claim the right of self determination but their stated intention is to kill the Israelis (from the river to the sea has a meaning).
So in both cases there is a legitimate claim to right of self determination. But that claim is bloodied by what those people would do with such right and at least in the confederacy context that “bad thing” was enough to invalidate their right to self determination.
My question then is whether the right to self determination is properly thought of as as a right? If so, it seems at best it is a contingent right. If it is a contingent right, what contingencies are unimportant enough to “trump” the right?
zeke5123
2yr ago
Show me a single black person alive who suffered as a result of American slavery?
zeke5123
2yr ago
Perhaps but at the same time he pulls the fire alarm and makes zero effort to go towards the door nor is there any hesitation.
zeke5123
2yr ago
At my work I work with some religious Jews. To a one, they hated the riots.
Well, we know credit card debt has increased by 20% from pre pandemic levels.
We know savings have decreased from pre pandemic.
So yeah basically the average person has less net assets.
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