Darkpriest

I think the issue is, what the state is actually doing to clap down on these crimes, and if there is not too much of a blind eye on such cases. Other areas included. The crime statistics are just... Well you know best. Would you really feel safe outside of living in a gated and privately secured community? Doubly so, if you'd be a young woman.

You also have issues with land grabbinb and genocide of farmers?

Oh, 2020 election will be so much fun. If you don't have reliable methods of voting remotely, you just should nit do that... https://www.the-sun.com/news/1529924/mail-in-ballots-trump-trashed-pennsylvania/ Things like this, will only give fuel for both sides to toss more **** at each other and push polarization to a breaking point. You have big tech located in US, yet you cannot get something simple as online voting, where post service reps could walk house to house and collect votes via a remote pad after verification of the voter. And this could also be tracked as each voter would have their own profile (name/address/id) and they could check if they are marked as "voted" or not, to control if they are the ones who gave a vote.

Forgot that Norwegians got the peace prize awards.... Doh!

Nah, Swedes won't like them

They are stacking it, so Trump will look like a pinnacle of virtue and peace 😁

Wasnt sure, if it should be in funny or in politics, but i found it more depressing than funny, so lands in politics.

This seems to be some interesting point oof view, a bit more weighted than an usual article there. https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/collapse-process-not-event

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3102047/us-spy-planes-posing-airliners-serious-threat-south-china-sea If true, then this is disgusting on US part. This could make a real airliner a target by accident and create some dangerous incident.

And I do not like the idea of such an instrument. Not with the current helicoper money policies. https://www.wsj.com/articles/cme-nasdaq-to-launch-water-futures-contract-11600853401

@BruceVC This is probably more to your domain https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-23/jpmorgan-to-move-230-billion-assets-to-germany-in-brexit-shift?srnd=premium-europe But perhaps some people following BREXIT might be interested in this as well

Capital gains tax will not fix it, it will only make people look for solutions to re-allocate their wealth and avoid taxes altogether. Middle class shrinkage has more to do with cheaper labor alternatives overseas.

If looking from that point, I can admit I did pay attention to a specific post due to it pointing to these are the same people who will wax on about freedom and call for mass arrests in the same breath after all. Reading walls of text about politicians doing partisian things and using procedures as they see fit is about as pointless to me as reading about water being wet. I might have missed the context of that post then.

How is that relevant, when my point was about equal treatment of similar behaviors and opportunities for similar acts? Unless you advocate that some part of populace should be held to different standards and have different rights than the others?

Regarding C - hence i added a note that this should not be limited to skin color part only. It starts as early as me vs world, my family vs others etc. (whatever groups you can define where people form them out of own will)

I think, it's more aimed at upholding the same standards of protests. Did you see and experience mass voilence and looting during protests in defense of 2nd amendment rights (i think that was the one about guns) There is also a large dose of hypocrisy, saying that protests against lockdown or other gatjerings are forbidden due to covid19 threat, yet you have other protests being encouraged.... Logic and consistency please. Unless you agree now, that rular area citizens can come up to your city and make a complete pogs breakfest from your neighbourhood and use voilence against anyone opposing their protest for more funds to poor and unattended rural areas?

I think there are a few more dimensions here. A) what you describe is very US centric or colonial powers centric (excluding Germans, who by their actions now try to re-admit back to human race after their actions in the early 20th century) B) Shouldn't majority have some more bargain power and benefits in their own local majority? Isn't that what democracy is at its current understanding? The one who has majority, has the power over others? That said, there should be no legal limitations and privilages based on identity. You can't wish away or control basic instincts of a human being - unconcious bias and ingroup/outgroup bias. You can try to educate and hope enough individuals will be sufficiently self aware of such instincts, so they can attemt to hold some control over it in times of peace and prosperity. C) it seems such actions are weighted towards a specific skin color characteristic, even though it is not even a relative majority in worlds population. At the same time, you do not see similar treatments of minorities in other parts of the world. See Asia and Africa. It means that some may feel threathened that they are losing their safe space in the world for their own kind and their progeny. D) once acquired privilages are unlikely to be given up, if the composition of the population will change. You can see that in areas, where immigrants from vastly different culture became majority at a local level. I'm sure there is sufficient material for someone to get a Ph. D. in social sciences and antropology covering this topic EDIT: NOTE - unconcious bias and ingroup/outgroup bias can have many different manifestations, so please do not limit understanding of it to skin/religion/gender

To be honest, mods here are really chill. If you'd try having similar discussions on twitter, half of participants would be banned or shadow banned Long live the mods!

You probably do not need to try hard. Just go to some downtown ghetto/poor nbh ransackes during riots and looting frenzy?

@BruceVC I wonder what is your opinion on actions of the Swedes https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-21/blackrock-probe-of-swedish-bonds-hit-by-secrecy-law-in-qe-debate

@Gromnir What would be your view on these candidates should mcc push trumps nominees? https://mobile.reuters.com/article/BigStory12/idUSKCN26C19S https://mobile.reuters.com/article/BigStory12/idUSKCN26C1AD

You should be worried more by such. When both views seem to be at odds with something. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-20/banks-moved-2-trillion-defying-money-laundering-orders-icij https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonleopold/fincen-files-financial-scandal-criminal-networks https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/massive-fincen-leak-exposes-how-biggest-western-banks-finance-drug-cartels-terrorist

How do you meassure that? Do you have a hard evidence that certain information or action swayed opinion in a specific direction? To what extent? NUMBERS AND HARD EVIDENCE PLEASE! Do you track such actions by all parties of the election cycle? Do you also track cases where a person seeing a certain ad said "of f.. that person is nutts, I will not vote for the person saying such things, even though i had them on my list up until now"? Or you have such opinion because someone else gave their opinion as they did not like a result of the election? Can I put such theories about end of democracy due to opinion manipulation and illegal conditioning and brainwashing into a category of tinfoil hat conspiracies?

Using the latter definition, would mean that every voter in the past, who acted differently on his own will but due to incorrect information or partial information displayed by any politicians campaign, would then mean the election has been manipulated.

How is this manipulation happening? Does someone get into someone elses head with some remote and control their action? For me, it seems that you are trying to put an "equals" mark between someone saying some stupid stuff to another person and the recipient of some msg being forced to act against their own will to do something he would rather not do. That for me, this is a dangerous premise.