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Understood. But the key difference is that Hasina did this to ostensibly ordinary Bengalis with justification that those people who she brutalised...

I'm sure Israel will investigate and hold those responsible to account, just like they did for Shireen Abu Akleh, Rachel Corrie, Tom Hurndall, John...

You mean like the women raped and murdered or abducted and raped on October 7th and the Palestinians who did it? Demonstrably. Did they all...

"Israel asks Congress to press South Africa to drop ICJ genocide case" https://www.axios.com/2024/09/09/israel-gaza-icj-genocide-un Crisis...

You'd need to account for people moving their wealth abroad to make this work. Especially if the wealth taxes are high enough to offset current...

What, in your opinion, would be the effect of income tax on working being eliminated all together, and excess wealth above a certain threshold being...

My point is that Modi has already done most of the things Hasina was condemned for. And he's responsible for far more deaths.

People like Lewk want a worthless government so they can cut off funding to it. So they'd actually prefer a civil service dominated by political...

They are clearly okay with what she has done, which is why they gave her refuge. More likely than not, Bangladesh will have someone just as bad or...

The rise of a federal workforce? It was ALWAYS there. Stop eating the bullshit they shovel you. The change was the transition to a non-partisan...

No. Merit does not mean the same thing to you as it does to me or (I hope) to most people.

Incidentally, if the goal is to incentivize work, we should decrease income taxes and increase taxes on land, rent (received), and capital (i.e.,...

Itmar Marcus Hasbra. Do you ever manage to convince people with it? Just out of curiosity, did they have those hateful text books before the European...

Just for starters, Person A is incentivised to keep their way of widget creation a secret, instead of teaching it to Person B, thus resulting in...

Except that the reason Person A developed that method is because his father taught it to him. Or perhaps paid for a tutor to help him develop it....

Most libertarians gravitate towards whomever is the biggest weirdest and above all dumbest freak https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fb60m6sXoAUn9uV.jpg ...

In 2016? Rand Paul was the preferred one for libertarians. But there is *some* truth to what you are saying in the sense that most libertarians will...

Just wrong on my views. I think nurture > nature. That?s why rewarding merit has virtue because it changes the nurture equation and provides...

?Outwork? 🫥 If I grant two individuals the tools needed to create widgets and each person has a month to create x number of widgets - the one who...

Society wants and should recognize and utilize merit and ability, and support them with training to enhance them. That's fine. Lewk wants a...

A quote from the famous communist Adam Smith, “A power to dispose of estates forever is manifestly absurd. The earth and the fullness of it belongs...

Deeply conflicted abt this question bc in a true meritocracy - ie. not the weaksauce participation trophy version proposed but one where merit would...

I've been around some very "successful" people. Most were able to pursue their passions because their parents both encouraged and funded them. Most...

It's because he's lying to himself and doesn't understand the words he uses. He doesn't want to reward merit. He wants to make sure anyone who isn't...

I'm not certain I believe that. It could easily be the case that the lunatic wing ends up as the unrepresented fringe the way the social...

That must be why so many self-proclaimed libertarians, including ones in Congress, went for Trump even before he won his initial nomination.

How are we rewarding merit when people born into better circumstances than you will beat you out for jobs, houses, etc. even if you outwork them? ...

Right to Left spectrum is a silly and overly simplistic way of looking at politics. The ?far-right? and ?far-left? are closer to each other than they...

Rewarding merit, as I outlined has nothing to do with ?leveling the playing field? like what you are proposing. Part of any parent?s desire is to...

The problem with any splintering of the GOP is 80% of the GOP voters will go to the lunatic wing. Until the right-wing media/social media landscape...