Flowers
9mo ago
I don't think it's about positive or negative claim. If you claim something as fact you have to provide evidence.
e.g. a liberal immigration policy is good because ... or a closed immigration policy is good because ...
Both claims require evidence.
The "onus" or burden of proof applies to the status quo. If we are doing something and it works why should we change. We need to be convinced by your "proof" before we expend effort changing.
Flowers
1yr ago
affordable housing refers to housing rented at below market rates. Usually available to single mothers, blacks, natives, low income or some other government defined condition. affordable housing is usually a "scratch my back i'll scratch yours" agreement with local politicians where developers only get to build when they commit to some percent of government rules.
Flowers
1yr ago
Generally, no, textbooks are not good for learning language. After learning proper pronunciation (i.e. listening to spoken) reading intresting books can help your vocabulary and grammar. At that point you've already learned the language enough to understand, speak basicly and read though.
Looking at the book the table of contents just looks like grammar and the first sentance states plainly, "It is impossible to learn French pronunciation properly from a book." so at least they're upfront that you will not be able to speak French. @Tollund_Man4 will probably be able to write basic french online, which might be more useful than speaking online, and "French Reader" sounds genuinely intresting.
Flowers
1yr ago
I see life as a movie to be enjoyed. The ending is not determined but the experience is uplifting.
Flowers
1yr ago
You may not have an associated email because it is optional for sign up. In the security settings you can add one if that is the case.
Flowers
1yr ago
how to ensure I do not feel beat up after working out
more reps x lower weight; basically just lower the weight until you can do 20-40 reps instead of 5-10 (like 30% 1RM vs 80%). I just by chance watched this video. Haven't verified anything but sounds good and has science papers behind it.
Flowers
1yr ago
build a stomach of steel
There was a man who could literally eat steel, Michel Lotito. His stomach was just literally thicker but he also ate most of the non-food materials with mineral oil.
As for eating questionable food, I'd suggest strong stomach acid.
Flowers
1yr ago
In what way were they "a different race"?
The Jews are genetically unique. Most closely related to Jews (from any part of the world), North Africans and Arabs. They were originally (less than 3,000 years) from modern day Iraq/Israel. Their religion prevents marrying non-Jews and it is typically difficult to become a Jew (years). In Europe, the result is almost no genes from non-Jews for 600 years and most Jews decend from ~500 originals.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19008-how-religion-made-jews-genetically-distinct/
This isn't to say they didn't previously mix with the Celtic and Germani people: they did and those became known as the Ashkenazi tribe.
permanent residence in the territory of Germany
I think this is mostly definitional. If "his people" are people living within his borders then he killed his people. If a fathers' children are those in his care, then killing 1/3 of them would probably make him a bad father. Same if you define all people north of the Sahara and west of the Mongol Empire as the same race.
Flowers
1yr ago
had the support of the majority of the people during his reign
Do you have evidence for this?
It looks like one of the sources is Götz Aly in his book "Hitlers Volksstaat" unfortunately german but claiming a study he did analyzing sentiment (no polls or rigged elections) among Germans showed his popularity rose from 1933 until 1939 and was above 50% until 1941. The german people were proud of re-uniting german speakers and reclaiming past borders (1933-1939) but they didn't want another war (1939-onward) but his popularity was so high in 1939 that it took until 1941 to go below majority.
https://www.quora.com/What-were-Hitler%E2%80%99s-approval-ratings via Google
I was using the concept of "his people" along the traditional national lines, e.g. if Hitler is the leader of Germany, then the Germans are "his people".
While not the first thing Hitler did, he was clear from the beginning that non-Germans would be stripped of their citizenship. The Nuremberg Laws officially did strip the jews (and later blacks and gypies) of their citizenships and rights.
If a man fathers 6 children and kills two of them, we would not say he was a good father to his children. If that same man arbitrarily declared in advance that the children he decided to murder were "not my children" based on some weird new definition he just invented
Family is based on genetics. The German Jews, being a different race, would at most be step-children in your analogy. Like fathering 4 and killing 2 step children which he believed bullied his own children for years. Genetics is not some "weird new definition".
The "Canadian Identity", according to Canadian poltics, is "Not America". Almost anything the Canadian government does is to differentiate it from the USA. The government erects these serious barriers to prevent Canada from "losing it's identity". In reality it just helps to funnel money (corruption) to Old Money including the aforementioned protected industries.
The reason Canada has no industry is partially due to corruption and regulation and partially due to brain drain. Any ambitious individuals will move (at minimal cost) to the USA for a better chance of starting a successful buisiness or career.
Flowers
1yr ago
While I disagree with the original posters view of Hitler, I disagree with some of your assertions also.
He overthrew the democratically elected government of Germany
He was quite popular with the German people; he had the most votes of any party at the time, had the support of the majority of the people during his reign and was legally installed the dictator by a coalition government of his and two other parties. Arresting the Communist party for terrorism helped his 1933 election but it was no military coup.
What part of saving your people involves murdering 6 million of them?
You are completely missing the entire point of Hitler's National Socialism. National referred to the racially German people. In Hitlers' view all non-German people were non-people. Removing Jews, Poles, Blacks, etc was the way to save Germany. Killing non-Germans in Germany was his entire mission, a mission that the vast majority of Germans believed in, supported and fought for. However misguided they may have been; they were following what they saw as their logical mission to save themselves and their country.
You cannot say that killing Jews, which he considered "enemies of Germany", is killing his own people or children.
You can say that losing a war was bad for racial Germans, especially the 4-5 million military deaths (presumably Germans).
There's videos of Epps encouraging people to go into the capitol since long before it was it was close. There is video of him removing the barricades in preparation to trick people into going on the property. He's seen coordinating with megaphoneman and other key actors. He is also seen repeatedly saying to not hurt anyone (because he's one of the opps). If anyone would have been convicted for multiple years of jail time it should of been him for being one of the main reasons people went into the capitol. The internet identified him day one, including name, job, role, etc. that's why he was top of the wanted list. His FBI contacts had to go and remove him from the list days later. And the internet found the connection where he had previously worked for the government as a snitch. He was being called a Fed agent for trying to get people to break the law long before he broke a single law. He had glowie energy the whole time he was in the city.
Epps sentence was nothing, no punishment. Others who did nothing wrong had gotten months in prison for being there from the same judge. Epps was the most public ring leader and he got zero punishment AND the judge thanked him during his sentencing and apologized for the incident.
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