I am pointing out the level of cherrypicking it takes to select a very narrow policy each from a separate country and compare each in isolation to the US. Especially when those countries would underperform each other by almost all these metrics; the North Korean border policy not making it better than the US or Germany at employment law.
And that's not even getting into if these policies are even desirable. North Korea out competing us at extreme insularity. China executing people for all sorts of reasons I don't agree with; including the popular act of getting currency out of China. They sure are "better at" executing people for things that are not crimes in the US or other developed countries. Something North Korea is also much better at than us. Singapore enacting racial housing quotas. They certainly are more extreme by those measures. Not that I'd say they are "better at" setting policy for some of these examples.
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1d ago
How many examples would you regard as sufficient?
A list of cherrypicked examples beats the typical experience. For the US and almost all other countries for each carefully picked example. On one hand yes, that's how cherrypicked examples work, but it is not impactful or relevant. I'm not learning much about the inadequacies of America in our underperforming relative to North Korean insularity.
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1d ago
I know multiple people who got hospital bills sent to collections. Always the same story: they never got the bill and were certain they paid all they owed and got a nasty surprise of collections coming after them for more. I don't suppose that's good for your credit score, if that eventually happens to you.
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4d ago
That would be after collecting monthly payments for a long time. Turning a profit in aggregate for a large pool of lenders.
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5d ago
WOTC making orcs basically humans with an odd skin tone is an unusually poor choice. Really speaks to them missing the fundamental purpose of morally unambiguous enemies in a game. I get the real point is they don't want a race of dumb savages so they have to change them into human with oddly colored skin. Like an identifiable group of real life humans drawn in fantasty style.
I don't play tabletop game any more, but if I did I'd want old orcs and racial bonuses.
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9d ago
It is certainly the hottest movie among elementary schoolers. Not sure about a wider cultural impact.
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11d ago
Yeah they pretended Rittenhouse had a short barreled rifle until the judge asked them if the were sure and propsed getting a tape measure to check. The judge had to dismiss a criminal charge based on it being a short barrel rifle, so it wasn't just idle falsehoods from the prosecution.
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11d ago
JAQing off
Both a thought defeating cliche and not what Dr. Watson was doing.
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14d ago
Are police going to refuse to make arrests for crimes? What crimes? Prosecutors refuse to file charges?
That's a regular occurrence right now. At least in some progressive cities with progressive prosecutors. Maybe some day the right will pick up such weapons commonly used by progressives.
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14d ago
It's a work of fiction
The premise of this conversation is that it is strongly based on two real people and their actual relationship and is identifiable as them; but fictionalized to turn him into a bad man.
I sure am glad no one wrote a popular fictional story that gets turned into a movie in which a fictional character who is identifiably me abuses young women.
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15d ago
Worse yet "assault" includes hard talk in many jurisdictions. Credibly threatening someone is assault.
Do you assume women's prisons are meaningfully less violent than men's prisons?
Without bothering to look this up: obviously yes. Do you have compelling prison violence statistics that show the opposite?
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16d ago
Anduril makes drones that fly into other drones, smashing them. You have a bunch of these waiting and they launch when hostile drones come in. If they don't find a drone to intercept then they land and wait for another attack.
https://www.anduril.com/roadrunner/
Also quite a variety of other military drones.
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18d ago
It has definitely happened before. Egging on terrorists and then they actually try to mass kill people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Culwell_Center_attack
Actually had a single FBI agent following them as they attempted a mass shooting. Only stopped because of a shootout with off duty law enforcement acting as armed security. If it weren't for armed security they would have slaughtered attendees and I don't suppose a single FBI agent would stop two guys with rifles.
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21d ago
All good points.
My issue is the common trend of people asserting what the views of their opponents should be and declaring them hypocrites based on a simplistic understanding of their views. Attempting to assign ideological positions to someone and then hold them accountable, rather than asking and listening to their actual views.
There are of course actual hypocrites and valid accusations of hypocrisy. But culture war accusations of hypocrisy tend not to be that. They are instead extreme extrapolations from vague sentiments.
I for one don't want to get into a race to the bottom against the poorest people on Earth. They'll win and I'll be dragged most the way down to their economic level.
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22d ago
Also the context of that Reagan radio address was his justification for applying tariffs against Japan. "Of course we all know tariffs are bad, but..."
"Of course this argument wouldn't work on me. But just maybe it will make you do what I want."
Accusations of hypocrisy tend to be failures in recognizing nuance, different factions or different situations and context. I would put very little stock in accusations of hypocrisy from someone hostile to my views.
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22d ago
American leftists warned everyone against this from day one
Yes I recall the hysterical cries about how Romney was like a Nazi, going to put black people back in chains, etc. Endless warnings about the existential threat of Mitt Romney.
There's a time window for money and property transfers that count. Typically 2 years. Transfer, wait 2 years or more depending on jurisdiction, declare bankruptcy.
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