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    Civil Rights What's happening in Iran

    Being serious, I wonder if the current situation is more or less the new normal and starting to be stable, if it counts as peace. 1. Traffic through the SoH essentially blocked 2. Sporadic violence occurring in the Persian Gulf followed by statements that the ceasefire was not violated 3...
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    Civil Rights What's happening in Iran

    Indeed - never fear, though - peace is at hand, as Nixon said once about the Viet Nam 'conflict'. https://apnews.com/live/trump-administration-updates-05-28-2026
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    Noteworthy Events - news events that don't need a unique thread

    Yes, I imagine its hard to find a historic counter-example. Lowering GDP for some other societal goal, populist or not, can sometimes be a tradeoff I'd agree with. I don't think I'd have voted for Brexit, where I British, though.
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    Civil Rights What's happening in Iran

    Some potential pitfalls I think - if this action were to be interpreted as drawing a comparison between Trump and Mohammed, they might need to issue Fatwa's for their own assassinations.
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    Noteworthy Events - news events that don't need a unique thread

    I don't think that Brexit was a good thing from any perspective, but I'm not sure of your reasoning there. Couldn't you just as logically have said that participation in the EU cost Germany jobs, if you are using that particular data point to make one case or the other? I am not in support of...
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    Civil Rights Male Chauvinism and/or Racism in US History

    I believe that citizens of any country are aware of most nepotism and corruption that goes on. They have to be, in order to get things done, if that is the way things are done where they live or in the circles they move in. Can you find evidence that corruption and nepotism requires being...
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    Civil Rights SCOTUS racial gerrymandering ruling - a non-Dem reaction piece

    I agree, and in my lifetime I've always felt this way about Americans who are right leaning enough to display it somehow. Its not new, imo. In the 70's where I went to grade school the morning pledge was mandatory and it was followed by a "Moment of Silence" which was understood to be time to...
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    Civil Rights SCOTUS racial gerrymandering ruling - a non-Dem reaction piece

    If the US has any hope of better times ahead, I think it lies in this perspective. There is nothing constitutional about the US 2 party system, its purely an existing power structure without any Federal legal underpinnings. There are, though, many state-level legal underpinnings that make it...
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    Civil Rights SCOTUS racial gerrymandering ruling - a non-Dem reaction piece

    Thanks for expanding on the reasons for your post - I appreciate it. All I can offer in response (not refutation, simply response) are some meandering thoughts on looking beyond where one's mood takes one. Have you seen these productions? The Wire The Handmaid's Tale The Newsroom Parks and...
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    Civil Rights SCOTUS racial gerrymandering ruling - a non-Dem reaction piece

    I'm asking for data because it makes for more meaningful discussion, not because I don't know any Americans who feel this way. I do know some. Please provide some data to support generalizations - of course sometimes generalizations do reflect reality. In this case, I don't think yours holds...
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    Civil Rights Eugenics and Genocide

    The thread will remain locked. All topics in this thread are fine for discussion, just please keep controversial topic discussion on-topic, data-driven and about the ideas being debated; avoid personal assessments of other posters.
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    Civil Rights Eugenics and Genocide

    Locked for moderation
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    Other Parliamentary Democracy - is the grass greener?

    The US has become much more of a polarized winner-take-all reality especially since the Obama years. We now have a tyranny of the majority (as opposed to compromise) if things actually get done, simple gridlock otherwise.
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    Civil Rights Collection of worrying incidents

    Here's a case from 8 years ago. https://www.npr.org/2018/07/08/627082032/1-year-old-shows-up-in-immigration-court Absurd is too kind a word.
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    Civil Rights Collection of worrying incidents

    ChatGPT - me being colloquial. No, I didn't take it that way. I know what you meant, but thanks for clarifying in any case. As an aside, a (IMO) common trick slanted media (either left or right) will do is to present a fact without context, assuming the user will interpret the fact as unusual...
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