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Well it's not black and white. Sometimes doing the right thing even if you have ulterior motives is better than doing nothing. Africa is tricky due to historical reasons, though. A…

That's very hard to answer considering Iraq spent most of the 80s in a very costly and extremely brutal (and even more pointless) war with Iraq.

> Myanmar Did they? It was occasionally in the news but that's about it.

> but shit like the people of France's New Caledonia trying to get independence doesn't They had 3 referendums since 2018. So it seems nobody is stopping them from leaving if they …

So there are no circumstances where armed rebellion is justifiable and the only legitimate type of resistance to state violence is literally trying to drown the state forces in bod…

> with western countries also openly declaring their intent to destabilize Iran As opposed to standing idly by when the regime 'stabilizes' the country by murdering thousands of pe…

> found a company in the US that has access to the entire 50 states and all of the investors therein Yes but tech companies and startups are still highly concentrated in a handful …

> The difference is this, some try to impose their opinions on society So literally Musk and his pals? > society’s well-being should stop meddling. So again, Musk et al.? I'm reall…

> The elected representative of the country made Elected by 23.41%? What about the remaining 76.50%? Also 30% didn't even vote. Also what about the president of Poland and other vi…

> a representative of Jews So if a Trump made a Twitter post "exonerating" someone who said something awful about America that would be the same? Because he represents 100% of the …

> but if any of my 20 employees did the same You could all then march around the office or even out on the street with your hands raised. Surely nobody but snowflakes could be offe…

> he's a friend to the Jewish community So? Does that means nobody else is allowed to have an opinion about the salute that he made. Sure he's pro Israel, that's not uncommon at al…

It can but I don't think it is. I can't find direct stats (I mean I can find nominal but not equivalized/ social transfer adjusted figures) to compare but e.g. 1st quantile income …

Median not the mean(average). So no, not mathematically..

PPP adjusted median household disposable income per capita (with social transfers like public healtchae and stuff) in US was $62k back in 2022. West Virginia is ~72% of the nationa…

> "So look, you can't afford rent, you can't afford groceries due to inflation, your student loans and medical bills are crippling, but the good news is tech stocks are up 200% sin…

> Europe understands that innovation is not good per se Same applies to economic growth and higher disposable incomes I presume? > and that an economy should follow the people, not…

> The things they're forcing Apple to allow, Microsoft already allows Apple's and oranges? MS doesn't have a phone OS anymore...

You mean legally mandating all electronics stores to stock computers with Linux installed regardless if there is demand for that or not? Because how else exactly could this work?

Perhaps. But I don't think that's the public consensus. So it's hard to accept such arguments without any evidence. AFAIK in Europe most food safety regulation is coming from the E…

Can you not buy more or less as unhealthy products in countries with universal healthcare as in US? e.g. smoking rate is considerably higher in France or even in Spain Sugar consum…

> Finland is also just about the most ethnically, religiously, demographically and linguistically homogenous nation you could pick from. Considering it has pretty much had effectiv…

Well... if we're living in a imaginary/video game world where US invades Canada it wouldn't be too far fetched to expect Britain and France to intervene? I mean which is more absur…

> The way the electrical system works. But that's hardly comparable? Each kWh costs some amount of energy to generate. Do you think it costs an ISP meaningfully more to run a 10 Gb…

At least the Scots and Welsh still exist (e.g. unlike the Occitan people or the Bretons) and were actually allowed to have a referendum (unlike the Catalans).