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Do you never have problems with transportation like breakdowns or accidents stopping the traffic for a while or having some sort of emergency where you need to drop everything an t…

People miss their youth. You can do the same poll anywhere and the results will be similar, whether that place was a communist dictatorship or not. And no it's not a simple fact th…

In my experience those are the people who miss the "good" old times, when everything had order and hierarchy. Wikipedia says the communist party in Poland had 3 million member whic…

He is also probably not aware of how many people Stalin's KGB murdered or that even kids were supposed to report their parents.

>My family had an absolutely happy life for all the generations that followed WW2. Most likely your family was part of the communist elite. I believe you had a very happy life.

>> we adapt our societies to become less dependent on it How? Old people need care. Younger people will need to take care of them. When they die, a lot of knowledge will be lost, b…

>>Which is? If you need to apologize for defending Aristotle after more then 2000 years after his death, you must be a part of a political establishment which is very out of tune w…

>Meanwhile, the social-democratic countries... Which don't have anything in common with socialist countries. https://www.investors.com/politics/commentary/denmark-tells-...

I think they are just signaling their political/religious affiliation.

I'm happy our ancestors domesticated animals, therefore we don't really have to hunt them as savagely as other predators do and we can instead bread them for our consumption. I'm a…

I can't eat the grass growing in the pastures on the hills around me, but some animals can. Then it's just a question who eats those animals, either us human or other predators. I …

Such a weird perspective on human life. Where do you put white Ukrainian orphans compared to black American kids, whose ancestors were slaves on your grievance scale? Btw. you are …

What kind of a line do you need to draw? Isn't it obvious how humans are different from animals for you? Normal humans are innately aware we are different from other animals and we…

>What's the difference between us and animals? I always find it incredible some people equating animals with people. How do you not see the difference in human range of emotions, a…

> Do you think people were eating meat every day throughout human history? This started after WWII with mass agriculture and factory farming. That's why so many cultures have beans…

Do you have a more credible source than first hand account of dealing with Moroccan government I linked?

Moroccan government is doing this on purpose and they are not probably the only country doing it. https://x.com/visegrad24/status/2082842354927456322

What does e.g. Switzerland do with the guns so they don't have such incidents event though the gun ownership is high? Or do you think guns are the issue and not the culture?

>Meanwhile, the majority of the civilized world solves this with gun control. I don't know what constitutes the civilized world for you, but in Western Europe kids lately get knife…

>free or heavily subsidized healthcare Every one who can afford it uses private healthcare, because waiting lines are really long. >childcare Depends on the country, but not that u…

>but I can absolutely acknowledge that by virtue of genetic lottery (white, with educated parents, etc) I had it orders of magnitude easier than the kids who grew up on the other s…

Both the front door and the window on the second floor are just openings. I'm sure you would prefer to walk out through the former than the later.

>How exactly should those advantages be measured? Why does it matter? How deep do you want to go to hunt for advantages? Are there no other places than Ivy League schools where one…

What about white kids on the other side of the town with drug addicted parents?

Today we have the highest percentage of people with an university degree compared to any other time in the history. Do you think democracy today is healthier than it was 30 years a…