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Terrifying. What is the police department's motive for the killings? It's left out in the article.
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Our culture is going down the tubes. However, since the current systems benefits the .01% at the expense of the 99% its full speed ahead with no course correction.
Our system is highly beneficial to the top quarter roughly. The median of that group has gotten significantly richer over 20 or 50 years and is better off in the US than they would be anywhere else in terms of wealth and scale (scale as in how many of them can reach that level of wealth and have access to the kind of economic opportunities that the US presents). Europe has nothing remotely like it, outside of small p…
What exactly do you mean by "net zero per capita economic expansion"? According to the World Bank https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.PP.KD?locat... , German GDP per capita was $38,294 in 1991 (adjusting for purchasing power and inflation) and $52,931 in 2021, which looks more like 38% expansion to me.
Terrifying. What is the police department's motive for the killings? It's left out in the article.
Probably getting rid of the alcoholics that they have to deal with on a daily basis. It's not right, but cops are cops.
The treatment of native and african Americans in the North American continent is so unjust and severe, and has been persistent for decades in a way that it's almost like a long drawn-out genocide.
unbalanced representations only fuel the fire of antagonism; far too many examples on both sides of justice in the last sixty years, for a single summary right?
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unbalanced representations only fuel the fire of antagonism; far too many examples on both sides of justice in the last sixty years, for a single summary right?
I found the summary accurate, at least from my knowledge of the treatment of indigenous people in Canada (the subject of this HN post).
When I read about Inuit culture of non-violence in the 20th century [1], and wheb I read about them today [2], I have this disgusted feeling that Western culture of drugs and anger is like a virus that spread into their completely non-immunized population. A bit like the diseases brought into the new world in the 19th century, but this time psychological. [1] https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674608283…
Lead posisoning was a disease the white man brought to the entire world. Thomas J. Midgley, the inventor, perpetrator and chief apologist for leaded gasoline, also brought the world CFCs. Veritasium did a bit on him and was not kind. In fact he implied Midgley may have been the worst mass murderer in human history. The other day I had a chilling thought, after a day with both gardening and another conversation with m…
>Thomas J. Midgley
Wait, are we now ok with blaming hundreds of millions of people for the actions of one person because they had a common skin color?
If so things are going to get really interesting.
It’s a hard land inhabited by a hard people.
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Lead posisoning was a disease the white man brought to the entire world. Thomas J. Midgley, the inventor, perpetrator and chief apologist for leaded gasoline, also brought the world CFCs. Veritasium did a bit on him and was not kind. In fact he implied Midgley may have been the worst mass murderer in human history. The other day I had a chilling thought, after a day with both gardening and another conversation with m…
>Lead posisoning was a disease the white man brought to the entire world. >Thomas J. Midgley Wait, are we now ok with blaming hundreds of millions of people for the actions of one person because they had a common skin color? If so things are going to get really interesting.
Terrifying. What is the police department's motive for the killings? It's left out in the article.