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The Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide

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Re: The Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide

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Post by mschuster91 »

roenxi wrote: post #80
mschuster91 wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Possibly the migrants could enter the country using the approved legal process instead of just wandering in? For Germany, there is no legal way to enter the country if you're not caught by one of the larger dragnets (evacuation of personnel in Afghanistan, EU-wide assistance for Ukrainians and a few other rare international resettlement efforts). You are not able to apply for asylum outside of Germany, you cannot f…

Germany: We don't want you! People: [Let's go to Germany] Germany: Get out. People: How dare you round us up and deport us. I know nearly nothing about German law, but I going by what you write if Germany doesn't make it legal to enter the country, then no surprise the people who try anyway run the risk of being deported. I have enormous sympathy for them, but the fact is Germany is famous for having a big welfare sy…

The thing for us to do would be to not make it necessary for people to flee in the first place. Feeding them in Africa is cheaper than feeding them here, the 2015 migration movement was largely caused because of a 100M $ shortfall in UNHCR / UNWFP food supply.

Re: The Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide

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Post by Terr_ »

roenxi wrote: post #73
mschuster91 wrote: post #68

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Unfortunately, remote detention camps to "keep the homeland clean" are nothing new, they are tried and tested. Here in Europe, we have had the UK and Italy actively pursuing rounding up migrants and deporting them to Ruanda/Albania until their claims are processed, and Australia has been doing this for decades now on Nauru and other places.

Possibly the migrants could enter the country using the approved legal process instead of just wandering in? It isn't reasonable to expect countries to have a generous welfare system, accept all arrivals and exist on the same planet at the billion-odd people who live on a few dollars a day. Something has to give. I vote the welfare system but keep getting overruled; so one of the other two has to go. And we don't hav…

> Possibly the migrants could enter the country using the approved legal process

At least for America, many if not also the majority did just that... And then overstayed the time limit, which is a civil infraction in the same category as a parking ticket.

Republicans have proposed a special "come deport me" registry where not-signing-up is itself a felony, as a roundabout way to retroactively criminalize things.

Re: The Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide

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Post by tasuki »

sz4kerto wrote: post #4

Every single of these is happening in Hungary today. Literally.

I've always admired Hungary and Hungarians. Very prodigious people. Neumann, Erdős, Teller, Szilard, Grove, Simonyi. Is there a country that breeds more geniuses per capita? How comes Hungary's political situation came to this?

Re: The Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide

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Post by Terr_ »

mschuster91 wrote: post #76
roenxi wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Possibly the migrants could enter the country using the approved legal process instead of just wandering in? It isn't reasonable to expect countries to have a generous welfare system, accept all arrivals and exist on the same planet at the billion-odd people who live on a few dollars a day. Something has to give. I vote the welfare system but keep getting overruled; so one of the other two has to go. And we don't hav…

> Possibly the migrants could enter the country using the approved legal process instead of just wandering in? For Germany, there is no legal way to enter the country if you're not caught by one of the larger dragnets (evacuation of personnel in Afghanistan, EU-wide assistance for Ukrainians and a few other rare international resettlement efforts). You are not able to apply for asylum outside of Germany, you cannot f…

> You are not able to apply for asylum outside of Germany

Same in the US, you literally can't apply for asylum until you enter the country.

Re: The Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide

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Post by SSLy »

tasuki wrote: post #83
sz4kerto wrote: post #4

Every single of these is happening in Hungary today. Literally.

I've always admired Hungary and Hungarians. Very prodigious people. Neumann, Erdős, Teller, Szilard, Grove, Simonyi. Is there a country that breeds more geniuses per capita? How comes Hungary's political situation came to this?

moscow invaded them after WW2 and caused their power class to rot.

Re: The Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide

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Post by bobalob »

mschuster91 wrote: post #74
skinkestek wrote: post #45

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You might be meaning something smart and good or something not so smart and good, but I only realized on my second reading. What I mean is there is absolutely room somewhere between the current situation (examples from Norway) where: - every road end up costing more than in comparable countries because no decision is final and everyone has a say - school problems because teachers are not allowed to act, even in clear…

> - Why do I have to choose between 1. people who deny that trans people exist and 2. people who think that it isn't a problem when one inmate gets another inmate pregnant in a women's only prison? And how often has the latter actually happened? That is part of the polarization issue: absolute nothingburgers are blown way out of proportion or outright manufactured as a "strawman" strategy. Besides, the threat for wom…

> And how often has the latter actually happened?

Often enough to demonstrate that incarcerating males in women's prisons on the basis of self-declared "gender identity" is harmful policy that needs to be removed and cancelled everywhere it's been implemented.

It's worth keeping in mind that the reason we have sex-segregated prisons in the first place is because mixed-sex prisons were so demonstrably harmful to female inmates, who were subjected to physical violence, sexual assault, rape, impregnation by male prisoners.

> In any case, segregation of men and women in sports is a relatively new thing in history, dating back to around 1920-ish when the first bans for women appeared under the guise of "protecting their health / modesty". Plain and simple, men were afraid that women were just as competitive as they were, most sports are skill sports and not brute-strength sports.

You are confusing two separate things here: access to competitive sports, and having a separate female category in competitive sports. The former was denied to women for the same reasons that women were denied access to many aspects of society that men could freely enjoy. Whereas the latter - eliminating male physical advantage from competition - is necessary for fairness and, in the case of contact sports, for safety.

> Where does one want to draw the line?

Evidence-based policy approaches typically draw the line at the male physical advantage of testosterone-driven development.

So for example a male athlete with CAIS (complete insensitivity to androgens) may be permitted to compete in the women's category because testosterone was entirely ineffective from development in utereo onwards.

Whereas a male athlete with 5-ARD (impaired conversion of testosterone to dihydrotestosterone) won't be, as the phenotype of micropenis and less facial hair doesn't eliminate the male physical advantage in sport.

Re: The Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide

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Post by munksbeer »

galimalint wrote: post #55
anonzzzies wrote: post #37

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If you think it's ok for a leader of the biggest power in the world to joke and say random things that are lies while blackmailing ex-allies into 'negotiations' and helping russia win an invasion on sovereign territory that US and others promised to protect for not having nukes anymore in 1994, you must be special indeed.

You are pretty special indeed if you can't see that Russia and Ukraine are currently in a stalemate that could drag on for years.

That is true, but unrelated to the point. Why has Russia invaded Ukraine?

Re: The Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide

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Post by kmos17 »

galimalint wrote: post #53
kmos17 wrote: post #49

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It’s an understatement to say Canada is extremely displeased at this, it will cost the US billions in lost trade and tourism. And for what? The trade deficit if you take out oil exports from Canada to the US is actually in favor of the US. Many American jobs will be lost because of this. That trust and relationship will not be rebuilt easily, you vastly underestimate the damage and cost that will come from all the il…

Trump administration most likely has calculated and knows that shrinking $200 billion in trade deficit with Canada outweighs the downside of lost trade and tourism from Canada. You speak of favor to US and trust and relationship, but that's really inconsequential in the face of $200 billion in trade deficit.

The U.S. goods trade deficit with Canada was $63.3 billion in 2024, a 1.4 percent decrease ($926.9 million) over 2023.

source: https://ustr.gov/countries-regions/americas/canada#:~:text=C...

And again what will be gained? What is the problem exactly you think our genius president will fix?

Canadians are massively boycotting the US, in addition to being the US’s largest export market they are the number one source of tourism to the US.

Canada is the top source of international visitors to the United States, with 20.4 million visits in 2024, generating $20.5 billion in spending and supporting 140,000 American jobs. A 10% reduction in Canadian travel could mean 2.0 million fewer visits, $2.1 billion in lost spending and 14,000 job losses.

All this is just dumb and reckless, but not surprising coming from a business man who managed to bankrupt casinos

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