The scenario of Israel saying to the US "let's bomb the people you are negotiating with" is how the war started in the first place.
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I guess killing school girls is somehow better then?
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So you do think Jews are smarter than non-Jews. I welcome your return to reality. It will be well deserved.
How about this: Ashkenazi Jewish culture with its emphasis on education and discipline stemming from studying religious texts leading to widespread literacy has led this group of people to outperform the mainline on intellectual tasks just like other cultures with an emphasis on education and literacy tend to outperform the mainline.
You don't need genetic inheritance to explain Jewish over-performance, cultural inheritance is enough. Do mind I don't know whether there is a genetic component involved but I do know it is not needed to explain why Ashkenazi Jews outperform other cultures.
Looking at national IQ averages [1] currently Hong Kong seems to score highest with an average of 107.73 while Israel is below average at 98.57, below most European countries as well as below the USA. The top 6 in the list are all east-Asian countries, the lowest are nearly all in Africa with Somalia lowest at 83.84.
[1] https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/average-i...
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So you do think Jews are smarter than non-Jews. I welcome your return to reality. It will be well deserved.
How about this: Ashkenazi Jewish culture with its emphasis on education and discipline stemming from studying religious texts leading to widespread literacy has led this group of people to outperform the mainline on intellectual tasks just like other cultures with an emphasis on education and literacy tend to outperform the mainline . You don't need genetic inheritance to explain Jewish over-performance, cultural inh…
There are no such thing as "national IQ averages".
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Trump could care less about that. Operation Epstein Fury had one goal...
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Yeah a lot of us are tired of it. I dislike the democrats intensely.
I also dislike the GOP folks intensely.
Which is why I dislike your line of reasoning here: -you- are playing the game we are all tired of.
Like, no shit the Dems didn't drop the files because it implicates folks like Bill Clinton.
But that doesn't make it the case that DT would be okay with the files dropping either.
And it doesn't make it the case that much of the highly spectacular actions his admin takes has nothing to do with achieving material goals and everything to do with keeping his base (which at this point should seem pretty damn dumb given how much damage he has personally done to them) entertained, angry, and confused.
And --you-- are the one who brought out the Dems here.
You. You are the person doing the thing we are all tired of.
Stop it.
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#75While the IRGC works out how to eliminate Jews from the planet. “First they come for the Saturday people”
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So you do think Jews are smarter than non-Jews. I welcome your return to reality. It will be well deserved.
64 Fields Medals have been awarded, 15 went to Jews, just over 23%.
Jews are 2.5% of the US but less than 0.2% of Europe (10% of all Jews live in Europe; in 1933, it was 60%)
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So you do think Jews are smarter than non-Jews. I welcome your return to reality. It will be well deserved.
How about this: Ashkenazi Jewish culture with its emphasis on education and discipline stemming from studying religious texts leading to widespread literacy has led this group of people to outperform the mainline on intellectual tasks just like other cultures with an emphasis on education and literacy tend to outperform the mainline . You don't need genetic inheritance to explain Jewish over-performance, cultural inh…
>You don't need genetic inheritance to explain Jewish over-performance, cultural inheritance is enough.
but it is known, independently of Jewish population studies, that genetic inheritance is a strong factor in IQ performance, and such data also demands explanation; there is no point in leaving it out of population studies.
It is much more frustrating to perform tasks that are more difficult for you than things that are easy. So if a task requires intellect, you are more likely to engage in that task if you are intelligent, and more likely to progress in that field if other people note and reward your performance. Such a process carried out on a particular gene pool might reinforce tendencies that lead to part of what we call culture.
>Looking at national IQ averages currently Hong Kong seems to score highest with an average of 107.73 while Israel is below average at 98.57, below most European countries as well as below the USA.
Ashkenazi Jews as a population average scores above 107. The IQ mean of 100 has a standard deviation of about 15. Also, Ashkenazi Jews are less than half of Israel.
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> It's not a conspiracy or anti-Semitic it is if you think the reason is something that's not benign, or if you are keeping track of it and spreading it hoping to foment anger. A hugely disproportionate number of Nobel Prizes have been won by Jews (22% vs 0.2% of total population) and that's with 6 million killed in the holocaust. By Occam's razor, that's a lot of really smart people, and I prefer having smart leader…
Are you claiming Jews are more intelligent than non-Jews?
https://nymag.com/nymetro/news/culture/features/1478/
"Cochran and Harpending also cite studies claiming that Ashkenazim have the highest IQ of any ethnic group for which there’s reliable data, perhaps as much as a full standard deviation above the general European average, which means, at the far end of the spectrum, that 23 per thousand Ashkenazim have an IQ over 140, as opposed to 4 per thousand Northern Europeans."
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This is an absurd statement. Israel has been killing innocent people in the region since it was created. Iran is right to stand up to them. Bonus points that as an American they're also standing up for me against the Zionists who manipulate my government and steal my money.
Iran is only standing up for their flavor of killing innocent people.
Only if you believe Zionist propaganda, which I do not. It is a fact that they are fighting off Israel though, so like I said, they are my ally.
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So you do think Jews are smarter than non-Jews. I welcome your return to reality. It will be well deserved.
64 Fields Medals have been awarded, 15 went to Jews, just over 23%. Jews are 2.5% of the US but less than 0.2% of Europe (10% of all Jews live in Europe; in 1933, it was 60%)
This sounds like fuel for antisemitic conspiracies because collusion != intelligence.