NoneOfUrBusiness

It says gray is no data, not neutral.

Oh shit I didn’t notice. As a proud grammar Nazi, I must now commit keppusu.

I live in a region that’s been a melting pot for quite some time now

If you’re in Europe, I’d wager that your country has a thriving right wing movement that has seen increased support over the last 10 years, and that they gained that support at least partially by promising to stop immigration or deport immigrants. Otherwise, well, there’s too little information here for me to say anything.

That’s not rooted in objective reality or facts.

It’s objective truth that a significant fraction of any population is deeply xenophobic and doesn’t view these things as you do. I’m making a claim about the human psyche, not ethnic differences, so you’re not really refuting my point.

but a felon can run as a candidate

No no this one is one of the good ideas in the American system. In dictatorships this sort of restriction can be and is used as a way to prevent political rivers from running for office.

I can imagine like 20-30% of racists around, or people who’ve been fooled by some charismatic character. But not half.

You have too much faith in humanity. A smart-sounding Greek guy or another said that democracy is only possible with a homogenous population, otherwise the country will tear itself apart. I don’t agree with that conclusion, but the process they described is true, in both Europe and America. The way I see it, America has been ethnically diverse for a lot longer so they’re closer to or at the peak of the allergy-like reaction you witness in an ethnically diverse democracy. Meanwhile Europe only started feeling it recently because of Middle Eastern immigration, and it’s looking like that. Europe will in all likelihood go down a worse version of the same trajectory we’ve seen unfold in America.

The first one makes more sense when you realize that America was originally supposed to be somewhere between one large state and X independent states in an EU-style union. Presidential elections are the federal government asking the states who they want to be president and the states then asking the people (technically they don’t have to do that part AFAIK). It’s weird but internally consistent at least.

Shipped.

Switch to freelance.

Me too. Haaretz’s reporting on this war and its effects on Israel has been pretty good so far but they’ve also matched Israeli propaganda a few times so this came out of left field for me. Anyone with more knowledge of Israeli internal affairs with any idea what’s going on here?

Close. It makes you a Hamas headquarters.

Yeah im curious about it but it sounds like lossy-er solar farming… Perhaps its about surface area and around the clock availability?

Presumably. Just the ability to run it at maximum efficiency for 24 hours would probably more than cancel out conversion losses.

Assuming that was a clipboard fail:

Yeah I have no idea what happened up there. Lemme just…

because they started assassinating people in London.

They did what?!

Harris voters are far more motivated to keep Trump out than his supporters are to keep him in.

They did what?!

This is amazing.

Okay so on one hand stealing cheese is good taste, but on the other hand cheddar? Really? That’s just weak, man.

I knew those Khamas couldn’t be trusted! Next they’ll say the sky is blue!

officials told Israeli news outlet Maariv that American officials involved in the talks were hoping for a ceasefire deal before the US election on 5 November.

So that’s what they were doing. Too little, too late, too arrogant who the fuck do these assholes think they are?

Do you know what BDS is? They’re an organization and movement with a clear, specific cause. You’re barking up the wrong tree here.

As a non-native english speaker, I find it to be good practise to help me improve my spelling.

To nitpick a bit, you’re probably thinking of pronunciation. Spelling is written, not spoken.

That is very much not the case in Russia.

Or most of the world, really. Source: Am Middle Eastern and don’t like being told what to do. Sometimes it feels like either I or everyone around me is crazy.

You’re trying to make them sound racist but that’s really not it. Russia has never been a democracy. They don’t have the culture build by more than a century of democratic rule like America, France or Britain. They don’t have the culture that leads to more than a century of democratic rule. You make it seem comical by saying “they’re taught to hate freedom”, but cultures do vary in how predisposed they are to obeying authority or rebelling against it, among a variety of other things. I mean, just take a look at this. See this if you’ve never seen these terms before.

Anyway what I’m trying to say is that it takes a lot more work and good faith to keep a democracy going in a country like Russia and China than in Western Europe, where people are more used to and comfortable with fighting authority.