100% worth. Cry more.

Oh no. Maybe next time they will pay their workers a living wage.

I don’t think you understand how disposably warehouse workers are treated, or how frequently we change jobs. A job is not a gift.

Well, mainly calling it a fire-insurance scam

Wildfires are antifa, but when someone actually does commit arson for class war reasons, it’s an insurance scam? What a bizarre psychosis.

Damn, maybe the company should’ve paid them a living wage.

Because:

Vietnam is changing on that. Hard to imagine anything that would change the minds of the other two.

2013 international Gallup poll: “Which country is the biggest threat to world peace”

Morally neutral and innocent civilians, of course 😇

Yes, but have you considered that you can simply buy a house on the Metaverse?

The point is to reveal the different frames of analysis people use to make the decision.

This thought process, “The decision’s already been made, either way it’s always a free $1000,” is one way of looking at it. But another way of looking at it is, “Those who choose one box tend to walk away with more money, so the evidence shows that taking one box is the better approach.” These approaches sort of “talk past each other,” because they’re looking at completely different parts of the problem in order to draw their conclusions, and those different parts indicate very opposing conclusions.

Some version of it could exist. Not with the big numbers and not with the high degree of certainty in the problem, but you could have, say, somebody who’s on average 70% accurate at reading people and the boxes are $1 and $10.

It is somewhat idealist in that it’s a contrived scenario, but it’s really just idle curiosity on my part. Maybe it could reflect something about people’s thought processes, or maybe it’s just people interpreting the question differently.

Um actually, you shouldn’t rely on the media, and you should just assume every geopolitical rival of the US is evil based on nothing.

Vietnam.

maybe even raped children

but

I swear, it’s impossible to parody lesser-evilists because you’re all self-parodies at this point.

> Fires the guy whose job was assassinating heads of state

> Gets assassinated

> Guy who got fired gets on the investigative comittee which fucks up the investigation

Who could it be 🤔

The “resource curse” is just people trying to pretend imperialism isn’t responsible. Norway has plenty of oil and they have a high quality of life, because nobody invaded them.

Plenty of these countries had leaders who wanted to use their resources to help the people, but the powers that be, most often the US, didn’t want that. And so for example Mohammed Mossadegh of Iran, a peaceful, democratically elected progressive, was overthrown by the CIA, and he was replaced by a monarch who could be easily bribed and would use the oil to enrich himself. And when that monarch caved to domestic pressure and participated in an oil embargo, US support was withdrawn and he was overthrown and the current government came to power.

There’s no “mystery” or “curse.” It’s just imperialism. The story generally goes that these resources were stolen by force during colonialism and remained in foreign hands after independence and the country still functions as a neocolony, leading to poverty and exploitation, or war and instability if they challenge it.

So ban everyone but anarcho-pacifists from political discourse? Or does systemic violence not count?

Who is this they you are talking about?

Your fucking government, dumbass. The EU. The people implementing the policy in question. I know y’all act like any criticism of the Israeli government is antisemitic, but does that protection now extend to any criticism of the EU?

I think not having ties with Russian state propaganda for living normally is a risk I’m willing to take, as its no effort for me.

Nothing to hide so you have nothing to fear, eh? Yeah, millions of Americans were fine with our government using extralegal punishments and detentions because they thought it would be limited to terrorists. Now we’re being dragged away to secret torture dungeons in El Salvador.

But fortunately, I’m sure that nothing bad will come of European governments having the tools to punish people without charge or trial. I mean, honestly, what do you even need rights for? Just trust the people in charge to sort out the good guys and the bad guys.

Say, unrelated, but how’s the AFD doing these days? And, purely hypothetically, if they got into government, how would you feel about them having a precedent that would allow them to apply these punishments to anyone they consider to have engaged in wrongthink?

All these other speculations you’re pointing to you would have to prove to me first.

What speculations would I have to prove? That domestic polls are unreliable?

I’ve seen a lot of people dismiss domestic polls in China that show overwhelming support for the government as unreliable. I’ve never seen one of them feel the need to prove it, or present a shred of evidence. In fact, when outside polls have confirmed those results, they just say that they’re all “brainwashed” or “propagandized.”

Not quite as fun when it’s your people’s perspective that’s being written off, is it?

while I don’t approve of the method

Is it safe for you to say this?

If you say something they don’t like, they could do the same to you, no charge, no trial. And criticizing that practice might be something they don’t like, even if not today, then maybe tomorrow.

You’re probably fine for now because you justified the actions by attacking the victim, but this might be as critical as you’re allowed to be.

I think we need to start getting some reliable, neutral outside polls on Europe to see how they really feel about their governments. Maybe we can bring in some Chinese pollsters. Obviously anyone voicing approval in domestic polls is just afraid of the repercussions of voicing a negative opinion.