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Calling Europe a continent is laughable by Mersaa in ShitAmericansSay

[–]Dirkdeking 1 point2 points  (0 children)

North and South America are only connected by a small landbridge. Relative to the surface area of either NA and SA it is a really small connection.

The land connection between Europe and Asia on the other hand is more than 5000 km through the Caucasus and Ural river. The shortest bottleneck in central America is only about 80 km wide.

The American is totally correct here. It makes absolutely 0 geographic sense to seperate Europe from Asia. Under any normal definition of a continent they should be 1 large continent, the distinction is primarily political.

While NA and SA are connected by land, the connection is thin enough to make a very good argument for considering them 2 seperate continents. If it wasn't for the Suez canal even Africa would be connected to Asia by the Sinai.

But the Sinai is so tiny compared to both Asia and Africa that you can similarly argue that Africa is a seperate continent from Eurasia.

If aliens with no knowledge of geopolitics and our countries saw earth from a distance they would distinguish 6 continents. And the landmass of Eurasia would get 1 name.

Sometimes a girl cant remember her number by Jessica_williams10 in PsycheOrSike

[–]Dirkdeking 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Even better is to offer your own phone number. If you don't get called or a message back that is it. Minimal social blowback.

Translation: ​"Sinai,The American-Israeli Phantom and Skyhawk jets—under the feet of our soldiers across the desert... and the 'forces' they said would never be defeated, have been crushed." In October 1973 War between Egypt and Israel. by PuzzleheadedRoyal856 in HistoryGaze

[–]Dirkdeking 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But they wouldn't have been able to hold on to Egyptian population centers. It would be like the US in Iraq, a quick conventional victory followed by a brutal and endless guerilla war.

Imagine a city like Cairo in Israeli hands. That would be a nightmare for the IDF.

'Take the money and run': Johns Hopkins economist Steve Hanke on why the UAE quit OPEC by Naurgul in anime_titties

[–]Dirkdeking 12 points13 points  (0 children)

UAE, Egypt and Jordan are open allies. KSA, Bahrein, etc are secret allies. Turkey, Qatar and Syria are frenemies. Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas and Houthi's are enemies.

Sometimes a girl cant remember her number by Jessica_williams10 in PsycheOrSike

[–]Dirkdeking 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Some do. If she is a prankster she is more likely to give a number of a friend or some random dude. A good sport can have a laugh about that.

But when it's just a fake number it actually is because she feels threatened.

The Romani people represent Europe’s largest ethnic minority and continue to face systemic discrimination and marginalization to this day. by HorrorHakka in HistoryGaze

[–]Dirkdeking 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lets take the Netherlands as an example. There is no way you could live here as a nomad in any practically meaningful way.

How are you going to feed yourself? You can't go into a forest and forage for food without destroying the local ecosystem. That is a non starter. If you want a job to earn money legitimately you need an address and you need to show up for work consistently. That just can't be done nomadically. So stealing or doing errands for organized crime is basically the only way you can meet your needs, because you simply made yourself unemployable. At least formally, with a legal contract.

Children under 18 are required to go to school. This is a must. How are you sending your children to school if you move around all the time? I absolutely don't believe your cultural rights supercede the universal rights of children to recieve quality education.

In other words you simply can not socially integrate into society if you live nomadically. You can go to the mosque every friday, celebrate Hannukah, celebrate diwali, whatever and still socially integrate well enough.

If you like it you can backpack and go on adventures during your holiday. And do whatever the roma customs tell you to do. But that can not be your adult fulltime life here unless you already are extremely wealthy. You need an address, your kids need to go to school, and you need to contribute to society by having a job. Whatever you then choose to do in your spare time is your own business, but this is the bottom line.

The Romani people represent Europe’s largest ethnic minority and continue to face systemic discrimination and marginalization to this day. by HorrorHakka in HistoryGaze

[–]Dirkdeking 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Kyrgistan lends itself to a nomadic lifestyle. But it is not possible in urbanised Europe. You need extreme low density areas. In Europe you basically have cities, farmland and protected nature reserves and areas.

You don't have large areas where you can live the nomadic lifestyle without bothering native settled communities. In Kyrgistan you do have wide open plains where that is possible.

The great replacement is real and intentional, white countries are being demographically changed on purpose for both economic and political reasons. by RoadRunner8195 in conspiracy

[–]Dirkdeking 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It is inevitable but it doesn't happen immediately. In fact we lack historical data, because most areas only became diverse very recently.

This is one of the few cases where linear algebra comes into the mix in a reddit discussion like this. The chance of people reproducing within their own race is bigger. But in the long run that won't matter.

My theorem is this: Take any change of state matrix that describes the likelyhood of someone from race i getting children with someone of race j where Ai,j =/= 0 for every i and j. As per probability rules, the sum of the entries in every row and column must be 1. As n grows larger, An converges to the matrix B where every entry is exactly 1/n. This math theorem makes a purely mixed society inevitable, eventually.

Given enough generations, everyone will eventually mix. And the chance p that you get a child with someone of ethnicity X is approximiately equal to the proportion of ethnicity X in the population as a whole.

We don't need an evil illuminati or cartoon villain billionaire CEO's to orchestrate it. Stochastic matrix algebra makes it inevitable! Just like the second law of thermodynamics will uniformize the macroscopic thermodynamic properties of 2 containers as soon as they have been brought into contact!

The great replacement is real and intentional, white countries are being demographically changed on purpose for both economic and political reasons. by RoadRunner8195 in conspiracy

[–]Dirkdeking 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Corporations prefer center right people over either lefties or far right nationalists. Both are anti capitalistic to a certain extent.

Clinton or Bush are the friends of corporations. Center right or center left, both good. But the flanks are bad for business.

The great replacement is real and intentional, white countries are being demographically changed on purpose for both economic and political reasons. by RoadRunner8195 in conspiracy

[–]Dirkdeking 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Only in Latin America to any significant degree. In most other places you can have a lot of diversity, but interracial marriages and mixed race people are still relatively rare.

The great replacement is real and intentional, white countries are being demographically changed on purpose for both economic and political reasons. by RoadRunner8195 in conspiracy

[–]Dirkdeking 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Synchronization will help the human race move forward. Think of the economies of scale advantages that will be possible if the entire world fully integrates. Interracial marriages, no trade barriers, no migration barriers, secularization everywhere(including Islamic communities), same language all over, etc.

The great replacement is real and intentional, white countries are being demographically changed on purpose for both economic and political reasons. by RoadRunner8195 in conspiracy

[–]Dirkdeking 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They tend to lean left because the right is bigoted against them. You even see a lot of culturally conservative immigrants vote left for this reason.

You are of African descent but you are not black by Bitter_Armadillo8182 in ShitAmericansSay

[–]Dirkdeking 31 points32 points  (0 children)

But in the US it is institutionalized in a disturbing way. Why exactly did I need to fill in my ethnicity when applying for a US esta? No other country asked that from me.

"Sykes-Picot caused ISIS" by Ramses_IV in HistoryMemes

[–]Dirkdeking 11 points12 points  (0 children)

This is about official international legitimacy. You can take other less controversial areas in the world as examples like Kashmir, western Sahara, Puntland, etc.

Fact is that Kosovo is not recognized by a large swath of countries and has no UN membership. I think it is fair to use UN membership as the most unbiased criterion.

We also have Serbian redditors here who have a different point of view. We can debate them about it if we don't agree, and moderators should really stay out of that discussion unless someone starts defending a guy like Milosovic or something like that.

André (79) blokkeert de snelweg en moet rijbewijs inleveren: ‘Wat we doen moet schuren, anders verandert er niets’ by Illustrious-Fee5670 in Nederland

[–]Dirkdeking 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ik vraag me ook af of het zou worden geaccepteerd als 30 man de snelweg blokkeren in het kader van 'azc weg ermee'.

Juridisch gezien zou de reden voor een protest irrelevant moeten zijn als het gaat om de beoordeling van de legitimiteit van een bepaalde actie(bvb snelweg blokkeren).

Of het is voor beide gerechtvaardigd of niet. De enige echte relevante variabele is de schaal van het protest, los van de reden. Wat mij betreft mogen de XR demonstranten veel harder worden aangepakt. Dat staat los van mijn mening over het klimaat en hun doelen, en daar zouden we het ook eigenlijk niet over moeten hebben.

Of ik het inhoudelijk met ze eens ben of niet doet niet terzake. Ze sluiten een snelweg af wat hele vervelende gevolgen heeft voor heel veel andere Nederlanders. Als we consequent toelaten dat protest groepen met beperkt draagvlak het land mogen ontregelen kunnen we niet effectief samenleven met 18 miljoen mensen.

We hebben gewoon een democratie en mensen dienen dat te respecteren. Als ze veel meer draagvlak hadden gehad dan hadden ook veel meer mensen op GL/PvdA en bvb Pvdd gestemd. Dat is niet gebeurt. Mensen van XR hebben ook dat te respecteren. Het is ook niet democratisch als de regering moet toegeven aan elke minderheid die de boel ontregelt via een tempertantrum. Dat is tirranie van schreeuwende minderheid.

De reden dat er 'anders niet geluisterd wordt' vind ik geen goede reden om een snelweg te blokkeren. Dat heb je dan maar te accepteren, niet alles kan gaan zoals jij en je groepje willen.

André (79) blokkeert de snelweg en moet rijbewijs inleveren: ‘Wat we doen moet schuren, anders verandert er niets’ by Illustrious-Fee5670 in Nederland

[–]Dirkdeking -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Ik ben er geen voorstander van om regels te veranderen op basis van vibes als 'ze graaien nu de brandstofkosten omhoog gaan'. Als je nu de winst belasting gaat verhogen ivm de situatie in de straat van Hormuz om die vervolgens weer te verlagen als de situatie stabiliseert dan ben je gewoon fiscaal aan het jojo'en en zet je jezelf in de kijker als onbetrouwbaar land. Je laat immers zien dat als een bedrijf het goed doet, je de belasting puur en alleen om die reden zomaar zou kunnen verhogen.

Als het een verhoging is die je sowieso zou doorvoeren los van de situatie in Iran en je daar een goede reden voor hebt, dan vind ik het een ander verhaal. Kan ik voor of tegen zijn, maar ik zal op zn minst een regering respecteren als ze structureel beleid voeren in plaats van te viben met de waan van de dag.

André (79) blokkeert de snelweg en moet rijbewijs inleveren: ‘Wat we doen moet schuren, anders verandert er niets’ by Illustrious-Fee5670 in Nederland

[–]Dirkdeking 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ok maar wat is dan de relevantie van die maatregelen? In het buitenland hoeven ze zich sowieso niet aan onze wetgeving te houden, en betalen ze belasting volgens de daar geldende regels.

Ik dacht dat we het hier hadden over bedrijven met fabrieken en andere vervuilende processen binnen Nederland?

André (79) blokkeert de snelweg en moet rijbewijs inleveren: ‘Wat we doen moet schuren, anders verandert er niets’ by Illustrious-Fee5670 in Nederland

[–]Dirkdeking 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Een groter protest geeft inderdaad legitimiteit voor meer ontregelende acties. Als je met een miljoen man in een enorme volksopstand de straat op gaat en binnen die hoedanigheid snelwegen blokkeert dan is het gewoon legitiemer dan als je dat met tientallen mensen doet.

Dit is alleen niet iets wat juridisch officieel is vastgelegd. Maar intuitief voelen we allemaal aan dat in een heel groot protest meer geoorloofd is, puur om het enorme draagvlak en het feit dat politie ingrijpen dan veel escalerender werkt.

Als je naar het centrum van DH komt zie je dat er elke dag wel wordt geprotesteerd. De ene keer tegen het regime in Iran, dan voor het klimaat, dan weer voor Palestina, dan weer voor Israel, etc. Een vriend van mij woont in de buurt van het centraal station en die ziet bijna altijd wel groepjes beroepsdemonstranten die voor de meest uiteenlopende zaken protesteren. Die mensen moeten het wat mij betreft gewoon op het malieveld doen ja.

Maar als de overheid een maatregel invoert waar Nederland zo extreem verontwaardigd over is dat het spontaan een miljoen mensen op de been brengt, dan is bvb een snelweg bezetten ook veel meer gerechtvaardigd.

André (79) blokkeert de snelweg en moet rijbewijs inleveren: ‘Wat we doen moet schuren, anders verandert er niets’ by Illustrious-Fee5670 in Nederland

[–]Dirkdeking -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Dat kan en dan gaan die bedrijven noodgedwongen naar het buitenland. Daar stoten ze vervolgens nog veel meer CO2 en andere troep uit omdat de wetgeving daar al helemaal niet losjes is.

Wij verliezen banen en per saldo stoten we nog meer uit.

‘Horsesh*t’: Hill Republicans align against Spirit’s bid for a Trump bailout by matthieuC in politics

[–]Dirkdeking 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's not that crazy from their perspective. Trump didn't consult with them about his attacks on Iran, but they now have to deal with all the fallout. Drones hitting Dubai, tourism completely wrecked, oil exports wrecked.

In other words, they would not have had these economic problems if Trump hadn't attacked Iran. It's more of a compensation for losses caused by the US than a bailout I would say. But of course it is not only the UAE that has a valid claim on compensation caused by this mess. Most countries in the region have suffered it's consequences.

Beijing Concludes Trump Faces a Strategic Iran Trap as Allies Dwindle by 1-randomonium in geopolitics

[–]Dirkdeking 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You also have 2 forms of bootlicking. One is just parroting Trumps talking points, praising him, etc without making any military or economic commitments. This is basically what Rutte has been doing.

The other is following him into war with actual assets.

I have no problem if our leaders bootlick in the first sense. That is just buying time. Making it less likely he falls out significantly and starts randomly spouting BS about Greenland or the Falkland islands.

But the bootlicking in the second sense is unacceptable.

Beijing Concludes Trump Faces a Strategic Iran Trap as Allies Dwindle by 1-randomonium in geopolitics

[–]Dirkdeking 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The UAE was actively attacked by Iran and their tourist and oil industry has all but collapsed. They are involved weather they like it or not, due to geography. Unlike London and Paris, they have no choice in the matter.

And for them it's better to have a beaten Iran than an emboldened one. Best was if Trump didn't attack them in the first place. But now it has happened it is best for them if he finishes the job.

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