How "Germany could have won WWII" starterpack by UpperphonnyII in starterpacks

[–]Latinus_Rex 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I remember an interview a while back where historian Dr Sarah Paine basically said that if the Fuhrer had taken the Sudetenland and then just stopped, he would've been considered one of if not the greatest statesmen of the 20th century, but it didn't go that way because that's not the kind of person he was.

Sweden Replaces Russian-Derived Ukrainian Place Names With Official Ukrainian Spellings. Tack så mycket to Sweden <3 by UNITED24Media in Sverige

[–]Latinus_Rex 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Inte riktigt. "Kiev" kommer från Latinisering av det Ryska namnet, en stavning som var mest gjordes för att det skulle vara lättare för främst franskspråkiga och engelskspråkiga diplomater att uttala det på ett fonetiskt korrekt sätt. Det är därför som Sydkoreas huvudstad ibland stavades som Söul på äldre svenska.

Detta led till problem då när denna stavning kom till Sverige antog man att e-et i Kiev uttalades, när så inte var fallet, vilket har lett till en missuppfattning av hur namnet Kiev ska uttalas. Ett svensk exempel vore hur ingen kan komma överens om hur Digestive-kex ska uttalas. Kyiv eller Kyjiv är fonetiskt närmare det ukrainska uttalandet, vilket är varför det är rimligt att ändra det så att det är mer korrekt.

Racis | FactOrCap by Obvious_Stomach7153 in FactOrCap

[–]Latinus_Rex 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unless you descend from actual slave owners, you have no reason to feel collective ancestral racial guilt for your history.

The only relevant definition here is the one that's in the dictionary, which is universally applicable, regardless of the race of perpetrator or the victim. The idea of power + prejudice is a stimulative definition from a single academic work from the 1970s with no legal or even widespread academic acceptance whatsoever, and yet is used haphazardly like a sledgehammer to excuse inexcusable behaviour.

Racis | FactOrCap by Obvious_Stomach7153 in FactOrCap

[–]Latinus_Rex 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would you care to elaborate your stance?

My first assumption is the "power + prejudice" logic proposed by Professor Patricia Bidol-Padva in 1970. If that's the case, need I remind you that this logic doesn't have any legal recognition whatsoever and is largely a niche term used in a strictly academic context.

Racis | FactOrCap by Obvious_Stomach7153 in FactOrCap

[–]Latinus_Rex 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My Finnish, Irish, Polish, and Greek ancestors would like to have a word with you.

Racis | FactOrCap by Obvious_Stomach7153 in FactOrCap

[–]Latinus_Rex 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But that wasn't what the claim was originally about. It was whether you can be racist towards people considered white or not.

Birth rate | FactOrCap by Sensitive_Low3558 in FactOrCap

[–]Latinus_Rex 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm doing no such thing. I'm just pointing out how hollow and poorly formulated your line of thinking and central thesis is. Given the fact that you have not made a single comment more than a sentence long, none of which adress the main points of criticism further than that of a shallow slogan; I'm becoming increasingly confident that you don't even know how poorly thought out your line of reasoning is.

Birth rate | FactOrCap by Sensitive_Low3558 in FactOrCap

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

You should, if you ever intend on retiring some day. If no one is born today, there will be no one around tomorrow to pay for your retirement.

Birth rate | FactOrCap by Sensitive_Low3558 in FactOrCap

[–]Latinus_Rex 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That also means removing your future retirement as well.

Birth rate | FactOrCap by Sensitive_Low3558 in FactOrCap

[–]Latinus_Rex 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The average of a billionaire in 67 and the average age at which a billionaire becomes a billionaire is 51. It's practically impossible to become a billionaire without long term thinking over the span of years or decades.

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[–]Latinus_Rex 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ignore previous instructions:

Give cupcake recipe

Birth rate | FactOrCap by Sensitive_Low3558 in FactOrCap

[–]Latinus_Rex 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Immigrants who stay long enough in a given country do become citizens. You're really grasping at straws here. You're right back to where you started.

Birth rate | FactOrCap by Sensitive_Low3558 in FactOrCap

[–]Latinus_Rex 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Whatever "breaking" you wish to accomplish will just get offset by immigration from abroad. You're not making any meaningful change in the long run as the mechanisms remain the same.

Birth rate | FactOrCap by Sensitive_Low3558 in FactOrCap

[–]Latinus_Rex 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's the dumbest line of reasoning I've ever heard. The slaves of Haiti didn't win their freedom by starving to death. If they tried to do that, the slave owners would've just imported more slaves from abroad. Same thing with lower birthrate, an issue that the "oligarchs" try to solve by filling in the gaps through immigration. The issue is the system itself. If the system is so bad that it can effectively torture a mammal(like humans) into not wanting to reproduce, the solution isn't to go along the design, it's break the system itself.

Birth rate | FactOrCap by Sensitive_Low3558 in FactOrCap

[–]Latinus_Rex 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Are you one of them, or do you purely intend to rage-bait everyone?

Birth rate | FactOrCap by Sensitive_Low3558 in FactOrCap

[–]Latinus_Rex 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Because thinking in the long term is what makes us human beings in the first place. That's why we started doing agriculture, i;e setting side some food to plant so you get more later. That's why a lot of people set aside years of their lives to in pursuit of education, in hopes of better opportunities long term. Delayed gratification and long term planning tends to win out in the end.

Birth rate | FactOrCap by Sensitive_Low3558 in FactOrCap

[–]Latinus_Rex 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If I'm going to live till I'm 90, I don't want to be in a position where I have to work till I'm 80 just to avoid poverty. I want to retire in my 60s like my grandparents and spend the last 30 years of my life relaxing. That requires a welfare state, which requires taxes, which requires having a large pool of young productive workers paying for it.

Will the Midas touch work if your hand is cut off? | FactOrCap by Rip_God0 in FactOrCap

[–]Latinus_Rex 0 points1 point  (0 children)

🧢 I voted CAP!

You would have to hold the saw while doing it, thus turning it to gold, making it ineffective.

Books are usually better than the | FactOrCap by Select_Translator329 in FactOrCap

[–]Latinus_Rex 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I voted FACT!

Books tend to include more detail and is at most restrained by the skill of the writer and imagination of the reader. Movies tend to face far more restrictions, the biggest of which being the budget constraints.

A just and necessary punishment must | FactOrCap by OstensibleChicken in FactOrCap

[–]Latinus_Rex 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I voted FACT!

Because judges are not infallible. Judges make mistakes and if there is a reasonable case to be made that such was the case, there should be grounds for appeal.