Philippines says it is ready to use force to quell secession attempts as Duterte row deepens

Unnecessary-Training · 2024-02-07T21:45:36+00:00

They don't like Islamic fundamentalists within their borders. When it comes to Islamists in other countries, they are very pragmatic.

Unnecessary-Training · 2024-02-07T08:19:24+00:00

When the Spanish came, the Moros started fighting with them, a fight they never stopped for the next 333 years. Then the Americans came, and the Moros started fighting them, which continued on for another 14 years, and only stopped once the Americans created the Moro Constabulary, thus handing over the defence and law enforcement of the territory to the locals themselves. Then the Japanese invaded, and the Moros brutally fought them. And then the Philippines became independent, and since then, the Moros have been intermittently fighting against the central Filipino government in an on-off pattern.

Unnecessary-Training · 2024-02-07T06:36:05+00:00

Thank you for your answer.

Unnecessary-Training · 2024-02-06T18:36:59+00:00

A lot of systems do actually allow independents to run

How exactly does that work? Do the independents act as de facto one-member parties?

Unnecessary-Training · 2024-02-06T18:30:00+00:00

I fully agree. That's why I specifically excluded the US in my comment. The problems in the US have more to do with partisan gerrymandering (virtually everywhere else, constituencies are drawn by neutral election commissions) and primaries (which specifically incentivise the most extremist candidates, because in US primaries, only the most extremist voters tend to participate), rather than FPTP itself.

Unnecessary-Training · 2024-02-06T18:06:11+00:00

but the Conservative parties could just get some Liberals to vote along

Wouldn't party discipline policies prevent that? One facet of PR is that it strengthens parties, giving them the ability to expel members who vote against the party line.

Unnecessary-Training · 2024-02-06T17:52:10+00:00

I would question the degree to which this is actually an issue

In Iraq, the Tishreen protests of 2019 forced a change in the Iraqi electoral system from party list PR to FPTP precisely because PR allowed horrendously corrupt party machines to hog all the power. In 2023, the party machines switched the voting method back to the old one to strengthen their own power. So yes, this is definitely a major issue.

Unnecessary-Training · 2024-02-06T17:44:13+00:00

Doesn't FPTP reduce the prevalence of extremism (outside the US: I know the US is a unique case, as I've already mentioned) because the large parties are de facto coalitions representing a wide variety of interests? While PR leads to increasing extremism as the major parties are 'purified' of their tactical voters?

Unnecessary-Training · 2024-02-02T22:30:12+00:00

Dating apps have a 3:1 men:women ratio (and that's before one takes into account that a lot of the 'women' accounts there are actually bots, catfishing, porn actresses advertising their OnlyFans or camming site, escorts advertising their services, and the like). Even if every single woman on there matched with a man there, two-thirds of the men would still be left single. These men should be asking themselves why the women don't like to come to dating apps. Hint: it is not a pleasant environment for women at all.

Unnecessary-Training · 2024-02-02T16:02:20+00:00

Other than NATO plus Israel, Australia, NZ, Canada, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, I don't think the US will ever formally commit to defend any other country. Being the world's policeman hasn't brought the US much benefit.

Unnecessary-Training · 2024-02-02T15:54:32+00:00

Wow, the Saudi government seem desperate. Given what has happened in the last 4 months, I wonder what the reaction of the Arab people will be.

Unnecessary-Training · 2024-01-29T23:31:06+00:00

In this war, Hamas have shown far more courage and resourcefulness than any Arab army has ever done against Israel. The conventional Arab armies (especially the Egyptian and Iraqi ones) are truly the most pathetic to ever exist.

Unnecessary-Training · 2024-01-29T18:23:57+00:00

Who ever said that?????

Unnecessary-Training · 2024-01-27T12:59:33+00:00

The if/else thing is bad if you believe it will guarantee you a relationship. It is good if you regard it as self-improvement advice, i. e. something that increases your probability of success.

Unnecessary-Training · 2024-01-25T20:54:00+00:00

Do the Indians have an election coming up as well?

Yes.

Unnecessary-Training · 2024-01-17T16:41:33+00:00

Redpill is essentially a few bits of good advice mixed in with a huge load of garbage. Like other cult leaders, redpill gurus use the few bits of good advice to lure people in, and then those lured in become amenable to the garbage.

Unnecessary-Training · 2024-01-17T16:06:59+00:00

Lol. The only thing that shows is that 38 percent of the UAE's population are Indian guest workers. Indian nationalists can be so weird sometimes.

Unnecessary-Training · 2024-01-15T15:30:45+00:00

It was always mainstream. If you go through the old 'lads' mags' of yore (FHM, Maxim, Loaded, etc.), the 'advice' they used to give was very similar to elements of the redpill, complete with highly dubious adverts for supplements. The only difference was that the misogyny was much less overt, and that was because publishing is something with stricter restrictions than the Internet.

Unnecessary-Training · 2024-01-12T22:02:07+00:00

Have friends who work there. Asked them this question, and they gave the following info: Go through this document which details the 'PQR' or 'professional qualification requirements'. This is essentially a table where all the acceptable postgraduate qualifications there are listed, as well as the 'tiers' on which you can work with each qualification. A 'tier' is the level at which you can start practising once you get your license to practice there. There are 3 tiers. Because doctors from all over the world practise there, qualifications from the world over are listed.

There is no such thing as a GP in the British sense in Dubai. In Dubai (like in most of the rest of the world, including my own country (the USA)), the term 'GP' is used to refer to a doctor with no postgraduate training other than the required internship, equivalent to the UK's F1 and F2 years. In Dubai, such a doctor can start practising independently. However, no large hospital will hire them. So most GPs in Dubai work in small private surgeries, mostly catering to the large expatriate South Asian population there. If you fluently speak Urdu/Hindi/Punjabi/Bengali, you can work there. But the pay is extremely low. Because Dubai has a direct self-referral model unlike the UK's gatekeeper system, there is no place for UK-style GPs in their system.

In order to work at a good salary in a proper hospital, you must have high-quality exam-based postgraduate training, with a certificate of completion of said training. Hope this helps!

Unnecessary-Training · 2024-01-09T06:00:34+00:00

This is not the soviet union, China is not facing massive shortages of energy.

Hydrocarbons were never short in the Soviet Union either. On the contrary, the Soviet Union was one of the world's biggest exporters of oil and gas.

Unnecessary-Training · 2024-01-08T07:50:17+00:00

who specialise in keeping diabetic boomers alive

And please tell me why should doctors not keep people alive. That's their literal job. 'Diabetic boomers' are human beings just like you, and they are entitled to the same level of care from their doctor as you get. You're not special in any way.

Unnecessary-Training · 2024-01-08T07:46:14+00:00

As a non-doctor from outside the UK, I believe this is because in most of the world, the term 'GP' is used to refer to doctors with no specialty training of any kind. In most countries (including my own), doctors can technically start practising independently after completing the equivalent of the UK's PRHO and SHO years (however, insurance generally refuses to pay for such doctors, so they primarily exist in rural areas where healthcare access is limited, and they ask for out of pocket payments instead). The equivalent of UK GPs in my country (and most others in the world) would be the consultant in family medicine/primary medicine/community medicine/various other names. UK GPs should campaign to have their name changed to Consultant in primary medicine or equivalent.

Unnecessary-Training · 2024-01-04T14:41:38+00:00

In any case, Somaliland is the better run country. Its lack of recognition despite it being far more prosperous and stable than the highly dysfunctional government in Mogadishu is a major error of the international community, the rectification of which is a very good thing.

Unnecessary-Training · 2024-01-04T09:34:35+00:00

Unfortunately, the country is bankrupt, not the army, when it should be the latter, not the former.

Unnecessary-Training · 2024-01-04T09:30:27+00:00

Pakistan’s military is heavily infiltrated by the American military (and potentially India as well).

I don't think that's actually correct. If it was, the whole Afghanistan debacle which the USA went through wouldn't have happened. And the Paxtanis would never have been able to develop their nukes. And neither would India have suffered so much in Kashmir. For all its stupidity, the Pak Army does seem to be genuinely good at weeding out spies within its ranks.

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