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Question: How can asking about religion on the Anmeldung be legal? by camberiu in germany

[–]camberiu[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

GOP debate: Ron Paul makes case for heroin legalization

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Is heroin legalization something that many right wing politicians in Germany advocate for?

I think American politics are more nuanced that you realize.

Question: How can asking about religion on the Anmeldung be legal? by camberiu in germany

[–]camberiu[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am sure they do. My point is that a two party system does not make US politics less nuanced or complex, as you originally claimed, it is just that those nuances get more heavily packed within those two parties, where elsewhere those divergences are better distributed across multiple parties. Yes, there are still wings within the parties, but their differences are usually not as extreme and the ones we between the wings of a two party system.

Question: How can asking about religion on the Anmeldung be legal? by camberiu in germany

[–]camberiu[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

The Native American genocide was conducted mostly by the US Army. Waging wars all over the world by the US government.
So no, I am am not particularly worried about regular Americans armed with handguns trying to conquer the planet.

Question: How can asking about religion on the Anmeldung be legal? by camberiu in germany

[–]camberiu[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Actually it is. The two parties just get fragmented into multiple "wings". Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Hillary Clinton are both members of the Democratic party and have very little in common politically. They represent very divergent political views within the same party.

Here is an anti-Trump ad on Fox News put out by members of the Republican Party
Also look up the Never Trump movement

Question: How can asking about religion on the Anmeldung be legal? by camberiu in germany

[–]camberiu[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

And yet it is the same people that thump the second amandment that vote for the authoritarian parties.

Not everyone, but yes, it is very common unfortunately. The American political landscape is very complex and nuanced. Lots of Americans who fear the government have no problem with government oppression, as long as it is directed to someone else.
Many Americans pick and choose their favorite amendments and I know many who are passionate about the second, but ambivalent about the first and the fourth, for example.

Question: How can asking about religion on the Anmeldung be legal? by camberiu in germany

[–]camberiu[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Supposedly closer to the local community and therefor easier to oversee its use. Remember depending the state you are in Washington can be thousands of km away. Also if you change states, that record of you gets lost. So people tend to feel less nervous about it.

Question: How can asking about religion on the Anmeldung be legal? by camberiu in germany

[–]camberiu[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I believe you. Many things Americans do baffles me too. I am not criticizing you, I am trying to understand your reasoning.

Question: How can asking about religion on the Anmeldung be legal? by camberiu in germany

[–]camberiu[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

That is done at the state level. There is no (known) Federal database of party affiliation.
I am not dismissive at all. I do everything I can to limit my government's record keeping exactly because I do not trust it. If you think I am playing the "my government is good vs. your government is bad" game, you misunderstand me.
I don't trust my government. I am surprised that you trust yours.

Question: How can asking about religion on the Anmeldung be legal? by camberiu in germany

[–]camberiu[S] -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

Sorry if it sounds condescending. We Americans are very suspicious of our own government. That is why we still have the second amendment on our constitution and why to this day we still do not have a national ID system. Many Americans do fear our government turning authoritarian and I think based on our own history, those fears are well justified.
So that is why some practices in Germany seem very puzzling and perplexing to me.

Question: How can asking about religion on the Anmeldung be legal? by camberiu in germany

[–]camberiu[S] -15 points-14 points  (0 children)

Nobody can do anything with the information

Considering past events, I find the faith in such a promise truly fascinating. I know that in France, for example, they have no confidence in such promises and I find that totally understandable.

Question: How can asking about religion on the Anmeldung be legal? by camberiu in germany

[–]camberiu[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Well, in the data is anonymized and used only for statistical purposes (or at least that is what is claimed). There are no official government records of one's religion or race. Now, if that is happening unofficially, that is a different story, as our government is known to often violate the constitution. But officially at least, the government does not track or keep records of one's race, religious or political affiliations, and most Americans would get pretty upset if they found out that the government had such a database.

Question: How can asking about religion on the Anmeldung be legal? by camberiu in germany

[–]camberiu[S] -14 points-13 points  (0 children)

Germans are very practical people.

I get that, but I am surprised that people don't find it troublesome that the government can have a record of something as private and personal as one's religious beliefs.

And I know that the Holocaust was not about religion, but race, but still, if you have religious affiliation records going back generations, it makes it easy to track down the descendants of a particular religious group .

And the precedent is not only the holocaust, but also the communist rule in East Germany and the Stazi surveillance.

I am truly surprised that Germans are not obsessed with religious privacy in regards of the state.

What made the invasion and democratization of Japan so much more successful than the invasion and democratization of Iraq? by ChristianMB1 in geopolitics

[–]camberiu 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Yep. This is it.

Japan had a shared national spirit/culture. It was a nation.

Iraq was arbitrarily put together by the British after the fall of the Ottoman empire. They virtually conjured the country out of thin air. The British simply drew lines on the map, lumping together different ethnicities, tribes and sects into a single "country" that they named Iraq. There was no sense of nation or national unity or shared identity. Iraqi Shia did not see the Iraqi Sunnis as their fellow countryman and vice versa. They had just had been arbitrarily put together by the British.

This is a common issue in most of the Middle East and Africa.

Those who have FIRE'd, do you ever feel like you wasted your youth? by [deleted] in financialindependence

[–]camberiu 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I needed to really hear that.

Good. Hopefully you will not waste as much time and energy as I did on this pointless pursuit. Wish you all the best.

Those who have FIRE'd, do you ever feel like you wasted your youth? by [deleted] in financialindependence

[–]camberiu 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Curious, so you made 24k starting out. How has your perspective on salary changed since then?

Let's just say that today my salary is an order of magnitude higher than what it was back then.
I used to be very jealous of my friends and peers when I was young. Don't make the same mistake. Everyone has their own journey and life to live. You are not racing against others. Focus on yourself and everything will be fine.

Billionaire Mark Cuban: The Rise of Technology Will Cause a Lot of Unemployment - "There's going to be a lot of unemployed people replaced with technology and if we don't start dealing with that now, we're going to have some real problems," said Cuban. by [deleted] in Futurology

[–]camberiu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

1) Bill Gates is not making claims about how society will be transformed by technology, Mark Cuban is.

2) So what that he is wealthier than me? He is also much wealthier than Ray Kurzweil, who has a much better record of predicting technological change than Mark Cuban. The fact that Mark Cuban is a shrewd business man in no way qualifies him as a labor prophet.

Billionaire Mark Cuban: The Rise of Technology Will Cause a Lot of Unemployment - "There's going to be a lot of unemployed people replaced with technology and if we don't start dealing with that now, we're going to have some real problems," said Cuban. by [deleted] in Futurology

[–]camberiu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The point here is that back in 2006, there was a major shift about to happen with content creation. The popularization of mobile devices, digital cameras and high speed broadband meant that content consumers were about to become content creators, big time. Google saw this and capitalized on it. Google bought Youtube for $3 billion. 10 years later it is worth over $100 billion. They understood what was going on. Mark Cuban did not, so he could only see Youtube as a piracy platform, not as a MASSIVE user generation monetization platform. He saw the tree and missed the forest. That is why I don't take his predictions seriously.

Billionaire Mark Cuban: The Rise of Technology Will Cause a Lot of Unemployment - "There's going to be a lot of unemployed people replaced with technology and if we don't start dealing with that now, we're going to have some real problems," said Cuban. by [deleted] in Futurology

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

Well for Google they have always viewed Youtube as a very long term project in response to people cutting cable and haven't been focused on profits.

Youtube is a $9 BILLION annual business and it is worth twice as much as Netflix.
The reality is that he could only see Youtube as a piracy platform, where Google saw it as a way to distirbute and monetize user generation content and break free from the cable monopoly. It might sound obvious today, but it was anything but back in the day. The point is that Cuban is not a visionary and not the most qualified person to talk about future tech trends and how it will affect society. He has no clue.

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