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Re:EU vaccine rollout severely lags behind by xiphias2 on Monday March 22, 2021 @05:04PM (#26547031)
I'm half Jewish (49% according to 23andMe), and I have a picture of 10 people of my own family killed in a mass grave, so I couldn't be farther from an anti-semite. Also I have no problem with Israel, as I said (I have far relatives there). What I don't like is the mix of price based capitalistic distribution for the countries, but not priced based capitalisic distribution of vaccines for the people. It's fake humanitarian and fake capitalism at the same time.
Re:EU vaccine rollout severely lags behind by BobbyJo on Monday March 22, 2021 @07:53PM (#26549130)
Government's prioritize their own people over others, but don't want vaccines going to the highest bidder domestically for the obvious social cohesion problems that will create. Seems like a perfectly fine/pragmatic approach to things to me.
Re:EU vaccine rollout severely lags behind by hfjfktkrkf on Monday March 22, 2021 @07:52PM (#26549115)
Just imagine govmts auctioning vaccines. That's how you start a revolution.

And isn't the point of govs to take care of their own people? Otherwise rich countries should right now start spending their money on solving poor countries issues, like lack of a working healthcare system.

Re:EU vaccine rollout severely lags behind by xiphias2 on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @01:49AM (#26551542)
The reason why those poor countries are poor is because of those rich countries. What you're describing is tribalism.

I hate so see how US looks at the wars it is fighting: it doesn't matter that they kill 100000 people, but the 100 Americans that died are so much more important just because they were born in a rich country.

We are all on the same planet together, and tribalism is already stopping us from limiting ourselves from using more resources that the planet can provide.

Re:EU vaccine rollout severely lags behind by quonn on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @04:37AM (#26552495)
> The reason why those poor countries are poor is because of those rich countries.

Having spent a considerable length of time in some of those countries, some of it volunteering, I seriously doubt this is true in general.

It‘s typically a problem of productivity (producing low value goods), corruption, education, technology transfer, culture and so on.

It would be nice to have a simple unifying theory but I doubt it exists.

Re:EU vaccine rollout severely lags behind by hfjfktkrkf on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @05:24AM (#26552793)
Scale matters. Let me quote Taleb:

> I am, at the Fed level, libertarian; at the state level, Republican; at the local level, Democrat; and at the family and friends level, a socialist.

What he meant is that while communism works in a family because the incentives are aligned, it doesn't work at society level.

Re:EU vaccine rollout severely lags behind by remirk on Monday March 22, 2021 @05:00PM (#26546957)
I have never really understood why you can't criticize Israeli politics without it sounding like antisemitism.
Re:EU vaccine rollout severely lags behind by Ma8ee on Monday March 22, 2021 @05:44PM (#26547647)
It doesn’t sound like antisemitism. Some people choose to pretend all criticism of the state of Israel is.

-Israel is an apartheid state.

-You fucking nazi!

Re:EU vaccine rollout severely lags behind by ars on Monday March 22, 2021 @06:04PM (#26547916)
Nah, that particular comment was not antisemitism.

But to answer your question: There are a TON of antisemitic people in the world, but they know they can't talk that way, so they pretend that are "anti-Israel" instead. Most people can see right through that, some can't.

This doesn't happen to other countries, so the situation with Israel is unique.