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That's addict talk. I quit drinking ( aside from beer because it's not liquor ).
The federal government had DEI programs too. Whose orders were they following?
Who or what thought up DEI? Who or what ordered everyone to institute DEI programs? I'm guessing we will never know.
I agree it is amazing how quickly DEI spread everywhere. Just as amazing how quickly it's getting shutdown. But who is behind it all? It's certainly wasn't Biden or Trump. They don't strike me as masterminds but obedient followers.
Dumbest thing I've read in a while. Would have assumed he would have said Turing and bletchley park is why the allies won.
All you have to do is look at the stats and see why the allies won. The allies had many times more people, many times more soldiers, many times more weapons, etc. France, a greater military power than germany, could have beaten germany if they chose to fight rather than surrender. Before the start of ww2, Germany was the 4th strongest military power in europe after the british empire, soviet union and france.
Just look at the numbers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_production_during_Wor...
I know Musk already knows the answer, but it's because reuters, along with the AP and AFP are the 3 major propaganda outlets for the elites.
What does canada have anything to do with anything. When was canada a manufacturing power? Why do canadians love to interject themselves into topics that don't involve them?
> 1) A massive devaluation of housing, stocks and other similar items.
You want wealth destruction? Most of americans' wealth is tied to home equity and 401k.
> That's why I said we are going to get seriously hurt.
Who is we? Are you even american?
> 2) Educate a whole generation that labor is honorable, so that engineers, scientists, technicians and such get more respect (I mean real respect, not the superficial one nowadays) than lawyers and bankers.
What are you talking about? You think lawyers and bankers get more respect than engineers and scientists?
> But I'm seeing is that US is taking another darker road.
What road is that?
They may do as much as us, but not more. Lets stop pretending every nation who developed nukes dropped it on a city. Nobody has proven they are willing to go as far as the US.
Nukes didn't wipe us out. Neither will AI. It nevers ends with doomsday fearmongering. But that's because fears sells. Or better yet, fear justifies spending.
Japan is not in the west. Japan is not a western country. They are not a western peoples. They don't speak a western language. They don't have western culture. They don't even use western script.
In what world is Japan "in the West"? Ask a japanese person whether they are in the west or are westerners. They'd laugh in your face.
The west is narrowly western european or western european descended majority nations. Broadly it's european majority nations.
Not just to my eyes. To chinese eyes, african eyes, middle eastern eyes, etc. There have been tiktoks and youtube videos of westerners born in china who were called foreigners by the chinese themselves.
> What about a second generation child, still fully ethnically European?
Elon Musk was born in south africa, a non-western country in a non-western continent. Charlize Theron was born in south africa. They are both westerners. Doesn't matter where you were born.
The european person born in china can become a chinese citizen. But he can never become "chinese". Just like a chinese person can never become a european/westerner. He can become a EU citizen. He can become an american citizen. But he can't become a westerner. Am I wrong here?
But none of those are "innately" Western. Most of the current West do not have free speech. Western civilization ( going back to socrates ) has been against democracy. Not to mention western civilization has been against gender equality.
The values you listed are actually innately anti-western values counter to 3000 years of western tradition.
If you argued for latin, greek language, history, civilization,culture ( something actually innately western ), then I'd agree.
Sure. But culture isn't "innate". But being a westerner is innate. I could learn chinese, but that doesn't make me a chinese person. A chinese person could learn english but he is still "innately" chinese.
> Very easily, since one is an ethnicity, while the other is a nationality/culture.
I already acknowledged that. My point is what do you mean by a western person or a westerner. Anyone can partake in a culture. You can eat chinese food or indian food but that doesn't make you a chinese person or an indian person.
Am I wrong here. Or is the term "west/westerner" used differently around the world.
Even if the democracy commits mass genocide? I think the most dangerous societies/systems/governments are those filled by people who think they or their system are innately superior ( especially morally ) as it gives them moral cover to commit all kinds of evil.
Then again, Socrates and Plato thought democracies were innately inferior...
History certainly hasn't shown democracies to be innately morally superior.
It can be both depending on the context. A westerner is a european or a european descended person.
> For example many Asian people are more western than many white Americans.
What does this even mean? How can an asian person be more western than a white american. That's like saying a white american be more "eastern" than a chinese person.
I've never heard an asian person say they are a westerner. There may be asian people who appreciate western culture more than some westerners, but that doesn't make them a westerner. No more than a white american who appreciates chinese culture more than the average chinese makes him a chinese person.
Or are we talking about different things here?
Men did strive to be more than club-wielding cavement. We became spear, axe, arrow, gun, cannon, etc wielding cavemen.
> To be kind and loving and worth a damn.
Or armed to the teeth? Armed to a level that the most brutish caveman could only dream.
History along with the lack of diversity in the Y-chromosome paint a far different picture than the one you are describing.
I find this absolutely shocking. Was this a west coast thing? I graduated and got my first job around that time and never met a single developer who used an apple laptop. My CS department was entirely unix/linux/bsd and windows. All my internships and jobs post graduation was windows or linux. My experience was that the hacker community, cs community, developer community all looked down on apple laptops, especially back then.
I guess we all live in our own little bubbles.
Edit: Also, the worry back then wasn't so much that microsoft is dead, but that microsoft was expanding so much that even if you preferred to develop on a linux stack, you still wanted to get some background in C#, VB, tsql, etc to improve your chances at landing a job.
They "chose" to abandon it? Weren't they forced to retreat by the german army who encircled it and chose to starve out the population rather than directly attack the city?
> The article mentions it below even:
That reads like ww2 german propaganda. What did you expect. People in moscow to starve also? "Lashings of caviar"? Give me a break.
Also, once the soviets repelled the german attack on moscow, didn't the soviets liberate leningrad? If the soviets were as cruel as you claim, why would they even bother? Not only that, it's known the soviets tried to get food into the city even before they liberated the city.
> Nor did the Soviets acknowledge the extent of the suffering.
Is this a joke? The soviets took every opportunity to paint the germans as barbaric. The starvation of leningrad isn't some secret nobody knew about.
The easiest way to tell if some historical anecdote is true or not is how cartoonish the caricature becomes. Both on the positive/heroic and negative/villain side of the history.