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If the students are united against this statement, and only the administration and current faculty are for it, then the battle is already lost. Because the students of today are the faculty of tomorrow, making this statement a temporary patch that masks how bad things have gotten.

"Those who do not learn history are doomed to cite the one non-incriminating paragraph of a propaganda article."

The drought in 1895 caused a famine, followed by a malaria epidemic caused by heavy rain in 1897. They coincided with British rule, and the article you linked blames the British for it (and similar events) in its simplistic excess mortality analysis.

Looking at the reliability of that mronline site, it has articles such as:

On November 26, local elections were held throughout Taiwan, an island that has always been part of China but since 1949 has been ruled by a fascist leadership driven out of the mainland by the victorious Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA). Taiwan has since been “protected” by the military U.S. fleet, while Taiwan’s rulers maintained 48 years of martial law and a brutal regime of “White Terror.” In 1987, the regime allowed bourgeois elections. - https://mronline.org/2022/12/22/taiwan-local-election-shocks...

As for the Mongols that you imply were comparatively peaceful:

One estimate is that about 11% of the world's population was killed either during or immediately after the Mongol invasions, around 37.75–60 million people in Eurasia. These events are regarded as some of the most deadly acts of mass killing in human history. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_under_the_Mongol_E...

(Note that there were fewer people then (13th century), and that is people killed, not excess mortality from, say, the Black Death the Mongols helped spread by catapulting infected corpses during the siege of Caffa.)

In either case, I was not referring to the death toll of British imperialism, but its voluntary cessation.

These kinds of appeals, to freedom, neutrality, and individualism, remind me of non-violent resistance movements. Hope your adversary is more similar to the British Raj than the Mongols, because the tactic only works on one of them.

I didn't read that response as a defense. It sounded more like the opposite.

We are discussing whether the event is notable, not if it is legal. And as someone not from the US, I care more about making people aware that Twitter collaborates with the US to help spread their govt. propaganda (in the same way I would want them to know if the doctor they're discussing smoking with is employed by the tobacco industry), than whether Twitter complies with laws written by that same government.

I.e. claiming no laws were violated (hypothetically) is as much a defense of Twitter as claiming TikTok hasn't broken Chinese law.

Did you miss [1]? The US govt. used its influence over Twitter to help sell its foreign policy (military interventions included) to the US and global audience. The only way you could not take issue with it, is if you're fine with govt. psyops/undisclosed propaganda.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34111071

I don't follow. The post is long on his odd upbringing, clumsy propaganda campaigns on 4chan, the unlikeliness of some conspiracy theories, and amateur psychoanalysis casting an unkind light on various factions.

So.. what? How does that affect whether his ethnicity has a right to exist as a cohesive group, whether its members are better off as part of such a group vs. alone, whether they are better off sharing their countries with other ethnicities with strong group identities, and whether the documented relative demographic decline of his group in many countries [1] is something that group should welcome?

It is so hyperfocused on the people involved, it entirely ignores the underlying facts.

[1] 1970s: 87.5% --> 2020: 61.6% - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_US#Race

I don't know - is it interesting that the US govt. used its influence to conceal Twitter influence campaigns that served to justify and whitewash the kind of military operations whose ugliness Manning revealed [1]?

What happens in US military expeditions is 10/10, but how they are sold to the US and global audience is 2/10?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34111071

> People have the right to decide who to spend time near

Unless they choose wrong, in which case the federal government uses legal and economic measures to correct their choices.

Like clockwork. When it comes to claiming Europe has always been diverse and its countries have no identity, and demographics trends must be obfuscated, different European ethnicities are looked at separately, as if they have nothing in common. But when it's time to blame white people or claim some profession isn't diverse enough, they're lumped into a single group.

> ...When Stanford could not remove a student organization for bad behavior, they found other justifications. One such case was the end of Outdoor House, an innocuous haven on the far side of campus for students who liked hiking. The official explanation from Stanford for eliminating the house was that the Outdoor theme “fell short of diversity, equity and inclusion expectations.” ...

> Next year, Outdoor House will be reinstated, but only because house members promised to refocus their theme on “racial and environmental justice in the outdoors.” Upholding diversity, equity, and inclusion is the first of four “ResX principles” that now govern undergraduate housing. Stanford reserves the right to unhouse any organization that does not, in their opinion, uphold these principles.

Good guess. While London was 87% white British in 1971, that is now down to 37% (54% if counting all whites, not just Britons):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_London#Ethnicity...

> Women wait around ten years in America for a diagnosis of endometriosis, a painful but historically little studied gynaecological condition. [..] Might such delays and biases reflect skews in academic research?

That's a nice anecdote. Let's see what happens when we expand the sample size:

Men die earlier but women’s health gets four times more funding (in Australia) - https://web.archive.org/web/20140104031157/http://www.news.c...

"Struggled" meaning kept hidden until the secret got out internally. In completely unrelated news that didn't make the cut for the NYT or Washington Post or most other wikipedia "reliable sources":

Facebook, Twitter stocked with ex-FBI, CIA officials in key posts - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34101146

Facebook and Google are riddled with ex-CIA agents, many ex-FBI work at Twitter - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34096828

For those few deliberately obtuse souls that need evidence the fox may have ulterior motives for guarding the hen house:

In response to a 2017 request from the Pentagon, Twitter kept online a network of accounts that the U.S. military used to advance its interests in the Middle East, according to internal company emails that were made public on Tuesday by The Intercept, a nonprofit publication.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/22/technology/twitter-milita...

But I am certain you'll find a way to excuse this, or see no connection between this event and the ex-CIA staff.

> There were a record 44.8 million immigrants living in the U.S. in 2018, making up 13.7% of the nation’s population. This represents a more than fourfold increase since 1960, when 9.7 million immigrants lived in the U.S., accounting for 5.4% of the total U.S. population. - https://www.pewresearch.org/hispanic/2020/08/20/facts-on-u-s...

Given that immigration to the US has been high for decades, and 1st generation immigrants as a % of the population are at the highest levels since 1910, if immigration was the solution, wouldn't the problem* be solved already?

*Instead of calling it a "labor shortage", why not a "job surplus"?

I am struck by how incredibly mild the accusation resulting in Fiedler's removal was, and reminded of the saying: If you let the front line collapse, then you get to be the front line.

It was a thousand small steps that led to this.

It's irrational to expect "ex" government agents and spies to still pursue that government's agendas? You are confusing rationality with naivete.

One way to look at it that makes it clear CVS was deceptive: Nothing on the checkout screen donation message implied that a donation made there would differ from one made through other channels.

That ADA agreed to the terms does not make them any less deceptive.

> I don't really see how your point invalidates any of it.

Correct, it does not. Just wanted to emphasize part of it.

> Others are even less misinformative; there are lots of articles about members of some group Infowars doesn’t like committing a crime or doing an offensive thing; usually other sources confirm that these crimes or offenses are real.

Thankfully established media would never sink so low as to resort to cherry-picking anecdotal events.

Yes, your wildly misleading characterization of marriage does sound bad. But here in the real world (at least the West, unlikely it applies to the Middle East), "Women drive 70-80 percent of all consumer purchasing, through a combination of their buying power and influence." [1]

By the way, nice rhetorical trick of reducing half of all of one's wealth, plus child support and/or alimony to "a cheque".

[1] https://www.inc.com/amy-nelson/women-drive-majority-of-consu...

Evidence of editorial and policy decisions subtly favoring US government agendas? No, there will always be plausible deniability that someone willing to play as dumb as you will interpret as innocence and impartiality.

And if I may be more direct for a moment, perhaps other Americans will play along with your charade, but those of us in other countries won't be as willing to turn a blind eye to "ex" foreign (to us) intelligence agents meddling with communication platforms, just as you would not be so placid if it were ex-FSB agents instead of your people.

Nothing to see here, move along. Key positions in social media companies filled with ex-spies and police is no different than a high-school chemistry teacher going to work for a glue manufacturer.

The same country that assassinated MLK also forced, at gunpoint, white people to share their schools and neighborhoods [1] with black people. It also has an immigration and border policy that guarantees whites (almost 90% of the country in the 1950s) will become a minority in 2-3 decades. Wouldn't changing that be priority #1 of a racist government? Yet it has remained in place for almost 60 years now. How many other countries went from 90% homogeneous, to majority-minority, in one lifetime? How often does something like that happen?

But when it's time to guilt trip whites, all the "achievements" are forgotten, all the sins remembered, and even the dead aren't safe [2].

[1] As depicted in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Show_me_a_hero, courts have found it illegal to use federal money in a way that doesn't undermine homogeneous neighborhoods.

[2] https://www.dailywire.com/news/city-digs-up-remains-of-confe...

Unpaid? Did they not share household income/expenses, and in case of divorce, were entitled to part (half, I believe) of their ex-husband's wealth? In addition to child-support.