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Comment Re:Shame (Score 1) 43

Do you know why schools you couldn't make into, instead having to take this sad job trolling one of the less popular sites on the internet, ask people to show their work? So they can understand the path you took and judge it for themselves.

Comment Re:Shame (Score 1) 43

How to spot a far left propagandist: first step is lying about the numbers. Knowingly, as demonstrated by the third sentence which notes "last" before "referendum".

There were three referendums agreed, and three referendums held. Plural. All three returned the same result. Nationalist Socialists and their allies voted to secede, and everyone else voted to stay. Nationalist Socialists and their allies, understanding that they will lose the last one just as they lost the two previous ones, decided to boycott the last referendum under the guise of "oh noes, it's the pandemic, we can't vote and it has nothing to do with the fact that this is the last referendum according to the deal we took, and we're going to lose this one too".

Somehow the rest showed up just fine, and as with "summer of love and fiery but peaceful protests" in US, there were no mass deaths. You'd think separatists would just push for takeover of the autonomous governance next, since "quite high deaths and sickness" would have surely killed and maimed enough of people who support remaining, as that was so amazingly lethal that separatists couldn't show up to vote to save just one life, in a focused two week effort to stop the spread. Also a great idea in general, just have your enemies die to sickness while you stay healthy and then you just win the next contest for local governance.

Except that of course, covid doesn't work that way. And so they lost the last agreed referendum and that was that. If they were democratic. But these are Nationalist Socialists, so they started burning down groceries instead of accepting the result of three separate referendums. While their Marxist friends abroad are now running PR campaigns with same tied, recycled slogans.

Comment Re:Implications (Score 1) 26

Many of them could (and probably are) be false signals. A common problem in medical research, where there is a high amount of intertwined, mutually affecting systems.

And cancers are known to mess up these interactions in weird and often unpredictable ways. That can overlap with a lot of common causes. It's like finding protein in urine in routine screening. It could be a sign of kidney cancer. Or the fact that this man ejaculated recently.

Comment Re:Shame (Score 1) 43

British are by far the best colonial masters there were. Not even a conquest. Ending global slavery alone was an achievement without peer, and their ability to give just enough autonomy but not too much meant they weren't brutal like Spanish, overbearing like French or completely hands off letting locals just revert to original culture and do black magic rituals en masse like Belgians.

Comment Re:Shame (Score 1) 43

Yeah, no. That meme came from a single book by an activist with an axe to grind. No a couple of thousand of Belgians who were almost all high ranking bureaucrats in the capital didn't amputate millions of hands in far away regions in a few years, and they ordered the exact opposite. Locals just didn't have to listen to them, so they didn't. And no, it wasn't done in the name of rubber harvesting either. There are many first hand accounts that book in question claims support its claims which when you actually look up the accounts directly contradict it

All that they did was give power to locals to go back to what they were doing as a norm in their culture in the region that was the most backwards and violent on the whole continent. It was a stupid idea and locals happily went to butcher and torture each other again once Belgians removed the direct overwatch.

Though in hindsight, that probably does make them the worst masters. They actually didn't rule over the people who's cultures were so awful that just enslaving their neighbours, and cutting pieces off them for black magic rituals was a norm. And they were warned by other colonials who dabbled in the region exactly what kind of people they were dealing with. And they still decided to let them do their thing, with only minimal imposed control if any outside the top bureaucracy.

Comment Re:Shame (Score 4, Informative) 43

France is a colonial master in New Caledonia. That's not in doubt.

It's just that it's a liked one by the majority of population. Three referendums down, and it's basically one ethnic group voting to secede in the name of the nationalist socialist ideology of envy of its betters, and everyone else voting to stay. That one nationalist and socialist ethnic minority is violent and intolerant towards outsiders. It's also so phenomenally low IQ on average that it actually generated an idea that a great way to protest losing referendum after referendum would be to... sabotage all the food retailers, preferably by burning them down after looting them. It's the same problem that Zulus have in South Africa. Low average IQ population, incapable of grasping consequences of their actions keep terrorizing the very people trying to make their communities a better place, following a nationalist socialist leadership.

New Caledonia will actually need to rebuild food distribution while relying on French for food aid now because of them.

I'm sure that's going to make the majority like the violent minority literally causing localized risk of starvation more, and hate the French that will have to feed the populace less. It's going to work somehow. How? Why would you ask, that involves logic, a tool of oppression by colonialist, white man loving fascism.

In before far leftists start screaming that nationalism and socialism being opposites. The guilty party is literally called "Kanak Socialist Nationalist Liberation Front". Because it's just that. It's ethnosupremacist, socialist and nationalist party. And like its ideological brethren across the globe, it's highly xenophobic, highly prone to terrorism and primarily liked by populations where median IQ is too low to grasp abstract concepts like "if I do X, what will be the likely consequences of it?" That's why Zulus keep looting stores opened by Pakistani families to serve them, right after publicly raping said Pakistani families to death. In the name of the exact same ideology.

French are probably the worst colonial masters to have. Just look at Haiti as a good example as to why. But replacing them with yet another nationalist socialist party who's rank and file are the typical low IQ high aggression mobsters is a recipe for something far, far worse. Which is why majority people voted against them several times. In spite of campaigns of terror. And these mobsters are easily riled by professional agitators on social media.

My personal favourite to come out of this mess is the fact that Azerbaijan is now paying French back for the support of Armenia (largely due to influential Armenian diaspora in France). Yup, protesters/looters actually supposedly waved some Azerbaijani flags in New Caledonia, half a world away. And Azeris are running a weird forum for "victims of French colonization" or something among those lines. As far as geopolitical vengeance goes, that's a pretty good shot after the mess with Nagorno-Karabakh and French support for it. You help our enemies take over our territory? We're going to help your enemies take yours now.

Comment Re:chinese have long memories (Score 1) 236

>Never said they were-

No, you just used them as analogues. Which is not the same thing in context of this thread because...?

>The accusation of dog whistles from you is fucking laughable. You've got 6 of them on you at all times.

It's funny how I can predict your actions, isn't it. You're hearing them again. You probably don't even know the man who created the belief system you are ensnared in, even though I mentioned him above.

>Don't pussyfoot around. Your posting history is available. You know damn well who you support.

And yet, you cannot formulate it. Why?

Comment Re:Money makes the monkey dance (Score 1) 131

There are many reasons to "shit on americans". This isn't one of them. You opened your country to basically everyone to come in and fail to integrate, resulting in what is basically ethnic and cultural enclaves that co-exist side by side. Or at least try to.

But this is an anathema to building a high trust society. High trust societies are all culturally and ethnically highly homogenous. The moment that goes away, so does the trust. Humans are tribal that way and it comes with our basic nature.

So I'm not saying you're not charitable. You certainly are. I'm saying that you're a typical product of a medium trust high income society. You're performative because your society is highly competitive. And you're charitable because your society is middle trust at best. It's why your charity is less hard coded than that in low trust societies like Islamic nations. And way more than that of high trust societies, where taxes are much higher because we collectively agree that we will all pay a fair share so that no one goes homeless or hungry. And therefore there's no meaningful need for performative charity any more. Not to mention that most high trust societies are also high modesty societies. Standing out by listing charities you donate to as you did would be considered extremely damaging to your status and a marker of narcissism.

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