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  • Depends. Can the galling regime in Iran motivate a Shiite revolution across the world and can they do gorilla warfare from tunnels in Iran’s mountainous regions for a long time. And distrupt the flow of oil sufficiently thus causing the us dollar to collapse and thus the global markets along with it (Rothschild banks USD as international reserve currency etc etc).

    The us is distracted so China might take the opportunity to take Taiwan. That will herold in the end of the consumer driven economy enjoyed by the western world cos trade with china drives everything.

    When markets and quality of life collapse this bad u either get a populist revolution (eg Hitler, Stalin, etc) or the government starts an economic rejuvenation project (war driven economy).

    The economy is essentially just a function of how effective a population is at turning resources into product. Wealth concentration has got so heigh we are approaching the point that people can no longer consume the GDP. Thus u need a product sink else the economy stops. Thankfully the war driven economy already proves an excellent resources sink (war itself). Orwell predicted this yet nobody listened.

    We might get to be the ones to witness the death of liberty, but then again the pots boiling so slowly their is little chance we will know when that happens. Who’s to say the final blow to liberty hasn’t already been dealt and we just can’t see it yet.










  • Only a small minority of Muslims are misogynistic assholes. Not much different than in any population.

    U sure about that:

    Category / Attitude Description / Proxy Question South Asia (e.g., Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan) Southeast Asia (e.g., Indonesia, Malaysia) Middle East-North Africa (MENA) (e.g., Iraq, Jordan, Egypt, Morocco) Sub-Saharan Africa Central Asia & Southern/Eastern Europe Global Rough Estimate / Notes
    Support for Sharia as official law Favor making Sharia the law of the land (often includes traditional gender elements) ~84% (99% Afghanistan, 84% Pakistan; 2013 Pew) ~77% (72–86%; 2013 Pew); ~58% social media users in Madura, Indonesia (2025 study) ~74% (74–91% in many; 2013 Pew); recent data limited, but tied to rising patriarchal norms (Arab Barometer 2023-2024) ~64% (high in parts; 2013 Pew) 12–18% (8–12% in many; 2013 Pew) Majority overall (~50–70%+ weighted); persistent in populous regions; often limited to family matters
    Patriarchal family roles Agree wife must obey or men should have final say 90%+ (2013 Pew) High (often 80–90%+; 2013 Pew) Increased since 2021-2022; 58-75% men agree (e.g., 75% Kuwait, 71% Jordan, 70% Morocco); 27-53% women agree (e.g., 53% Morocco, 35% Kuwait); highest since tracking in some (Arab Barometer 2023-2024) Varies, often high (2013 Pew) 51–89% (lower in some; 2013 Pew) Majority in most surveyed countries; gender gaps wide (men higher); working female relatives reduce support by 6-17%
    Justification of wife-beating/domestic violence Husband justified in hitting/beating for reasons (e.g., arguing, refusing sex) Often 40–70%+ (very high in Afghanistan ~92%; UNICEF/DHS recent) Varies (30–60% in conservative areas; UNICEF/DHS) Plurality report increase in GBV past year (5/7 countries); no direct % on justification, but linked to patriarchal rise (Arab Barometer 2023-2024) High in Sahel/Somalia (~56–57%; UNICEF recent) Lower (often <40%; UNICEF/DHS) 40%+ common in high-population countries; tied to religiosity/education; actual rates comparable globally but attitudes permissive
    Unequal inheritance (traditional view) Oppose equal inheritance for sons & daughters Majority oppose (<50% support equality; 2013 Pew) Varies (2013 Pew) Majority oppose in many (<50%; 2013 Pew); no recent update Varies (2013 Pew) Higher support for equality (~76–88% in Turkey/Bosnia; 2013 Pew) Traditional view prevails in populous regions; one in four Arab Muslims support “Muslim feminism” reinterpreting for equality (2020 study)
    Women’s right to decide on veiling Women should decide for themselves Lower in conservative areas (2013 Pew) High (80–90%+; 2013 Pew) Low in some (30–46% in Egypt/Jordan/Iraq/Afghanistan; 2013 Pew); no recent update Lower in parts (2013 Pew) High (80–90%+; 2013 Pew) High in secular/urban areas; lower where mandatory; broad support for women’s choice in many
    Women’s right to initiate divorce Women should have right to divorce Low in many (<30% Pakistan/Egypt/Jordan; 2013 Pew) Low in some (~8% Malaysia; 2013 Pew) Low in many; no recent update (2013 Pew) Varies (2013 Pew) High (>80% in many; 2013 Pew) Sharp regional divide; low where male-led; reinterpretations via “Muslim feminism” gaining (25% Arab support)

    Not to mention their literal profit the man they believe to be most holy married a 6 year old and fucked her when she was 9.

    One can support the right to freedom of religion without actually liking religion.

    And if Jeffry Epstein claimed what he was doing was a religion would it be OK to support peoples freedom to practice that religion?




  • If you study economics deeper than 101 you learn that supply-and-demand is mostly a fantasy in the modern age and the problem is oligarchal control and lack of regulations.

    Your starting to sound like Marx here. You are right for a small subset of monopolised markets mainly due to regulations that are used to lock out competitors.

    But both of your issues boil down to the same point: there are more people than there are useful jobs.

    Yep

    The solution is not more jobs or fewer people, it’s decoupling productivity from food and housing.

    Yeah so let’s just reorganise society into a socialist paradise. We live under a capitalist system, under said system my argument holds. It is not your right to receive anything that requires the labour of another human being. It is not your right to require someone to go to work and make ur food for u or build ur house. Plus the classic argument against communist policy applies here why would I wanna be the guy farming or building houses when I could do nothing an get someone else to do it for me? Your system requires an underclass of slave labour be that robotic, human, or underpaid illegal immigrant.

    Anything else is admitting that a permanent underclass of jobless, homeless people must exist as an implicit threat against the working class if they get too uppity.

    Yeah people need a reason to contribute to society. I contribute cos its making me ungodly rich, granting me extreme liberty, and allowing me to build a better world for when I have children. But some people are lazy, useless, low intelligence imbeciles who need the threat of a low quality of life to give them to kick to get off their ass and do something for society. Which of course raises the question what is that minimum standard. I would say the minimum standard is u get a 3m*3m box with a bed, shitter and shower, u get 3 meals of engineered tasteless grey goo with plain water. Thats the bottom rung of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs taken care of anything more is on u.

    Also, immigrants commit less crime on average and get less in government benefits than citizens. Your “statistics” (that you did not even cite) are made up right-wing xenophobic propaganda.

    Wrong. Official DHS/ICE data shows 81,312 removable noncitizens arrested in FY2024 with prior convictions—totaling 57k assaults, 18k sex offenses, 12k homicides/manslaughters—highlighting a massive crime burden from illegal immigrants.On benefits: CIS analysis of 2024 Census SIPP data—immigrant-headed households use welfare at 53% (61% for illegal-headed) vs. 37% for native-born, draining billions in Medicaid/SNAP/EITC often via U.S.-born kids.These are from federal reports and Census surveys, not “propaganda.” Cite yours?


  • Lol no you’re not getting the short end of the stick.

    I had more I now have less because what I used to have is being reallocated to other people who are less skilled/capable than myself.

    Yes, DEI shouldn’t be a thing in an ideal world

    Glad we agree

    but we don’t live in an ideal world

    So ur idea to fight systemaric bias is to introduce more systematic bias? That’s like saying the best way to defeat the systematic bias by the Nazis is to become a fascist regime and send all German citizens to concentration camps. That’s fucking insane.

    and white privilege is still a thing basically anywhere in the world.

    I’m not privileged cos I’m white I’m privileged cos my parents are well off and they got me highly educated, are involved in my life, care about me, love me, and I was born in Australia. None of that has anything to do with the colour of my skin. Unless ur implying that nonwhite people are poor, uneducated, and have unloving parents because of the colour of their skin. That’s racist as fuck bro.

    No problem addressed by dei is caused by identity. I have no problem with socialised services for those who got unlucky. I have a problem with that being allocated based upon identity.

    I think the libertarian way of thinking of liberty applies very effectively here: you should have the liberty to do whatever u want on the condition it does not reduce the net total liberty of society. Giving poor people food, water, housing, education, etc (essentially general necessities to produce productive members of society) does not reduce total net liberty it increases it. Taking an opportunity away from me and giving it to someone else based on the colour of their skin does not increase liberty. The number of opportunities remain the same, it causes less qualified people to have positions despite more qualified alternatives being willing and available. It also has a byproduct of enforcing racist/sexist/homophobic grouping and thinking.












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