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OT: American Politics

LeafOfFaith said:

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Just to touch on a few of his examples, because it's a relevant conversation to have despite Hanson having many takes over the years that should thoroughly discredit him in the eyes of anyone who gives a shit about the truth. He still argues in favour for the Iraq War for example.

- The Turkish invasion of Cyprus is considered illegal under international law, is a major issue between the EU & Turkey (Cyprus has joined the EU since the invasion) that has been a hurdle (among others) towards Turkey gaining entry into the EU.

- "what's going on in Nigeria" isn't nearly as targeted as the American right wing says it is:

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- Armenia/Azerbaijan conflict is a complicated one that's ~50 yrs old and has had periods of christian armenians doing bad shit to azerbaijani muslims, and vice versa. The amount of death and displacement through out the life of the conflict is about even. Armenia caught the shit end of the stick the last time this flaired up, but won the previous war. I don't know why anyone anywhere would consider this to have useful parallels (moral, tactical, political) with Israel-Palestine.

I mean, to claim that Israel is being singled out is kind of silly. Lots of other nations have faced political and cultural/consumer consequences for what were viewed as aggressive actions towards their neighbours. Over the same time period he's discussing? Iran, Iraq, Russia, North Korea, Sudan, Syria, Burma, South Africa (maybe the most apt example fwiw regarding cultural and commercial divestment), Serbia, Libya.
 
CH1 said:
Very few rich people will be leaving because NYC is one of the best cities in the world for the wealthy.

How many ways can you show off your wealth in Dallas?
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It's one of the reasons why wealth taxes, done correctly, can absolutely work despite all of the rants to the contrary (usually by people with 8-9-10 digit net worths). Yes, Oklahoma probably shouldn't implement a broad wealth tax...a tax on the assets of the wealthy that can't be moved from Oklahoma? Sure, why not. Own 100 million worth of real estate in OKC, you can't just pick it up and move it to Houston, shut up, fuck off, pay your taxes. That makes you mad and wants to sell? Ok. On other assets though? Yeah, you might want to skip trying to tax those

But NYC? lol. Where they moving to? Newark? Florida? gtfo. New York is the wealthiest city in the world with the highest level of income inequality in the world.
 
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also, on any night of the week, Richie Rich can pick form 5-10 amazing cultural events/hot spots in NYC to attend (where they can meet other wealthy folks to compare yacht sizes)
 
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