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  1. icehorse

    Worldwide Immigration Emergency (it's about overshoot)

    I think we're mostly agreed here, but a few points: - I think trying to create dikes / levees / dams for places like Miami is a fool's errand. I know Miami has already begun, but I'd bet against success. The Netherlands have succeeded, and that's encouraging, but I can imagine many ways in...
  2. icehorse

    Texas Board Of Education OKs Teaching Bible

    Crucial point here! It strikes me our "leaders" are almost all corrupt and short-sighted. And they all act as though our society and the planet are infinitely-****-withable. Seemingly for the sake of some short term profits, our "leaders" are steering us towards a race to the bottom :(
  3. icehorse

    Worldwide Immigration Emergency (it's about overshoot)

    All good points. In this thread I guess I'm highlighting a different kind of refugee, a "climate refugee". So my point is that we're struggling to handle a few tens of millions of immigrants (of various types as you mentioned), so we're REALLY going to struggle when we're ALL faced with a...
  4. icehorse

    Worldwide Immigration Emergency (it's about overshoot)

    And that attitude is what will - literally - sink (or flood), us.
  5. icehorse

    Worldwide Immigration Emergency (it's about overshoot)

    That will help, but it will not cure overshoot. When sea levels rise, a billion people will be displaced. And Greenland's glaciers are melting much faster than anticipated. And the math is not hard, when Greenland's glaciers melt, the sea level with rise about 20 feet. Bye-bye south Florida...
  6. icehorse

    The warmongers at the European Union

    No, if you think you can appease Putin, you do NOT know how to deal with Russia. If you compromise with Putin, your worries will not be over. He will continue to grab land.
  7. icehorse

    The warmongers at the European Union

    It is a mistake for tolerant people to tolerate intolerant people. It's a bit of a paradox to be sure. But if we tolerate people like Putin we will not get peace.
  8. icehorse

    Worldwide Immigration Emergency (it's about overshoot)

    This thread is meant to broaden the scope of the immigration emergency thread in the NA politics forum. Europe has been experiencing problems due to its immigration policies of the last several decades. For the sake of discussion, let's say Europe has recently brought in 50 million immigrants...
  9. icehorse

    Pam Bondi next up for Attorney General.

    As a left leaning centrist I'd say that tribalism is coming from both ends of the politcal spectrum. The far left doesn't like to admit it, but it's become quite tribalistic, and that's one of the reasons Dems just got crushed.
  10. icehorse

    To Be or Not To Be: your gender (Vivek R.)

    And of course the quote in italics is dangerously misleading
  11. icehorse

    To Be or Not To Be: your gender (Vivek R.)

    Your entire post leads me to think you need to get yourself better informed... which is not my job, although I can be hired ;)
  12. icehorse

    The ICC Issues Arrest Warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant, and Ibrahim Al-Masri

    And a corrupt one at that :(
  13. icehorse

    Why does the US Support Israel?

    Yes, it can mean stingy. But in science it means that the simplest explanation is usually the correct explanation. So a neutral, unbiased, parsimonious reading of the Quran leads us to the conclusion that the Quran frequently instructs Muslims to be violent towards non-believers. And as we've...
  14. icehorse

    To Be or Not To Be: your gender (Vivek R.)

    The graph on page 72 of the Cass report shows that in 2009 in the UK there were ~50 GD referrals and by 2016 there were over 1700 referrals. So we're using different sources to get our data. Where exactly did oyu get your 3% number? The rest of your responses aren't worth my time to respond...
  15. icehorse

    To Be or Not To Be: your gender (Vivek R.)

    Doesn't seem like much of a problem. Are you struggling to compare "low" with "weak" or "poor"? I'm guessing that you're other people's reviews of Cass as opposed to reading or skimming the report yourself? I ask because in my reading / skimming of the report, they spend a lot of time...
  16. icehorse

    Why the double standard?

    This has been answered many times, and it's also easily searchable, but okay: Islamists are those Muslims who want to spread Sharia. So for example. many Muslims immigrate to the west. Some are very happy to live in secular society, great. But others want to convert the country they immigrated...
  17. icehorse

    Why does the US Support Israel?

    @Godobeyer - do you know what "parsimonious" means? It's a rare word, most Americans don't know it.
  18. icehorse

    Why the double standard?

    I don't think Islamists think the way you and I do. And I think you're projecting how you'd react in this situation. Their basic values are NOT your basic values.
  19. icehorse

    Why the double standard?

    I'm sure that's sometimes true as well.
  20. icehorse

    Why the double standard?

    I get your point. But I think the context I mentioned has to be considered: Young Gazan children have been brought up to hate Jews long before this war started :(
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