It's tragic. With $44 billion, Elon Musk could have armed literally millions of moderate rebels in the Middle East.
Noah Carl
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Noah Carl
@NoahCarl90
Joined May 2019
- Claiming that the mere presence of someone with a different viewpoint makes you feel "unsafe" is nothing short of delusional.
- The "gender pay gap" is a problematic concept, since it implies that there are only two genders.
- There's a story about an American tourist visiting Oriel College, Oxford. He asks the porter, "Is this college pre or post-war?" And the porter replies, "My dear fellow, this college is pre-America."hard to take this seriously
- The left:
According to the left and the centre, the far-right is an existential threat to democracy. Yet the far-right would be irrelevant if not for mass immigration. Therefore, mass immigration is an existential threat to democracy. - Racist conservatives love pointing out that Jordan Neely had 42 arrests. But this actually isn't a large number. There have been over 300 million arrests since Neely was born, so he accounts for a tiny a fraction of the total.
- Life expectancy over time in Gaza, along with four other countries that experienced wars in recent decades.
- Loss of one's sense of taste is a primary symptom of COVID-19, which suggests the disease may have been circulating in the modernist architectural community for several decades.
- Almost all the people killed by police in the US are men. This must mean the police are sexist.
- To increase Asian representation in the NBA, we need to move away from narrow measures of performance that focus on basketball ability, and instead embrace holistic forms of assessment that take into account how players contribute to a team's overall diversity.
- Somalis in Britain have an incarceration rate that is 14 times higher than the rate for British nationals. Albanians have an incarceration rate that is 63 times higher.
- Ideas that used to be right-wing but are now left-wing: • Adopting things from other cultures is bad • What your ancestors did matters • Large corporations can be a force for good • Some religions shouldn't be criticised • Academics need to sign loyalty oaths
- .@nayibbukele recently claimed that El Salvador is now "the safest country in Latin America". I looked into this claim: based on the latest homicide data, there's good reason to believe it's true.
