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Someone mentioned how homeless people are to americans what roma are to europeans and it stuck with me.
  • Imagine coming up to some educated person with a normal job that looks vaguely like a northern Indian and telling them they're the European equivalent of the homeless in the USA. Or saying something like "black people are the Amerikkkan version of Brazilian favelados".

    And I've only seen that desire to kill them with literal Nazis. There are a lot of ways my government is trying to help them break their generational cycle of poverty and suffering. For example in my country universities have separate entrance exams and scholarships for Romani. Hell, it's even pretty much traditional to invite gipsy musicians when celebrating big stuff like weddings and children being born.

  • Someone mentioned how homeless people are to americans what roma are to europeans and it stuck with me.
  • It can be, but it's not really. It's just the name for the culture, while Rom/Roma is the name for the ethnicity and literally means human. There's a reason why they popularised phrases like "gypsies also have souls".

    The actual slurs are derived from the word gipsy.

  • Someone mentioned how homeless people are to americans what roma are to europeans and it stuck with me.
  • Think of it like extremist religious communities. Sure, gypsies support each other, but they're also generationally perpetuating their way of living. For example even if they get a chance to attend schools they often get pulled out by their parents to get married and/or start working before they finish primary education. They live in tightly knit communities, speak their own language that's completely separate from the local one, and live in a drastically different culture.

    In other words, your friends and relatives will help you to raise your five children, but your parents are the reason you started having them at fourteen and why you can barely speak the language of the country you're living in.

    It's pretty fucked up all around, especially when you consider the fact that they had to call themselves "human" in their own language (rom), and popularise phrases like "gypsies also have souls".

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  • Do remind me what were their victory conditions.

    To me they look like: destabilise the region, sell military tech, build bases, establish puppets, plunder resources, repeat.

    Everything else is just marketing

  • It's just a waste of my time!
  • And to be very clear, ethical principles are subjective. There is no objectively right or wrong thing as far nature is concerned.

    Deonotlogists and other Moral Realists and Universalists are shook

    But yeah, let's imagine moral ontology was solved, and that moral relativism and nihilism are the only ethical theories around...

  • why is everyone who immigrated from a communist country to the us a fucking chud?
  • its like that everyone that comes to the united states from a communist country forgets the values of marxism, socialism, and communism

    Do you think anyone moving to the USA knows and respects those values? If they did, they wouldn't be going there...

  • Schools in France send dozens of Muslim girls home for wearing abayas
  • to be an athiest you only have to not believe in a religion yourself that's it the sole principle required for athiesm

    Atheism is a belief in the nonexistence of divine beings, not the lack of belief. What you're describing is irreligion.

  • I want some of that
  • This is what I want from China in my country, not prison labour and factories exploiting corruption to pollute the environment.

    Anyways, does anyone have any good resources on how to systematically fight rampant corruption, especially from Xi's perspective?

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