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  1. Comment on 'Israel is the nation-state of Jews alone': Benjamin Netanyahu responds to TV star who said Arabs are equal citizens (Haaretz) in ~news

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    Ethnostate? I'm asking why Israel shouldn't be considered an apartheid state. The level of discrimination shown to Arabs (and in some cases, non - Asheknazi jews as well) is pretty apalling...

    Ethnostate? I'm asking why Israel shouldn't be considered an apartheid state. The level of discrimination shown to Arabs (and in some cases, non - Asheknazi jews as well) is pretty apalling

    https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/netanyahu-israel-elections-palestine-middle-east-otzma-yehudit-a8817701.html

    6 votes

  2. Comment on Linux distro of choice? in ~comp

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    Ye, I use to run Ubuntu and Mint... but Manjaro is looking very appealing at the moment!

    Ye, I use to run Ubuntu and Mint... but Manjaro is looking very appealing at the moment!

    1 vote

  4. Comment on What Thing Do You Wish More People Knew About? in ~talk

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    This is highly correlated to the lack of economic opportunity. This link gets into it in some detail - https://www.ft.com/content/3ec8f126-da29-11e5-a72f-1e7744c66818

    A portion is regressing a reaffirming to more radical ideas

    This is highly correlated to the lack of economic opportunity. This link gets into it in some detail - https://www.ft.com/content/3ec8f126-da29-11e5-a72f-1e7744c66818

  5. Comment on What Thing Do You Wish More People Knew About? in ~talk

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    As an aside - are you on r/exmuslim? To clarify, I fucking HATE that place, or rather, what it has become. I met my wife on that subreddit, know the mods IRL and was very involved in the local...

    As an aside - are you on r/exmuslim?

    To clarify, I fucking HATE that place, or rather, what it has become. I met my wife on that subreddit, know the mods IRL and was very involved in the local exmuslim group, so that subreddit was hugely important to me - but it is essentially a far-right Islamophobia platform now, instead of the community support group it started out as.

    I'd be hard pressed to provide a more perfect example of inadequate moderation turning a good community to utter shit

    3 votes

  6. Comment on What can we learn from the life-cycles of Digg and Reddit? in ~tech

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    Are you familiar with Arrow's impossibility theorem from economics? It boils down to this - essentially, democratic voting systems will fail at optimising outcomes for the most people. Which...

    Are you familiar with Arrow's impossibility theorem from economics? It boils down to this - essentially, democratic voting systems will fail at optimising outcomes for the most people. Which therefore implies a dictatorship is optimal.

    The math was elegant enough to win Kenneth Arrow the Nobel prize. However, I personally did not see the real-world applications of his theory until I saw reddit degrade with it's attempt to be 'democratic' as you described above.

    4 votes

  7. Comment on How would you describe this person? in ~talk

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    I've made all of four comments, I think, so come at me!

    I've made all of four comments, I think, so come at me!

  8. Comment on Where are you from? in ~talk

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    London, UK got here via India, and the the UAE. Nomadism FTW

    London, UK

    got here via India, and the the UAE. Nomadism FTW

    2 votes

  9. Comment on Where are you from? in ~talk

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    chicken tikka masala is the national dish here in the UK. Bloody brits, appropriating our culture. I miss proper masala dosas more than I miss those things!

    chicken tikka masala is the national dish here in the UK. Bloody brits, appropriating our culture.

    I miss proper masala dosas more than I miss those things!

    1 vote

  11. Comment on Where are you from? in ~talk

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    Does it count if I have a British passport now but my soul demands samosa, ghee rice, ras malai and chutney?

    Does it count if I have a British passport now but my soul demands samosa, ghee rice, ras malai and chutney?

    5 votes