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  • Thanks for your response! You are making an assumption that most or all immigrants wish they didn't have to immigrate. I will answer assuming this is true, though I am not confident it is. But let's go with it.

    Changes in material conditions of a country typically occur due to political action. That may be in terms of voting, political movements, or outside forces like war or sanctions. Addressing each of those:

    1. Immigrants typically can still vote, so no issue here
    2. immigrants are unlikely to affect political movements when they are immigrating for reasons like work, study, reuniting with other family, or enjoying lifestyle of another country.
    3. Immigrants have little to no effect on wars and sanctions.

    And last, even if what you quoted is true, I bet whoever said it is likely not considering putting the effort of making their country better in the same way they want immigrants to. Maybe that's not one of the worse forms of racism, but it is one.

  • Thanks for a thoughtful response. My thoughts:

    1. In most cases, illegal immigrants do not benefit from government welfare programs, but they do work and contribute to the economy positively.
    2. In cases where data has been collected, immigrant populations tend to put more into the economy than take through social programs, when compared with native populations. I can provide sources and data on this if you'd like.
    3. Illegal immigrants may often not pay income tax, but they do pay most other forms of taxes that still end up paying more into the system than they get back. I can also provide evidence on this if you'd like.
    4. If tax isn't being collected from someone, when they're willing to pay it, that is 100% the fault of anti-immigration policy, not an immigration issue.
  • The argument isn't to say its better or good. Rather, it is arguing that all likely alternatives to said politician would show the same homophobia policy. So given a frame of reference of politicians of that time, their LGBT policy doesn't make them worse than realistic alternatives.

  • Thank you Luigi for freeing me from the chains of capitalism

    Oh wait, his CEO killing changed nothing. Okay back to work I guess.

  • Do new torrents bypass this somehow, or is it just by sheer volume and popularity ?

  • Better than 0 nodes, and this is not counting that they already attacked 3.

  • You'd be surprised how terrible politician priorities are

  • Upon rereading, it looks like I misunderstood it due to conflating it with some other comments, so you're right. I apologize for the misunderstanding, and will edit my comment accordingly.

  • ~With due respect, that's quite different than the claim you explained in the comment I replied to, so I hope you will edit it to clarify that.~ edit: I seem to have misunderstood the original comment.

    As to the point you stated in quotes in this comment (edit: which is what OP originally intended), I don't see how they're related. Criticizing China's crackdown on dissent must not mean you should deny their credit on executing CEOs.

  • Thank you for your comment. From my skimming of the articles you sent, they seem to argue that the state has a track record of cracking down on dissent and protests.

    I'm not sure this proves your initial claim though (that CEO executions were done to combat government criticism), unless there's a detail in these articles that I missed by skimming too fast. Please let me know if I missed it.

    While your claim is plausible, it is also equally plausible that they are acting within the defines of their state ideology, and we would need more evidence to prove it is one or the other.

    Disclaimer: I only skimmed the articles and did not attempt to verify the evidence they present, as it didn't seem that they are addressing your initial claims.

  • So it’s planned economy that you’re disputing

    No.

    My question is very clear, why can't you address it without pretending I asked something else?

    Again, you made the claim that CEO executions were made for the reason of seeking more control. Please provide proof that they were done for this reason and not any other reason. I have not asked for planned economy proof or anything else.

    If your next comment does not answer my question, then you are being intentionally misleading

  • So which non-Marxist political economy or sociology defines this elite class? Usually class politics is attributed to Marx

  • The comment I replied to says:

    Working class rebel vs Elite class looking for more control

    Notice the part highlighted in bold. I am asking for proof of this. In other words, proof that the Chinese government executed CEOs only because they sought "more control". Surely we are not expected to blindly trust this claim, right?

  • I wonder that too. Do you have proof that it does?

  • Please show your work. What is the proof that it was done for more control?

  • Please show your work. What is the proof that it was done to consolidate power?

    This isn't to mention that your use of the word authority is strange. How exactly do you determine who has more authority between a US house representative vs. a CEO?

  • On a related, is there a list of good open source strategy games? I'm especially interested in grand strategy.

  • Weird question, but what does GnuCash do that you wouldn't get easily from excel? I haven't used any of these apps and wondering what I'm missing out on.

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