This feels like a WKYK skit

Also, this video has managed to last longer than a year without getting flagged into 'protected' mode

Also, on a more serious note @Thomas the Sowell Train [USA]

https://www.meforum.org/articles/2004/the-arab-mind-revisited

this font size will be the death of me reaps

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I heard about a book just like this recently on the Commandant's Reading List. Maybe it was the same book...

I definitely want to read something just like this.

"To most Americans, the subtlety of Arab culture is bewildering and incomprehensible." I've had a hunch that a study of Arab and middle eastern cultures is one of the greatest sociological endeavors one could make, alongside something like a study of Egypt.

Make's me wish our sociology departments spent their time studying it more, rather than all their bullshit. To do so seems so important to maintaining America's position as a global hegemon.

having watched video of marines trying to work with afghanis, I realized how much of a demand there is for this type of education

weak chins and short philtrums

>pinochet fanboi memeing about communism and food

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meanwhile socialist countries actually have greater levels of food security at similar levels of development (along with pretty much all indicators for quality of life) 🤔

In Cuba, students have to spend a few years doing forced, unpaid labor in government farms and factories. No wonder the government makes sure every kid stays in school. Everyone is literate, and a slave.

are you talking about the UMAPs or what

they were a form of alternative civilian service that hasn't been in use since 1968

countries like switzerland, austria, finland, and israel have alternative civilian service programs

Any newer data, than stuff from the 80's? The dataset this stuff is based on, includes USSR nations, I'm assuming.

has to be taken with a relatively large grain of salt, if so, as they did not have a great track record when it came to reporting accurate data. Propaganda is a concern, when it comes to the validity of self-recorded data from socialist countries.

60k Cubans died trying to escape the utopia.

Is that this year

Or is that an estimate on a decade?

Since Castro took over, 59.

I can't figure out why people who are intelligent, well educated people love Marxism so much.

Did they study everything but history

because they've never lived under it <:pepe_smug:378719408341909506>

That's the death toll of people that died at the sea.

It feels low to me

From personal conversations with some, there's also a lot of "moral" concerns, especially from younger people, on how to do the most good for the most possible people. They just do not seem to consider the wider implications of socialist policies, they merely want the "free" healthcare and similar benefits to kick in, at the expense of the rich, who in their minds obviously have enough money to pay.

What's the population of Cuba? I'm now trying to think how many people Cuba has, how many they've had for fifty years, and how many people survived the trip.

how can you have newer stuff when there are only like two socialist countries now

The "rich" seems a lot like the French Revolution where the people labeled the problem as being high society, which maybe it was a problem but not the problem.

i mean there are some edge cases you could argue

Venezuela isn't doing so well I hear.

venezuela has a capitalist economy

and the "ask the people who lived under it" stuff is dumb