Merkels liberalism or conservatism has nothing to do with how many refugees she wants to allow into the country. You can be a conservative and a humanitarian at the same time and you can be a liberal and still feel that your country should be careful about how many refugees you take in. The refugee issue is a complex…

For European standards Hillary Clinton was not a liberal. Frankly, what Americans call ‘left’ and ‘liberal’ we call at best center right.

Its rather shortsighted to blame it all on white people being racist. Or call white women traitors to their own sex. I very much doubt that all those white people voted solely for Trump just because he represented White Racists Patriarchy America the best. Its utterly reductive of peoples true motivations for voting…

Not entirely related, but Civ 6 is the first game I’ve ever asked a refund for on Steam. I’m not sure if it will get approved but still, this is the first game I ever even bothered to ask for one. Man am I disappointed in this.

Because some people here like to think that a 14 year old is just as aware of the consequences of killing someone as someone who is 18. Also, apparently it gives those people a massive ‘justice’ boner to see those kids tried as adults and receive the harshest sentences possible.

I hate Stellaris. Its the worst purchase I’ve ever made. Everything about that game screams lazy. They just transplanted the mechanics of a normal grand strategy set in the middle ages to a scifi setting and thought it would work. I mean seriously, I control a civilization that is capable of FTL flight and colonizing…

They do, but they are rather restricted in what they can do about it. Stuff like this is pretty much the domain of the individual member states.

Nah not always, or only in vague detail. There are always elements to it that can’t be described because they violate all laws of nature or because they imply some kind of gruesome connection to something else, which is why people go insane when they look at them.

The fact that you don’t treat them like citizens, or even as people, is in itself no excuse, nor does it mean that prisoners have lost that right. Its just not being extended to them. Their rights are violated on a near constant basis.

The term ‘officers’ by itself doesn’t indicate in what organization they fulfill their position as ‘officer’. These are prison guards, generally not the types that pull people over to hand them ice cream. Its comparing apples with oranges.

You realize you can do both right? Having cops play basketball or handing out ice cream is not mutually exclusive with supporting prisoners striking against unjust prison conditions.

No they didn’t. Breaking the law does not mean you lose citizenship or the rights you derive from it. Some freedoms may be restricted, but you can’t lose them completely. Furthermore, we are also talking about human rights, which can’t be taken away under no circumstance. They are called human rights for a reason,…

We do the same to humans. We don’t put down grandma just because she got blind and has trouble moving about her own appartement and therefor clearly her quality of life has decreased to a point where its better if shes dead. And for good reason because often grandma doesn’t want to be put down (although even if she…

Well of course its not a flawed argument per se. It just is when you do it in the context of a discussion about the minimum wage, which is what you did. You even said so yourself.

Its a flawed argument in context of the minimum wage. It suggests that by having a minimum wage, there is unemployment, as if the two are linked. The argument that abolishing a minimum wage causes a drop in unemployment is nonsense. After all, why would you hire more people than necessary, even if hiring people has…

How is it to expensive to get rid off though?

What bad thing are you talking about?

I’m not sure, the differences between being unemployed at that time and employed werent that big. One meant you lived in a shitty home working for a shitty pay, the other meant begging which means if the police caught you you were send to a shitty home to work the same shitty job for even less pay. Technically that…

Was the situation people found themselves in during the industrial revolution really better than the situation people find themselves in now? Because that was the situation where everyone was poor but had a job and earned some money.

Hardly. They are still poor, only then they are poor while having to spend all their time and energy making some corporate asshole make millions of dollars. For them nothing improves, at the cost of more energy. If you don’t get fairly compensated for your time, you are worse off than not being compensated at all but…