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https://twitter.com/the_law_boy/status/1791882011067424886

Some lawyers saying the guy "Appeared to be in good spirits" and that "We didn’t see any indication he would take his own life. No one can believe it" is not enough evidence on its own to be seriously suspicious of a murder. Especially when IIRC there are a lot of other people giving evidence that are not dead, and the guy was allegedly being harassed by boeing or people hired by them.

Oh, and Xiao Hua Gong, the guy who ran in the Toronto mayoral by-election by spamming the city with his election signs and his AI generated campaign speeches is also running.

Godspeed, Mr. Gong. Hopefully the deep state doesn't cheat him out of Mississauga the way they cheated him out of Toronto.

https://twitter.com/Gong4Mayor/status/1673766797936304128

NZ - 95.37% native Anglo speakers
Aus - 72.0% native Anglo speakers
Can - 58.1% native Anglo speakers
USA - 78.0% native Anglo speakers

The answer is New Zealand by far, followed by USA and Australia roughly close together, and dead last being Canada. Makes sense, considering so much of Canada is Francophone and immigrant languages like Spanish and Chinese are widely spoken throughout America and Australia while being almost completely absent in NZ. The only real non-English linguistic influence on New Zealand is Maori, spoken by about 4% of the population.

The 95.37% statistic is not about native language and is from a question where people could choose multiple options (I believe it just asked about languages spoken overall) which means the total add up to more than 100, therefore the comparison is faulty. In fact I'm fairly certain NZ has a higher proportion of Chinese speakers than the USA.

And for that matter, there a lot of immigrant languages being spoken in the UK as well.

Bizarre that the most obviously true part of his speech - “Being a mother and homemaker is important and rewarding, and you shouldn’t let your career get in the way of that if it’s what you really want” - is the most controversial. I’d think that the parts where he explicitly attacks political and church leaders would get more attention.

Netanyahu was right - Israel isn't a vassal state of the U.S., it's the inverse.

Indistinguishable from Stromfront here

A lot of white nationalists are pro Israel. It's a very convenient way to get all the Jews out of their country and into one tiny place.

I think maybe I did? I don't remember when I was introduced to the idea, but I'm pretty sure even though I've always thought of it as just a stereotype, my first reaction was probably "yeah, I can see people trying that."

Holy False Equivalency batman!

I mean yeah, we killed something like 40x the number of civilians in Germany that Israel has in Gaza and with far more indiscriminate tactics (carpet and firebombing entire civilian areas) yet Israel gets accused of genocide when no one says that about the WWII Allies.

The false equivalency was between the rhetoric of Vosem and the rhetoric of Thomas Mann. I'm not one of the people calling it a genocide(though if the netenyahu government tries to drive out the Gazans to make way for settlers, it will definitely count as ethnic cleansing, which is still really bad) Partially due to differences in situation*, and partially due to the fact that the rhetoric itself is so different

*Israel does not need every advantage it can get to win this war, and arguably taking a more cautious approach followed by massive development aid and support in Israel-controlled parts of Gaza a la the Marshall Plan could be the first step in making a very pro-Israel Muslim country in the middle east and undermine a lot of anti-Israel narratives internationally

Haven't we had this thread multiple times? You can't compare a city to a whole country, and you can't really compare DC to other cities either since it's artificially small -- without the boundaries established centuries ago, it would have been able to annex out to "safer" areas and its crime rate would be lower.

There is nothing special about D.C. in this regard.  Other cities, like Baltimore or St. Louis, also cannot easily expand and still have to manage crime in their respective boundaries.  The inability to annex surrounding areas doesn't inherently bias the calculation of murder rates when using a per capita metric.   

Although Baltimore and St. Louis also have very high homicide rates. A better example would be a city like SF, which isn’t expanding at all and has a relatively low homicide rate.

Considering how weak the GOP field is, she'll probably win by a margin nearly as big as in 2018, so about 10 points -- 54 to 44 to 2.

Polarization and the presidential ballot will almost certainly guarantee any candidate with an (R) at least 45-46% of the vote, I think. And if that was indeed the result, by how much would Biden win Wisconsin then?