Are there Kurds in Japan? That’s news to me.

Unfortunately, xenophobia is rising in many parts of the world, even in countries with negligible number of immigrants like Japan. I’m even surprised that in Chile, anti-migrant is a sticking point on their recent elections, even though they barely have any immigrants and many Chileans are even leaving.

I am blaming social media for amplifying polarisation. The elites are doing what they can to divide the population while they steal from our pockets because we’re too distracted.

I’m please to hear of the results. I didn’t think the “No” side would have won by more points because the pre-referendum polls showed neck and neck.

Anyway, it’s a silly initiative to begin with. I was thinking even if the “Yes” side won, in my mind I’m thinking “let the leopards eat their faces”. Never mind the arguments on culture and so on, the economic damage to capping the population is insurmountable because it means fewer workers to migrate. And also, how is capping 10 million even logistically possible? Are they going to deport people? Who decides who to deport if a person is either long term resident or born and raised there? Are they going to do sterilisation if by some miracle there is a baby boom (which by the way, Switzerland like the rest of the world right now is having fewer fertility rate) and the population is reaching 10 million? Far right policies are moronic because they are purely based on emotions. Leopards eventually do eat their faces.

I wonder if your friend can sleep only five hours and still function to the maximum. Apparently it is genetics. Napoleon and Thatcher could sleep less than 7 hours and could still think sharp and be fresh as a daisy.

I just don’t understand why people feel the need to share everything they’re doing constantly or how they get upset if you don’t have the energy to react to it all.

Dopamine hit.

It seems like Bibi has a more urgent existential anxiety by prolonging the war than Trump, who joined the war to distract the people from the Epstein files. Netanyahu was already summoned to court for corruption but he has been dragging the war to delay the trial.

Precisely what the advocates of universal basic income had been saying.

They will be used in World War III.

He defrauded the wealthy that’s why he’s not getting away with it easily.

Well the red flags have always been there from the beginning but the people chose to look the other way, considering the genocide of Native Americans had been a policy since the beginning.

It doesn’t matter to Trump.

I don’t know what you are whining. I’m not even American, but Lemmy is American dominated whether you like it or not and there is nothing you and I can do about it no matter how much either of us whine. Go to your country’s community website if you don’t like it. That’s like complaining Nairaland is full of Nigerian posts.

You know the expression: when America sneezes, everyone catches the cold.

The American tech giants, which are tied to the government because of military and surveillance contracts, despise EU regulations. The US Department of Defense strategy already deemed Europe to be a bigger threat than China and Russia. The American tech companies are also lobbying the EU to loosen the digital privacy laws and regulations. So it helps to keep tab once in a while of American politics.

I have a news for you, this isn’t just American internal politics. Surveillance capitalism is happening across the world. There are those pushing for chat control in the EU and UK is starting to do the same and contracted Palantir to manage the NHS data.

Would this be algorithm speak though? I’ve seen in social media spell “wyt”, which is probably to circumvent the algorithm censorship.

Google improves their search results, then they won’t need AI to do the searching?

I have to vehemently disagree because the Nazis are fucking overrated and don’t deserve too much credit. Very little known fact that most people don’t realise is that Nazi Germany was on a brink of another economic collapse before invading Poland. In spite of warning from his economic minister at the time, Hitler let government spending balloon because of rearmament and increased public spending including pageantries to distract and awe the public. Hitler did not want to hear any contrarian opinions and sidelined his economic minister. Hitler had to absolutely invade countries to plunder and fund his government. If there was no war, Nazi Germany would have just collapsed on its own.

And lastly, if the Nazis were forward thinking, then why were they shocked when the Allies declared war on them? Hitler was deluded enough to think he could even convince the British to side with him to fight against communism.

US doing whatever the fuck right now is a massive PR win for China.

Immigrants are also more willing to do more overtime than locals, because the locals would generally say “I can’t do overtime. I’m going to meet my mom for coffee on Sunday morning”. Immigrants are also more likely to do shift work than locals. This isn’t just corroborated by studies but i also know firsthand. So indeed, immigrants do the jobs that locals don’t want to do.

I get the grievances on the effects of immigration on the job market, especially on the working class, but if everyone looks at the bigger picture, the problem is that each countries have their own rules and standards which are being exploited creating a race to the bottom. Poorer countries are cheap for exploitation, while the working class in richer countries, whose jobs were outsourced, are left hanging dry. The local working class are then outcompeted by desperate immigrants who are being exploited by businesses. In my opinion, if there is only a worldwide harmonisation to prevent the race to the bottom caused by mismanagement (or lack thereof) of globalisation…

Most bullies don’t.