How so? 25% of FAANG workers are foreign-born and the growth of US tech labor is significantly lower than the demand. Are there policy proposals for addressing that while remaining globally competitive?
This isn't even necessarily true. Most of my friends migrated to the US on H1-B. It's about poaching global talent. It's not like US tech can only rely on US labor.
"PSA I reported an account because they have bad arguments in my opinion" seems like a terrible precedent of a post for this sub. Why are people upvoting this junk.
My argument is and continues to be that the Ukrainian government is more accountable to it’s population than the Russian government. Therefore the Ukrainian government must value the opinions of the Ukrainian population more than the Russian government values the opinions of the Russian population.
And I, once again, have explained why this doesn't matter because the draft has nothing to do with democratic input. You refuse to address this.
You're argument about Syria is a red herring fallacy.
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And no it isn't.
I've been arguing that the more authoritarian a government, the less accountable the government to their population.
Do you know what MARTIAL LAW means? What the hell are you even talking about? Take a step back - you are arguing that Ukrainian draft officers are having to beat and kidnap men to send to the front line because Ukraine is more accountable to its people. I am arguing that it is necause they have a manpower shortage. You are ridiculous.
VOA does do propaganda and the occasional bullshit story, but also mostly real reporting. You should deal with the article's content and not just the source.
They've destroyed the Indonesian hospital (there is a video of an Israeli soldier celebrating over its rubble) and turned Kamal Adwan into an abatoir. They're currently demolishing dozens of buildings around KA and have demanded all patients and staff leave, but are also murdering those who step outside or come near windows.
There was nothing "unwitting" about it. There was deliberate ass-covering and the unaccountable slaughters of civilians by US forces and allies continued until the last day of withdrawal. We still only get little hints and glimpses of the countless atrocities. When my uncle went to Afghanistan to cover the withdrawal and the new Taliban government, he heard personal stories that most Americans would still scoff at as "anti-American propaganda."
If a marine kills a child and NYT isn't around to document it, did it really happen?
You're asking questions we have answers to and you seem to have totally missed some key facts.
Ukraine is under martial law and has been since the invasion. There are no elections, they've been cancelled due to the needs of the state. There is no concern of the government being replaced.
Ukraine isn't a proper democracy but a "hybrid", e.g an oligarchy anyways. The popularity or unpopularity of policies doesn't translate into political outcomes so easily or transparently.
But your argument about authiritarian regimes is faulty. We just saw the complete opposite of that in Syria. Authoritarian regimes do not necessarily command loyalty and they also live in constant fear of popular unrest or dissatisfaction. In fact, there are many analysts who point to Putin's current domestic policy choices as desparate attempts to placate the Russians that have lost something due to the war.
The liquidation of the nation of Palestine (and possibly extermination of its people), ending free speech in universities, counterproductive brinksmanship with China, imposing backwards education on the nation's children etc.
I am not advocating for the death penalty. I am pointing out the moral absurdity of killing day old infants with their entire families and then pretending to act magnanimously towards convicted murderers. It either means that this has nothing to do with the sanctity of human life in Joe Biden's eyes or that he is a complete schizophrenic.
And I was disagreeing with you on that point, so I don't know why you challenged me on the very first point you made, which I agreed with.
I don't agree that the democracy index is really a quantifiable measure as it has several arbitrary criteria, but you could just assert that Ukraine is more democratic than Russia anyways, which is a matter of common sense.
Your argument that "democratic accountability" has something to do with it doesn't make any sense and doesn't follow. Ukraine has a draft. Drafts are drafts, there is no "democratic" objection to being drafted for war. Russia also drafts men as needed and the process looks quite similar sometimes, but in Ukraine it has become a severe social phenomenon.
What the fuck is Joe Biden's problem? "I need to save degenerate murderers from the death penalty because the death penalty is barbaric and uncivilized, and I need to give Israel more bombs to kill children." What kind of moral triangulation is this? Who is it for?
You said Ukraine values its manpower more than Russia.
I agreed with you, and added that it is because they have less manpower.
You then brought up some democracy index like that was relevant to the topic.
I inferred from this that you were explaining that you believe they value manpower more due to their hybrid regime versus Russia's authoritarian regime and disagreed with you on that cause.
You called my inferrence a "strawman" and then asked for evidence against your first claim, that I agreed with.
In an alternative universe where Europe isn't US-dependent, they may be sanctioning the US for racialized prison labor because their tech companies can't compete.
The Uyghur forced labor laws the US has put the onus on firms to prove a negative, that their dealings in China are essentially unconnected to any enterprise that has Uyghur workers because the US has a blanket accusation of "slave labor" when it comes to basically all industry in Xinjiang. The US also does not think Uyghur labor is a significant factor in China's competitiveness becausd guess what, there are 1 billion+ non-Uyghurs responsible for that.
If a secular government is engaged in genocide then I have zero moral qualms if a religious organization uses its social capital to denounce that secular government.
How so? 25% of FAANG workers are foreign-born and the growth of US tech labor is significantly lower than the demand. Are there policy proposals for addressing that while remaining globally competitive?