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Happenned before. Vox won by majority because less than half of Spain voted, people panicked and the next elections they were the least voted again. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-13-06 |
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it highly depends on income, in Sweden br are rising above 2 at certain incomes and among the biggest factors are: possibility to afford a bigger house to grow the children + ability to hire a maid/send them to childcare at opportune hours + ability to keep their lifestyle with small changes. Meaning \_if\_ more big apartments are build \_and\_ state childcare will be made to work in 7:00-22:00 hours to allow parents to have more break time between work and taking care of the child, there are high chances to fix the br. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
Source? Also those seem to balance out due to Sweden having a much more unequal wealth distribution than Korea.
Median wealth in Sweden is lower than that of Japan. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
It’s impossible to argue with an idiot. Why bother? This guy clearly argues for the sake of it. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
I don’t know how it would work and why would anyone think it would work. There are a lot of childless couples around the world. Attraction and marriage don’t equal babies | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
> they physcially develop earlier/faster, they dont' mentally/emotionally developer earlier/faster
Yes, they do. Mental maturity is part of the process of puberty. It's all linked.
But the reason this plan is nonsense as it seems to assume that people only ever date people in the same school year. Maybe that's a thing in Korea, but it's not a thing anywhere I've lived. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
Most normal countries have no issues with the population decrease. On the contrary, developing countries have a population boom ongoing | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
I don't disagree, but South Korea has the second lowest fertility rate after Taiwan. Western European countries that have falling fertility rates but better work-life balance have probably mitigated the worst of it. In other words, it can't hurt. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
But then France has 1.83 and Germany has 1.58.
South Korea has 0.72 | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
Might be that immigrants usually have more children, but maybe I misunderstood. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
It’s not just work life. It’s the feeling that you are bringing a child into a dying world that has stopped a lot of my friends from having kids. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
One of the reasons that Irelands birth rate is dropping is because the cost of housing requires two medium income earners to qualify for a mortgage that will buy them a small apartment. This isn't helped by the high rate of immigration due to the states obligation to provide additional social housing forcing first time buyers to compete with local housing authorities. Couples are delaying having children or not having them at all because they cant afford a home if one of them has to leave their career and childcare here is extremely expensive. Most childless couples that I know in Ireland would love to have children if they could afford to. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
there are more factors here. Income is a U type of graph. Poor and rich ppl have br >2 while middle class less. It's kinda logical: poor ppl become richer with more kids, they don't have much to lose, rich ppl can afford bigger apartments, nannies/late childcare without sacrificing their lifestyle, bc problems can be 'solved' with money. But in the middle, well, the middle class will be wrecked by having more children> you need bigger apt, but don't have money for it> lose quality of life, you need to get rest/time to do your stuff, but childcare is either expensive or with limited hours> loss of quality of life, you also need to spend a lot of your money/reserves at least till the child reaches 18y,>again, loss of quality of life. I don't say this is the decisive factor, but a lot of ppl complain about this | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
“Everyone can only have 1 kid, and it better be a boy!”
*decades later*
“where all the women at?” | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
Women's rights were the beginning of the end for capitalism. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
If that is the case. Lets drop the population to just a few thousand people | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
Elaborate. And don’t beat around the bush. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
How? The world is in an unprecedented golden age. Infant mortality is the lowest it has ever been, poverty levels are the lowest they have ever been. Constant improvements and innovations in technology, record low levels of diseases, plagues and famine, most importantly, right now is the most peaceful time in human history in terms of warfare and conflict. Just because we are hyper-connected and have access to information from all over the world or because you consume a diet of fearmongering media - doesn’t mean we aren’t living in the best time of human history in terms of quality of life, safety and wealth. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
Western European countries also have immigration including from high fertility countries. Countries like South Korea, Taiwan and Japan do not | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
A health work life balance is not the point. At least not entirely.
The thing that would push couples to have children would be government aid with care plans [Childcare centers, etc.] and laws which set men and women on the same level as each other.
Women are in a tough spot, as they have to carry the child and wont attend work for at least 4-5 months due to that. Some companies often favour men over women, due to the fact that men don't run the risk of being absent due to pregnancy. They're just screwed because of their biology. This also does not take into consideration that the new mothers are also usually the ones who take parental leave and further fuck their chances of promotions and raises.
That has to be adressed for couples to consider having children. More women would decide to have children if the decision doesn't mean 'Committ career suicide and say goodbye to all your aspirations.' | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
As a new parent part of the issue is you really NEED two working parents to afford to have a kid, but then who takes care of the kid? Mom's going to have to take a few months to breast feed and recover, is she going to be punished for taking that time off? Is dad going to also take time to look after the kid and mother or will he have to sacrifice his career too? Can they afford to do that is one going to HAVE to keep working the whole time and miss out on critically important bonding time? One or both need some flexibility to be able to take care of a child, our society and economic system doesn't really allow for that unless one has an incredibly high paying job. As we move away from multigenerational housing and staying in our home towns in search of more efficiency and economic output we also lose the social support networks and communities we used to have, no more neighbors and parents looking after kids after school, or kids watching after their grandparents, all that is hoisted on the parents and schools now and it just makes everything harder. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
That is not biology, just to be clear. It is a deliberate policy. Companies don't have to punish women, they choose to so they can make more money. The whole growth-based system has to change. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
So this is the "master plan"? Match making for first graders?? | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
there's a black mirror episode about this. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
Per the article:
> A researcher at the Korea Institute of Public Finance has sparked controversy by suggesting that girls be admitted to school a year early or that the state arrange marriage meetings to solve the low birthrate. He also suggested lowering the age of entering school and emigrating the elderly overseas to increase the number of working-age population.
> Critics have accused the institute, which is supposed to study the government's population policy, of coming up with nationalistic and discriminatory policies.
In the May issue of Public Finance Forum, a periodical of the Korea Institute of Public Finance, senior research fellow Jang Woo-hyun defined Korea's population problem as a decline in the proportion of the working-age population and examined measures to increase the fertility rate as one of the policies to increase the working-age population.
> Jang diagrammed the fertility decision-making process into seven stages and suggested policies for each stage. Among these, the policy to support the success of dating became controversial. Jang gave examples of how the government can help make dating successful by arranging meetings, improving their sociability, or supporting their self-improvement.
> He also suggested allowing women to start school a year earlier. "Men's development is slower than women's,” Zhang argued, “so allowing women to enter school a year earlier could help make it easier for men and women of the right age to be more attracted to each other in the future.”
> This seems to be in line with the argument made by some academics who propose admitting men later because men are no match for women in the same age group. The assumption that non-marital childbearing is antagonistic to marital childbearing is also controversial.
Jang argued that “policies that support non-marital relationships, promote cohabitation, or support cohabitation and childbearing discourage marriage and marital childbearing.” He said that adopting non-marital childbearing support policies in France and elsewhere “could reduce the incentive to marry and reduce the number of marriage and childbearing households,” and that “without clear empirical evidence, this is not a policy direction that should be adopted.”
> This argument is at odds with the academic argument, which suggests that reducing the disadvantages for having a child, whether in a married or unmarried cohabiting family, will help boost fertility.
In addition, Jang proposed a number of controversial policies to increase the number of working age population, such as enrolling children in elementary school at the age of 5 and out-migrating of the dependent (elderly) population.
> The lowering of the elementary school entrance age was proposed by former Education Minister Park Soon-ae in 2022, but was canceled due to public backlash. It led to Park's resignation.
“With regard to a 5-year-old early school admission, “To be able to enter the working-age population at a younger age is a valid consideration to counteract the decline in the working-age population,” Jang wrote of the 5-year-old elementary school entry.
> Migration of dependents to countries with lower cost of living and milder climates could also “contribute to a quantitative increase in the proportion of the working-age population,” Zhang wrote. Critics have criticized the population policy as discriminatory against women and the elderly, and anti-human rights, as it only examines population policy from a nationalistic perspective. “The reason why the low birthrate policy is not effective is because it is going against the people's desire for recognition of ‘individual freedom,’” said Shin Kyung-ah, a professor of sociology at Hallym University. “(Jang's article) is completely contrary to this. It is an anti-constitutional idea that violates basic human rights.”
> The Korea Institute of Public Finance is in the position that “The opinions expressed by the author are his own and do not represent the official views of the institute.” However, criticism cannot be avoided in that a research institute that studies low birthrate policies published a manuscript containing unorthodox claims by a researcher without properly reviewing it. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
Arguably for the same reasons as everywhere else.
Both parents have to work to afford a basic quality of life and everything is WAY more expensive than it was even a decade ago. Add to that, how the hell is everyone supposed to have 2.1 kids when you spend most of your time at a job where you're basically not allowed to be a parent while you're on the clock? | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
Anything that doesn't involve holding their oligarchs accountable and enforcing work life balance. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
South Korea is a perfect example of the core of the issue. 90% of births in korea happen amongst married couples. Married couples already have more than enough children to replace, but the issue is that marriage rates are down over 50%. Trying to coerce already married couples to have more kids is unfair as they already have a large burden of having children. Instead, we need to double marriage rates.
How do we do that? That's going to be the question over the next few decades. Here are some potential answers
1. Higher religiousity. The most religious societies have the highest marriage rates by a lot.
2. Arranged marriages. Societies with lower religious rates tended to have arranged marriages to solve the issue.
3. Punishing disincentives for not being married (like high tax rates, etc) or extremely strong incentives to be married (lower tax rates, Basic income for parents)
4. Eliminating birth control (Would change the sexual marketplace back to what it was before the 1960s).
Ultimately all societies will do 1 or more of these things OR the societies will disappear.
In order of effectiveness, i'd go with #4, #1, #2, #3 as being the most effective.
In order of political palatability, i'd go with #3, #2 #4 #1 as most palatable.
In order of likelihood, i'd go with #3, #4, #1, #2 as the most likely. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
>Turns out most women don't want to be baby factories when they have other things to do it seems.
Have you talked to women? They do this because in modern day capitalism (even in Nordic countries), they have to be career women in order to pay for their half of the one bedroom apartment with their boyfriend.
If it was economically viable for one 40 hour a week worker to afford a 3 or 4 bedroom house, with one parent caring for the kid (whether the father or mother, it doesn't matter), AND there was a society that makes you feel fulfilled with community belonging, an economy robust enough that one bad corporate quarter and a layoff doesn't mean the family is on their ass, and we clawed back the transactional, every man for themselves ethos that permeated through with modern capitalism, believe me, people would have kids.
I want to reiterate. Nordic countries like Sweden and Denmark and Norway have better safety nets than the US, but they still exhibit this cultural rot that pushes people away from children. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
Unfortunately I think it's more diabolical than that.
They know what they're doing is inhumane, they just don't care because they don't see most people as humans but rather animals that can be herded, bread, and forced to comply | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
Well, I'm not really advocating for any of these solutions, but I think these are the only viable solutions and some of them will happen much sooner than we think. I think what will happen will depends on the value system. I can see arranged marriages making a big comeback in Asian cultures, religious revival in the middle east and America, and cultural death in most of Europe as they try and fail at incentives. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
People have this idea of Japan and Korea until they have to work there.
Work culture is HELL. HELL | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
We have 100 years of census data that its not "different values". Every migrant no matter the background start having less kids as soon as they break into middle class.
This is also the case with native Europeans. poor whites have more kids than middle class whites.
The only way migrants retain their birth rates is if they are kept poor and personally I dont want to bring people into my country with the sole intent of keeping them down. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-06 |
immigration only works until the next generation decide not to have kids, then you're in a never ending spiral of immigraiton
And in 5 - 10 years the entire world will be competing for immigrants, why would they choose South Korea with lower wages and harsher conditions
Look at the UK and Canada's record immigration, it's only going to go up from here. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-06 |
Society has changed a lot, and money won't solve it like most think, either.
We are more individualistic than ever, less connected, more single, lonely, friendless ppl. Massive problems through social media and things manipulating us. Economic model is starting to get us with late stage capitalism. Along with business' profits being able to be ever increasing regardless of the damage. Identity politics and other bs to divide ppl.
A lot of people don't meet each other anymore and also care about more about having a good time, having kids doesn't matter when there are much more entertaining things to do in life now that never existed. You can just live in an online world.
Video game addiction all thro my 20s has screwed me and lots of ppl I know who wasted their the lives in the online world and now they want a family it's too hard to find someone.
But yes a lot of ppl just don't want kids. Its hard to force ppl to have kids, especially when the environment sucks already. Even if it was all good with no money issues a lot still won't have Kids as its about getting better stuff for yourself now | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-06 |
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These aren't really the minerals that people get invaded or fight over. The conflicts are more on the civil side, with people getting angry over pollution and environmental destruction. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-06 |
Good luck finding a mining company who will build those mines for you after you fucked over Rio Tinto and your PM bought billions of dollars of property overseas with the proceeds. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-14-06 |
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Nah, that "merchant of death" dude was about as useless as they get. If he knew something he told it to US already and as an actual arms dealer he's just a has-been. He was only useful as currency for hostage trading with russia and that's exactly how he was used. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
They tried doing revolutionary work in Afghanistan, they stayed there 20 years. Guess who was still there after 20 years? Taliban.
You can't end islam based terrorist groups, only the Muslims who support and sympathise them can. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
I don’t think you know the difference between a state religion, a secular state and a secular state with a majority religion of population. There are quite a few Muslim countries that are secular, most notably the central asian Stans. The hijab is banned, praying in public? Straight to jail. Beards are banned. Discussion of religion in public also banned. The state is very clearly secular, but 95%+ of the population in these countries is Muslim. Religion is forbidden to influence any government or political decisions at all. If you are suspected of being too religious? Straight to jail. No lawyer no nothing. This is the only way to keep control of such populations. Go walk and chant Islamic prayers in a Stan and see how fast you will be in jail. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
You absolutely can. They are not willing to use the levels of brutality necessary, but it is not particularity difficult if you are. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
"problem" "problem"?!
My dude, those are kidnapped Civilians, one of them with up arm, the others who knows
WTF is wrong with you? | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
Civilians to whom?
And why were they in an active war zone?
Takes a special kind of stupid to think you are above bullets, hostages and bombs.
It was their choice to be there so why are American taxes being used. Most Americans don't have health insurance.
You also don't see them flying overseas and getting in a position to be kidnapped.
Stupid game stupid prizes. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
You just compared someone who holds dual citizenship visiting Israel to someone who is visiting ISIS Headquarters. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
I agree with your point but I think it’s undeniable the UK is the US closest ally by a country mile. There’s secrets the US only shares with the UK and vise versa | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
I sure did.
How many countries could they have visited where there aren't rockets being fired into it constantly?
How many countries could they have visited that have no conflict?
So why did they visit? Why was that decision made. Or are you going to ignore that point a 3rd time? | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
All for show. Biden wants to make it look like he's doing something before the election. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
In exchange for what?
What is the US willing to give to the terrorists in order to get hostages freed? | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
If you are asking these questions, it shows you don’t know when and where they were taken hostage. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
You can kill people after the fact. As it turns out, justice and rescue missions don't go too well together. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
Yeah this is a big one I see few people talk about. The US used to have a thing of leaving no man behind. If a US national was held hostage by a terrorist organization, the US government would do the utmost they can to bring them home safely, while at the same time not negotiating with the terrorists as it would legitimize their actions. This is where the whole "we don't negotiate with terrorists" line came from. It's a big part of the social contract between the US government and its citizens. I guess that doesn't apply if the victims are Jewish or if its politically inconvenient. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
The only deal that should be available is that they give us the American Citizens back or we send a seal team into Qatar. That should have been communicated day 1. Day 2 should have included the seal team. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
So why only the distinction of someone of dual citizenship for why the US shouldn’t try to get a US Citizen back? | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
It wasn't a real question.
Bad decisions result in bad results. That's the fact of the matter. Mistakes were made. Sucks to suck.
At least Israel can just get them back. They're pretty good about killing 250 innocent people to get 1 bad guy and ,4 hostages.
Just rinse and repeat until there are no hostages/innocent's left. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
The US already negotiated with the Taliban. There's no policy to violate left.
>So why negotiate with them to get their kidnapped citizens back?
To get their kidnapped citizens back? That's kinda the governments job, with whatever they deem to be the best means at the time. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
Israel is not the US closest ally. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
And Canada, Australia, New Zealand…
I would even argue that France is a closer ally than Israel. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
I was just using it to compare. Both terrible places to go/visit. But a choice was made.
They should have left BG in Russia as well. It was her decision to bring weed on the plane and it was the hostages decision to go/live in Israel.
At least they had a choice. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
So you admit you’re just arguing in bad faith. It’s only 250 innocent people if you trust Hamas numbers, who have an incentive to lie about casualty numbers | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
Genuinely had no idea about any of this stuff before your convo with this guy… what are the names of all these Muslim majority countries where praying in public or chanting will get you to jail or religious clothing like hijabs and burkhas are banned? | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
No. It's not in bad faith, it's common sense.
Don't be or go to places where there are dangers such as terrorists. Especially in areas of the world where conflict has historically always happened.
It really doesn't take much brain cells to solve that.
Maybe never go to Russia, Israel, Iraq etc. what did you think was going to happen. Not everyone holds hands and eats lunch together there as a family.
They're always shooting rockets for fun at each other, assassinating people, blowing themselves up, or forcing some stupid ass religious thing. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
That sounds eerily similar to, “Well she was king for it, look what she was wearing.”
The BG Russia case and this are completely different situations.
BG was warned by the government not to go to Russia, especially with a prohibited substance (for Russia).
There is no travel advisory against Israel.
You still haven’t answered as to why only those with dual citizenship are not to be negotiated for. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
There exists in international law, a concept called the *master nationality rule*. Basically it says that what happens to a dual national when inside one of their countries doesn’t concern the other country they hold nationality of.
Whether it applies here is extremely complicated. If this were an American-Israeli being held in Israel, then it would be straightforward – America could only intervene with Israel’s consent. Likewise, if Gaza were still part of Egypt it would also be straightforward – America and Israel could each act independently. But given the complex legal status of Gaza, it’s difficult to say whether it applies (and even more complicated by the fact that America and Israel may not agree on the status of Gaza).
Practically, it would depend on whether Israel would call America out for breaking the rule. Most likely they wouldn’t comment contemporaneously, and grant retrospective support if was successful (and deny all knowledge if it failed). | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
Not really, one group stans them and would love to be there. They should put their words to action and finally volunteer the help they so desperately want to give. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
Nobody gave a flying fuck about Britney griner.
People (and that includes minorities) care more about the price of gas and food than an idiot who brought a crack pipe to Moscow. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
I guess that would depend on the deal they were trying to cut? Could be anything - immunity to Hamas leaders, guaranteeing Hamas survival in the “day after” arrangements, international support that goes against Israeli foreign policy, even withholding weapon shipments, etc.
The details are not known, but the general idea of knowingly undermining an ally in the middle of a war, as a concession to a terrorist organization, is not a good look. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
Huh, TIL thnx | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
Also, being based on Qatar puts a little bit of daylight between Hamas and Iran. If the Hamas leadership ever felt like splitting from or disagreeing with Iran on something, it would be a lot harder for Iran to slap them back down if they're based in Qatar. It's a low-probability scenario, but it's possible. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
Exactly. We give them the money, free the hostages, and then nothing is stopping us from hunting them down months or years later | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
The US has negotiated with terrorists probably every year for hundreds of years | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
the most brutality would do is get a few years of containment within a small region | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
extremely myopic if you think brutality would get you anything more than a few years of containment within a small region | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
All it took me was 2016. I was “Bernie or Bust” so fucking stupid. I was all about “burning down the establishment” such a bullshit position to take at the time. I now know that when you burn the establishment down you need to take into account who will be doing the rebuilding. Trump appointed 3 Supreme Court justices to the bench who will make rulings for the rest of my young-ish life. My blood boils every time I think about it. I’ll never make that mistake again. I’d crawl through a mile of covid waste, used needles, and wasps to vote blue for the rest of my life. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
> You can't end islam based terrorist groups
Tell that to ISIS. Tell that to Al Quada and their successor Al Nusra.
Defeatism is weirdly popular nowadays. Maybe that was not your point, and obviously winning hearts and minds is vital to any war of ideology. Obviously, Israel will have to offer 'moderate' Palestinians something in the postwar.
But let's take your thesis at face value. While the defeat in Afghanistan has sullied America's military reputation somewhat, it does not follow that terrorists are invincible.
Any soldier is mortal. Any cause is so too. Most of the MENA region is ruled by secular dictatorships which somehow found a way to crush terrorists. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
The Afghan war was a civil war too.
It's weird to say the Afghan war is 100% analogous but the war next-door in Syria is not.
First, let's examine what happened in Afghanistan. In Afghanistan, the invaders, first Russia and then America, never hid the fact that they wanted to leave Afghanistan asap. That attitude likely affected both local morale and partisan support from first the socialist regime, and then, the Northern Alliance / democratic Afghanis, whose factions initially supported each invader.
By contrast, neither Israel nor the PLO Fatah want to leave Gaza. That creates staying power. Their local presence might be analogous to the SDF and Iraqi armies in the ISIS war. I am not saying Bibi is planning this war successfully, but it is hardly inevitable that Israel loses this war. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
Yeah, because that would play well politically. This is reality, not some first person shooter game. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
This is the best thing to do, but it would absolutely torn apart as a racist endeavor, despite it objectively being the most sensible and effective thing.
Palestine is caught in a vicious cycle of deep, deep indoctrination of hate. Like, from the moment kids can speak having them say "we will defeat the Jews." People in the West who don't speak to Palestinians firsthand, who don't read Arabic twitter and watch news out of Gaza, cannot understand how intense it is. Palestinians buy their kids trading cards and necklaces with photos of martyrs on them. They do school plays about destroying Israel. They have all been sold an EXTREMELY profitable lie by leaders of IJ and Hamas.
If someone doesn't step in and stop the indoctrinarionn at the source - teaching children to hate and glorify death - it could take generations to end. If Gaza is offered a moderate leadership, deradicalized education, better infrastructure and a sincere investment in its economy, it will stabilize, but to do that requires another occupation which is absolutely untenable to most of the world. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
Well that lets you steer the direction towards blue, but doesn't leave much influence over where blue is. One day you might find red is closer to the direction you want the country to be going but who knows the parties only ever change by the decade. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
>I'm surprised they haven't sent in some special forces or something to get their citizens back.
Would that work? Wouldn't it involve searching hundreds of miles of booby trapped tunnels? If they were all being held in one identifiable building then yes, we might very well have sent in special forces. It just seems like the circumstances make that impossible. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
That was never the idea. We've always negotiated with terrorists. Everyone does, that's why it works. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-06 |
the middle east has thousands of years of unique history and social dynamics that have existed and evolved throughout the islamic and pre islamic periods and its a pretty ridiculous notion that some state or group of states can get rid of this form of militancy in the middle east by somehow copying american expansion and wiping out the arab population with disease and placing them to reservations | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-06 |
It was cannabis cartridges. You’re wrong, there was a large presence people advocating for her release and following her story. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-06 |
It’s just so crazy that anybody on the ground in Gaza is following the orders of the leadership from Qatar. What would have happened if Hitler was just chilling in Zurich while the Allies marched towards Berlin? | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-06 |
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The US urges Hamas to release US hostages before it finds oil under Gaza. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
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This should result in harsher penalties for cat abusers. Torturing cats gets you a few days in jail here. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
Just a few?!? | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
There has been a couple of multi-cat abusers in Singapore in the last couple of years. What stands out...
Guy with anti-social disorder who slashed open a cat every couple of days for months. He got less than a months jail plus mandatory psychiatric treatment.
Other guy, presumably from a well-off family or with his own money (based on being a Dean's lister at a private university and high finance career) who found a private psychiatrist after getting charged and managed to go radio-silent from the media.
There was the kid who got caught on cctv carrying a cat from the ground floor up to like the 10th floor and throwing it off. Lower economic background. He apologized and was sentenced to counselling.
There was the other kid that got caught on cctv apparently raping a cat. This one went radio-silent quick, no idea what happened to him
So.. based on this small list, I guess if you can't afford your own treatment, the government treats you. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-10-06 |
yes..this is hardly "world" news. i wonder y put it there | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-06 |
That's because it's a majority ethnic Chinese country in SE Asia that's ostensibly an ally of the US so Cold War brained Redditors get all nervous about if Singapore is *truly* aligned with the West in interests and values. | r/worldnews | comment | r/worldnews | 2024-11-06 |
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