Kratesis

Frokane's Mildly Politcal Hangout Thread

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But you agree that there's a difference between a "competitive tax rate", and an "open invitation to sodomize an entire country by abusing an easily exploitable tax code", right?

@catchamber

I agree that there is a difference between those two things but I imagine we would disagree on what is competitive and what is unnecessary.

Frokane's Mildly Politcal Hangout Thread

I would love to tax every corporation until they bled but just as a companies must price their products competitively countries must also maintain a competitive tax rate.

Frokane's Mildly Politcal Hangout Thread

@Andreyich What do you mean?

Frokane's Mildly Politcal Hangout Thread

Police in Catalonia remove ballot boxes and block crowds to prevent them from entering polling stations. (Catalonia referendum on independence, for those who didn't know.)

twitter.com/CatalansForYes/status/914…
twitter.com/NamasteToIndia/status/914…
twitter.com/RT_com/status/91443635797…
twitter.com/laDiadadelSi/status/91443…
twitter.com/VictorHR3/status/91442497…
twitter.com/MyzztahBruce/status/91445…

Frokane's Mildly Politcal Hangout Thread

I'd say if policies could be implemented to help incentivize people staying, it would definitely put a cork on the flood of immigrants

@POOHEAD189

"If the problem could be solved it would be solved."

Frokane's Mildly Politcal Hangout Thread

@Penny No worries. The TL;DR is the flight of the intelligentsia begin in earnest after the six day war dealt the fatal blow to Arab nationalism and the conceptual vacuum begin to be filled by fundamentalist interpretations of Islam. There was a wave of assassinations of cultural voices by Islamist assassins that really got rolling during Anwar Sadat's day. A generation of intelligentsia fled west but that was not enough; Germany and Spain were host a number of assassinations after Ayatollah Khomeini overthrew the last Shah. The Kurds in particular suffered. At this point there really isn't much of an intelligentsia left in the middle east but their grandchildren can be found scattered across Europe and America.

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That's the real problem in Syria, to many of their intelligentsia have been lured away. Sad really.

@Penny

I don't know how much you know about the middle east but the flight of the intelligentsia actually is a problem.

Frokane's Mildly Politcal Hangout Thread

what do I care what happens to the country they came from? I'M AN AMERICAN!But I don't expect my government to be altruistic. I want America to do what is best for America. If that means brain-draining Cambodia, you know, I'll bring the chopsticks.

Insofar as immigration benefits my country, I am totally in favor of immigration.

@mdk

I'm with you here. To the victor the spoils and devil take the hindmost. However I am not convinced that immigration, even immigration of skilled labor, actually benefits the american worker. It might benefit the corporate bottom line or move some stats in a government bureau around in a way that could be construed as beneficial but that isn't the same as helping the working american.

Looking Back - 5 months have passed, what now?

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I don't see what the miscommunication error is. Catchamber seems to understand.

And he was the one I was replying to in the first place.

@Nytem4re

That was my error, I responded to your message thinking it was directed at me for some reason. My apologizes.

Looking Back - 5 months have passed, what now?

@Nytem4re

Never said there was a reasonable time period.

I have no idea what you are trying to communicate; can you rephrase?

I simply said they should reply to them when they had the time like any other user despite their attitude.

So you are saying that the mods did not reply to certain users at all?