@Copernicus2013@RationallyDense@christapeterso You can be ethnically Polish and not a Polish citizen, and you can be a Polish citizen and not ethnically Polish. Israel's immorality comes, in part, through it tying ethnicity to citizenship.
@Catssaynothing The possibility of dying due to complications during pregnancy does not mean that pregnancy itself is a problem. It means that it is a state of being that benefits from additional medical support, just as being trans does.
@jwiechers@shashj@mehdirhasan My point isn't about data outside of this meta analysis' consideration, it's that the authors have input the wrong data from their sources, and thereby wildly overstated the civilian death rates. In the most extreme case they have listed civilian+military deaths as just civilian.
@AustinATevents @shashj Again, there is no base rate fallacy at play here. Adult male deaths are overrepresented compared to the general population but vastly underrepresented by the standards of war; that's the claim being made. The stats suggest that Israel is being less careful than other militaries.
@AustinATevents @shashj (To avoid any misunderstandings, by "no one" I mean "no one in this conversation thread." Neither myself not the WHO representative have claimed that the attacks are entirely random, or disproportionate on the basis of the general population distribution)
@AustinATevents @shashj No one said they are doing nothing. They said 2/3 of deaths were women and children, where you would usually expect to see 60-70% of the deaths be adult males. That's not a base rate fallacy.
@AustinATevents @shashj When you have children/women/men death ratios that are similar to the population distribution, it suggests that attacks are frequently being carried out indiscriminately, without regard for whether those attacked are valid military targets.
@AustinATevents @shashj That would be the case if the population were being selected at random. The point is that, in war, the deaths in the population absolutely should not be distributed randomly. The numbers should indicate more adult male deaths, as they are the vast majority of combatants.
@jwiechers@shashj@mehdirhasan Civilian =/= women and children. Iraq war estimates of the latter are around 55%-high, but not as high.
Also, this table has errors: Gulf War quotes 142.5-206k civilian deaths, but those are the total estimates, with military deaths being 100-120k of that
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@RomanianLiberal @Linku_PL The majority of US presidents oversaw systems that prevented almost all women and people of colour from voting. Creating anti democratic societies is not an aberration.
@ryancbeard If their vote matters, then Biden should act to make himself appealing to them. It would be easier for him to change his position than try to change the position of every person not voting.
@UKUN_NewYork In abstaining, you chose to support ongoing terrorism. Your priorities are clear as you ignore and veto every measure that could help innocent people.
You disgrace the UK as members of the international community, and yourselves as human beings.
@1854plus1984 @TakedownMRAs If your initial quote tweet had said "loneliness sucks, here's policies to fix it" the left wouldn't have opposed you. Instead you said "women shouldn't complain because men have it worse" which is the kind of misogynistic idea that puts you at odds with people.
@1854plus1984 @TakedownMRAs If you understand that loneliness is in large part a social problem, you should understand that the "conventionally attractive women" you complain about are dealing with that same social problem. Telling other people that their problems don't matter only isolates you from them.