If you want to make sense of the Henry Nowak murder, you need to understand the clan-based morality that South Asians operate under.
Here's a question: your family member is speeding in a car. They hit and kill someone. The police ask you what happened. Do you lie and protect your family, or do you tell the truth?
Probably for you, this is a genuine conundrum. You value adherence to "truth," and to violate this goes against something deep inside you.
For clannish societies, this isn't a problem at all. Lie and protect your family.
The discomfort you would feel from lying, they would feel that from NOT lying. Truth is not some divine principle to adhere to for them. That's clan loyalty. If truth serves clan loyalty, use it. If it doesn't, don't use it.
These kinds of cultures will hard counter us. While we hire the best man for the job, they hire their own. While we convict or acquit based on evidence, they protect their own.
You can bury your head in the sand and pretend this isn't happening. You can be a martyr and refuse to play that kind of game. The only result will be your own destruction.
In 2019, there were about 150,000 people working in autism therapy.
Six years later, there were 654,000—more than the number of people who work in mining and logging, or telecommunications, or at the US Postal Service.
@Brushbeater@NatCon2022 Any time you confront a black criminal, you know that if you don't administer justice there will likely be none.
It changes the equation.
@DelargeExtra@douglassmackey It seems obvious that Republicans think that because Democrats are a red line for a lot of people, they can do almost whatever they want.
I think they fail to consider there is a third option: people that feel betrayed by the neocon shift just won't show up to vote.
@0x49fa98 I'm sorry, my comment was too pithy, that wasn't support.
Trump has fractured and destroyed his base, the coalition of 2024 is broken and ducking for cover. Signs point to a return of Leftists in 2028.
Rogan doesn't want to get crushed by the flip.
None of this makes me happy.
Now that India has flooded the world with FFMGs (Fake Foreign Medical Grads) we must rely on other means to exclude impostor doctors.
The US has two main defenses against impostors:
1. US doctors must complete a supervised US residency. Unfortunately, this residency requirement has been eliminated in 19 states, including mine.
2. Our second and final safeguard is the licensing exam. Almost all US doctors must eventually pass the three parts of the USMLE (US Medical Licensing Exam.)
Unfortunately, exam fraud is as simple as hiring a ringer to take the test for you (he needs to look vaguely like the picture on your driver's license) and avoiding the test centers that check fingerprints. (Grok summary attached.)
Or, impostors could obtain the questions in advance, from insiders or from earlier test takers.
If this sounds like a conspiracy theory, well, it already happened, and you will never guess where.
In 2024, hundreds of scores were invalidated due to leaked questions in Nepal (an Indian suburb) and to anomalous high scores at international centers in India, Pakistan, Nepal, and Jordan.
The statistically-unlikely scores were eventually blamed on early exam takers sharing the questions in WhatsApp groups.
In other news, you can take the first 2 parts of the US medical licensing exam in India. Then you can start practicing medicine in the USA.
Your Indian doctor might be a resident who purchased his Indian medical diploma then purchased the US licensing exam questions and took the test in India.
Fortunately, Part 3 of the exam, which must be passed at some point during residency, can only be taken inside the USA. So we can breathe easy, right?
Well, not exactly.
The US medical licensing exam is written and scored by two organizations. The first is the FSMB (Federation of State Medical Boards) whose president and CEO is....
wait for it....
Dr. Humayun Chaudhry.
The other organization that writes and scores the US medical licensing exam is the NBME (National Board of Medical Examiners.) NBME's Chairman of the Board is....
wait for it...
Dr. Reena Karani. That's her picture below, and why yes, she does happen to be Indian.
The physical testing centers are managed by a company called Prometric, whose Chief Products and Technology officer is....
wait for it....
Jay Chakrapani
Are you seeing the problem with our safeguards against fake doctors?
https://t.co/C3Eh2btRss
@shortmagsmle So many red flags in that attitude, we don't even need to get to the "killing a baby" part.
This is the kind of woman that the first date gets up to go to the bathroom in the middle of dinner and never comes back.
@KaiserLoengramm That's a nice looking knife.
But I don't carry knives to gunfights. My tribe conquered a continent of savages with firearms, that's my culture.
@DefiantBaptist We know Hamill from his very public persona. There's no way he wasn't completely on board with the destruction of the Luke character as the heroic archetype in a handover to the new Mary Sue.
Now he wants to retcon regrets to kiss up to the fanbase. Typical leftist.
@SheriffJim4445 Her biggest hit is a feminist anthem, nobody should be surprised here. Remember when Faith Hill and Tim McGraw were all over the news talking about "common sense gun control"?
Like the music but don't idolize the performers, they aren't who you think they are most of the time.