If you broke out the native born demographics on crime stats I don’t think you’d like that result.
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If you broke out the native born demographics on crime stats I don’t think you’d like that result.
nsacpi
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it would show immigrants have lower crime rates than native born white people
Where are native born Hispanics in this data set?
nsacpi
Expects Yuge Games
I don't know who you are trying to compare with whom. There are various studies that provide comparisons that might not match up exactly with what you are looking for but are suggestive. For example the Cato Institute looked at Texas (a heavily hispanic state) and found crime rates among immigrants lower than native-born Texans. Interestingly, that study also looked specifically at undocumented immigrants and found that they had a lower crime rate than native-born Texans.
Nothing screams reliable more than evaluating metrics of a class of people labeled “undocumented”.
nsacpi
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True. Facts can be hard to come by in this discussion. Don't be so confident of yours.
57Brave
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Oz Katerji @ozkaterji.bsky.social
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In images I never thought I would see in my lifetime, the revolutionary Syrian flag is being raised at the Syrian embassy in MOSCOW.
Few things explain the scale of Russia’s military and strategic defeat in Syria more than this.
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And Tulsi dont look so good today, do she ?
nor the rest of the geo - ignorant Putin apologists yelling to stop
aid to Ukraine
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In images I never thought I would see in my lifetime, the revolutionary Syrian flag is being raised at the Syrian embassy in MOSCOW.
Few things explain the scale of Russia’s military and strategic defeat in Syria more than this.
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And Tulsi dont look so good today, do she ?
nor the rest of the geo - ignorant Putin apologists yelling to stop
aid to Ukraine
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57Brave
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In contrast to Trump’s focus on Russia, journalist Anne Applebaum, a scholar of autocracy, took a much broader view of the meaning of Assad’s fall. In dictatorships, she wrote in The Atlantic, “cold, deliberate, well-planned cruelty” like Assad’s “is meant to inspire hopelessness. Ludicrous lies and cynical propaganda campaigns are meant to create apathy and nihilism.” Random arrests create destabilizing waves of refugees that leave those who remain in despair.
Authoritarian regimes seek “to rob people of any ability to plan for a different future, to convince people that their dictatorships are eternal. ‘Our leader forever’” she points out, was the slogan of the Assad dynasty. But soldiers and police officers have relatives who suffer under the regime, and their loyalty is not assured, as Assad has now learned.
The future of Syria is entirely unclear, Applebaum writes, but there is no doubt that “the end of the Assad regime creates something new, and not only in Syria. There is nothing worse than hopelessness, nothing more soul-destroying than pessimism, grief, and despair. The fall of a Russian- and Iranian-backed regime offers, suddenly, the possibility of change. The future might be different. And that possibility will inspire hope all around the world.”
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thethe's stance could well be proven down the road.
But, today, 9 December 2024 we aren't down the road but here with one less Russian backed tyrant
Let's see what the next few days, weeks , months , years hold
Authoritarian regimes seek “to rob people of any ability to plan for a different future, to convince people that their dictatorships are eternal. ‘Our leader forever’” she points out, was the slogan of the Assad dynasty. But soldiers and police officers have relatives who suffer under the regime, and their loyalty is not assured, as Assad has now learned.
The future of Syria is entirely unclear, Applebaum writes, but there is no doubt that “the end of the Assad regime creates something new, and not only in Syria. There is nothing worse than hopelessness, nothing more soul-destroying than pessimism, grief, and despair. The fall of a Russian- and Iranian-backed regime offers, suddenly, the possibility of change. The future might be different. And that possibility will inspire hope all around the world.”
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thethe's stance could well be proven down the road.
But, today, 9 December 2024 we aren't down the road but here with one less Russian backed tyrant
Let's see what the next few days, weeks , months , years hold
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I’d never slam anybody who fled from war. If a country cannot get its citizens to want to fight for it, that’s a them problem. Conscription should be banned globally. That doesn’t change that Putin is the aggressor and invaded a sovereign nation.
History is filled with terrible things and redrawn boundaries. But we’ve reached a point where we should know better than to kill others to take their land. It’s pretty ****ing simple.