SkyrimWithdrawal

SkyrimWithdrawal t1_iy9aaiu wrote

>even if only 20% of the US population went on a rollercoaster last year, there are still way more car deaths.

This is wrong. Take the amount of time you spent in the car last year, and spend that amount of time on a roller coaster. Now take 20% of the driving public and put them on roller coasters for hours each day, all year long. I think you will surpass that 46,000 mark if you control for exposure.

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SkyrimWithdrawal t1_iy99ymq wrote

We need to introduce the concept of exposure here. If 1% of vehicle drivers die in accidents when they use those vehicles for 1hr per day, every day for their whole lives, that is still safer than if .01% of rollercoaster riders die, when they ride for a few minutes each time, a few times during their lifetime. It's about risk. If you're exposed to a small risk over a long time, it's still a small risk. You need to control for that by looking at things like # of trips, trip duration, etc.

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SkyrimWithdrawal t1_iuk62n8 wrote

>Arbitrary is to bring up old historical empires that don't exist anymore from other centuries.

This was where the whole argument of privilege, structural biases and wealth imbalance comes from: the colonialism and slave trade of past centuries explaining the continued disparities of today.

>We are talking about the nation that has military bases all over the world

At the invitation of those countries. Tiawan is scared shitless of China. Same with Japan. Look at Nato and their Russian adversary. We leave Afghanistan and get shit on for trying to help girls go to school and fight for equal rights. If you want to condemn us for sticking up for them, Fuck you. If you want to condemn us for hunting down terrorist organizations, like Al Qaeda and ISIS, Fuck you. The world is a tough place and I'm certain that if it weren't for the US, you and I would be in a trench, right now.

>Your companies are always bribing the puppet regimes you install to get better deals than the local ones

Your companies suck and your governments suck. Get involved if you want something better than Fanta. If whining on Reddit works for you, your nation will go nowhere.

>You enforce your draconian copyright rules (which patents have been created using drained brains from the rest of the world) to kill any possibility of independent development.

This is about copyright? Your big beef is over copyright? Ahahaha! Who's music did you rip-off and try to pass as your own?

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SkyrimWithdrawal t1_iuj610y wrote

>Because it doesn't make sense to bring up an old historical facts to pretend your nation isn't the most criminal of the last century.

That doesn't answer why are things from 30 years ago or 15 years ago or 5 years ago still relevant? Where's your cut-off? It seems very arbitrary.

>Yeah, you have zero arguments to counter what I said. Your people only know violence.

False.

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SkyrimWithdrawal t1_iuhujm9 wrote

>We are talking about the last 70 years

Where was that stated before now? Why 70 years? Why not 2?

>You take multiple times that more with your private companies and puppet regimes, you try to topple down any government that dares to cross you or you use your international influence to blockade them economically

Ah. You don't know anything and any source you find contradicts you. Got it.

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SkyrimWithdrawal t1_iugfq0f wrote

>They have invaded and killed way more people than any other nation in the world?

Cite source. Pretty sure the UK, Spanish, Germans, and Japanese would have a word.

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>They wage economic war against the Global South?

Whoa. They provide more humanitarian aid to the "Global South" than any other nation on the planet.

https://foreignassistance.gov/aid-trends

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