You wouldn’t need anything that extravagant, you could reasonably find all these people in California in the late 1800’s. The earliest Japanese immigrants to California happened in the 1860’s. After the gold rush people from all over the world flocked to Cali.
If it’s a matter of government intervention, let’s not forget the ridiculous amount of money pumped into the market thanks to actions from the fed.
It’s more of a matter of where the government decided to put its money in the first place. 70% of China’s GDP is powered by its real estate market, which eventually lead to an over glut of housing.
You can only cook the books for so long before the whiplash of supply and demand takes effect. They have 50 million extra homes, and are still dumping money into building more. It’s not going to be pretty when 70% of your economy catches up with reality.
Government spending is great, it just needs to be spent on things that people actually want/need. Not just pumped into the easiest sector that makes number go up.
Polarization is the real killer of democracy.
Well that… And the fact that globalized capital isn’t particularly beholden to the interest of individual nation states.
The west could utilize their economic hegemony to truly starve the Russian war machine if they wanted, but that would require leveraging their economic trade status with countries like India and China and would come with a large disruption of capital.
The biggest flaw in modern democratic states is fairly uniform in nature. Instead of corporations being beholden to their governments, governments are beholden to their corporations.
Eh… I know there’s about a million Afghan refugees in Iran that are considered internally displaced people. I think acquiring citizenship would be pretty hard for this population, especially considering they require a fair bit of documentation.
And maybe you should learn to listen to disabled people about ableism
I don’t think you get to define ableism for all disabled people…
never mind actual guidelines on how to work with disabled people in general, and people with Down’s Syndrome specifically,
Those are all guides for educators… I work in medicine, this isn’t applicable to your argument or this discussion?
Hell, these jobs attract people who think they’re better than us, and know better than us about us). And yet, to an outsider in an ableist society, you seem more qualified to speak on disability than disabled people are, and you confirm their ableist bias which makes them comfortable and even less willing to listen to us, so well done on actively contributing to ableism cycle…
I think you may be inappropriately projecting your own feelings about your condition, whatever it may be, to this particular argument. Just because you are disabled, doesn’t mean that you represent everyone with a disability. I have a disability, which is one of the reasons I went into my field. However, that doesnt mean I truly understand what it’s like for people with other disabilities. I can just provide context based on my own perspective and what I have learned in school and from my patients.
but mostly I feel bad for your clients
Get over yourself, you’re not the only disabled person on the Internet. Some of us just don’t make it the centerpiece of their entire personality.
Presuming competence is one of the cornerstones of working with and caring for disabled people.
That’s a nonsensical idiom. You have to evaluate every patient’s competency and ability to achieve patient compliance individually, disabled or not.
Maybe try that, instead of essentially erasing her achievements and agency? No group is a monolith
Which is why I didn’t make any definitive statement, I just stated a reasonable concern. There are a plethora of examples of parents or organizations taking advantage of people with disabilities.
While no groups of people are monoliths, many people who share certain diagnoses will share similar personality traits. For example we wouldn’t assume someone with a social anxiety disorder would thrive as a public speaker.
Maybe it’s your own bias you should be worried about.
Maybe you should adopt a more dialectical approach to subjects you don’t have experience in. Not everything fits within a dichotomy of right or wrong, context is everything.
Tbh, my biggest concern would be that she’s being taken advantage of by a group or family member for political gain. I work a lot with the disabled community and have several patients with downs syndrome.
While people with downs syndrome are a lot more capable than most people give credit and are perfectly capable of contributing to society. I can’t say I’ve ever met a person with down syndrome that would enjoy working in a position that is so dynamic. They typically thrive in routine and in jobs where they can physically engage with their work. J
But you know who she is… I’d say it’s pretty self evident that it was fairly effective PR.
Reality doesn’t matter, politics revolves around perception and fabricating the PR story you want.
“President saves famous female athlete from tyrant” is always going to be a net plus. The people who don’t agree or perceive it in a different fashion are either votes you wouldn’t win anyways, or people who don’t care about it enough to vote for someone else because of it.
At least that has some return on investment, that’s if you’re looking at it from the perspective of a politician.
Though I do find it pretty hypocritical that he spent that capital freeing someone from a crime that he himself is perfectly fine sending people to jail for in America.
Brittney Griner was a celebrity stuck in a political dispute, Whelan is a totally different case. I don’t think he was spying for the CIA, but he was up to some pretty sketchy stuff, and he has an even sketchier past.
He’s claimed to work as a police officer in multiple places that say they have no record of him, or that he only worked there for a short time. He was court marshalled for larceny and given a bad conduct discharge. Even after his discharge he was hired as head of security for a global firm that did business in Russia. Even ignoring the fact that he holds like 4 different citizenships, just the information that he has provided himself is super sketchy.
I wouldn’t be in any rush to to spend political capital on this dude either.
Militarily speaking, the situation is similar to Cuba and US during the Cold War. Taking control of the island will grant them more military security.
I don’t really know if that makes a whole bunch of sense… The only country with the capabilities of attacking China is the US. The only real provocation that may spark that military conflict is an attack on Taiwan or South Korea.
Taiwan isn’t even that advantageous of a location for an invasion either way, the strait of Formosa would be a death trap for any amphibious landing. The most militarily important region for China is and always has been the Korean peninsula.
I think Chinas main motivation is that Taiwan disrupts their plans to completely control trade routes in the South China sea. Once the 9 dash line is under control and expanded to include the territorial waters of Taiwan, China will have a defacto monopoly on trade for most of eastern Asia.
I call bullshit, whoever wrote this piece without questioning the validity of the witness statements needs to go back to school for journalism. Some of these claims are transparently fallacious to anyone with any medical training.
Random volunteers aren’t going to be able to examine victims for sexual assault based on bruising, or lacerations found while collecting bodies. That’s going to require an actual autopsy by an actual medical examiner. Also, how is a volunteer going to inspect if a body has a pelvic fracture, and what does that have to do with sexual assault? Sacral fractures are only associated with SA for a very young child, and then only at 5% of SA victims age 5 or younger.
I found it odd that they published claims from volunteers and politicians, but I have yet to hear from an actual MD that corroborates their claims.
It’s actually pretty plausible, the first wave of Japanese people to immigrate to California and Hawaii was in the 1860s. By the 1900 census there were nearly 25k Japanese people living on the West Coast.