Introducing regulations usually doesn’t mean complete and utter ban.

First of all, gun laws have been more or less the same for the past 100 years in the U.S., so how can they be the cause of the recent rise in mass shootings? Simple answer: they’re not.

So guns changed over the past 100 years, but the laws did not adjust. Sounds like a bad idea. How can a new technology a cause for a new problem? Did that ever happen???/s

Semi-automatic rifles were not overly widespread before the 1990, and when they became, in 1994 there was a time-limited ban for semi-automatic firearms, which then expired in 2004. And what are the major concerns for mass shootings in recent years? It is semi-automatic firearms.

If they were serious about curbing gun violence, their focus wouldn’t be on mass shootings so much as smaller-scale gun crime.

Why do you think they want to ban all guns? But when you’ve a gun proponents such as in the US you gotta get real about what you can achieve. So it is not hypocrisy to focus on assault weaponry.

That hobby thing can be said about many forbidden things, for example smoking cannabis.

“Just ban guns” is the slogan for demonstrations. Any politician who is elected for doing that will obviously need to have a better plan. Usually such plans don’t fit on a poster.

Civilian disarmamends happened in various countries, i.e. Australia in 1996/97, UK after the Dunblane school massacre in 1996, Japan post WW2, South Africa in 2000, Colombia in 2000 and 2016, New Zealand after Christchurch.

Strategies and success vary, but it’s not unheard of.

Many liberals have terrible views about gun violence in general IMO, and a serious lack of comprehension of the problem.

Could you elaborate that a bit?

What country is that?

Maybe Egregore?

And this is the normal thing how it works Just not online because what’s said there doesn’t fade away. It just keeps up standing there regardless if the author since then changed their mind.

Does not stand to scrutiny. I counted and only 3 out of 13 are like that. And only two of those would post online.

I suppose the positions you are describing are not reached by reasoning, rather by being part of a group, religion or ideology. In those cases it’s quite clear that they can’t give up the position unless they weaken their ties to that group/religion/ideology, or abandon it entirely.

Some times in their life people are open to big changes, but most of the time not.

I have my phone unlock when it sees my face.

There’s Siri.

And GPT-4 is a good way to double check some suspicions how historical events may be connected, and when I’m looking for a name. And other things too.

Close enough

I don’t know and I don’t care

I usually try to think of a way forward. Like, what would happen if Haiti gets their demand, and France and the Citibank together agree to pay back $21 billion dollars and then some for interest.

Would that help Haiti out of poverty? In a state where corruption is widespread, we can safely assume that, no, it would not. It would be pocketed away by a few rich people and their families, who would then be a good deal richer, and the country would still not have a good educational as a basis for future prosperity. It would maybe have one or two more hospitals, but overall still not have a medical system that helps bring down child mortality for the foreseeable future. Or a judicial system that brings justice to those who were robbed of money.

And, after understanding all the historical injustices and anger, if we find that the proposed solution would not be a solution at all, we will bring our attention to the next thing.

This dude also talks about 10gbs and speeds required for video editing. That’s something you don’t get with your average internet connection, and even if, it’s unsure your average cloud service provider can match.

Ok I’ll bite. What’s Netflix’s agenda with the Witcher? Hmm?

I loved the books, and I loved season one on Apple TV. But then it lost me. I didn’t recognize any storyline anymore

Is something Shannara not on prime? I was excited to see it there, but the acting and world building was so poor I didn’t get through season 1.

The Cosmere, or at least the Mistborn part thereof. While reading I often pictured movie scenes.

I wasn’t aware of any history that happened in Haiti, and only took this post as an initiative to look it up a bit. This is quite interesting.

The debt imposed by France for its recognition as independent state was paid off in the 1940s. That debt drained off any resources that Haiti had for almost 120 years.

But now Haiti is free from that debt for close to 80 years and it’s still one of the poorest countries in the world. How can that be, given that it was one of the richest slave colonies of France only 250 years ago?

It seems Haiti suffers from its geopolitical location in more than one way, and then some from its geological location. Between Europe and the USA, all in their own way dealing with their slave and colonial past, it found no friends on either side. It never reached political stability for long enough to build up institutions like a solid educational or medical system, in part by internal squabbling but also by repeated interventions mostly from the US.

And if that’s not enough to deal with, the exposure to natural desasters makes it doubly hard to build up anything lasting.

I think those circumstances are enough to explain why Haiti suffers the way it does, there’s no need to suspect an additional long running conspiracy for a thing that happened around the time of the French Revolution. Honestly, we Europeans are so wrapped up in our own more recent history that largely starts with WW1, most are hardly aware of the general location of Haiti, let alone our intertwined colonial history.

But I totally get that such a situation feels like the world has conspired against the Haitians. In a way it has, just not in the way of countries or populations forging secret bands of vengeance.

I think Haiti is totally right to want back that money from France. But I also think that it won’t do much if Haiti has no stable political system and institutions. Because then it’ll just be siphoned away by some corrupt politicians and their cronies.