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    Uighur treatment in China

    we have to do what we can though, however small the impact may be (at least initially) given the potential scale of what is taking place with the uighurs currently. we've seen the uk act on huawei, which no doubt was influenced by US foreign policy towards china. if country by country, we can...
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    Uighur treatment in China

    i'm not convinced that the money/economic reason is the cause of the lack of action globally on this matter tbh. there was/is a general apapthy from the west re the rohingya muslim issue, and it looks similar this time around. and there wasn't an economic carrot on the line there. like i've said...
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    Uighur treatment in China

    thats both obama and trump. trump has done far more than biden/harris will to challenge china. im not the biggest fan of trump either, but in this scenario, i think its pretty clear who would be the better president for chinese uighurs
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    Uighur treatment in China

    somewhat ironically, a republican win later this year will probably be the best outcome for chinese uighurs - trump is the only american president to really take a stand against malpractices by the chinese government. im guessing that a democratic win will lead simply lead to a return to obamas...
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    Uighur treatment in China

    unfortunately, i think as citizens in the west, all we can really do is talk about it (like we are doing here), thus, making it an issue that more people are aware of, letting the government know that we care. beyond that, we could stop using/buying chinese goods/services if this is an issue...
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    Uighur treatment in China

    i've stated multiple times that all religions that promote evil doctrines should be banned (not just islam) - but this is the uighur/china thread - and the discussion was on whether this being a partly islamic issue is the cause of the general apathy globally to this issue. if you start another...
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    Uighur treatment in China

    i dont necessarily disagree. as you say "All of the three main religions promote extremism"... my question is why are we (as a society) allowing these evil doctrines to flourish? "if read and manipulated by idiots who take literal meaning from them." - errr, do we need to read it as it is, or...
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    Uighur treatment in China

    islam literally promotes (what the west would classify as) "extremism" - you dont have to twist the doctrine at all to clearly see this. again, imo all religions/cults that promote human rights infringements should be banned.
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    Uighur treatment in China

    any doctrine that impinges on human rights should be banned. unfortunately with islam, theres just so many instances where you dont have to twist anything to realise that it is advocating hate/abuse against outsiders.
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    Uighur treatment in China

    i agree... however, when a religious doctrine actively promotes harm against non-believers, they lose this right imo. fact is, no-one would be allowed to start a new religion/cult with the same doctrine as islam
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    Uighur treatment in China

    i think you would be surprised at how little diversity of thought within islam there is for "apostasy, lgbt rights, womens rights, sharia law"
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    Uighur treatment in China

    there will be apathy towards islamic plights from the western world for a long time yet. this is really unfortunate for uighurs caught up in the china situation currently, but there's just so many islamic values that go against western moral values, hence the "blind eye". as a religion, islam's...
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    Cryptocurrency

    i'm also a newbie to crypto/btc. why are you recommending coinbase if it has a high commission rate (even if one plans to hold btc rather trade it)? and are institutional investors getting into a variety of crypto currencies, or are they sticking to the main ones (btc, etherium etc)? thanks
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    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    we're not going to give multiple peer reviewed "in-depth...presentations and interviews" to the thousands of gcse and a-level students though are we? if time and resource were not an issue, we could all come up with a better grading/examination system than we currently have. additionally, phd...
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    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    the government could pull out the old "more inflation to address the existing inflation" trick
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    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    fair point, but ultimately exams are needed for the reasons scara has mentioned. we can't just do away with exams because the odd person might have extenuating circumstances. exams are great at testing not only an individuals ability to perform on the day, but also long-term acquired knowledge...
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    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    the problem was that the algorithmic method of normalisation was so bad that people were always going to protest against this. and then once you factor in that 40% of results were downgraded, the number of people protesting against this was going to be huge. if they really wanted to proceed with...
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    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    yes, sounds like this will be the case for both a-levels and gcses
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    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    i dont think it was a data issue per se. the government tried to farcically normalise a-level scores using historical results not related to the individual students themselves. using a football analogy, the government effectively tried to award the top 4 epl spots before the season had finished...
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    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    we can just let the free market allocate human resources where fit - i'm sure it would do an infinitely better job than this shambles of a government. if government didnt involve themselves with student loans, costs would fall. re skills gaps, salary increases (from recruitment shortages) would...
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