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tl;dr: They're claiming that it was to "prevent countries with tariffs from shipping through there to avoid tariffs."

The United States alleged the islands exported more goods to the United States than they imported, an allegation that appeared to be calculated from incorrect trade data. An analysis of U.S. import data and shipping records by The Guardian indicated some shipments were incorrectly labeled as coming from the remote islands instead of their correct countries of origin. According to export data from the World Bank, the US imported US$1.4m (A$2.23m) of products from Heard Island and McDonald Islands in 2022, nearly all of which was "machinery and electrical" imports.[39]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heard_Island_and_McDonald_Islands

Reminds me of Asimov's Foundation.

That math process for adding the two numbers - there's nothing wrong with it at all. Estimate the total and come up with a range. Determine exactly what the last digit is. In the example, there's only one number in the range with 5 as the last digit. That must be the answer. Hell, I might even use that same method in my own head.

The poetry example, people use that one often enough, too. Come up with a couple of words you would have fun rhyming, and build the lines around those words. Nothing wrong with that, either.

These two processes are closer to "thought" than I previously imagined.

If you don't want to be punished, just stop being poor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution

Zionism is complicated, because "Jewish" can be a religion, nationality, culture, or ethnicity/race, or any combination of the above, depending on who is using the term and in what context.

MAGA is absolutely strongly correlated with evangelical Christianity in the US.

Yes, and I'm saying that religion had very little to do with Hitler's inherently race-based ideology, even as a cover.

Religion still does enable violence. Just because you're citing a specific example where it arguably did not does not falsify that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_and_violence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_and_violence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judaism_and_violence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bible_and_violence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_and_violence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu_terrorism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalistan_movement#Militancy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_war

And let's not forget the Aztecs, whose religion had them subjugating their nearby enemies, capturing their people, and sacrificing them to satisfy their deities. The Aztecs were so horrible that when the Europeans showed up and kind of rolled over them, those previously subjugated city-states went fucking ham on the Aztecs, completely destroying them. And the Europeans were all "Dude, that's harsh."

There are certainly also plenty of non-religious cases of violence throughout history, of course, for good and bad reasons. "Because a deity 'said so'" is never a good reason.

Aryan race stuff, as exemplified in 19th and 20th century racial superiority, actually starts with lingustics.

Yes, and I'm saying that religion had very little to do with Hitler's inherently race-based ideology.

Okay? You're the only one talking about that, and nobody is disagreeing with you. Although I might add that Hitler and his ilk were kind of famously into the occult. Perhaps not a religion, but certainly religious.

You've reversed the order, and that doesn't work.

"Religion enables violence" is not the same as "All violence is caused by religion."

But since you're brought up Hitler.

Religion is excellent cover for it, though.

I watched the CNN video, she's so close. And yet so far away.

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