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ProcrustesTongue t1_j43m6pj wrote

Neat! Overall I think you're about right.

> The war's danger to Ukrainian civilians was 0.11% in 2022 (based on the highest estimate I've seen of 40,000 civilians killed out of about 36,000,000 currently there)

This is only the odds of dying from the war, you can still get murdered in Ukraine for reasons unrelated to the war. Is the murder rate in Ukraine lower than 0.02%? From some brief googling, it looks like the official rate is 0.006%, so from that you're less likely to be killed in Ukraine that Tijuana.

There are two wrinkles I'm not sure how to handle, however. First, most of the people murdered in Tijuana aren't foreigners, they're murdered because of conflicts between local gangs who don't want the attention of foreign governments. Second, the murder rate in Ukraine right now is probably higher than the official percentage. Unfortunately, the murder rate typically goes up when a country is in war since resources are scarcer and there's some degradation of the social order.

Again, nice analysis!

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Chariots487 t1_j43gnld wrote

Oh, but don't you know? You have the emotional stability of a small child, and you just can't handle words that could literally at all be tied to anything bad that ever happened to people who looked like you hundreds of years ago. This is why white people need to start moral crusades to get people to not say "Pokemon master" because it'll offend you!(yes, that's a real thing I saw once)

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Chariots487 t1_j43g46j wrote

>He's an idiot for making the same mistake as Trump and should face similar consequences

The problem is that most of your side strongly disagrees with this. We're already seeing waves of loyal accounts start saying why he didn't mean to so it isn't a problem, that he should be held to lower standards than, say, someone in the military who did this exact same thing(they'd get everything short of an on-the-spot discharge), that those documents might not have needed to be classified anyway because "everyone knows" America overclassifies things so it isn't a problem. They're not willing to let the truth of the matter that you've laid out speak for itself.

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