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How do you not pay VAT? It's 20% and 10% in Turkey. And then there's ÖTV, and then there's huge tariffs on many imported goods which are a form of import VAT tax effectively. Putting these three together, some imported goods cost 4x the price.

U.S. is responsible and instigator of all of those conflicts and will be the one to instigate and responsible for the Iran one as well. One doesn't (I don't use the generic "you" to avoid confusion) get to go to a region thousands of miles away, attack and destabilize each and every one of these...

This one hit me hard. Some of the dumbest people alive are determining the fate of our world, holy fucking shit.

I mean it's fine; the "your" use as a generic "your" should be quite obvious. The issue about Trump not actually being anti-war or anything resembling that is that U.S. and its western allies have sanctioned Iran to the ground crippling its economy and completely blocking its ability to trade...

So when I was talking about illiteracy as a figure of speech I was not aware of this:

Do you always think every post on the internet is directly talking to you?

Timing of that news is very suspect; and also this: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/world-news/israel-iran-war-trump-will-give-netanyahu-a-blank-check-to-strike-iranian-regime-ex-cia-chief-reveals/videoshow/115094357.cms?from=mdr Here you got your anti-war candidate...

huh? we have like some of the highest VATs in the world.

You probably were not following Iranian politics that closely then. A lot happened. They were literally smothering them, pressuring China with even extra tariffs if they bought oil from them, which they called the campaign of maximum pressure. Their oil and gas exports fell from about 70 billion...

Without Şimşek, we'd be royally fucked. He has managed the crisis masterfully within his purview. But still @Deliorman's point stands that since he cannot touch the rent, wasteful overspending for useless stuff, giving huge contracts to their tarikat-holdings for 3x the reasonable price, and...

Seeing how there are many new posts in this thread I got excited thinking there's news about the second prototype or sth 😞

Avowed neo-con and Pompeo's senior policy advisor, Atlantic Council darling, top 5 biggest fan of war with Iran. Predictable.

If this happens I'll eat my hat.

you're boxing with shadows.

I don't think that; it's quite easy to teach critical thinking skills, media literacy skills, basics of anthropology and evolution, and the idiosyncrasy of the scientific method and naturalism compared to other modes of thinking. Btw I'm not saying like people who vote for Harris are like this...

You are right, our difference is semantic; by education I do not mean diplomas and graduation from a university. A good high-school education (or even a middle-school one; all you need is one good teacher) which instills naturalism to replace any magical thinking that a person might have will...