In the US, student loan interest rates and average amount of debt are generally much higher than other countries. And you your student debt is designed to be permanent so that even declaring bankruptcy doesn't discharge it.
Its essentially just a tax you pay for using higher education. You pay that in other countries as well via your taxes. Your tax debt is also permanent so you can't get out of paying taxes just by declaring bankruptcy.
It is a bit weird that they let universities levy indirect taxes but its not really bad. Imagine if instead of property tax you have government property loans and the interest of those loans was instead of property tax, I think that wouldn't be a bad system.
Let's hope Iran doesn't follow the "no quarter, no mercy" policy laid out by US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. For the unfamiliar, it means executing survivors and surrendering combatants. Aka war crimes.
It's not just a character attack to point out that a glorified blog post pulled that number out of thin air.
It would be silly to ask someone to prove that a made up number is made up. How can I provide evidence for lack of evidence. A more reasonable starting point would be to bring up what evidence does exist for the 40k number and then evaluate that.
If you want to continue believing it, that's your prerogative. I don't have a dog in this fight. I'm just doing my part to counter misinformation from biased sources.
FWIW, the Human Rights Activists in Iran (Virginia-based NGO) puts the figure at 6,488
It is a character attack to call into question the validity of the source in general.
You did not provide evidence for your claim. You offered something else entirely. In the future it would be better to provide what is being requested instead of a distraction.
I don't have strong beliefs on this, I just wanted a conclusive source. You did not provide one.
You made the claim it's misinformation, support your claim (as you hold the burden of proof for your own claim given it's contrary to the status quo). You haven't tried that hard, you might as well give it a real shot.
>I doubt you even took the time to read the investigation done by The Guardian.
It did not address your claim at all.
>The onus of evidence is on the person that initially claimed the 40k number.
No, that is not how the burden of proof works. It is not in the context of all things said in all time. You said it was false in this conversation, you support that assertion.
>You have made zero attempt to support yours.
I don't have a claim.
You don't seem to understand the terms I'm using here so this is probably not productive to continue.
If someone makes a claim like "Mongolia just killed 562 students", we shouldn't be asking the person who points out that number is baseless to prove that it's baseless. We should ask the initial person to back up their claim.
You don't have to forget anything, just contextualize it. The United States already tried installing a puppet government in Iran and it went terribly. They were so unpopular that the CIA set up state-sponsored torture rings to quell dissent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAVAK
Going back to the old way foments instability that jeopardizes the Gulf States, with precisely zero upsides to anyone that isn't a net oil exporter (namely, the US and Russia). If this was about protecting against genocide then the US would be invading Sudan and Gaza, not Iran. The death toll has nothing to do with how American leadership sees this conflict, and it has been like that for over half of a century.
We're not going to the moon. We're going around the moon. You wouldn't say you went to Chicago if you drove in a circle around it without entering the city.
Don't forget blowing up boats we think might be drugs and then purposely killing the survivors on the orders of the self-proclaimed US Secretary of War. "no quarter, no mercy"
Love seeing Sid posting about this and taking the initiative he has. I wish I'd had the resources and time (and abilities of Sid) when my Dad got ALS considering the relatively poor state of ALS treatments.
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