Comments by "Rita Gameiro" (@puraLusa) on "CNN contributors react to university chancellor's racist remarks during speech" video.

@MrDarchangelomni bonobos are not nice with individuals outside their group. But I get u, and ur right, we should go beyond our basic behavior (which humans are very capable of) and do better, be smarter, specially if u are giving a speach in public. But hey 🤷‍♀️at least this time around there are consequences, so it's an improvement, albeit small.
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@MrDarchangelomni well written, and yes I fully agree.
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@MrDarchangelomni 😁 thanks. Once I interviewed a prison director, she told me: "prison is full individuals who didn't learn to deal with frustration, not full of criminals necessarily". Maybe peeps started pounding that frustration in keyboard mode, so we tend to find not so savery responses. But u can also find meaningful intersections. I use these to learn. As for the pseudo-bullies, I have my way of dealing with them since school, many years ago. My trick is humour, I just make fun of them 😁
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@MrDarchangelomni oh I'm not american, I'm in portugal. We have a very lenient penal sistem. We are also know to be progressive with drug related stuff, consuming drugs isn't ilegal, just dealing them is. Anyway u can buy pot in some tabaco stores. Yeah, usa penal code is extreme when it comes to small stuff. Portugal I consider too lenient. But hey, we both are lucky, we weren't born in afghanistan or some other harsh country.
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@MrDarchangelomni well, romance languages aren't necessarily the original languages in many parts of europe. Basque survived latinization. And here in iberia it wouldn't be arabic but a dead language (inquisition done that) and very much an european one that was a mixture with arabic but not arabic itself. As for germany, I hace a feeling that it wouldn't last. It was a one man show, and like others with its death, the show would die. Europe has been forever changing. Portugal and spain didn't exist prior to the reconquista, most european countries in their modern form are not old. Countries and borders are political constructions and europe is mostly a product of successive impositions of said borders and countries. Hence why EU works so well, for once people can conect to their respective cultural groups and cross border for such without state control and aparatus. Basque is a great example, there are basque who ended up being spain territory but there are basques who ended up being french territory, EU is what made basques reunite with each other fully, albeit been so long in political distance that both developed their own subgroups. About portugal, what is interesting isn't the reconquista, but the fact it kept itself independant of spain. Actually pretty weird taking to account the lack of human power and that it was mostly done thru diplomacy, even though there are a few batles. The most interesting batle is called atolados, and portugal had zero casualties, this in medieval times makes it quite the story.
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@MrDarchangelomni china is a mess for what I read about. As for portugal, u are overrating it. Arabic is actually a language known to be beautifully poetic. Anyways, having english as lengua franca is nice, very practical. As for not speaking german, 🤷‍♀️it's europe, it was bound to fail.
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@B_Bodziak also, the countries u are refering to have small amounts of population and a fairly homogeneous majority. Many factors play at that. It's a vicious cicle, but being more lenient can be tricky. Portugal is known for being lenient and that has influence in safety. For example, domestic abuse related to drugs turns into murder, here the guy gets at most 25 years (that's the max). Then he gets out on some program and voilá it isn't the wife who gets the beating, it's the mother, or the kids, or whoever. 🤷‍♀️There isn't a perfect answer, all options have consequences. Here it is the n1 crime, its called passion crimes and its usually women getting killed by a partner. Than u have situations of petty crime and the guys doing it knowing the police won't dona thing about it, cause lenient sistem, they get right out after meering the judge, and at most get a slap on the reast. And, as for rehabilitation, we have it, but guess what, most guys in prison don't cooperate with it if it doesn't mean getring out early.
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