You state such a thing (diversity) cannot EVER possibly be true. The OP and I testify otherwise. From lived experience - mine with nothing to do with Switerland (or Canada in case you are guessing).

Consider today then whether the Serbo-Croation war could ever be possible under your model of reality (who would fight who?). Except it was.

Stop making silly assumptions to narrow the beautiful diversity of the world so as to fit your polemic.

Well, he convinced me. (Largely because I have lived in countries with communities like that).

[Out of curiosity, does my testimony change your mind?]

The things that bother some people.

Sadly, this is true for a lot of engineering jobs too.

Whether they learn anything is irrelevant.

Sadly, the thug also knows this. But what the thug (=ruling party) does know is whether an entire voting district votes for the opposition.

Then they come down hard on the entire district. In all sorts of creative ways.

Modulo that all stealthy fighters will look somewhat similar, you do know why the F-35 looks like the Russian Yak-141?

Yakolev was in a IP-technology-transfer with agreement with Lockheed Martin from 1991 to 1995 (approx) to show LM how it was done.

[1] https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/did-old-russian-jet-h...

Oh please… 28 US states have actual legislation to prohibit state offices from doing business with companies or individuals that even threaten to boycott Israel.

Not far from how NBA employees get censored by China.

And there is more to come…

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Anti-Boycott_Act

In real USD.

https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/four-things-you-should-know-if-...

And that there is the problem from which no argument about checks and balances can recover.

Which is why real democracies don't allow secret courts.

Of course not.

[Where and how people spend their money is the best way of measuring what people really think].

Which way do you think the trend points?

If so, Hauwei must be very happy.