40+ years and trillions of dollars after Johnson declared war on poverty and here we are wondering how to enslave more generations in poverty with even more expensive schemes.
If people want to see where this gets them, just look up here to Canada. ~100 years of the federal government paying natives under treaty, and it's effectively collapsed their entire culture and society. Laziness is an inherent human trait, and without something that pushes large swaths of society to improve themselves it just all goes screaming downhill.
You're a jap chank in a land of Whites who hates diversity and to top it off, you're a goddamned Canuk. Your opinions for America don't matter. Does the nagger get a say at the klan meetings now?
Get THE FUCK outta here.
Either shitty troll, or typical progressive. Not sure which since the messaging is the same.
p.s. any reasonable person dislikes diversity, it's only the people who have self-guilt or self-loathing that openly support it.
Because the 'best person' for the job is the person Exactly like me. That mindset leaves discrimination and elitism in place. Yes, forcing people to choose the disadvantaged was a problem, but a small one because no business depends on employees having a WASP-lifestyle.
Really? So why was it that so many tech oriented startups that believed in meritocracy no longer exist. But instead of hiring the best person, they're hiring the 300 lbs, blue haired, snowflake that screeches about microagressions and has never coded a day in their life.
You repubtards are so deep in denial it isn't even funny anymore.
All you do is point fingers and blame people for your own fucking mistakes. I hope the repubtard party dies soon. You guys aren't even remotely able to work with others. You are all selfish pricks who put R before anything else.
So fuck all of the die hard repubtards who out R before anything else. You guys are idiots.
Yes, sure thing. The political capital of the democrats is going so well these days. So very well, wonder how unhinged you'll become if they continue to lose in the house and senate in a few weeks. Though the irony of using repubtards...the party of tolerance and caring on display.
It might be easy to find some hyper-environmentalists and trot them out, but it doesn't mean they own the mind share of the left.
Well that's the thing, if I walk through downtown Toronto or San Fran. And pump out "gmo's are poison" or "we need to eliminate half the population to stop climate change" you'll see far more people on the left nodding their head, agreeing or other crap. You've got plenty of people even here on/. that believe that censorship is a good thing, though that's heavily changed over the last 4 years or so. Now it's only the most die hard individuals who support censorship being promoted by the left.
Yeah and the right doesn't have a monopoly on "crazy/bad/wrong" things either, thing is if you've done a political switch like I did oh 20 years ago. You see just how far the left are willing to go to cover up those crazy/bad/wrong things no matter the circumstances. The funny thing with infowars is it's been wrong as much as it's been right, and they have covered things that the mainstream doesn't touch that turn out to be true - and the opposite of course.
The US doesn't have CANDU reactors and allowing the US to export its MOX to Canada isn't entirely uncontroversial.
In other words, it's an environmentalist problem just like 30 years ago. The environuts screech that "the end is coming" "CO2 will kill us all..." and then protest against nuclear power which per KWh is dirt cheap, and won't have a serious impact against the economy unlike renewables.
Why even both? Designs like CANDU can already incorporate raw plutonium into the fuel mix. This screeching environmentalism run amok at fuel refinement.
I would define as being, at a bare minimum, whatever "living wage" is presently defined at.
That's called "the poverty line" and the minimum wage is generally pretty close to that level. That also means $15/hr in san fran, ca for example will mean you're poorer then the person working in macon, ga at $8/hr.
I never suggested they should be paid the same. I suggested that they should both be making a decent wage, which means that they are both making *AT LEAST* enough money to functionally live on (if they are working full time, that is... if they are not, then the amount they make should be proportionally less), independently, in society without further depending on any government assistance or subsidization.
Except that's where this always ends up in this line of reasoning. A "decent wage" is variable to the person. If I lived in Toronto, Ontario and was making $120k/year I'd barely be making ends meet, that's around $55/hr. On the other hand if I live in Ingersoll, Ontario and making $120k/year I'd be exceptionally wealthy. That's about three times the median income.
Not even a little bit, no.... Honestly, while I do have pretty strong socialist leanings, I would posiitvely *NOT* advocate a UBI in our current society. I can imagine it may ultimately become necessary at some point in time, but I think that if it does, society itself will have already changed in whatever major ways were necessary for it to actually work. Not that I know precisely what these ways are, but I know that we are not there yet, and I doubt we will be even in my grandchildren's lifetime, let alone mine.
That's a good thing, because as I mentioned we can already see it in action.
Well it sure explains the original 'net neutrality' that the US had under Obama that was 300 pages of regulations written by the tech industry and telecom giants.
If the republicans are perpetual victims of such bias from everyone- how do they have the current president and hold both houses?
Republicans don't see themselves as perpetual victims, but they acknowledge that there are particular organizations that are biased against them and between the two? You bet. There's *a lot* of money at stake, and the democrats/progressives and in general most of the left are pro-globalization/demolishing western culture/etc and this directly aligns with progressive agenda 'we can change the world because reasons.' Note that here in the west the left have had a monopoly on media and education for the better part of 40 years. I use "the left" in a broad term in this case, but you can round it out from environmentalism shifting to hyper-environmentalism that humans need to die. To higher education moving from that into a diploma mill situation where the shittiest courses(gender studies and the ilk of shitty humanities courses), are mandatory or you can't graduate or even pass the first year and teaching that republicans/conservatives/libertarians are evil/wrong/degenerates or whatever else. Or that "speech is dangerous" or "speech is violence" that are commonly used by progressives and the left, you can round it out with the blanket uses of racist, sexist, misogynist, rapist, and nazi if you're feeling ambitious.
Now you ask how can they hold both houses and the president. That one is far easier, because the rest of society has had enough of the politically correct, don't say mean words, if you say the wrong thing we'll ruin your life, we need to pander to special interests that amount to 0.02% of the population, we can find the money for illegals/foreign country/some special cause - but we can't find the $1.17/mo for people on social assistance, or disability, the person waiting 18 months for cataract surgery(to use an example from here in Ontario), fuck you and your "but I just want a nice blue collar job" you're gonna work 3 jobs in the service industry and like it pleb, "culture - lol? diversity is our strength, you don't have a culture" "we need to import more people from the 3rd world, oh and raise your taxes to do it" bullshit that's been building up over the last ~15-20ish years or so. This isn't unique to the US either, over the last couple of years here in Canada the same thing has happened.
How can you be the "victim party" that faces everyone's bias and be the party in power?
See this is the part where it diverges, this isn't a republican issue. It's a people who don't buy into the identity politics and who is or isn't pushing it, you've seen it already. ~30-40 years ago? You betcha that conservatives were doing the same. But now we've got the groups who blame men for whatever reasons, they're the fault of all of societies ills, push all men are rapists/abusers/etc. Tell whites or asians that they're privileged, so they don't deserve the spot in university/job openings for only particular groups of people. It has to go to the person who's 'getting their scores adjusted' because they couldn't cut it otherwise. That *insert minority/trendy sexual identity/etc* should have the job because *random diversity reason here* and not the best person for the job. A decade ago everyone had pretty much bought into it? Oh you bet their ass they did, it was trendy hot shit. Everyone bought into the "we need to help people" well helping is good and believed that it was a case of "this person didn't have the resources, so lets help them out." It turns out that people have problems when the unqualified or diversity pick gets pushed through a head of them though because it simply "looks good for social capital."
But, now the interesting part. Look at the media, entertainment rags, and whatever else for the last couple of days over Kanye West. What do we have left-leaningm progressives, their pundits and democrats saying? He's a house negro, dumb, token, white supremacist, minstrel(aka puppet). That
In short, I don't think Google can put up a walled garden, no matter what they try. They're a browser based service, and as such will always be subject to the disconnected nature of browsers.
Newspapers also didn't believe that if they went walled garden it wouldn't backfire in a spectacular fashion either, but it did. The thing is, google might try to do it if it looks like there are massive drop-offs in continuous users, but enough of a user base to remain profitable. In the worst case scenario? They try to leverage their ad service so it only works with one or two browsers, in turn sites starved for money try to force users to use a particular browser. The usual useragent tricks no longer work as the browser requires authing off a unique hash.
There's plenty of ways they could do it, of course they'd also set themselves up for some ripe trustbusting.
Again, most of the child rapists in the UK were second or third generation, i.e. born in Britain and British citizens. The fact that they were mostly Asian and Muslim has been discussed on major TV programmes extensively, and in newspapers and in Parliament and at the inquest into what happened.
Uh...the inquest stated that most of the people were immigrants who'd been in the UK for a period greater then 1 year. The average time they'd been in the country was 4 years. That doesn't make them 1st generation. And being born in another country and immigrating with your parents doesn't make you 1st generation either.
What upsets people is that these discussions don't consider the fake news reports, so they think things are being covered up.
So what's "fake news" about it happening over and over again, the police, councils, and child protection services covering it up. And then when there's an inquiry into it, the inquiry comes back stating that they didn't investigate because they were afraid of being labeled racist. Then a year later, the same shit is still going on...the police aren't investigating, the councils are covering it up, and child protection services are looking the other way. That's the very definition of "covering it up." And then there was the "trojan horse scandal" and...well what do you know, it happened in other cities too and the response was the same. And the police, and councils and education boards ALSO simply ignored it and yet it's still happening.
Man it's like there's systemic failures in the UK, and nobody wants to do anything for fear of being labeled racist.
To put it simply? Google became normized, dropped functions and search options that made it popular and then started 'curating results' that it believes you should see instead of of what you're searching for. You made a point about how bad it's gotten for OS/FOSS type stuff, but it's almost impossible to find information with google for generic troubleshooting of windows codes these days. The bit about google being focused on gossip and social drama? Well probably more truth to that then we think, google wanted to be the "search page" of the internet, the first thing everyone went to for everything from email to news. They got there, and...it all went to shit.
There's an upside with this though, it's fostering competitive behavior and people are looking for other options. Now the question will be, will google try to go full walled garden when people move to other sites or try to bring people back.
But tea made with water at 70C tastes bloody awful! That's saving two minutes to complain for the next ten it tastes horrible.
That doesn't matter. The whole point is that people do it, people get sick from doing it. And they get sick because they don't want to wait to take an action that would take longer and is safer. Laziness almost always wins out, the fastest and easiest path.
50 year plans? In a democracy? JFC, man, are you trying to kill me with laughter? Most countries can't keep a plan going past the next lost election, much less for two generations.
You're showing your fundamental ignorance of the world.
Seriously, get your head out of your ass.
You first, you've managed to show in two sentences that your understanding of politics and social change is so poorly lacking that you've never been involved in politics beyond a surface level...aka voting.
If a job is so menial that it doesn't justify paying a person to do it a decent wage if they are doing it full time, then it's not a job that should be done by people at all.
Really? Seems to me most people like to have purpose in their lives, like to work. Many of those menial jobs, were filled by people who failed education or have mental problems. Gives them a chance to function in society, work with people, humanizes them.
If that's not an option, then if society still needs the job to be done, then it follows that it must be worth paying someone a decent wage to do it... and how mundane anyone else might find that job to be is irrelevant.
This is wrong. The definition of "decent wage" is never defined, a person who works as a janitor will never make the same as a person who's a line selector. But both jobs have value to the person in question.
To suggest otherwise is to treat people who work at such low paying jobs as less than human.
No, to treat a person being paid such a job is a sign of arrogance and the belief that's all they can ever amount to.
Besides, I have strong idea that I know where your entire reasoning is going to end up. Some form of "basic income" project, and believing that it would solve all social ills. Let me tell you a thing about that, Canada has been operating a basic income plan for natives for nearly 100 years at this point, they get money and are required to do nothing. You know what this has led to?
Social decay, cultural decay, moral decay. There's no desire to improve because you always get the money. Drug abuse is rampant, other forms of substance abuse is rampant. I'm sure you heard about the "inquiry into missing native women" or whatever it's called too. A FYI, that's the second one...the results were the same as the first one. All those missing native girls and women? Killed mainly by other natives, entire problem swept under the rug. To make matters worse, this independent inquiry which was made mainly made up by natives then decided it wasn't important anymore because it cast their entire culture in a bad light. To put simply, they refused to be introspective of why things were as they were.
If talking is dictating, democracy is slavery and war is peace.
Except that's not what they said. Read their other replies, and you'll figure it out.
Besides, if you want to talk about dictating, start with the religious and the Tea Party.
You mean the same tea party that thew out neocons because of their lust for wars? Wanted smaller government and less taxation? Hey did you notice where all those neocons went? To the democrats, progressives. Noticed how well and warmly they were welcomed and with open arms?
They're the ones who will not tolerate dissension and who demand everything is their way.
Really? I don't seem to remember them beating the piss out of people for refusing to align their political beliefs to them. Or openly advocating for violence. Hell they even picked up after themselves when they had protests and didn't leave trash around. Want to see what a group that doesn't tolerate dissent looks like? Try the democrats, their pundits who make comments like, might go take a look at CNN's pundits a few days ago. How about antifa, who assault people who don't fall in line?
In Britain, it's the religious who are threatening to overthrow May's government if they don't have things their way.
Yeah but "what" religious. It's not Christians now is it, since they constitute what 8% of the population. But you sure do have all those muslims making those demands, and of course you've also got a rampant anti-semitism problem in UK politics too...gee...I wonder what from?
When was the last time you heard threats to depose a government by a geneticist or mathematician?
Haven't been paying attention to the communist agitators in your local university have you?
So you're a simple authoritarian, who believes that "intervention" aka "imperialism" is the solution to countries who don't bow to your view of how things should be.
Which is why the database that the swedish government seized, which shows that 80% of the crimes were being committed by 'migrants' or whatever term you europeans want to label illegals as. Sorry, you can try painting this bullshit whatever way you want. In the UK, you've got all those child rape gangs and those are being committed by people who've migrated. In Canada, we just had our first bust in BC of a child rape/grooming gang...again migrants.
A girl by the name of Mirassa Shen was murdered in BC...by a 'migrant' who'd been in the country mere months. They charged him with 1st degree murder. Now here's the interesting part, in Canada there are two ways to get a 1st degree murder charge: Premeditation is the first key element here, meaning they had to plan, know, stalk, and then execute their plan. The other way is by rape and murder. Police have already stated that there was no premeditation, that neither person knew each other. So let's finish up, because I'll keep it in Canada. There are now hotels and motels being used as "migrant shelters" vandalism, theft, assault 1, robbery 1&2, sexual assault(1 - not rape), sexual assault(2 - rape) are clustered around these places. They're not shitholes in the cities, these places are in the downtown core in many cases.
But by all means, keep pretending that importing people who are culturally non-compatible, believe that they can "take" whatever they want, that women are worth less then a man. Are doing great things for society...
You mean the guy who's so in love with death he wants to kill half the universe to prove that he really loves her? Don't we have enough problems keeping China from engaging in "imperialism"(that westeners who protested european powers of doing are silent on), or stopping slavery. Do we really want someone like that instead?
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40+ years and trillions of dollars after Johnson declared war on poverty and here we are wondering how to enslave more generations in poverty with even more expensive schemes.
If people want to see where this gets them, just look up here to Canada. ~100 years of the federal government paying natives under treaty, and it's effectively collapsed their entire culture and society. Laziness is an inherent human trait, and without something that pushes large swaths of society to improve themselves it just all goes screaming downhill.
fuck off you ignorant cunt
The height of intellectualism right there.
You're a jap chank in a land of Whites who hates diversity and to top it off, you're a goddamned Canuk. Your opinions for America don't matter. Does the nagger get a say at the klan meetings now?
Get THE FUCK outta here.
Either shitty troll, or typical progressive. Not sure which since the messaging is the same.
p.s. any reasonable person dislikes diversity, it's only the people who have self-guilt or self-loathing that openly support it.
Because the 'best person' for the job is the person Exactly like me. That mindset leaves discrimination and elitism in place. Yes, forcing people to choose the disadvantaged was a problem, but a small one because no business depends on employees having a WASP-lifestyle.
Really? So why was it that so many tech oriented startups that believed in meritocracy no longer exist. But instead of hiring the best person, they're hiring the 300 lbs, blue haired, snowflake that screeches about microagressions and has never coded a day in their life.
You repubtards are so deep in denial it isn't even funny anymore.
All you do is point fingers and blame people for your own fucking mistakes. I hope the repubtard party dies soon. You guys aren't even remotely able to work with others. You are all selfish pricks who put R before anything else.
So fuck all of the die hard repubtards who out R before anything else. You guys are idiots.
Yes, sure thing. The political capital of the democrats is going so well these days. So very well, wonder how unhinged you'll become if they continue to lose in the house and senate in a few weeks. Though the irony of using repubtards...the party of tolerance and caring on display.
It might be easy to find some hyper-environmentalists and trot them out, but it doesn't mean they own the mind share of the left.
Well that's the thing, if I walk through downtown Toronto or San Fran. And pump out "gmo's are poison" or "we need to eliminate half the population to stop climate change" you'll see far more people on the left nodding their head, agreeing or other crap. You've got plenty of people even here on /. that believe that censorship is a good thing, though that's heavily changed over the last 4 years or so. Now it's only the most die hard individuals who support censorship being promoted by the left.
Yeah and the right doesn't have a monopoly on "crazy/bad/wrong" things either, thing is if you've done a political switch like I did oh 20 years ago. You see just how far the left are willing to go to cover up those crazy/bad/wrong things no matter the circumstances. The funny thing with infowars is it's been wrong as much as it's been right, and they have covered things that the mainstream doesn't touch that turn out to be true - and the opposite of course.
Good points.
The US doesn't have CANDU reactors and allowing the US to export its MOX to Canada isn't entirely uncontroversial.
In other words, it's an environmentalist problem just like 30 years ago. The environuts screech that "the end is coming" "CO2 will kill us all..." and then protest against nuclear power which per KWh is dirt cheap, and won't have a serious impact against the economy unlike renewables.
Not sure about that, they're having a typhoid outbreak. That hasn't happened in nearly 100 years in a western country.
Why even both? Designs like CANDU can already incorporate raw plutonium into the fuel mix. This screeching environmentalism run amok at fuel refinement.
I would define as being, at a bare minimum, whatever "living wage" is presently defined at.
That's called "the poverty line" and the minimum wage is generally pretty close to that level. That also means $15/hr in san fran, ca for example will mean you're poorer then the person working in macon, ga at $8/hr.
I never suggested they should be paid the same. I suggested that they should both be making a decent wage, which means that they are both making *AT LEAST* enough money to functionally live on (if they are working full time, that is... if they are not, then the amount they make should be proportionally less), independently, in society without further depending on any government assistance or subsidization.
Except that's where this always ends up in this line of reasoning. A "decent wage" is variable to the person. If I lived in Toronto, Ontario and was making $120k/year I'd barely be making ends meet, that's around $55/hr. On the other hand if I live in Ingersoll, Ontario and making $120k/year I'd be exceptionally wealthy. That's about three times the median income.
Not even a little bit, no.... Honestly, while I do have pretty strong socialist leanings, I would posiitvely *NOT* advocate a UBI in our current society. I can imagine it may ultimately become necessary at some point in time, but I think that if it does, society itself will have already changed in whatever major ways were necessary for it to actually work. Not that I know precisely what these ways are, but I know that we are not there yet, and I doubt we will be even in my grandchildren's lifetime, let alone mine.
That's a good thing, because as I mentioned we can already see it in action.
Well it sure explains the original 'net neutrality' that the US had under Obama that was 300 pages of regulations written by the tech industry and telecom giants.
If the republicans are perpetual victims of such bias from everyone- how do they have the current president and hold both houses?
Republicans don't see themselves as perpetual victims, but they acknowledge that there are particular organizations that are biased against them and between the two? You bet. There's *a lot* of money at stake, and the democrats/progressives and in general most of the left are pro-globalization/demolishing western culture/etc and this directly aligns with progressive agenda 'we can change the world because reasons.' Note that here in the west the left have had a monopoly on media and education for the better part of 40 years. I use "the left" in a broad term in this case, but you can round it out from environmentalism shifting to hyper-environmentalism that humans need to die. To higher education moving from that into a diploma mill situation where the shittiest courses(gender studies and the ilk of shitty humanities courses), are mandatory or you can't graduate or even pass the first year and teaching that republicans/conservatives/libertarians are evil/wrong/degenerates or whatever else. Or that "speech is dangerous" or "speech is violence" that are commonly used by progressives and the left, you can round it out with the blanket uses of racist, sexist, misogynist, rapist, and nazi if you're feeling ambitious.
Now you ask how can they hold both houses and the president. That one is far easier, because the rest of society has had enough of the politically correct, don't say mean words, if you say the wrong thing we'll ruin your life, we need to pander to special interests that amount to 0.02% of the population, we can find the money for illegals/foreign country/some special cause - but we can't find the $1.17/mo for people on social assistance, or disability, the person waiting 18 months for cataract surgery(to use an example from here in Ontario), fuck you and your "but I just want a nice blue collar job" you're gonna work 3 jobs in the service industry and like it pleb, "culture - lol? diversity is our strength, you don't have a culture" "we need to import more people from the 3rd world, oh and raise your taxes to do it" bullshit that's been building up over the last ~15-20ish years or so. This isn't unique to the US either, over the last couple of years here in Canada the same thing has happened.
How can you be the "victim party" that faces everyone's bias and be the party in power?
See this is the part where it diverges, this isn't a republican issue. It's a people who don't buy into the identity politics and who is or isn't pushing it, you've seen it already. ~30-40 years ago? You betcha that conservatives were doing the same. But now we've got the groups who blame men for whatever reasons, they're the fault of all of societies ills, push all men are rapists/abusers/etc. Tell whites or asians that they're privileged, so they don't deserve the spot in university/job openings for only particular groups of people. It has to go to the person who's 'getting their scores adjusted' because they couldn't cut it otherwise. That *insert minority/trendy sexual identity/etc* should have the job because *random diversity reason here* and not the best person for the job. A decade ago everyone had pretty much bought into it? Oh you bet their ass they did, it was trendy hot shit. Everyone bought into the "we need to help people" well helping is good and believed that it was a case of "this person didn't have the resources, so lets help them out." It turns out that people have problems when the unqualified or diversity pick gets pushed through a head of them though because it simply "looks good for social capital."
But, now the interesting part. Look at the media, entertainment rags, and whatever else for the last couple of days over Kanye West. What do we have left-leaningm progressives, their pundits and democrats saying? He's a house negro, dumb, token, white supremacist, minstrel(aka puppet). That
In short, I don't think Google can put up a walled garden, no matter what they try. They're a browser based service, and as such will always be subject to the disconnected nature of browsers.
Newspapers also didn't believe that if they went walled garden it wouldn't backfire in a spectacular fashion either, but it did. The thing is, google might try to do it if it looks like there are massive drop-offs in continuous users, but enough of a user base to remain profitable. In the worst case scenario? They try to leverage their ad service so it only works with one or two browsers, in turn sites starved for money try to force users to use a particular browser. The usual useragent tricks no longer work as the browser requires authing off a unique hash.
There's plenty of ways they could do it, of course they'd also set themselves up for some ripe trustbusting.
Again, most of the child rapists in the UK were second or third generation, i.e. born in Britain and British citizens. The fact that they were mostly Asian and Muslim has been discussed on major TV programmes extensively, and in newspapers and in Parliament and at the inquest into what happened.
Uh...the inquest stated that most of the people were immigrants who'd been in the UK for a period greater then 1 year. The average time they'd been in the country was 4 years. That doesn't make them 1st generation. And being born in another country and immigrating with your parents doesn't make you 1st generation either.
What upsets people is that these discussions don't consider the fake news reports, so they think things are being covered up.
So what's "fake news" about it happening over and over again, the police, councils, and child protection services covering it up. And then when there's an inquiry into it, the inquiry comes back stating that they didn't investigate because they were afraid of being labeled racist. Then a year later, the same shit is still going on...the police aren't investigating, the councils are covering it up, and child protection services are looking the other way. That's the very definition of "covering it up." And then there was the "trojan horse scandal" and...well what do you know, it happened in other cities too and the response was the same. And the police, and councils and education boards ALSO simply ignored it and yet it's still happening.
Man it's like there's systemic failures in the UK, and nobody wants to do anything for fear of being labeled racist.
To put it simply? Google became normized, dropped functions and search options that made it popular and then started 'curating results' that it believes you should see instead of of what you're searching for. You made a point about how bad it's gotten for OS/FOSS type stuff, but it's almost impossible to find information with google for generic troubleshooting of windows codes these days. The bit about google being focused on gossip and social drama? Well probably more truth to that then we think, google wanted to be the "search page" of the internet, the first thing everyone went to for everything from email to news. They got there, and...it all went to shit.
There's an upside with this though, it's fostering competitive behavior and people are looking for other options. Now the question will be, will google try to go full walled garden when people move to other sites or try to bring people back.
But tea made with water at 70C tastes bloody awful! That's saving two minutes to complain for the next ten it tastes horrible.
That doesn't matter. The whole point is that people do it, people get sick from doing it. And they get sick because they don't want to wait to take an action that would take longer and is safer. Laziness almost always wins out, the fastest and easiest path.
Depends on which half gets killed.
Good question, so I'm guessing you're volunteering first? I mean he did give people that option.
50 year plans? In a democracy? JFC, man, are you trying to kill me with laughter? Most countries can't keep a plan going past the next lost election, much less for two generations.
You're showing your fundamental ignorance of the world.
Seriously, get your head out of your ass.
You first, you've managed to show in two sentences that your understanding of politics and social change is so poorly lacking that you've never been involved in politics beyond a surface level...aka voting.
If a job is so menial that it doesn't justify paying a person to do it a decent wage if they are doing it full time, then it's not a job that should be done by people at all.
Really? Seems to me most people like to have purpose in their lives, like to work. Many of those menial jobs, were filled by people who failed education or have mental problems. Gives them a chance to function in society, work with people, humanizes them.
If that's not an option, then if society still needs the job to be done, then it follows that it must be worth paying someone a decent wage to do it... and how mundane anyone else might find that job to be is irrelevant.
This is wrong. The definition of "decent wage" is never defined, a person who works as a janitor will never make the same as a person who's a line selector. But both jobs have value to the person in question.
To suggest otherwise is to treat people who work at such low paying jobs as less than human.
No, to treat a person being paid such a job is a sign of arrogance and the belief that's all they can ever amount to.
Besides, I have strong idea that I know where your entire reasoning is going to end up. Some form of "basic income" project, and believing that it would solve all social ills. Let me tell you a thing about that, Canada has been operating a basic income plan for natives for nearly 100 years at this point, they get money and are required to do nothing. You know what this has led to?
Social decay, cultural decay, moral decay. There's no desire to improve because you always get the money. Drug abuse is rampant, other forms of substance abuse is rampant. I'm sure you heard about the "inquiry into missing native women" or whatever it's called too. A FYI, that's the second one...the results were the same as the first one. All those missing native girls and women? Killed mainly by other natives, entire problem swept under the rug. To make matters worse, this independent inquiry which was made mainly made up by natives then decided it wasn't important anymore because it cast their entire culture in a bad light. To put simply, they refused to be introspective of why things were as they were.
The feeding of left over animal parts to other animals was pursued aggressively by Britain during WW2
Yeah you got that spot on. Blame my canadian centric farming knowledge on that, and that I completely forgot about that clusterfuck.
If talking is dictating, democracy is slavery and war is peace.
Except that's not what they said. Read their other replies, and you'll figure it out.
Besides, if you want to talk about dictating, start with the religious and the Tea Party.
You mean the same tea party that thew out neocons because of their lust for wars? Wanted smaller government and less taxation? Hey did you notice where all those neocons went? To the democrats, progressives. Noticed how well and warmly they were welcomed and with open arms?
They're the ones who will not tolerate dissension and who demand everything is their way.
Really? I don't seem to remember them beating the piss out of people for refusing to align their political beliefs to them. Or openly advocating for violence. Hell they even picked up after themselves when they had protests and didn't leave trash around. Want to see what a group that doesn't tolerate dissent looks like? Try the democrats, their pundits who make comments like, might go take a look at CNN's pundits a few days ago. How about antifa, who assault people who don't fall in line?
In Britain, it's the religious who are threatening to overthrow May's government if they don't have things their way.
Yeah but "what" religious. It's not Christians now is it, since they constitute what 8% of the population. But you sure do have all those muslims making those demands, and of course you've also got a rampant anti-semitism problem in UK politics too...gee...I wonder what from?
When was the last time you heard threats to depose a government by a geneticist or mathematician?
Haven't been paying attention to the communist agitators in your local university have you?
So you're a simple authoritarian, who believes that "intervention" aka "imperialism" is the solution to countries who don't bow to your view of how things should be.
Which is why the database that the swedish government seized, which shows that 80% of the crimes were being committed by 'migrants' or whatever term you europeans want to label illegals as. Sorry, you can try painting this bullshit whatever way you want. In the UK, you've got all those child rape gangs and those are being committed by people who've migrated. In Canada, we just had our first bust in BC of a child rape/grooming gang...again migrants.
A girl by the name of Mirassa Shen was murdered in BC...by a 'migrant' who'd been in the country mere months. They charged him with 1st degree murder. Now here's the interesting part, in Canada there are two ways to get a 1st degree murder charge: Premeditation is the first key element here, meaning they had to plan, know, stalk, and then execute their plan. The other way is by rape and murder. Police have already stated that there was no premeditation, that neither person knew each other. So let's finish up, because I'll keep it in Canada. There are now hotels and motels being used as "migrant shelters" vandalism, theft, assault 1, robbery 1&2, sexual assault(1 - not rape), sexual assault(2 - rape) are clustered around these places. They're not shitholes in the cities, these places are in the downtown core in many cases.
But by all means, keep pretending that importing people who are culturally non-compatible, believe that they can "take" whatever they want, that women are worth less then a man. Are doing great things for society...
You mean the guy who's so in love with death he wants to kill half the universe to prove that he really loves her? Don't we have enough problems keeping China from engaging in "imperialism"(that westeners who protested european powers of doing are silent on), or stopping slavery. Do we really want someone like that instead?