God, that is so sick. Humans are vile creatures. What the hell is wrong with us that we do these things? Just eat vegetables, they're right there and don't harm any living things.
Look, the government needs money. They're broke, and searching for new, innovative sources of revenue. If you're going to shit all over them like some kind of libertarian wacko, don't be surprised when nobody pays attention to the crazy old man shouting in the street. If you have a better idea to raise more money, let's hear it, otherwise STFU.
Why build the trolleys in Michigan? You realize this sort of thing just empowers Trump? Gives him ammunition? After Michigan's disgraceful performance in the election, you'd think responsible interntional countries would locate a new plant anywhere BUT Michigan.
Yeah, you're right man. In any just system, rural voters should be ignored in favor of what big-city people want. After all, they're not deplorable and representation in government should be determined by moral judgements levied by people who clearly desire the annihilation of your culture.
Voter ID is clearly racist. Unless it's the Democrats voting in their own internal elections, in which case voter ID is essential to prevent unauthorized people from voting.
This kind of ruthless, hateful attitudes are why so many Americans are questioning why we're allied with Europe. Why should we defend a bunch of jerks who despise us and laugh while they refuse to defend themselves? Jerks who take great joy in the suffering of others? I can't imagine why nobody wants to defend your ungrateful, hypercriticial asses.
But poor people aren't buying these kind of bikes. Because they're poor. The poor buy Wal-Mart bikes, or buy stolen bikes. The kind of people who buy these taxed bikes can afford the extra money.
It's just hilarious how the Left calls for everything to be taxed out the wazoo, and then suddenly it's not funny any more when one of THEIR precious ideals gets taxed.
Well, this is too late for Podesta, whose password reset email is archived for public viewing here. If Google had had this protection back then, he would likely be Secretary of State under Hillary now. But instead he's stewing in his own juices, infuriated over the election result. Why's he so upset, though? I thought he was used to coming in a little behind...
It's surprisingly common. A woman seems nice and true, and then you marry her. After she has children, her whole worldview changes. Things that weren't important to her before, suddenly become super-important. She can't get them herself, so she begins urging her husband to get them for her. When he can't or won't, she begins requesting again and again. This will never stop. This is one of the reasons that slapping a woman used to be socially acceptable, because it would bring an end to this. Of course, we don't do that any more, and under the Duluth Model all men are automatically assumed guilty in any domestic abuse case. Progress!
Easy: to be able to get a tourist visa, you have to demonstrate that you have ties to your home country and you'll be going back. US State Department assumes anyone coming to America is an illegal immigrant until proven otherwise.
I bet dimes to dollars these girls are going to ditch their robot projects and make a beeline for the nearest sanctuary city, and will refuse to return to Afghanistan. This is why it's so hard for people from China, India, etc. to get US visas. They have a really bad track record of not going back home.
Just because something is an awful idea doesn't mean the Deep State won't try it. Look at what they did to Iraq, was that a good idea? And Egypt. And Libya. And Syria. And, and, and. They're experimenters, fiddlers. They like to mess with stuff. They're insulated from the consequences of their failures, so why not? It's not their kids dying out there.
Massive import tarriffs on goods - that's an interesting topic. Do you know that China slaps ALL incoming US goods with a 17% across the board tax? And THEN taxes the goods according to the type of product? You'll notice America doesn't do the same. It's odd how American products can't compete in China, odd I say. Almost evil, even.
Wholly owned foreign companies have been available for investment since around 2001. What news have you been watching? It's probably fake news.
China has its own homegrown equivalents to Google/Youtube/Facebook and is doing just fine. Didn't you get the memo?
I'm not sure where you went with the race-obsessed thing, but you finally hit the nail on the head right before you finished.
And some American productions deliberately use big name Asian actors (ie. Rogue One) as a drawing card for getting more butts in theaters in Asia. I'm not seeing anything wrong with that. If a guy like John Cho gets better roles as a result of this kind of thing, I'm seeing that as a big plus.
This is what I was talking about. It's not a drawing card. Only ignorant people would assume that. It's blatant pandering to China and Chinese audiences see right through it. It's a modern cliche that many Hollywood blockbusters these days will have a Chinese actor inserted into the middle of a scene for no reason. Audiences groan when it happens, and it happens in movie after movie. It's gotten to the point where it's just embarrassing, but Hollywood didn't get the memo and keeps doing it.
People don't come to see movies to see people's race like you assume. People come to see movies because they're good movies.
Damn, it's even worse than I thought. America is now robbing the rest of the world of badly needed skilled and educated people. These people are sorely required in their home countries if they are ever to make any progress. America stealing them away is just another form of cultural imperialism, where the master country strengthens itself by bleeding its slaves. It's vile and needs to come to an immediate halt.
Have you looked at a map? Russia has a huge, indefensible border and not nearly enough troops to defend it. The European armies alone, without their pimp-master USA outnumber them 3:1. Yaknow, maybe if we stopped fucking with them so hard they wouldn't be fucking with us. You think they just decided to be this way out of nowhere? For shits and giggles? America altered the result of Russia's 1996 election to keep that incompetent drunk Yeltsin in office.
How would that *possibly* be good? The world has been groaning under American domination for decades. It's about time someone else got a chance. The whole world despises America, have you seen the latest Pew poll? The only people in the world who like America are a few right-wingers who live in America.
This is why it's going to be so great watching Trump pull America back from the world. No more wars for profit, no more oppression, no more experimenting with other countries for the hell of it (example: Egypt). The whole Russia is evil thing, too. It was the *Soviet Union* that was an evil empire, Russia is just a country desperately struggling to stay afloat, ringed by NATO bases and hemmed in by hostile enemies.
I think far too many people in the world are used to the Americans. They are easily hoodwinked and their legislators are easily bribed with contributions to their election campaigns or to a Foundation of some kind. Moreover their politicians, with a few exceptions, do not have their country's or people's interest in mind and instead pursue a globalist neoliberal agenda. China is a different kettle of fish altogether.
The world is in for a big fucking surprise when China simply declines to play ball. They have their country, their rules, and anyone who wants to come into their market will abide by their laws. It's going to be a big shock to a lot of people who have never before encountered such an attitude. The next 3-5 years are going to be full of this kind of thing in industry after industry. Sucking up to them like Hollywood does putting Chinese actors in their films for no reason, or like Zuckerberg did trying to speak Mandarin, doesn't work, either. They see through it a mile away. They have more respect for people who love their own countries and don't take any shit from them. It's no coincidence that the word kowtow came into English from their language.
Only Americans are so impressed by bilingual people. In the rest of the world it's not even worth remarking about.
Did you hear about Zuck humiliating himself in the dinner with Xi Jinping? He made the huge mistake of using his shaky Chinese to ask Daddy Xi to name his kid. Like, what the fuck? Who does that? He's not in Xi's family, that's totally inappropriate to ask. Xi made an excuse and dodged the question like any Chinese would do. Total embarrassment for Zuck and was widely remarked upon in Chinese media.
The US played its part, after being dragged kicking and screaming into the war
You mean FDR's undeclared war in the North Atlantic, where US warships attacked German ones? When FDR backed Japan into a corner and forced them to declare war? That was being dragged into it? That is flat-out warmongering. You don't even know American history.
Still, can't expect too much from a nation of ignoramuses who elect a reality TV star as their leader.
Gosh, I wonder why Europeans aren't more popular in America. Maybe because you're dicks.
"The French couldn't hate us any more unless we helped 'em out in another war."
-- Will Rogers, 1932
Everything must be done to advance relative strength of USSR as factor in international society. Conversely, no opportunity most be missed to reduce strength and influence, collectively as well as individually, of capitalist powers.
Thus Soviet leaders are driven [by?] necessities of their own past and present position to put forward which [apparent omission] outside world as evil, hostile and menacing, but as bearing within itself germs of creeping disease and destined to be wracked with growing internal convulsions until it is given final Coup de grace by rising power of socialism and yields to new and better world.
In general, all Soviet efforts on unofficial international plane will be negative and destructive in character, designed to tear down sources of strength beyond reach of Soviet control. This is only in line with basic Soviet instinct that there can be no compromise with rival power and that constructive work can start only when Communist power is dominating.
We should also note the difference between the Soviet Union and Russia, which the Long Telegram does indeed do. They are two separate things. Two years after the Long Telegram was sent, Soviet-backed North Korean forces stormed into the South like Germany into Poland.
"Expansionist communism had been escalating its challenge with each postwar year. It had gained a foothold in Eastern Europe in 1945 as a byproduct of occupation by the Red Army. It had prevailed in Czechoslovakia by means of a domestic coup in 1948. It had taken over China in a civil war in 1949. If communist armies could now march across internationally recognized boundary lines, the world would have returned to the conditions of the prewar period. The generation which had lived through Munich was bound to react."
-- Henry Kissinger, "Diplomacy", 1994
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God, that is so sick. Humans are vile creatures. What the hell is wrong with us that we do these things? Just eat vegetables, they're right there and don't harm any living things.
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Look, the government needs money. They're broke, and searching for new, innovative sources of revenue. If you're going to shit all over them like some kind of libertarian wacko, don't be surprised when nobody pays attention to the crazy old man shouting in the street. If you have a better idea to raise more money, let's hear it, otherwise STFU.
Why build the trolleys in Michigan? You realize this sort of thing just empowers Trump? Gives him ammunition? After Michigan's disgraceful performance in the election, you'd think responsible interntional countries would locate a new plant anywhere BUT Michigan.
Yeah, you're right man. In any just system, rural voters should be ignored in favor of what big-city people want. After all, they're not deplorable and representation in government should be determined by moral judgements levied by people who clearly desire the annihilation of your culture.
Voter ID is clearly racist. Unless it's the Democrats voting in their own internal elections, in which case voter ID is essential to prevent unauthorized people from voting.
This kind of ruthless, hateful attitudes are why so many Americans are questioning why we're allied with Europe. Why should we defend a bunch of jerks who despise us and laugh while they refuse to defend themselves? Jerks who take great joy in the suffering of others? I can't imagine why nobody wants to defend your ungrateful, hypercriticial asses.
But poor people aren't buying these kind of bikes. Because they're poor. The poor buy Wal-Mart bikes, or buy stolen bikes. The kind of people who buy these taxed bikes can afford the extra money.
It's just hilarious how the Left calls for everything to be taxed out the wazoo, and then suddenly it's not funny any more when one of THEIR precious ideals gets taxed.
Well, this is too late for Podesta, whose password reset email is archived for public viewing here. If Google had had this protection back then, he would likely be Secretary of State under Hillary now. But instead he's stewing in his own juices, infuriated over the election result. Why's he so upset, though? I thought he was used to coming in a little behind...
It's surprisingly common. A woman seems nice and true, and then you marry her. After she has children, her whole worldview changes. Things that weren't important to her before, suddenly become super-important. She can't get them herself, so she begins urging her husband to get them for her. When he can't or won't, she begins requesting again and again. This will never stop. This is one of the reasons that slapping a woman used to be socially acceptable, because it would bring an end to this. Of course, we don't do that any more, and under the Duluth Model all men are automatically assumed guilty in any domestic abuse case. Progress!
Easy: to be able to get a tourist visa, you have to demonstrate that you have ties to your home country and you'll be going back. US State Department assumes anyone coming to America is an illegal immigrant until proven otherwise.
I bet dimes to dollars these girls are going to ditch their robot projects and make a beeline for the nearest sanctuary city, and will refuse to return to Afghanistan. This is why it's so hard for people from China, India, etc. to get US visas. They have a really bad track record of not going back home.
So, genocide is OK under certain circumstances, as long as it makes life a tad bit more convenient for ourselves. I'll notify the UN.
TIME magazine in 1996 bragging about how we interfered in the Russian election.
Just because something is an awful idea doesn't mean the Deep State won't try it. Look at what they did to Iraq, was that a good idea? And Egypt. And Libya. And Syria. And, and, and. They're experimenters, fiddlers. They like to mess with stuff. They're insulated from the consequences of their failures, so why not? It's not their kids dying out there.
Massive import tarriffs on goods - that's an interesting topic. Do you know that China slaps ALL incoming US goods with a 17% across the board tax? And THEN taxes the goods according to the type of product? You'll notice America doesn't do the same. It's odd how American products can't compete in China, odd I say. Almost evil, even.
Wholly owned foreign companies have been available for investment since around 2001. What news have you been watching? It's probably fake news.
China has its own homegrown equivalents to Google/Youtube/Facebook and is doing just fine. Didn't you get the memo?
I'm not sure where you went with the race-obsessed thing, but you finally hit the nail on the head right before you finished.
And some American productions deliberately use big name Asian actors (ie. Rogue One) as a drawing card for getting more butts in theaters in Asia. I'm not seeing anything wrong with that. If a guy like John Cho gets better roles as a result of this kind of thing, I'm seeing that as a big plus.
This is what I was talking about. It's not a drawing card. Only ignorant people would assume that. It's blatant pandering to China and Chinese audiences see right through it. It's a modern cliche that many Hollywood blockbusters these days will have a Chinese actor inserted into the middle of a scene for no reason. Audiences groan when it happens, and it happens in movie after movie. It's gotten to the point where it's just embarrassing, but Hollywood didn't get the memo and keeps doing it.
People don't come to see movies to see people's race like you assume. People come to see movies because they're good movies.
Damn, it's even worse than I thought. America is now robbing the rest of the world of badly needed skilled and educated people. These people are sorely required in their home countries if they are ever to make any progress. America stealing them away is just another form of cultural imperialism, where the master country strengthens itself by bleeding its slaves. It's vile and needs to come to an immediate halt.
Have you looked at a map? Russia has a huge, indefensible border and not nearly enough troops to defend it. The European armies alone, without their pimp-master USA outnumber them 3:1. Yaknow, maybe if we stopped fucking with them so hard they wouldn't be fucking with us. You think they just decided to be this way out of nowhere? For shits and giggles? America altered the result of Russia's 1996 election to keep that incompetent drunk Yeltsin in office.
How would that *possibly* be good? The world has been groaning under American domination for decades. It's about time someone else got a chance. The whole world despises America, have you seen the latest Pew poll? The only people in the world who like America are a few right-wingers who live in America.
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This is why it's going to be so great watching Trump pull America back from the world. No more wars for profit, no more oppression, no more experimenting with other countries for the hell of it (example: Egypt). The whole Russia is evil thing, too. It was the *Soviet Union* that was an evil empire, Russia is just a country desperately struggling to stay afloat, ringed by NATO bases and hemmed in by hostile enemies.
I think far too many people in the world are used to the Americans. They are easily hoodwinked and their legislators are easily bribed with contributions to their election campaigns or to a Foundation of some kind. Moreover their politicians, with a few exceptions, do not have their country's or people's interest in mind and instead pursue a globalist neoliberal agenda. China is a different kettle of fish altogether.
The world is in for a big fucking surprise when China simply declines to play ball. They have their country, their rules, and anyone who wants to come into their market will abide by their laws. It's going to be a big shock to a lot of people who have never before encountered such an attitude. The next 3-5 years are going to be full of this kind of thing in industry after industry. Sucking up to them like Hollywood does putting Chinese actors in their films for no reason, or like Zuckerberg did trying to speak Mandarin, doesn't work, either. They see through it a mile away. They have more respect for people who love their own countries and don't take any shit from them. It's no coincidence that the word kowtow came into English from their language.
Only Americans are so impressed by bilingual people. In the rest of the world it's not even worth remarking about.
Did you hear about Zuck humiliating himself in the dinner with Xi Jinping? He made the huge mistake of using his shaky Chinese to ask Daddy Xi to name his kid. Like, what the fuck? Who does that? He's not in Xi's family, that's totally inappropriate to ask. Xi made an excuse and dodged the question like any Chinese would do. Total embarrassment for Zuck and was widely remarked upon in Chinese media.
The US played its part, after being dragged kicking and screaming into the war
You mean FDR's undeclared war in the North Atlantic, where US warships attacked German ones? When FDR backed Japan into a corner and forced them to declare war? That was being dragged into it? That is flat-out warmongering. You don't even know American history.
Still, can't expect too much from a nation of ignoramuses who elect a reality TV star as their leader.
Gosh, I wonder why Europeans aren't more popular in America. Maybe because you're dicks.
It's ironic that the people who coined the phrase "Cheese eating surrender monkeys"
Uh, that was The Simpsons? And it was a ridiculously exaggerated joke? Please don't tell me anyone took that seriously...really?
USSR was not doing its damndest to expand westwards. Stalin promised not to support Greek communists and he didn't.
Whaaa? I suppose the Greek civil war was just a slapfight then. The Communists didn't overthrow the Czechoslovakian government? They didn't support the Chinese Communists? I suppose you're unfamiliar with the Long Telegram. Let's let the people who were there at the time speak:
We should also note the difference between the Soviet Union and Russia, which the Long Telegram does indeed do. They are two separate things. Two years after the Long Telegram was sent, Soviet-backed North Korean forces stormed into the South like Germany into Poland.