First, let me say that everybody deserves to be treated well and have a good life.
Even the deplorables? I don't understand. Please explain. Those people are The Other, we need to shit on them every day. Wear your "Sarah Palin is a cunt" shirt whenever possible, it shows how tolerant you are of women.
Wikileaks? Why would a hostile Russian controlled intelligence agency be interested in helping America achieve its goals? Please think before you post.
Other than the whole, USA provokes the Nazis into declaring war and then leads an invasion that crushes them. Other than that the AmeriKKKans were totally pro-Nazi! Wait, what?
Ok I'll bite: how would the Chinese government harm me? Let's say they have everything I do on my phone. What form would this harm take? And more importantly what would the motivation be? The US government has made it clear it hates us deplorables. They have the motivation and the means to harm us. How is China the worse choice?
I think you misunderstand the question. Let's say the Chinese government knows everything I do. Sort of like Google. How could they possibly use that to harm me? Where's the motivation? On the other hand the US government has made it very clear it hates my guts and would very much like to harm me. You see the difference here?
Because despite all their protestations, they are slaves to American culture. If they had any actual culture, they would be able to laugh off this crap. Bit they don't. Thus American colonization proceeds, and the Europeans hate us more than ever. They couldn't hate us any more if we subsidized their defense, provided free naval security for their exports, and gave them vastly unfair (to their advantage) trade agreements. Oh wait we already do.
New York City is a place where people are obsessed by status. Someone noticed that trendy new places were using something to signal the fact that they were trendy to everyone. This time it was a font. Everyone suddenly wanted that same status, so they all followed the leader, like so many chimpanzees piling into the fruit cart. Presto, you now resemble others with status.
What they forgot was to set barriers to entry. High costs, restricted invitation-only events, social media full of virtue signaling posts, required letters of recommendation from high status individuals, . Fonts are too easy to copy. Now that all the deplorables have the font too, it's going to go out of fashion fast. Look for it to resurface 20 years from now as a "retro" font.
You just keep avoiding the issue, which makes me think you don't have an answer. Why have the far left abandoned the American working class? It's changed to vitriolic hatred when just a short while ago the far left practically worshiped workers.
Elites are people who make decisions about your life. Powerful people. If you don't know what they are, please educate yourself. I mean, come on a few short years ago the far left wanted to string up elites from the lampposts. Did we forget Occupy Wall Street? You're not shaking anyone's argument to the core by asking questions you could easily answer with duckduckgo. Here, I did your homework for you, I won't do it next time.
Thoughts that disagree with your own are treasures - they tell you where you're going wrong. Without accurate criticism, how can you know where you need improvement? Or even if you're completely wrong and need to go home and rethink everything?
When you come to conclusions like "everyone but me can't think" that is an obviously invalid conclusion and you need to go home and rethink your life.
Most Europeans are not properly educated on how much they depend on the US. The US is almost exclusively depicted in a negative way and blamed for stuff, while the US is almost never depicted in a positive way and given its due credit. A lot of Europeans directly link their view of their own individual countries and the EU/Europe as a whole to their view of the US as a point of contrast. Because they see things along those lines, and because they want to depict themselves as being superior to the US, they must as a matter of necessity see the US in an unrealistically negative way. Acknowledging that the EU is dependent on the US doesn't help the cause. There are definitely leaders in Europe who are aware of how much Europe depends on the US for defense, but this fact is not in anyway conducive to the larger political agenda and geopolitical outlook in Europe which is all about integration and European unity. In fact, support for the EU is very closely related to anti-Americanism. On reddit you'll see a lot of Europeans admit very openly that they support the EU because they see it as a rival to the US.
A lot of hate Europeans have for the US is not only a product of their ignorance of their dependence on the US, it's also *because of* their dependence on the US. Europeans take the US for granted and many of those that are aware of their dependence on the US still hate the US because playing second fiddle to the US stings their pride.
Wha...? China was poor as shit before the WTO. It gave them access to our markets and made them into the titan they are today. We could have locked them out and kept them powerless and they wouldn't be the gigantic threat they are today. We built them up, we can tear them down.
I love how people can non-ironically call for echo chambers. You people really do spend all your energy on removing thought you disagree with, don't you? It must be a nasty surprise to come in to a website where you encounter dissident views. It's telling that your natural response is, instead of engaging with such views, is to remove them from view.
They tried that, you know...it didn't work. Without accurate information (dissidents telling you where you're going wrong) your whole society goes off the rails. George Orwell goes into this in "1984" - but in his society, people like you successfully suppressed all dissent.
But if demand rises in America due to production lines opening...you'll be able to send someone out for screws. Capitalism is like that. There's no reason why we have to waste tons of CO2 on dirty cargo vessels to ship parts from one end of the world to another. To say nothing of Foxconn's slave labor issues. Why did we ever let China into the WTO?
It was a tiny program before Obama ramped it up. The Lifeline Program predated President Obama, but it gained attention during his administration when recipients began to associate the free phone with other benefits he doled out to the poor. The program was rife with fraud, you could get one without being eligible. GAO investigators also submitted fraudulent applications to see what would happen, and 12 of the 19 phone carriers they applied to approved a phone. The whole thing was widely accepted as being reparations and recipients knew who was doing it and why. And it worked. Obama's people dared not vote for anyone else.
Obamaphones were widely understood to be bribes to Obama's people. They were a drop in the bucket, but a nice start on the reparations they were owed. The program worked wonders, they all voted for him and any who dared dissent were ostracized.
I hear ya buddy, I'm in that group too. The world thinks us right wingers shouldn't be able to exist and are a threat to the world. We've all got to stick together, because once they silence us that's when the real trouble starts. Keep your guns safe.
So how about those working class Americans? The far left's reason for being? Unions, right? Power to the people, comrades? Why'd you turn your back on them and start supporting the wealthy and powerful? Genuinely curious.
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First, let me say that everybody deserves to be treated well and have a good life.
Even the deplorables? I don't understand. Please explain. Those people are The Other, we need to shit on them every day. Wear your "Sarah Palin is a cunt" shirt whenever possible, it shows how tolerant you are of women.
Congratulations, you just reinvented the all-white neighborhood.
Everyone who matters has a paid subscription to the New York Times. Are you voluntarily identifying yourself with the deplorables? WTF?
Germany already made its choice after Trump withdrew from the Paris agreement. China is their future. Fuck America, fuck Trump.
Wikileaks? Why would a hostile Russian controlled intelligence agency be interested in helping America achieve its goals? Please think before you post.
USA = Nazi! Amirite?
Other than the whole, USA provokes the Nazis into declaring war and then leads an invasion that crushes them. Other than that the AmeriKKKans were totally pro-Nazi! Wait, what?
Ok I'll bite: how would the Chinese government harm me? Let's say they have everything I do on my phone. What form would this harm take? And more importantly what would the motivation be? The US government has made it clear it hates us deplorables. They have the motivation and the means to harm us. How is China the worse choice?
I think you misunderstand the question. Let's say the Chinese government knows everything I do. Sort of like Google. How could they possibly use that to harm me? Where's the motivation? On the other hand the US government has made it very clear it hates my guts and would very much like to harm me. You see the difference here?
Nah go ahead, keep censoring. It's what you DO. To fail to censor opposing thoughts would be a violation of everything you stand for.
Because despite all their protestations, they are slaves to American culture. If they had any actual culture, they would be able to laugh off this crap. Bit they don't. Thus American colonization proceeds, and the Europeans hate us more than ever. They couldn't hate us any more if we subsidized their defense, provided free naval security for their exports, and gave them vastly unfair (to their advantage) trade agreements. Oh wait we already do.
They had enough status to get written up in the New York Times. Now they have even more.
New York City is a place where people are obsessed by status. Someone noticed that trendy new places were using something to signal the fact that they were trendy to everyone. This time it was a font. Everyone suddenly wanted that same status, so they all followed the leader, like so many chimpanzees piling into the fruit cart. Presto, you now resemble others with status.
What they forgot was to set barriers to entry. High costs, restricted invitation-only events, social media full of virtue signaling posts, required letters of recommendation from high status individuals, . Fonts are too easy to copy. Now that all the deplorables have the font too, it's going to go out of fashion fast. Look for it to resurface 20 years from now as a "retro" font.
They? What's this they? You're on the far left, my friend. Were you not aware of that?
You just keep avoiding the issue, which makes me think you don't have an answer. Why have the far left abandoned the American working class? It's changed to vitriolic hatred when just a short while ago the far left practically worshiped workers.
Elites are people who make decisions about your life. Powerful people. If you don't know what they are, please educate yourself. I mean, come on a few short years ago the far left wanted to string up elites from the lampposts. Did we forget Occupy Wall Street? You're not shaking anyone's argument to the core by asking questions you could easily answer with duckduckgo. Here, I did your homework for you, I won't do it next time.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/opinion/Donald-Trump-and-the-Vicious-Culture-of-Neoliberal-Mass-Idiocy-20161008-0001.html
https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/10/14/the-ruling-classs-hatred-of-trump-is-different-than-yours/
https://billmoyers.com/story/takes-ruling-class-village-staff-white-house/
https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0399170685/counterpunchmaga>
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/will-questions-about-conflict-of-interest-hurt-the-clinton-campaign
Have you BEEN to a US post office? They have the customer service skills of the Unabomber.
Thoughts that disagree with your own are treasures - they tell you where you're going wrong. Without accurate criticism, how can you know where you need improvement? Or even if you're completely wrong and need to go home and rethink everything?
When you come to conclusions like "everyone but me can't think" that is an obviously invalid conclusion and you need to go home and rethink your life.
Most Europeans are not properly educated on how much they depend on the US. The US is almost exclusively depicted in a negative way and blamed for stuff, while the US is almost never depicted in a positive way and given its due credit. A lot of Europeans directly link their view of their own individual countries and the EU/Europe as a whole to their view of the US as a point of contrast. Because they see things along those lines, and because they want to depict themselves as being superior to the US, they must as a matter of necessity see the US in an unrealistically negative way. Acknowledging that the EU is dependent on the US doesn't help the cause. There are definitely leaders in Europe who are aware of how much Europe depends on the US for defense, but this fact is not in anyway conducive to the larger political agenda and geopolitical outlook in Europe which is all about integration and European unity. In fact, support for the EU is very closely related to anti-Americanism. On reddit you'll see a lot of Europeans admit very openly that they support the EU because they see it as a rival to the US.
A lot of hate Europeans have for the US is not only a product of their ignorance of their dependence on the US, it's also *because of* their dependence on the US. Europeans take the US for granted and many of those that are aware of their dependence on the US still hate the US because playing second fiddle to the US stings their pride.
Wha...? China was poor as shit before the WTO. It gave them access to our markets and made them into the titan they are today. We could have locked them out and kept them powerless and they wouldn't be the gigantic threat they are today. We built them up, we can tear them down.
I love how people can non-ironically call for echo chambers. You people really do spend all your energy on removing thought you disagree with, don't you? It must be a nasty surprise to come in to a website where you encounter dissident views. It's telling that your natural response is, instead of engaging with such views, is to remove them from view.
They tried that, you know...it didn't work. Without accurate information (dissidents telling you where you're going wrong) your whole society goes off the rails. George Orwell goes into this in "1984" - but in his society, people like you successfully suppressed all dissent.
But if demand rises in America due to production lines opening...you'll be able to send someone out for screws. Capitalism is like that. There's no reason why we have to waste tons of CO2 on dirty cargo vessels to ship parts from one end of the world to another. To say nothing of Foxconn's slave labor issues. Why did we ever let China into the WTO?
It was a tiny program before Obama ramped it up. The Lifeline Program predated President Obama, but it gained attention during his administration when recipients began to associate the free phone with other benefits he doled out to the poor. The program was rife with fraud, you could get one without being eligible. GAO investigators also submitted fraudulent applications to see what would happen, and 12 of the 19 phone carriers they applied to approved a phone. The whole thing was widely accepted as being reparations and recipients knew who was doing it and why. And it worked. Obama's people dared not vote for anyone else.
Obamaphones were widely understood to be bribes to Obama's people. They were a drop in the bucket, but a nice start on the reparations they were owed. The program worked wonders, they all voted for him and any who dared dissent were ostracized.
I hear ya buddy, I'm in that group too. The world thinks us right wingers shouldn't be able to exist and are a threat to the world. We've all got to stick together, because once they silence us that's when the real trouble starts. Keep your guns safe.
Sounds like it was a dumb idea and they stopped doing it. Much like other American attitudes that were in place from 1911 until the 1960s.
So how about those working class Americans? The far left's reason for being? Unions, right? Power to the people, comrades? Why'd you turn your back on them and start supporting the wealthy and powerful? Genuinely curious.