A country free of terror, where criminals fear to tread? What he's doing is legitimately popular. It's not some kind of creation of facebook, as much as you'd like to believe that.
Anti free speech attitudes like that are literally horrifying. We have free speech for a good reason: so the truth can come out. Did we learn nothing from jailing Galileo? Apparently so.
European opera houses and art installations used to be packed with people. Commoners who loved what was going on. Now government support is needed for a class of artists only interested in producing art for itself and nobody else. Is this really a good use of scarce government money? Is it in the public interest?
I cited Time magazine (with the cover bragging about the fact we altered the electoral results), the Hudson Institute, Wall Street Journal, and Cato Institute. Got anything else? I guess those six million Russians are still alive somewhere? I guess we really didn't ruin Russia's economy by collaborating with their oligarchs? The same oligarchs that Putin crushed when he got into office? Face it, we created him. Of it wouldn't have been Putin it would have been someone else.
So, your genius solution is to start a war with a nuclear power. What a great idea that will totally not end horribly.
I love your idea of the "EU armies". If they existed, that might be a good idea.
You're aware the "Free Syria" rebels are head-chopping Islamists? Al-Nusra? You certainly are getting a bizarre, filtered form of news if you don't know this. To anyone else reading, a quick video: https://youtu.be/y1oEoCRkLRI?t...
I've been a Slashdot commenter since this was a newfangled "weblog" called Chips & Bits. If you'd like to have an argument, you can try to refute what I said. Calling me a dirty foreigner and spewing whataboutism isn't an argument.
Putin is in power today because of the Western neoliberals who dynamited the Russian economy, caused mass deaths, and tampered in an election. More info: http://www.globalresearch.ca/u...
It was Victoria Nuland, former Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs at the United States Department of State, who said "fuck the EU." She was nominated by Obama. You remember Obama, the same man who bugged Merkel's phone? The US regarding EU as a foe didn't start with Trump.
Who can blame Obama for his views? What do you call people who rip you off on trade to the tune of $150 billion every year? The EU is a security free-rider that exploits American generosity to run a massive trade surplus. For a continent flush with cash and a large budget surplus, every member should be able to spend an adequate amount on its own defense. The EU needs to create its own collective defense treaty without US involvement.
You know what happened next? The US financial "experts" pushed Yeltsin to introduce neo-liberal shock therapy economics to the new Russian Federation. Ended up crashing the economy and leaving more in poverty then ever before. The number of people living in poverty in the former Soviet Republics rose from 14 million in 1989 to 147 million in 1998. As a result of the 1998 financial collapse and the devaluation of the ruble, the life savings of tens of millions of Russian families disappeared overnight. In the period from 1992 to 1998 Russia's GDP fell by half - something that did not happen even under during the German invasion in the Second World War.
Under Yeltsin's tenure, the death rate in Russia reached wartime levels. Accidents, food poisoning, exposure, heart attacks, lack of access to basic healthcare, and an epidemic of suicides - they all played a role. David Satter, a senior fellow at the anti-communist, Washington DC-based Hudson Institute, writing in the conservative Wall Street Journal, described the consequences of this victory of Democracy: "Western and Russian demographers now agree that between 1992 and 2000, the number of 'surplus deaths' in Russia - deaths that cannot be explained on the basis of previous trends - was between five and six million persons."
This secured Putin as a savior to Russians when he reversed it, and soured Russian public opinion to the US.
"Liberal order" visionaries are quick to give their ideas credit for the prosperity of nations from Western Europe to the Pacific Rim, finding causation in correlation. They deny such a direct link between their ideas and the problems of post-Soviet Russia. Yet it is hard to accept that measures like sudden privatization and the rise of monopolies in a corrupt country were not related to asset stripping and capital flight or that "eliminating the housing and utilities subsidies that sustained tens of millions of impoverished families" did not play a major part in the social ruin that followed. Western technocrats, diplomats, and politicians were deeply implicated in the new order's design.
America just gave Louis CK his career back. Americans support James Gunn who said things like "I like when little boys touch me in my silly place. Shh!". Dan Harmon, creator of Rick and Morty, made an animated short about cutting children and having sex with them. Apparently there's nothing wrong with anything they did, so I don't see this CEO getting in trouble. Or maybe you have to be a popular entertainer to get a pass on sex crimes? Either way his chances are good of getting off scot free.
Do you rip your "allies" off in trade? Germany is a security free-rider that exploits American generosity to run a massive trade surplus. For a country flush with cash and a large budget surplus, it should
be able to spend 2 percent of gross domestic product on defense.
NATO is a *mutual* defense alliance, do you refuse to carry your share of the burden? To have a military alliance, you must have a military. Germany doesn't really have one. Moreover Germany has a horribly hypocritical stance towards Russia.
What's Merkel doing about the situation in Africa? She's been world leader for over a year and things are just as bad as ever. What's Merkel doing about the oppression of Uighurs in China? Those are world leader jobs.
Yeah, wait for the next story about Nigerian scams or Russian scams or whatever horror has been unleashed by cheap internet telephony, and you'll hear applause as the Slashdot crowd approves of trusting people being defrauded. It's their fault, see, because they didn't mistrust strangers by default like a smart person does.
There isn't a worker shortage. What there's a shortage of is workers willing to take shit wages and horrible working conditions. H1Bs fill that gap nicely.
This is a partial truth. The real truth is that America gave Japan a gigantic bribe in the form of totally unfair (to Americans) trade deals. Japan largely got a pass from the United States when it used protectionism and state subsidies to build its industries after World War II. The same protectionism that people decry today apparently worked spectacularly well when anyone but Americans did it.
Japan was free to dump its autos on America and put our people out of work, but American imports to Japan were tightly restricted. This bribe was to stay on the free world side in the Cold War. You'd think they wouldn't need a bribe, but even today Japan has an active Communist Party, and even back when Russia was 1000 times the threat it is today, Japanese and Western leftists sought to join their nations to the Soviet Union as Soviet republics. More info here.
Follow me back to 1946. Europe is ruined, China is still a backwater. The USA puts together an alliance that allows everyone within it to trade goods into the US without significant trade barriers. This allows for Europe to export their way back to prosperity after WWII. It gives them room to grow their economies beyond what their somewhat depleted populations will allow. In addition to allowing the free flow of goods, the USA becomes the security guarantor of the free world by using our navy to police the world's oceans and enable low risk (and hence low cost) global trade.
But there was a condition. In order to deal with the US, you had to be on our side in helping to combat and contain the Soviet Union. Essentially the US traded some of its economic/manufacturing capacity for increased security and strategic assets to assist in the cold war. Only one problem: We won. The Soviet flag went down in 1991, and we didn't really make any changes to the world order.
They only beat us on trade the past few decades because we let them. We're not letting them any more. Globalization is over. Free trade is over. The rest of the world riding on America's back is over. Atlas is shrugging.
That would be the same military with APCs and drones that can't beat a bunch of savages armed with assault rifles? Even after 17 years and trillions of dollars spent?
Have we already come full circle on this? Who remembers right after Trump was elected, when liberals suddenly discovered they needed guns for protection against fascism? http://monsterhunternation.com...
Since when is it the government's job to pick winners and losers in the market? Moreover since when is it not suitable for Asian countries to take the lead in technology? It's not written in stone that white people countries have to win every single time. Let's let the stigmatized Other have a win once in a while, the world will be a better place.
Oh, they could function just fine. They'd have to pay out more of their profits to American workers, though. And that, pretty much everyone agrees, is a tragedy that must never be allowed to happen. The deplorables must never win.
They are targeted because they trust people. When they grew up, the default in America was to trust others you don't know. And it was a good policy. We built a great nation on trust.
Today, anyone who trusts strangers is viewed as a total moron who deserves to be victimized. You can ask anyone who comes from a non-trusting country how much they suck. And yet that's what America is turning into, to tremendous applause.
According to the subtext of this article, a country's own manufacturers should do it. Which is bizarre, because the subtext is always that a country's own manufacturers are stupid and lazy and deserve to be run out of business by foreign competition.
That's nothing, we give away $150 billion in subsidies to Europe every year in our horrible trade deals. Plus, we subsidize their defense as well, so they don't have to build expensive militaries. All of this for a continent of wealthy, first world democracies. And we get precious little gratitude for it and lots of abuse.
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A country free of terror, where criminals fear to tread? What he's doing is legitimately popular. It's not some kind of creation of facebook, as much as you'd like to believe that.
Anti free speech attitudes like that are literally horrifying. We have free speech for a good reason: so the truth can come out. Did we learn nothing from jailing Galileo? Apparently so.
With constant sneering "fuck you" messages like this, is it any wonder the Americans are withdrawing from the world?
Deemed worthwhile by whom?
European opera houses and art installations used to be packed with people. Commoners who loved what was going on. Now government support is needed for a class of artists only interested in producing art for itself and nobody else. Is this really a good use of scarce government money? Is it in the public interest?
I cited Time magazine (with the cover bragging about the fact we altered the electoral results), the Hudson Institute, Wall Street Journal, and Cato Institute. Got anything else? I guess those six million Russians are still alive somewhere? I guess we really didn't ruin Russia's economy by collaborating with their oligarchs? The same oligarchs that Putin crushed when he got into office? Face it, we created him. Of it wouldn't have been Putin it would have been someone else.
So, your genius solution is to start a war with a nuclear power. What a great idea that will totally not end horribly.
I love your idea of the "EU armies". If they existed, that might be a good idea.
You're aware the "Free Syria" rebels are head-chopping Islamists? Al-Nusra? You certainly are getting a bizarre, filtered form of news if you don't know this. To anyone else reading, a quick video: https://youtu.be/y1oEoCRkLRI?t...
I've been a Slashdot commenter since this was a newfangled "weblog" called Chips & Bits. If you'd like to have an argument, you can try to refute what I said. Calling me a dirty foreigner and spewing whataboutism isn't an argument.
Putin is in power today because of the Western neoliberals who dynamited the Russian economy, caused mass deaths, and tampered in an election. More info: http://www.globalresearch.ca/u...
It was Victoria Nuland, former Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs at the United States Department of State, who said "fuck the EU." She was nominated by Obama. You remember Obama, the same man who bugged Merkel's phone? The US regarding EU as a foe didn't start with Trump.
Who can blame Obama for his views? What do you call people who rip you off on trade to the tune of $150 billion every year? The EU is a security free-rider that exploits American generosity to run a massive trade surplus. For a continent flush with cash and a large budget surplus, every member should be able to spend an adequate amount on its own defense. The EU needs to create its own collective defense treaty without US involvement.
You know how Russia ended up with Putin? Remember Yeltsin? Remember how we interfered with the 1996 Russian election and altered the result? Yeltsin was in the single digits before the Americans got involved.
You know what happened next? The US financial "experts" pushed Yeltsin to introduce neo-liberal shock therapy economics to the new Russian Federation. Ended up crashing the economy and leaving more in poverty then ever before. The number of people living in poverty in the former Soviet Republics rose from 14 million in 1989 to 147 million in 1998. As a result of the 1998 financial collapse and the devaluation of the ruble, the life savings of tens of millions of Russian families disappeared overnight. In the period from 1992 to 1998 Russia's GDP fell by half - something that did not happen even under during the German invasion in the Second World War.
Under Yeltsin's tenure, the death rate in Russia reached wartime levels. Accidents, food poisoning, exposure, heart attacks, lack of access to basic healthcare, and an epidemic of suicides - they all played a role. David Satter, a senior fellow at the anti-communist, Washington DC-based Hudson Institute, writing in the conservative Wall Street Journal, described the consequences of this victory of Democracy: "Western and Russian demographers now agree that between 1992 and 2000, the number of 'surplus deaths' in Russia - deaths that cannot be explained on the basis of previous trends - was between five and six million persons."
This secured Putin as a savior to Russians when he reversed it, and soured Russian public opinion to the US.
No nation on Earth can afford to ignore a federation of 500 million wealthy consumers. You want to do business in the EU, you play by the EU's rules.
Bernie Sanders said Denmark was socialist. You telling us he's a liar?
America just gave Louis CK his career back. Americans support James Gunn who said things like "I like when little boys touch me in my silly place. Shh!". Dan Harmon, creator of Rick and Morty, made an animated short about cutting children and having sex with them. Apparently there's nothing wrong with anything they did, so I don't see this CEO getting in trouble. Or maybe you have to be a popular entertainer to get a pass on sex crimes? Either way his chances are good of getting off scot free.
It's the power and control they get from being moderators. Some people deal with this good feeling by becoming politicians. Others become message board moderators. It feels wonderful to slap people you don't like with bans, doubly so when you get to attach a shitty little message to it that the recipient can't reply to. Especially when your life offline is nothing.
Oh, you poor sweet summer child. We're all deplorable to our ruling class. Why do you think they're trying to replace you with H1Bs?
Holding yourself differently because you live in Silly Valley is divisive and gets to fighting with other Americans. Just like Putin wants.
Do you rip your "allies" off in trade? Germany is a security free-rider that exploits American generosity to run a massive trade surplus. For a country flush with cash and a large budget surplus, it should be able to spend 2 percent of gross domestic product on defense. NATO is a *mutual* defense alliance, do you refuse to carry your share of the burden? To have a military alliance, you must have a military. Germany doesn't really have one. Moreover Germany has a horribly hypocritical stance towards Russia.
What's Merkel doing about the situation in Africa? She's been world leader for over a year and things are just as bad as ever. What's Merkel doing about the oppression of Uighurs in China? Those are world leader jobs.
Yeah, wait for the next story about Nigerian scams or Russian scams or whatever horror has been unleashed by cheap internet telephony, and you'll hear applause as the Slashdot crowd approves of trusting people being defrauded. It's their fault, see, because they didn't mistrust strangers by default like a smart person does.
There isn't a worker shortage. What there's a shortage of is workers willing to take shit wages and horrible working conditions. H1Bs fill that gap nicely.
This is a partial truth. The real truth is that America gave Japan a gigantic bribe in the form of totally unfair (to Americans) trade deals. Japan largely got a pass from the United States when it used protectionism and state subsidies to build its industries after World War II. The same protectionism that people decry today apparently worked spectacularly well when anyone but Americans did it.
Japan was free to dump its autos on America and put our people out of work, but American imports to Japan were tightly restricted. This bribe was to stay on the free world side in the Cold War. You'd think they wouldn't need a bribe, but even today Japan has an active Communist Party, and even back when Russia was 1000 times the threat it is today, Japanese and Western leftists sought to join their nations to the Soviet Union as Soviet republics. More info here.
That would be the same military with APCs and drones that can't beat a bunch of savages armed with assault rifles? Even after 17 years and trillions of dollars spent?
Have we already come full circle on this? Who remembers right after Trump was elected, when liberals suddenly discovered they needed guns for protection against fascism? http://monsterhunternation.com...
Since when is it the government's job to pick winners and losers in the market? Moreover since when is it not suitable for Asian countries to take the lead in technology? It's not written in stone that white people countries have to win every single time. Let's let the stigmatized Other have a win once in a while, the world will be a better place.
Oh, they could function just fine. They'd have to pay out more of their profits to American workers, though. And that, pretty much everyone agrees, is a tragedy that must never be allowed to happen. The deplorables must never win.
They are targeted because they trust people. When they grew up, the default in America was to trust others you don't know. And it was a good policy. We built a great nation on trust.
Today, anyone who trusts strangers is viewed as a total moron who deserves to be victimized. You can ask anyone who comes from a non-trusting country how much they suck. And yet that's what America is turning into, to tremendous applause.
Grandpa, what's a beeper?
According to the subtext of this article, a country's own manufacturers should do it. Which is bizarre, because the subtext is always that a country's own manufacturers are stupid and lazy and deserve to be run out of business by foreign competition.
That's nothing, we give away $150 billion in subsidies to Europe every year in our horrible trade deals. Plus, we subsidize their defense as well, so they don't have to build expensive militaries. All of this for a continent of wealthy, first world democracies. And we get precious little gratitude for it and lots of abuse.