People of below average intelligence - you know, 50% of the population - have no problem with dull, repetitive tasks. In fact, they find learning new things to be a difficult chore. It is only the intelligent people who delight in learning. Because they're good at it, duh. How does an intelligent person overlook such obvious facts?
If you don't have a job, you don't have a place in society. You're not contributing. This is very destructive to the human soul, and people will start killing themselves because they don't know why they're alive. It's not like instead of a job people are going to start going to see independent films and creating art all day. That's just what a very small segment of the intelligent population - the ones high in creativity and trait openness - wishes they could do. They don't speak for humanity, this is painfully obvious to any observer.
Why do we need a conflict with Russia or China? How about stop deliberately antagonizing them, and we won't have any conflict. You know that the Cuban Missile Crisis was caused by NATO placing missiles in Turkey, right? The Russians were only trying to even the score. Yup, this happened.
I get it, you are trying to make it sound like NATO is a charity mission between the US and all others involved. That's simply not the case.
It is a fact that NATO is a free ride for Europe. They refuse to spend even the bare minimum - flat-out refuse! They say they'll get to the minimum by 2024 or so, which is just talk that they have no intention of fulfilling. While America cripples itself protecting them, Europeans invest that money in education and a welfare state. Meanwhile Americans are carrying $1,500,000,000,000 in student loan debt and 50% of Americans can't afford a thousand dollar emergency. Let's spend the money on ourselves instead. We deserve it.
We're not interested in the US military being the world's police or some other countries' mercenary army. Of course the freeloading world is upset that the good old American all-you-can-eat buffet of free stuff is coming to an end. Pulling their own weight is something strange and new to them. They can well defend themselves.
The parent post is psychological projection. The idea is, "they're going to get this capability and use it to crush us!" when China just wants the boot off their windpipe. Domination of the entire world is an American goal, remember? The poster is projecting his unacceptable thoughts onto The Other and assuming that they share the same goals. Nope.
It's a reference to the lack of threat that makes such a solution so necessary. Russia is a paper tiger and China is a peaceful power that rarely if ever invades other countries. Both are already surrounded and hemmed in by hostile bases. It's just waving a bogeyman about to convince easily frightened people and get more of that sweet sweet funding.
China is hemmed in by multiple rings of defense. Who cares if they get the South China Sea? It's like freaking out if America dominates the Gulf of Mexico. ZOMG, everybody panic!
It's always bizarre to see Slashdot posters cheering for the military-industrial complex and the American perpetual war machine. WTF? US: 11 nuclear giant aircraft carriers that have frequently been used to bomb the shit out of countries that disobey the 'international order'. No worries there.
China: 2 wimpy ski-jump aircraft carriers. THEY WANT WAR!
So, I don't know if you know or not, but Erik Prince did what the State Department wanted with his private military contractors, and they turned around and blamed him for everything that went wrong. They created the missions, he carried them out, and they stuck a knife in his back. Hopefully that makes you feel better.
Let's cut out the middleman and remove all the friction by just keeping the money ourselves. I mean, the endgame of your little scheme there is that the military-industrial complex makes a shit-ton of money and the American taxpayer pays for it all. WTF?
Why should America subsidize the defense of wealthy First World countries? Why can they not spend their own money and put their own sons in harm's way? They can well afford it. They just don't want to, and why not? They have a sucker to do it for them. If we have to pay to have allies, then fuck them.
"Americans cannot care more for your children's future security than you do."
-- Maddog Mattis
The threat from Russia and China is completely overstated. China has a big clunky military and Russia is a thin crust of good troops backed by worthless conscripts. Both are totally surrounded by multiple layers of US bases. All hysteria aside, the threat is well in hand already. But it's hard to get a man to acknowledge something when his funding depends on him not acknowledging it.
Trying to handwave globalists away is a fool's errand. These people really exist, they meet at places like Davos and Skull & Bones, and they do indeed have plans that harm us. For example, did you know that the USA offered gigantic bribes in the form of unequal trade agreements to win the Cold War against the Communists? We opened our markets wide with low tariffs. Thus the world could make a mint selling into our huge market. But when it was time to do the opposite, they put high tariffs to keep the money in their economies and employ their people. Then when the Cold War ended, we didn't end these ruinous unequal agreements. Why should they, they love the power the comes with it.
This isn't a loonie Illuminati grand conspiracy theory, it's what really happened. You think the American working class getting ruined was an accident? It's why we have these terrible, terrible trade agreements all over the world. The globalists agree to that America gets ripped off, and in return they get influence to play World Bully. Here's a great video by a non-conspiracy theorist that explains it.
Clapper spied on Americans and lied about it. It seems like any politician could win re-election easily by putting him and his scumbag friends in jail.
But that won't happen, as because as must be obvious by now - the intelligence agencies devote a lot of energy to spying on politicians and don't give a shit if they break the law. Thus, if any Congressman wants to take them on, they just threaten him with either exposing inconvenient truths, or just making up lies and telling everyone they found it. This is how they do business, character assassination.
On March 12, 2013, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told Congress that intel officials were not collecting mass data on tens of millions of Americans. Snowden exposed him as a liar. He should have gone to jail for it. So Zuckerberg can just lie like a rug and get away with it. It just doesn't matter, Congress is toothless and Zuckerberg knows it.
Another idiot that doesn't understand what socialism is. Denmark isn't socialist. Their PM came out and said it after Bernie Sanders claimed they were. Socialism is government control of the means of production.
China already doesn't buy much from America. America doesn't export much. If the world wants to deal with China, they're welcome to it. The Chinese are cheating thieves. Honestly I hope China overtakes America and becomes "leader". Then maybe everyone will look back at the good old days when America ran things, and say, "Come back!"
But I thought the First Amendment was invalid? It's been widely derided as an obsolete, extremist way to think about free speech. The only people who ever claim its protections are racists. Now suddenly it's valid again and part of something we should fight for? I don't get it.
See, this is the kind of insanity that turns people away from your kind of politics. This over-the-top nonsense, I mean come on we live on a prison planet? It's a prostitution website that was clearly illegal from day 1. I love how you make a bunch of assertions and then pretend these are some kind of universal truths, instead of political points that few Americans agree with. Maybe America just isn't the country for you. You should move to a better country that agrees with your views. Bon voyage!
The US economy is much less exposed to exports. China is very much exposed. We simply don't have much to lose. China will lose, bigtime. Retaliation hurts us much less than Trump's tariffs hurt China. That's what this is, a big game of chicken to see who will hurt the most. It ain't gonna be America. In fact, by tariffing soybeans, China may well have shot itself in the foot. China is a huge importer of American soybeans. The Chinese people don't take that kind of price increase well.
For something that doesn't work, China sure has made good use of them to build the #2 economy in the world. I think it's more like, "they don't maximize GDP but certainly do sacrifice a small part of it to give a better life to our people." To say they don't work is to ignore the big picture in favor of a single metric - GDP growth - by which all is measured.
The fact that they even exist in the first place, and have not been driven out of business by popular acclaim, is deeply problematic. What sort of fucked up art form voluntarily fulfills a demand for super-young women nearly nude? There are only so many John and Tony Podestas in the world.
Four hits, no kills, only herself. She's bad at this. Remember the Bernie supporter who opened fire on a baseball field full of Republicans? 50 shots fired, 5 hits, no kills.
What Charlie Hebdo did was punching down. A lot of people didn't approve of the murders but definitely approved of Muslims fighting back against white male oppressors.
It's America's job to "fix" every country on the planet. That's what globalism is. It's why American troops are dying in places like Nigeria and Mali. It's why America guarantees the borders of hostile foreign countries while being unable to secure its own border. America has spent $6,000,000,000,000 on foreign wars since 9/11 in an effort to "fix" the world, and as soon as Trump is out of office it's right back to spending even more. So yes, it is America's job.
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People of below average intelligence - you know, 50% of the population - have no problem with dull, repetitive tasks. In fact, they find learning new things to be a difficult chore. It is only the intelligent people who delight in learning. Because they're good at it, duh. How does an intelligent person overlook such obvious facts?
If you don't have a job, you don't have a place in society. You're not contributing. This is very destructive to the human soul, and people will start killing themselves because they don't know why they're alive. It's not like instead of a job people are going to start going to see independent films and creating art all day. That's just what a very small segment of the intelligent population - the ones high in creativity and trait openness - wishes they could do. They don't speak for humanity, this is painfully obvious to any observer.
Why do we need a conflict with Russia or China? How about stop deliberately antagonizing them, and we won't have any conflict. You know that the Cuban Missile Crisis was caused by NATO placing missiles in Turkey, right? The Russians were only trying to even the score. Yup, this happened.
I get it, you are trying to make it sound like NATO is a charity mission between the US and all others involved. That's simply not the case.
It is a fact that NATO is a free ride for Europe. They refuse to spend even the bare minimum - flat-out refuse! They say they'll get to the minimum by 2024 or so, which is just talk that they have no intention of fulfilling. While America cripples itself protecting them, Europeans invest that money in education and a welfare state. Meanwhile Americans are carrying $1,500,000,000,000 in student loan debt and 50% of Americans can't afford a thousand dollar emergency. Let's spend the money on ourselves instead. We deserve it.
We're not interested in the US military being the world's police or some other countries' mercenary army. Of course the freeloading world is upset that the good old American all-you-can-eat buffet of free stuff is coming to an end. Pulling their own weight is something strange and new to them. They can well defend themselves.
The parent post is psychological projection. The idea is, "they're going to get this capability and use it to crush us!" when China just wants the boot off their windpipe. Domination of the entire world is an American goal, remember? The poster is projecting his unacceptable thoughts onto The Other and assuming that they share the same goals. Nope.
It's a reference to the lack of threat that makes such a solution so necessary. Russia is a paper tiger and China is a peaceful power that rarely if ever invades other countries. Both are already surrounded and hemmed in by hostile bases. It's just waving a bogeyman about to convince easily frightened people and get more of that sweet sweet funding.
China is hemmed in by multiple rings of defense. Who cares if they get the South China Sea? It's like freaking out if America dominates the Gulf of Mexico. ZOMG, everybody panic!
It's always bizarre to see Slashdot posters cheering for the military-industrial complex and the American perpetual war machine. WTF? US: 11 nuclear giant aircraft carriers that have frequently been used to bomb the shit out of countries that disobey the 'international order'. No worries there.
China: 2 wimpy ski-jump aircraft carriers. THEY WANT WAR!
So, I don't know if you know or not, but Erik Prince did what the State Department wanted with his private military contractors, and they turned around and blamed him for everything that went wrong. They created the missions, he carried them out, and they stuck a knife in his back. Hopefully that makes you feel better.
Let's cut out the middleman and remove all the friction by just keeping the money ourselves. I mean, the endgame of your little scheme there is that the military-industrial complex makes a shit-ton of money and the American taxpayer pays for it all. WTF?
Why should America subsidize the defense of wealthy First World countries? Why can they not spend their own money and put their own sons in harm's way? They can well afford it. They just don't want to, and why not? They have a sucker to do it for them. If we have to pay to have allies, then fuck them.
"Americans cannot care more for your children's future security than you do."
-- Maddog Mattis
Let's be honest, that trust is immediately debunked by 4 words.
"Donald Trump is President"
How on earth did you get a score 6 comment? When did this happen?
The threat from Russia and China is completely overstated. China has a big clunky military and Russia is a thin crust of good troops backed by worthless conscripts. Both are totally surrounded by multiple layers of US bases. All hysteria aside, the threat is well in hand already. But it's hard to get a man to acknowledge something when his funding depends on him not acknowledging it.
Trying to handwave globalists away is a fool's errand. These people really exist, they meet at places like Davos and Skull & Bones, and they do indeed have plans that harm us. For example, did you know that the USA offered gigantic bribes in the form of unequal trade agreements to win the Cold War against the Communists? We opened our markets wide with low tariffs. Thus the world could make a mint selling into our huge market. But when it was time to do the opposite, they put high tariffs to keep the money in their economies and employ their people. Then when the Cold War ended, we didn't end these ruinous unequal agreements. Why should they, they love the power the comes with it.
This isn't a loonie Illuminati grand conspiracy theory, it's what really happened. You think the American working class getting ruined was an accident? It's why we have these terrible, terrible trade agreements all over the world. The globalists agree to that America gets ripped off, and in return they get influence to play World Bully. Here's a great video by a non-conspiracy theorist that explains it.
Clapper spied on Americans and lied about it. It seems like any politician could win re-election easily by putting him and his scumbag friends in jail.
But that won't happen, as because as must be obvious by now - the intelligence agencies devote a lot of energy to spying on politicians and don't give a shit if they break the law. Thus, if any Congressman wants to take them on, they just threaten him with either exposing inconvenient truths, or just making up lies and telling everyone they found it. This is how they do business, character assassination.
On March 12, 2013, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told Congress that intel officials were not collecting mass data on tens of millions of Americans. Snowden exposed him as a liar. He should have gone to jail for it. So Zuckerberg can just lie like a rug and get away with it. It just doesn't matter, Congress is toothless and Zuckerberg knows it.
OK so I charge my car up...and then they let it discharge over night, so when I leave the next morning I have a drained battery?
Another idiot that doesn't understand what socialism is. Denmark isn't socialist. Their PM came out and said it after Bernie Sanders claimed they were. Socialism is government control of the means of production.
China already doesn't buy much from America. America doesn't export much. If the world wants to deal with China, they're welcome to it. The Chinese are cheating thieves. Honestly I hope China overtakes America and becomes "leader". Then maybe everyone will look back at the good old days when America ran things, and say, "Come back!"
And America will say, "No."
But I thought the First Amendment was invalid? It's been widely derided as an obsolete, extremist way to think about free speech. The only people who ever claim its protections are racists. Now suddenly it's valid again and part of something we should fight for? I don't get it.
See, this is the kind of insanity that turns people away from your kind of politics. This over-the-top nonsense, I mean come on we live on a prison planet? It's a prostitution website that was clearly illegal from day 1. I love how you make a bunch of assertions and then pretend these are some kind of universal truths, instead of political points that few Americans agree with. Maybe America just isn't the country for you. You should move to a better country that agrees with your views. Bon voyage!
The US economy is much less exposed to exports. China is very much exposed. We simply don't have much to lose. China will lose, bigtime. Retaliation hurts us much less than Trump's tariffs hurt China. That's what this is, a big game of chicken to see who will hurt the most. It ain't gonna be America. In fact, by tariffing soybeans, China may well have shot itself in the foot. China is a huge importer of American soybeans. The Chinese people don't take that kind of price increase well.
For something that doesn't work, China sure has made good use of them to build the #2 economy in the world. I think it's more like, "they don't maximize GDP but certainly do sacrifice a small part of it to give a better life to our people." To say they don't work is to ignore the big picture in favor of a single metric - GDP growth - by which all is measured.
The fact that they even exist in the first place, and have not been driven out of business by popular acclaim, is deeply problematic. What sort of fucked up art form voluntarily fulfills a demand for super-young women nearly nude? There are only so many John and Tony Podestas in the world.
Four hits, no kills, only herself. She's bad at this. Remember the Bernie supporter who opened fire on a baseball field full of Republicans? 50 shots fired, 5 hits, no kills.
Remember when some terrorists killed everyone at the Draw Muhammad contest in Garland, Texas? That's OK, the Texans don't remember that either. The terrorists were shot and killed outside the event. They were wearing body armor, too. They were killed by head shots.
What Charlie Hebdo did was punching down. A lot of people didn't approve of the murders but definitely approved of Muslims fighting back against white male oppressors.
It's America's job to "fix" every country on the planet. That's what globalism is. It's why American troops are dying in places like Nigeria and Mali. It's why America guarantees the borders of hostile foreign countries while being unable to secure its own border. America has spent $6,000,000,000,000 on foreign wars since 9/11 in an effort to "fix" the world, and as soon as Trump is out of office it's right back to spending even more. So yes, it is America's job.