Nope. Trump is a centrist. He was a pro abortion democrat for decades. Fascist? Nah. The press is now a side. They ignored the prime directive for journalism: report the story, don't be the story. The press is now the story, and democracy is greatly harmed by it.
Uh, the US government engaged in policy after pictures deliberately designed to ruin our own people. NAFTA, admitting China to the WTO, ruinous trade agreements that bankrupted us, these were all decisions by intellectuals that the American people are evil and needed to be destroyed. What kind of pro American person would ruin our factories by creating incentives to move them all to China and Mexico, countries that hate us?
If only the Clinton campaign had known! They could have spent part of their $2 billion ad budget on convincing people to vote for her! Damn their lack of foresight!
Turns out, we kept our markets open to Japanese cars while the Japanese were free to close their market to our cars. Totally unfair. This was all part of our globalist elites' plan to keep Japan on "our" side by gigantic bribes. If Japan had been required to pay fairly, American industry could have had a chance. Just think about how depraved that is. They ruined our working class so that they could make other countries well off. What kind of America hating assholes would do something like this?
Because the people who want to get rid of capitalism are almost always extreme socialists who would happily destroy our nice countries and turn them into shitholes. You need only look at Venezuela to see what can happen to a nice country. From skyscrapers and condominiums to digging food out of the trash. In particular, the climate change issue is frequently used as evidence that we need to destroy capitalism immediately and permanently, and go to a system whereby the government portions out society's resources in what left-wing extremists would regard as a fair and socially just manner.
See? This is the sort of ignorant, political cheap shot the Left loves so much. They don't need to actually visit these places and talk to the people, they can just say things that they KNOW are true because they read it on the media. It's not going to get any better until the Left decides it has compassion for the little people, and I don't see that happening. It's just too satisfying to speak truth to the powerless.
Perhaps if our intellectual class had not spent the last 50 years deliberately harming our middle and working classes, and instead cared for them and made sure they had good lives, we wouldn't have Trump today. It's pretty rich to complain about anti-intellectualism when it is intellectuals who backed the people into a corner in the first place. Their globalist policies basically sum up to: "Fuck you middle America, we're going to spend your money on an overseas empire, and you will spend your lives providing fuel for a fire that will never heat you."
The politicization of journalism is something that journalism did to itself. They kept going farther and farther left, until in the 2016 election they pulled the mask off and revealed themselves to be agents of the Democratic Party. Everyone saw it. I don't see it getting any better anytime soon, they have changed from neutral observers into an active political faction, and apparently they love it like this.
If we weren't in NATO, we wouldn't have enemies in Europe. We could just withdraw and have a lot fewer enemies in the world. You realize the US government creates its enemies by bombing the shit out of neutral countries, right?
"American" is a group identity, the stench of if follows you everywhere you go, like a piece of shit you stepped in and is stuck to your heel. Individual people don't matter. That's the very foundation of the identity politics that you Americans invented. Hoist by your own petard. How hilariously humiliating that must be for you, to go through life as an American
The wall is only $20 billion, chump change. Compare that to the six trillion dollars that's been spent on foreign wars by our globalist elites, that have made America more hated than ever. Puts it into perspective.
They're cashing in. They'd rather have a few big accounts than thousands of little ones. It's also part of Youtube's war on independent journalism which produced such undesirable results in the last election. Keep the power concentrated where it can be trusted: in the hands of powerful media corporations. Starve the independent creators who get out there and report inconvenient stories.
Yaknow, I thought it was far-fetched that a CNN moderator would cheat and give Hillary Clinton the debate questions beforehand. It's like something the villain would do in a Charlie Brown cartoon special. But it happened.
I thought it was far-fetched that a senior Politico journalist, a serious man with serious credibility, would run his articles past the Democrats before publishing. But it happened. His punishment? He was hired by the New York Times after the election.
The Constitution that was written by white supremacists? Sorry if the world thinks that a document that Richard Spencer wrote is invalid. Did Afro-Americans have any input into it? They didn't, so how can they be ruled by it? They never consented, never voted, the whole thing needs to be torn up and redone, with anti-racism being a founding principle from the start. Nothing discredited about the US government? Was that before or after they infected black people with syphilis and genocided the native Americans and invaded Iraq on false pretenses?
You are talking about a purely fictional situation, that you made up in your head, about Putin invading Europe. Without America the European militaries could easily handle Putin - if they spent any money on them, which they don't, because they have a sucker to do it for them.
The really unforgivable acts are committed by calm people in beautiful rooms at the US State Department, who deal death wholesale, by the shipload, without lust, or anger, or desire, or any redeeming emotion to excuse them but cold fear of some pretended future. But the crimes they hope to prevent in the future are imaginary. The ones they commit in the present--they are real.
That is 100% pure American Exceptionalism and Obama himself spent considerable time debunking that very concept. Nobody believes in it any more except a bunch of jingoist fools and alt-right trolls.
The Myth of the Indispensable Nation: The world doesn't need the United States nearly as much as we like to think it does. Like many foreign policy concepts overwhelmingly endorsed by officials and policymakers, this one has little basis in reality. If you consider everything encompassing global affairs - from state-to-state diplomatic relations, to growing cross-border flows of goods, money, people, and data - there are actually very few activities where America's role is truly indispensable, defined by Webster's as "absolutely necessary." The problem with allowing this classification of Americaâ(TM)s global role to persist is that it is so patently false, and thus an illogical basis upon which to base and prescribe U.S. grand strategy. Indispensable nations on the right side of history don't lose votes in the UN 200-9.
There is evil in the world. There are those who want to take what others have, fanatics bent on eradicating modernity and Liberal democracy, power hungry maniacs with genocidal intentions
Thank you! Yes! I couldn't have said with better words myself the reason that America must be restrained. Was America a force for good when it attacked Mexico? Spain? Germany? Germany? Korea? Viet Nam? Afghanistan? Iraq? Libya? Syria? Yemen? How long will you go on kidding yourself?
America is a sick country, always has been. From the good old days when we importing Africans as slaves and murdering Native Americans so we could steal their land; to our nefarious role in overthrowing democratic governments in South America and Iran and replacing them with horrible dictators; to our imperialist adventures in Korea and Vietnam to the unneeded and uncalled for invasion if Iraq, which has destabilized the entire Middle East - we've shown the world that we are indeed exceptional we've actually accomplished what Napoleon and Hitler only dreamed of - setting up a nationalist empire that dominates much of the globe.
The faux "Pax Americana" brought us unprovoked wars, illegal coups, regime changes, shock and awe, ultra-right wing or jihadi proxy armies, cluster bombs, depleted uranium, agent orange, CIA backed mujahideen, death squads, torture, assassinations, extraordinary renditions, black sites, Guantanamo, drone wars, big brother and the surveillance state, etc. Countries that don't waste their resources playing world cop are able to afford social protections for their citizens and wind up with more prosperous, secure, and successful societies. For example - Canada, Norway, Australia, Sweden, Denmark, Holland, Switzerland.
What on Earth are you talking about? It has nothing to do with protecting America from threats. Reality is that America has long ceased to be a force for good. In this century America has invaded more countries, started more wars and killed more civilians than any other Nation on this earth - and this includes Russia under Putin. The Mid-East is littered with graves of innocent men, women and children blown up by bombs from 30,000 feet. Dropped from American planes.
It was Obama who pushed the Russians and Chinese together, not Trump, after his sanctions against Russia in response to the Ukrainian fiasco. It was Obama who fomented a civil war from a domestic situation in a thoroughly corrupt country, Ukraine, when he sent the CIA director to advise the coup government in Kiev the day before they declared war on their own citizens in the east of the country.
It was Obama who degraded the dignity and respect of America's foreign services when he declared that Raymond Davis, CIA, Blackwater contractor James Bond wannabe, a diplomat entitled to the highest level of diplomatic immunity after he killed two Pakistani citizens with an illegal gun, thus severely damaging diplomatic relations with that country.
It was Obama who exacerbated an already unstable situation in Syria when he armed the so-called resistance fighters, thus making sure the country blew up into a full fledged civil war. The war in Syria never was one for diplomatic reforms. It is just a battle among factions, many who are not inclined to respect American values.
I have some bad news for you. There's no universal law that has anointed the U.S. the honor of being "the greatest country in history." You're far from being a "global force for good." In fact, the rest of the world has learned, in one short year, just how phony and shallow your leadership actually is. You can hardly fund your schools, fix your infrastructure or provide decent care to the majority of your people. You're too busy funding a bloated military welfare complex and feathering the nests of your (non-productive) corporations and rent-collecting elites.
Don't despair, China seems willing and capable of helping the world move further into the 21st Century through vision and investment. I've been to Germany recently and they are investing in their infrastructures and people.
So go ahead, keep telling yourselves that you're "great!" The rest of the world knows the truth and you can't handle the truth.
Yaknow, if you're taking your foreign policy knowledge from a satire movie from 2004, I think the adults can safely ignore what you have to say. America is the world's #1 leading warmongering nation, starts more wars than anyone else, second place isn't even close. America is the asshole country that needs to be stopped. Why do you think your elites hate your new president so much? He's been in office almost a year and still hasn't started any new wars!
Europeans have not been paying their fair share of NATO for decades. NATO is supposed to be a *mutual* defense treaty, not a free ride for ungrateful pricks. America pays billions every year to subsidize European defense, sounds like a shakedown to me. Then the Europeans turn right around and heartlessly criticize America for being warmongers - and yet if America ever decided to stop warmongering and tend to its own affairs, Europeans scream "you're leaving us to Russia, get back here you isolationists". You know, like they did in 2017.
It seems like the other countries are like America's crazy girlfriend. Saying how we always make things worse and that one day another big strong country is going to come along and sweep them off their feet. One day we get sick of it. We say we need some space and it's not you, it's us. We just need some time to work on ourself. Suddenly crazy gf countries start crying about how they can't live without us... But we know now. We were just a sugar daddy all along.
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Nope. Trump is a centrist. He was a pro abortion democrat for decades. Fascist? Nah. The press is now a side. They ignored the prime directive for journalism: report the story, don't be the story. The press is now the story, and democracy is greatly harmed by it.
Uh, the US government engaged in policy after pictures deliberately designed to ruin our own people. NAFTA, admitting China to the WTO, ruinous trade agreements that bankrupted us, these were all decisions by intellectuals that the American people are evil and needed to be destroyed. What kind of pro American person would ruin our factories by creating incentives to move them all to China and Mexico, countries that hate us?
If only the Clinton campaign had known! They could have spent part of their $2 billion ad budget on convincing people to vote for her! Damn their lack of foresight!
Those poor powerless people! It's so horrible our system of government gives them a voice!
Turns out, we kept our markets open to Japanese cars while the Japanese were free to close their market to our cars. Totally unfair. This was all part of our globalist elites' plan to keep Japan on "our" side by gigantic bribes. If Japan had been required to pay fairly, American industry could have had a chance. Just think about how depraved that is. They ruined our working class so that they could make other countries well off. What kind of America hating assholes would do something like this?
Because the people who want to get rid of capitalism are almost always extreme socialists who would happily destroy our nice countries and turn them into shitholes. You need only look at Venezuela to see what can happen to a nice country. From skyscrapers and condominiums to digging food out of the trash. In particular, the climate change issue is frequently used as evidence that we need to destroy capitalism immediately and permanently, and go to a system whereby the government portions out society's resources in what left-wing extremists would regard as a fair and socially just manner.
See? This is the sort of ignorant, political cheap shot the Left loves so much. They don't need to actually visit these places and talk to the people, they can just say things that they KNOW are true because they read it on the media. It's not going to get any better until the Left decides it has compassion for the little people, and I don't see that happening. It's just too satisfying to speak truth to the powerless.
Perhaps if our intellectual class had not spent the last 50 years deliberately harming our middle and working classes, and instead cared for them and made sure they had good lives, we wouldn't have Trump today. It's pretty rich to complain about anti-intellectualism when it is intellectuals who backed the people into a corner in the first place. Their globalist policies basically sum up to: "Fuck you middle America, we're going to spend your money on an overseas empire, and you will spend your lives providing fuel for a fire that will never heat you."
The politicization of journalism is something that journalism did to itself. They kept going farther and farther left, until in the 2016 election they pulled the mask off and revealed themselves to be agents of the Democratic Party. Everyone saw it. I don't see it getting any better anytime soon, they have changed from neutral observers into an active political faction, and apparently they love it like this.
If we weren't in NATO, we wouldn't have enemies in Europe. We could just withdraw and have a lot fewer enemies in the world. You realize the US government creates its enemies by bombing the shit out of neutral countries, right?
"American" is a group identity, the stench of if follows you everywhere you go, like a piece of shit you stepped in and is stuck to your heel. Individual people don't matter. That's the very foundation of the identity politics that you Americans invented. Hoist by your own petard. How hilariously humiliating that must be for you, to go through life as an American
The wall is only $20 billion, chump change. Compare that to the six trillion dollars that's been spent on foreign wars by our globalist elites, that have made America more hated than ever. Puts it into perspective.
They're cashing in. They'd rather have a few big accounts than thousands of little ones. It's also part of Youtube's war on independent journalism which produced such undesirable results in the last election. Keep the power concentrated where it can be trusted: in the hands of powerful media corporations. Starve the independent creators who get out there and report inconvenient stories.
Yaknow, I thought it was far-fetched that a CNN moderator would cheat and give Hillary Clinton the debate questions beforehand. It's like something the villain would do in a Charlie Brown cartoon special. But it happened.
I thought it was far-fetched that a senior Politico journalist, a serious man with serious credibility, would run his articles past the Democrats before publishing. But it happened. His punishment? He was hired by the New York Times after the election.
I thought it was far-fetched that several of the nation's largest and most influential news outlets spread an explosive but completely false news story to millions of people, while refusing to provide any explanation of how it happened. But that happened too. So my idea of far-fetched is a lot narrower than it used to be. There really are conspiracies out there, and they really do operate like this.
The Constitution that was written by white supremacists? Sorry if the world thinks that a document that Richard Spencer wrote is invalid. Did Afro-Americans have any input into it? They didn't, so how can they be ruled by it? They never consented, never voted, the whole thing needs to be torn up and redone, with anti-racism being a founding principle from the start. Nothing discredited about the US government? Was that before or after they infected black people with syphilis and genocided the native Americans and invaded Iraq on false pretenses?
There's no vaccine for Ebola, and you knew that when you wrote it.
You are talking about a purely fictional situation, that you made up in your head, about Putin invading Europe. Without America the European militaries could easily handle Putin - if they spent any money on them, which they don't, because they have a sucker to do it for them.
The really unforgivable acts are committed by calm people in beautiful rooms at the US State Department, who deal death wholesale, by the shipload, without lust, or anger, or desire, or any redeeming emotion to excuse them but cold fear of some pretended future. But the crimes they hope to prevent in the future are imaginary. The ones they commit in the present--they are real.
That is 100% pure American Exceptionalism and Obama himself spent considerable time debunking that very concept. Nobody believes in it any more except a bunch of jingoist fools and alt-right trolls.
The Myth of the Indispensable Nation: The world doesn't need the United States nearly as much as we like to think it does. Like many foreign policy concepts overwhelmingly endorsed by officials and policymakers, this one has little basis in reality. If you consider everything encompassing global affairs - from state-to-state diplomatic relations, to growing cross-border flows of goods, money, people, and data - there are actually very few activities where America's role is truly indispensable, defined by Webster's as "absolutely necessary." The problem with allowing this classification of Americaâ(TM)s global role to persist is that it is so patently false, and thus an illogical basis upon which to base and prescribe U.S. grand strategy. Indispensable nations on the right side of history don't lose votes in the UN 200-9.
There is evil in the world. There are those who want to take what others have, fanatics bent on eradicating modernity and Liberal democracy, power hungry maniacs with genocidal intentions
Thank you! Yes! I couldn't have said with better words myself the reason that America must be restrained. Was America a force for good when it attacked Mexico? Spain? Germany? Germany? Korea? Viet Nam? Afghanistan? Iraq? Libya? Syria? Yemen? How long will you go on kidding yourself?
America is a sick country, always has been. From the good old days when we importing Africans as slaves and murdering Native Americans so we could steal their land; to our nefarious role in overthrowing democratic governments in South America and Iran and replacing them with horrible dictators; to our imperialist adventures in Korea and Vietnam to the unneeded and uncalled for invasion if Iraq, which has destabilized the entire Middle East - we've shown the world that we are indeed exceptional we've actually accomplished what Napoleon and Hitler only dreamed of - setting up a nationalist empire that dominates much of the globe.
The faux "Pax Americana" brought us unprovoked wars, illegal coups, regime changes, shock and awe, ultra-right wing or jihadi proxy armies, cluster bombs, depleted uranium, agent orange, CIA backed mujahideen, death squads, torture, assassinations, extraordinary renditions, black sites, Guantanamo, drone wars, big brother and the surveillance state, etc. Countries that don't waste their resources playing world cop are able to afford social protections for their citizens and wind up with more prosperous, secure, and successful societies. For example - Canada, Norway, Australia, Sweden, Denmark, Holland, Switzerland.
What on Earth are you talking about? It has nothing to do with protecting America from threats. Reality is that America has long ceased to be a force for good. In this century America has invaded more countries, started more wars and killed more civilians than any other Nation on this earth - and this includes Russia under Putin. The Mid-East is littered with graves of innocent men, women and children blown up by bombs from 30,000 feet. Dropped from American planes.
It was Obama who pushed the Russians and Chinese together, not Trump, after his sanctions against Russia in response to the Ukrainian fiasco. It was Obama who fomented a civil war from a domestic situation in a thoroughly corrupt country, Ukraine, when he sent the CIA director to advise the coup government in Kiev the day before they declared war on their own citizens in the east of the country.
It was Obama who degraded the dignity and respect of America's foreign services when he declared that Raymond Davis, CIA, Blackwater contractor James Bond wannabe, a diplomat entitled to the highest level of diplomatic immunity after he killed two Pakistani citizens with an illegal gun, thus severely damaging diplomatic relations with that country.
It was Obama who exacerbated an already unstable situation in Syria when he armed the so-called resistance fighters, thus making sure the country blew up into a full fledged civil war. The war in Syria never was one for diplomatic reforms. It is just a battle among factions, many who are not inclined to respect American values.
I have some bad news for you. There's no universal law that has anointed the U.S. the honor of being "the greatest country in history." You're far from being a "global force for good." In fact, the rest of the world has learned, in one short year, just how phony and shallow your leadership actually is. You can hardly fund your schools, fix your infrastructure or provide decent care to the majority of your people. You're too busy funding a bloated military welfare complex and feathering the nests of your (non-productive) corporations and rent-collecting elites. Don't despair, China seems willing and capable of helping the world move further into the 21st Century through vision and investment. I've been to Germany recently and they are investing in their infrastructures and people.
So go ahead, keep telling yourselves that you're "great!" The rest of the world knows the truth and you can't handle the truth.
Uh, I've got some bad news for you about the US-backed rebels...turns out they were Islamic terrorists. Oops.
Yaknow, if you're taking your foreign policy knowledge from a satire movie from 2004, I think the adults can safely ignore what you have to say. America is the world's #1 leading warmongering nation, starts more wars than anyone else, second place isn't even close. America is the asshole country that needs to be stopped. Why do you think your elites hate your new president so much? He's been in office almost a year and still hasn't started any new wars!
Well, there's a new low: someone complaining that the article is scientifically accurate. You people are just unpleasable, aren't you?
Europeans have not been paying their fair share of NATO for decades. NATO is supposed to be a *mutual* defense treaty, not a free ride for ungrateful pricks. America pays billions every year to subsidize European defense, sounds like a shakedown to me. Then the Europeans turn right around and heartlessly criticize America for being warmongers - and yet if America ever decided to stop warmongering and tend to its own affairs, Europeans scream "you're leaving us to Russia, get back here you isolationists". You know, like they did in 2017.
It seems like the other countries are like America's crazy girlfriend. Saying how we always make things worse and that one day another big strong country is going to come along and sweep them off their feet. One day we get sick of it. We say we need some space and it's not you, it's us. We just need some time to work on ourself. Suddenly crazy gf countries start crying about how they can't live without us... But we know now. We were just a sugar daddy all along.
The Outer Space Treaty prohibits weapons in orbit. Any violators will feel the full force of the UN.
So, do we know that there was no such thing as a US government in 1763? Please tell me we know that.