Yaknow, saying "people would go to jail in Canada for violating our bizarre far-left laws" is not exactly something you brag about, you know? Honestly as a Canadian I'd be keeping that kind of thing quiet, it makes your people look like Orwellian monsters.
Our entire relationship with China since deciding to admit them to the WTO back in the 90s has been "unfettered access to the gigantically profitable US market while you're free to heap restrictions on American companies and ruinous tariffs on American goods." How do you think China accumulated those hundreds of billions in US treasuries? They made a shit-ton of money and could keep their home markets safe from ruthlessly competitive US firms. It's a far stretch to say that this should change now, US policy since WWII has been based on open access to its markets while other countries are free to disadvantage US goods.
The Chinese already slashed import taxes on certain imported goods from 17% to 7% after Trump's visit to Beijing. Did we not hear that? He already did something, but your news didn't report it (surprise).
It wasn't conservatives who located Planned Parenthood clinics in black neighborhoods. They bring to a stop 237 black lives every day. We're missing 2 million blacks today because of this. You going to applaud, racist?
Wow, dehumanizing language and homophobic slurs. Why does anyone listen to bigoted freaks like the parent poster? Why's this abusive post modded up? Shame, Slashdot.
The world has long demanded an end to the disastrous era of American leadership. It's about time some other countries got the spotlight. America has hogged all the attention for far too long and it's time for a change. Europe is doing a fine job as leader ever since Trump pulled out of the Paris accords. They haven't even bombed one country!
Yes but then how are we going to get one world government under neoliberals? Open borders and welcoming the Third World into our nice countries. The wars are necessary to bring the recalcitrant nations to heel. They're also highly profitable. So you can see they'll never stop.
Society has failed? Do they bear zero responsibility for their situation? It has never been anyone's job to provide for them since the ACLU sued to shut down the mental asylums on the grounds they were prisons and mental illness is not a crime.
Because America pays for their defense, and they are free to put the vast savings into a welfare state. Europe flat out refuses to pay their minimum share of NATO, 2%, because this would bankrupt them and their people would revolt. It's easy to pay for nice things when you don't have to find a hugely expensive military to defend the borders of other nations while neglecting your own borders.
Oh, sure the media is left-wing. But for you, it's just not far enough left. I mean, when you're that far out, anyone to the right of Mao Zedong looks like a Nazi to you.
"Is The New York Times a Liberal Newspaper? Of course it is."
What are the stats for white on black rape versus black on white rape?
You're not a proud American. Americans are fucking morons. Americans are the least educated and knowledgeable of foreign affairs, languages, and disparate cultures, societies, and social norms among all Westernized countries and the least exposed universally.
Americans don't believe in the imagination, partly because so few of them have one, but mostly because it gets in the way of their chosen work, which is to destroy the human race and the planet. Human beings, who have imaginations, can see a recipe for disaster in the making; Americans, whose goal in life is to profit from disaster and who don't give a hoot about human beings, either can't or won't.
I don't understand patriotism. Never have. Why should you be proud for being born at a particular point on planet earth? If you're a patriotic American born in El Paso, you're only a couple of kilometres from being a patriotic Mexican. Why? It makes zero sense.
Nope, the ACLU would just sue to shut them down again. Keeping people imprisoned like that is wrong and against ACLU ideals. Since when is mental illness a crime? If they were voluntary treatment centers, nobody would go there. Ever see the movie "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"?
I think a lot of people are totally ignorant of the role the US economy plays in the world. It is a gigantic dumping ground for the world's products. Without it to pay out like a slot machine, much of the world would collapse. Witness Trump's idea to buy American and hire American - resisted with shrieking terror. They need our economy, where else are they going to sell their stuff?
Assuming you're European, good luck with the Chinese. They don't give a shit and don't just say China First, they say China First, Last, and In Between. At any rate, I'm glad to be rid of useless Europeans and their steadfast refusal to defend themselves. Can't even do the minimum 2%. Freeloaders.
Since when were any of you ever proud of being American? To be embarrassed you have to have, at one point, been proud which is absolutely not true. American pride is a noxious view associated with middle America in your view, so WTF? You've always been embarrassed to be American.
What's the actual statistic on black on white crime and vice versa?
Hold on now - I have been assured many, many times that tariffs do NOT work and a trade war hurts the initiator FAR more than anyone else. Now suddenly tariffs are a good idea and starting a trade war is OK? How does that work?
States rights is a code word for racism. Anyone who advocates for states rights is a racist and it has been this way in American politics for decades. How's it feel to be a racist, Richard Spencer?
What do you mean, "Started introducing our values"? We didn't introduce our values, we burnt their cities to the ground and then militarily occupied them for a decade. We changed their culture so that Japan would stop invading its neighbors.
Gosh, I mean in America we could use that too, we invade way too many countries.
Panties are so women don't leave snail trails when they sit down.
The revolution was not a revolution, it was a military coup. And the almost-famine was engineered by our Deep State as an experiment. Yup, that happened.
Last year I arrived early for a lunch address by Gen. Michael Hayden, who ran the National Security Agency and later the Central Intelligence Agency in the George W. Bush administration. Hayden was already there, and glad to chat. The conversation turned to Egypt, and I asked Hayden why the Republican mainstream had embraced the Muslim Brotherhood rather than the military government of President al-Sisi, an American-trained soldier who espoused a reformed Islam that would repudiate terrorism. "We were sorry that [Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed] Morsi was overthrown" in July 2013, Hayden explained. "We wanted to see what would happen when the Muslim Brotherhood had to take responsibility for picking up the garbage."
"General," I remonstrated, "when Morsi was overthrown, Egypt had three weeks of wheat supplies on hand. The country was on the brink of starvation!"
"I guess that experiment would have been tough on the ordinary Egyptian," Hayden replied, without a hint of irony.
You kidding? It's impossible not to hear the media's left-wing views. They are trumpeted from the skies 24/7. The reason Trump's twitter account enrages them so much is that it allows him to bypass their gatekeeper function and speak directly with the people. This is unprecedented for a President, the media is accustomed to go through what the President says, frame it according to their biases, and then transmit to the people. They've lost this, and they're super angry about it. How dare that man speak to the citizenry without going through their filter!
Wait a minute...we're having the wrong argument. Tariffs don't work. These countries will just harm themselves by cutting themselves off from the benefits of free trade. The whole thing is a non-starter.
And if for some reason the plan works, the world will cheer as the US bully is taken down a notch. God knows we deserve it. The US government is wholly evil without a doubt. Invades countries for oil. Kills civilians. A murderous and blood-thirsty nation. Who has invaded the most countries? Who has broken the most international laws? http://brilliantmaps.com/threa...
Yeah, but moderators don't actually DO anything. I don't know why, but moderators never seem to clean up spam or move off-topic posts or do any of the things that moderators are supposed to do. They're either lazy or incompetent. I think the problem is that nobody checks their work, so they can get away with playing phone games all day while they're supposed to be working.
And what are they going to do when we enact retaliatory tariffs, and suddenly they can't dump their goods on our market any more? They'll be screwed. You know the world relies on the US markets for a big chunk of its prosperity, right?
Besides, what does America even make any more? Investment products? Entertainment? They sure won't be cutting themselves off from the flow of those sweet, sweet American weapons.
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Yaknow, saying "people would go to jail in Canada for violating our bizarre far-left laws" is not exactly something you brag about, you know? Honestly as a Canadian I'd be keeping that kind of thing quiet, it makes your people look like Orwellian monsters.
The world today folks: I demand other people be silenced because I think they're hurtful.
Our entire relationship with China since deciding to admit them to the WTO back in the 90s has been "unfettered access to the gigantically profitable US market while you're free to heap restrictions on American companies and ruinous tariffs on American goods." How do you think China accumulated those hundreds of billions in US treasuries? They made a shit-ton of money and could keep their home markets safe from ruthlessly competitive US firms. It's a far stretch to say that this should change now, US policy since WWII has been based on open access to its markets while other countries are free to disadvantage US goods.
The Chinese already slashed import taxes on certain imported goods from 17% to 7% after Trump's visit to Beijing. Did we not hear that? He already did something, but your news didn't report it (surprise).
It wasn't conservatives who located Planned Parenthood clinics in black neighborhoods. They bring to a stop 237 black lives every day. We're missing 2 million blacks today because of this. You going to applaud, racist?
Wow, dehumanizing language and homophobic slurs. Why does anyone listen to bigoted freaks like the parent poster? Why's this abusive post modded up? Shame, Slashdot.
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The world has long demanded an end to the disastrous era of American leadership. It's about time some other countries got the spotlight. America has hogged all the attention for far too long and it's time for a change. Europe is doing a fine job as leader ever since Trump pulled out of the Paris accords. They haven't even bombed one country!
Yes but then how are we going to get one world government under neoliberals? Open borders and welcoming the Third World into our nice countries. The wars are necessary to bring the recalcitrant nations to heel. They're also highly profitable. So you can see they'll never stop.
Society has failed? Do they bear zero responsibility for their situation? It has never been anyone's job to provide for them since the ACLU sued to shut down the mental asylums on the grounds they were prisons and mental illness is not a crime.
Because America pays for their defense, and they are free to put the vast savings into a welfare state. Europe flat out refuses to pay their minimum share of NATO, 2%, because this would bankrupt them and their people would revolt. It's easy to pay for nice things when you don't have to find a hugely expensive military to defend the borders of other nations while neglecting your own borders.
Oh, sure the media is left-wing. But for you, it's just not far enough left. I mean, when you're that far out, anyone to the right of Mao Zedong looks like a Nazi to you.
-- Source: New York Times
What are the stats for white on black rape versus black on white rape?
You're not a proud American. Americans are fucking morons. Americans are the least educated and knowledgeable of foreign affairs, languages, and disparate cultures, societies, and social norms among all Westernized countries and the least exposed universally.
Americans don't believe in the imagination, partly because so few of them have one, but mostly because it gets in the way of their chosen work, which is to destroy the human race and the planet. Human beings, who have imaginations, can see a recipe for disaster in the making; Americans, whose goal in life is to profit from disaster and who don't give a hoot about human beings, either can't or won't.
I don't understand patriotism. Never have. Why should you be proud for being born at a particular point on planet earth? If you're a patriotic American born in El Paso, you're only a couple of kilometres from being a patriotic Mexican. Why? It makes zero sense.
Nope, the ACLU would just sue to shut them down again. Keeping people imprisoned like that is wrong and against ACLU ideals. Since when is mental illness a crime? If they were voluntary treatment centers, nobody would go there. Ever see the movie "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"?
Animal rights people typically have a hugely negative attitude towards humans, yes. It's not hypocrisy, it's the opposite: consistency.
I think a lot of people are totally ignorant of the role the US economy plays in the world. It is a gigantic dumping ground for the world's products. Without it to pay out like a slot machine, much of the world would collapse. Witness Trump's idea to buy American and hire American - resisted with shrieking terror. They need our economy, where else are they going to sell their stuff?
Assuming you're European, good luck with the Chinese. They don't give a shit and don't just say China First, they say China First, Last, and In Between. At any rate, I'm glad to be rid of useless Europeans and their steadfast refusal to defend themselves. Can't even do the minimum 2%. Freeloaders.
Since when were any of you ever proud of being American? To be embarrassed you have to have, at one point, been proud which is absolutely not true. American pride is a noxious view associated with middle America in your view, so WTF? You've always been embarrassed to be American.
What's the actual statistic on black on white crime and vice versa?
Hold on now - I have been assured many, many times that tariffs do NOT work and a trade war hurts the initiator FAR more than anyone else. Now suddenly tariffs are a good idea and starting a trade war is OK? How does that work?
States rights is a code word for racism. Anyone who advocates for states rights is a racist and it has been this way in American politics for decades. How's it feel to be a racist, Richard Spencer?
What do you mean, "Started introducing our values"? We didn't introduce our values, we burnt their cities to the ground and then militarily occupied them for a decade. We changed their culture so that Japan would stop invading its neighbors. Gosh, I mean in America we could use that too, we invade way too many countries.
Panties are so women don't leave snail trails when they sit down.
The revolution was not a revolution, it was a military coup. And the almost-famine was engineered by our Deep State as an experiment. Yup, that happened.
http://www.atimes.com/trump-la...
You kidding? It's impossible not to hear the media's left-wing views. They are trumpeted from the skies 24/7. The reason Trump's twitter account enrages them so much is that it allows him to bypass their gatekeeper function and speak directly with the people. This is unprecedented for a President, the media is accustomed to go through what the President says, frame it according to their biases, and then transmit to the people. They've lost this, and they're super angry about it. How dare that man speak to the citizenry without going through their filter!
Wait a minute...we're having the wrong argument. Tariffs don't work. These countries will just harm themselves by cutting themselves off from the benefits of free trade. The whole thing is a non-starter.
And if for some reason the plan works, the world will cheer as the US bully is taken down a notch. God knows we deserve it. The US government is wholly evil without a doubt. Invades countries for oil. Kills civilians. A murderous and blood-thirsty nation. Who has invaded the most countries? Who has broken the most international laws? http://brilliantmaps.com/threa...
Yeah, but moderators don't actually DO anything. I don't know why, but moderators never seem to clean up spam or move off-topic posts or do any of the things that moderators are supposed to do. They're either lazy or incompetent. I think the problem is that nobody checks their work, so they can get away with playing phone games all day while they're supposed to be working.
And what are they going to do when we enact retaliatory tariffs, and suddenly they can't dump their goods on our market any more? They'll be screwed. You know the world relies on the US markets for a big chunk of its prosperity, right?
Besides, what does America even make any more? Investment products? Entertainment? They sure won't be cutting themselves off from the flow of those sweet, sweet American weapons.