If you're willing to become a criminal, you're already out of the scope of this policy. Instead you're a client of the justice system and then penal one.
As we all learned with Al Capone, criminals can be difficult to charge with regular offences. Tax offences are almost impossible to get away with, so this policy is simply making fish easier to catch.
That's the thing with policy makers. Most of them are really smart and whatever you can think of, they have already thought of. Once in a while there are unintentional loopholes that even smarter people exploit and this makes the media, but most of the time, it's all well thought out stuff.
So siting a source is bad where as not doing so makes you correct. Or in other words, actual data = bad, pure opinion = good.
Gotcha.
You know that Wikipedia is an opinion too right? Or did you think the creator of the universe writes that as immutable fact?
And nothing in your posted link actually discusses the topic of whether Reality TV is the modern take on the Soap Opera, so you citations (with a c) are irrelevant.
This is why humans discuss things, we can validate ideas such as is blue a better colour than green? Do you prefer to holiday at home or abroad? Relax a little...
Same planet as you but with out the blinders. Just because a small group of your friends and family hate some one, doesn't mean the rest of the world does.
Yet you've come to your conclusion how?
So, no the alliance isn't suffering and we are doing just fine. There was some grumblings when Trump first took office because he was going to make them pay their fair share.
I'm assuming you're referring to the time when Trump was so dumb that he though NATO members paid subscription fees? You know he fucked up big time on that right because there's no such thing?
I really don't know what became of that but as of today, no alliance members have left. I can't seem to find where any have even talked of leaving the alliance. So, no the alliance isn't suffering in any great detail.
This isn't Star Wars. That not how foreign diplomacy works (Although Captain Cheeseburger probably thinks the same way as you)
On one hand you decry foreign policy by popular vote, but on the other you want more control...
Those two things are not mutually exclusive.
Unfortunately, you don't get either of your wishes.
I do because I don't live in the US, and our politicians and slightly less retarded than yours.
On your second point, you want more control? And how do you propose you get that?
How we achieved it already and how the US could improve their system to get what we have is to implement and politically independent electoral body responsible for ensuring that elections are held in a fair manner. I'm not completely familiar with your system but two things that stand out as completely obvious flaws in the US system are the power for a political party to set electoral boundaries, also known Gerrymandering. This is tin-pot dictatorship tactics. The other is prohibiting felons from voting which encourages a the police to be used as political tool to target certain groups. This in itself wouldn't be so bad if the US didn't have the highest incarceration rate in the developed world. The number of people affected is more than twice the difference of the popular vote. That is corrupt.
By the only poll that matters, the vote count.
Your electoral system is broken, therefore any result is unreliable.
I'm sure Israeli people are nice people just like the rest of us, but sometimes I wonder if wiping them off the face of the earth would produce net win for everybody else.
Sometimes you have to be cruel to be kind.
We know that President Obama started a few, screwed others up...
Which ones were those then? Obama inherited a couple of clusterfucks from the previous administration, that is a fact.
But President Trump? Seems to have de-escalated the Korean peninsula,
What was his exact contribution to that? Because it looked that already started before he took office, and his single contribution was to yell like a spoiled child, then claim it was all him. Quite peculiar.
finished off ISIS in Iraq,
Finished or finishing? Because I'm not sure that one is finished yet. And all the progress made before he took office looks to be undone now that Iran and Israel are firing missiles at each other directly due to his actions
and actually acted appropriately with regards to Syria.
That's objective.
We're only a year and a bit in, how about we come back at the end of term and see how things are going?
In case you've failed to notice, Iran is being run by a bunch of bat-shit insane religious zealots...
I hadn't noticed, but then I don't watch Fox News. And since I haven't actually been there I wouldn't be so quick to judge based only on media stories. We've been down that path before, it never ends well.
All our allies seem to be happy with Trump leadership.
What fucking planet are you on? I'm not American, your primary allies are Canada, UK, Australia and New Zealand and we all hate you (I say we because my family and friends are all a mix of all of those places, and every single person I know is absolutely disgusted with Trump. The UK had to cancel a state visit by Trump because the protests were going to be too disruptive. Wake up, the alliance is suffering and we will all suffer as a result.
This isn't just "not news", it's an industry norm.
Indeed. Elvis's manager Colonel Tom Parker was one of the best and set the standard. In his early days, when Elvis was playing a show he used to pay people to park in the middle of the street to create traffic chaos to build up the hype. It's called show business for a reason.
I can't think of anything I want less than endless flocks of drones constantly buzzing overhead. You thought the national parks were bad? Just you wait!
I now understand why old people are grumpy. All the interesting people die out over time only to be replaced with fucking idiots like Kanye West, and your personal space just gets smaller and smaller and smaller. There's getting less and less to look forward to.
You don't turn a coal plant or a nuke plant on and off on a daily basis.
OMG you are so fucking dumb 4 realz... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Give up dude, you've made a complete fucking arse out of yourself, it's time to stop digging.
Catching criminals is a side effect. The main purpose is to create justification to investigate anyone they want.
For what purpose?
I mean your theory sounds good, but you missed out a really important bit. I don't know about you, but merely investigating people for the hell of it doesn't sound like fun.
I hate to be a pedant but the article focuses on an instance in Wales which is an entirely different country to England, albeit with the same legal system.
Depends on your definition of 'country.' It seems that the UK and its territories simply pick and choose when convenient as to what they are, so it's fair when everyone else picks and chooses too.
Check the crime stats for the US and any other nation with a significant black minority population. Blacks commit violent crimes far in excess of their percentage of the population. This includes nations like Sweden which never had slavery or Jim Crow. These are facts.
Depends on what you consider a crime. Is for example invading and entire country and claiming ownership for centuries on the list? Because White people are over represented in that category. This is Fact.
The US will implement sanctions, Europe won't and Iran gets what they wanted,
Here's the funny part. Trump said anyone who deals with Iran will also be sanctioned, so when Europe ignores him he'll be forced to either back down (and somehow blame it on Hillary or Barrack), or face a trade war with the rest of the World. Can you imagine if everyone else all agreed to implement sanctions against the US? Trump is so stupid he'd actually claim it as a win while America burns down around him.
You want to make a lasting international deal with the US? You need to deal with the hillbilly rednecks that pray to sky fairies and guns
FTFY. This is the crux of the problem. The people required to vote for people who make international policy can't even point to other countries on a map
Trump has damaged America's credibility, but honestly, we're largely trading on Trumps credibility right now, not "America's";
Sorry, I'm not American, and I can tell you that America's reputation is trash. It seems that the rest of the West and a large chunk of America has a common view, then a small chunk of fucking retard Americans somehow keep getting into power. And it keeps happening. We thought we'd seen the worst with 8 years of Bush as he burnt our hard fought peace and prosperity to the ground, now we're going to have 8 years of Trump - yep I'm calling it, America is so retarded they will vote this clown back in. And when he's finally gone and the we spend the next 15 years rebuilding all the bridges, America will vote some even crazier clown in and wreck it all again.
I have a feeling that a lot of Trump's nonsense will be corrected once Trump is gone.
The problem for us is that the shockwaves of his ineptitude will take decades to subside. America's reputation is trash, and with it the stability the West had as an stable influence on the world. We will all suffer for a long time.
It's the same story as 2003, 2006, 2010 and 2014. We're going to bring peace to a Middle Eastern country by doing everything we can to fuck it up.
.
The big difference this time is that the rest of the world were prepared to put up with the American ego for the sake of unity. I wouldn't be surprised if the rest of the world just gave up on America this time. Unreliable, unpredictable, and untrustworthy, there is no longer any reason to remain friends.
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If you're willing to become a criminal, you're already out of the scope of this policy. Instead you're a client of the justice system and then penal one.
As we all learned with Al Capone, criminals can be difficult to charge with regular offences. Tax offences are almost impossible to get away with, so this policy is simply making fish easier to catch.
Yeah, they know about that trick; it's illegal too.
That's the thing with policy makers. Most of them are really smart and whatever you can think of, they have already thought of. Once in a while there are unintentional loopholes that even smarter people exploit and this makes the media, but most of the time, it's all well thought out stuff.
So siting a source is bad where as not doing so makes you correct. Or in other words, actual data = bad, pure opinion = good.
Gotcha.
You know that Wikipedia is an opinion too right? Or did you think the creator of the universe writes that as immutable fact?
And nothing in your posted link actually discusses the topic of whether Reality TV is the modern take on the Soap Opera, so you citations (with a c) are irrelevant. This is why humans discuss things, we can validate ideas such as is blue a better colour than green? Do you prefer to holiday at home or abroad? Relax a little...
Same planet as you but with out the blinders. Just because a small group of your friends and family hate some one, doesn't mean the rest of the world does.
Yet you've come to your conclusion how? So, no the alliance isn't suffering and we are doing just fine. There was some grumblings when Trump first took office because he was going to make them pay their fair share.
I'm assuming you're referring to the time when Trump was so dumb that he though NATO members paid subscription fees? You know he fucked up big time on that right because there's no such thing?
I really don't know what became of that but as of today, no alliance members have left. I can't seem to find where any have even talked of leaving the alliance. So, no the alliance isn't suffering in any great detail.
This isn't Star Wars. That not how foreign diplomacy works (Although Captain Cheeseburger probably thinks the same way as you)
On one hand you decry foreign policy by popular vote, but on the other you want more control...
Those two things are not mutually exclusive.
Unfortunately, you don't get either of your wishes.
I do because I don't live in the US, and our politicians and slightly less retarded than yours.
On your second point, you want more control? And how do you propose you get that?
How we achieved it already and how the US could improve their system to get what we have is to implement and politically independent electoral body responsible for ensuring that elections are held in a fair manner. I'm not completely familiar with your system but two things that stand out as completely obvious flaws in the US system are the power for a political party to set electoral boundaries, also known Gerrymandering. This is tin-pot dictatorship tactics. The other is prohibiting felons from voting which encourages a the police to be used as political tool to target certain groups. This in itself wouldn't be so bad if the US didn't have the highest incarceration rate in the developed world. The number of people affected is more than twice the difference of the popular vote. That is corrupt.
By the only poll that matters, the vote count.
Your electoral system is broken, therefore any result is unreliable.
Followers aren't baseload providers
Keep digging tiger, I'm sharing this around the office and they're all laughing hysterically. Dig! Dig! Dig!
I'm sure Israeli people are nice people just like the rest of us, but sometimes I wonder if wiping them off the face of the earth would produce net win for everybody else.
Sometimes you have to be cruel to be kind.
We know that President Obama started a few, screwed others up...
Which ones were those then? Obama inherited a couple of clusterfucks from the previous administration, that is a fact.
But President Trump? Seems to have de-escalated the Korean peninsula,
What was his exact contribution to that? Because it looked that already started before he took office, and his single contribution was to yell like a spoiled child, then claim it was all him. Quite peculiar.
finished off ISIS in Iraq,
Finished or finishing? Because I'm not sure that one is finished yet. And all the progress made before he took office looks to be undone now that Iran and Israel are firing missiles at each other directly due to his actions
and actually acted appropriately with regards to Syria.
That's objective.
We're only a year and a bit in, how about we come back at the end of term and see how things are going?
In case you've failed to notice, Iran is being run by a bunch of bat-shit insane religious zealots...
I hadn't noticed, but then I don't watch Fox News. And since I haven't actually been there I wouldn't be so quick to judge based only on media stories. We've been down that path before, it never ends well.
our military is the largest in the world bar none.
I think Rome made that same claim for a while and how did that turn out? And besides, if you go alone, who will make your iPhones?
All our allies seem to be happy with Trump leadership.
What fucking planet are you on? I'm not American, your primary allies are Canada, UK, Australia and New Zealand and we all hate you (I say we because my family and friends are all a mix of all of those places, and every single person I know is absolutely disgusted with Trump.
The UK had to cancel a state visit by Trump because the protests were going to be too disruptive. Wake up, the alliance is suffering and we will all suffer as a result.
Bitch away but lets stick to facts.
Indeed...
A lot of folks thought this idea was a good one.
Why should complicated foreign diplomacy matters be decided by popular vote? This just seems absurd to me.
We won't know that until history has a chance to judge the action.
I think this is the point. For some things, we want to have more control in the outcome than just rolling the dice
This isn't just "not news", it's an industry norm.
Indeed. Elvis's manager Colonel Tom Parker was one of the best and set the standard. In his early days, when Elvis was playing a show he used to pay people to park in the middle of the street to create traffic chaos to build up the hype. It's called show business for a reason.
I can't think of anything I want less than endless flocks of drones constantly buzzing overhead. You thought the national parks were bad? Just you wait!
I now understand why old people are grumpy. All the interesting people die out over time only to be replaced with fucking idiots like Kanye West, and your personal space just gets smaller and smaller and smaller. There's getting less and less to look forward to.
You don't turn a coal plant or a nuke plant on and off on a daily basis.
OMG you are so fucking dumb 4 realz...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Give up dude, you've made a complete fucking arse out of yourself, it's time to stop digging.
There's how wikipedia defines the examples you gave
Oh well that settles it. We don't need to explore concepts or discuss things because Wikipedia makes all decisions for us. good luck with that.
con is of course short for confidence...
There will always people trying to gain your confidence...
Winning the American Presidency wasn't listed?
Catching criminals is a side effect. The main purpose is to create justification to investigate anyone they want.
For what purpose?
I mean your theory sounds good, but you missed out a really important bit. I don't know about you, but merely investigating people for the hell of it doesn't sound like fun.
I hate to be a pedant but the article focuses on an instance in Wales which is an entirely different country to England, albeit with the same legal system.
Depends on your definition of 'country.' It seems that the UK and its territories simply pick and choose when convenient as to what they are, so it's fair when everyone else picks and chooses too.
Check the crime stats for the US and any other nation with a significant black minority population. Blacks commit violent crimes far in excess of their percentage of the population. This includes nations like Sweden which never had slavery or Jim Crow. These are facts.
Depends on what you consider a crime. Is for example invading and entire country and claiming ownership for centuries on the list? Because White people are over represented in that category. This is Fact.
The US will implement sanctions, Europe won't and Iran gets what they wanted,
Here's the funny part. Trump said anyone who deals with Iran will also be sanctioned, so when Europe ignores him he'll be forced to either back down (and somehow blame it on Hillary or Barrack), or face a trade war with the rest of the World. Can you imagine if everyone else all agreed to implement sanctions against the US? Trump is so stupid he'd actually claim it as a win while America burns down around him.
You want to make a lasting international deal with the US? You need to deal with the hillbilly rednecks that pray to sky fairies and guns
FTFY. This is the crux of the problem. The people required to vote for people who make international policy can't even point to other countries on a map
Trump has damaged America's credibility, but honestly, we're largely trading on Trumps credibility right now, not "America's";
Sorry, I'm not American, and I can tell you that America's reputation is trash. It seems that the rest of the West and a large chunk of America has a common view, then a small chunk of fucking retard Americans somehow keep getting into power. And it keeps happening. We thought we'd seen the worst with 8 years of Bush as he burnt our hard fought peace and prosperity to the ground, now we're going to have 8 years of Trump - yep I'm calling it, America is so retarded they will vote this clown back in. And when he's finally gone and the we spend the next 15 years rebuilding all the bridges, America will vote some even crazier clown in and wreck it all again.
I have a feeling that a lot of Trump's nonsense will be corrected once Trump is gone.
The problem for us is that the shockwaves of his ineptitude will take decades to subside. America's reputation is trash, and with it the stability the West had as an stable influence on the world. We will all suffer for a long time.
It's the same story as 2003, 2006, 2010 and 2014. We're going to bring peace to a Middle Eastern country by doing everything we can to fuck it up.
.
The big difference this time is that the rest of the world were prepared to put up with the American ego for the sake of unity. I wouldn't be surprised if the rest of the world just gave up on America this time. Unreliable, unpredictable, and untrustworthy, there is no longer any reason to remain friends.