And Santa Clause is on target to deliver all his presents for Christmas. Quite the alternate reality you've constructed for yourself, relying on hand waiving.
Learn to use a search engine, and inter-library loan.
Translation: do all the work to prove that Santa is indeed on schedule, so you don't have to prove your assertions. Sorry, but it doesn't work that way - otherwise I'll casually assert that you've been getting it on with Donner and Blitzen, and leave you to prove that assertion false.
The fact is that even if every American citizen biked to work, carpooled to school, used only solar panels to power their homes, if we each planted a dozen trees, if we somehow eliminated all of our domestic greenhouse emissions, guess what - that still wouldn't be enough to offset the carbon pollution coming from the rest of the world.
Guess what - that's still wankery powered by gross entitlement. India and China combined have 7 times the population of the United States, yet a fraction of our wealth. WTF should they be held to to the same standard as the get-rich-quick kid who gets to fuck over the rest of the planet but not have any responsibility for his actions?
They don't need to buy arms. They have more than enough planes and missiles to cause the U.S. a world of hurt in any theater, and more than enough nukes to pound the U.S. into dust in an all-out war.
Just because Russia's budget is a fraction of NATO's, doesn't mean they don't have the capacity to fuck your shit up.
Wrong. And you're fucking ignorant. Nigeria is the most successful nation by a long shot, and Ghana.
No, that was Libya, you mindless American Exceptionalist.
The western world led by Britain and France proceeded in Libya in supporting the local populace against a dictator who assumed power in the vacuum it created.
You mean executed a regime change operation when said dictator wanted to found a gold-backed African currency to establish independence from western nations.
Similar methods should be used in every dictatorship - when the populace seeks freedom, those who are free help them with military might.
Then explain why the United States has sold weapons to dictatorships like Yemen, Bahrain, and Saudi Arabia to put down their protestors, you fucking idiot.
You don't seem to understand. I get Tom's sarcasm. I am pointing out that he can shove it up his ass.
Then you're an idiot. Before regime change, Libya was a secular state, and the most prosperous one in Africa. It had an educated populous, rights for women, and had plans to establish a gold-backed currency to free other African countries from western influence - so Gaddafi had to go. Now it's another Iraqi style failed state, ruled by warring factions and a breeding ground for Al Queda. Way to go, American Exceptionalist.
The hell they did. This is as pitiful as continuing to insist in 2016 that Saddam had to be deposed because of his WMD's and ties to Al Queda, a full decade after even Bush flunkies stopped repeating those claims.
They don't have to comply. They'd do it anyways and you know it.
Hand waiving. "You get what you pay for" applies to China as much as anywhere else. You want top of the line quality quality from a Chinese supplier not running on coal power - you can get it, as long as you're willing to pay for it.
It's more than power through supply disruptions. It's about money and military power.
You got that part right.
It's in the US's interest to have Russia run out of money so that Russia has to stop spending on its military.
So they may continue to expand American hegemony completely unopposed. There is no other reason.
Only a year or two to go and Russia will be out of money and Putin will become unpopular. Obama's policy has been excellent in this respect.
Unless it brings someone to power far more nationalistic and less cautious than Putin. Then it would just be unbelievably fucking stupid, like most of America's foreign policy.
That's why it is cutting the nose to spite the face - they still have the same crap, but with an added war, expensive credits, far lower standards of living and can't go on vacation in Crimea anymore. And for what?
For getting the son of the Vice President as the CEO of an energy company? Somebody's gotta make a living.
Says another tool of the MIC getting in bed with openly anti-semetic fascists.
You neglected to mention that Russia, in addition in return for cheap natural gas, Russia got a lease to keep its fleet at Sevastapol.
Yeah, because they had a long term deal for the base. As opposed to, say, Guantanamo, which the United States gets to keep in perpetuity, because reasons.
Oh, we should look carefully at that particular deal, because when that particular corrupt puppet was deposed Russia simply invaded and annexed the region.
Did your American Exceptionalist card come with a free lobotomy, or did you already have it? It takes a special person to call the coup in Ukraine legitimate, then turn around and call a super-duper majority vote to in Crimea to succeed illegitimate, because reasons.
yup, when called out you insist on doubling down on your racist inspired BS.
The racist is the person who has a problem with racism, no matter which party its coming from? I see someone took a double dose of their dumbfuck pills in the morning.
Myth. As industry has left the USA, and as increasingly stringent regulation has appeared, and as technology has improved, the air and water have gotten the cleanest they have been in the past century. Fish have returned to many rivers that were empty fifty years ago. Forests that are cut down are routinely re-planted in most places - and enormous tracks of land are still mostly wilderness.
And Santa Clause is on target to deliver all his presents for Christmas. Quite the alternate reality you've constructed for yourself, relying on hand waiving.
The problem with Collateral Murder isn't that Manning leaked documents to Wikileaks that then embarrassed the USG. The problem is that the U.S. military murdered a bunch of civilians, then murdered people who tried to help the victims.
The problem with Wikileaks publishing Podesta's emails isn't the violation of his privacy (funny how Dems suddenly give a shit about privacy after years of defending Obama's warrantless surveillance programs), it's that Podesta was part of a corrupt organization of elitist assholes bent on rigging the general election as well as their primary.
It doesn't make sense, because you can't easily pardon someone for something they aren't charged with. s in the Nixon example
Nixon who wasn't charged with anything, yet was pardoned?
Especially when he invented the claim that USA wants anything at all to do with him
Invented? Tell that to all the whisteblowers Obama has imprisoned, some for far longer terms than Americans who were convicted of selling information to foreign governments.
Immunity or a pardon would not be appropriate for this situation
If Obama can grant immunity to torturers who beat people to death under Bush, he can pardon whisteblowers.
Sweden can not promise Assange anything in advance, they would have to change existing laws to do that.
Repeating that lie over and over again doesn't make it true. Sweden would no more have to pass a new law than the United States had to pass one to not hand Fethullah Gulen over to Turkey. The easiest out for Sweden is to say they wont extradite to a country that tortures prisoners or executes them - which the United States has a penchant for doing.
Nothing has done more to reduce greenhouse emissions than fracking due to the switch to burning more natural gas.
Natural gas does no more to reduce emissions than corn-based ethanol has, and for the same reason: whatever CO2 emissions you save when burning the product are made up for by the CO2 emitted when creating it.
Assuming the general public is as sympathetic to the Progressive cause (it isn't)
Other than having a supermajority of American support for just about any issue you can name? A majority of Republican voters supported a public option when asked about what it would actually do, as opposed to dipshittery about death panels, and even evolved on DADT repeal years before Obama.
I've little doubt charming fellows like Soros will be dumping funds into these groups.
Soros is a Democratic tribalist, not a leftist who has any interest in upending the status quo established by elitists and the MIC.
how can Sweden promise not to extradite when they have no charges filed by the US.
Easily.
You can't just hand someone a blanket get out of jail free card, it has to be for a specific offense.
Specifically, that they wont hand him over to the U.S. for anything having to do with Wikileaks. If Comey suddenly unearths CCTV footage showing Assange robbing a gas station with an axe in 1992, then they extradite him for that.
likewise you can't pardon someone for something they have not been charged with
Nixon was pardoned despite not being charged with anything. You have any more brain dead Concerns, or are we done here?
This theory that Hillary lost because she "was a right-wing freakshow" doesn't explain why down ticket Bernie-esque candidates who hate trade
Other than the obvious lose-lose situation it puts downticket candidates in when you have a horrible presidential candidate at the top. Run against your own party's nominee to try and win your own seat, or voice support for your party's nominee and lose the election.
like Paul Wellstone, were shot down
Man, I have heard it that leftists shouldn't ride in single-engine planes, but actually shot down?? Alex would pay good money for that story.
Or why Trump won among people complaining about (brown-people) immigration and (brown-people) terrorism. You will note they didn't care about Trump's illegal immigrant (white) wives, much less than that there are 1 million fewer illegal immigrants today than in 2005, and don't count the KKK or Timothy McVeigh as terrorists (because they're white).
That's the storyline put forth by the Democrats and the media - problem is, Republican votes for president have remained fairly constant from 2008. It's the Democratic vote that has cratered - so the real story is not why Trump won. It's why Hillary lost.
And rather tiresome, given the Democrats actual record of racism compared to the theoretical effects of Trump's racism. Obama has set a record for deporting immigrants, and the number of Muslim countries being bombed. Hillary helped destroy the lives of millions of American blacks by supporting crime bills in the 90's, called black kids superpredators, and wanted to deport child refugees back to Honduras to "send a message to their parents" - even though they were refugees from the junta Hillary supported.
Democrats ought to drain the swamp from their own glass house before throwing stones.
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Blah blah, hatorade, blah blah.
1) If your system is that mission critical you'll have a spare system anyway.
2) Time Machine + Migration Assistant = non sequitur on using a new computer with a different board.
Translation: do all the work to prove that Santa is indeed on schedule, so you don't have to prove your assertions. Sorry, but it doesn't work that way - otherwise I'll casually assert that you've been getting it on with Donner and Blitzen, and leave you to prove that assertion false.
Guess what - that's still wankery powered by gross entitlement. India and China combined have 7 times the population of the United States, yet a fraction of our wealth. WTF should they be held to to the same standard as the get-rich-quick kid who gets to fuck over the rest of the planet but not have any responsibility for his actions?
Which ones, specifically. And remember that the NRA itself favored gun control - when it was the Black Panthers arming themselves for self defense.
They don't need to buy arms. They have more than enough planes and missiles to cause the U.S. a world of hurt in any theater, and more than enough nukes to pound the U.S. into dust in an all-out war.
Just because Russia's budget is a fraction of NATO's, doesn't mean they don't have the capacity to fuck your shit up.
No, that was Libya, you mindless American Exceptionalist.
You mean executed a regime change operation when said dictator wanted to found a gold-backed African currency to establish independence from western nations.
Then explain why the United States has sold weapons to dictatorships like Yemen, Bahrain, and Saudi Arabia to put down their protestors, you fucking idiot.
Then you're an idiot. Before regime change, Libya was a secular state, and the most prosperous one in Africa. It had an educated populous, rights for women, and had plans to establish a gold-backed currency to free other African countries from western influence - so Gaddafi had to go. Now it's another Iraqi style failed state, ruled by warring factions and a breeding ground for Al Queda. Way to go, American Exceptionalist.
The hell they did. This is as pitiful as continuing to insist in 2016 that Saddam had to be deposed because of his WMD's and ties to Al Queda, a full decade after even Bush flunkies stopped repeating those claims.
Yep.
Says someone who is completely illiterate of a basic meme.
Moran.
Hand waiving. "You get what you pay for" applies to China as much as anywhere else. You want top of the line quality quality from a Chinese supplier not running on coal power - you can get it, as long as you're willing to pay for it.
Dumbfuckery. People have to be given an actual choice before you can accuse them of hypocrisy hypocrite.
You got that part right.
So they may continue to expand American hegemony completely unopposed. There is no other reason.
Unless it brings someone to power far more nationalistic and less cautious than Putin. Then it would just be unbelievably fucking stupid, like most of America's foreign policy.
For getting the son of the Vice President as the CEO of an energy company? Somebody's gotta make a living.
Says another tool of the MIC getting in bed with openly anti-semetic fascists.
Yeah, because they had a long term deal for the base. As opposed to, say, Guantanamo, which the United States gets to keep in perpetuity, because reasons.
Did your American Exceptionalist card come with a free lobotomy, or did you already have it? It takes a special person to call the coup in Ukraine legitimate, then turn around and call a super-duper majority vote to in Crimea to succeed illegitimate, because reasons.
The racist is the person who has a problem with racism, no matter which party its coming from? I see someone took a double dose of their dumbfuck pills in the morning.
And Santa Clause is on target to deliver all his presents for Christmas. Quite the alternate reality you've constructed for yourself, relying on hand waiving.
You first.
I didn't say he did. It's called an analogy.
The problem with Collateral Murder isn't that Manning leaked documents to Wikileaks that then embarrassed the USG. The problem is that the U.S. military murdered a bunch of civilians, then murdered people who tried to help the victims.
The problem with Wikileaks publishing Podesta's emails isn't the violation of his privacy (funny how Dems suddenly give a shit about privacy after years of defending Obama's warrantless surveillance programs), it's that Podesta was part of a corrupt organization of elitist assholes bent on rigging the general election as well as their primary.
a-nal-o-gy
Nixon who wasn't charged with anything, yet was pardoned?
Invented? Tell that to all the whisteblowers Obama has imprisoned, some for far longer terms than Americans who were convicted of selling information to foreign governments.
If Obama can grant immunity to torturers who beat people to death under Bush, he can pardon whisteblowers.
You again? Bogus tautology is still bogus, AC.
Repeating that lie over and over again doesn't make it true. Sweden would no more have to pass a new law than the United States had to pass one to not hand Fethullah Gulen over to Turkey. The easiest out for Sweden is to say they wont extradite to a country that tortures prisoners or executes them - which the United States has a penchant for doing.
Natural gas does no more to reduce emissions than corn-based ethanol has, and for the same reason: whatever CO2 emissions you save when burning the product are made up for by the CO2 emitted when creating it.
Other than having a supermajority of American support for just about any issue you can name? A majority of Republican voters supported a public option when asked about what it would actually do, as opposed to dipshittery about death panels, and even evolved on DADT repeal years before Obama.
Soros is a Democratic tribalist, not a leftist who has any interest in upending the status quo established by elitists and the MIC.
Easily.
Specifically, that they wont hand him over to the U.S. for anything having to do with Wikileaks. If Comey suddenly unearths CCTV footage showing Assange robbing a gas station with an axe in 1992, then they extradite him for that.
Nixon was pardoned despite not being charged with anything. You have any more brain dead Concerns, or are we done here?
You a Hillbot or a Bushbot? It was always hillaryious to see the former insisting that Sander's would be smeared as a wannabe communist, given that's a copy of paste of Republican attacks on Bill Clinton from '92.
By smearing him as a dictator?
What is it with Bots and living in their own alternate realities?
Other than the obvious lose-lose situation it puts downticket candidates in when you have a horrible presidential candidate at the top. Run against your own party's nominee to try and win your own seat, or voice support for your party's nominee and lose the election.
Man, I have heard it that leftists shouldn't ride in single-engine planes, but actually shot down?? Alex would pay good money for that story.
That's the storyline put forth by the Democrats and the media - problem is, Republican votes for president have remained fairly constant from 2008. It's the Democratic vote that has cratered - so the real story is not why Trump won. It's why Hillary lost.
And rather tiresome, given the Democrats actual record of racism compared to the theoretical effects of Trump's racism. Obama has set a record for deporting immigrants, and the number of Muslim countries being bombed. Hillary helped destroy the lives of millions of American blacks by supporting crime bills in the 90's, called black kids superpredators, and wanted to deport child refugees back to Honduras to "send a message to their parents" - even though they were refugees from the junta Hillary supported.
Democrats ought to drain the swamp from their own glass house before throwing stones.