Not true. That money was from Terry McAuliffe the Virginia governor who got it from Hillary, and the part from Hillary was much less than a million dollars. According to Newsweek, and I save the article just to debunk these sort of claims, it was only $675,288. Not evidence that it influenced McCabe has ever been release much less proof that McCabe didn't fully investigate Hillary because of it.
Oh, well then, no harm, no foul if it was only a measly ~$700,000 from a DNC political apparatchik. Oh, and ~$300,000 from HRC. That's chump-change, not even worth mentioning! I mean, sure, you could probably hire a contract-killer for less, but human life is cheap! There's no way that tiny amount of pocket change could influence somebody being paid those luxurious government wages.
So, as a way-out-there social liberal who really dislikes Trump and has said bad things about him (and thought worse things), I feel like I owe it to somebody to say 'well done.'
The cognitive dissonance in my head right now is making it hard for me to follow the threads in the comments. I really did not see this one coming.
Just, wow.
I'm on the conservative/libertarian end across from you. I did not vote for Trump. I think he's an egotistical asshole with no fixed ideological principles of his own to speak of, has no filters between his emotions and his mouth, and doesn't know when it's best to keep said mouth shut.
I'm almost as stunned as you.
I admire your honesty, we need more of that.
If I may, allow me to suggest reading a fantastic book by Jonah Goldberg called "The Suicide Of The West". Absolutely brilliant, no matter where you stand ideologically or politically.
Civics is no longer taught in many schools nor is any meaningful account of our nation's history. Consequently, we have a growing number of ahistorical citizens who have no notion of how govt works. They are easy marks for fake news, conspiracy theories, cults, and dumbed-down or outright false assertions in textbooks because they have no frame of reference, the one once provided by education.
Jury nullification can be used to allow offenses to go unpunished. It has been used in the past to allow racist murderers to go unpunished, leaving the victims' families with no recourse for justice.
It has also been used in the past to prevent racist prosecutors/DAs/courts/judges from wrongly convicting people based on race. It has been used to prevent ACLU civil rights activists in the Deep South in the '60s from being wrongly convicted & imprisoned as well as wrongly used as you've stated. It cuts both ways. Being that the vast majority of people (and thus potential jurors) in the US are basically good and fair-minded, jury nullification serves to do far more good than bad on balance.
Personally I think it would be a great idea to post flyers all around the local area near court buildings explaining jury nullification to educate the public and potential jurors.
Ah the classic 'there's no evidence against Trump, therefore no investigation to search for evidence should occur' argument.
Such a wonderful strawman and you knock it down so well. Too bad my post said nothing of the kind. After a year of "investigation" of anything, anyone, and everything possibly linked to Trump there's nothing, nadda that proves Trump did anything illegal. This is Ken Starr all over again.
I don't like Trump. He's an asshole with no fixed ideological principles and doesn't know when to shut up. Still, it's blatantly obvious to all but the blindly partisan that Mueller's "investigation" is purely partisan and a politically-driven attempt to destroy Trump by any means.
I'd be surprised if they haven't shown up to XYZ headquarters with a warrant, a gag-order, and a fat check to cover the cost of pushing a selective update to a (hopefully) select individual.
Apple got in the news for resisting a request/command for breaking their iphone security wholesale. You wouldn't hear about the companies that comply with the gag order. But even Apple's canary has been dead for years. So has Reddit's. [wikipedia.org].
Which all just further proves that the biggest threat to America (and much of the rest of the free world) is the US Government which abandoned any pretense of "Constitutionally limited powers" long ago.
Now _that_ (real copyright reform) is a real plan. "Burn it all down" is just a temper tantrum.
"Real copyright reform" is not going to happen as long as the copyright cartels have nearly unlimited funds to bribe and pressure politicians, judges, and bureaucrats around the world with.
You seem to think I would not want Trump to be found guilty and punished appropriately IF he has committed a crime.
You're wrong.
This Mueller "investigation" is not a seeking of justice, it's a Salem witch-hunt reminiscent of McCarthyism. So far after all this time & tax money spent on this fishing expedition, nothing of any substance has been linked to Trump. If anything at all was found it would have already been leaked like a sieve to the public like everything else has been.
I bet if I investigated just about anyone...including you...and all their friends, associates, etc etc I could find plenty of illegalities. That's just a form of the "six degrees of Kevin Bacon".
Mueller's witch-hunt is simply a DNC/Leftist PR campaign. Gotta keep the low-info plebes fired up for the mid-term elections.
Huh, the US (and other) intelligence services slurping up data has been known for at least a decade.
Nope, it was known since the revelations regarding the "secret" locked rooms at the major backbone provider facilities.
That's when people were called conspiracy-nutcases for trying to tell people what the TLAs were up to. It wasn't until Snowden that they stopped calling such people paranoid. Ten years is not long unless you are very young.
The local police mass-spying on cellphones is still a technical possibility that hasn't yet been demonstrated.
Well, except for all those court cases where "Stingray" evidence was dropped from the case when defense lawyers attempted through the discovery process to learn exactly how police were using this technology and what it's capabilities were. A Google search brings up plenty of examples.
And there's no technical way that Google/FB have your phone tapped unless you install their apps.
That's not been proven. Even if true that's only true for now. It may not be true in 5 or 10 years, especially if people don't start taking action to halt the destruction of privacy now and AI is employed to help in the destruction of personal privacy.
With the legislative, executive, and judicial branch pathways already exhausted, the options are pretty much nothing.
Oh I'm sure Mueller will get around to investigating that as well as anything Trump's lawyer...or his cleaning staff...or his limo drivers...or his lawn-care crews...may have been involved in personally.
Stealing their content and distributing it for free, and any other means of damaging them, their profits, and their systems of control until they go bankrupt is the only way things will ever get better.
So, if we keep raiding your bank account, that will make things better for you? Sounds like a good plan.
If I published content through the major MPAA/RIAA distributors and/or FB/YT/Google etc and profited from the unjust and unfair systems in place then I'd agree.
Did you have a point other than the one under your hat?
Just as crazy paranoid as the idea that US TLAs were slurping up and storing every bit of phone & web traffic they could get their paws on was not too long ago. So was the idea of local police mass-spying on cellphone conversations and using what they learn to perform "parallel construction" to " legally find" evidence of a crime. That used to be tinfoil-hat territory as well.
Even if that were a problem, stealing content does nothing to fix it. Try again.
Wrong.
Stealing their content and distributing it for free, and any other means of damaging them, their profits, and their systems of control until they go bankrupt is the only way things will ever get better.
Burn it down.
The legal and political systems have been suborned by their lobbying and outright bribery so there is no relief possible by legal means.
That just leaves destroying them in the most efficient means possible. Kill their ability to sustain their business. Only once their profits have been destroyed and their money can no longer can buy them legal/political protection can justice be served.
So, if Google/YouTube had some point of view, or points of view, that they wished to either promote or demote... how do we know if they are protecting us or harming us? I do data science sorts of things as part of my job. I know that very, very minor tweaks to algorithms provide quite different results.
Well, as long as they haven't nuked my '80s retro videos, then I'm good. Ah, Leah!
It's quite possible now to place individuals and groups into internet "algorithm ghettos". Like the Nazis did to Jews in Poland by crowding them into a section of the city and erecting tall walls both to prevent escape and so the people outside the walls didn't see what went on inside, companies like Google, Facebook, and others can place individuals and groups into a digital algorithm ghetto where what they can access is controlled & filtered and what they publish/post/send can be filtered or blocked such that you'd have no way to tell nobody could actually see what you uploaded even to your own website, especially with a well-trained AI tasked with the job. If you call a friend to ask them to verify it the AI will know who you know and listen/monitor the call/message and make it visible to him so you remain unaware that the greater web doesn't know you exist.
This is an extremely dangerous time where how we react or don't right now to control these technologies and the governments and corporations that use them will have very serious and long-lasting consequences for many generations to come around the world.
Makes a user wonder what a lot of the other EU and US AV brands are doing that the US gov totally approves of?
They do what they must for a piece of that valuable US/EU/Five-Eyes market.
No different than US tech companies vis a vis China. Just look at how Google is assisting the Chinese government with it's digital tyranny over the population. Just a different authoritarian regime's security service to have to make happy in order to compete with the competition.
You seem to be under the delusion that US health care costs are reasonable.
It is for the leading nation in medical research.
The costs are mostly because of all the R&D and the need to recover those costs and the costs of the decades of federally required testing, although a significant fraction is also because of government over-regulation along with the obligatory barriers to entry to shut out new competition set up by lawmakers for their lobbyist buddies. The ACA has also contributed greatly to recent cost increases. Why not raise your prices if the law says people must buy what you sell to not be a criminal?
If the government runs it, then "free speech" actually applies.
Unless they decide "free speech" doesn't apply like the 4thA doesn't apply regarding civil asset forfeiture nor does the 1stA apply regarding freedom of religion if you run a business.
All that's required is for government to outlaw "hate speech" on the internet and then expand the definitions of what constitutes "hate speech".
Handing the internet to the government is the same thing as handing the freedom of the press to the government.
Why is it not possible to break the monopolies? Just stop treating ISPs as utilities, lower the artificial barriers to entry, and we'll have an explosion of local ISPs just like we had back in the old days, before we erected a regulatory wall to stop mom-and-pop internet providers and force us into these monopolies.
It's too complicated and expensive for government to perform mass data collection & tracking if they have to deal with thousands of small mom-&-pop ISPs.
Once the US internet is in the hands of just a very small handful of mega-ISPs then they can collude and/or be pressured to limit whose speech they will allow on their networks just as a small handful of major banks/CC corporations have decided they will no longer provide any financial/CC/loan services of any kind to those businesses involved in providing the means to exercise a Civil Right guaranteed to We The People in the Bill of Rights.
If the 2nd Amendment can fall to such strategies, methods, and practices, then so can the 1st Amendment.
It's much better to weather the stormy and unpredictable seas of liberty than to drown under the placid waters of tyranny and authoritarianism.
Healthcare in America would have a lot more money available to fund it along with a host of social programs to match if America could shirk it's responsibility to protect itself and it's citizens like Europe does by having the US provide the majority of their military protection.
I wold qualify that as "not even wrong". America doesn't need more money to spend on healthcare. America needs to scrap the system where its healthcare costs about ttwice that per capita of the major European economies while giving worse outcomes in most areas.
European nations with universal healthcare and other social safety-net programs are only able to afford it because they spend money they would otherwise need for a strong military force that they have depended on America for since WW2.
Demonstrably false. Several European countries are spending to maintian a nuclear deterrant, have better healthcare outcomes in most areas and spend HALF what the US spends per capita on healthcare.
Thing is you're so stuck on #MAGA that you can't even see where the problems are. The main problem is the massively profitable healthcare insurance industry, and the republican party who back it.
Well thankfully it doesn't matter how wrong and delusional you are, reality will be your wake-up call after the US collapses economically and Europe is faced with either having to pony-up the wealth for more than a small handful of nukes and tiny jokes for military forces, or else watch Russian tanks roll into Poland, France, Germany, and the rest of the EU & UK as well.
Japan already sees the writing on the wall you are so determined to ignore and is building up it's military and a nuclear deterrent force against China whom the US soon won't have the means to deter militarily.
It's like the broken window theory of law enforcement
This may be a bad example. After the New York police went on "strike" a few years ago, crime actually dropped: https://arstechnica.com/scienc... [arstechnica.com]
This is true. Arrests for "resisting arrest" fell to nearly zero along with expenses for replacement TASER cartridges.:)
No it really is, it's yours that's lacking. Healthcare in America is a total fucking mess whether or not Europe has sufficient defensive military.
Healthcare in America would have a lot more money available to fund it along with a host of social programs to match if America could shirk it's responsibility to protect itself and it's citizens like Europe does by having the US provide the majority of their military protection.
European nations with universal healthcare and other social safety-net programs are only able to afford it because they spend money they would otherwise need for a strong military force that they have depended on America for since WW2.
Anyway, Europe is going to soon get a taste of reality.
With the American economy heading for a fall, Europe will have to decide between funding their own military or Russian and Chinese language lessons for those of their citizens left alive after Russia and China take over your nations, as America will be too broke to, once again, come riding o Europe's rescue after they shit the bed...yet again.
Dear Europe (and much of the rest of the "civilized" West),
Please start paying for your own national defense, the nuclear arsenals, standing armies, air forces, navies, etc to match Russia and China.
Then we can talk about us spending that money we currently spend to protect YOUR asses on healthcare instead.
The US is bankrolling your 'free' healthcare.
Just say "thank you" and STFU, 'mkay?
Dear Europe, because you do things I think are wrong, I am going to aggressively fight any attempt to fix things in America. #MAGA
Reading comprehension is obviously not your strong suite.
Of course, that's assuming you *want* to correctly understand what was posted, instead of what your ego, your bigotry, and the voices in your head tell you.
Finally, I didn't vote for the Orange Wonder. "Another swing and a miss! Strike three, yer outta here!"
In the future the vast majority of people will be living in squalor. There is no way to avoid it.
Wrong.
It's just the opposite.
AI means production and transportation costs for food, housing, clothing, electricity, goods, services, etc etc etc will fall drastically to the point where cost is almost meaningless.
People will no longer be dependent on government, Governments are panicking.and this plan is TPTB's response to thwart that individual liberty and independence from government that AI will enable.
Fuck you and your protection racket. All you do is destabilising countries, creating misery and causing refugees.
No, fuck YOU and your pathetic, dependent, infantile, Euro-trash asses!
Stop leaning on the US for your national defense and spend your OWN fucking coin and the blood of your own sons & daughters for your fucking protection, you fucking cheapskate whiny-ass cowards.
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> almost $1 million from Hillary.
Not true. That money was from Terry McAuliffe the Virginia governor who got it from Hillary, and the part from Hillary was much less than a million dollars. According to Newsweek, and I save the article just to debunk these sort of claims, it was only $675,288. Not evidence that it influenced McCabe has ever been release much less proof that McCabe didn't fully investigate Hillary because of it.
Oh, well then, no harm, no foul if it was only a measly ~$700,000 from a DNC political apparatchik. Oh, and ~$300,000 from HRC. That's chump-change, not even worth mentioning! I mean, sure, you could probably hire a contract-killer for less, but human life is cheap! There's no way that tiny amount of pocket change could influence somebody being paid those luxurious government wages.
Strat
So, as a way-out-there social liberal who really dislikes Trump and has said bad things about him (and thought worse things), I feel like I owe it to somebody to say 'well done.'
The cognitive dissonance in my head right now is making it hard for me to follow the threads in the comments. I really did not see this one coming.
Just, wow.
I'm on the conservative/libertarian end across from you. I did not vote for Trump. I think he's an egotistical asshole with no fixed ideological principles of his own to speak of, has no filters between his emotions and his mouth, and doesn't know when it's best to keep said mouth shut.
I'm almost as stunned as you.
I admire your honesty, we need more of that.
If I may, allow me to suggest reading a fantastic book by Jonah Goldberg called "The Suicide Of The West". Absolutely brilliant, no matter where you stand ideologically or politically.
Strat
Civics is no longer taught in many schools nor is any meaningful account of our nation's history. Consequently, we have a growing number of ahistorical citizens who have no notion of how govt works. They are easy marks for fake news, conspiracy theories, cults, and dumbed-down or outright false assertions in textbooks because they have no frame of reference, the one once provided by education.
Totally agree. Spot-on.
Strat
Jury nullification can be used to allow offenses to go unpunished. It has been used in the past to allow racist murderers to go unpunished, leaving the victims' families with no recourse for justice.
It has also been used in the past to prevent racist prosecutors/DAs/courts/judges from wrongly convicting people based on race. It has been used to prevent ACLU civil rights activists in the Deep South in the '60s from being wrongly convicted & imprisoned as well as wrongly used as you've stated. It cuts both ways. Being that the vast majority of people (and thus potential jurors) in the US are basically good and fair-minded, jury nullification serves to do far more good than bad on balance.
Personally I think it would be a great idea to post flyers all around the local area near court buildings explaining jury nullification to educate the public and potential jurors.
Strat
Ah the classic 'there's no evidence against Trump, therefore no investigation to search for evidence should occur' argument.
Such a wonderful strawman and you knock it down so well. Too bad my post said nothing of the kind. After a year of "investigation" of anything, anyone, and everything possibly linked to Trump there's nothing, nadda that proves Trump did anything illegal. This is Ken Starr all over again.
I don't like Trump. He's an asshole with no fixed ideological principles and doesn't know when to shut up. Still, it's blatantly obvious to all but the blindly partisan that Mueller's "investigation" is purely partisan and a politically-driven attempt to destroy Trump by any means.
Strat
I'd be surprised if they haven't shown up to XYZ headquarters with a warrant, a gag-order, and a fat check to cover the cost of pushing a selective update to a (hopefully) select individual.
Apple got in the news for resisting a request/command for breaking their iphone security wholesale. You wouldn't hear about the companies that comply with the gag order. But even Apple's canary has been dead for years. So has Reddit's. [wikipedia.org].
Which all just further proves that the biggest threat to America (and much of the rest of the free world) is the US Government which abandoned any pretense of "Constitutionally limited powers" long ago.
Strat
Now _that_ (real copyright reform) is a real plan. "Burn it all down" is just a temper tantrum.
"Real copyright reform" is not going to happen as long as the copyright cartels have nearly unlimited funds to bribe and pressure politicians, judges, and bureaucrats around the world with.
Strat
Trump's lawyer's OBVIOUS GUILT is already proving Mueller's investigation fruitful, moron.
You seem to think I would not want Trump to be found guilty and punished appropriately IF he has committed a crime.
You're wrong.
This Mueller "investigation" is not a seeking of justice, it's a Salem witch-hunt reminiscent of McCarthyism. So far after all this time & tax money spent on this fishing expedition, nothing of any substance has been linked to Trump. If anything at all was found it would have already been leaked like a sieve to the public like everything else has been.
I bet if I investigated just about anyone...including you...and all their friends, associates, etc etc I could find plenty of illegalities. That's just a form of the "six degrees of Kevin Bacon".
Mueller's witch-hunt is simply a DNC/Leftist PR campaign. Gotta keep the low-info plebes fired up for the mid-term elections.
Strat
Huh, the US (and other) intelligence services slurping up data has been known for at least a decade.
Nope, it was known since the revelations regarding the "secret" locked rooms at the major backbone provider facilities.
That's when people were called conspiracy-nutcases for trying to tell people what the TLAs were up to. It wasn't until Snowden that they stopped calling such people paranoid. Ten years is not long unless you are very young.
The local police mass-spying on cellphones is still a technical possibility that hasn't yet been demonstrated.
Well, except for all those court cases where "Stingray" evidence was dropped from the case when defense lawyers attempted through the discovery process to learn exactly how police were using this technology and what it's capabilities were. A Google search brings up plenty of examples.
And there's no technical way that Google/FB have your phone tapped unless you install their apps.
That's not been proven. Even if true that's only true for now. It may not be true in 5 or 10 years, especially if people don't start taking action to halt the destruction of privacy now and AI is employed to help in the destruction of personal privacy.
Strat
With the legislative, executive, and judicial branch pathways already exhausted, the options are pretty much nothing.
Oh I'm sure Mueller will get around to investigating that as well as anything Trump's lawyer...or his cleaning staff...or his limo drivers...or his lawn-care crews...may have been involved in personally.
Strat
So no worried!
Did I say I approved?
I simply pointed out how amoral corporations view the markets and the government intelligence services related to them.
Go suck some more foreign cock Strat.
Not me, that's what the D.C. political elite in both parties do.
Strat
If I published content through the major MPAA/RIAA distributors and/or FB/YT/Google etc and profited from the unjust and unfair systems in place then I'd agree.
Did you have a point other than the one under your hat?
Strat
That's crazy paranoid.
Just as crazy paranoid as the idea that US TLAs were slurping up and storing every bit of phone & web traffic they could get their paws on was not too long ago. So was the idea of local police mass-spying on cellphone conversations and using what they learn to perform "parallel construction" to " legally find" evidence of a crime. That used to be tinfoil-hat territory as well.
Strat
Even if that were a problem, stealing content does nothing to fix it. Try again.
Wrong.
Stealing their content and distributing it for free, and any other means of damaging them, their profits, and their systems of control until they go bankrupt is the only way things will ever get better.
Burn it down.
The legal and political systems have been suborned by their lobbying and outright bribery so there is no relief possible by legal means.
That just leaves destroying them in the most efficient means possible. Kill their ability to sustain their business. Only once their profits have been destroyed and their money can no longer can buy them legal/political protection can justice be served.
Strat
So, if Google/YouTube had some point of view, or points of view, that they wished to either promote or demote... how do we know if they are protecting us or harming us? I do data science sorts of things as part of my job. I know that very, very minor tweaks to algorithms provide quite different results.
Well, as long as they haven't nuked my '80s retro videos, then I'm good. Ah, Leah!
It's quite possible now to place individuals and groups into internet "algorithm ghettos". Like the Nazis did to Jews in Poland by crowding them into a section of the city and erecting tall walls both to prevent escape and so the people outside the walls didn't see what went on inside, companies like Google, Facebook, and others can place individuals and groups into a digital algorithm ghetto where what they can access is controlled & filtered and what they publish/post/send can be filtered or blocked such that you'd have no way to tell nobody could actually see what you uploaded even to your own website, especially with a well-trained AI tasked with the job. If you call a friend to ask them to verify it the AI will know who you know and listen/monitor the call/message and make it visible to him so you remain unaware that the greater web doesn't know you exist.
This is an extremely dangerous time where how we react or don't right now to control these technologies and the governments and corporations that use them will have very serious and long-lasting consequences for many generations to come around the world.
Strat
Makes a user wonder what a lot of the other EU and US AV brands are doing that the US gov totally approves of?
They do what they must for a piece of that valuable US/EU/Five-Eyes market.
No different than US tech companies vis a vis China. Just look at how Google is assisting the Chinese government with it's digital tyranny over the population. Just a different authoritarian regime's security service to have to make happy in order to compete with the competition.
Strat
You seem to be under the delusion that US health care costs are reasonable.
It is for the leading nation in medical research.
The costs are mostly because of all the R&D and the need to recover those costs and the costs of the decades of federally required testing, although a significant fraction is also because of government over-regulation along with the obligatory barriers to entry to shut out new competition set up by lawmakers for their lobbyist buddies. The ACA has also contributed greatly to recent cost increases. Why not raise your prices if the law says people must buy what you sell to not be a criminal?
Strat
If the government runs it, then "free speech" actually applies.
Unless they decide "free speech" doesn't apply like the 4thA doesn't apply regarding civil asset forfeiture nor does the 1stA apply regarding freedom of religion if you run a business.
All that's required is for government to outlaw "hate speech" on the internet and then expand the definitions of what constitutes "hate speech".
Handing the internet to the government is the same thing as handing the freedom of the press to the government.
Too bad you didn't pay attention in civics class.
Strat
Why is it not possible to break the monopolies? Just stop treating ISPs as utilities, lower the artificial barriers to entry, and we'll have an explosion of local ISPs just like we had back in the old days, before we erected a regulatory wall to stop mom-and-pop internet providers and force us into these monopolies.
It's too complicated and expensive for government to perform mass data collection & tracking if they have to deal with thousands of small mom-&-pop ISPs.
Once the US internet is in the hands of just a very small handful of mega-ISPs then they can collude and/or be pressured to limit whose speech they will allow on their networks just as a small handful of major banks/CC corporations have decided they will no longer provide any financial/CC/loan services of any kind to those businesses involved in providing the means to exercise a Civil Right guaranteed to We The People in the Bill of Rights.
If the 2nd Amendment can fall to such strategies, methods, and practices, then so can the 1st Amendment.
It's much better to weather the stormy and unpredictable seas of liberty than to drown under the placid waters of tyranny and authoritarianism.
Strat
Healthcare in America would have a lot more money available to fund it along with a host of social programs to match if America could shirk it's responsibility to protect itself and it's citizens like Europe does by having the US provide the majority of their military protection.
I wold qualify that as "not even wrong". America doesn't need more money to spend on healthcare. America needs to scrap the system where its healthcare costs about ttwice that per capita of the major European economies while giving worse outcomes in most areas.
European nations with universal healthcare and other social safety-net programs are only able to afford it because they spend money they would otherwise need for a strong military force that they have depended on America for since WW2.
Demonstrably false. Several European countries are spending to maintian a nuclear deterrant, have better healthcare outcomes in most areas and spend HALF what the US spends per capita on healthcare.
Thing is you're so stuck on #MAGA that you can't even see where the problems are.
The main problem is the massively profitable healthcare insurance industry, and the republican party who back it.
Well thankfully it doesn't matter how wrong and delusional you are, reality will be your wake-up call after the US collapses economically and Europe is faced with either having to pony-up the wealth for more than a small handful of nukes and tiny jokes for military forces, or else watch Russian tanks roll into Poland, France, Germany, and the rest of the EU & UK as well.
Japan already sees the writing on the wall you are so determined to ignore and is building up it's military and a nuclear deterrent force against China whom the US soon won't have the means to deter militarily.
Do svidaniya, Comrade!
Strat
This is true. Arrests for "resisting arrest" fell to nearly zero along with expenses for replacement TASER cartridges. :)
Strat
No it really is, it's yours that's lacking. Healthcare in America is a total fucking mess whether or not Europe has sufficient defensive military.
Healthcare in America would have a lot more money available to fund it along with a host of social programs to match if America could shirk it's responsibility to protect itself and it's citizens like Europe does by having the US provide the majority of their military protection.
European nations with universal healthcare and other social safety-net programs are only able to afford it because they spend money they would otherwise need for a strong military force that they have depended on America for since WW2.
Anyway, Europe is going to soon get a taste of reality.
With the American economy heading for a fall, Europe will have to decide between funding their own military or Russian and Chinese language lessons for those of their citizens left alive after Russia and China take over your nations, as America will be too broke to, once again, come riding o Europe's rescue after they shit the bed...yet again.
Strat
Reading comprehension is obviously not your strong suite.
Of course, that's assuming you *want* to correctly understand what was posted, instead of what your ego, your bigotry, and the voices in your head tell you.
Finally, I didn't vote for the Orange Wonder. "Another swing and a miss! Strike three, yer outta here!"
Strat
In the future the vast majority of people will be living in squalor. There is no way to avoid it.
Wrong.
It's just the opposite.
AI means production and transportation costs for food, housing, clothing, electricity, goods, services, etc etc etc will fall drastically to the point where cost is almost meaningless.
People will no longer be dependent on government, Governments are panicking.and this plan is TPTB's response to thwart that individual liberty and independence from government that AI will enable.
Gotta keep 'em on the plantation!
Strat
Fuck you and your protection racket. All you do is destabilising countries, creating misery and causing refugees.
No, fuck YOU and your pathetic, dependent, infantile, Euro-trash asses!
Stop leaning on the US for your national defense and spend your OWN fucking coin and the blood of your own sons & daughters for your fucking protection, you fucking cheapskate whiny-ass cowards.
Strat