You seem to be implying we have pure form free speech in the US and that's just not true. We have limits to. As measured on a scale we certainly have the most freedoms but most Western countries rank pretty close to ours. After that you're attributing the acts of the fring Left with the mainstream. I might as well counter and say everyone on the Right is rascist because a few assholes fly rascist banners at tea party rallies.
In regards to Ukraine, i wont defend the government take over but their current pro Western president was in fact democratically elected by a large margine which shows just how unpopular his predecessor's move East was. Furthermore, none of what happened (and if you want to blame an overwhelming popular uprising on NGOs, have fun with that) give Russia the right to literally seize territory in Ukraine.
And as for the Russian minorities, the way state lines have been drawn since forever there are all kinda of minorities in all kinda of countries that dont have their language listed as a state language. Furthermore, "they're ethnically Russian so it's cool Russia invaded another country and seized the territory", could be used to justify wars all over Eastern Europe as many have Russian minorities moved in by the Soviets. It's not okay for us to let it slide once here because then it can be used as a justification for more occupations later.
Well your German comparison is rediculous. While hate speech is indeed illegal there (personally I prefer US style more open free speech) no one has ever been killed by the government over it.
Outside of that, your completely ignoring the problem with Putin. The problem the Left is having and most of the pre Trump right was having wasnt with Putin's actions within his country's borders. You're right, we usually look the other way on that for most countries. The problem is with Russia's policy of disupting or outright invading any country in their claimed sphere of influence that threatens to go pro West (in other words line them selves up with us and the rest of the West). Georgia and Ukraine are prime examples and as stated in another response before mine, Putin never cared about IS. He does care about maintaining one of his few regional allies (who is absolutly no ally of ours) and a very strategicaly important military port.
On top of that you have the cyber attacks against any and all percieved adversaries of which the DNC hacks are but a small part. When Russia has problems with the policies of Eastern European governments it's funny how all of a sudden Eastern European government websites start getting hacked and shut down in mass.
In summary, it's Putin's willingness to throw his weight around towards our Allies and undermine us domestically and internationally that is the problem with Putin.
Hahaha, I've spent time in Germany lately. While they do have more limits on their free speech then we do (and I generally disagree with those) the native born Germans hardly feel oppressed.
Well I'm sure the xenophobes do but that cant be helped.
And many retired people do. Many of them are more active than many non retired people I know. And guess what, they're usually the happy ones.
Also, many arent choosing to retire, many are merely accepting the fact that they cant physically or mentally do what they spent half their lives doing. Living just off Social Security aint easy and many only choose to do so because they feel they have to. It's much harder to recreate yourself at that age then it is when you're young.
That most deffinitly plays a part. On the other hand, the only happy seniors I've met are the ones that find new ways to bring meaning to how their lives are spent. The ones who dont figure that riddle out are typically the depressed ones.
Of course RT isnt going to burn my eyes but it's basically worthless as far as news goes unless you just want to find out what the Russian government wants people to think. Sure you can point to Snowden and other events that were poorly handled by US media but overall they are most certainly willing to question the government on quite a few issues.
I tried to find even one article on RT's site critical of their actions in Crimea. All I found was lies and misdirection like this https://www.rt.com/op-edge/268...
Meanwhile, go back a bit and search any major US news media's site for news on our invasion of Iraq. You'll find plenty of stories debunking bad evidence given by the Bush administration. Could they have done a better job pointing out how misguided that war was? Sure, but you cant say they never pointed out many of the lies we were fed in regards to why we should invade.
CNN is not nearly as bad as RT. I did a search on the RT news sight to see if I could find a single article questioning Russian annexation of Crimea after I posted the above. Not only could I not find one I read through a great piece on whether the Brits views on their actions in Ukraine are based on "misunderstanding or distortion"
I've never read a piece on CNN as blatently full lies and misdirection. It's well written though, read it without your critical thinking cap on and it "makes sense". Then you realize that "that UN charter doesnt apply to that at all" and "those two things dont equal that at all".
Meanwhile Russia was treated pretty well for having lost a cold war they started by holding on to all of Eastern Europe and they still feel all sore about losing.
I'm not saying he is Hitler but the fact is you can't just pretend a country didnt invade and seize territory from another country. The type of government that feels entitled to do that is going to find ways to feel entitled to do it again.
Jesus, you could pass for Chamberlain in a heart beat.
"So yeah, Germany has had it rough lately and isnt getting any respect (the The Treaty of Versailles was not kind to them). So what if they invaded a few countries? Let's just pretend we all didnt see it and know that nothing bad could possibly come from just letting Germany invade a little bit."
I'm sure anyone living in the Baltic states felt very reasured by your post.
I don't use facebook or twitter either but I'm surprised to see RT on your list of news sources. I like getting news from varied sources myself but I've tried RT for a bit and I just feel like I'm consuming the propaganda branch of the Russian government. When reading it I feel like I might as well be reading a nationalist Chinese news source as well.
In other words, sure all news sources have some sort of bias but they should at least try to be objective.
Would you if it meant living without a car, a nice computer, a home you owned, or a variety of other luxuries? Personally I'd rather have at the very least a part time job so I could have material possessions to enjoy and was able to travel.
Because I've met way too many retired people who go nuts and become depressed with "nothing to do". If having "nothing to do", day to day, was fulfilling there wouldn't be the rates of depression among the retired that we have
How you got modded up is beyond me. Your lines of text are barely coherent and I cant make sense of most of them. Your post smells of someone who speaks English as a second language and thus lacks legitimacy in the context of the US.
The Alt-Right who likes to refer to the Left as easily offended snowflakes are now victims.
The only thing that puzzles me here is how you typed your post with two hands nailed to a cross. I'll be honest though, I got bored of your video evidence after about a minute. How self important internet forum and twitter users make themselves...
Society has always had rules on how to govern ones self. Now I'm not saying there arent the over puritanical types who will whine and be offended by anything anyone says. That's true of anything. What I am saying is that if you're constantly getting hit with people saying what you are saying is inappropriate then maybe you're the one who is the problem.
I'm sorry but your post is just stupid. What part of "radical sharia law" has the Left embraced? Some of the worst of radical sharia law the West rejects is the sexist garbage. Meanwhile we have this wonderful Alt-right president who thinks it's just fine to refer to women by any derogatory means he feels he needs to use.
But really, please. Name a part of sharia law which is contrary to American values but that the Left embraces. Support your statement.
Yeah those German's are really getting the shit end of the stick with their massive intake of immigrants and unemployment rate lower than ours. They're sure doing something wrong helping those who need help while filling a labor gap!
Just to put out a few examples of what should be obvious.
Maybe you should consider that what you're suggesting has been widely suggested of every wave of immigrant to the US and each time it was proven wrong. Evey time they said "this time we're right!"
Sure they are if it means having the money to have a nice house and nice things as opposed to only having money to live in a shity apartment without a ton of possessions. Basic income is just that, Basic. If you want possessions outside the basics then you'll want a job.
If our population is ever completely decimated by disease and then the remainders are butchered by aggressors then sure, we should worry about our culture disappearing,
So something that isnt the same as something that failed could also fail? That is the most uninsightful thing I've heard of in god only knows how long. I never stated basic income wouldnt fail because it isnt the same as centralized economic planning. That's you putting words into my mouth. All I stated is that centralized planning has nothing to do with basic income so pointing out the failure of one has nothing to do with the other.
In other words, you're pointing the obvious and have contributed nothing to the conversation.
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You seem to be implying we have pure form free speech in the US and that's just not true. We have limits to. As measured on a scale we certainly have the most freedoms but most Western countries rank pretty close to ours. After that you're attributing the acts of the fring Left with the mainstream. I might as well counter and say everyone on the Right is rascist because a few assholes fly rascist banners at tea party rallies.
In regards to Ukraine, i wont defend the government take over but their current pro Western president was in fact democratically elected by a large margine which shows just how unpopular his predecessor's move East was. Furthermore, none of what happened (and if you want to blame an overwhelming popular uprising on NGOs, have fun with that) give Russia the right to literally seize territory in Ukraine.
And as for the Russian minorities, the way state lines have been drawn since forever there are all kinda of minorities in all kinda of countries that dont have their language listed as a state language. Furthermore, "they're ethnically Russian so it's cool Russia invaded another country and seized the territory", could be used to justify wars all over Eastern Europe as many have Russian minorities moved in by the Soviets. It's not okay for us to let it slide once here because then it can be used as a justification for more occupations later.
Well your German comparison is rediculous. While hate speech is indeed illegal there (personally I prefer US style more open free speech) no one has ever been killed by the government over it.
Outside of that, your completely ignoring the problem with Putin. The problem the Left is having and most of the pre Trump right was having wasnt with Putin's actions within his country's borders. You're right, we usually look the other way on that for most countries. The problem is with Russia's policy of disupting or outright invading any country in their claimed sphere of influence that threatens to go pro West (in other words line them selves up with us and the rest of the West). Georgia and Ukraine are prime examples and as stated in another response before mine, Putin never cared about IS. He does care about maintaining one of his few regional allies (who is absolutly no ally of ours) and a very strategicaly important military port.
On top of that you have the cyber attacks against any and all percieved adversaries of which the DNC hacks are but a small part. When Russia has problems with the policies of Eastern European governments it's funny how all of a sudden Eastern European government websites start getting hacked and shut down in mass.
In summary, it's Putin's willingness to throw his weight around towards our Allies and undermine us domestically and internationally that is the problem with Putin.
Hahaha, I've spent time in Germany lately. While they do have more limits on their free speech then we do (and I generally disagree with those) the native born Germans hardly feel oppressed.
Well I'm sure the xenophobes do but that cant be helped.
And many retired people do. Many of them are more active than many non retired people I know. And guess what, they're usually the happy ones.
Also, many arent choosing to retire, many are merely accepting the fact that they cant physically or mentally do what they spent half their lives doing. Living just off Social Security aint easy and many only choose to do so because they feel they have to. It's much harder to recreate yourself at that age then it is when you're young.
That most deffinitly plays a part. On the other hand, the only happy seniors I've met are the ones that find new ways to bring meaning to how their lives are spent. The ones who dont figure that riddle out are typically the depressed ones.
Of course RT isnt going to burn my eyes but it's basically worthless as far as news goes unless you just want to find out what the Russian government wants people to think. Sure you can point to Snowden and other events that were poorly handled by US media but overall they are most certainly willing to question the government on quite a few issues.
I tried to find even one article on RT's site critical of their actions in Crimea. All I found was lies and misdirection like this https://www.rt.com/op-edge/268...
Meanwhile, go back a bit and search any major US news media's site for news on our invasion of Iraq. You'll find plenty of stories debunking bad evidence given by the Bush administration. Could they have done a better job pointing out how misguided that war was? Sure, but you cant say they never pointed out many of the lies we were fed in regards to why we should invade.
CNN is not nearly as bad as RT. I did a search on the RT news sight to see if I could find a single article questioning Russian annexation of Crimea after I posted the above. Not only could I not find one I read through a great piece on whether the Brits views on their actions in Ukraine are based on "misunderstanding or distortion"
https://www.rt.com/op-edge/268...
I've never read a piece on CNN as blatently full lies and misdirection. It's well written though, read it without your critical thinking cap on and it "makes sense". Then you realize that "that UN charter doesnt apply to that at all" and "those two things dont equal that at all".
Meanwhile Russia was treated pretty well for having lost a cold war they started by holding on to all of Eastern Europe and they still feel all sore about losing.
I'm not saying he is Hitler but the fact is you can't just pretend a country didnt invade and seize territory from another country. The type of government that feels entitled to do that is going to find ways to feel entitled to do it again.
Jesus, you could pass for Chamberlain in a heart beat.
"So yeah, Germany has had it rough lately and isnt getting any respect (the The Treaty of Versailles was not kind to them). So what if they invaded a few countries? Let's just pretend we all didnt see it and know that nothing bad could possibly come from just letting Germany invade a little bit."
I'm sure anyone living in the Baltic states felt very reasured by your post.
I don't use facebook or twitter either but I'm surprised to see RT on your list of news sources. I like getting news from varied sources myself but I've tried RT for a bit and I just feel like I'm consuming the propaganda branch of the Russian government. When reading it I feel like I might as well be reading a nationalist Chinese news source as well.
In other words, sure all news sources have some sort of bias but they should at least try to be objective.
Would you if it meant living without a car, a nice computer, a home you owned, or a variety of other luxuries? Personally I'd rather have at the very least a part time job so I could have material possessions to enjoy and was able to travel.
I'm glad your dad live such a life. I've met way too many retired folks whose lives are boredom to believe his life is the norm though.
Because I've met way too many retired people who go nuts and become depressed with "nothing to do". If having "nothing to do", day to day, was fulfilling there wouldn't be the rates of depression among the retired that we have
How you got modded up is beyond me. Your lines of text are barely coherent and I cant make sense of most of them. Your post smells of someone who speaks English as a second language and thus lacks legitimacy in the context of the US.
The Alt-Right who likes to refer to the Left as easily offended snowflakes are now victims.
The only thing that puzzles me here is how you typed your post with two hands nailed to a cross. I'll be honest though, I got bored of your video evidence after about a minute. How self important internet forum and twitter users make themselves...
Society has always had rules on how to govern ones self. Now I'm not saying there arent the over puritanical types who will whine and be offended by anything anyone says. That's true of anything. What I am saying is that if you're constantly getting hit with people saying what you are saying is inappropriate then maybe you're the one who is the problem.
Oh, so we're judging ideologies by how a minority of supporters behave?
In that case the Tea Party and Alt-Right are racist as all hell.
It's great you can point to a protest that got out of hand but I'd rather have idiot SJW on my side than racists.
Where in that linked to article does it "confirm" that this is fake news? Why would Russian spokesmen validate something Russia is only considering?
I'm sorry but your post is just stupid. What part of "radical sharia law" has the Left embraced? Some of the worst of radical sharia law the West rejects is the sexist garbage. Meanwhile we have this wonderful Alt-right president who thinks it's just fine to refer to women by any derogatory means he feels he needs to use.
But really, please. Name a part of sharia law which is contrary to American values but that the Left embraces. Support your statement.
Or maybe you're just an ignorant hillbilly.
Yeah those German's are really getting the shit end of the stick with their massive intake of immigrants and unemployment rate lower than ours. They're sure doing something wrong helping those who need help while filling a labor gap!
You're wrong of course. Hispanic immigration is not some special event that defies all historic precedent in the US.
Companies are spending a lot of time and money trying to tap into this changing demographic
http://hmc.comm.fsu.edu/blog/d...
And Hispanics even start becoming criminals at the same rate as any other American when they start to acculturate
http://www.pewresearch.org/fac...
Just to put out a few examples of what should be obvious.
Maybe you should consider that what you're suggesting has been widely suggested of every wave of immigrant to the US and each time it was proven wrong. Evey time they said "this time we're right!"
I'm an idiot? The conversation you're replying to has nothing to do with illegal versus legal immigration.
Maybe spend more time on reading comprehension and less time throwing hissy-fits in internet forums.
Sure they are if it means having the money to have a nice house and nice things as opposed to only having money to live in a shity apartment without a ton of possessions. Basic income is just that, Basic. If you want possessions outside the basics then you'll want a job.
If our population is ever completely decimated by disease and then the remainders are butchered by aggressors then sure, we should worry about our culture disappearing,
So something that isnt the same as something that failed could also fail? That is the most uninsightful thing I've heard of in god only knows how long. I never stated basic income wouldnt fail because it isnt the same as centralized economic planning. That's you putting words into my mouth. All I stated is that centralized planning has nothing to do with basic income so pointing out the failure of one has nothing to do with the other.
In other words, you're pointing the obvious and have contributed nothing to the conversation.