yeah, they’re fucking PISSED in Afghanistan about the Quran burnings. I haven’t really been following fuck all in Syria
Lynch the rich and [S]steal[/S] take our money back?
Put MENSA in charge?
Completely ignore everything the government and rich people do and we all just live our lives?
Completely drop the use of all money and go back to the barter system (like the one in Fallout 3/NV)?
In a nutshell, it was supposed to be Gaddafi redux. Except russia as a naval base there, and Assad isnt fucking around. Depending on who you beleive its either a fucking massacre since there are reports of Assad using chemical weapons or hes just stopping a coup. I think we are training the resistance and saudi arabia and quatar and namely turkey are itching to jump in. But since at the highest hes killed 10k and yet he has the support of millions, you cant really call it civil war yet. but russia AND china have both said that its internal problem and no one should meddle. Hillary clinton, i think, just stated that assads days are numbered/we gonna get you sucka.
PS. theres a defense pact between syria/iran so its a toss up as to what we will do if we jump in.
ps2: libya is still in chaos.
ps3: israel is getting antsy on the iran issue.
and yeah ill still address the first post, just sidetracked on some shit lately.
yeah, I saw the article from HIllary this morning.
When was the last time this many countries were failing this badly? We’re killing dictators world wide, while other nationalities revolt, while the economy shits the bed, and corporations shit on the economy and citizens. yaaaaay
edit: and iran is fucked, no matter what. They have a psycho leader who is pushing for a religious war. Which he may actually get
Wonder when WW3 will happen.
It’s already happening. Everyone keeping it on the down low.
Not to sound like a douche, but I agree with Russia’s and China’s “mind your own damn business” stance with Syria. Of course Amurrica’s gotta stick its red white and blue nose into the matter and spread freedom and democracy at the point of a gun derp
Yes, because killing random citizens is something we should all be okay with.
C’mon, son.
arabs complain about america’s precense in the middle east, now they complain just as much when america doesnt interevene in their issues.
- The us economy to me is smoke and mirrors. The majority of people are getting squeezed and screwed like there is no tomorrow. Are we the next greece? I say we were first except since we have the fed (or is it that the fed has us), we dont have to go through so many hoops for fiat money. But municipalites and states are going broke. Stockton is contemplating defaulting on it bonds. city after city are going broke and im sure 401ks are getting raped. in the long run we’ll have another debt crisis.
a. i think china just gave up on us and said “fuck you” already. I dont think they hold that much soverign debt anymore so i dont see where they can exploit in that manner, but they still produce just about everything for us and everyone else. not to mention that they are buying real estate like its a firesale. hell we even changed our immigration laws to make it easier for them to do just that. go figure…
b.computer security? man nothing is secure. where our chips for our military is being outsourced to china why do we act surprised when we find hidden programming designed to steal intel for them. its like were giving it away in a back handed way.
c. not gonna happen. the days where americans would slave away for low wages and be happy about it are over. steve jobs said it best “… america no longer produces the type of worker that is needed…”. we are an over stressed, over worked, over medicated, under paid, over fed bunch. that just isnt whats needed anymore. we cant even provide decent services to one another.
d. Big oil, big pharma, big banking dont care about taxes. i guess you mean this toward the small business owner.
- we are the world police. like it or not we are. do we need to be everywhere? no, but the world is so small that in order to keep our “way of life” we have to stop any small disturbance from disrupting whatever supply chain we depend on or our allies depend on (so they can provide us with something else in return). as far as training for domestic use? Unibomber, tim mcviegh, and the anthrax letter thing comes to mind plus all the crazy back wood militias and drug dealers/cartels. im all for it. not everyone is a bad person, but im not one to like being caught with my pants down.
3.the day americans realize that medicare, social security what ever else safety nets there are, are actually socialist policies and that what ever obama is trying to do or being blamed on isnt socialism. also socialism =/= communism. Canada has basic healthcare for its citizens, ZOMG the commies!!! the whole pharma AND medical system needs a teardown and rebuilt thats FAIR. and this growing trend to classify people as “mentally unstable” because they just happen to think a little differently than the status quo is DANGEROUS. i dont think anyone is really grasping how quickly this can snowball into a “equilibrium” type of scenario. im sure some of yall have seen they cymbalta commercials. its an ANTI-DEPRESSANT being used as a PAIN medication. in other words, its all in your head.
- same thing as 3. look at where the jobs are forecast to be: the health and care services. we are getting sicker by the day.
5.goes to show who pulls the strings. AIG failed because the fractional banking system is flawed. yet instead of punishing the business and accepting the repercussions of it (which would have been biblical SEE the HBO movie TOO BIG TO FAIL), we bail them out and act like its all good and keep kicking the can down the road like we always do. Banking NEEDS to be regulated ALWAYS. the risk for running amok are just too great for humans. we have greed. until we lose that as a species we will continue to play this game with whatever system that we give value to.
- tines have changed. what i see happening is not the destruction per se, but pre-empting in order to nip shit in the bud.
We shouldn’t be failing as hard as we are. We have so much wealth. Incomprehensible wealth. If that wealth were spread around a little, our economy would be far more robust. We sit here and bemoan how poorly we’re doing, but are we really, purely in terms of how much wealth is held by our country?
Let’s bust money back down to its original definition: a placeholder for a certain percentage of the resources of this world. What could one human being (or small group of human beings) possibly do to deserve the share of resources equivalent to the wealth held by the mega-rich? How does their conduct justify what they have, with comparison to the conduct of (for example) working class parents who do their best to be good and have to kiss off the best years of their lives working long hours at shitty jobs? How is it that these people convince themselves that not only do they deserve what they have, even to the detriment of our country as a whole, but that they should have more?
I’m sure its been done at much smaller scales. I can think of at least one small example I saw in some random netflix education documentary. There was some troubled school district in DC who had run through numerous school board presidents (or whatever the districts top dawg is called) and finally ended up trying promoting just a rank and file teacher to the position which is apparently never done. They leave it open ended as to how it works out, but I’m sure other similar experiments have been done. I admit its more analogous to promoting a Major to President than it is just any random citizen, but its close.
I’m not really sure I have a leaning on the matter, but I do wonder if just learning the ropes of playing politics once they’re in office wouldn’t inevitably turn your every man politician into the people you’re trying to thin out anyway.
Pretty sure they got it legally. They didn’t steal, embezzle, or kill for it. Their only crime is that they are capitalists in a capitalist system. As much as nobody likes it, they got it by doing what not many other people have done. Which is why they are so few. Either they have old money, or they did some shit that nobody thought of and it took off like a rocket. This generation is seeing the largest boom of self-made millionaires in history, and most of them aren’t even ADULTS: this kid, this kid, this kid, or this kid, Everybody else is just having kids in their teens/early adulthood accidentally, staying “working poor” feeding and raising them (unplanned kids are like THE #1 cause of working poverty, btw), or doing stupid shit with their money (300 dollar shoes…REALLY? you RENT an apartment, yet you feel you’re secure enough to drop what is probably your entire paycheck, depending on what city/state you’re in on some footwear? Your tax return going to a thousand-dollar sound system for a $400 used rust heap instead of savings?) instead of saving and using those savings wisely. On the whole, we’re fucking up. KIDS are styling on us. We need to be trying to figure out what WE can do to be more in a position like they are, instead of fucking ourselves up with wedlock kids, stupid shit that can wait, and college debt incurred for a dream job we’ll never get, and complaining about how the people who used their heads (and in some cases the slave labor of others…I can’t condone that, btw) won’t divvy up their profits. It’s all a matter of doing what you can with what you have, and not being lazy. Hell, I passed up a chance earlier this month to invest in a stock that would have quadrupled my initial investment cus I, in my own words “Don’t have time to be watching a stock ticker”. Now I’m starting to look at things a little differently. We all have to, cuz what we’re doing now ain’t working, and you can’t force people to share with you what is theirs just because they have a lot of it.
I don’t have a problem with sending aid like food, medical supplies or even some weapons for the people to defend themselves with. I do have a problem with US government sending our military to directly intervene in another country’s conflict under the banner of “freedom” when it’s painfully clear that their true agenda is far from benevolent.
I’m don’t know if that’s going to happen in Syria, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it does and I can’t wait for the excuse the Propaganda machine cooks up for it. :bluu:
heres a good comparison between the US and UK’s healthcare system.
i wont read through 19 pages. here is my contribution though.
"We need a third party"
Ron Paul is like a 3rd party. Yes he is republican, but watch a debate, 3 guys agree, and Paul is different always.
try this video out, he makes a lot of sense about the current Iran situation and the USAs role in it, no dramtic music , just Ronnie P saying his piece to our government
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yeah ronnie p would be the best fit for our country but im 100% sure he will not win cause the govt wont let it happen
also yeah ww3 has already started but it wont go mainstream till 2013
my predictions are israel gets nuked by iran
russia china and iran vs usa israel for ww3
fuck israels govt they’re just a bunch of power hungry fucks who try and do the most
they took over palestine killed 75% of the population each fam has an average of 8 kids now due to being scared of extinction yet usa is still allies with them lmao smh and not once is that ever aired on usa news networks but 1 jew dies and the whole fuckin world knows about it cmon now lets be real
if israel never took over palestine and the holy land and killed all the innocents iran wouldnt have wanted to nuke them end of story
thats why israel is so eager to act now cause they now they’re gonna get fucked
usa just wants more oil and the largest supply (irans)
sure irans leaders are evil tho im not siding with any1 but what goes around comes around
you need a certain amount of delegates to be nominated, right now, Paul is in 2nd place with the ABSOLUTE delegate count. dont let main stream media (NYT, CNN , Fox news tell you different). Dont give up hope yet!
there is no proof that Iran has nukes. none. not even our intelligentsia or military think so. they are enriching their uranium , that’s it . that does not automatically mean they are building a bomb. even if they wanted to , its estimated YEARS away. Also Israel has nukes already plus USA got their back. Iran will not be the aggressor. its just common sense. all they can do is control oil prices and kill their own people.
i think russia and china would star off cool but then turn on each other
-it be easy, just photoshop a picture or print screen a nasty status update
japan and euro would have no choice but to get involved
and who know that those crazy africans would do… (and south africans)
So hows that occupy thing going? I havent heard anything from them lately.