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  342. Why don't you have a look at Germany. Germanys democracy was heavily influenced by the american democracy as one of the victors of the 2nd world war. However the Germans not just copied the American constitution they incorporated the experiences made during the Weimar Republic (Germanys first version of a democracy) and how Hitler was able to get into power. So they made an improved version which covered a lot of "bad experiences" made by the power grab of Hitler and mistakes which were made in Germany's 1st democracy. Germany has a very strict seperation of powers and numerous unchangable laws which protects the democracy and the constitution from changes andd prevent powergrabs. This includes a high-court like the Supreme Court who watches as the 3rd power over what executive and legislislative are doing. It also ensures nothing can be totally centralized by watching over federalism as well. It also ensures the base rights formulated in the constitution are not improperly changed or even abolished and protects human rights. However the Bundesverfassungsgericht (that it's name roughly translated the "federal constitutional court") is not political. It remains strictly a legal watchdog and it does not involve itself in the legislation as the supreme court does unless legislation infringes on the constitutional rights or human rights. It proved to be very useful and necesarry and overall relative robust but above all it's not politicised quite the contrary every politican tries to avoid situations which makes the involvement of this court necesarry because it complicates things. So law-making tends to be within the confines of the constitution and never be so extreme that it allows grounds of involving this court. ... As it should be. Intresting side-remark. Germany also removed the election of the leader of government (the chancelor) to be directly voted by the population. The parliament is voting on the chancelor. The people just vote the parliament. It prevents that leaders can fool the population by charm or personality or by lies because members of parliaments vote and they can detect lies a little earlier than normal people usually. It's another protection made in view of the Weimar Republic and Hitler.
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  653. Fear is only the first step what GOP and Fox actually aiming at is anger. Fear in too large doses is paralizing so the plan is to convert it into anger. Anger is problematic. Anger is a primal emotion and as such controled by the oldest part of the brain where instinct is. The problem with anger is it is transferable and humans have a hard time focusing anger on more than one target and limiting a justified amount of anger as everybody probably noticed already when you were more angry at a person than deserved. So Fox and Right-Wing media try to nurture and groom this anger. 1) Maintain the anger so it is not lost or diminishes/disappear -- This is why Fox always finds something to be angry about. It is also the reason why so many "invented" things to be angry about exist because they have to maintain the anger-level. 2) Grow the anger -- If possible the anger is made stronger by giving people more things to be angry about and make the existing anger worse. 3) Direct the anger -- Since humans cannot focus anger on more than one target and tend to put all anger into one target not just a little right-wing media gives the anger targets. Democrats, trans, immigrants, moslems, Biden ... whatever they political need in the moment. As a side-effect this works like a lightning rod for the anger the media don't want the anger at ... GOP, bad policies, foolish behaviour, corporate rule, corruption, legal bribery, cost of living caused by greedy policies, housing issues, climate change etc. and instead ALL the anger is pushed at the selected target. It's genius ... but diabolitical. Hard to defend against and hard to see/realize this manipulation.
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  703. Don't call them stupid. It only pushes them further away. Don't try to ague with them based on facts. It pushes them only further away. They can't defend themselves against you that's why you only push people further away. If you make a mistake and argue wrong you can even make it worse. If you really must than argue from yourself by explaining why you think what you think and how you come to this conclusion. That way you do not attack those people directly with arguments and appear less aggressive you open up a way for them to understand you without being coerced into it. Try to make a connection on the emotional level. It's the only way to get through to them. This is especially successful when you are family, related or friends. Make them understand what effects their thinking, saying and actions have on you and your relationship with this person. To most persons family or friendship are more important than political opinion. If you can try to avoid political subjects, again try to connect on personal, emotional or family level. Try to seperate people from political media but carefully not by forcefully taking it away. Offer them something else to engage them in something more intresting for them. The longer you can keep affected people away from any political news and opinions for a while the better people change and even might lose interest. If you yourself are affected by this. Just try to ignore all political media for 2 weeks. Just shut it all off and do something else the world can and will continue without you. You lose this feeling of "missing something important" this strong hunger for more input after some days and you have a chance to go back to a normal level. And be absolutly honest to them. Don't try to hide things or even lie it can destroy every progress you made if you are found out. If you don't know anything be honest and tell them. People can understand that you don't know things but making something up or lie can make it worse than before.
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  707. The argument with the intrest rates increase to make borrowing money more expensive is valid. Normally this reduces investment however something new come up. It is true that tons of money have been borrowed to invest. But the investment no longer goes into real economy it goes directly back into the financial markets to make more money with this money. For example with stock buybacks or investments in hedge funds, etc. And there is something else which causes a problem. Owners of large amounts of stocks did go to banks to create loans using their stocks as safety. They borrowed against their stock papers so to speak for almosth nothing. This does not count as "realizing gains" (= income which would be subject to taxes) quite the opposit you could even use this to reduce your taxes (!!!) even basically stealing tax money to make you even richer. THIS is really creating money out of nothing. And since this money goes back into the financial market not the real economy the problem only gets worse. This is why they needed to make this strange step which seems counter-intuitive. And the worst is: They need to do even more of that. Much more to stop the speculation on the financial market because a huge bubble is forming there which is making 1929 a picknick. The problem is: The Intrest-Rate effects the Financial Market AND the real economy. We need a new tool. And we need to redefine what "income" is and apply progressive income tax accordingly. And we need to start taxing Financial Transactions - immediatly!
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  709. It's quite easy actually: 1) Our weather is generated by water in the atmosphere and energy in form of heat. It's the engine for all. But we still have seasons and cold and warm areas on the planet as before. 2) The heat comes from the sun. Some is reflected into space some heat stays in our atmosphere (or we would freeze to death). Some gases can hold heat better than others. CO2 is effective, Methan (Natural Gas and from animals) 20 times more ... and Water (Clouds) even more. The more we pump in the atmosphere the more heat stays. This is called global warming. Now to the results of this which is the real issue ... 3) The heat has to go somewhere. It starts to heat the oceans and they already heated up by 1.1°. Can you imagine how much energy you need to heat up all water in all oceans. Try it out at home by cooking a can of water and imagine doing this to all water on the planet. Result 1: More heat in the oceans leads to more water in the atmosphere. But this in turn increases 2) more. And it also creates more rain. Result 2: More heat in the oceans leads to the water expanding (simple physics warmer fluids expand). Result: Ocean level rises. 4) Because ice gets warmer faster than dirt the artic/antartic starts melting. Result: Even more water in the oceans. Ocean levels rise even more. 5) Remember that heat is the engine for weather? Well not quite ... the difference in temperature is. Cold and warm always try to balance each other which you know when you open your window at home. The stronger the temperate difference the stronger this effect is ... we call it wind. This "engine" is creating the jet stream between the artic and the equator. It's a super-strong wind which is mixing up the atmosphere like a real mixer making the weather less extreme by mixing moist air with dry air and warm air with cold air. And it pushes air like a ventilator around. But because the artic is getting warmer faster than the equator this engine is now weaker and sometimes even stops. Result: The weather is not mixed as much anymore and changes slower or simpler the same weather tends to be there longer. Result: More extreme weather. More and dryer drouts (see Western America). Colder and larger colds (see Texas). Extreme rain to the point of floods (also because more water is in the atmosphere). And heat + moisture is creating hurriance which are larger, stronger and have more rain as Ian shown last week. This is all called: Climate Change ... because it is not all about heat.
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  1153. The jealousness of some UK citizens of germany is beyond belief. I mean I can understand to a point why. Germany was destroyed twice almost to the ground, last time only rubbled remained. They managed to rebuild twice from the position of the loser, stripped of the remaining scientists post-war and of almost every resources and equipment still intact as war reparation. Lived through the times of the cold war split in half managed to reunite both halfs and took the next 20 year rebuilding the east-half a 3rd time from 40 years of mismanagement and pure scialism. Managed to found the EEC/EU project with France and helped it though it's rough and unstable first time and together with the other EU members to the largest economy on this planet. Have way more social policies, less poverty, better education levels, less environmental issues (although there is room for improvement on everything) and still have the 4th strongest economy on the planet in a medium-sized country. UK's results in the same time are pathic in comparison, altough it was never fully destroyed and had a far easier time recovering after WW2 with all the colonies at that time still. And today problems over problems, deep corruption, mounting debt which doubled since Labour and problems with budget and spending-deficits on health care education, spreading nationalism, xenophobia, islamophobia, anti-semitism. The solution is not jealousy, not leaving the EU, the solution is someone other than the Tories who ruined this country since the second world war now almost to the breaking point. How many years had Labour in those last 75 years? 23 of 75 and last time they were interrupted by an outside event. It's time for a fundamental change of policy in the UK and the only ones possibly doing that is the Opposition. Give them 25 years time and than judge. But no instead people voted for 5 years more of the same.
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  1197. There are 3 important things in media which everyone should obey: 1) Truth 2) Manners 3) Transparency Truth You can be left or right or middle or exotic or whatever (= bias/opinion) but lies are unacceptable. Lies are intentional changes or leftouts of informations describing reality/what happened or what is. You can have any opinion or bias you want but you cannot properly made them on incorrect or incomplete informations (= misinformation). And worse doing it intentionally (= lying). Manners You can say what you want and how ... but not disrespectful and not if it damages the dignity of others. Transparency This is a little more complicated so bear with me. Everyone has bias if your want it or not. And if you are not careful it can taint the information you giving to others = Impacting the Truth/Reality which ends up either misinformation or a lie if this misinformation was intentional (= You know the truth and still tell it wrongly.) It is important that you are transparent about your potential bias on your channel meaning people watching it should know your potential bias. Lying or keeping silent about it is unacceptable. You cannot expect a Channel for Oilcompanies to say something bad about oil. You cannot expect a channel having ads from a weapons manufacturer to say something bad about this weapons manufacturer or weapons in general. That why those labels you see under some video saying who is funding this channel or to which organization this persons channel belongs is so important. You can say what you want but do not hide your bias. People can make their own opinions but keeping hidden who is funding you is dangerous.
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  1326. I actually read a little about mail-in voting in this case in Pennsylvania. I know how it works in general: - You ask your local administration for registration and then need to apply for mail-in voting where they check that you are an US citizen, 18 year old, live in the state for at least 30 days and had not a felony conviction in the last 5 years. - They send it to you when it's time. - You make your cross and put it in the inner envelop. No names or signatures there so noone knows what you personally voted for. - You sign the form and put the form and the inner envelop in the outer envelop and send it back or drop it in the box. - They open the outer envelop and check your signature and registration and cross you off a list so you cannot send a 2nd one or someone else is voting with your credentials. - The inner envelop is securely stored and cannot be opened before 7PM on election day to be checked and counted. But although this system was pretty water-proof and there have only been a handful cases of mail-in voting fraud over decades they raised security even a little more. - Apparently you now also need to also bring Voter-ID when you want to register for voting and apply for mail-in voting - You can now follow your mail-in vote like a package-tracker on a website. Once they checked the outer envelop against the voter registry they put a barcode on it and feed it the computer. You can see that online to check if your vote was received and accepted for counting on election day. I find that quite reassuring to make sure everything was okay with the mail-in ballot, that it will be counted on election day and that they not remove your vote without you knowing or when they removed you from the registration list without your knowledge.
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  1342. Compare this with a diagramm of Income Inequality in America and you will find they coalesce. The next thing socially on this compare the numbers of low-, middle- and upper-class households and you will find, that over the decades the middle-class diminshed significantly. Why is this important? Republicans get their donations from super-rich in exchange for tax-reductions for them and to ensure minimum wage and minimum worker rights so their profits max out. And Republicans get their money from the middle-class which gets smaller and smaller who fears to lose what they have achieved and because they think voting Conservatives would "conserve" their wealth and status as middle class (status quo, they want to maintain what they have). And this fear of losing your status creates fear and anger over time when the situation does not get better. They look for a reason for that and a direction to where to direct the anger. And to prevent the middle-class from seeing the truth that the anger should go to the people who sits in government they preemtive give them another target to make sure people never find out the Republicans are actually the source of all problems. And suddenly immigrants and illegals are made public enemy no 1 as well as all people who are not white. And since Republicans cannot make people vote on the basis of good policies anymore (all policies are not for the middle-class anymore but for the super-rich because they donate the most to the Republicans) the only way to keep getting elected is to fuel this anger-directing at "people who are different" and saying "They make the problems. We get rid of them if you elect us." But it's a lie. That THOSE people are the problem in the first place and that they actually want to end the problems. Without problems no anger, without anger you need another reason to still being elected. That's also why Republicans always and only talk about the future. The only thing they can do is promising about tomorrow, but they never deliver. They cannot deliver because as soon as people have no problems they no longer have anger and without anger they no longer need a target to put the anger at. And without that Republicans cannot win elections anymore because their policies are actually against the middle and low-class own interests but people ignore this because "they are on my side" or so they think. It's a vile cycle of lies and blame-gaming. And people continue to fall for it thanks to so called "News Channel" (actually Opinion-channels) owned by the super-rich to ensure Republicans are still voted and to "form" and "direct" public opinion and especially to make sure the anger of the people is not directed at Republicans. And this is also the explanation why those Opinion-Channels try to direct anger at intellectuals as well and all people who are able to make things better and especially all News-Channels and people who would be able to tell people the truth about all of this. Because if the people ever found out how far they have been betrayed by their own kin they will probably end the GOP instantly and never vote them again.
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  1353. The "nuclear-family" was not as good as they think. This is part of the illussion we call "good old times". But were they so good? The model of the "nuclear family" is not even possible anymore since you need 2 or 3 jobs in a family to sustain it meaning both parents have to work which destroys the concept of the child-caring mother. See even there close-mindedness and misogyny baked in. Maybe the father wants to care and the mother would prefer to work. The solution would be to raise wages massively back again to 70ties level so one parent can feed a family with one job but tell that to corporate america. Most other problems families have to deal with come from this lack of money because money funds everything housing, living standard, abilties to deal with crisis and problems, education, childcare, elderly care/social care, decent living area, some luxuries, vacation and entertainment to not just work but life once in a while, etc. Divorce was harder or impossible and not treated well in society meaning the women could not easily leave again. This gave power to the men and in some families this was exploited, women become slaves disguised under the name "housewife". And sometimes even domestic violence, rape, child abuse all disguised under "marrigage" and "family matters" and the police rarly get involved because it was considered a "family problem". The greed of already rich people and corporations destroys family life and the so called "nuclear family" together with misconceptions about family and biggotted and powerhungry losers who need to be king somewhere and decide to excert that power at least in their family.
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  1367. European here. The Brits currently tend to drift away especially conservatives there. He is a typical Tory Brit nowadays: Long Long Long Windy Talking ... no substance and not able to focus on the question and not able to admit that Johnson pushed the Brit Conservatives extremly to the right since 2016 (the Brexit Referendum) and completly changed the Conservatives to something barely resembling what Conservatism was. The good conservatives - the ones people voted for 70 years - are gone. Expelled from the party last year while placing country before career in preventing a so called No Deal Brexit (Leaving the EU without any agreement which has serious economically consequences). If you think you get a European average opinion from a Brit especially a conservative you couldn't be more wrong. The fact of the matter is, the so called Brexiteers in the UK are strong Trump fans because he allows them to live out publicly their racism and hate for foreigners because they think they are ones why the country has so many problems and getting rid of them somehow makes their lifes better and moreso Trump as President in a way allow them to live out their ignorance as well like: He is ignorant in public and he has power so I can be and have too. He somehow gave them a freepass to spread around their bullshit so society is more and more drowing in ignorance and it deepens the divide in society and ignorance as always creates all kind of problems especially with Corona around because ignorance cannot solve problems it only creates them. There is support for Trump across the continent, but almost exclusively from extreme right parties because they hitchhike to grab power. However since most of the continent has proportional voting (not the UK ... yet) the political spectrum is full of all kinds of parties from the left to the right. People have much more choice. But the most right ones of them are the only ones who would vote for Trump the rest not so much not even the Conservatives. Mrs. Merkel from Germany for example actually is a Conservative.
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  1579. Give it up Gary. I know your tricks. Now you pretend to be an EU citizen and wanting to give wrong impressions about Japan in the hopes to create misinformation and resentment between Japan and the EU. The funny thing is, if you really would know how EU Trade Deals work (or the EU for that matter) than you would know that the EU is very careful with such things and consider all angles. There is a reason why such deals take 5+ years normally and 7 in this case (Start 25 March 2013). So what you do here trying to misinform people, create division and resentment between EU and Japan. I'm wondering if I should make my warning to you real and actually make a call to MI5 to report you and your other 50+ Youtube accounts. I'm sure they would be interested in people like you making industry-level misinformation campaigning on social media with a special interest in UK and Brexit. This post here is harmless and easy to dismiss, but you post 24 hours per day on all kind of channels with different accounts. You should really be careful. I'm not the only person watching you. There are at least 2 other persons watching your accounts for at least 12 months or longer and they know even more than me. I'm already aware that the UK electoral commission is undertaking changes to their online watching procedures and I'm sure I also heared of extra personal tasked to look for people like you. You already proved that you can read at least one East-European language some days ago or even Russian Language with your other account (Don't bother to deleted it I know when I need to make a Screenshot). I'm sure they would be very interested to hear about that with the Russian Report around.
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  1639. They are being told "woke" is bad. Media and politicans not clearly told them what it is but this is by design they leave it to you what you understand under it. Result: People put all grievances under that term and put the label "bad" over it. The same happened to "Communism" and "Socialism". Terms people are told to fear and hate but without getting the information what it is and why it is bad. Are you okay being manipulated into hate? Would you not prefer to know why you hate before you hate? Example 1: Communism Communism has only one real meaning: "All means of productions are owned by the people". Meaning all profits a company makes going to all people of that country. No stockholders grabbing dividends, no owners, no boards, no investors, no hedge funds. Every profit goes to all people of that country. Doesn't sounds so bad suddenly does it? Now guess who put the label "bad" on it? Example 2: Socialism There are multiple forms of socialism. The most extreme form is communism. But all work under the same principle: Sharing the burdens of costs for some of your income. We already do that everyday. We all pay taxes so roads and bridges build and maintained. Sadly in America some road and bridges have been sold or build privately so a company ask you for a toll. But public roads have no toll, their costs are shared because it makes no sense that every citizen build his own roads and bridges. We do it for schools, for social security, for firefighters, for the army, for boder-security, for administation (major, states, federal). We already do it for so many areas. But in some countries it is done for more areas like water, local transport, universities, healthcare. Guess who want you to hate Socialism. Everyone who wants to keep the bussiness and profits all by themselves. So of course you are told to hate and fear this.
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  1698. This is maybe one of the saddest parts of Brexit. Most of the time only negatives have been discussed and enforced by lies and missinformation. It was rarely spoken about the benefits. Here is a list someone else compiled a while ago on this topic. The UK has greater global influence as a member of the EU The EU provides a counterweight to the global power of the US, Russia and China With Trump in the White House the UK’s strongest natural allies are France, Germany and our other West European neighbours Tariff-free trade within the EU The abolition of non-tariff barriers (quotas, subsidies, administrative rules etc.) among members Participation in free trade agreements with Japan and Canada as an EU member The EU accounts for 44% of all UK exports of goods and services The EU accounts for 53% of all UK imports of goods and services Cheaper food and alcohol imports from continental Europe As a member of the EU the UK maintains a say in the shaping of the rules governing its trade with its European partners 3.1 million jobs in the UK are directly linked to exports to the EU Free movement of labour has helped UK firms plug skills gaps (translators, doctors, plumbers) Free movement of labour has helped address shortages of unskilled workers (fruit picking, catering) The Single Market has brought the best continental footballers to the Premier League The EU accounts for 47% of the UK’s stock of inward Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), worth over $1.2 trillion Access to the EU Single Market has helped attract investment into the UK from outside the EU No paperwork or customs for UK exports throughout the single market Price transparency and removal of commissions on currency transactions across the Eurozone FDI into the UK has effectively doubled since the creation of the EU Single Market The UK’s net contribution to the EU budget is around €7.3bn, or 0.4% of GDP (less than an eighth of the UK’s defence spending) No time consuming border checks for travellers (apart from in the UK) The City of London, as a global financial hub, has acted as a bridge between foreign business and the EU British banks and insurance companies have been able to operate freely across the EU Cornwall receives up to £750 million per year from the EU Social Fund (ESF) Structural funding for areas of the UK hit by industrial decline (South Wales, Yorkshire) Support for rural areas under the European Agricultural Fund for Regional Development (EAFRD) EU funding for infrastructure projects in the UK including £122 million for the “Midlands engine” project Financial support from the EU for over 3,000 small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the UK EU funding for the British film industry EU funding for British theatre, music and dance EU funding for British sport, including football apprenticeships, tennis and rugby league Glasgow (1990) and Liverpool (2008) benefitted from being European capitals of culture, stimulating their local economies EU competition laws protect consumers by combatting monopolistic business practices Strict controls on the operations of Multinational Corporations (MNCs) in the EU Human Rights protected under the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights The death penalty can never be reintroduced as it is incompatible with EU membership Minority languages such as Welsh and Irish are recognized and protected under EU law The right to reside in any EU member state The freedom to work in 28 countries without visa and immigration restrictions The mutual recognition of professional qualifications has facilitated the free movement of engineers, teachers and doctors across the EU The mutual recognition of educational diplomas The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) has standardized assessment of language proficiency across the EU The freedom to study in 28 countries (many EU universities teach courses in English and charge lower fees than in the UK) The Erasmus programme of university exchanges (benefitting 16000 UK students a year) The freedom to set up a business in 28 countries The ability to retire in any member state Pension transferability The right to vote in local and European Parliamentary elections if resident in any member state EU laws making it easier for British people to buy property on the continent The right to receive emergency healthcare in any member state (EHIC card) Consular protection from any EU embassy outside the EU The EU has played a leading role in combatting global warming (Paris 2015 climate change conference) Common EU greenhouse gas emissions targets (19% reduction from 1990 to 2015) Improvements in air quality (significant reductions in sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxides) as a result of EU legislation Reductions in sewage emissions Improvements in the quality of beaches and bathing water EU standards on the quality of drinking water Restrictions on landfill dumping EU targets for recycling Common EU regulations on the transportation and disposal of toxic waste The implementation of EU policies to reduce noise pollution in urban areas EU policies have stimulated offshore wind farms Strict safety standards for cars, buses and trucks Protection of endangered species and habitats (EU Natura 2000 network) Strict ban on animal testing in the cosmetics industry Membership of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) which monitors the quality and safety of medicines (until recently located in London) 13% of EU budget earmarked for scientific research and innovation The UK receives £730 million a year in EU funding for research EU funding for UK universities Cooperation in the peaceful use of nuclear energy as a member of Euratom Minimum paid annual leave and time off work (Working Time Directive) Equal pay between men and women enshrined in European law since 1957 The right to work no more than 48 hours a week without paid overtime Minimum guaranteed maternity leave of 14 weeks for pregnant women Rights to a minimum 18 weeks of parental leave after child birth EU anti-discrimination laws governing age, religion and sexual orientation EU rules governing health and safety at work The rights to collective bargaining and trade union membership are enshrined in EU employment law The UK enjoys an opt out from the single currency and maintains full control of its borders as a non-member of the Schengen area Since 1985 the UK has received a budget rebate equivalent to 66% of its net contribution to the EU budget EU cross-country coordination offers greater protection from terrorists, pedophiles, people traffickers and cyber-crime The European common arrest warrant Europe-wide patent and copyright protection EU consumer protection laws concerning transparency and product guarantees of quality and safety Improved food labeling A ban on growth hormones and other harmful food additives Cheaper air travel due to EU competition laws Common EU air passenger rights Deregulation of the European energy market has increased consumer choice and lowered prices Mutual recognition of the common European driving license The introduction of the European pet passport The abolition of mobile telephone roaming charges The EU acts as a guarantor of the Irish Good Friday Agreement A frictionless Irish border The EU acts as a guarantor of the special status of Gibraltar The EU helped support and maintain democracy in Spain, Portugal and Greece from the 1970s and these countries have become major destinations for British tourists EU membership has helped facilitate intercultural dialogue
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  1798. There is a saying: "If you stick to the Truth ... even if you are the only one ... you will not go mad." Sounds obvious isn't it but there is a consequence of this when you not do this which is terrifing. The problem with lies is they are like puzzle pieces which are connected on one side to the your puzzle, but this piece actually does not belong to the puzzle. If you not remove it it allows to connect more false puzzle pieces making it easier to add further more. And worse if you actually have a true puzzle piece it might not fit anymore so you throw it away (!). If this continues you start doing multiple puzzles in one. And eventually you will have so many connections which do not fit to each other and worse you see fragments of two or more puzzle images that you not even know anymore which puzzle is the real one. And eventually you will go mad. This effect is called Cognitive Dissonance. When informations (puzzle pieces) lead to contradicting conclusions which makes no sense anymore. Human brains are not designed to process such things they try to avoid them at all costs. Too long exposure to this state and you will eventually begin having mental issues and you get extremly insecure making all even worse. Protect the Truth. This is not a partisan issue only one thing can actually be really true (otherwise know as "The Truth is indisputable"). This is a matter of mental health and maintaining sanity ... and avoiding making decissions with terrible outcomes ... sometimes even with harmfull if not even deadly consequences.
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  1973. There will be no last minute Free Trade Deal. Maybe a last minute barebone deal for some products both want to trade, but the border will come, the paperwork, checks, tariffs, CE product certifiction, Certification for Rules of Origin, longer times to pass the channel in both directions all of it. Even a Free Trade Deal will make this necesarry the only thing not in there would be limits, quotas and tariffs but all the rest of it. And when people say "last time they were able to come up with something weeks before" should realize: The WA was a deal which was formerly going through the hole process of approval. May's deal. Johnson just changed a little bit regarding NI and the Backstop. But it was a ready deal more or less. However in this case: The EU has what it legally needed: A clean exit of UK from the EU and a legal solution for the GFA. And even managed to get the outstanding debt back and a little extra for their troubles. This time there is nothing not even a proposal from the UK. And the UK is not even willing to agree to the minimum conditions of the EU (CFP, Level Playing Field and ECJ to enforce the trade deal). And the clock is ticking. The EU can pull back from negotiations without unfixable consequences and preparing for this step for years now. For the UK it looks a lot worse. At the same time the UK clearly indicates to break promisses (Political declaration), agreements e.g. Common Fishing Policy and now even talk about reopening the WA again. Prepare to lower import standards (Trade Bill, Agricultural Bill) and and to top it all of: Negotiations with the US requiring lowering of standards and divergence from the EU. All signs are on red for the EU. And a little remark to the Brexiteers: Contrary to what your channels are telling you the Withdrawal Agreement of Johnson will not end on Dec-31 only the transition period which is tiny part of it. And it will not be replaced with nothing when no trade deal is reached. Trade deal and Withdrawal Agreement are seperate things and the latter is already UK and international law and will stay with or without a Trade Deal.
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  2030. Actually it's a step up. Every nation in the EU had and still have it's own system of "states" and the "state" we call it Federalism similar to that of the U.S. with differences here and there. What the EU is experimenting on now for 70 years is how to upgrade this in combining multiple systems to an even larger system. And our history between us and the different languages and culture makes this not an easy thing. Especially since we also had the iron curtain for 40 years which not only devided a large city (Berlin) a hole country of people who used to live together and were practically the same culture and origin sometimes even family (Germany) it also divided east and west, different economic systems and different political systems and ideologies. In that view the EU is a remarkable success and a much larger achievement considering the difficulties. Today you drive along the "Autobahn" :) and barely notice you just changed a border (and the most heavily fortified border along the iron curtain within germany is not noticeable at all). You suddenly notice that the traffic signs might have a slightly different color scheme or the language changed but noone wants your passport noone want's you to pay customs you can often pay with the same money you can even decide to live in one land and work in another can freely travel, establish businesses, trade, transport stuff freely it feels like one more and more with every year. That does not mean it's complete or perfect there are still a lot of issues to continue this and the political structure might need an update after so many years since the realities of life within in the EU have far more progressed since it's beginnings. Kurzgesagt* Can you imagine to form a single country between the U.S., Russia and China? Because in a way that's what the EU is trying to do between it's members. *This is BTW the application of this channels name in the german language ... when you realize you wrote too much for anyone to read and try to reformulate an essay ... into a single sentence.
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  2052. What I observe here is that people completly lose the connection to reality. Reality for them is whatever their brain comes up with but without logical cohesion based on facts/reality, just random thoughts losely coupled together which makes a tiny bit of sense to them. Fiction and reality are mixed together without a clear seperation. As you could hear from the guy talking about Borg from Star Trek in context of vaccines. A good example for a misinformation (nanites in vaccines) combined with fiction (nanites turning humans into borg from the fictional series Star Trek). And I think what did this to them is extensive exposure to misinformation and lies, creating contradictions causing cognitive dissonance (having contradicting thoughts in your brain). Like the woman said that Trump is and is not president currently. Human brains are not made to handle these very well. It feels like walking in mid-air, you walk, but you have no ground or save footing below you. You speak but without a clear thought behind it. Unfortunatly prolonged exposure to this state of mind can make you literally insane, which is why most humans instinctivly avoid this usually by dismissing informations. However you have to dismiss what is false, not what you don't like. But these people trust noone anymore and they have not the means to find out what is false so they dismiss whatever they like less not what is false. Making everything worse. And doing that too often by frequent exposure to misinformation is weakening this protection and widens the disconnection between reality and your own reality. Leaving you in a made-up reality of what you believe or want to be true, not what is true. Hence a total disconnection from reality inevitable leading to insanity at some point. What I would recommend these people is: - Immediatly stop media consumption, just turn everything off for at least 2 weeks do something else - Seek professional mental health to talk about your problems
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  2185. Here a little comment I written a while ago ... Artificial Dyes e.g. Yellow 5, Yellow 6, Synthetic Astaxanthin (Red) Used for: Enhanced Coloring of food products which makes them look better and therefore sell better and to cover up production problems. Risks: Hyperactivity, Behaviour-Problem on Childrens, Allergy-Risks, Cancer-Risks Found in: M&M (not in EU), Noodles, Cheese, Cereals, Candy, everywhere basically Banned: EU, Australia, New Zealand Allowed: US Remarks: For Europe dyes from natural soruces are used instead. The use of food coloring has increased by 500% over the last 50 years. Growth Hormones (e.g. rBGH) Synthetic Growth Hormone to make cows grow bigger and faster. Found in: Milk, Dairy Products. Banned: EU, Switzerland, Japan, NZ, Australia Allowed: US Risks: Cancer Risks, High Levels of Thyroid Hormone Enzymes, Cardivaskular Risks (Heart), Brest Cancer, Colon Cancer, Prostate Cancer Remark: Use of rBGH also lead to use of Anti-Biotics on Cows. Meat with Organic Arsenic Used for: Pultry to bursting blood Vessels to make flesh looking more pink. Risks: Environmental Damage as Arsenic is slightly toxic. Cancer-Risks, Chromosome-Damage GMO Foods (Genetically Modified Foods) Risks: Food allergies, various effects often yet fully unknown because of high complexity. Environmental impact on biodiversity, Wild Plants, Animals, Insects with hard to contain long-term wide-spread effects. Bromated Flour (Potassium Bromate) Found in: Baked Goods (84% in the US) to make them look better and the dough more elastic. Banned: EU, CA, Brazil, South Korea, China Risks: Slightly Toxic to humans, Headaches, Skin raches, Digestive Issues, Cancer-Risk Brominated Vegetable Oil (BVO) Corn/Soy Bean oil mixed with Bromine which is Toxic. Emulsifier, helps to keep contents mixed in complex drinks prevents flocculation. Found in: Sports Drinks (10% in the US), Fanta Orange, Gatorade and others Banned: EU, Japan Influences Body Chemistry create defincy for Iodine, Breast Cancer, Thyroid Gland, Ovary and Prostate Cancer, Accumulates in Central Nervous System and Breastmilk Fat Substitues e.g. Olestra Found in: Fat-Free potate chips, snacks, used in so call Fat-Free or Calorie-Free foods. Risks: Prevents the body from absorbing essential vitamins, Cramps, Gas Loose Bowels Banned: Canada, EU Remark: FDA even removed labeling restrictions on it in the USA. For comparison ... Kinder Eggs Risks: Children might choke on the inner plastic egg. Banned: US Allowed: Everywhere else
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  2322. People blame Biden for Inflation while the Corporations doing this to increase their profits. (Prove: Corporations have higher Profit meaning the costs have not increased meaning they exploit the market. People blame Biden for the higher gas prices. While Biden has no control over the OPEC which increased their prices to offset losses on income in 2020 and 2021 due to Covid. People blame Biden for Shortage of Goods, Trade Problems and Higher Prices. But the problem comes from greedy See-Transport Corporations who created an artifically bottleneck on the logistics chain. People blame Biden for not Delivering on his agenda and worse for not even trying. See Build Back Better Bill. Problem: Corporate Democrats are bribed by Corporations to pass as little as possible at best nothing because everything more could lead to increase in Corporation Tax and lower profit margins for the Corporations. People blame Biden for leaving Afghanistan while Trump negotiated this and not complying would have meant war with the Taliban and the US staying in Afghanistan. People blame Biden for opening up new Oil-Fields for investors. But Biden is not at fault here, Trump made this deal Biden is now legally bound to do them but the media is blaming him. People blame Biden for making an Open-Border Policy to Mexico. But in reality he didn't changed a law of Trump although people on the left want him to. Result: The Right don't like him because of a lie, the left don't like him because he did not change anything since Trump. The list goes on and on.
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  2324. Don't underestimate the opportunity. For Chinese People "face" and money are two of the most important topics. And the absence of the US because of the Uguire-topics, the lack of Human Rights, Democratical Principals, Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Press and the Rule of Law would be major embarassement maybe even insult for the CCP in view of the hole world. They will distort the olympics to a major propaganda event for the Chinese Government that is absolutely sure. To show the world how "advanced" how "good" they are. The Chinese Government is paying billions every year in Softpower measures around the globe to actively influence the worlds opinion about the Chinese Government (they will say about China, but this is only about the government not the people). And they will place their glory and prestige AND power over the intent and spirit of this event. In a way they even corrupt the purpose of this event: Peaceful, equal, open and fair competition. [Open (T...wan?), Fair competition? (IP Theft, Destruction of the Biosphere for Profit, Exploitation of humans and nature for profit) Don't make me laught.] The more I think about it, the more the world has the duty to not take part not with diplomats and not with athlets. Western Democracies would like to continue to trade and cooperate with China but only under one condition: That China starts following the rules the rest of the world operates under and stop cheating for profit. At least Human Rights, the Uigure-issue and the Rule of Law should be uphold. Asking for Democracy might be too much at this point. It might be good for the Chinese People but never for the Chinese Government as it would end their grip on the people.
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  2398. Maybe you should re-read how Hitler get into power in the 1930'ties. There are some similarities and noone could ever imagine before what would happen later. If you want advice. Start to see Trump as a child and treat him like that. Noone really recognises this but most of his popularity comes from exactly this without people noticing or only unconciously. Ask geriatic experts (experts for old people) they will confirm you that old people mentally start turning into children at some point and the best way is to start treating them like that again. It turns out they even like it. That's why Trump admires strong-arm/authoritarian political figures like Putin, Erdogan like some fathers would be to his kids. However the danger is if you treat someone like that as an adult or if you give him to much power. Now add one element to it: Trump is a spoiled brat, pampered all his life. What happens when you have a child like that? The funny thing is, the evidence is right before us, the way he speaks, thinks, deals with rivals, deal with friends, ex-friends and experts telling him what to do and like he deals with problems is exactly that of a child. Look closer and you will find the child in all of it. Hitler was also a child but was not recognised or treated as such with devestating results. You should ask youself do you want the most powerful man in America, maybe even in the world, who is actually a child, having so much power without any feeling for responsibility? And there is another danger. This mental condition makes him prone to outside manipulation especially from people in his personal surroundings. I especially think about e.g. Kushner here a psychopath if I have ever seen one but I bet there is a long line of people trying to manipulate him in their favor. If I were Biden I would strongly react to Trump. Confront him. Try to intimidate him. Acting like a adult would with a naughty child. This would not only help with Trump, but also with his supporters because they suffer from a similar problem being childs needing strong leadership and a direction. They think Trump is this, but don't recognize that he turned into a kid already. Their subconcious have recognized this that's why he gets extra sympathy because their subconcious tells them "he is just a kid". A deadly combination (political speaking).
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  2411. Looks much worse than it's actually is. CNN over-presenting it. 4% to 8% are right leaning ... for decades not 45% / 73 mio. But since Germany has Proportional Voting (PR) mixed with FPTP for locality the right-winger have major issues getting into government and have little or no say on legislation. They even lost influence in state-levels in the last years because they are simple incapable of doing resonable work as lawmakers and one scandal and corruption after another same as the Republicans. Germany learned it's lesson after WW2. The system is made Facism-proof on all kinds of levels and constantly watching for extremists on both sides and this keeps them in check. However the dissatisfaction and fatigue regarding Covid, Lockdown and restrictions created irrational protests largly based on misinformation campaigns. The same which fueling Anti-Vac, Covid-Myths and so on in the US. And those protests are constantly undermined by right-wing groups. Both groups constantly mix it's hard to say where one ends and the other begins. Same as the US actually. I think it's intentional the news sources of both are the same and among them a lot of older people not having enough critical thinking to deal properly with Social Media especially Facebook. And as older people they are easy victims to the fear-mongering. However Germany is changing. People turn their backs on the old large parties and turn to smaller ones which is thanks to a multi-party system and the election system no disadvantage for the voter. So the smaller parties of the center and and the extrem left and right get more votes among them the Greens who are currently even the largest party according to polls. Strange things. Germany never had a Green Majority or as Green Channcelor. And even not a Social-Democrat for a longer while. And neighter the Conservatives nor the ring-wing nor external parties like the Russians (Gas/North Steam 2) see kindly to that and probably try to prevent that if they can so I expect more misinformation and political smearing and potentially even again influence from Russia like in 2017. I'm pretty sure those protests and ring-wing movments are fueled from the outside to try to get into government and to somehow get a way to the leadership of the EU in order to weaken it, corrupt it from the inside and take it down if possible. There are a lot of tax-avoider, money-laundrer, billionaires, financial market people who want less regulations, shady bussiness people who have a major issue with the EU interfereing in their affairs and Germany is one of the top members, co-founder and a strong engine for the EU.
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  2421. * You cannot convince them with facts or reason. Don't even try, it's making it worse. * You may be able to connect with emotions but only if they really like or even love you. Show them how you worry for them, how their position is affecting you emotionally. And what might happen to your relation with them when this continues. * If can try to cut off those people from political media for 10 to 14 days ... everything. Maybe a shared holiday or a deal with them (if you shut off your phone and computer for 2 weeks I will xyz) or something. But they need a break and come down from their angry level and eventually even addiction to news and anger which media especially Fox and Co is maintaining. Eventually their anger-level subside enough so that their reasoning sets in again and you can talk with them ... carefully. In best case they reflect and look back and start feeling shame for before. * I don't recommend it, but if you really want to talk to them based on facts, reasoning and logic than don't push it. Explain to them how you got to your personal opinion you now have. Explain/Show/Demonstrate how and from where you got your opinion so they can check this and go the same way if they want. Don't force anything on them, they must come to the conclusion on their own. So make it easier for them to find their way but don't push them or force them or even present them only with the final conclusion without the way there or this fails and may push them even further away because they think you want to manipulate them.
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  2440. Communism for Dummies: "When the means of production are owned by the people" Simpler: Noone owns any companies or farms or factories all belong to the people. All profits are shared by the people but also all costs. Most are surprised about this core principle of communism. Doesn't sound so bad after all does it? But of course there are some issues coming with trying to apply this principle in real world, mostly bad management, inefficiency, motivation, corruption like in each company even under capitalism. But the principle sounds not so bad. The main problem of communism is proper management because you need not only to manage a single company but a whole country. And I recently thought if AI may help out here. AI is good at optimizing. It works on principle, cannot be corrupted and is not selfish or greedy. What it does not mean: - You still need to work. No free-bees not even in communism. - You still get a wage, but you also get a bigger share of the revenue/profits or the products are simply cheaper. - You still need to buy things as usual everywhere but the prices are set by the central management and eventually by supply/demand. What it does mean: - All core services of society: Water/Power/Communication/Waste Disposal are cheaper because there is no middle-man/stockholder anymore and the company prioritize service over profit and cost-coverage over profit and apply proper maintenance, top-tech and low-maintenance and so on. - Healthcare is cheaper, because there is no middle-man anymore and no stockholders. - Housing the same, all is rent, but much cheaper because your rent is used to build more houses. - The list goes on and on. But the main problem is controlling all this smoothly. Hence my idea with AI.
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  2807.  @nmckeown101  Well for one the service will not completly free there will be some kind of small fee, but more importantly the deposited money is available for the postal service to use. There is one large issue. Republicans tried to bankrupt the postal service for decades so they can sell this otherwise lucrative service for themselves or to private companies. (The owner of the postal services is the United States). The Republicans made a law which forced the postal service to make pension funds for I think 13 years in advance more than any other company. It created large money issues and make the postal service appear being in loss although all the money one of the largest pension funds in the country is just uselessly sitting around somewhere. That's also why the Republicans tried to undermine the service quality somehow. To have more reasons to sell it or privatize it. Since there is already a super-large mountain of money if this money is combined and used as a bank gives security and a use for this fund and the deposits the customers place in the bank. This fund is like a guarantee for customers that they don't lose their money if anything happens. For reference. In 2008 the banking crisis almost lead to bankcrypties of multiple banks. This means all people with deposits lose whatever is in the accounts. A catastophe normally for customers. And the federal treasury jumped in bailed out the banks. But it was extremly costly for everyone and the cheaters made a fortune while the tax payers payed the damage. A large fund like the postal service pension fund is like a guarantee that your money is not lost even on a banking crisis, which is really good and gives use to this mountain of money noone uses. This is actually something the EU introduced to it's bank. In the EU every bank is mandated to insure 100.000€ from every account meaning even if the bank goes bust you will get guaranteed this amount of money back. Whoever this person was who had the idea earned a reward it's an excellent idea to turn a disadvantage into an advantage and increase financial safety. Especially since some companies currently working on the next financial crisis see housing crisis. It already starts again like in 2007/8.
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  3013. US citizens trust in government is the least among all modern democracies I noticed of all major modern democracies the US has the least trust on the government. People in the US always assume the worst motives from the government. That's why they want to keep their guns, that's why they mistrust any actions concering the wider public even if it's in order to protect people from a pandemic or other threats and that's why they want the government to be small and not involving ("regulating"). In other countries this is totally different. Scandinavia, Taiwan, South-Korea, Japan, Lituania and Germany for example show an implicit trust to what the government is asking the citizens to do. And sometimes this mean even things people may not like but which are necessary. Sure this also has cultural reasons and for sure historical background but the baseline is, the better the government the more trusted it is. And here is where I come back to the US. Because US Citizens have more than enough reason to mistrust the government in the US. They give them constantly reason for this, especially during Republicans presidencies. There is corruption, greed and opportunism in all areas. Member of Congress seem to vote differently than what they say and actually vote even against the public interest. Add to this Insider trade, Bribery ... I mean "Donations" and in-party fighting. And the country is stagnating in the status quo of corporate exploitating not matter of Democrats or Republicans are in power and hardly anything ever changes. So this becomes a self-sustaining cycle. Bad Government -> No Trust -> Less Government -> Even worse government rinse and repeat.
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  3398. Let's assume for a moment they are right about the conspiracy theory. They voting Republicans to "deal with it" whatever this might entail removing the Democrats, Biden, etc. Ending American Democracy to establish a one-party state and appoint a leader or maybe I should say "Fuehrer" who appoints himself for lifetime, stays above the law and is accountable to noone and gives his leadership to his first born son. Let's assume for a moment the country does not change in the meanwhile and stays like it is (extremly unlikely!) but for the argument sake. All the current problems average American have are still there. Work is still terrible payed, you still not have worker rights, you still have unaffordable housing and rents, you still have unaffordable education, you still have unaffordable childcare, you still have terrible and outdated road, bridges, railway, unreliable, unclean and expensive water pipes and supply, etc. ... and please keep in mind only if this "revolution" does not have bad side-effects on all of this. So nothing changed in your normal life most likely it's even worse than it already is. But now you live in dicatorial one-party Tyranny. You cannot protest anymore, you cannot say your opinion freely anymore, Fox will probably be the only TV channel allowed, the internet will be firewalled and censored like it's in China to prevent the Truth coming out and to help making propaganda and lying even easier. And on the ballot ... assuming there are still elections ... you can only choose between a Republican and another Republican. The police can even be more brutal than it already is because the justice system is protecting them. You cannot even sue anyone anymore because the justice system is replaced by party sycophants and react only to money or party affiliation. Congrats. You created your own hell ... except for members of the Republican Party.
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  3443.  @juliefreeborn5906  I feel only pitty and compassion at this point. I'm studying and analyzing Brexit for a year now and I've seen all the things you written over and over again from Brexiteers, but there is not a shred of evidence to support them and as I said I'm looking for a year now. There is nothing in the treaties, not from either side of politicians it's just not there and you can't get any details which makes sense from Brexiteers. - The EU intends to integrate more, but noone wants it to become a nation or even a federalistic state. - The EU strongly fights corruption in the last 2 decades. The make all transparent, have even opened up the accounting and check and sign them, they discuss everything openly without any secrets. You can contact a ton of people if you want to know anything. They even introduce an ethics commission now checking everyone and everything for conflict of interest and corruption - completel unheared of even for governments in the EU. - The structure of the EU makes lobbyist's work extremly hard. Different languages, different countries, different cultures they are extremly hard to manipulate like that. ThinkTanks and Lobbyists need armies to Brussels to try to influence even the slightest thing ... while the UK has only one unelected buerocrate sitting in down st. and apparently is more important that the PM himself manipulated the political process in the UK for years now. - There are no provisions regarding the Lisbon Treaty as many Brexiteers said, Lisbon Treaty failed and is dead more or less. Nothing happens in 2021. - There is no EU army. There are plans for further cooperation to save costs, there are ideas about an army lookup at China, Russia, US and the problems of NATO. But nothing substancial and even if the UK could have Vetoed and stopped it, if necesarry on it's own. - Noone forced Schengen on the UK - Noone forced the Euro on the UK, but I want you to consider what it cost you. In 1970 1 Pound was 5 Dollars, in the 90'ties it was 3 Dollars, 2007 it was 1.99$ and one year later 1.45$. In 2019 it dropped to 1.26$ and this year is shortly gone down to 1.16$. If the UK would have addopted the Euro this trend could have been stopped and at the same time would have made the Euro much more stronger than it already is. - The GFA is very important for the EU. Why else did they denied every suggestion from the UK which would have undermined it. Why are there only 2 possibile solution for this. One has been voted down and another has been pushed through to rip it apart not even a year later. - The Problem the EU has with a border in NI is been discusssed since 2016. Everyone new what the EU had as condition for it and they never say anything else on it. It's not a negotiation strategy, it's a legal requirement and a humanitarian condition on behalf of the GFA. - The Border in NI would have to be build by the UK as well, this is a trade requirement even by WTO. The UK could be forced to leave the WTO because of that if there wouldn't be a border! The EU accepted only solutions for this which respected the GFA. It angers me, that you are so filled up with lies. I pity you for not seeing this. And I have a feeling the only thing which will remain later is endless regret for the rest of your life for betraying your parents ideals fighting in the war for peace in europe and for making the life for the next generations so difficult to solve problems which come from Westminister not from Brussels. You may hate me now for saying all this to you, because you don't believe me and you think I only want to lie to you. But ask yourself why: The battle between Remain and Leave is lost since December 2019. UK left the EU, the Tories are in power with their largest majority since the 2nd world war and the next election is 4 years away. What could I possibly have from this but wasting half an hour writing this for you. With a feeling of anger to the people who conned you, and pity for you because you believed them and allowed them to being manipulated in the way you have been. I wish you well mate. The UK choosen a very long and difficult path now with your help. I think it's needed to make some long long overdue changes to society. I don't envy you for what's coming because there were much easier ways. However when you are throught with it and solved a ton of problems with Westminister the EU will still be there and welcome you back. And then we can talk about the future. Sincierly, -Aaron
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  3468. Germany and other countries in Europe desperatly need Natural Gas to offset the 45% of Natural Gas imported from Russia. In order to make it reliable Europe build LNG (Liquid Natural Gas) terminals. In Germany alone are two terminals about to be finished just this year. This Bill is designed to sell Federal Land with Natural Gas deposits for cheap dollar so private industry can pick it up exploit it and sell it to Europe for currently 500% price over normal. Americans you are taken for fools! They take your property and the resources on it and almost give it away to Big Global Companies so they can enrich themselves and the policiticans who pass this law profit personally by soaring dividends from stocks of those companies they own and probably also getting donations for this actions. They steal from you! Keep the land. Sell leases for this land to industry as usual so the American People get some constant money from this. And important: Tax all Natural Gas imports with a Super-Tax like Norway does with Oil. In Norway all profits of oil (and gas) are taxed with 74%. This money can be used to pay for schools, universal healthcare, infrastructure projects, roads, bridges, trains and highspeed rail, clean renewable energy and other stuff you no longer need to pay for with your own taxes. Don't let them steals your riches for themselves! EDIT: And if you want to make it even more profitable for the American People. Don't sell or lease anything away. Place a nationalized company to exploit and sell the resources and keep all profits for the country so you can spare even more taxes.
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  3946. Things are moving rapidly and I have a feeling something will happen within with next 10 years. And here is my reasoning for this opinion: 1) Xi Jingping moved away from the path of liberalization and opening up to the west reaching it's high around 2010. Things radically changed in the last decade, especially in the last years. Nowadays ordinary foreigners can't even travel to China anymore and existing foreigners have to deal with raging nationalism and attempts to make them leave or even direct actions to deport them. 2) Xi Jingping now announced this phase of liberalization was a necessary phase to get economical power and with that military power but it's now time to return to the original strategy. And indeed since he took over the spending on surveillance, soft-power and propaganda and the military reached new records. However on this point it's hard to say if he wants this for internal or external pressure (See this channels other videos on this). 3) The Chinese government is trying to cut dependencies and external influences. Journalists are forced to leave, Foreign Teachers are pushed out, ruined or deported, Foreign Bussinesses are taken over or ruined and replaced by new government connected companies. 4) There are signs of a change in doctrine. Signs and billboards resembling sovjet-style propadanda appear all over China. The national media produce more propaganda than ever. And there is Xi Jingpings new book. He clearly wants to go back to Mao-times and actually replace Mao and create a new version of it with him as leader. And he will most likly use every means necessary to get it. The only problem, he is not as popular as Mao and lacks the charisma so he may try to make up with actions and results what he lacks in charisma and popularity. Additional signs of this doctrine change are the recent 100 year celebration of the party and it's messaging. No longer trying to appeal to the world to get attention and respect, but instead demanding respect by show of force and (alleged) supremecy. The Olympics in Japan also shows a desperate attempt to show supremecy, strength, pride on a level last seen during the Cold War with the Sovjet Union. 5) The internal pressure is rising. Numerous social, demograhical, cultural and especially economical problems internally last but not least by Covid (now forcing a 2nd extremly unpopular harsh lockdown because of Delta spreading) forcing the government to apply more propaganda, censorship, surveillance and oppression than ever before. 6) China is struck by terrible natural disasters recently and over the last years among them Floods, Typhons and Covid threatening the "Mandate of Heaven" a strong belief in Chinese culture reaching back to the emperors and which is very strongly believed in China. The Communist Party is trying to suppress every information about it but events on this scale stay not unnoticed. The internal pressures rises and may make the Party deciding to do desperate measures to divert attention, apply oppression or provide an alternative reason for existence and continuation e.g. by external actions in worst case by trying to attempt a military solution for something. And there is Hongkong. 7) Hongkong is lost and maybe the best example what happens when "The Chinese government takes over". The West could not do much regarding Hongkong without breaking international treaties and breaking their own rules, but they will actively oppose this example being repeated on Taiwan. Final Remark We are in an era with a new type of war between Autocracy and Democracy between Freedom and Suppression, between Free Will and Control, between the Truth and Lies. And the battlefronts are everywhere. In media, in politics, within countries, between countries, in and between people, races, communities even between family and friends nowadays. And China has some of the battlefronts as well and at the same time is a battlefront itself.
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  4125. I think the wrong questions are being asked here. The first and foremost question is: What are the people angry of? Angry at asians makes no sense. And not just because Asia is big and there are a lot of different cultures and countries there, even Russia is half on this continent. Someone told them they should be angry at asians, so their anger was redirected from something else by Republicans and Trump. Even this lawmaker here is activly trying to redirect the anger. But from what? Well probably Corona, Job-losses, low-wage, financial problems, housing problems, feeding problems, problems of society, their own problems in family, work, live I guess. They surely have enough a reason to be angry and being afraid and I don't blame them there are a ton of problems. And my theory is, the Republicans with the help of the right-wing media in form of Fox and Co is activly trying to steer and fuel the anger to 1) Avoid that the people eventually place the anger where most of their problems really coming from: Republicans and their Donors the so called Establishment (they make the rules, they were in power (still are in a lot of places)). 2) Angry people are less rational. They are easier to manipulate und seek ways to protect themselves and are willing to give up freedom for security and protection and would even be willing to vote the people who promise to protect them from that (Republicans). The people are being playing here by Republicans and the Right-Wing media. It's highly a-moral and manipulative what is really going on here. They playing on people's fears and exploit them and even artifically increase them.
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  4127. Has someone bothered to check red states for voter fraud? Do some of them using those machines and/or having issues? Narcissists are always projecting from themselves to others so maybe accidentally they told something they did themselves either in this election or in former ones. Under the line it doesn't change things. Elections in the US are controled by election-fraud not voter-fraud meaning: Marketing for the Republicans tells lies and lies and lies and lies DONE by the Republicans. Gerrymandering. The most important one. Meaning setting the constituancy boundaries in a way that all Democrats are optimally together in one or added in a way that they can never get a majority. DONE by the Republicans for almost 200 years now. The last time the operation was called "The Red Plan". Republicans collected millions of dollars from companies and promised them tax-cuts in return to pay for the largest puzzle the country has ever seen. Result: Some constituancies are so precise that single houses are included while others are not. 2nd result: In 2016 Trump lost the public vote by 3 mio people (meaning 3 mio voted him less than Clinton in 2016) and still got the presidency. But investing in Gerrymandering is worth every penny they use it for all other elections as well it's helping them staying in power. Disenfranchise people more likely voting Democrats and make voting in general hasslesome and only on request: Needing to register, needing Voter-ID, nedding Money to register/voter-ID, everything to make the entry level harder. DONE by the Republicans. Make vote-by-mail more difficult. Try to delay the send-in by removing mail sorting machine, remove personnell, slow down processing of mail to somehow make ballots come in after the last possible date. DONE by the Republicans. Ask Trump his puppet Louis Dejoy. Promising bussiness tax-friendly policy in exchange for "donations" after the scheme: Pay 1 mio now to save 10 mio later. DONE by the Republicans. To sum it up: Republicans stole elections and applied fraud ... all there is .. and Biden still won which shows how strongly Biden was actually voted. What I accuse the Democrats of is being ignorant about this and doing something against this injustice to make everything fair again.
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  4198. You just need to name "Defund the police" to show how terrible Democrats are. A 3-word slogan which need 3 paragraphs and a "but" to not be misunderstood. Ridiculous stupid decission it should never have been used. Republicans are very good at campaigning with more or less nothing. They either have no policies to work with or their policies are so terrible that everyone actually reading it will vote against it. Republicans also never talk about the past and about their achievements because there is nothing or it's so bad that it's better to not talk about it anymore. Nerver noticed, but Republicans always talk about tomorrow, they promise the world for you and the pot of gold is always behind the next hill at the end of the rainbow. But they never deliver it's a lie, an illusion. Republians also like to campaign on fear and anger. It's their most successfull strategy for elections. Make an enemy (trans, culture war, woke people) or exaggerate an existing enemy or prejudice (immigrants, "metropolitan elite", The Swamp, socialists/communists) and promise "to deal with it" and to protect voters from it. Do they ever? No ... or lets say they make it appear like that. Solving it means you cannot use it for the next election. Despite all those negatives and more or less nothing substantive (and real/truthful) to campaign on Republicans manage to get elected quite successfully by appealing to emotions, especially anger, hate and fear. They have a short direct language mostly short 3 word slogans people can remember and use even if they might not fully grasp the meaning. And the Democrats could learn a lesson or two. And this is the what Democrats need to change. Appeal to emotions. People like hope, passion, empathy more than hate, anger and fear. Point out achievements people liked or even loved. Keep reminding them of the good stuff. And use the policies you plan to introduce to work for you most of the policies the left suggested are liked even by Right-Wing voters.
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  4236. Ich beobachte nicht die deutsche Szene sondern die englische Szene, die schon etwas weiter ist, was den Einfluss von dieser Entwicklung auf das Leben aller im Land angeht insbesondere in Hinsicht auf Brexit, das nun negative Auswirkungen auf Jahrzehnte haben wird. Wie schlimm werden die nächsten Jahre zeigen, wenn abgeschlossener Brexit und Corona 2. Welle zur selben Zeit einschlagen ab Ende diesen Jahres, aber es sieht jetzt schon nicht mehr sehr gut aus und es wird täglich schlechter. Ich bin dort täglich unterwegs auf englischen Kanälen und spreche direkt mit beiden Seiten und versuche von den Leuten die Hintergründe zu erfahren und die Gedankensprünge die sie machen zu verstehen. Ich grüble seit nun fast 10 Monaten über dieses Problem über Ursachen und Gründe und mögliche Lösungen und fand heraus, das Hauptproblem und die Wurzel allen übels sind Unwahrheiten (=Lügen) oder auch fehlende Informationen was auf das selbe hinausläuft. Und das niemand der diese erschafft und verbreitet zur Rechenschaft gezogen wird. Freie Meinungsäusserung wird hier auf die Spitze getrieben ans andere Ende des Spektrums sodass es schädlich wird. Die Frage ist ob freie Meinungsäusserung auch Freiheit zu Lügen bedeutet. Ich habe dann noch etwas weiter nachgedacht es ist nämlich garnicht so einfach dieses Problem zu lösen ohne das Recht auf freie Meinungsrecht zu beschädigen. Meine Lösung dafür wäre die Schaffung eines neuen Grundrechtes: Das Recht auf Wahrheit Es wird nicht verhindern das Menschen lügen, aber es macht sie verantwortlich für die Folgen insbesondere wenn Vorsatz nachgewiesen werden kann. Es ist einfach, jeder kann es verstehen. Und jeder will es wollen, sogar die Anhänger der Verschwörungstheoretiker werden es wollen, denn Sie wollen sicher auch selbst die Wahrheit wissen wollen vielleicht ist ja was dran. Falls es eine Lüge war, sollte aber der oder die damit Angefangen haben zur Rechenschaft gezogen werden sollen egal auf welcher Seite sie stehen. Es löst auch ein riesiges juristisches Problem. Denn der einzige Weg ein Grundrecht anzufechten (Recht auf Freie Meinungsäusserung) wäre die Verletzung eines anderen Grundrechtes (Recht auf Wahrheit). Bis jetzt wäre das für mich die einfachst und eleganteste Lösung und es wird wirklich Zeit das wir das bekommen.
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  4246. About the Inflation Argument - The Stimulus checks are not new money pumped into the system. It's money the tax-payer payed into the system and are now just payed out again. See it as a payout from a long-term investment-plan. It's your money you get back nothing more, not new money which wasn't there before. The money payed out is also not available for the government to spend somewhere else. So the hole system has not become "havier" so to speak. And if it helps prevents that some people go hungry, ill, bankcrupt, homeless and preserves the status quo a little while longer it does more good than bad for the economy in the future. This is the very thing people tend to forget. The 400.000 excess deaths by Covid Trump could have been prevented will have opportunity costs for the US in the future. Those are people from all age groups now missing from the system. Humanists don't like it very much but it can't be denied that everyone of us is helping the GDP in one way or another. So yes you can place a value on every citizen how much every contributes to society at least on average. And this makes the economic damage of dead people calculateable. A sell for one is a purchase for another. And now 550.000 potential cpnsumers and workers are gone within 12 months. It WILL have an impact, especially if experts and high-qualified personel is among them. But even if not companies starting up again now need to find new suitable workers and it will disrupt chains and well oil machinery of economics to a degress and create costs. And the simulus helps to mitigate this loss somewhat.
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  4778.  @seemyeyesview9037  You are right sometimes new facts are discovered but politics is not Quantum Theory. But for the sake of this conversation stay on this: Scientsts found some facts / evidence in nature and started to think about it. They made a theory about how things work. But his is just an opinion. An opinion based on what was found on facts. If new facts come up and scientists detect a disrepency between their theorie (their opinion) and the new facts they check it and check it again and if the new facts turned out to be true ... they change the theory or in other words change their opinions. The same is happening in politics, economics, finance, doesn't matter it's always the same. Any theory (opinion) is acceptable until proven wrong by facts. This even has a name: It's called falsification and all scients work after this. Or should I say should work after this. And this method brought us this far. It's the reason for technology of the 21st century. And here is something burried you might overlook which is extremly important. In Science to change the accepted opinion you must disprove an existing theory/opinion. You can't prove your own theory simply because you of course want it to be true so you might "adjust" the prove (facts) in order to confirm your theory. Science discovered this problem and decided to instead say "everything is acceptable as long is it's not disproven". This solved a lot of problems with biasness. And it's also the reason why the middle age was running backwards (to the classic age). Because people just believed things often the things someone told them to believe. The Renaissance re-discovered this approach from the classical age and modern science and engineering was born.
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  4875. Ich beobachte nicht die deutsche Szene sondern die englische Szene, die schon etwas weiter ist, was den Einfluss von dieser Entwicklung auf das Leben aller im Land angeht insbesondere in Hinsicht auf Brexit, das nun Auswirkungen auf Jahrzehnte haben wird. Ich bin dort täglich unterwegs auf englischen Kanälen und spreche direkt mit beiden Seiten und versuche von den Leuten die Hintergründe zu erfahren und die Gedankensprünge die sie machen zu verstehen. Ich grüble seit nun fast 10 Monaten über dieses Problem über Ursachen und Gründe und mögliche Lösungen und fand heraus, das Hauptproblem und die Wurzel allen übels sind Unwahrheiten oder auch fehlende Informationen was auf das selbe hinausläuft. Und das niemand der diese erschafft und verbreitet zur Rechenschaft gezogen wird. Freie Meinungsäusserung wird hier auf die Spitze getrieben ans andere Ende des Spektrums sodass es schädlich wird. Die Frage ist ob freie Meinungsäusserung auch Freiheit zu Lügen bedeutet. Ich habe dann noch etwas weiter nachgedacht es ist nämlich garnicht so einfach dieses Problem zu lösen ohne das Recht auf freie Meinungsrecht zu beschädigen. Meine Lösung dafür wäre die Schaffung eines neuen Grundrechtes: Das Recht auf Wahrheit Es wird nicht verhindern das Menschen lügen, aber es macht sie verantwortlich für die Folgen insbesondere wenn Vorsatz nachgewiesen werden kann. Es ist einfach, jeder kann es verstehen. Und jeder wird es wollen, sogar die Anhänger der Verschwörungstheoretiker werden es wollen, denn sie wollen sicher auch selbst die Wahrheit wissen wollen vielleicht ist ja was dran. Falls es eine Lüge war, sollte aber der oder die damit angefangen haben zur Rechenschaft gezogen werden können sollen egal auf welcher Seite sie stehen. Es löst auch ein riesiges juristisches Problem. Denn der einzige Weg ein Grundrecht anzufechten (Recht auf Freie Meinungsäusserung) wäre die Verletzung eines anderen Grundrechtes (Recht auf Wahrheit). Bis jetzt wäre das für mich die einfachst und eleganteste Lösung und es wird wirklich Zeit das wir das bekommen.
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  5001. People have been told about a terrible thing in a box. They plastered the box with labels to stay away from it, to never dare open it and about dangers in it but noone actually know what's in it. Maybe "socialist" should first describe what they are aiming for. The goal, the world and ways how humans would live in it because noone actually knows this people have only been told it's awful but if you ask them about it they don't know. Having said that I'm not a friend of extreme socialism. I like some of it and society need some of it, but not all of it. Socialism as a system especially as a political system is not compatible with the human nature (not as much as Communism). Why repeating history? Look at Germany after WW2 meaning 40 years long until the iron curtain fell. East Germany tried real socialism as Marx and Engels postulated (not Communism like in the USSR) and West Germany sticked to social democracy. Germany until this day is trying to revert the mismanagement of those 40 years and although 30 years have passed there are still some things no yet normalized. Learn from it. Take the best things of market economy/capitalism and the best things of socialism and you get social market economy, the thing Germany is running now for 70 years and altough it's far from perfect it's much better than what the US having right now in some kind of elbow-society where your worth and living-standard is based on how good you can exploit others, hurt your rivals and lie to your benefit instead of truth, honesty, dialog, cooperation and consensus to work for the greater good.
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  5202. Why is 2024 removed from these speculations about potential invasions? - 2024 is the "Year of the Dragon" -- The west may not care and Mao removed all religions but some superstitions remained and some people in China might see it as a "good year". - The "Mandate of Heaven" comes into question which scares the hell out of the CCP -- Another superstitution China could not remove with the revolution. The numerous floods, drouts and storms in the last years and especially this year hitting even the heart of power in Bejing is making the CCP very uneasy. These "signs" usually indicate the end of a dynasty and the CCP is a dynasty of China just a modernized form. - Xi changed Chinas nature totally. Instead of young teenger trying to get acknowledge by the world they now prefer to challenge and potentially dominate it. Inward orientated, nationalistic, militaristic, self-sufficiant (if possible), xenophobe, propagandistic, communistic he wants to top Mao and may even want to replace him with himself in Chinese society. And invading Taiwan might just be the trick to surpass him. - The economic pressure on the CCP grows domestic and foreign. All economic indicators showing a significant downward trend and we and I think not even the CCP itself has reliable data on the true extend of the problem because local governments are too afraid to submit bad news. - It's bubbling below the surface of Chinese society. There are single outbreaks of dissent and even protests unheared of before. Rarly noticed and highly suppressed but some leak through. And the frequency is rising. The central government needs more and more resources to keep it under control. A common goal in form of a war might be a measure of a desperate man trying to unite the people to ensure loyalty and to prevent to be replaced. Xi removed all potential rivals and acts one the slightest signs of illoyalty. - 2024 is an election year in the US. Always a time of instability especially after Jan-06 and Trump still around. The division in the country created a slight instability. And there is a ton of misinformation about loyalties of each candidate to China making Americans question the motives of their leaders regarding China. I'd say hope for the best but prepare for the worst. If humanity indeed tries a war based on nuclear weapons we are either back in the stoneage a shadow of what we are today or our path as a species ends here.
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  5355. The Supreme Court had from the beginning one judge for every judiciary district in the United States. It started with 6 districts and because new districts were added extended to 7 than 8 and finally 9. Than this practice was suspended. Today there are 14 districts. So extending the Supreme Court to 13 is not unjustified and not unconstitutional and make even sense. The Republicans brought this upon themselves how they delayed appointments for over a year and than fast-tracked a judge while a new government was voted. In addition to that younger and younger judges were added which is insane in view of the fact that they are appointed for life. Now they "blocking" seat for 50 years and more. The Republicans exploited the system in the last 50 years to their advantage and they are the ones using it to get rid of anything they cannot change themselves in Congress. The Supreme Court is supposed to be a watchdog for the constitution and to keep the executive and legislation in check not part of Legislation itself. It's time the rules for the Supreme Court are written down in stone to clearly define the rules. Rules which should be fair for everyone and rules which ensure the neutrality of this institution. If you need a template have a look at the German "Bundesverfassungsgericht" it's a very good template because Germany is also a Federal Republic and because Germany changed the rules to ensure Facism never happens again in Germany and this Court is ensuring this amongst other things.
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  5455.  @stocko5448  They don't want to be hold in Hotels like in a prison forbidden to work, forbidden to start an existence only because the UK government take 5 years to process their asylum application ... not 3 months like it is in other countries. And other countries allow asylum seeker to work for their living while the UK immediatly makes them illegal if they do that. And the reason why they are in hotels is because the UK government privatized the housing for asylum seekers during Covid so some poor Tory donors who have Hotels but no Tourists have income. Other countries have dedicated facilities where asylum seekers can live until they earn enough money to pay for living themselves. But in the UK they can't they are forced to live in the Hotel which is assigned to them. They are forbidden to work, they are forbidden to look for housing until their application is processed. About what are you more angry, that they are live in a hotel. That they are housed there for free even if it is more or less a prison for them? That the government is forced to help them financially but not you? That the government is wasting money because they no build facilities for this or just process applications quicker so that they can work and pay for their living? Do you really think that even if they put asylum seekers into prisons while they waiting for the government to decide that your life somehow would get better by THIS government? I am sorry that you have some problems that you don't like what Britain has become, but if you want to see improvements you need to look up not down or to the side.
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  5507. There is a fix to this situation. A fix which does not require years of education or even starting from scratch. But it's currently impossible to implement because "the well is still poisoned every day". The solution is to stop the lies or better to implement more protections for the Truth in our society. Even people with low education can make good decissions when they are only confronted with truths. Best example for this are court cases as jury. The people listening all day to truthfull statements (mostly). It's enough so even their limited critical thinking is able to make good decissions. But as long as people lie without anyone pointing it out, as long as political opinion channels like Fox, Newsmax and OAN poisining the environment with lies there is only a little chance of this fixing itself. Mostly in cases when those channels go too far and people realize something is off. What we actually would need is some kind of guarantee that we are not being lied to and that people who do lie are responsible for the use and all consequences. Sadly at the moment this only happens when someone has a financial disadvantage through lies. We call this defamation. But we would actually need something better, something more general, something a little like in courts where intendly lying can bring you in serious jeopardy. And it would need something which is limiting Freedom of Speech. And since the only rights which can limit other human rights like Freedom of Speech have to be human rights as well my suggestion would be to implement a new human right a "Right for Truth" alongside "Freedom of Speech". Legally it creates a basis, a framework to make liars responsible for their lies. It will not end lying, but people who do better have a good explanation why and are in any case responsible for their lies.
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  5598. Careful. This is tested in the UK for half a year now. Something new from the right-wing. It's called "saying Heads and Tails". The source is saying both things shortly after each other. It creates chaos and undermines trust. It's much more destructable than it seems. On first view it's harmless because 50% of the time they say what you think, but on second view it leaves the viewer more unsure than ever before and forces them to trust nothing and noone. And the source can later say: "It wasn't them" (because they said both) or they say "We were right" (50% of the time). It's a way to be right if it's a success and escape responsibility if it goes wrong at the same time. It's the material to destabilize a country even faster than always lying. Not only incites this heated discussions between viewers about what is true and what is not, the chaos also makes people less confident and unsure of themselves and humans starts to trust only themselves and their own potentially distorted views and beliefs in those cases (Humans prefer a comfortable and/or exciting lie over hard or boring truth). The only known remedies are critical thinking skills, self-confidence and truth and all 3 are treated badly in the US for decades. In this case it may also be designed to encourage Trumpists to go even deeper into social media to potentially reach even more problematic channels than before. Don't think for a second this is accidental. The channel owner holding the reigns at all times. For Trumpists this is also playing with fire. Because they not only destabilize moderate people with not enough critical thinking skills, but they also destabilize themselves with this potentially to a point of no return even for them.
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  5628. There was once a guy in a prison who thought about this: "How could people become like that." And he was executed shortly after for conspiring to assassinate Hitler. But managed to smuggle out his notes. His name was Dietrich Bonhoeffer he called it the "Theory of Stupidity" You cannot reach people like that with facts, reasoning or logic. They think on emotions alone thats why even otherwise intelligent people can be like that. Arguing with them can even make it worse and they might include you as part of the conspiracy. You may reach those people on the emotional level if you have a strong connection to them and they realize how their behaviour is hurting you. But this only works when the connection to you is more important to them than the topic of debate. And even if you manage to reach them emotionally than ask them only to suspend political news and commentary for 2 weeks or more. Maybe a vacation or holiday with no internet or newspapers and TV, or a deal in which they let it go just for this time. The idea is to cool them down from the anger and hate and break the addiction to news and even to anger. If you think they are somewhat reachable sit down with them and explain how it comes that you think as you do, where you got your information from and how but leave them otherwise alone and not force anything. Do not talk about their opinion and do not argue about their opinion just your own. Let them come to their own conclusions. And react only if they come to you and ask questions that's a sign that they are willing to listen. This is my personal strategy on this assembled over a couple years. I'm not an expert.
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  5746.  @fraudbuster1456  There are two sides of this and both can be true. And here is even an extra angle. Tariffs are payed by the importer is still true. The additional costs will be included into the price of the product so it is more expensive. Higher price usually means less demand or people look for a cheaper alternative if they really need this. This in turn can make non-imported goods more attractive but only if they really are cheaper. Some companies also increase their price to almost imported prices to simply get more money for the same. This effects the American consumer either way. Now if the demand goes down this effects the foreign exporter. This is why the exporting country will look for goods which are exported by the US and put retaliatory tarrifs on them. And yes these would have to be payed by the foreign customers and put pressure on demand / the US exporter. This however is not effecting the US customer but the US producer / employees / companies. This is called a trade-war. And trade-wars have no winners everybody loses. Now some countries are really cunning with this and put tarrifs only on products which effects only bussinesses of certain politicians who supporting or created the original tariff in the first place. Making sure his voters will be very unhappy and potentially prevent his reelection. And who may impact his personal finances e.g. because he is stockholder or the company is a donor. And finally. There are import/export bans possible. Meaning you cannot even trade the goods affected ... not even for a higher price. This is what Canada is threatening to just cut the power or prevent the export of oil to the US.
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  5807. Richard I wished you'd apply a little more nuance to the TikTok issue. Yes I agree with you ... some want to get rid of it because it has become a big social media plattform. But at the same time there is clear plentiful evidence of bias and involvement in favor of the chinese government party. Algorithms are manipulated to push certain content hurting America and stoking doubts, mistrust and misinformation. Pro-China content is pushed, Anti-China is suppressed, Anti-America content is pushed. They admitted to have spied on western journalists with the app. There is plenty of evidence of stolen private data and the app is taking control of your whole phone creating a potential security risk. In China exist no company without party members on the board. Companies are by law forced to give the chinese government everything it asks for. And the order was to sell it not to ban it. A ban only happens when they not sell it. And the chinese government is refusing to allow ByteDance to sell it. They sooner want it gone than lose it to western owners. People are worried that this plattform will be controled by the US government? How about the risk of being controled by an american adversary? Just the fact that the Chinese government is protesting the ordered sell tells you everything you need to know. Why do they want to prevent it when they have nothing to do with it? Another fact: TikTok is banned in China. They want the content to be seen by Americans, but not by their own citizens.
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  5976. He is not telling the hole truth. Just about Voter-ID which is for some reason after 50 years a problem (or should I say after GA voted blue for the first time in 50 years). Lets talk about the decrement of drop-boxes. They changed it to one box for 100.000 people in a county meaning dense areas getting only one box for all citizens in the area and small towns (mostly Republican voters still have their one box for the 1000 people voting there). Or lets talk about the voting-day. Not being Sunday or a holiday. And the opening times closing on or before end of day-worktime. Or that Republicans can actually now decide partisan what ballots can be thrown out. And the Voting-ID? Is it free for poor people? Do you need ID to get VoteID ... probably. So they actually made it even harder to get registered. Than what about the rules about throwing out people from the registry without telling them about it? Or the rule to not be able to count the mailin ballots before election day, so the final result is available on election day. A law multiple states voted against ... and after the election complained why it took so long, where the "Dumps" of mailin ballots suddenly came from. Or lets talk about the number of election offices. Reduced in Democrat area so, which happend to be densly populated and thefore longer queues starts to build up .... increases waiting times and creating problems with foot, water and so on. It simply needs more voting offices in dense areas. But no ... do everything to make voting in those areas as unpleasant and potentially dangerous for health as possible. I mean this guy is Republican, he is losing his job next year if don't changes something. Of course they fight with all means to stay.
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  6016. There are only two options here: 1) Continue as it was. Meaning McConnel only passes what his donors want to pass. Meaning tax-cuts for the rich, deregulations of banks, finances, industry, dismantling of consumer rights and protections and worker rights and protections in order to maximize his donors profits. And of course no 15$ minimum wage. So the same which happened for 70 years now in the US and which is holding the US back from getting better. 2) Getting rid of the Filibuster or at least restrict it make it painful for lawmaker who use it to delay or block new laws and changes to existing laws. McConnel lose his only weapon his only power, the power of blocking and delaying. I think the decission is simple. The only reason why he is threatening now is because the Democrats are about to put him back to his place amongst the mortal. His current behaviour was showing he as a single senator of 2 senators from one single state in the US ... was able to stall the hole country and brought only problems and misery in his 50 years in politics. And he is not the only Republican Senator doing that. It shows the hole system of lawmaking in the US is seriously flawed. No wonder the people getting angry at politicians that "nothing gets done" with people like McConnel working as a roadblock with more influence than the House, more than the President even. Put him back where he belongs as 1 of 2 senators of 1 state from the US ... and not even the one with the largest population nothing more nothing less. The Senate should only confirm and Review what the House is doing but they currently have more power than anybody else in the US including the president.
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  6175. The funny thing about this that China is more or less forced to fast track through the progressions America and maybe more Europe took for decades if not centuries and now more or less arrived in the 1930'ties the time between Boom and Political Instability to the inside and outside. It's like there is a universal building plan or a universal rule set human civilizations have to go throught. Chinas government wants to skips some things in order to stay in sweet spot but reality and laws of development don't want to cooperate and starting to taking it's toll to keep up this resistence to change. And the longer this resistence to change keeps up the more costly, more difficult and more dangerous the upholding against this force is. Like staying in a stream of cold water. The Chinese government now becomes afraid of this change which would provide it's own citizens with more Freedom, more openness to the world, more cooperation and exchange and potentially even Democracy just out of need to continue to operate. And so the fight between upholding the status quo of power and the need to open up society and change to more reasonable and more sustainable politics and economies create a ever increasing tension-field. How the end result would look like? Simple just look at Taiwan. It shows how China could be like one of the best countries in Asia. Open, Free, Friendly, polite, modern and old at the same time. If China would be like Tawain China would really rule the world but as a positive and also a benefit for the rest of the world.
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  6190. A coup is when you try to jump the line to get power. There are multiple ways to "jump the line". Trump and his Co-Conspirators had a series of plans: Pre-Certification 1.1) "Either I win or it's fake" 1.2a) Stop the count during the counting when your numbers look better 1.2b) Stop the steal / pretend the vote is stolen when your numbers look worse / "The Dumps" 1.3) Discredit the election / Pretend fraud / Try to use the justice system to stay in power But this didn't worked out or perhaps they already assumed this would not work. So Plan 2 was started. 2.1) Pence refuse to certify the election results / The electors go back to the states so they can be replaced 2.2) The Fake electors give Trump the votes although Biden has won 2.3) The Electoral College and Congress announce Trump has won But since Pence did not cooperate with 2.1 they had to change it. 3.1) Some GOP controlled purple States force a vote in Congress to prolong the certifications 3.2) In the meantime the mob was aggravated and send to the Capitol to stop the certification by violence 3.3) The certification is delayed and the electors go back to the states to be replaced The rest is as 2.2 and 2.3 But the plan failed due to 2.1 and because 3.1 did not stop the certification. It was completed on the same day and Biden was officialy president. Trumps courtcases are not because of Plan 1 or his opinion about the election but about Plan 2 and Plan 3. And a coup does need to be successfull to be a coup. There are tons of failed coups. Hitler had a failed coup and was sentenced to prison. He took over Germany after release after a 2nd coup succeeded. The core issue is: Trump tried to stay in power by ignoring the election results and try to overturn the will of the American people. This is why he is now facing trial. In a normal democracy this would be seen as treason but America is not even willing to call it an insurrection because the GOP/Establishment did it. And Insurrection is much harder punished then misdemeanor.
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  6349. "You can only have more if others have less." ... please please let's have debate about that, because this is one of the core misconcepts in American economy and it's used to justify another concept they not want to talk about called "Keep them Poor." If you are interested keep reading otherwise thanks for reading this far. Let's simplify this a little. Let's imagine all of the wealth available would be a cake. In this analogy it's a question of how large your piece of the cake is and how to make the one of others smaller. Eventually the piece of the others is so small that you cannot make it smaller so you start looking for new cake and conquer neighbouring countries to take their cake. Humans done that for 12,000 years. Stealing cake from your neighbours and try to make your piece larger. Result: Crusades, Wars, Deaths, Poverty, Epidemics ... for centuries. Than we did reach the 20th century and things changed. Humans began to debate on how to cut the cake. Capitalism, Communism, Socialism, Marxism, etc. but all of these models basically worked on the same assumption: How can you make your piece larger and who gets what. And who is allowed to hold the knife. But something else happened at the same time. The cake got larger over time. If it were otherwise we would still live in caves and fight over how much meat you get. Human developments. Technological developments and more humans. Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, Medicin, Fertilizer, etc. The cake got larger and larger over time and everyone got a little more and the overall living standard got better. Although the stuff above still happened and once in a while ruined everything. Some clever people saw this debakle in the 20th century and before and thought: Well the world is divided up now, no empty spots. We cannot continue with the "make cake larger by conquering your neighbour strategy" or "try to make your neighbours piece smaller". And did come up with a new solution called "Egoistic Altruism" in short - make the cake bigger faster and make more cake. And the EU build on the ruins of two world wars looked for something to prevent a 3rd and picked up "Egoistic Altruism" as their core principle: Stop with taking someone elses cake and instead just make the cake larger ... and more cakes. This is why the EU seen an unprecedented growth in 60 years to the largest and richest market on the planet ... without trying to take someone elses cake. The goal of the EU is to avoid conflict by economical interdependency and by growing the own market with regional development = Making the the cake larger for everyone a little more. And it works and it's the only sustainable model without relying on military and conquest. I know it was long. But I think this is very important especially if I look at Putin trying to do the old thing with taking someone elses cakes again ... same as China who wants to take Taiwans cake. Unfortunatly America still not have learned this lesson and uses very eloborate ways to still steal other peoples cake instead of trying the make the cake bigger! Please pick up some lessons from the EU it's the only way to coexist peacefully AND grow. Thanks for reading. EDIT: There is also a fantastic short 10 min video about the concept of "Egoistic Altruism" from "Kurzgesagt" I highly recommend ... if you don't mind the animated format.
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  6397. Legally the UK could start negotiating trade deals since invoking article 50 in March 2017 and had there were some meeting with the US in that time. But 2 years long Northern Ireland was like a big roadblock. Leavers underestimated that this british problem would be making such a big issue but noone cared to look before. The 2nd problem was, was everybody wanted a different form of Brexit. With Single Market, without it, with Customs Union, Switzerland, Norway, Canada, No Deal, there were soo many variations and for 2 years the Leave groups sabotaged each other to get what they wanted. Johnson for example voted 2 times against a deal. The 3rd problem was that Free Trade with the EU and Free Trade with the US at the same time is not possible because of different standards. And the Vote-Leave people want an US trade, while others don't wanted to lose 51% imports and 43% exports with the EU. The 4th issue is, that the UK could not start to talk about trade before the Withdrawal of the UK was completed. Because the Withdrawal Agreement set on which date the UK stopped being a member, if the UK would stay in the Single Market and Customs Union or not, if there is a transition period or not and how long and the 1st problem with NI was solved in this. So the actual trade deal talks with the EU started this year. And because of problem 3 nothing is currently moving. The Johnson Vote Leave government don't want a Free Trade Deal with the EU because it would made a Free Trade Deal with the US impossible.
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  6447. What we see here is called "Devotion". You can describe it as unconditional and blind following. It overwrites reasoning and logic and makes you only want to get attention from that person by any means necessary so you do almost everything for this person even if its damaging or dangerous for yourself, even the personal life is sometimes offered as you can see in religious motivated attacks. In my opinion the only way to sever this connection is to somehow show the victim that it never will get any attention so the person loses interest. But with reasoning, facts/truth you have no chances to convince those people. You might even make it worse because the person thinks you want to remove the chance for attention by your interference. You might be able to do something on the emotional level but this only works when you have a strong emotional connection to this person or the person to you. And the victim is not willing to sever your connection for the connection with the devoted person. Alternatively you can remove the person who is devoted. Turn off social media, TV. Go to holidays for 10 days or more. Twitter removing Trump in that regard was extremly helpful because people tried to get attention via Twitter and Trump kept the connection alive via Twitter. That's why for Trump the Rallys were extremly important to hold and constantly being on the mainstream media with "bad news" or "outrage" was also helpful for him, as well as Twitter of course. That is how Trump managed to maintain the hold over people and even expanded it. It's ironic, but by reporting news about Trumps newest mistakes, behaviour and whatever the mainstream news actually helped him without realizing. There is a saying: People who desperatly seek attention are best be ignored.
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  6484. Boris Johnson did the same last december to get elected in the UK. Although he is a Tory (Conservative) and the Tories are more than 10 years in government already they gave the electoral the impression "He is the new thing" and not in government although he was even before the election. And I also have to warn you: It works a lot of voters fall for it. The best thing you can do is: Point out the lies. As often as you possibly can. People must realize that they are beeing manipulated and being lied to. And try to appear as impartial as you can, if you appear too partisan those voters will see it as a football match and even accept and like being lied to because it's "their side/team" of the football match doing the lying. It's a real thing at some point they don't see it as a lie to them, but as a lie to the other side as strategy and they start liking that your side get enraged about it and overlook they are being lied to as well. Lookup "Footballification" and "People like being lied to". As someone analysing the psychological reasons for Brexit for a year now I can see it all the way through the Brexit referendum of 2016. And I have another recommendation for you: Work with emotions not with reasoning on Republicans. You cannot reach them the more you try to convince them with arguments the more you lose them especially since they cannot win on arguments because they are based on lies and they are almost always not able to argue adequatly and will only block up at some point. But on the emotional level you can still reach Republicans. Trust me, Brexit teached me a lot on this.
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  6558. Regarding the problem with unemployment. What America is experiencing are the negatives sides of unregulated free trade something the Republicans are very fond of because it creates them extreme gains by cheaply buying/producing outside the US and selling expensive in the US. And it's destroying jobs and the wired thing is the people buying those products in the US are indirectly financing the end of their jobs in the long term. This issue was early recognized by the EU that's why they changed their strategy. They allow extrem free even seamless trade without any tariffs or controls within their trade zone (The Single Market) with strong regulation forcing everyone to apply the to the same rules (The Level Playingfield) pushing for fair competition in the market but allow no cheating by importing cheap goods without the same regulation from the outside. And it's a sucess modell. For a lot of companies producing in the EU cost the same as producing outside (because of high tariffs) so they consider staying in the market and benefit from close/timely transprots and create jobs there and instead try to reduce costs and increase efficiencies. This helps conserving jobs to a degree. The downside. Every outside trade deal especially the free ones must carefully be negotiatiaed to not offset this balance. What I would suggest President Biden is taking one or two pages from the EU's experience with it introduce the same and arrange a Free Trade deal with the EU under those conditions. It will create the strongest and largest market on the planet and will be a new economic engine for the hole planet. The downside for the US: It must learn to introduce and live with customer protection, worker protections and worker rights, environmental protections, fair taxation and more consumer protection and regulation on the financial market to prevent new fiancial crisis like in 2008. The most difficult lesson for the US will be to learn, that not all can be let run free without sideeffects and sometimes a strong state is needed especially in areas which are or should be Non-Profit or base-needs like water, power, communication, transport (bus/rail/local transport), mail/postal, healthcare and education (schools AND universities).
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  6674. Hatred is the out-of-control version of anger. You should be aware of some properties of angers which helps you understand why it's kept alive and pushed so much in America. Anger is focused - Meaning anger is so strong that you can focus it only one target at any given time usually the last thing you were angry at and it also means when you are angry at something or someone the anger from other sources is focused on the same target. Humans have a hard time limiting anger - As mentioned already anger is focused and you tend to put all your anger on one target usually the last you were angry at. And humans tend to push all anger into the current target in other words you are more angry than justified which you probably experienced already either yourself or from someone. Anger can be directed - Because of the two above points anger can be directed or redirected. Meaning when someone is giving you a new target for the anger you are busy with that for a while. And your anger for the former target is moved to this new target. This is used by some media. They giving you a new target for your anger to move the anger away from perhaps more deserving targets. Anger and hatred can be addictive - Both are primal emotions they usually come with adrenalin and other hormones. You can become addicted to this. It also means the longer you have it the less likely you want to let go of it. And when you do it is like a bad hangover. This is how right-wing media works. To keep the anger alive and increase it if possible. And to give you new targets for your existing anger and away from the true source/reason of your anger to something they want you to be angry with.
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  6791. The simple difference between Facts (which News should be alone) and Opinion is not known to most. They don't know there is a fine but extremly important difference. 1) One is fact or reality what happened or what is - the truth for a better word - and there is only one version of it all other variations are misinformation or lies if you prefer. Informations which are not truthful or also contain "views" (see next paragraph) which were either keept secret, changed or only partial given or worse completly made up. THIS IS FREEDOM OF INFORMATION. Getting the full, unchanged, honest information without changes, additions or omissions. 2) The other is a view on those facts, an interpretation, an opinion on those facts and how to proceed from there, what to do next, how to react to it or an evaluation how bad/good this is. There is only one version of facts out there, but everyone of us can have his or her own view on this or even multiple views. And linked to this is FREEDOM OF OPINION. That noone can force their opinion on you. FREEDOM OF SPEECH. also guarantees you that you can say your opinion without getting punishment for it. But this is NOT giving you the rigth to lie or manipulate about the facts (see first paragraph). What's important here is: If you disagree with the opinion of someone else, it's a disagreement, not a lie. And since everyone is free to have his or her own opinion you can only try to argue/convince them otherwise. But lying has nothing to do with it (unless the person actually lies about the facts). And channels like Fox or Newsmax who call themselves "News"-Channels are actually Opinion-Channels. And they don't want you to know this fine difference. They want you to think both is the same and with that ... that the facts have different versions which is never the case. And to make you attack everyone who disagrees with your opinion by making you feel attacked on the facts. They want to have THEIR version of the facts ... so you get an opinion/view to THEIR liking. This is the great manipulation. And why do we know this? Well because channels like Fox have argued before courts with this excuse. They actually admitting before a judge, that they are only giving opinions (#2) not facts (#1) ... but they call it "News". Legally this get them off any kind of repercussions because well Freedom of Opinion. See how this connects now. If people don't see the difference the "News"-channels and people like Tucker Carlson got away scot free because they tell you their opinion (#2) and you think it's facts (#1). Another problem is: There are a lot of rights for opinions (#2) but there are no strong protections for facts/the truth (#1). There is no punishment for lying (besides lying to courts), there is not even a right for truth. The only point when courts make a ruling on this is when someone has a financial damage from a lie, or another disadvantage or any of the other rights is hurt. But the truth has very little protection. And I think it desperatly needs some. My suggestion is introduce a new human right: The Right for Truth Giving all people a right to know the truth and make all people responsible for the lies they tell if they lie (because they hurt the rights of other people). And with the status as human right, it can limit and override the Freedom of Speech meaning you can have any opinion you want, but you have no right to lie to others. If you do you are fully responsible for the consequences.
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  7068.  @mrhakz330  Biden did take care of Covid. The US is now the Top 1 in vaccination on the hole planet. And while Trump vaccinated only a couple 100k people Biden now reaches 3 mio per day. Biden promised to vaccinate 100 mio people by June. He reached this already in April and now promising 200 mio by June. He not only delivered but overdelivered and now promise even twice as much. Biden promised financial help for people. Biden delivered 1400$ for more than 90% of US citizens. Not quite 2000$ but you can thank the Republicans and DINOs for that. They threatened to block the bill (and in the end still tried). Biden promised financial help for small bussinesses like Restaurants, Cafés, Pubs, Cinemas, Theaters basically all who suffer the most under Covid. He delivered it. Biden promised financial help for schools so they can stay open and be made safely for teachers and children. He delivered it. Biden promised help for child poverty. He delivered it. Or more precise is currently delivering. And all this without help from the Republians who even tried to prevent the hole package. AND NOT ONE REPUBLICAN voted for the bill. The Democrats needed to do this alone with Budget Reconciliation. And now Republican States are so blind, so ignorant and learned absolutly nothing in the last 12 months and open up too quickly and too prematurely. Result: The numbers stopped going down despite extended vaccination. The only thing which keep Corona in check is that Biden is vaccinating like crazy or the number would be exploding again. Biden did in 6 weeks more than Trump in 4 years. Cancer? For over 50 years humanity looked for a cure and a politician should find it? Biden never promised or even hinten to promise he would cure cancer (for that he would earn the nobel price for medicine). What scientists say is that the innovative new technique used by Biden/Pfizer (mRNA) might bring progress and new possibilites for healing cancer. But noone ever promised anything.
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  7234.  @pistolwhipped7714  Even the president of the United States is not allowed to take documents with the letter SCI (Sensitive Compartmented Information) out of the secure and guarded locations they are in ... but Trump did. The FBI investigated Hillary under an FBI Director appointed by Trump. He has found nothing or nothing serious enough to indict her. If it were otherwise we would long hear from it under Trumps presidency. He would love having any dirt on her and bringing her to court but apparently they had nothing. On the other hand we don't need an investigation on Trump. Just taking SCI documents is a felony and we have a photo with these documents everyone seen it already on Trump's carpet - Evidence Picture 2A. In addition to that: Trump sworn an oath in May that he had "no more documents" when he returned 15 boxes. But the FBI found more ... much more (see Evidence Picture 2A and the reports coming out). Trump lied in an affidavit to the DOJ. This is a felony called "Obstruction of Justice" max sentence 20 years (because it undermines the Rule of Law). Guilty ... again Evidence Picture 2A is just one evidence for that because apparently there was more. Even if Hillary did anything you accuse her of ... it would be shoplifting compared to mass-murder. So stop comparing apples with oranges. If Hillary did something criminal I want her punished, but if Trump did something criminal I want him punished fitting the severity of the crime. In Trumps case Espionage, Obstruction of Justice and maybe even treason depending on what Trump did with the documents already.
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  7238. The Republican Party sealed it's fate the moment they acquitted Trump in the 2nd impeachment trial. They should have used the opportunity to make a final line under Trump. It might have hurt a bit, but they would have had 4 years to fix this. Now Trump will rip the party apart piece by piece in order to stay relevant and to fix his bruised ego and to try to not leave this world as a loser. Add to this the incoming generational change (retirements) and so on in the next years ... and the Republican Party will not even closely resemble what it was ... ever again. The best thing America can do now is let the current Republicans disappear split the centric wing from the Democratic Party to form the new Republican Party. They still hold the values of the Republican Party and they have no place among the Democrats anyway. I would also recommend the US to think about changing the system into proportional voting. This would allow a multi-party system and coalition governments and such things. It would improve the representation of the public according to their preferences. It would give legislation more cooperation on policy and therefore more stable lawmaking. It would end gerrymandering, disporportional represenation in the parliament and a lot of other side-effects of First Pass The Post. It would also allow the upcomming of new parties, e.g. a Green Party, a Party of Bussiness, an extreme left and right party maybe a real Trump-Party as well. And everyone can vote who they want. Vote-Splitting is not an issue anymore.
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  7288. And with that you talked about one flaw of real Socialism and Communism. That people at some point had no choice anymore. Eastern Germany had real Socialism and for some years it worked well with motivation to make things better than before. But it was a one party state and absolute power corrupts absolutely. And Planning Economy the idea to control economy centrally by the party by a "plan" (hence the name) turned out to be inefficient and wasteful. Things got worse making people leave so they build a physical wall to prevent people from leaving and at some point even started shooting at people trying to leave. The dissatisfaction about things created anger and protest so they introduced an intelligence network to not only watch other countries but to watch their own dissatisfied citizens right down to the point of neighbours snitching on neighbours. To further reduce dissatisfaction they took over the little media available (pre video pre internet time) and made them party-propaganda full of misinformation to give people false impressions. And the political party involved itself the education system. Made something like the 10 Commandsments of the Bible just for the party and socialism which kids had to recite every day once. And forced all kids to join political youth groups. Religion was not forbidden but suppressed as it was seen as undermining the believe in the party and the country. This happens when you can no longer deliver and people get dissatisfied and you try all and everything to stay in power. However not all was bad. Living was relativly cheap, everyone who needed a place to live got one, healthcare was free, childcare was free and widely available, education was free and pretty good for the time and if you ignore the political indoctrination. There was some baseline luxory but not much. No travel to western counties but you could visit eastern europe but interestingly not the Sovjet Union (without permission).
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  7352. The issue is those people have conflicting informations and the human brain is not very good dealing with such rifts in reality a state called Cognitive Dissonance appears. People are not rational anymore, they stop thinking and start feeling more and they are even able to say contradicting things in the same sentence. The brain just can't deal with this. What those people actually need is the truth and trust. And both are under constant attack in US media. Fox and right-wing Social Media is telling them lies and telling them not to listen to the other side anymore. They hear all day only one side which adds "Confirmation Bias" to the already bad situation. It's important to somehow stop the lies. Protect the truth somehow. Challenge all lies. Trust is more difficult to make. It cannot be attained quickly and needs time. I for one think it's time to protect the Truth more in our society. So I for one demand a new human right "The Right for Truth" parallel to "Freedom of Speech". It's the only way we can continue in the age of Social Media. Truth creates Trust and Trust creates Certainty and Safety. Even the weekest minds in our society are able to make good decissions if they are only confronted with the truth. And education. People needs to learn how to get information reliable, how to confirm information, what is a fact, what is an opinion, basic technique to filter, sort and work with information and methods to detect lies and manipulations and about critical thinking. But this takes time. Probably too late for this generation, so the at least the Truth should be protected somehow. But this is impossible with Channels likes Newsmax, OAN and Fox around throwing all off all the time.
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  7855. I think Biological Evolution for humans is done. It happens in ranges of 100,000 years or so and humans are significant for this planet for only 12,000 years since we started to construct buildings. We now doing culture evolution and soon engineered evolution ... simply because humans are not patient enough to wait for nature. For humans the biological evolution was replaced by cultural evolution. The more successfull someone manages in society (mostly wealth) the more offspring they tend to create. Sadly also people who can bully, cheat and scam more successfull tend to doing better and procreate more. But it's even worse sometimes otherwise biological good genes are not given to offspring because economical and financial inequality may lead to no offspring and loss of otherwise biological good genes. People who have affinities to be geniusses or artists may go under in society simply by a lack of funding and compassion. The filter of cultural evolution is totally different to the filter of biological evolution and constantly changing. In short we created an environment in which people who adapt better to culture and better manage to exploit it for themselves with potentially problematic and weak biological genes procreate more. Selfish, criminal behaviour and greed leading to more wealth has higher chances of create offspring. And we may lose people who are intellectual, artistic, empathic or maybe good leaders because they not doing well in a society based on money. We ruining our genepool and maybe sealing the fate once culture fails and we are back to biological evolution. But something new has come up as well engineered evolution. Our scientific progress allows us to manipulate our own genes. And humans have not the patience for biological evolution so they will unavoidable start using this technology to fix and enhance things biological evolution would take millenia to do. And this will create a new form of evolution in which engineered and not engineered humans compete against each other in the environment of cultural evolution. Basically what nature done with neanderthals and homo sapians at the same time will now happen with different engineered human species. And I am not looking forward to this prospect. The potential unwanted side effects may create the end of humanity by over-engineering with unintended consequences.
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  7957. In practive our forces already work together either in the NATO, EU level or even U.N. but you are right, it must be made clear who controls this force and how it can be prevented from turning against the people or misused outside. Well in free democratic societies every force is normally designed in a way that it cannot turn itself against the people it is mandated to protect and follow certain base rules possibly even against political leaders. Normally this is achieved to bind them to the constitution. The last try in 2004 for an European Constitution almost succeeded 2 countries voted against it (from 25) but it almost happend. Looks like we need another try on that now 15 years later. And since we need to reform the political system of the EU as well we should consider doing both together to enter a new stage in the unification of europe where everyone has the feeling to be ruled fair and democratically by a commonly established system, something everyone can and want to live with. Often things on this magnitude are confirmed in referendums so directly by the people not their representatives not in all countries, but it was done by some and suggested for all last time as well and seems generally a good idea, so every citizen have a say in this and noone can say afterwards that it was "decided over my head". The majority of citizens in the EU are not really clear about what and how things happening in Brussel the other EU video shows that even professionals have their problems. And citizens only feel their own country is overruled from somewhere far only to their disadvantage especially since the media loves to emphasize the negative (EU bashing is loved by everyone it's easier to blame) and this must stop. It's there and it cannot go away again without repercutions on peoples everyday lives and the economy as GB is already begin to experiencing right now, so we might as well make it simpler and more transparent and with the vote and blessing of everyone. Kurzgesagt The societies and everydays lifes of EU citizens and the economy is already more progressed towards unification than the political system so it needs an upgrade so that we can continue to grow together. And having a reform of the political system and a EU wide constitution would be a huge next step on this way and may even lay the basis for a unified force as well. With enough trust build in the reformed political system over the years and probably decades who knows, maybe we come to the point where people are willing to go the last step and give up the original nation sovereignty completly for a real unified europe.
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  8177. The fate of the Republican Party was sealed the moment they acquitted Trump in the 2nd impeachment. The Republicans said this day there were okay with Jan-06 and it doesn't matter what they said in a speech afterwards, their vote counted and almost no Republican voted for it. I would even go so far, that the only real old-style Republicans were those who voted with the Democrats against Trump. All others are sycophants who placed career and Trump before country. And the Republicans wasted a golden opportunity to draw a final line under Trump and to finish the chapter. Now Trump is poisoning the well as long as he is there. He didn't changed and still repeat the same lies over and over again because his bruised ego is incapable to accept defeat - to accept he lost - that he is a loser. It goes against his very ego just read his history about him and his uncle to understand why Trump can't accept defeat, why for Trump only the win counts not how he gets it. So he cheated, pressured, intimiated and extorted people all his life into making sure he wins no matter the cost no matter how ergegious or even criminal he has to be. Just listen to the people golfing with him and the way he golfed was the same way he made bussiness and made politics. The Republicans now cannot get rid of Trump and they cannot further support Trump both is costing them voters because either the Trump Supporters turn against them or the moderate Republicans for whom Jan-06 and Trump was too much leave them. They are now doomed. There is no way this ends well. Unless they return to making good policies as it was before 1970. This is BTW the only way to redeem themselves. They must get rid of Trump finally and start making policies for the low-class people the ones not donating to them every single time. If not Trump will cotinnue to strangle the life out of Republican Party.
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  8276. You need an enemy something you can focus the anger on. You need something like a lightning rod to channel all this existing anger and the new anger you will certainly unleash, to focus it and to direct it away from your side. It happens for millenia in human history. Jews were targetted quite often since ancient rome, women in the middle age (aka "witches"), muslims in the middle-ages and now in the modern age again, Communists for Capitalists and Capitalists for Communists during the Cold War, immigrants in the modern era, then gays, then, trans people. And now Democrats / libs as well. The real core principle behind all of this is anger and control over anger. Anger always exists. People are unsatisfied about things in their life and once they getting worse change to anger. It is always there. Anger is an interesting emotion. Humans have a hard time "limiting" anger justily. And humans tend to focus anger automatically meaning they having problems being angry at more than one target at once. How often does it happen that you are unjustly angry at a person and snapping at him/her unloading all your anger, not just the amount which would be justified until you realize this was not fair and apologize. But this is a key thing here when humans are angry they cannot control the amount all your anger goes out at one target. A habit hard to control. And this is what some humans realized and use it for their own purpose to manipulate. They use the always existing anger, if possible raise it even ... and give this anger a target. And you promise them "To deal with it" or "Protect you from it" ... giving you support, money, power and control. EDIT: You can use the same mechanism to direct anger away from you in case you done things creating anger. And in time of crisis, or with too many problems and economical turmoil there is more base-anger out there in society making it easier to use this strategy and making it much more powerful and effective. This is also the reason why most dictatorships and autocracies were established during times of extreme problems in society.
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  8483. Let's have a look who has the biggest federal tax revenue by states in the US. See below. P.S. the numbers are in 1000$ meaning 1,000,000 is one billion dollar. Not helping California is like not having your best workers on the job. This number will inevitable be reduced if California is not rebuilt properly. Do you want higher taxes or less federal support to offset the missing money from California? These are numbers for 2019 by state: California 472,027,235 New York 304,992,923 Texas 292,330,171 Florida 210,024,433 Illinois 162,274,617 Ohio 144,704,811 Pennsylvania 141,973,579 New Jersey 140,258,435 Massachusetts 120,035,203 Minnesota 102,642,589 Washington 100,609,767 Georgia 94,305,868 North Carolina 87,778,099 Virginia 83,574,427 Michigan 81,583,480 Maryland 78,473,276 Tennessee 69,769,299 Missouri 64,149,074 Indiana 60,627,045 Colorado 59,961,429 Connecticut 57,092,781 Wisconsin 52,872,510 Arizona 47,743,166 Louisiana 39,430,322 Kentucky 35,595,050 Oregon 35,041,125 Arkansas 30,572,215 Oklahoma 29,133,375 South Carolina 27,885,047 District of Columbia 27,529,823 Alabama 26,511,031 Kansas 26,337,911 Nebraska 25,551,082 Iowa 24,914,602 Utah 24,335,082 Nevada 23,769,524 Delaware 20,073,979 Rhode Island 14,325,645 International 12,611,648 New Hampshire 12,208,656 Idaho 11,343,181 Mississippi 11,273,202 New Mexico 9,270,398 Hawaii 9,246,293 Maine 8,130,883 South Dakota 8,029,363 West Virginia 7,039,939 North Dakota 6,639,943 Montana 6,356,727 Alaska 5,395,473 Wyoming 4,743,997 Vermont 4,505,097 Puerto Rico 3,528,739 Source: Wikipedia
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  8569. My god what's so difficult to just give it a simple slogan in 3 words? Have you learned nothing from Trumps Era. Unless you can put it in three simple words the masses are forgetting it within 3 minutes. Call it "Improve the police" or "Reform the police" to keep it simple and straight. The person first using "Defund the police" had obviously planned to manipulate the people to "fear" the people against the democrats by giving them the wrong impression or in other words lying to the people. If you not learn from the mistakes leading to Trump and the things Trump made you are doomed to repeat it and worse next time. This is what I fear now happens with Biden. Nothing was learned from Trump. They keep doing what they done before Trump as he never existed. Change nothing and keep doing what they done ... enable another Trump. If they not seriously change policy and pick up some things from the progressive left next time America will lose democracy for sure. The democracy needs more protections. The elections needs more protections. The constitution needs more protections. The presidency needs more restrictions. The emergency rigths of the president must be overthought. The impeachment of the president must be be overthought. The transition of power between presidents must be put into law. The combination of The House and the Senate must be overthought to prevent stalls like now with 600 bills in limbo. The role of the supreme court must be redefined to stay out of politics and legislature. They are the judiciary, they are watchdogs of law and democracy and the constitution not a 3rd arm of the legislature. It needs new rules for presidents usage of social media. It needs new rules for speaking the truth by legislatures in the parliament and committees. Not only the witnesses needs to be sworn in but the legislatures as well. The postal service needs stricter rules to prevent the repeating of the autums disaster. The elections laws must be partly federalized to prevent politicizing the process in favor of a certain party. The filibustering must be abandonded. The party donation system must be completly redefines to keep outside money influence out. The party financing system must be completly redefined for more balance and less outside money influence. And if you ask me. The hole election should be changed into a proptional voting scheme. Abandon the 2 party system. Allow more parties. Abandon gerrymandering and financial influence via budget. Allow coalition governments and changing the model to a cooperative and consensus based decission making to enable more stable laws and governments.
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  8611. First of all it's not the 1st. It's the 22nd. All together cover 11% of the trade the UK does still under EU deals. Meaning next year 89% of the trade will drop from a deal to WTO-Level amongst that EU trade worth 772 bn every year. 2nd: I've read through the details of this deal. The deal is barely better than what the UK had while in the EU. It will impact UK GDP by +0.07%. Congrats a real game changer. But I read a little more in the details. And it turns out the deals is almost a 1:1 copy of the of the EU treaty but tuned down to only UK relevant points. So yes 99% of goods from UK to Japan will stay tariff free and that's good, but it's not better than now. And the agriculture part is even more strange. The UK can fill-up quotas the EU is not using. Meaning if the EU can export 20.000 ton of Olive-Oil to Japan every year but only exports 19.000 ton, the UK can if it wants to export the remainin 1.000 tons. Not exactly free isn't it. I was wondering why Johnson not made a larger press conference on it to brag about it. But than I read the details and if you compare before and after than there is not much to cheer on. Yes it is a little better for the UK than the EU conditions, but not the big burner Brexit promissed. And the deal is not final yet, not signed. I wonder if Japan will think about it once more with the Internal Markets Bill around. It would be major humiliation if Japan say now no because of the current ramblings. Well that's my explanation for why Johnson not made it a big announcement.
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  8712. Dear Corbynistas. You will never support any labour leader unless he comes out of your far-left corner. And by that you prevent Labour getting a chance to get elected which seems to be exactly what you want that noone gets a chance at power and policy unless it's one of you. Do I agree and support a lot of what Corbyn is saying? Yes! Everything? No! Do I think Corbyn is good campainger? Yes! Do I think Corbyn is a terrible leader? Yes! I am also a realist you can only win elections in the UK when you pick up the middle-class and Corbyn scares them same as a lot of working-class people who see the flaws of Corbyn and his past and who are not willing to entrust him with any power and even prefer voting Tory instead! From the outside it looks like you don't mind being the ethernal oppossition to everything. It even seems like you love this role. The ethernal complainer shouting from the sideline too spineless to take responsibility and lead the game instead of shouting and complaining. In a way you are like Maga in the US just with another leader. I do see the hero-worship, the devotion which makes you blind to any failings of your beloved Corbyn. I see Corbyn's egosim because he always makes it about him and he always wine and complains about things happening to him. Especially for being voted out of the leadership and party after losing two important elections and tons of wrong decissions and ultimatively being responsible for Brexit. I mean he sounds like Trump complaining about the 2020 presidential elections. I have a suggestion to you ... In case Starmer actually wants to introduce PR I suggest you help him get elected so you can make your own party and let voters decide how much the real left has to say in this country. Fair?
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