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If you asked me 2 weeks ago if Russia could win vs Ukraine I would have said the same thing.
However, having seen how much the Russian military has messed up, how low their moral is, how incompetent their leaders are, the scale of the sanctions and esspecialy the determination and ability of Ukraine to defend itself, I've become convinced they will win.
I believe it was Sun Tsu that said "victory is given by the enemy" meaning if the enemy is still willing to fight no matter what, you won't have victory, the Ukrainians are fighting on every level, have the weapons to take out Russian tanks, the advancement of Russian troops has come to a crawl and with each passing day the rubal goes further down, the Kremlin might not care about suffering Russian people but their soldiers on the front lines do and many are deserting, have surrendered or sabotage their own tanks and cars just so they have an excuse to surrender.
Unless Russia starts sending in the shock troops and totally goes full Stalin on the people and finds a way to break their spirit and will to fight, Ukraine will win.
That being said I do think Russia can force a treaty in which they gain some of the eastern parts of Ukraine, it's not like Ukraine really wants to keep those parts anyways nor will it be worth much after this war.
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the main problem I'm seeing with the issue of refugees and migration in general is that it's unsustainable, regardless on who takes care of them or who houses them, the reality is that people will keep coming due to climate change, due to wars (sometimes caused by the USA, France, UK or internal conflicts) and Europe being closest to these danger zones (Africa, the Middle east, Central Asia) it will remain a major issue that neither side can realy solve.
No migration side is wrong not for not wanting migrants but for not realising just how difficult it is to house and maintain such amount of people who either just want to survive or want to get ahead in life (we all do, that's what humans do), however the open migration side is also wrong because of the problems and costs it brings with it to western nations as well as spark the flames of resentment and nationalism which is not good for a European level solution which is what's actually needed.
I would then propose a different solution, one that is unpopular and will set a new geopolitical reality that some of it's big players aren't welcoming of, EU Military peacekeeping missions, what this would mean is the creation of a legitimate EU level military force, to be placed or engage near the entry points of migration flows and outside of EU countries like Morroco, Turkey, Tunnisia, Libya, so on where they would be tasked with maintaining order, help screen refugees and host refugee camps where they can then be transported to host nations or be able to integrate into the local societies, economies or develop skills needed later in life to rebuild their country of origin if possible.
the reason why this solution is unlikely to be taken is that the EU does not have the power or right to use such a military force, that it would be a more federated EU type of solution and that it would project an image of neo-collonialism to the rest of the world, as well as agitate certain geopolitical players by seeing a modern EU wide military force near their borders potentially but untill such a long term solution if implemented this will continue to be an issue and it's going to become much, much worse compared to 2015, as we move into the 2030s and 2040s, better to get to work with it now for when it's needed than the scramble later when shit inevitably hits the fan.
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when we look at these maps there is a diffrent response to diffrent people, lets try and analise them and try to predict their outcomes long term
the humanist might see this and say ''look at how many people there are, humans are more interconnected, more wide spread and more developed than ever before, how wonderfull''
the enviromentalist might see this and say ''look at how many people there exist, how can the enviroment deal and sustain such people? how horrible what can we do to prevent long term damage to nature?''
the globalist might see this and say ''look at how far we have gotten as a species, all this interconnected and trade relations must be good for humanity and human civilization overal''
the nationalist might see this and say ''look how many people exist in the world, who knows when massive waves of migrants and refugees may come to our shores if they can no longer sustain this growth, we must defend what's ours no matter what''
all these viewpoints in my opinion have some merrit and truth to them, some people like it, some people hate it, some people view it as progress, others as evil, some as unsustainable but in all cases it seems we as a species have no controle over how civilization develops, we can't stop growing, we can't stop reproducing and those that don't reproduce will find themselves being replaced or swarmed by those that do, such is the way of nature and human behavior.
thus I ask you what will become of us in this dynamic? what future awaits us? who is right? who is wrong? do you disagree on moral grounds? pragmatic grounds? or ideologicaly grounds? is this good or bad? idk but I don't think the outcome will be as great as some people think, nor as evil as some imagine.
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What's interesting is that so far there have been few instances of biological or chemical warfare (was used in ww1) used in modern wars because both sides agreed that using them would lead to more deaths and harm, even the nazi's did not use chemical weapons on the battlefield during ww2, so there is some hope that nuclear weapons won't be used in the case of a global/industrial conflict, however small countries that don't have the conventional weapons to defend themselves with might become desperate enough to use them on a much larger foe, then there is the subject of more advanced technology making nuclear weapons useless, thus making war more likely.
There really is no getting around MAD, either it breaks down and you have war or it continues and you risk nuclear war by smaller states but at some point it will break down and you can't unopen pandora's box, the only possible solution I can think of is most of the world coming under one world government and just not allowing anyone else to ever develop nuclear weapons, though then you will get other problems and the potential of nukes being used on smaller states that want to rebel or try to develop/use them anyways, such a state ironically can only come about after something like ww3, defeating the goal in the first place.
Very tricky... Perhaps we are all doomed?... Probably not.
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This is a pretty good video with some details missing or let out.
For starters it was the German empire during ww1 that revived the Polish and central European states from Russian rule.
Secondly the term "from Lisabon to Vlodivostok" is not a core part of European or even French policy making but rather a phrase of optimism and potential of closer economic ties with Russia, this was said before the 2022 invasion, during that time Russia was becoming more economically tied with the west and was showing signs of modernisation, all of that progress has now pretty much been swept away, thus making the phrase useless.
Third France has been most vocal of trying to tie both German and French national security and economic interests together, anyone who has studied European history knows that Europe destroyed itself because of wars and national interest conflicting with eachother, the primary goal of the EU and Franco-German alliance has been to centralize power and policy to act in a collective interest for Europe as a whole with mixed results, the question is will Europe fall apart again into minor spheres of influence? Or can they solidify into something stronger? While many say it can't there are some signs of cooporation and development on this front, sadly these processes take time and effort in a world that's suddenly changing very quickly and with big players who already cleared this phrase on easy mode, mostly the US, China, India and Russia to a less degree.
There has to come a change in Europe, the question is from who and how, the USA can't be fully trusted, their loyalty only lies in how it benefits their national interest which is balanced by needing both a strong Europe but divided enough to not act against it's interests, despite their big military support for central Europe, it's in economic ties where long term interest of these nations lie, after Russian defeat the defence spending will drop and US interest will shift to other fronts, leaving only Germany and France to fill the void.
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9:01 as a European citizen the conclusion of Europe being weak is kinda weird, we are largely industrialized nations with access to modern weaponry within it nations that have presence in Africa, small groups in the middle east and are on the frontlines against Russia, the overal population of Europe is larger than the USA's despite being much smaller and with potentially new members joining the EU we still have room to grow if we wanted to.
that being said you are very correct in saying we are disunited and don't have a single cohesive ideology, culture, language or single federal government structure to run everything, we don't have the same advantages the USA has in terms of land, no native problems, easy defendable borders or lack of real enemies like the USA but when I look at Russia for example I don't see a new rising power or world power, I see a nation that's very corrupt, some of the worst demografics in all of Europe and huge internal problems, the only thing Russia has going for it is it's huge land mass, resources and military which are the only things keeping the nation together, in fact i would put Russia up on the list of nations most likely to fall apart in the coming years and either becoming a closer trading partner towards Europe or China, perhaps both.
what Europe is lacking the most though is stable birthrates, a federalized form of government that works for all nation states, a single military and taxation system and a more innovative economy that's less regulated like it is today and while it's not sure if it can develop those things in the coming years or decades saying it's nothing and does not matter does not seem accurate to me, it's divided for sure, a distant 3-4th on the world stage as a whole but compared to some other nations it has a lot going well for it.
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22:55 incels are not a political movement and it's not centered around ''not getting laid'' the word Incel even stands for ''involuntary celibate'' meaning these are most often if not exclusively men, probably in their 18-30's and have had little to no positive feedback from both romantic but also friendship based relationships, from talking to some of them, most seem to come from broken homes, mostly raised by their mothers who were overprotective of them and did not prepare them for the world and how to improve themselves to gain potential mates or they have certain disabilities like autism or unattractive traits that they can't change or accept of themselves which in a world like this one that constantly demands perfection and competition while offering no clear way or comfort to actually reach anything close to that ideal.
Incels are societies lost generation, forgotten, hated and despised, all they realy have is resentment and suffering without something like Christianity, familly or romance to guide them, if any incels or doomers reads this, the most important trait you should focus on is self improvement, not compare yourself to others and find some form of religion or ideology that gives you a strong sense of meaning in this world and view suffering as a test to overcome, it won't solve everything but at least you might get a better future.
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@gunlancer1920 for starters it's never over because people and society is always changing (not always in a good way)
Second, like I said most people who have these feelings, views and attempt to transition aren't happy by doing so, the suicide rate is so high it's literally more likely to lead to suicide than going to war and having PTSD.
Third, I don't think you understand my issue, my issue is not that people have the right to transition or that some people could be better of for doing so, my issue is with the normalization of it as something to be praised, fully accepted or targeting of children (which this ideology really does and often targeting specific groups like autistic children) to try and convert to their way of thinking, it's really insulting, degrading and immoral to see this happen in western society (only western society does this btw) and it's causing massive damage to people, institutions and society at large.
Now I'm just giving my view on the matter and people can do whatever they like but don't force these things on people, esspecialy children and don't pretend like people don't have the right to speak out against it, like it's some taboo, it's not. The taboo is this ideology that tries to normalize it as healthy that's insane.
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@sblbb929 by that logic you would think the USA as a nation can't exist or Brazil, or India or even China, differences don't matter that much anymore, in the past levels of technology and the people themselves tore apart the established orders because they did not feel represented, most of these nations weren't democratic, they weren't liberal or even understanding of national interests.
a Federation of European nation states does not mean an erasing of cultures, languages or people, it means a defending of these things on a pan European scale, people in germany are effected by migration through greece, Poland is threatened by Russia which effects the baltics, Finland might be next if Ukraine or Hungary gets puppeted, the USA might abandon Europe at some point, what then? what if France wants to take over all of Europe? who could stop them then? Germany? all these issues can be solved through a federation of European nations, so that each national interest becomes the pan-national interest of this new federation, this is how the USA became a superpower, they were first seen as ''these united states'' and over time (and a civil war) they became ''the united states'' it is not inevitable but thinking it can't work just means you have not tried hard enough.
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Adam Somethings loves to blame the ''far right'' for all problems facing Europe but rarely does he look into his own sides actions that allowed for it, remember it was Angela Merkels actions that promoted and encouraged millions of migrants to try their luck coming to Europe, Orban simply responded like many European nations did by blocking his own borders while sending the refugees to other nations around him to be their problem, Adam simply blames Orbans response to Merkels actions and ignores the response from the rest of Europe, Hungary is a tiny country, Greece, Spain, Turkey are all far more guilty of allowing and promoting refugees from going further into Europe and Merkel is the main cause of it.
blaming Orban is not a solution, the real, mature solution would have been for the EU and it's main leaders like Merkel and Macron not to be fucking idiots and actually using their militaries and influence as well as ask for money from the EU and other nations to host refugees outside of EU or close to hot spot centers, which they actually did do after months of problems, terrorist attacks and sexual attacks, if I could see this coming around the age of 19 years old, how come Merkel and friends were this stupid?
things to think about.
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@Arcaryon I don't see the rightwing as radical at all, in fact for a long time they have been very weak, Trump is not even a hardcore republican, he's donated to both causes the democrats and the progressives are the extreme radicals who mostly engage in violence, censorship and demonizing of others much more so then the right does, the rightwing in the USA hates the more fringe groups within their own party while the democrates embrace theirs, saying they are both the same just seems inaccurate to me.
Im not even american and Im constantly finding more evidence that the left in the USA is nuts, the rightwing is very tame and not radical at all.
I think I do understand your world view because before Trump you were correct, both parties sucked, they were all neocons and neo-libs but Trump was the outsider which is why the media and big tech hate him so much, many old republicans hate him and a lot of democrats who used to hate some of those republicans like George W bush now like him because he ain't Trump, it's insane which is why so many people voted for Trump, more than in 2016.
Many in the far left also hate Biden and the democratic party looks more broken than the republicans under Trump, esspecialy the censorship and cancel culture of the left and big tech is clearly anti Trump and anti rightwing, it's far more worrying than Trump is, Trump is just one person, he's not some radical, he does not seek to end NATO but his replacement might and the republican voter base is not radical at all but if they were they could do a lot more damage than the left they just aren't radical but they might become due to the democrats flirting with the far left.
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17:12 very strange that they would label austrian economics as ''philosophy'' since it's more about ''Psychology'' which in many schools is still part of philosophy, the argument of austrian economics lacking verifiable data is somewhat silly, since all models created by economics is about Psychology of choice, resources and distribution of goods and services, in this way Austrian economics is more laissez faire than keynsian economics, where as Keynsian are almost authoritarian and corporatist in an attempt to quantify all economic data to it's models, merely having more data does not mean your analisis or superiority is somehow proven, in fact we've seen and endured the problems with keynsian economics for some time now, with the accumulation of debt, where as the invention of crypto currencies and other new forms of economic development shows that this debt based system of keynsian economics does not work long term, it collapses and merely borrows more money, creates more corruption, more government power to the point that we have protectionists and open socialist and communists claiming to want to abolish capitalism.
I know this channel is honest and does good work and I think they are trying to represent both economic systems as best they can but I realy can't stand keynsian economics.
but if what I wrote her comes across as arrogant, ignorant, austrian school, economics fanboyism, I would like to hear from you why that is and why keynsian is beter compared to austrian school, thank you for your time.
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@Arcaryon because they have no logical basis and counter early statements he made.
Example, Trump in the 90s was very pro democrat, he donated to their political party, his hotels were open for all minorities regardless of color or religion, he himself is not some hillbilly from the south, he's from new york.
The narrative of "he's a racist" only started to be spun when he put his candidate position for president forward and those claims were never based on anything he said or did and anything close to it was taken out of context and later redacted by the media that posted them as truth.
For the last 4 years the media hammered on Trump on every little thing he did and pretended everything was somehow racist or stupid even through many worse things were said by the democratic candidates including Joe Biden, which the media never dared to adress, the contras between how the media treats Trump and how they treat Biden is night and day and the only reason why it seems is because Trump is not an insider, he's not the conventional leader, he's bold and his actions speak louder then his words.
Another narrative that was spun is that he is somehow a tyrant, even though he was the most pro free speech and pro guns president in US history and within just a few days in office Biden has signed executive orders without stop to reverse all of Trumps policies (except tarriefs on China) and he wants to take your guns and rights away, not to mention the open racism and discrimination towards white people shown by the democratic party right now.
The mask has been lifted, the media and elites have been revealed, trust in the media and politicians is more down then ever and it's not because of Trump, it's despite Trumps best efforts to unite the country against the hatred and violence of the left and the elites.
Very few people now trust the media and big tech is so totalitarian and one-sided that most people consider them the enemy of the people which they are and only the leftwing is defending them because their opposition is being censored the most and they like it that way.
You could write whole books about all the lies and inaccurate propaganda by the media and many do and then you will have Antifa and NYT write hit pieces about you, even the president himself got censored by Twitter, it can't get more clear who runs the show and it ain't the people, they voted for Trump.
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@craigkdillon pretty over simplification but there is some truth in it, as Russia came from the former USSR they and their puppet states suffered greatly and lost a lot of capitalistic minded people, Putin sought to change that in his first few terms, creating a large growth in the economy and improving relationships with other countries, right now Russia exports a lot of gas, raw resources, oil, weapons, fighter aircrafts, food and lumber.
Russia however suffers a lot still from corruption, is less free than western nations in terms of market and still has an authoritarian government, combine this with the USA being more hostile towards them, sanctions on their main markets, low oil prices and collapsing population growth and it's easy to see why Russia is not doing so good.
Fact is there is very little they can do about it, USA and the west will remain worried about what they do, China keeps rising in economic power, their population will keep shrinking and few new business will grow in Russia.
Best bet for them is to get closer to the European sphere and finding new ways to trade with nations like China.
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@64bitmodels66 strong female character, black female, LGBT+, anti male, mary sue, diversity and inclusion, non-edgy, pro-communism, anti capitalism, pro-authoritarianism, pro-abortion, anti christian, woke, pro feminism, so on.
you can literally play a game with each E3 event to spot and keep track of any of these things and win almost everytime, it's like shooting fish in a barrel, try it sometimes you will notice the patterns soon enough.
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it's very unlikely, the idea of the EU becoming a federation and either annexing or merging with Russia makes way more sense than a merger with the USA and Russia, the two have nothing in common, don't share a border, language is different, history is different, economies aren't that tied to one another, political system is different, while that's also true for the most part with the EU, at least they share more of a history, Russia is a slavic language, economies are much more tied together, political systems while different are closer than the US system, they share borders with eachother.
in short the Russia-US merger is as likely as Brazil merging with China.
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as a Dutch person, we know surprisingly little about Indonesia or our own history related to it, all I know is that we did exploit the locals a lot, kept certain technologies away from the general public and mostly ran it on a combination of rubber, sugar, tea and spices plantation. We did not really try to convert the people to christianity though missionair's would try and convert locals of course and we also did not try and impose our language upon the local as a means of cultural colonialism, that being said we of course weren't very nice though not as cruel as some of the British, Belgium or Portuguese colonies were.
As for the future of Indonesia, I can only look at the border maps of ethnic groups, religions and languages and ask myself ''how the hell did we manage to rule this place for so long?'' this place is a giant mess and it's also along the sea which makes isolationism for it's distinct cultures on each island even more likely, the fact that Java has such a massive population compared to the others is also very bizzar, you would think it be a little more spread out over all the islands.
If I could think of any way of Indonesia to continue existing it would be to have a very federalist view of it's own identity, try and find ways to both supress and assimulate local cultures, languages, religions together, perhaps continue pressing the threat of China or other powers in the region as a means of maintaining their own national identity, though I think it's almost inevitable that major parts of the islands are going to break away at some point, not sure how to respond to those break away, doing nothing might cause a chain reaction, then again supressing those moves for succesion might further devolve the already fragile state.
I have no idea, I think it's a miracle it stayed together for as long as it already has, just look at Yugoslavia, it had like 20 times less ethnic people between eachother and enemies to unite against and they still fell apart.
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On the issue of civil war, I would say it's very unlikely, you can have a period like the troubles for sure but for an outright civil war you need certain factors that aren't present right now, one of them is not having any faith in the government process, being a democracy gives some more trust in people that they can always vote for someone to try and fix things, the law is the law untill people no longer follow it, the enforcers are no longer willing to enforce it and the army is no longer willing to enforce the enforcers.
What is likely going to happen is that as the demografic collapses start to appear even more clear for most people and they start to feel how other groups start to dominate them they will be forced to pick a side, they will start to counter the rising group but find that their efforts aren't very effective and thus become more radicalized, the point at which a civil war would happen is when at a certain point you have armed groups, area's of controle, a semi collapse in government institutions and then a push for either creating their own new institutions or the take over of those institutions by one group or the other.
The end result no matter who wins is going to be a splitting up of society, talented people leave for better shores, large destruction of society, collapse and birth of new systems and then a slow reconstruction with a new estabilished order which will then rule for good or bad for as long as they can untill a new series of conflicts erupts.
The nations that will get ahead will be those that skipped all these parts and simply never get there or delay it as long as possible.
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I think it's more to do with lack of parental love and affection, indoctrinated into a false sense of reality, growing older realising the false reality is actually horrible, forced to adapt to it while being bombarded by "happy people" on social media, online and on tv, trying to improve your life either failing or not having anyone to trust, love, be intimate with or even have just casual sex with, develop depression, trauma and most likely drug addictions and thus slowly leading towards attempts at suïcide, some as young as 13 years old.
I think people misunderstand pain, suffering and hardship and how it effects mental health, people in general and young people can actually survive and deal with a lot of hardship, what they struggle with and what leads to depression is feelings of loneliness, isolation, lack of purpose, low social status and maladaptive coping mechanisms like drugs or alcohol.
Our society barely has a family unit, parents are often gone or raised by single mothers, schools are often areas with severe lack of trust, acceptance or affection, social media harms self worth, no wonder young people commit suicide more, you had less suicides in the 1950s when life was much harder, same people, different environments.
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you could say the same about the USA or the Russian federation, who is going to run it and how? I think it's very likely that there would be a new constitution for all member states and one that all member states would have to agree on, that would really be the main issues since each member state has a specific kind of constitution and thus would clash in legal battles as we see today with Poland and EU laws, that being said I don't see why they could not make a constitution that works for all, there are plenty of examples to pick from the USA being the best example for such a large scale.
though I would not say a copy of the US constitution would work, better would be to adopt laws by by it's member states to get the best of all with minimal conflicts between them, the major conflict is between southern Europe and eastern Europe with western Europe and northern europe having largely the same laws already, a compromise might be nessisary and for the parlement to actually work people need to be represented in a more direct manner than the current form of elections, less top down and more bottom up.
it's complicated for sure but we have seen examples of this happen and working in the past, Germany used to be a collection of smaller states consolidated into a single state, a European federation would be much the same.
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@GUNN3R1990 it should have been closer to 90% for such an important vote but it's high enough to be legitimate for sure.
I don't think you understand what I meant, your nation is not independent nor is it powerfull, the UK is a joke because the people voted for Brexit but don't vote for leaders that will actually keep it free, independent and strong which is what's needed for any nation's people, culture and identity to survive let alone thrive, I like the UK that's why it's so tragic and sad to see them this weak and not acting in their own self interest and as a result you now see more independence movements from the UK in northern ireland, scotland and wales, you say you care about your nation yet your nation seems to be imploding and collapsing and you don't even realise it.
the irony is that the UK as a member of the EU would probably be a lot more stable and exist for much longer than it's current path it is on with it's current leadership, you might think that's not true and fair enough but I think the majority of people in the EU don't want to leave the EU because of the mess of brexit and the lack of real change that people want to see even if they dislike the EU seems better than leaving.
that should be an indicator for you that brexit is not working otherwise other nations would have pushed for the same thing by now, when in fact the opposite is happening, now you can disregard everything i said and believe I only care about power or the world stage or whatever but that's just not true and hope the UK does well but im not seeing it doing well which makes me sad.
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@d3thkn1ghtmcgee74 the EU does not uphold human rights or supports free speech at all, they also allow it to be broken by other members and on other topics with the same logic being used, so the issue is just political and used as a justification to harrass and threaten Poland, I remember a time when we tried to change the world for the better with words, arguments and logic, not sanctions and withholding of funding for the majority of the people.
If you think Poland leaving the EU is a good idea for Poland or the EU you are naive and being very foolish, this is also why I don't take you serieusly because your agenda stands in the way of actual important issues like the economy, defence, trade, energy, things people need to survive.
You act as if non action would result in hostile or anti humanitarian policies, the progression of values with time is on your side so why try and rush it by force? That could actually backfire on acceptance of the LGBT community, I know plenty of people who used to support them but now much less because of this nonsense.
Try and focus on real issues and stop acting like a child like this is something important, it's not, the sooner we can mature out of this behavior of yours the sooner we can focus on actual issues that involved the majority not the 1%
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@darjuz96 again you are deluding yourself by pretending like they are being oppressed, you are so spoiled and self centered that you can't even consider that the majority matter more than 1% of a minority which already has all the rights they need for a good, free and normal life, what you demand are privilages, tax payer money to promote what is not in the majority's interest.
democracy means the people govern, not the 1% of a group that has no influence or power besides what corporations and western government empower, your cause is a hollow and shallow one and will only make people dislike you more.
have you earned these privialges? no, are you acting in a way that makes people want to give you these privilages? no, do you promote and use blackmail and threats of economic hardships just to get your privialges? yes, now tell me, would you respect and give in to such demands? I don't think anyone would and even if they did it would make them quite resentfull towards you.
perhaps you should reconsider your position, that might be for the best for your own self interest, im just saying.
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The main problem for Europe is not it's demografics or even it's low birthrates, it's main issues are:
1. Top level political corruption, the upper most levels of many European nations are very corrupt, they basically sold people out and actively work to undermine rights, contain political radicalism of the far right, while promoting far left delusional, harmful ideas of which we see everyday, they also ensure basically anarcho tyrany, laws for natives but not non-European citizens who commit horrific crimes, the lack of political will and corruption from our elites is perhaps our biggest issue, everything else can be solved with enough political will but elites who are hostile to the nation is harder to fix.
2. Europe is not singular, imagine if the USA was run like the EU? It be a mess of competing states, conflicting self interests and can't build good consensus among members, Europe suffers from a split in priorities, the national vs pan-European level, I do believe you will see more and more of a pan-European identity being formed, simply because the old nationalism of the past can't practically defend the nation anymore and has little to offer people in terms of economic potential or geo-economic interests, where as a European superstate could do all these things and more for all of Europe.
Now is it likely that the EU becomes a federation? Unlikely right now but as the crisis continue and grow, radicalism and simply nessesity will force them to change.
Europe still has a lot of potential and the rest of the world is going to collapse and try and leach off us, in the coming years and decades, securing the border and stopping immigrants is about national security more then anything else.
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while Russia does hold massive more military power and would very much be able to take Ukraine, it would probably be unable to hold it for long, suffer immense losses while doing so, it would be a disaster for Russia and Ukraine if they went to war, we have to remember that war is politics by other means, Russia would go to war with Ukraine if it sees no other means of gaining it´s political goals. Ukraine´s leadership as well as most of it´s people aren´t interested in backing down to Russian interest, moral is high, support for the Ukrainian government is very strong and really only it´s eastern region has any interest in joining Russia and even then it´s not that supportive, mostly a means to an end of the conflict and bring some stability.
do I think Russia is going to invade Ukraine? yes, do I think it's all of Ukraine? no, would Ukraine be split in two perhaps? possible but not likely, I think the Russians are going to invade but it's going to fail after years of sanctions as well as heavy losses both from the conflict itself as well as citizens going to arms against Russia, there is still a possibility for peace but that would mean stronger NATO action, stronger EU action and stronger sanctions against not just Russia but also Germany for supporting Russia indirectly, that would make Russia reconsider attacking Ukraine for sure.
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Looking at Turkey one could say it's an expanding power, trying to flex it's military industrial ability and trying to dominate the region it is involved with like a true great power in the region.
I however see Turkey today as a Tragity, a nation with a huge potential and seeing it wasted on it's current leadership, it's hollow focus on regional conflicts and stagnating economic potential because of it's autocratic leadership.
Turkey not so long ago was becoming closer to the western world, towards the EU and was focusing a lot on it's economic development, Turkey unlike most of the middle east is a democracy and a liberal one at that, it's growing population and strong military could have been a great pillar both for itself, NATO and the EU long term, now? most of Europe sees Turkey as a threat, much like the Ottoman empire of before, it's conflicts and engagements with fellow NATO members has become a crack in the Alliance as a whole, it's entanglements within Syria and Libya have made it a constant cost to it's coffers with little benefit to it's people or economy and as we speak Erdogan and his buddies are trying to undermine and destroy Turkish democracy and the rule of law.
Going forward I don't see many great things for Turkey, either it is going to revolt and move towards embracing of the old path of progress set by Attaturk or it's going to continue down it's current neo-ottoman focus towards middle-eastern conflicts and at best pan-turkish expansionism, I don't think it's going to work out well for them if they pick the later option.
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Marcos very few states can produce weapons grade uranium and it's even possible to track the source of it, basically the only way terrorists are going to get their hands on it is if they get it from rogue states (like North korea for example) or if they steal it which Isis tried to do but kinda failed because it was not enriched enough.
as for AI, that's also not easy to get since it uses specialized programing and is only usefull for very specific battle field situations, terrorists just don't have the time, funds or know how to use it well.
the most realistic means of terrorists to gain WMD level weapons would be with chemical or biological agents, they are cheap, easy to make, hard to trace and highly destructive and with advances in laboratory gear even easier to make, technology like CRISPR could produce ebola-pox if it wanted to with enough time and funds, the results could be quite horrific, think millions not a few hundred or thousands.
sadly because it's not as flashy as nuclear weapons or AI most people overlook these types of terroristic threats.
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@Tyler_W incel is mostly a derogatory term used by people to label people (mostly men) who struggle in the modern world for a variety of reasons ranging from depression, autism, narcicism, trauma, parental neglect or simply lack romantic value towards woman, there are "incels" who honestly try but get rejected because of their mental illness and social status, they work out and they do their best but fail and society judges them to be falures and that they must do better and will face descrimination and low social status as a result.
Its also not just a western problem, it's a problem in all developed societies and made worse by high divorce rate and low birthrates as well as aging.
Its easy to see why this is all problematic, elderly people need younger generations to take care of them, few future prospects, youth wasted on getting an education and a job, try and get status and in the meantime also deal with woman who understand their value but no responsibility thus you see the single mother, the 14 cats lady and the rabid feminist, society is pretty sick.
Though society has always selected men and some just never got married or formed relationships, never on this scale and so total, most men 50 years ago could always marry down but woman also had to put in the effort or risk raising a child as a single mom which was a big shame and hard thing to do, still is just less so.
There is also the reality that you only really need 1 men for 100 woman to get pregnant but 1 woman for 100 men will become a bloodbath or a simp fest, sometimes both.
There is no easy solution, men can get wealthy and still find third world countries for woman, many do, others are forced to become hyper competitive, some men just give up or become resentful, take your pick in the mean time most people will be miserable, few children will be born and the west is going to likely become more and more islamic and third world ish as a result of the modern world.
No doomerism, just reality, sad but true, adapt and overcome I say.
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the thing is... the USA kinda did all the things the CCP is doing just in a different way, expansion, threats of violence, securing it's national interests, creating a culture and identity that sees itself as better than the rest of the world, in fact all major nations have done this and all minor nations at some point have attempted this, even the USA well before ww1 was going around fighting and expanding it's sphere of influence and getting involved in the games of the rest of the world, ww1 and ww2, the outcome of which placed the USA as the world's super power and enabled the current system because it is most beneficial to itself as well as the threat of nuclear war forcing the world to behave less imperialistic or desire to expand their lands.
China does want to rule the world but it can only start doing so by trying to rule Asia, just like the USA started it's global reach by taking over and ruling first North America and then securing South america, China as a totalitarian state is quite different from the fascist, national socialist or even soviet era dictatorships, they might use the same methodes sometimes but the level of technology is so vastly different from before that it's unclear if the western nations can compete both short and long term.
the closest regime China currently looks like would be to me at least national socialist germany, it's han chinese focus, attempt at controling/raising birthrates, it's militarism and desire for expansion and securing what it sees as former lands of it's own like Taiwan, however we can't assume that just because that regime in the past was defeated through a global effort in a time very different from today that this is inevitable to be repeated again, China has many more people, has more lands, has better technology, has global trade networks and a less confident USA or powerfull European allies to draw from, Russia is China's ally for the most part and while China focuses on Taiwan today it's already trying to secure India through it's controle of the water supply in Tibet.
now do I think China is going to be the world's super power? no, not realy, I think it will be, a superpower on the continent of asia as well as new super powers coming to dominate other parts of the world, I think the era of US sole super power status is coming to an end and we are moving towards a multipolar world and have to come to terms with a new orientation of power which may or may not lead to another global conflict, the world simply can't stay within status quo reality forever, history shows us how this never lasts forever.
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@lif3andthings763 actually no, africa cost us a lot of money and resources, esspecialy as colonies, which is why Germany was so much richer and more powerfull then the UK despite them not having an empire like France or the UK.
if Europeans wanted to take over africa the only ones who would be able to stop them would be the USA.
it would be super easy if the USA did nothing, all we would have to do is build a fleet, block all food and investment into the continent and then simply embargo everything going in, a few months of starvation would then allow us favorable deals and rights to maintain military bases like the USA does around the world and we have the continent under our controle within a few years with some minor fighting here and there.
idk what you people are thinking, Europe does not have the desire to do this, nor would the USA allow it, im just saying if the USA was not there and Europe actually wanted to do this they could very easily, the hardest parts would be dealing with resistance at home and condemnation from the USA and the UN.
just because you have 2 billion people does not mean it can't lose to a smaller force, that's just silly.
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@GUNN3R1990 the thing is you have neither now, your not significant on the world stage, nor are you independent with your own distinct culture and people anymore, it's very depressing actually to see, esspecialy knowing how great the UK used to be, not having anything close to that anymore and being humiliated, abused and seen as a joke is just tragic and sad, I rather see a strong, independent and great UK than a weak, divided and beaten UK as a member if the EU, even if that would magically make the EU powerfull on the world stage.
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@arconte2100 I highly doubt they are going to reach those numbers, the 2050 predictions seem bloated already, let alone 2100, global warming, economic prosperity, education, urbanisation, wars and civil wars, water shortages and a less globalistic western world and aging in most of the rest of the world does not seem like those predictions will hold on, sure their population will still rise but I doubt they will reach 4 billion, that's insane.
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from what I've seen China could very easily take the island using stealth, secrecy, carefull planning and overwelming numbers before the USA gets there in time.
though to be fair, I do think the Chinese are going to sit back and wait for the best moment to strike, they aren't just going to take Taiwan out of the blue, either internal issues forces them to make some sort of move to distract the public or they wait for another conflict internal or external to the USA to distract them.
looking at the USA it would not suprise me if the USA had a civil war and China using the chance to take Taiwan if not go even further and try and have north korea invade south korea, invade Bhutan or Nepal or any of the stan nations with Mongolia to try and gobble up as much as they can, in a way with India all they would have to do is Isolate India and cut off it's water supply and then they can turn it into a Indian puppet, esspecialy if there is no US backup.
of course the way im saying this sounds like it's very easy, it's not it's dependent on many things to line up perfectly for China but long term I think China can wait long enough to make it happen, the communist party is not going to collapse and if they can just maintain their own vision against a declining and stagnating USA then they will be presented with that chance sooner rather than later.
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@danielsteger8456 you assume human beings, societies and religions are way more rational than they tend to be and remember im saying this in the long term, long term as in between now 100 years +
I never said that if it only destroys 85% then wars would suddenly happen, you are saying that, I'm saying bringing that number down to 0-1% would make that event far more likely and as technology keeps advancing the idea that nothing will ever stop an ICBM is the same logic people used in ww1 thinking nothing is ever going to outshine the horse or the rifle armed soldier, today we have things like advanced AI, robotics, next generation fighters, let alone in the near future, the USA alone and Israel have advanced missle defence systems and are trying to develop better ones, it's not hard to imagine at some point the defence and counter attack systems become better than the ICBM's used today, we are simply extending the usefullness of ICBM's by making them faster, what happens when someone goes into space and places weapons like it above the world's head? it just seems naive to think this can go on forever.
as for child sitting in front of the tv, that sounds more like you, trying to make childish insults and comparing real rogue nuclear states (which already exist today) aren't going to become a more common thing, you might not know this but places in the middle east might consider getting nukes if Iran gets them, Japan could become a nuclear power because of the threat of China, India and Pakistan also have nukes and hate eachother the only thing that's preventing them from engaging in open warfare is the USA world system and the fact that they aren't sure if they would win such a conflict, now add in potential new players or terrorists gaining the ability to make nukes or weapons like it and you could see a world that spirals into desperation, fear and thus irrational behavior.
everyone knew going into ww1 and ww2 would destroy most of their own and enemy nations and they had plenty of people saying the people on the top that would be the case and they went along with it anyways because that is the nature of human civilization and how wars happen, most of human history is waging wars or preparing for the next war, the only time this did not happen is when one side becomes so powerfull that forces others to not wage wars, as the USA becomes less powerfull, other nations catching up to them and more internal problems keep dividing people that will lead to more irrational governments and you only need a few of them to do something stupid to start a world war or just a large global conflict on a smaller scale.
some religions have death cults in them or end of the world visions of the future, for them killing everything and everyone is the goal, most of the world is becoming more nihilistic and out competed or controled by technology, the idea that such cults and religions would not rise to some degree again is very naive.
now look if you don't care about any of this and want to pretend like this little bubble is going to work forever then go ahead, I just think it's very naive and will probably not be very usefull to have when shit hits the fan.
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@mjwilliamsb2676 the reason why it's spreading in Europe, north america and asia while being almost nonexistent in places like Africa is because the former populations are greying and much older than the ones from 3rd world nations, the virus largely hurts the elderly, the lockdowns and other measures taken are primarily for them, at the cost of the youth who from statistics show are about 99% able to survive the disease sometimes without even showing symptoms below the age of at least 50+
Yes it is a bit of a rant because im sick and tired of scared and afraid karens and political interest groups trying to capitalize on a crisis to benefit large corporations while the people who actualy have to pay for it all get fucked to extend the life of a bunch of elderly people who already lived through the good times and now demand even more.
Im esspecialy tired of the spliting narrative by most people whenever I mention this who pretend it's "total lockdown or no lock down at all and if you disagree you hate people" bullshit I keep seeing, why not a smart lockdown? Where people who are most at risk, (elderly mostly) go into quarantine, while the rest of us can just do our jobs and earn food on the table for our families, force people to ware masks if you have to, desinfect hands more, this is partly what we did in the Netherlands and we are doing pretty good.
The lockdowns were done in a moment of panic because the CCP lied and censored information from the start of the outbreak, if anything we sould be adressing them and how the disease came to be and potentialy create a more and smarter international response team/policy when this inevitably happens again.
Im just so pissed at the lack of rationalism today and lying ass media trying to start a panic, they selectively report on infections and only mention deaths when they are high, rather than all the facts and data, demografics and how immunity works, it's frankly discusting and immoral how they have acted during all this and im sick of it.
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@lordsev666 you are spreading misinformation and attacking people who point out the high suïcide rates due to their transitioning, we've seen the results of children being forced and convinced to undergo gender transitioning as well as hormoon treatment and it does immense damage to the people as well as not result in them in most cases accepting their new gender.
Now you don't care about human beings and I know that you know you don't care because your not the one that suffers because of it and you can always point to "society" for somehow leading to people commiting suicide or causing self harm to themselves and their bodies.
There is nothing transphobic of mentioning the facts and your response only shows how toxic, self destructive and narcissitic this ideology is.
If a person does not feel in tune with their biological sex it is a sign of deep emotional trauma, what a person needs most is therapy, family bonds, caring emotional support, medication and learn to accept their gender identity. Gender transitioning only makes things worse, creates conflicts within the family, friends, imbalance in body functions, brain hormoon levels as well as multiple other complications and we have the suïcide rates, as well as levels of depression, combined with multiple other coormorbid mental issues to prove it.
But again you don't care about any of that and want to reduce anyone pointing it out as being "transphobic" trust me if anyone hated Trans people they would encourage them to keep doing what they are doing right now.
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@tonyhawk94 the thing is many of them have actually worked, just that they got destroyed by outside forces or they failed to evolve beyond the point they were created.
The nation of Germany for example was created by first loose confederation and then federalization, the whole ww1 and ww2 conflicts were about it working so well and expanded the reach of the nation that other powers feared it, same with France, same with the Hastatic league.
The reason why the USA became a federation ironically is because they had few enemies around them and because France helped them to secure their independence, thus they could expand and expand without much fear of anyone trying to wage a massive war to try and stop them which thus far has been the case for most of Europe.
There is also the issue that before, Europe was already expanding all around the world, the need for federalisme did not exist because they were the rulers of the world and thus federalization was not nessisary, untill Germany came to be and changed the dynamics of geo-politics.
Make no mistake if the EU becomes a federation it will most likely have massive effects on geo-politics, will that outcome be good or bad? Who knows? However doing nothing or reverting back to 20th century nation states in the 21th century is bound to cause stagnation, decline and frankly humiliation for all of Europe, not just the EU.
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I think your analisis of European politics is incorrect, slightly.
For one the western Europeans love the current economic situation, their main issue is with immigration and a sense of cultural and ethnic decline.
The eastern european countries are largely depended on western Europe economically, while they oppose migration they know they need us as much as we need them, in fact if you look at the eastern economic policies we are kinda expanding and trying to gear countries like Ukraine further towards our block, idk if you heared but Donald Trump has put sanctions on Germany's Nordstream 1 and 2 project, this will fuel anti americanism even more, making that EU army seem more justified.
As for brexit, idk what evidence you have the EU is doing anything with the UK, they just want a deal and get on with it, the UK was the biggest block of hard Euro-sceptic, now the EU has returned to their core countries, Germany, France, the Netherlands so on.
What I do see is a rise in populism, nativism, anti americanism, anti islam and pro European idenitify politics.
I hope the UK does well with brexit, if they have a deal with the EU they remain in the single market, might mean they will vote again on membership at some point, or perhaps northern ireland and scotland might leave, that's a moral blow to the UK, though that's still speculation, depends on the economic growth and potential terrorist attacks.
I think NATO might be reformed or end at the end of the next decade, Europeans are tired of US wars and Trump may very well try to invade iran in his second term which would be a big deal for European countries since we buy a lot of their oil, overal it seems our focus is shifting from the USA towards the east and asia.
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@yarpen26 I think your forgeting the biggest player and reason why Russia acts the way it does in regards to their relations with China and Europe which is NATO aka the USA.
It's very much in US intrest to keep Russia and Europe divided, they don't want good relations, they don't want war they want unproductive relations and openly seek to sanction, harras, enforce and promote bad trade relations and military stand off, that way Europe is dependent on US protection, while the Russian economy continues to stagnate, they don't care if China becomes more powerfull in the process as long as Europe remains a close ally the USA maintains it's hegomony.
Europe would benefit greatly if Russian and EU relations were good, all that land, resources and people could be mutual beneficial, problem would be that Russia would have great influence on EU policy which currently we don't trust but as we see with Nordstream 1 and 2, trade is improving which is the first steps needed for improvement, still a long way to go though.
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@Janoip I think she is still one of the worst leaders of Germany, no real long term vision for people to believe in, basicaly abandoned the youth of Germany and enforcing policies that will have long term ripple effects that will tear apart the german society and position in the world.
The next leaders of Germany will be mostly busy trying to fix the mess she left behind, with new crisis in the near future, few will be able to do much of anything.
She in many ways mirrors Tony Blair in enforcing policies that will effect and ruine the country she was suppose to govern, Germany did not even meet their co2 reduction quota's, phased out nuclear energy, I expect a lot of political instability and dread in the german society as they deal with how things were left.
Her only saving grace is that she could have been much worse.
Now it's easy to just look down on her mistakes and what she could have done better but how about this point that few people bring up, why has she not attempted to push for basic liberal rights? Why has she empowered the authoritarians? Antagonized the nationalists, divided the country, done away with clean forms of energy in favor of mob rule and gas pipelines with another authoritarian state called Russia? Why do all this if she is a liberal and focused on western values? She barely has any, all Merkel realy seemed to care about is power and her actions made major problems worse.
I could go on but it's just sad to see this woman be seen as some model politician, while I would describe her more as cunning, cold and calculating, without vision or long term plans.
The AFD might have some bad policies here and there but I rather give them a shot compared to Merkel, it's sad to see what Germany has become, esspecialy remembering the optimism of the early 2000s, making way for the sad state of Europe today.
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@mehmetersahin9602 you want war, misery, conflict, terrorism and rapists around the world.
I want peace, open borders is the road to war, you call me names, you wish to see my family and nation be raped, you wish to dehumanze us, wish to stir up resentment and conflict in the west.
You are a totalitarian, ideological driven fanatic who is projecting your ignorance, intolorances and lack of western values onto someone els.
It is people like you that threaten and try to stir conflict who are the ones who want more Hitlers and stalins to rise to power, you want that for Europe and the west so you can get your end times conflict and stir up war between islam and Christianity.
But it won't work, muslims all over the world are rejecting your narrative of war and conflict, the imam of peace in Australia gets death threats from you people all the time but he is brave and will seek to reform islam.
In Europe muslims who intergrate themselves are welcomed, while muslims who seek to divide and controle people (like you) are being rejected, attacked and ridiculed by other muslims like Achmed amoutalep in Rotterdam, the Netherlands and everyone els.
Your era of terror is coming to an end, your words do not controle me, your fears do not hurt me, your hatred does not make me back down, I wish you peace and hope that all borders be raised and violent elements be removed so we can all live in peace, no more support for israeli and US wars, no more tolorance for warmongers like you.
I know the road is difficult, I know you want more immigrants to stir up conflicts, I know force must be used on warmongers like you and the USA but it is a small price to pay for lasting peace, your biggest fear.
Peace be with you, may you find salvation in truth and not war.
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@abdiabdi3225 you do realise nothing is stopping those countries from, idk changing their borders or moving around? The main issue has nothing to do with collonialism at all but basic economics like property rights, law and order and outside investments, african nations that fell to communism became poor, while nations that embraced some form of capitalism thrived, before they were under western administration, laws with some level of investments, slavery was outlawed which came back when the western powers left, along with many people fleeing towards the west along with them.
Truth is people don't want to hold african nations to the same standards as the rest of the world and aid to africa, corporations and governments love to exploit their situation, like all things they have to solve their issues themselves, nobody is going to solve it for them.
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12:04 I really hate this map because it's so wrong on so many levels, for starters all these nations do wage war on a regular basis, France got involved in Libya and is in west africa, Germany had to be put down twice to stop it's militarism and is now going to invest more in it's military as well as trying to form a EU army, the UK had the Falkland wars and is currently giving weapons to Ukraine, non of these nations don't have a great, modern and effective military they simply keep them small due to the USA being the world's super power, expansionism is literally impossible via the current system of global order.
if tomorrow the USA suddenly collapsed all these nations would suddenly find themselves in the positions to expand, to grow and to make alliances with eachother, most likely push even harder for some collective EU army to defend against the biggest players on the board.
the people don't really matter if they want or don't want a war, the only thing that they can worry about is if they win or not.
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people on the left tend to ignore the complex nature of humanity and tend to views things in black and white, you are with us or your a fascist seems to be their agenda, if they truely wished to stop fascism they would support that which is it´s opposite which would be libertarianism, fascism rarely wins any elections they tend to take power often with the support of the people or other parties, how? by justifiying their power and need for more power to face an existential threat to their society.
if say a certain group of far left activists were to riot, censor, destroy and seek to humiliate a victim group, then that might justify that power grab and allow it to grow, if actual fascism was gaining in power it will be because of social alienation and victimisation, which has happened largely to the European populations in the west, even though the leftwing tends to ignore or deny that fact.
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I think the only way for the EU to become a federation and to justify it, is if the leaders of these nations can convince the people that doing so will bring them more security, freedom, wealth, prestige and a greater sense of identity.
however, both the leaders and people don't seem that keen on being more free, they don't always act in ways that bring about more wealth, the identities are somewhat fragmented and they fear eachother sometimes more than greater threats that loom beyond their borders, as for prestige, most people don't find this motivating at all but the elites most certainly see the value and abilities possible in doing so.
Europe is at a crossroads, is it going to try and embrace the future, shape it's own destiny and work for it's own self interest or is it going to collapse, stagnate and decline into nothing while being the play things of other powers more concerned with their great game instead of paying attention to European civilization, only time will tell but I do think and hope we can create a federal Europe that can lead us to a better future.
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@Lepetitagite3432 ohhh yes for sure, we already have problems, Im just saying that the argument that Europe is somehow weak while we have nuclear weapons, have troops in other parts of the world, have an economy which is close to the size of the USA, advanced technologies, weaponry, aircraft carriers, drone programs, so on.
we aren't that weak, in terms of global power projection we are a distant 3rd on the world stage compared to China and the USA, Russia has an economy the size of Italy and one of the worst demografics in all of Europe.
the real issue is that Europe is divided and without a single command structure, something both the USA, China and Russia all have this is a major problem for Europe but it's one that can be solved and we can see some signs of it being solved, it will take years and we still got lots of other problems but this idea that we are somehow weak is just silly.
though i do get why people think this is the case the way we are seen on the news. media and from certain member states actions like in sweden, the UK and Germany, we have issues but compare our problems with say south america, africa, the middle east, central asia, we ain't done yet.
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@bololollek9245 https://youtu.be/Aqq8clIceys here you go
Russia wants to avoid war if possible, war is simply the continuation of politics by other means, Russia is applying a lot of pressure on Ukraine from multiple sources, as well as a proxy war that killed 14.000 people but Ukraine instead of collapsing or changing it's focus instead got stronger and focused on becoming closer to the west, now seeing that Ukraine might actually join NATO, getting more weapons from the west and the decline of the Russian military in terms of overal demografics in Russia, he is considering invading to secure his buffer state, just like he did jn Kazachstan just a few weeks ago.
War is more than just massing troops, it's gathering intelligence, it's testing your cyber Warfare abilities (which Russia has done), it's justifying war goals at home through propaganda, it's making sure nobody stabs you in the back while doing so and securing economic means to prevent outside forces from getting involved directly, Russia has done all these things and more, so to think they aren't going to invade at this point would make them look stupid almost, that's why the region is on high alert because people know how this game is played.
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@oremfrien first thanks for writing your response, it was interesting to read.
that being said, im not so convinced that Trump was as bad as you say, from what I've seen from him his tax changes were not just for the upper class of the USA and the concentration of wealth in the richest few has been going on long before he came into power and will continue even after he left, his anti China stance is actually something very brave and respectable because while many corporations want to outsource to China and even if many lower skilled jobs or voters who voted for him him lose money, the threat of China on the world stage is much more concerning than their wealth.
Obama envisioned a world where the USA and China benefit eachother and Trump views China more as an antagonistic player and a potential threat to US hegemony and I think he is correct in engaging against China, it does not mean all his actions were effective and I would disagree more with his hostile stance towards NATO and his stance against his European allies, though his demands towards them were not very unreasonable, though could have been done better.
Trump has always been very pro freedom of speech, signing executive orders specifically to protect freedom of speech at universities and speak out against mainstream media misinformation and online censorship, though he could have done a lot more if he wanted to.
I find the 4 years of nonstop anti Trump propaganda and big tech censorship of him while being acting president, far more disturbing and without the corona virus and changes to voter laws he would not have lost the 2020 election, about the issue of voter fraud, from what I gathered the amount of dislike people have towards Biden compared to the amount of votes he has gotten, while also compared to the limited number of counties he actually got the claims of voter fraud seem quite convincing but to see that and prove it in court are two very different things, which is why it's also very telling that the supreme court did not weigh in on this, if they had done so this story would have been laid to rest for everyone, Trump would have looked like a fool and the democrats would have appeared far better than they actually did all year.
many if not most of Trump's voter base still believes he was rigged out of the presidency and trust in the government, the media and government institutions is at an all time low, violent gangs run parts of major cities, the capital riots did not happen because of Trump but the view that his supporters were not being represented and then demonized in the media while all year long riots and deaths by other more democratic supported sides were allowed and praised.
there is a massive disconnect between the elites, the political parties and the people, Trump and his voter base are still present within the general population, Trump or his potential replacement will most likely run in 2024.
my view is that Trump was a great president who was undone because he tried to take the neo-con route of trying to make compremises between elites within his party and the democratic party, he did not go full populist on issues that realy matter to the people and he was too populist when it came to allies and creating a comprehensive plan against China, for a person who never was in politics, who suddenly became the president, with elites, the media and the rich largely against him, like never before against any president, despite not having caused any new wars and actually trying to bring troops back but being denied by his own generals, this is quite concerning.
love him, hate him, Trump is here to stay and represents a revolt of the masses against the current structure in power, that does not mean he will win, that does not mean he won't matter, it does not mean he is fantastic and will always do the right thing or wrong thing, it just means he has influence in the USA and people will support him, if he wins in 2024 or picks a new candidate to give his support to, he will influence politics for better or for worse, I think it will be for the better.
for the record, im not even American, I'm Dutch but I think he is the best choice for the USA and for now the best person to stand up against China, though I will agree with you, if the democrats ran with someone like Andrew Yang then that would be a good choice against Trump and for the USA, from my view it would be one good choice against another potentially good choice, where as with Biden it's just bad and just Obama 2.0
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I slightly disagree with the proposition at the end, because while Balkanization is certainly possible and is even likely in certain parts of the west like the UK, Belgium, France perhaps, Italy as the central government and culture changes so does the loyalty to those nations change for better or for worse, that being said the opposite is also true, environments with a lot of chaos in them and a sense of fear and despair are going to turn towards either religion or utopian ideologies, now some nations will turn to religion as is likely the case in most of eastern Europe but in the west it's likely to be more utopian ideologies that takes shape and I think the main ideas that will start to melt into the wider societies will be nationalism, pan nationalism, transhumanism, techno-gainism, communism/neo communism and ethnic nationalism/racial nationalism
The reason why I think these ideologies will play a role in whole or in part is due to the ethnic/cultural tensions, climate change, present day environmentalism not working as envisioned and collapse of economic systems as well as new technologies shaping society, all these things thrown together is going to be a free for all for competing groups and they can evolve in very strange ways, you could see environmentalist islamists who want equality in ways that mirror communists from the past, you could see pan European transhumanists who want to create their own god machine "leader" to guide them, you could see fascistic capitalists with christian state religion.
It all depends on who grows the most, gets the upper hand and crushed the other.
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I used to be somewhat of a leftist and looking back im still not quit sure myself, while I never was anything like the current day sjw's, I think it's mostly driven by ignorance and naive idealism, ''im not such a bad guy, if I had all the power like Stalin I would have done a good job'' they humanize the monster because they believe they would have done a beter job.
when you get older you realise just how easy manipulated you can be, how often people lie, how often institutions you were told are led by upstanding and moral people are realy just cowards and fools perhaps more so then you are, is when you realise that human beings are just imperfect and you can accept that or desire to change that but you first have to admit that as a human, you could be wrong, wicked and as immoral as everyone els, that's when you start to become wise in my opinion.
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@magnuscritikaleak5045 they both were, hell Mussolini used to be a member of the socialist party of italy before he became fascist and Hitlers national socialism is an almost exact copy of fascism but with an added volkish and racist ideology.
The easiest way to understand it is thus, communism is international socialism and fascism/national socialism is a nationalistic form of socialism, the current nation of China has the same type of government and ideology as national socialism and fascism which is also reflected in their transition from national cultural destruction during Mao's reign and the current government that wants to praise and restore cultural traits and identities around the older era's of China, which is very much in line with the ideology of historical fascism and national socialism, the idea of expanding the nation, regaining lands, socialising the people to this goal, guiding the economy to produce wealth and materials needed to expand via war, all of this is in line with national socialism, communism and fascism, socialists today simply want to use this same method of government for their goals of public education, healthcare, identity, government regulation while often still having market forces and capitalistic structures to support it, like Sweden which is both very socialistic with wellfare programs while being much more free market then the USA.
Being a socialist or support of socialism does not make you a national socialist or a fascist but denying that nat-soc and fascistic regimes did not employ socialism is just being dishonest and inaccurate and it's easy to see why, since that might convince people that socialism is a bad idea, which it is.
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@nillynush4899 USA is the one who did that, USA started the wars, USA loves diversity, USA loves anti white racism, USA loves jews, USA loves africans, USA loves sending Africans to Europe, USA loves being the only collonial power beside israel, USA is allied with all the major Islamic forces in the world while condeming and waging war on seculare goverments.
But please go on how the EU which can't force migrants onto countries via gun point is more of a threat to Europe then the country literaly responsable for every fiber of decline in the west, Europe and the rise of 3rd world countries and China.
If Europe wants to survive it needs to get rid of NATO, the Americans and forge their own destiny with China, China kills muslims, USA arms them.
Where are your priorities people?
Get real and stop with this childish nonsense, I did the same thing 4 years ago.
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@Ethaara well then enjoy the high taxes, no families, high living costs and overal decline of society.
lowering taxes are the best way to help the poor and middle-class in society, the elderly should have saved money for a rainy day or realise the future generations don't really need them so why should we care?
we are actually in the 6th mass extinction event right now, so life is kinda dying and your kinda helping with it by not reproducing and not having kids won't make others not have kids so that's a self defeating mentality in case you were thinking it (no offense)
life is short and you should enjoy it but you can enjoy a good meal, sex, raising kids, laughing at things, listening to music, sleeping, doing sports, working, talking to people, can't say I enjoy all those things very much but there are things you can do very cheaply, ironically the most annoying things in life are dealing with things you have no controle over, no matter how small they are.
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@HoneyTwee I prefer we deal with real issues like the homeless, how to make people wealthier, more free and more united against real authoritarian regimes like Russia or China than waste time pandering to a group of oppertunistic money grubbers who only want tax payer money to fund their non issue causes.
your the authoritarian one who is helping authoritarian regimes get ahead, while we are stuck talking about these non issues.
you already got all the rights you need, now your just talking about privilages, don´t waste everyone´s time, your manner of thinking is backwards, childish, spoiled and of no benefit to the majority of the population, perhaps focus on real issues and help the communities you wish to be a part of and then people will become more accepting? seems better than trying to force it though with no benefit to the majority, im just saying.
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@Pincer88 that's a bit untrue to a degree, yes the current organisation how they are today would not exist without NATO but that's not to say organisations like them would not exist, in fact the EU is not much different from Germany's goals in ww1 which was to create a network of nations and create a international body for economic and political matters, it was to be called ''MittelEuropa'' in which Germany would be the main economic and military engine of Europe and then grow, compete and unify the rest of Europe under it's sphere (kind of like the EU is today) in many ways that's even what the nazi's wanted just with a lot more slavery, genocide and settler based colonialism.
the current world order is because of the cold war and the policies set by the USA and the USSR, this destroyed the old order of European nations and thus we were forced to change and adapt to this new reality, now we've all benefited a lot from this new order and it's mostly thanks to the USA but also the invention of nuclear weapons, this made wars much more impossible and working together much more nessisary and profitable but we should not forget how strange this new reality actually is from most of human history and also don't forget it can't last forever, before ww1 no major industrial nation was at war with eachother for over 98 years I believe and then ww1 and ww2 happened, the current long peace can't last forever and when it happens new political systems and governments will be nessisary, it is inevitable.
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Israel does not defend Europe it never has, they only defend themselves, we fund them and in the aftermath they send the refugees and migrants to Europe.
I can understand why you support them, you are of an older generation, properly indoctrinated to think they are our allies, it's sad to see but it's a lost cause to try and change your mind.
Israel has attacked the west, attacked the USA, stole nuclear secrets, blackmails our governments, has nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, it's the north korea of the middle-east.
Perhaps we should copy them though, even if we get labeled "far right" by them for doing so.
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@TheBelovedDisciple144 the USA is a 3rd world country run by crooked elites, it has very low social mobility, it's education system is a joke as is their healthcare, the only thing that's keeping the USA economy thriving globally is food, energy, military weapons and banking (stockholds included)
Trumps protectionist policies will have long term effects on the US economy, it can win for a long time but it is on borrowed time.
And remember what happens in the USA will happen in the rest of the world later, so America first becomes China first, Europe first, Russia first, NATO can not survive in it's current form and countries are gearing up to seek to destroy it, first of which is Europe and like it or not, Europe is significant for US power projection, what's going to happen if NATO falls apart? You think Russia is going to invade Europe like the US media loves to claim? No Russia is falling apart and Germany is trying to get it in their "Eurosphere" of influence, the only ones who fear that are the USA and eastern european countries who are still jumpy from the cold war.
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@richardthomson4693 I'm not sure if France went out of the eurofighter just because it was not compatable with their aircraft carrier which is also weird because you could just make a variant for such purposes, the F-35 comes in different variants as well, probably more politically motivated rather then pragmatically motivated.
nations getting F-35's is not an indication that they aren't interested in building their own fighter, simply the war in Ukraine makes it wiser to get something that's modern and actually done already now then to develop something 9-15 years down the line when you might need it now, it's not mutually exclusive.
France and Germany already work on multiple goals together, Euro-drone I believe, Euro-tank as well, no reason they can't work with each other, thought there are issues for sure.
USA does not want many plans of the F-35 to fall in other people's hands, if you make a deal for F-35 a lot of the secrets are kept in US hands and by US personal, trainers and engineers, that's a major issue for military hardware imports, there is a good video by Perun on youtube that goes into the whole process you probably would enjoy it.
not sure how good the Tempest is going to be or if it's going to get started, UK does not look so fresh right now, Japan might pullout or focus on their own project, Sweden might be considering their options, basically both sides aren't very sure on what to do but I think in the end the FCAS program will be put forward simply because it's best for everyone, more funds and more talent to be poured into it compared to the Tempest, could be wrong but in terms of scale and economic power France and Germany have more to offer then the UK, Italy or Sweden combined.
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@liamsinestra2902 I don't see it that way at all, many of them cite statistics, articles that demand they change their additude for the gain of females, feminism has ruined many comic books, movies and anytime men dislike their behavior they are labeled incels.
The media only cares about clicks, attention and dividing society, they don't care about giving a accurate account of many of these males, ive seen them, talked to them.
Why are they in a online group that so called "hate woman"? Because it's a group, it's like flat earth or lizzard people conspiracy theories, Sam Vaknin had a few lectures on it, many of these men have been rejected, divourced, lost their kids, got depressed, lost their jobs, because in their experience real or imagined by woman, woman culture, feminism and those around it, rather then risking and losing in the high competition game of human relationships they isolate themselves as a means of coping the psycological wounds they have.
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@liamsinestra2902 it's not realy a cult, it's a support group, feminism is more of a cult, blind obey, authoritarian outlook, victim vs oppresor narratives, use of government to gain financial support.
Meanwhile many of these guys were the victim of the current system, lost their families, their wives, their homes, some lost their dogs, others have been discriminated against for most of their lives and very little they can do about it on a individual level.
They could work out and work on themselves aka become MGTOW but it's not realy a cult because a cult looks for potential members and seek to gain them, while these groups simply exist and men join them on their own free will.
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@lynn4062 yes, I do know, you don't, that's the problem.
What happened was that European powers left due to the USA withholding funds from the Marshall plan if they did not abandon their colonies, many of these colonies fell into dictatorships, local warlords or turned to communism, the borders drawn by the Europeans and then local leaders taking them over left a very unstable situation, many of the investments into the colonial economy vanished and were not maintained by the local leaders.
You have to understand how much these places benefited by western rule for a long time compared to the state they were in before, you also have to take into account if the colonial economy was settler based or exploitative based, the Congo is a good example of the later while south africa is a good example of the former.
Western powers did very little to fuck up the situation and in fact allowed massive population growth due to improved farming and connection with the rest of the world, Zimbabwe used to be the breadbasket of Africa before communist Mugabe came into power, the only two things the western powers did that was very bad was 1. Leave and 2. Kept the borders as they were instead of dividing the lands to local leaders based on ethnic, language and vital resources lines.
Though regardless the situation was bound to decline and stagnate due to the vastness of Africa itself, the massive populations there and the lack of modern nation states and institutions there, why this myth then of the west becoming rich due to colonialism? Because it's easy and takes responsability away from the natives and blames the west, even though the west was already rich before the scramble for africa, did not make up a big part of their economies and after decolonisation the western powers thrived economically while the former colonies stagnated.
Whatifalthist has some video's on the subject if your interested.
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I don´t like to do ''whataboutism'' but I just want to point out that during ww2 the UK banned the Fascist party from the UK, they were not allowed to be voted on and were in fact their leaders were being put in jail, why? because there was a legit risk of there being a coup, Ukraine banning opposition parties for their connection to the kremlin which is currently invading them is a smart thing to do.
hell we do this all the time in peace time as well, Greece banned the Golden Dawn party, Russia bans other parties, China bans all parties, the USA only has two parties.
people aren't rational and vote based on emotions more so than on rational thinking, besides that Ukraine is not a very free or uncorrupt nation to begin with the only way it can become more free is by having leaders who understand the people's mindset and history and taking action against things that harm their path to freedom, you can see this in Brazil they voted for Bolsanaro but now Lula is likely to win in a new election, the guy who got locked up for being corrupt and a leftist, the people aren't rational, democracy is not ruled by the rational it's ruled by the mob and is therefor not very pro freedom in general, freedom is a very abstract concept that can only exist when the power of citizens and the power of the state are both limited, systems create freedom not people.
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@J0nnyDonny I doubt that's actually the real reason, I think it has more to do with power, once you have all the money, then what? then you want power and controle and many of these platforms are competition for other companies of the same payment processor, so by playing favorites they can gain favors by other companies.
that's my theory at least, CEO's tend to be psychopathic and goal oriented, they would kill their own mother for a quick buck, they don't care about morals or how they make their money, they care about power and wealth, if the wealth is below the power they gain by burning it they would do that.
the only way to solve this issue is to break their monopoly position, cryptocurreny might do this but I rather it just be a new payment processors that understands the benfits of making money.
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nonsense, the idea already exists in peoples minds, the political will in a handful of parties already exists and the elites in charge want to project that they have supreme power when in fact they have barely kept on to power for as long as they have and they have nothing to show for it.
the forces that would oppose it will be busy with other events, as the world changes so does people’s focus and ability to act, actions taken in ww2 and post ww2 would not be repeated for many, many decades but there would be many attempts.
the people are fickle and often just go with the flow, the idea of a general people’s uprising is a cope, the reality of counter elites being formed already exist.
people don’t realise that the current crisis is a generational crisis, the boomers have dominated for so long and have done such a poor job, that the moment they pass away the newer generations will be smaller and change can happen much faster.
the world today is the legacy of the boomers and once they pass on, a new reality will be created, it is inevitable, it has happened through out history.
the real question is, how much damage will the west take and how much of that damage is permanent? And some of it will be permanent in some form but with times those changes will becomes minor.
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@iamaloafofbread8926 uhhh huh... so the internal issues, the lack of proper law enforcement, the corrupt judges, the political infighting, the incompetent and ideologically corrupt generals who openly give information about nukes to your enemies, the media, the woke ''entertainment'' industry, the online censorship, the progressive military ad, the dimentia ridden president, the election manipulation by big tech and the media, the overal trust in the government being at an all time low, the lack of action against Turkey, Russia or China.
yeah it's just ''shifting'' it's focus, focusing towards a downward spiral, allright.
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@allhumansarejusthuman.5776 still self defence, it's on video , boy you sure must be sad that they got it on video and you can't smear him with your nonsense, must be tough for you criminals this time of year, constant losing, riots in your name, criminals are your hero's while the citizens fight to clean up your mess in self defence, after he is proven innocent he might get a few millions from the media that slandered him, live like a king the rest of his life, good for him, he earned it.
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@QWERTY-gp8fd like Germany or Japan? Im joking but simple numbers don't matter what matter is military supremacy and israel in that regard has both nuclear weapons, advanced AI, anti missle shields, billions of funds, massive support from the west and US, advanced cybersecurity and a highly nationalistic and military trained population, what more could you need? The idea that they need to wage wars or acts of aggresion and nobody can fight back or that they realy need western aid is just paranoid and delusional to me.
The days that israel is even threatened by anyone realy are over and they are the aggresors now, btw saudi arabia does the same and in many ways is even worse so lets not excuse one and allow the other but condem both sides and treat israel like any other nation instead of a special snowflake that can do no wrong and is weak yet somehow able to bomb, kill and annex lands if they feel like it, it's just bizzar to me and it hurts the west if we can't condem both sides in the region, after 2013 refugee crisis we don't want another US or israeli made crisis on our hands.
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@geoffreycole8851 you do realise the british royal family has been intermarried with lots of european people's, nobels and has always been geografically connected to it, the dutch, danish, french and even germans have influenced and have been influenced by the british isles even before roman times, to claim the british aren't connected or part of Europe is just silly and the only argument that makes any sense for it is that it's an island, well ireland is an island right next to the UK and they are still in the EU and trade with the rest of the world as well.
I'm sorry but this idea of Anglo-exceptionalism is only realy visable in minor things like the industrial revolution and rule of law, everything els is almost exactly the same, hell English is a germanic language even, the term Anglo comes from Anglo-Saxon which were people from northern germany and denmark who conqered and settled the lands which would become England which would then later be conquered by the normans which were of mixed viking and northern french origin, followed by waves of migrations from the continent to the british isles the list goes on.
the british people belong to the European identity, civilization and history and even with Brexit i dont see that changing any time soon.
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@thebrowns5337 bullshit, purely emotional fabrication on your part, assuming people would not do that, here in the netherlands we have done literaly everything you just sayd yet we also had a forced lockdown, people are angry that they can't generate their income which they need to survive, millions lost their jobs worldwide, we got it a bit lucky compared to other places since our government was smart enough to realise that we were following the guidelines so the lockdowns were unnessisary.
the onyl threat from corona virus I see is people pretending like these lockdowns aren't huge humanitarian disasters, who look down on people who actualy work for a living and now can't pay their rent or have to force their kids to stay at another family member because the government told them they aren't allowed to go to work.
unless the virus mutates and becomes way more deadly, the lockdowns are unjustificable, they were enforced in a moment of panic when little information was out but after several months it's clear that the lockdowns have been almost worst for people than the virus, which is why most European nations are opening up again and are now at about 70% functional again which to many means they just might stay afloat a while longer.
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Atheism tries to be a religion without any virtue, it has no codified form of ethics and often ''rationalism'' is simply used as a tool to justify pre-determined conclusions.
now I consider myself more an Agnostic, there is some kind of magic or divine spirit in the universe, there has to be to create all that we see, it is beyond our understanding so claiming there is no supernatural can't ever be 100% correct, though disproven most often, for sure.
religions are interesting, though I often wonder how people can form such strong believes and believe them to be true, in a way it's both a blessing and a curse, you can't question certain things but you have a justification for moral laws from a higher power, seeing as more people are worshiping the state as a substitute for god these days the results are always horrific since your always putting your faith in human beings and they are more corrupt then they themselves realize.
don't get me wrong, religions are often also corrupt with their priest class but at least they have laws and views that have some long term order in them, I feel science has yet to properly understand religions from a scientific and psychological perspective over civilizations, laws, philosophy and cultural vigor.
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I feel like Truth does not exist, not in a real sense, yet at the same time truth in the material has real effects, it can help you survive and in fact thrive to win at the biological game of life that all things living are doing which in essence would be the meaning of life and being in tune with nature but at the same time this truth to many seems meaningless, without purpose and reduces the human experience to it's primary biological essence while ignoring everything else, thus whatever truth we come to will be non-materialistic, it will be abstract, different from the norm, it will be something odd, strange or detached from the real world.
imagine if you wish to be the best chef in the world, you study material means but also experiment to reach the art of perfection in your craft, people around you praise you for your work and you yourself have found meaning in this act, does that mean you live in truth? can you live this truth without the material? what if your a monk trying to find enlightenment is that truth? what if you are a scientist trying to find the secrets of the universe through complex concepts of science, is that truth.
the truth is subjective to the person, the higher cause you seek is not universal, it might find a universal conclusion for meaning but the path towards it is highly individual and abstract, the more you focus on the inner mind and workings of abstract ideas the less materialistic and focused on biological sense of purpose you will be, you can try and balance these two but in doing so one can say you have forsaken truth for the material there is no escape of this dillema.
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7:10 not sure what your talking about, Germany is still the number 1 economy in Europe.
It strikes me as odd that Europe having more people than the USA, having nukes, having economies in the top 20 of biggest economies in the world, the second biggest reserve currency, being involved in wars around west, north africa, the middle-east and aiding Ukraine vs Russia right now in the form of sanctions for Russia and weapons for Ukraine is somehow more irrelevant and more pathetic than say south america, all of Africa, the middle-east or many parts of Asia, like don't get me wrong we aren't as great as we used to be and would be better off with our current weak leadership, the problem with that is that such a shift might go against US national interest which is what's really holding us back, that and the threat from Russia.
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You sound like someone who has no understanding of deterence theory or history, Russia has always been an invading force, the other half of the axis coin when it was the soviet union and the great terror for much before and after it came to be.
Russia does have have PTSD, Russia has Borderline personality disorder and a major drinking problem, they can have all the nukes in the world, they won't do a thing, Russia is dying with it's current leadership they can't stop NATO expansion which is why they are pissed off, they can invade Ukraine if they like, it will cost them dearly, more nations will join NATO, it's always going to be a lose/lose deal for them in the long run.
If Russia is to prosper it has to stop being so authoritarian, it has to embrace more liberal ideas, allow more investment from outside it's own borders, it has to become more friendly with it's enemies and then perhaps it can grow much stronger and much more respected on the world stage, Europe wants a strong Russia but only if a strong Russia keeps Europe free and independent, that's the issue.
Nobody is threatening Russia, Russia is threatening everyone around it for centuries.
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@TheRaviotar might makes right, MGTOW is not extreem enough, it's mild resistance, woman must feel the pain of being abandoned by their males, society must collapse, the best way to do that? Keep woman in charge.
MGTOW has the right start, working out, not caring about sex, learning how to fight and be real men again, feminists hate it because they fear it.
But it's not enough, at some point the boot must be put on the throats of feminists and progressives and just keep stomping till they cease to exist.
They live like vermin, they will be treated like vermin.
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@robertkeaney9905 it's more so due to scale of industry, USA dominating after ww2 and kept that edge sharp by not being involved in many wars but maintaining their industrial base and by the luck of having their main rival be the communist USSR which while somewhat competent with its designs quickly fell out of favor and then collapsed.
USA does not need to wage wars or have proxy conflicts to maintain that edge, in fact over the last few decades the USA has been doing exactly that thing that has made them lose that edge which is transfering a lot of industry to China, waging wars on their own dime with little benefit, while ignoring issues at home and lowering the values of a competent military leadership that reduces it's effect on their enemies, Victor David Hanson had a great article a few days ago on why the US military is slipping in it's recruitment numbers, the trust in it's military and those that lead it.
The USA is still the worlds super power but time as of now, is not on their side, the USA needs to change gears if it wants to maintain that edge, I think they will change but that's not inevitable and in the meantime the enemies of the USA will continue to adapt and learn.
The only good news has been the recent Russia Ukraine conflict, lots of weapon deals, F-35 deals, new interest in NATO alliance and two of their potential competition hindering eachothers economies and revealing weakness in the Russian army.
When things get tough for the americans, god throws them a bone it seems, when things get tough for the Europeans, god adds another war to the list.
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@uther2917 most educated people stay in eastern and southern European parts of the country, mostly cheap labor most effected by the recession of 2008 went to other European nations, the amount of immigration between EU members is quite minimal, the import from 3rd world countries is insane to the point of threatning the existence of whole nations, mostly the UK, Germany, Sweden and France.
The EU is why many European nations were able to trade cheaper goods and services and have free movement of people within EU member states, the Euro currency is also good for trade as is the single market, the EU recently passed a nee trade deal with south america, lowering the price of beef and pork, while potentialy hurting the native beef market, the benefits outweigh the problems.
That being sayd the EU has had a series of setbacks, problems and poor leadership in my opinion but lets also not forget the USA Actions that promotes these developments.
In short the situation is more complex then EU bad, though I don't blame you for thinking this way, I did so too not too long ago.
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Islam is weak, it's weak in it's actual power, weak in spirituality, weak in retoric, weak in convincing others, even their violence is more barbarism than actual power.
what islam does have is institutions, it's a very totalitarian religion that has stricts rules and community focused pressures that keeps the religion going.
but as we can see those institutions are also slowly decaying just like they did in the west, liberalism is all devouring but we have to see how because liberalism is a shadow of something much more powerful which is of course the USA, it is the center of the empire, the focus of where it comes from, where it is strongest, everything else basically flows from that and every resistance to liberalism will at some point come into conflict with it.
if you want to see the end of liberalism you will have to see the end of the USA first, what that means is the nation has to be defeated, the leadership needs to change or a rivial has to offer a alternative that goes against it, right now that only rival is basically China.
you can ask if you prefer China over the USA but simply seeing an alternative can weaken the empire as it is now, who knows what the future might hold if it weakens enough.
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@fury3029 because it means certain specific corporations will be able to dominate 80% of all video's and views on certain topics that those major corporations talk about, it's how CNN and other news corporations survive, they know they can't compete with the amount of cheap and easy to use manpower of the total internet so they want to remove the competition by any means possible, what this does in reality is actual election interfering and mass promotion of propaganda for their selected news stories, in short it will become a very authoritarian, disinformation dominated society.
not just in australia but if it's spreads further all over the world, we already see it's effects with just minor alteration of their algoritmes but with this they will set a new normal which will become more and more rooted into the culture, it's like those SOPA and PIPA treaties which were going to congress back in 2013 I believe, back then like right now people were against it and did mass protests to prevent it from passing.
in my view fighting against censorship and corporate domination of our society seems to be the number 1 fight for our generation, much more so than global warming or trade war with US or China, without accurate and challanged information, we wont be able to solve major problems and will basicaly doom any and all attempt to make a beter future.
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@lif3andthings763 the UK and most western countries are actually doing that, promoting the idea that native culture just deserves to be wiped out while also extracting resources from them to fund it, not to mention that most western nations are aging, meaning that within 20-50 years the majority native population is going to collapse and what's left will be a minority of native people and a new majority of "diverse" people.
Now you don't need to care about that, even though it's against your own self interest, but say it what it is, it's colonialism and at worst ethnic cleansing, if it's wrong when Europeans do it (on a much smaller scale btw) then how is it suddenly justified when it's us? If anything your fueling far right and extremist thinking because you prove to society that democracy does not work to defend ones own nation, which is exactly the argument that was made by historical fascism, if you want to repeat history, oke but I think that's very stupid and easy to avoid.
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@KAvanAlten ik vind het bizzar dat men denkt dat hij dat doet, daar is geen enkel bewijs voor, wat er meer is dat zoals je zegt vrijheid van meningsuiting is iets dat in Nederland gewoon eigenlijk niet bestaat en dus elke conversatie over landmijnen lopen is, zelfs als iemand in de jeugd afdeling over weet ik veel wat zegt dat er dan gevolgens zijn voor de top zijn belachelijk.
FVD kan niet antisemitische zijn of wat dan ook omdat het openlijk steun geeft aan israel en joodse gemeenschappen, hun hele ideologie is voor bescherming van hun en andere groepen, dus hoe kunnen ze zijn wat de media beweert?
wat dit in werkelijkheid is, is zwakheid van de top die liever willen dat ze net zo worden als elke andere partij en dus vrijheid van meningsuiting dus niet belangrijk vinden en helaas zijn de meeste nederlanders ook niet echt pro vrijheid maar ik zie nu weinig toekomst voor FVD want ze hebben geen echte platform, hun leiderschap is nu verzwakt van binnen en ze zijn nu alleen nog maar over met mensen die dus niet te vertrouwen zijn en geen nieuwe ideeën hebben.
erg zonde, hoop dat Baudet verder gaat zonder ze en de partij kan redden van de ruggenstekers, hopelijk leert ie hier van en treed ie iets sterker op, niet zo zeer omdat wat de jeugd doet zo slecht is maar omdat zijn eigen partij blijkbaar niet dezelfde soort ruggengraat heeft als hij.
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21:42 this is actually a good point that hits the nail on the head of what it realy comes down to, what is Europe? who are Europeans? to me this is quite simple, European nation states are ethno-states, wars have been fought for an ethnic and linqistic people to form nations and from that nationalism sprung pan-nationalism, the problem is that Europe became like the USA in terms of trying to not be ethno states and become ''diverse'' and ''tolorant'' of other people's but in the process they gave up that which made them special to begin with, Europe is for lack of a better word, blood and soil societies, in many ways like how Israel is today.
if being European is not based on any ethnic or cultural identity then it does not exist and is ripe to be taken by those that are, therefor I think new forms of radical nationalism will be pan national and will most likely become more racist and more xenophobic towards people they consider other, not nessisarry go down the road of nazism again but a backlash against the hedonistic and multicultralism of the USA and more towards the multiethnic pan european identity which is already starting to form, esspecially in the youth.
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How ironic, since the USA had overthrow many democracies it did not like and supported many dictatorships that wanted their support.
The USA is also a "democracy" as are most western nations, they all still engage in wars and crooked, authoritarian policies, they just hide it beter.
Lobbying is a legal form of corruption, which has eroded the democratic and western values of the west and deminished the US respect, authority and competence on the world stage, China would love to make it's own lobby in the USA.
The Europeans are getting sick of constant wars and problems by the USA, we could see an end of NATO.
The USA putting on sanctions on Russia because Russia wants to trade with Europe is what drove the Russian state closer to China, it's easy to see why the USA wants to stand in the way of peace, prosperity and spreading of western values because then they won't be in charge.
Europe's first goal sould be to build a EU army and get out of NATO before the USA invades Iran.
A free society does not need censorship to silence opposition to it's authoritarian powers, we have lots of censorship, so how are we free?
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@edgelord8337 I do recall something like that, I believe it were a bunch of anti american and CCP supporting trolls, saying things like "Ugers aren't being killed or tortured, the USA is evil imperialism because China so great, they fear China because China so great, China is next superpower because they build stuff and trade with African nations, not like Europeans or Americans they only bring war and misery"
The typical scripted CCP shills, I believe you engaged them quite serieusly and I was trying to say how they are shilling and copy pasted scripts on different comment sections but they kept pushing your buttons.
Could be im confusing myself with another person, the CCP shills do tend to show up when people talk about China online.
Have to say early 2000s trolls were much more creative and sneaky, these days they all copy the same script or sound bites and splater them everywhere, Vox, Nowthisnews, TYT (avoid this one, censorship hell) morning south china news, they are everywhere.
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Well you say that but society, goverment, law and the media do cater to female wishes and female privilages, most woman I meet are narcisistic, privilaged, entitled and so incels and MGTOW men are a reaction to that society privilage given through authoritarian means.
In the past society was much more meritocratic and equality based but now men are not only expected to improve constantly (which I fully agree is a natural state of male for female competition) but woman aren't expected to improve, aren't very likeable, aren't able to compete with men and through authoritarian means exploit and parasitize on men.
A few days ago here in the Netherlands the government passed a woman quota for top positions, basicaly admiting woman can't or don't want to reach the top and so authoritarian means are implemented to make it so.
So men who complain about society and female privilage are actualy standing up for their own self intrest, it's just that females and esspecialy feminists don't want to hear it because then that would mean they are wrong, it's a common defence mechanism in people with narcisistic personality disorder which I think most new wave feminists suffer from and most incels were victimized by.
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@AtomicReverend not accuate at all, Russia is no threat to Europe, in fact Russia trades the most with Europe and the sanctions on Russia and Germany are promoted by the USA and it's easy to see why, the USA loves it's power projection and good relations between Europe and Russia stand in the way of that.
We don't need NATO, you need NATO, hell we are likely to go to war with Turkey which the USA has propt up whole waging wars in the middle-east threatning Iran (who just so happen to be a major trading partner for Europe)
The USA benefits the most from NATO, it pays rather little for the amount of influence they get, in exchange for free movement, Logistic support and supplylines for it's wars in the middle-east.
The USA has weakend Europe, caused waves of migrants and is the main reason we even have multiculturalism in Europe, it's not the European media calling white people racists for existing, mostly US media and US NPO's.
The USA even allied with Saudi-arabia who funds most terrorism in Europe to begin with.
I don't think your very intrested in hearing our opinion on the matter, nor do you seem to care that anti americanism is more populair than anti migrant sentiment, the USA won't lift a finger to help us, won't support nationalism for us and most likely will engage in hostile action and support of our enemies to try and destabalize us, I don't like Merkel or the rest of the globalist trash but you do realise globalism is a US ideology one you only resently with Trump, kinda, sorta not realy tried to adress.
Demografics in the USA are much more severe and the retoric much more anti white than in Europe, with exception of the UK and perhaps Sweden.
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20:06 dude what are you talking about? it honestly is confusing to make sense of what your saying, the USA wants to decide these policies, the whole reason of NATO is to keep russians out, germans down and the americans in, that's what NATO is, what you are basically saying here is that it's pafetic that the Europeans do what the USA wants them to do and allows the USA to dictate to them how to run their countries, how big their armies are allowed to be and what kind of treaties they are allowed to make with Russia and other nations, the NATO high command of Europe specifically says that the USA does not want Europe to have it's own military or to go against the US wishes or get involved in the middle east unless it is led by the USA or NATO directly.
unlike most European leaders, I deeply distrust the USA and think we would be better off building up our own military, rejecting US protection and should find a way to get Russia into the Euro-sphere of influence but the USA does not want that and since the EU is not a full federation like the USA and the USA also does not want Europe to be it's own entity without US support, it puts Europe in a catch 22, we are made fun of and weak if we follow the USA and their model and agenda or we pick our own side and get crushed or divided by the americans or russians to keep us divided.
for Europe to reclaim it's place in the world it would have to become more hostile to the USA and their interest while either taking over russia or getting them in our sphere, working with other nations like China, while exploiting the middle east and africa whenever possible, Germany would have to pull a Bismark and create a federal European state in a moment of crisis where every member state would feel threatened by external presures and basically strong arm everyone else to their agenda while the USA does nothing.
if there are two mistakes the europeans did after ww2 that hurt them the most, it's trusting the USA too much and not finding more ways to unite into a single continental federation.
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@vojislavl6665 yes national socialism is socialism as in your shared article.
Did you read the rest of it though? Socialists used force and propaganda to try and get socialism enacted for their own benefit not because they care about people and it indirectly led to the deaths of millions.
Look we can go back and forth here, you can cherry pick any tiny detail and pretend like it makes your ideology look good, im sure other mass movements that led to war and famine at some point did something good but that's not the core of their ideology, that's not the foundation of their policies and how they are implemented.
You are acting like a ideologically possed person who can't doubt their own ideology and the problems it has caused, the deaths, the famines, lifting people out of poverty for a few years and then collapsing the economy into famines and death is not a stable ideology.
You don't care about economics and neo-liberalism has long since abandoned any ideas of individual freedom or regulations and intervention in the market for the good of the people, the bail outs of banks in 2008 only helped the banks not the people, while the government in iceland did jail the bankers and their practices and are doing fine years later as a result.
There is no perfect economy, there is no total capitalism or total communism anymore, most of the world now has a mixed model of diffrent kinds of policies for each industry which bring diffrent kinds of results.
In Russia the state owns most of the energy companies because that is a key part of their economy which drives investment into their other industries.
In Venezuela they nationalized the oil industry but because of costly and top down socialist programs and lack of investment in new sectors when the oil prize collapsed their economy collapsed.
In the USA they have an almost self sufficient economy and internal market, partly due to capitalism and largely due to annexation and collonial policies during it's first few decades of existing as a state on the continent.
In israel they have a big tech and military industry, in south korea the same.
Some nations are more victims of sanctions and policies by the world bank, like African nations, Russia and Iran.
Im not trying for some gotcha moment, im trying to teach you that Socialism as an economic model has failed time and time again, the people might want it, clever propagandists and violent political actors might force the government to implement their policies but they will generaly bring bad results.
Nations like Sweden and the UK are completly swarmed by migrants which cripple their healthcare system, their economy, their public security and political stability, those most in favor of it are once again mostly socialists who want to bring in more voters for their bad economic policies.
Hell corporations like Google love to work for them since they get to abuse and censor people they don't like because individual rights aren't often supported by socialists, I have to copy this comment to check if it does not get insta censored, more of a side issue unrelated to this but it's super annoying and I never see any socialists authoritarians stand up to it.
Socialism has failed and will continue to fail and drag down more and more nations that capitalist nations will have to deal with, next one to fall I expect will be Mexico, i live in the Netherlands we invented capitalism, the Americans perfected it and profited by it greatly while nationalist and militarist annexation of north America made them the superpower they are today.
Capitalism works, it has flaws because humans have flaws, humanity is greedy and violent by nature, in Socialism and communism even more so.
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@TheBenj30 Japan has zero experience in building their own fighter jet and actually are/were planning their own domestic fighter jet which seems unlikely now to go through.
As for the UK, their main experience is with the Eurofighter, same as Germany and Italy, Sweden's Grippen is a less developed but cheaper aircraft compared to the Eurofighter.
Tempest and FCAS have different goals in mind, Tempest is mostly just a new fighter aircraft, where as FCAS is a whole new system of multiple side projects to become intergrated with it, the scale of the project is much bigger and thus will take more time.
Speaking of scale, the economies of FCAS and the EU are much larger then the UK or Japan, Italy is also part of the EU same as Sweden but they alone are not as big as the rest combined and also create friction with in-fighting and production issues and the scale of production growth is different.
Once both projects are done, production for FCAS can scale up much more then Tempest, granted Tempest might take the place of Rafale as being a good choice for cost to quality for third world countries that does have a lot of potential profits for the project if that's their aim.
Ideally I wished FCAS won over Tempest and we all just focused on one project for cheaper and better quality for all but perhaps that's only possible next development cycle.
Of course maybe im wrong and FCAS will scale down and do more in-fighting over the next few years but same could be said for Tempest, we have to wait and see.
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@soensocomrade600 there realy are no fascists around much, yet ironically all this censorship, punching people for simple discusion, demonization for just adressing problems in society, real or imagined is what´s actualy driving growth to far right movements is the far left and all the anti white propaganda we see today, you might not believe it exists and sometimes it´s exadurated but it´s there.
there are open forums for fascists and fascist like music where you can see people discuse things and they all seem to agree and be rather happy that the left is making so many enemies and driving them towards their cause, hell fascists don´t realy need propaganda and lies all they need to do is say ´´look at society today, you are under attack, think of your children and future the left and centrists are too weak and they don´t care about you, we are the only ones who can save you, we have the will to do what must be done´´ and that retoric actualy works quite well esspecialy with the youth who dont have much of a future and feel victimized by our society.
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I have a question for noble followers of the Golden one, what is degeneracy?
is degeneracy something that's determined by nature, religion, society or one's individual's views of it?
something I would consider normal or noble even, someone els might consider, backwards and degenerate. Some things I consider degenerate are still observed in nature or are supported by society or even the church, who decides what is it and how can one follow the right path to avoid true degeneracy?
how does one cleanse and promote healthy and good morals and spirit of being? today's world is full of degeneracy and frankly evil but how does one endure it and hopefuly defeat it? often the response is ''find a mate, start a family, be productive'' and this is true but how does one believe you can overcome the decline around you and still remain positive, focused and move forward.
Often I find myself walking through nature and can't seem to enjoy the experience anymore, I can't feel any spiritual connection to the land, the people and life in general around me, how does one move beyond to better times?
ever since my boxing incident which severerly damaged my hand, I've not found the believe or motivation to move beyond and improve even though i desire to, I envy those who have faith in god or anything els for I don't have any anymore.
love to hear people's thoughts on these issues and I wish you all good health and spirits.
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honestly this is just all about money, apologies only matter if the goal is actually having done something that is somehow bad compared to everyone else, while these apologies are simply a way for grifters (activists) to be able to sue the government and get money, nobody puts forth the same demands for the actual africans who enslaved their fellow africans and sold them to the Dutch or Europeans in general, why? because there is no money to be had from african governments, neither from the Turkish government who had a much larger slave trade then the Europeans did.
slavery was not profitable and the Netherlands has lost a lot of lands as a result, the only people who benefited from slavery are the rich plantation owners, the same types who have no problem with exporting production to China or the third world in the same slave like conditions.
rather then regressing further into this victimhood mentality of people long dead, better to not give into the screams and shouting of paid activists and grifters and simply move on from the past and focus on the future, only those with no future prospects let themselves be shakkled by the past of so long ago, likewise we should move on from other chains like ww2 or decolonialism, that is the way of the future, that actually builds something, instead of trying to tear down the present and future to please the ghosts of the past and those who seek to profit from it.
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the US empire has both been a source for good in the world and a source of war, death, misery and decline for other nations.
on a humanity scale, the US being the world hegemon is a good thing, for certain nations (not even just third world or US rivals) it can been seen as a constraining or even hostile force, the USA is the world hegemon not out of the goodness of it's heart or love for democracy, human rights or even liberal values (lol) it's because of good old power politics, the benefit of certain elites at the top, corporate and industrial interest groups.
a USA that's less engaged with the world could actually make it's citizens richer and protect it's values better (what little values remain) but this would be giving up parts of their empire and much like the former British empire, this can end in very bad ways.
this is the norm of history, the US hegemon is the exception and it's one that's most likely coming to an end, not the end of the dollar as a whole but the US dollar hegemony as a total dominating force on the world stage, also does not mean Russia or China will become the big players in the world, they are just the ones most eager to see the US dollar fall.
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@Atrid you do realise much of the multicutural crap (which I agree is cancer) was implemented on the national level and it started in the USA.
Secondly how can the US dollar work for it's fast and international commerce but not in Europe? The southern European nations (mostly greece) sould not have been allowed to adopt the Euro, they ran their economy into the dirt and the EU had to bail them out multiple times, now after a harsh periode of reform they are kinda sorta doing oke but they need a lot more investment and realy they don't have much to offer the world or the EU besides nice holiday locations and good food.
Thirdly most of the migrants come from africa and the middle-east because of US intervention in those regions which destabalized Both them and us, the USA don't mind they can hide from the fallout of their wars, I think NATO sould be disolved, USA is not a very reliable ally, their alliance with saudi arabia is why we have so many wahabi terrorists in the west, nothing to do with Iran btw.
And finaly, yes the commision is not directly voted on and they reserve the right to make legisation, however the parlement must still aprove it and in the past the parlement had no vote at all.
Personality I blame Merkel and her actions during the debt crisis and migrant crisis that made Europe so unstable, she tried to kill two bird with one stone, get cheap slave labor and curb the aging problems of Europe which only angered and divided the whole of Europe, however she is going out and we have a new push by reformers and identitarian movements to try and subvert the EU, I understand where your coming from but the USA won't change, the EU can if it can not then it's truely doomed.
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@manofcultura I actualy hate communism why do you think I dislike the USA so much?
Also you clearly don't know who protected the people who created political correctness.
You have people like Noel ignitvit who created this myth of white privilage, in the USA.
The mossad was the one who provided the means to wage war in the middle-east, it's the USA who in the 1960s implemented open borders and that ideology because of the cold war spread to us.
The USA allong with the UK and France who wanted a less nationalistic and more international and US led global order.
I could go on and on and on, why the USA is most responsable for the cuckery and stupid globalism you see today, that's why both the far right and the far left in Europe is so anti american, even some of the socialists here don't want globalism, look up PM of dennmark for example of things to come.
The USA fears competition from Europe, that's why the USA has sanctions on Russia, Germany and Iran, we trade with them.
Reagan and Thatcher both opened up the borders and sold out to corporate intrest, you have been mislead and misinformed my friend.
But it does not matter, hopefully w can get rid of NATO, hopefully not have war with Turkey (who you proped up thanks for that) and get rid of US globalism, saudi money (your allies) and multiculturalism, the demografics in the USA look even worse then in Europe.
But just keep blaming us for having to clean up your mess, must be nice being that lazy and ignorant.
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I can understand why payment processors have such immense power over these companies, we saw it a few months ago with pornhub, I think the New york times made a hit piece against pornhub, something about underaged girls being used, idk seemed very weird, I never seen anything like that on their platform but idk some might exist there, kinda hard to find it 24/7 on such a big platform but afterwards mastercard cut the payment processors for whatever reason and pornhub deleted 80% of their entire video content! 80%! that's insane just to please some payment processors.
now what I don't get is why? why do they do this? aren't these companies in the market to idk, make money? should they not be entirely focused on being as libertarian as possible? only realy wanting to stop payment for actual illigale stuff like terrorism or arms sales? like how do payment processors benefit from this? they destroy whole business models and harm content creators or other startups, we've seen this with some of the new platforms for social media, they got momentum, people wanted to get off twitter or facebook and then ''shut it down! shut it down!'' goes again and again.
could someone explain it to me? I watched the video and I still don't get why they do this, they aren't an investment bank, they are middle men companies to ensure that person a can give person b money for a product that person a is selling, it's super easy and simple, it's hard to set up perhaps since you need a large amount of capital to build the systems of networks and IT systems but once your done you basically don't have to change at all.
my theory so far is that these companies have so much money, so much easy cash flow that they have moved beyond simply wanting money, they want power, they want controle and they want to please outside companies that help them when they need help, one hand washes the other as they say.
a new startup company is threatening the business model of facebook, mastercard pulls the plug and in return when a huge scandal or corruption case comes forwards involving mastercard which might hurt their stock, facebook makes sure people get blacklisted or comes after them, perhaps leak person information or finds support via another company. Saying it out loud sounds like a conspiracy and it kinda is but it's more like an open secret at this point, if you ask and connect the dots you can understand why and everyone knows this is true but only normies and people who don't understand corporate culture and think this is how capitalism always works (which it's not) just nod their heads and don't care at all.
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there is a lot of sound arguments made here but I can't see the USA as an Utopia or even close to it, the advantages the USA has are real and the historical events that led to those advantages being used are also real but there are a number of reasons why the USA can't go on like it has for so long forever.
for starters, it's currency is the most used curency because of the petro dollar that forces other nations to buy US dollars in order to have oil, this brings more value to the US dollar compared to others, it's also how it's government is able to go into massive, massive debt to the point where both they themselves and everyone in the USA accepts that the debt will never, ever be paid, that's not something you can ignore forever.
as for immigrants, if you are an immigrant then you migrate for a reason, in the case of Europe most workers from say Turkey work in low skilled jobs, they also most often don't want to intergrate and native people don't always want their nation to become more Turkish, this is indeed a major advantage of the USA but that has less to do with people simply not wanting them or not accepting them but for the fact that where the USA has a massive landmass and area to grow and house people, Europe is already densely populated with housing crisis's and no singular language or culture, Germans are rather accepting of most people compared to say most of Eastern Europe thus everyone wants to move there but in doing so makes natives more threatened by migrants, the same is true in the USA if the area is already densely populated, notice how many rich people live in well off, gated comunities and take effort to keep it that way.
as for China or Russia, they aren't doing so well at the moment and their geography is not as good as that of Europe actually.
could the USA become an Utopia? no, is it close to a Utopia compared to most of the rest of the world? probably yes, will it stay that way or improve towards it? I highly doubt it.
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there is some truth in what you say, the the UK has a lot of soft power, good military, good economy, it has the pound it could very well totaly change it's main forms of trade and seek more international ties becoming a kind of switserland of the seas, however if you look into the demografics, the youth vote, the elites in charge, the situation in N-ireland and scotland and the current situation with the USA, I think the UK will remain in the single market, try to keep things going as they are, seek to reduce immigration to relax tensions internaly and at some point seek to return to the EU, could be wrong but that's honestly how it seems like it.
I used to support brexit 4 years ago and I still think the vote was nessisary to sake up the disaster policies of the EU, which to a degree it did but the UK won't become truely independent with brexit and they might have been beter off staying in the Union.
they won't get rid of their wahabi muslims or their social unrest anytime soon.
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@Juanfcilantro I don't think you understand the power of propaganda, you can literally get people to commit genocide or support wars just by having a well estabilished propaganda network.
The media is always trying to see what sticks, always trying to spread fear and lies while ignoring issues that are of interest to society.
The media just reported on an event they know will trigger the public (like a white police officer putting his knee on a black criminal) then frame it as being motivated by racism, causing a protest which if repeated often and promoted becomes larger and larger, till you get the summer of riots, this happened before btw in the 1980s.
Meanwhile every year there are peacefull protests against Abortion in Washington, you never hear about it, same with the millions of protests around the world against covid lockdowns and mandatory vaccination, why? Because mass media companies have agenda's, they have donators that keep their companies alive and thus will report on what keeps their company alive, they don't do investigative journalism anymore.
Perhaps you should think a little harder about how the real world works, instead of thinking as if human beings are strictly rational beings.
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27:21 is this like your opinion? because France is actually waging wars, using military force to pressure a nation like Turkey, while Germany's constitution enforced by the USA and other treaties limit their ability to build up military forces and use them to wage war if need be, while also being part of the EU that is actively trying to create a more pan-european army structure which the americans in NATO don't like.
the reason why Europe is less pro war is because we had many centuries of having way to many of them and mostly against ourselfs while our populations today are rapidly aging so even if we wanted to our ability to produce massive armies is kinda limited, plus even if we did we risk the USA getting pissed off about it.
the USA is in a very privilaged position of having huge land mass, massive population centers and the ability to wage wars around the rest of the world while being practically immune from any negative backlash from those they invade or wage war on, while Europe is basically the frontlines of the aftermath of any involved wars.
basically the way I see it, Europe is less warlike because of the USA and them failing is likely to spur the same old war minded mentality the USA currently has, the main question is, where does russia fit into this, China and the future relation with the USA? right now it's kind of a mess but I've seen some people say that Europe is going to become more alined with China and Russia and there is some evidence to back this up but it also depends on how the USA acts.
from an outside perspective NATO seems to slowly fall apart due to internal problems and a more isolationist USA.
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that's an interesting view to say the least, most people who support any form of pan-american idealism put forth Canada and the USA as the first step towards a North American Federation and most beyond that only put Mexico to be added to it and the most optimistic people put all of north america till panama into one giant potential federation, a sorta EU for North America both economical and political union.
the reason why south america is seen as other is the fast historical differences, cultural differences, language and religeus differences, the north is protestant while the south is catholic, the north speaks english, the south spanish, the north is mostly from Northern europe or western europe with only today many hispanic groups and others.
in terms of economic potential i don't see much benefit to the USA with central america, except perhaps Mexico for multiple reasons a easier to controle southern border, industry, investment, so on. but central america is full of corruption and cartels, it would basically be another iraq war but even worse and forever, investments in the billions, it's not a very great deal, with Canada it's much more easy and profitable both short and long term but controling central america does give more manpower, resources, controle and investment for many long term future.
I think it's a great idea but the USA is only going to consider it if outside forces make it a good deal which is currently not the case.
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ownership of your own mistakes in life and taking actions to solve issues is the only way to start improving your life, everyone makes mistakes in life but some mistakes are worse than others and owning those mistakes as your own choices, regardless of what reason you had for making them in the past is very painful for people, which is why most people don't do them and tell themselves they can never change, I was like this for years, I won't go into the details but looking back feels like looking at another person.
The road ahead is long, painful and with only small steps forwards most of the time, sometimes you make leaps and sometimes life kicks you back down again but it's on you yourself to get back up, again and again and again, that's the only way forward.
your life will probably never be perfect and nobody will fix it for you but making choices now and trying your best every single day, regardless of who or where you are or even if you yourself think you can't overcome it, is the only way forward.
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Zuhdija Muric depends on which countries, the divide is greatest between western and eastern Europe because of language, religion and history, yet that gap is being closed every year.
The Benelux shares some of their militaries, economic policies and language, Germany has strong economic and cultural ties with all of Europe, Polish people work in all of Europe as well, same for italians, spanish, Portugees, in fact the only groups of people that tend not to assimulate or adopt to European cultures seems to be those from outside the EU, mostly from Turkey, Morroco and the middle-eastern countries.
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@Dwarfplayer what do you mean? From my perspective it seems that austrian economics is more individualistic compared to keynsian economics, economics is not a hard science like phisics or mathamatics, it might use models based on math but it's goal is to predict outcomes of economic models.
If you enforce protectionism, this will be the likely outcome, you enforce capitalism then this is your likely outcome, the problem is that words, meanings and economic systems like governments changes, current CCP China has communism in it's name but it's nothing like the historical model of communism, technology changes, therefor economics can change as well and with that economic models.
Perhaps keynsian economics became nessisary due to changes in economics or perhaps it's a imperfect model which austrian economics can surpass, perhaps they are both wrong and Chinese economics are the future, we don't know, though from my perspective keynsian economics is failing to a degree.
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@andrewlangley9507 that's not exactly true, otherwise north korea would be the best place to live.
Humans are social animals and the progress of modernity and technological advancement has rendered us nearly worthless, people crave family, purpose, sense of self, self worth, advancement, things most generations had since human civilization began, something we don't have, you might want to look up people like Sam Vaknin, Christopher Lash and books like the true believe and it explains our current decline and distopian state of civilization.
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I never quite understood the logic americans use for why taking the USA is impossible, it has more to do with logistics and the vastness of the land and seas than the actual people on the ground, like if I wanted to invade the USA, I would first have to take down it's navy and most of it's air forces, then I would not need to send one giant blob of foot soldiers everywhere which would be picked off one by one, instead I just bomb the roads, use certain chemical or biological weapons to cripple it's food supply, there are a lot of way you could ''defeat'' the USA but I don't think you could take it and hold it like some colonial power, it just would not work.
nobody really would want to try and take the USA, hell China just wants Asia, it's the USA that wants to rule the world, though perhaps China wants to take way that roll from the USA, in reality most of history has not been one hegomon ruling everything, most of history has been multipolar and that's what we are returning towards.
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to understand how ww3 would be fought, it should be speculated on where and for what reasons it will be fought over?
one of the resources that I think we will see more conflicts over, is water but also farmland and rare resources for high end technologies like rare earths, in the case of the USA they don't realy need the rest of the world in terms of resources or economic motivation, they would realy be dragged into a war between other powers like China, Russia or perhaps in the future India, African nations or Europe.
I can see China starting a war for domination over asia and wanting to defeat the US navy around them to then expand around them, while securing their sphere of influence.
perhaps India will follow the same way, perhaps Russia would want to expand for security related reasons and Europe against Russia or some african or middle eastern hostile force.
the tools of war we use today aren't realy that great, they are complex and accurate but not realy effective in a new great power conflict, the nice toys will be used up rather quickly, except perhaps for fighter planes since they are just so agile, fast and effective for hit and run tactics.
I think once the tanks and most of the planes are destroyed you will see things like drone swarms, robotic assassins, automatic defence systems, these are cheap to make, can be mass produced and only realy need energy to run if made properly, I expect China would deploy them first and others having to adapt to them.
for sure though the idea that ww3 would be fought like ww1 or ww2 is just going to be wrong.
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I keep seeing people doomposting and repeating the same story of that Trump is somehow anti Ukraine, pro Putin or anti NATO.
there is no evidence for this, on the contrary Trump's actions seems to indicate he will likely be much harder on both Putin and Zelensky.
both sides want to argue for a maximalist positive outcome for their war, Zelensky wants all of Ukraine whole, Putin wanted to destroy Ukraine as a concept but is willing to settle for half of the country, the question is can the west bring both to the table to hammer out some kind of peace deal that leaves both sides unhappy but with some form of peace? or is escalation inevitable?
personally I think escalation is inevitable for a number of reasons but mostly because Russia views this war as existential to them and thus any backtracking on this by their political elites seems impossible, it's also the case that Russia has a number of ''allies'' who are in conflict as well, Iran, China and a number of unstable regions like the Sahel, India-Pakistan region and the wider middle-east.
either the war escalates in the coming years or is postponed for a bit longer but it's inevitable that it will happen, lets hope our leaders are able to not get everything destroyed.
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yeah the AD-L and zionist fanatics sure like to claim that while they bomb countries and antagonize Iran, good impression, you realy know how they tend to talk.
It's a real shame too, they make themselves look bad and very oppresive in the process, I do feel sorry for jewish people who have to deal with how Israel acts, though I would say Saudi-arabia is as big as a problem as the state of israel, though zionists have way more power then saudi arabia in my opinion, just look at the mossad and the Iraq war, or their nuclear program or their bio weapons program, no western nation would be able to do what israel does, it's both impressive and dangerous to the world.
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@grantlit2196 communism is always forced upon people, subverted into institutions and almost always can only be removed by force and has led to more deaths, starvation and misery then any other ideology in human existence.
it's quite bizzar how some people (not you) still defend this ideology and the reason why ''western liberalism'' is no longer working is because it is no longer driven by capitalism, free markets, human rights and sanity but instead is driven by emotions, regulations, corporations, government spending and controle over economics.
I partly agree, most other nations can't be democracies or show great resistance against them and it's unrealistic to try and shove them in, better to lead by example not by force i would say.
the USA is special in that it's location is perfect, has expanded through war and treaties, has no external enemies and has vast amount of resources and little to no internal conflict like say with the natives (since there aren't many around) ironically the USA form of collonialism was one of the harshest ones around, European colonies were quite mild in comparison which is why decolonalism even happened and it's even more ironic how people remember it as being so horrible yet very few people make the same comparison to the USA and the reason is because the USA is so powerfull and everyone wants to be their friend and not insult them by telling the truth.
btw I don't support any form of reparations or whatever, I think that's nonsense but I do take issue with how people seem to demonize European colonialism as the worst thing ever, yet ignore all the other and far more sever ideologies and nations in history, another ones are the ottoman empire, the russian empire, the USSR, South american nations.
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@oremfrien
''Obviously, I disagree with you that Trump was a good president; I rank him among our worse Presidents like Grant or Harding. I believe he led to increased partisanship, massive deregulation of the economy, failed in responding to the greatest American tragedy since World War II, and committed numerous other failings. My hope, as unlikely as it seems for the moment, is that the Elites come to realize that an economy that only does well for them will bring about another Gilded Age with all of the pain and horror that this would lead to.''
I heard Tomas Sowel call Obama the worst president in US history and seeing how his presidency led to the rise of Trump there is some evidence to support this.
as for Trump's presidency, I listened to Victor David Hansons views of his presidency and he seemed far more positive towards Trump, Trump was an unusual president and bombastic for sure but his efforts and policies along with his direct means of communication towards the people felt very sobering and connective to his supporters.
many people supported his views on the media, big tech, the US roll in wars over seas, his attempts to empower the US economy and standing up to China, even now Biden's policy is a continuation of Trump's policy towards China though perhaps less antagonistic towards US allies like in Europe which is good but at the same time he appears weak and mild towards Russia.
Victor David Hanson put Trump's policies as ''wielding a big stick''
now what I find more worrying is how Trump got kicked off Twiter while being the president, if he runs again in 2020 will he be allowed to communicate with the people? if not then perhaps his own platform will be the only way to speak to his fans.
now do I think he might win in 2024? well it depends, he lost in 2020 due to the corona pandemic and constant media hunting his ever move for 4 years, so now the media is a bit quiet but their rates are likely to tank the moment the pandemic ends, which if it's not resolved by 2024 will be more ammo for Trump's potential relection run.
some people though think it might be best for him to pass the torch to someone els, which is possible but as of right now unlikely to me, who knows? we shall see, overal I disagree with your points but I respect your opinion and perhaps your right and im wrong but im just not sure so il go with what my gut tells me to be true.
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@oremfrien interesting, what do you think of the whole ID cards are racist coming from some people on the democratic side? Honestly as a non american looking in how americans do their elections and how the media and politicians talk about certain issues is absolutely bizzar and insane.
Here in the Netherlands, people all vote in person, show ID card, their ballot card and cast a vote, that's it. The only exception to this would be people unable to vote for whatever reason and so either allow other people to cast their vote for them in person or mail in vote but always with ID copy and signature, the idea of vote harvesting is bizzar to me.
As for the manner in which the USA elections spend so much per party, make ads while at the same time never talking about actual policies is so weird, I mean we all know politicians lie but the USA it's a huge puppet show and everyone just goes along with it, it's bizzar to see.
Im not sure if courts in the USA are that great, they seem biased and are influenced if there is an angry mob standing outside, I always thought higher courts had to accept cases that were dismissed in lower courts, here in the Netherlands if your case gets dismissed you can go to higher courts all the way to the European court of justice, most don't because it's very costly and time consuming but in the USA it looks like the Supreme court can decide to take any or no cases at all, so what's the point of having them if they don't weigh in on important questions for the public? Regardless if there is little to no evidence, if the Supreme court is the highest law of the land, them not giving a verdict to me at least seems like a dividing issue for american citizens, I talk to a lot of Trump fans and most of them feel robbed and cheated out of the election which if Proven wrong by the highest court in the land would convince many of them that this is not the case, instead I saw a lot of censorship, cases being thrown out and the same propaganda media that lied for 4 years say "this was the most secure election ever" which is the most gaslighting phrase I've ever heard, not good for anyone trying to unite the country, in my view.
Doubt 2024 will be any better, expect more of the same.
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@TorianTammas speaking the language is just a small part of representing the governed, the USA went in thinking they could turn it into a nation state with western values and what not, which was just stupid and some people at the start pointed it out, much more reasonable would have been to make a constitutional monarchy or just a monarchy to begin with and have them rule as your puppet, even then it does not always work out but that would have lasted much longer than the weak government the USA set up.
im not too sure how the British and Russians did or their mistakes but in the case of the russians it had a lot to do with the USA backing the rebels and the russians having poor tactics but before Afganistan has been taken over before so it's not impossible just very hard.
the USA has a habit of going to war with nations which it knows it can stomp with ease and also has pretty strong allies that it can help to share the burden but the USA has not been engaged in any war with equal forces, the closest is probably the korean war with China or ww2 and even then it was more so the russians doing the fighting than the americans. Today the USA would have a hard time dealing with a war with Russia and/or China and many of the top generals openly say now they can't beat them at the same time alone and would need to arm and prepare their allies for such a conflict which lucky for the USA many alies would probably do but as we see China become stronger economically and Russian being so vital for EU energy sources the US-EU alliance as well as US-Japan-Korean alliance becomes more difficult, remember the USA was able to get and maintain it's current army due to being the world's biggest economy, the USA might lose that to China as well as lose the scientific race if it lags behind.
The USA is by no means doomed but me a European citizen looking towards the USA can see the cracks and the disfunctional behaviour in US leadership and ability to project force, if I can see it then so can the US enemies, hell the USA lost a war game with a Swedish sub and had one of it's aircraft carriers hit and a few weeks ago they lost another war game to the British, there is still room for improvement and China does already have some advantages in terms of cybersecurity and hypersonic missles, it's very concerning.
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funny how Venuzuwela sits on the largest oil reserves in the world, while saudi arabia and the arab states sit in wealth and luxury, funding terrorism around the world, people in venezuwela are starving and fleeing the country and we all pretty much know why that is, im going to say it, some won't like it, probably deny it but socialism is a cancer that never works, sooner or later stagnation, decline, tyrany, always.
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@parkerjones1520 I disagree, I think the culture war is what will determine if the USA remains the sole super power or not, since it effects everything in the present and the future, you can see it's direct effects already within that General that warned the Chinese about any potenial nukes being used by the USA, that's major treason and yet people aren't realy treating it as such.
There are bigger issues but if you can't even agree on basic ideas on what reality is forget about solving big global issues.
As for Europe, I believe the alliance between the US and EU is coming to an end or at least a reshuffle of it's focus and interest, Europe is already trading more with China and getting closer towards working with Russia, the Alliance only exists as long as Europe can't match Russia's military, Russia can't sustain it's military spending and it's economy is dropping, while Europe's economy remain stable and are still growing somewhat and are working on matching Russia's military.
An alliance between the two would fit both their interests long term, though I think Russia is the Junior partner, together we could match both China and the USA.
Long term I think Europe will benefit more with Russia and China than the USA, the USA will focus more on other allies anyways so it's not like it's just us, the USA is pulling us away and we are reacting the same.
Will take some time though but I think 2035-2050 will be the tipping point.
I live in the Netherlands.
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@charlesdog9795 automation my friend, automation, most low skilled jobs are gone already and more are set to come in the coming decades.
Most americans don't have any savings, living paycheck to paycheck.
A mild growth in the US economy while the rest of the world deals with the fallout from their wars, their tarriefs and globalist propaganda is not the path to long term growth or stability.
The USA right now is not acting out of a position of power, it's defensive, reacting to aggresion from other countries like China, Russia and the EU.
The biggest sector that's going to lose jobs is in transportation and things like packing, it's all being automated.
California is where most of your tech giants are, yes it is a shithole and nobody seems to be able to do anything about it, short term the USA is winning right now but I don't see a long term plan for victory, unless they can stop the demografic problems and the rise of Socialism in Mexico for instance.
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@lif3andthings763 how can you argue when your oppenent is silenced? and why would I try to argue with someone as blind like you? im simply telling and you can believe me or not.
if you can't see true racism in the media, the elites, academics, the corporations, big tech, the narratives of the legacy media and the specific people they blame for all ills on a color basis then I don't know what will convince you, to me you just seem like an ignorant person who does not wish to admit to the truth or is to blind to see it.
honestly I pitty you, it must be hard to live like that, blind and convinced of a fake reality that blames one group, yet pretends otherwise and unable to learn and see the truth, go to a university, look at a protests, watch some of the media propaganda, look who they blame, look at the police who do they kill and for who are there no protests? and when there are who calls them ''far right'' and why? look at who's lives matters and which don't, perhaps then you will start to see the truth.
now to check if youtube censors me again.
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@nonserviam4813 in a way your right but these were not collectvist ideas or forms of government, they were kings, monarchy's mostly, rule by the military.
The modern nation state is not exactly this model, it's connected to the people on a deeper level which was not how it used to be, the development of this is also tied to technology and means of communication, what we had in the past was in essence a free for all formed from individual self interest, then expressed into group interest, then organised in different methodes the ones that won out were those more organized, with better resources, people, food and code of law, collective groups have existed for millenia for sure but they weren't total collective civilizations, the closest I can think of would be the Spartans which did rule like a totalitarian state.
But you are correct, modern views of individualism is rather new, every individual is part of a group and has to act in some group effort to maintain their individual freedoms and power, working a job is an example of this, you work for a collective but gain money which you can spend for your individual choices, both individual and collective realities exist at once, the issue is how to balance these things in the optimal manner and these things change as technology, culture, people, nations and environments change, that's also why things like fascism or national socialism can't maintain their fanaticism forever, it's a temporal state of high energy movement within society which then "cools off" over time, you see the same reaction though much less intense in the formations of new countries, religions, cultural movements, technological revolutions or political revolutions.
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@OffGridInvestor they tend to point to one or two things which other socialists nations did not do while the national socialists did do, like privatization of certain industries, they fail to see how this is like communist china today, they allow some capitalist market forces into the economy but they always have the final say and if you disagree your off to the camps, that's not how true free market economy works.
They don't understand capitalism and they don't understand socialism, socialism does not work to create wealth, socialism is a means of regulating the economy and redistribute wealth aka steal from the parts that produce wealth, national socialism works slightly better than full socialist systems because they allow market forces and corporations to make the things they want while they take parts of the profits and invest them into collectivist projects like building a big army, lower taxes for big families, improve Factory conditions (mostly making it less depressing to work in), camps.
Socialists don't want to admit this because they know how unpopular the nazi's are today and some historians don't want to admit this because then it would mean admiting some parts of national socialism actually work, not as good as capitalism of course but anything not "totally evil that never works" is not good enough which is why modern Communist China is such an enigma for some modern economists today which works about the same as national socialist Germany did.
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@mjwilliamsb2676 sure whatever you say gramps, we are just angry and blaming the elderly for the lockdowns that cost the younger people their jobs and losing their sources of income for fun, because we want someone to blame, not like we actualy had to lose something while being at almost 99% survival rate, unlike you elderly people who have much higher deathrates because well your old but sure it's just the old blame game, whatever you say gramps.
I sure wonder why the youth don't give a shit about the elderly and why most of them end up in nursing homes, wasting away with nobody visiting them, it's almost like they don't care about what happens to the elder, no idea why.
everyone gets infected it's a virus, just like everyone gets infected with the flu but only those who are idk older and have less effective immune system don't survive and that's a good thing too, imagine if we all lived in steriel bubbles and we never got sick, one good disease would wipe us all out if we did that.
anyways good joke gramps, realy funny joke, realy showed those young whipersnappers like me what's the deal.
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this is barbarism to the extreem degree and it often feels like the media, big tech companies and western governments all downplay, lie and excuse this insane barbaric act of violence which has happened over and over and over again with no end in sight.
and we are told over and over again to be tolorant, to only act like it's just a few bad apples, like it's not a constant and consistant patern of behavior with the current status quo and now again, what sould be done to stop this? because many on the so called ''far right'' would love to act harsher towards the demografics that cause these kinds of attacks and the center parties are giving them the future on a silver plater if they keep allowing and tolorating these attacks.
the worst part at this point is not even that it happens, horrible things and extreem violence happens once every few years from all religions and people's but this is consistant, every year and we aren't allowed to be honest about it or act in ways that would actualy reduce these attacks and some people even defend the killer! saying they are tempted to act like this because of our behavior! are you kidding me!
it's this behavior by most of the left wing, the center political parties, the media and the big tech companies that realy demoralize me, that realy paint a picture of the future of Europe at this point, one of fear, death and misery because we aren't allowed to ''offende'' the privilaged class and for all those who are of the specific religion that shall not be named that are decent, western people, aren't you sick of it by now? don't you want to be viewed as normal citizens and not watched like you could be the next one to go crazy like this?
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climate change is a non-issue, a scam more then anything else, it will be forgotten as an issue when this existential crisis becomes full circle.
bigger problems are things like the UN, the USA, Israel, Russia, Saudi-Arabia, NGO’s, lobby groups, online censorship, big tech domination of global markets, risk of ww3 due to competition with China and Russia.
if you want high IQ people, then some kind of rightwing progressive movement would be nessisary but we are a long way from that.
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@yomomz3921 perhaps im biased since I've seen the USA get involved in wars that were also not connected to any treaty but the USA invaded anyways or at least gave military support to one side or the other, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Saudi arabia, Kosovo, Libya, Israel, South Korea, Vietnam, India, the list goes on but when Russia is banging on Europe's front door with a nation that really wants to join NATO and the USA just does almost nothing it seems strange.
Ukraine does not really matter for US self interest but since the USA failed in Afganistan very poorly, having the USA fail with Ukraine might make China think ''we got this'' which is what im really worried about, history has this habit when you do nothing when you could have done something, things tend to fall apart beyond your controle, happened in ww1, ww2 but also smaller wars like the vietnam war or the korean war.
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@gentleshark972 I don't think any place should be the center of the world, the USA just sorta found itself in the best position possible though a combination of conquest of north america, world wars in major competition centers and the only enemy that they had being a bunch of communists, they never realy had any major competition on equal footing, now we have the EU, modern Russia, China, India all competiting for more influence over their sphere's of power.
I realy dislike the status quo and the place of Europe within the american system, it's stagnate and harmfull for our long term self interest and the idea of full intergration of other people who aren't closely related or part of the European identity is more an american thing and it shows just how incompatable and disfunctional this current system is and how naive it is to think those that come could become equal citizens, it goes against the entire identity and history of the whole continent, other nations don't have this idealistic view and it's mostly an american import which is also why many people dislike the USA.
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This optimism is rather triggering because there are so many negative developments in both the world and society at large, it's scary how someone can imagine this current time is somehow better then the past.
It all depends on your values and perspective of course, if your values happen to aline with the current zeitgeist and you value materialism, wealth and technological progress, you probably think the current era is great.
If you worry about the demographic population collapse, lowering of IQ, national debt, wars and the risk of nuclear war as well as authoritarianism creeping into society, the current era is very pessimistic.
My idea of optimism would be more like a radical shift in government, economics, geopolitics and control over things like immigration and reduce internet censorship.
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@TheColemancreek not realy, they still have a coastline to the east of cremea, might not be as advanced or strategic but the whole warm water ports in the black sea makes little sense to me since that's closed off by turkey.
The amount of money lost because of sanctions also seems to bring more of a loss then any real gains, the real reason seems to be that most of cremea is russian and allowing ukraine to ethnic cleanse and abuse the Russians there might make Putin seem weak and unnationalistic.
The troops present there were already there before the whole coup in ukraine backed by the west and most people there voted in favor of joining Russia, does not seem like a violent and militaristic annexation to me, it's all pretty lawfull and logical considering the situation.
Still Russia probably did their best to make it happen to a degree but the amount of demonisation and counter arguments to the joining of the russian federation seems a bit odd.
Russia does not appear to be a enemy of the west, mostly it's the west that's fearmongering, USA demanding more NATO contributions, meanwhile the state of Israel gets to realy annex the golan hights but nobody cares about that, USA wages war on syria, nobody cares, now Iran, how is Russia the great evil of the world right now?
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43:40 I would not say Karl Marx was a smart dude, the guy leached off his own parents, uncles, always blamed everyone else for his own failures in life, his ideology has no basis in reality, led to the death of millions upon millions, while his own arguments and predictions did not come true not even slightly, his basis for his ideology was proven wrong years after he wrote it and so far the only thing that he got right was understanding that capitalism led to a concentration of power in elites and that it removes people from their own work in order to mass produce things which everyone at that time already saw and understood to be the case, he simply pretended he found a way to scientifically write it all down and intellectuals just keep ignoring all the problems with his ideology or manner of thinking simply because they want power and support their own self interest, the fact that marxism is so popular with intellectuals has really made me lose a lot of faith and respect for intellectuals in general, they aren´t as smart as they think they are.
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@cheetah694 idk in what universe you live where the russians could use chernobyl as a means of blackmail or how Fukushima relates to a warzone danger, all of these cases it has to do with design problems with the powerplants and human error, there are newer and more advanced nuclear power plant systems, ones that have easy, non human interaction safety nets to ensure you don't have a uncontroled nuclear reaction.
What's amasing to me is how little accidents have happened despite the low amount of effort to innovate is put into these power plants, how immense their potential is and how little the public seems interested in the technology when in fact it's the key to a more advanced and more wealthy society, all the talks of renewables have only led to more coal power plants being opened, all industies going to China with no environment concerns and everyone being more poor as a result while at the same time not putting in the resources and efforts to upgrade nuclear power, it's like the worst choice the world could have made on all fronts.
I be happy to close down older nuclear power plants if they were being replaced by more efficiënt and even safer power plants or could even reuse nuclear waste but that's not being done and that's the major issue here, not nuclear power somehow being unsafe, when in fact it's killed less people than coal has by a factor of like a million.
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@ShamanMcLamie I disagree, that's the narrative americans want, it is in their national interest to keep Russia and Europe divided, Russia long term has more to offer Europe than the USA, which is why the USA needs to keep the rivalry alive, further Russia believes it can still remain a super power on it's own but is failing to do so, more so because of economics than it's impressive military, a EU-Russian alliance or Russia becoming part of the EU is a nightmare for both the USA and China, though more so for the USA since it would then be unable to justify it's NATO alliance and military bases.
It is true that the USA is more like western Europe in terms of culture and values but that does not matter in geo-politics.
The USA will attempt to block any chance for Russia to westernize and become closer to Europe and will fund seperatist group within Russia to break it apart if it does.
I am well aware of how the USA threatens, uses sanctions, trade wars, invasions or covert means to get what they want, which is exactly why it enjoys the status quo and keeping nations divided within NATO frame work, as long as they are apart, disunited and have no greater goals than their national interests, the USA will remain the world's sole super power, the threat of China however has shown that era is slowly coming to an end and as Europe becomes presured by both the USA, China, Russia and the problems in the middle-east and Africa, they will have no choice but to create a European federation and seek complete independence from the USA first, dealing with Russia second and maintaining it's new position between China and the USA third.
It's that or cease to exist and be an even more directly vazal playground for Russia, China and the USA, the people know it, the leaders know it, the USA elites know it, China knows it and Russia knows it, we are moving towards a multipolar world, no more sole superpowers anymore.
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Yeah but more so in the USA because they lack any proper enemies, it's basicaly what Hitler wanted with lebensraum, only bigger, longer time frame, beter location, capitalism and even more violence, ohhh yeah and very few natives to deal with.
If there is any enemy that seems logical, it's likely from within, causing stagnation, seccession, civil war like before, followed by having first a foothill on the mainland, then followed by an invasion with superior firepower, reach the midwest bread basket and hold it, no foods from outside for 2-10 years and you could win, I say could because all of this is very hypothetical and very slim but that's how I do it.
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@shindari most of the world actualy hates the USA and considers it a threat, the USA has benefited immensely from ww2 and ww1, which turned it into a superpower we know today.
You don't need to invade the USA just build up enough forces to keep them out, something the USA has feared since the end of the cold war, so it has to keep finding new enemies and specifically look for ways to prolong conflicts while also limiting potential rivals.
Most anti americanism is focused on it's modern actions, not the cold war and nothing against it's people but government and perhaps culture.
Invading the USA is stupid because there is nothing to gain at a huge price, perhaps destroy it's military production might be useful if the USA does not allow other nations to break away from it's forced threaties and limitations on their military.
Most people want to be allies with the USA but they also want their independence and same status in terms of wealth and military, something the USA does not want.
Take Russia for example, it's a joke, barely much of a economic or military power, yet the USA wants other nations in Europe to be afraid, because no conflict means no more NATO, no NATO means no more defence spending.
China right now is the biggest threat to the USA and likely others are to follow as well, it won't be a hot war most likely but the USA is losing ground because it's model no longer works for nations self interest.
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@JWPemperor the middle-east is less important anymore, since the USA has become an oil exporter, has become more isolationist and other nations which are allies such as Israel, Saudi Arabia, Iraq (kinda) are in controle over the majority power blocks of the middle-east, except for Iran and Turkey perhaps.
Turkey is a major problem, more so than Russia, Russia might be bigger, have more nukes, bigger military but is quite disfunctional, smaller economy, less able to adapt, more dependent on trade between west and east.
Russia does not threaten the west or makes threats to the same degree as Turkey does, so far their worst action has been Cremea which is a very sensitive subject in response to a western backed coup in ukraine, it's complicated.
The hope is that Turkey will somehow come back to their senses to avoid any long term conflict or war if Erdogan gets a heart attack or something, untill then the goal seems to be to contain Turkey and keep them from getting to buddy buddy with China or Russia.
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@awddfg not at all he tried to bring back industry, rejected the pro china line of Obama, stopped wasting trillions in the middle east while China grew richer and more powerfull as a result, he was pro free speech and enforced it strongly and he attempted to make his allies pay more for NATO which many European nations did not meet their standard contributions pay.
not only that but Trump was an enemy of the mainstream media which is a major tool of division and conflict in the USA, he never was isolationist, he was focused on empowering the USA for when they need to act, his biggest mistake was alienating his allies via the trade war, he should have focused more on China and not seek to aline allies with the US´s enemies.
he was the best president ever and Joe Biden is cutting down everything good he has done, Biden will truely weaken the USA, though at least he won´t stop the tarriefs Trump put on China for now but the media will continue to divide the people and censorship will continue to erode trust in the USA as a nation with real values.
I hope Trump wins again in 2024, hopefully no new CCP virus to destroy the economy he worked so hard on to improve.
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@awddfg what does that even mean? honestly what does it mean? do I wear a tin foil hat and believe in lizzard people or something? no I don't, im simply describing a well known fact of real world politics, you can look everything up about the Taliban how they were formed and who were funding them, there is nothing ''conspiracists'' about it, the fact is that you only react like this because it is easy to be ignorant, it it easy to not look up the facts, it's lazy and means you can live in your little bubble and dismiss any new information that comes at you in life.
you got censored off the internet? conspiracy, some important billonair sex island guy commits suicide while being in prison? conspiracy, the government is spying on it's citizens? conspiracy, terrorist cells trained and funded by inteligence service to fight soviets? conspiracy.
it's lazy, it's pathetic and silly to take you serieusly if you honestly think like this, frankly it's childish, grow up the world is a complex place, at the very least think for yourself and don't just repeat what your told to act like whenever someone tells you why your wrong.
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@definitelynotacheater ''Erdogan said Turkey’s application to EU continues and a few months ago prior to that he said ‘We saw Turkey’s future in Europe’, he is into the West too as I said. But for me, I dont think Turkey will ever get into the EU.''
Turkey getting into the EU has major problems for many reasons, the major problem is not that Turkey is majority muslim, nor that Turkey is somehow less authoritarian compared to other nations that already are in the EU, the major 2 reasons I would say why Turkey can't/won't be allowed into the EU is because of the schengen agreement and because Turkey's economic and demografic influence could change the balans of power within the EU structure.
the schengen area or free movement of people within the block is problematic because then many turkish people could move to the west and we would have a border with unstable nations like Syria, Iraq, Georgia and close to other potential conflict zones, right now Turkey is a buffer between those nations and you can see that the EU wants to keep it that way which Erdogan also tries to exploit by threatening to use refugees within Turkey as some sort of biological weapon.
the other reason as mention is the EU is currently run by Germany-France-Netherlands-Italy and somewhat Poland, allowing Turkey in would disrupt this balance of power which is already unstable, if turkey were to join the EU, Poland would be upset, Germany and France would be weaker, Italy and Netherlands would also be upset to a degree, overal it would make the EU stronger but internally it would be much more unstable which is something they can't allow right now.
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@definitelynotacheater ''8) Lastly, I know you guys have a negative view about us because of Turks in Germany/Netherlands/France etc but majority of them come from the eastern rural regions and even us make of them calling names like ‘alamancı’ . They do not represent us. I know there are many good respectful Turks too but they dont represent us either. Every indivual represent themselves. Kick foreigners who doesnt respect the country’s rules and refuse to adapt. And dont let islamists get power. Seriously if the videos I saw on youtube is real, number of islamists in Europe is really concerning. Just a few days ago Chechens and Kurds in France were killing each other and it looked like a civil warzone from M.E instead of France. Peace ✌🏻''
yes most people have negative views on turks and muslims in general due to terrorism and hostility by Erdogan and saudi organisations, though Turks are more respected than many other groups.
the ironic thing is that many nationalists, conservatives faced more hostility from their own native people and from left wing groups than they did from pro islamist groups, we warned them about these groups since early 2000s and 2010s and we were all attacked by the esablishment and media as ''radicals'' and ''far right''
now skip to 2021 and suddenly most things considered ''far right'' in the early 2000s is now mainstream political policy, if they had listened to us along with most of the public a lot of bloodshed and humiliation would not have happened and many of the more hostile policies towards islamist and islamic populations would not have been nessisary, hell I doubt you even would have had Brexit so to say the EU, Merkel and others failed to see this coming would be an understatment.
France is one of the worst places right now in Europe, same with Belgium, the UK, Germany and Sweden, we also have many of these types of problems in the Netherlands but not nearly as the same degree as other nations.
if I pick the one who is messing up the most I think it would be the UK, since Sweden is very small in terms of population, Germany while bad still has some hardline police, France is openly resisting now but the UK has multiple problems, a totalitarian government i would say and almost no proper resistance towards it, it's fully abandoned it's senses on top of Brexit being problematic for them, I would not be suprised if Scotland and Northern ireland leave the union, that's how bad it's getting there.
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@dillonblair6491 you are using a lot of assumptions and misinformation, also using emoticons kinda shows your mental age.
First off higher education only leads to beter income if there are jobs for those higher income positions, which in crime ridden cities are unlikely to be the case, see capital flight.
If you want economic oppertunities you first have to enforce law and order and property rights, not the otherway around.
Abortion does not lead to older age, just a dead potential citizen who would have engaged in the economy and grown it, allong with population growth which is nessisary for a stable society, people need to reproduce to keep the species alive, I know shocking truth right there.
People not having kids inevitable means new people often from violent and unstable societies will replace the older generations, yes letting your Community die off might lower crime for a while, it will also lower everything els as well, except perhaps funerals.
Idk what's wrong with you but I think your brainwashed, irrational and delusional.
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here is an idea, if demografics are an issue for Russia long term as most of the western world in general, perhaps Russia could consider trying to join the EU and making concession policies to ensure peace and to rejuvinate the Russian population problem by ceding territory from cremea and Kaliningrad oblast.
it would be a bit easier to manage, it would be a show of good faith towards Europe and the EU, Russia and the EU might consider an old style population exchange or encourage migration of ethnic russians back to Russia, perhaps if membership of the EU and potentialy free movement of people were possible then they might see a swell of migrants who are mostly western or russian by culture and could assimulate to Russian society.
Cremea has 2,284,00 people, 65.3% of which is Russian
Kaliningrad Oblast has772,534 Russians (86.4%)
of course with the current tensions with NATO and the west this seems unlikely but long term if done correctly with a stronger EU and a less hostile US relations it could work and since China is still growing stronger it might be in their intrest as well to seek a greater alliance against a common foe, in Europe Russia would be a powerfull member of the EU with China they would be servant
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@michaelscott-joynt3215 correct we really have to kick out all these US non profit organisations, sadly the US government does not like countries stepping out of line.
But I don't think you care about the truth, you just want to point fingers and blame us for your culture, your wars, your decolonization and your "intelectuals" like Noel Ignivit.
We suffer as a result of your actions, yes we are to blame for being so stupid as to believe the USA and despite the USA's attempts to wage yet more wars most Europeans are sick of it.
You scumbuckets realy are the masters of hypocracy, you claim to hate Collonialism and racism, yet your the most racist and besides israel the only collonial power left in the world.
But I have the feeling like I'm talking to limestone, I'm sure you warmongering after Russia and Iran is in our best interest? Why sould we pick the USA over China? Did China send us millions of refugies and destroyed our empires while being allied to Communism? The Chinese today seem more like fascists, little choice if it's between China and the US.
I wished the USA returned back to its libertarian roots, instead of this empire of vice and stagnation.
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@gruntydatsun well without the legitimacy of the UN, the USA is just another collonial empire trying to keep it's vazals under control.
The US needs the UN to keep this puppetshow going, without the UN, who would need you? Honestly cold wars over, USA is the main warmongering, imperial power trying to hold on to power by invading others and promoting their backwards culture onto others.
It would be great if the USA finaly ended the puppetshow and hypocritical bullshit and just be honest that it just wants to lord and rule over other nations like a tyrant.
If you did so then finaly we could get rid of NATO, Europe could become independent again, Russia and Europe could trade, things would start to improve and without the USA we can finaly purge their muslims.
The only one who would lose in such an event is the USA.
So you can claim "might makes right" all you want and it's true, just don't act surprised when your "allies" start doing that too.
Europe has much more to gain working with China then the USA, you got two Continents to lord over, greedy much?
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It's not overrated, just misunderstood, freedom is power, two sides of the same coin, freedom is just the word we use for "power to the people" but the people can be a tyrant as much as any King or Queen.
The USA has a lot more power to share with the people they can afford a few rioting extreemists, nations that have many diffrent ethnic and cultural groups around them always become more authoritarian as a result, the USA, Canada, Europe the more diversity and multiculturalism the more authoritarian the regime must become.
The nazi's wanted a multicultral, Pan-germanic state where there are the germans, the germanish and all those below them, now we have the elites, the natives and those below them.
Nothing has realy changed and it will continue for as long as people tolorate it.
People like Merkel will come and go it's the nature of history.
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@samrevlej9331 im sorry but you get the support of big tech companies, politicians, the media, the elites, the banks and your own fan base that thinks it's beter than everyone els.
meanwhile we get killed, censored, demonized, attacked and silenced by those same groups.
don't attempt to lecture me about not knowing what it's like to be oppresed, your the sad person who hides behind the powerfull, being ignorant of your own privilage while pretending others who actualy face oppresion are privilaged.
give me a break, what utter nonsense, you people are the ones who always act the victim even when others pay the price for it with their lives.
and you wonder why so many people hate you so much? sad realy.
now go beg your corporate masters for more censorship, coward.
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I agree war is horrible but it's also inevitable and frankly Russia is trying to reclaim it's position in the world that it's just never going to get back again, same with the British empire, the French empire, the German Empire or any of the other former great empires in Europe and while most nations understand this reality and try and band together to become something different that could actually become as strong if not stronger as those old empires of old, only Russia wants to reclaim it's former glory of the soviet days, they aren't acting out of fear of NATO expansion, they are acting out of a sense of wanting to bring back the good old days, the days when Russia was seen as a powerfull state, a superpower on the world stage, it's exactly the same mentality the nazi's had in Germany after the defeat of the German empire in ww1 and history shows us this has never worked, you might get something back, you might get away with some minor things but on a grand scale it's only hurting your real chances at a better future.
right now things are slowly starting to escalate, if/when Ukraine falls to Russia, what then? we all go back to trading oil and gas? no more sanctions? I don't think so, what's Russia going to do then? well if they can't get any economic growth in trade why not go even further and expand elsewhere? why not Kazakstan? why not Finland? why not Sweden? why not Mongolia? why not the Stan nations?
a line has been crossed and nothing can uncross it, the best thing that can happen now is Putin geting a heart attack or be shot and any new leader settles with minor gains and tries to make amends with Ukraine, it's not much, it's not a great victory but also not a defeat and perhaps from there these ideas within Russia can calm down and they might realise that what they are doing now just makes them puppets to China.
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if im honest, I truly think if society was more free and people were allowed to express themselves without constant risk of it backfiring on them through the media, the government, society or big tech then it would quickly evolve into a new structured ideology of both extreme left and extreme right views and seek to controle and purge others who would seek to undermine and attack them, you could see a french revolution style where fed up people commit acts or terrorism or arm themselves to drive out the wealth and snobbish elite while also engaging in meritocratic discrimination, more wellfare spending and xenophobia.
most people would call it fascism but I don't think that's accurate, fascism and communism was a reaction to the failed policies of liberal democracy but can't be repeated exactly, the reaction to this era of liberal failed policies will manifest itself differently and will draw different conclusions to how to solve it, I'm not sure if there will be a religeus element to it, since religion is on a downward spiral but it might replace religion with a mix between volkish, agnostic and pop cultural symbolism.
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I think your wrong stxy, your right on a few things but overal I think this is a poorly analisis of the Chinese economy.
First the pandemic has hit the world globaly, everyone is likely to face a downturn in economic growth, which is exactly why the Chinese government has made no growth projection because the damage being global can't be measured properly.
Secondly the Chinese government has been buying, bribing and influencing major nations and major economies for decades that influence does not suddenly vanish into thin air, might be reduced but the second biggest economy in the world does not just suddenly become a paper dragon just because it has a bad economic season.
Third, the USA like you yourself just sayd has major problems with it's local leadership, the media, the major corporations, basicaly everyone except Trump is distracted, unfocused and being irrational towards global issues which include China, your likely to see 4 more years of Trump fighting the good fight but after that someone has to pick it up, China does not have these instabilities because they have a very strong identity and Unity of purpose.
Hell Europe as disfunctional as it is has opened up it's markets largely, those Chinese products will likely come here and if realy cheap, africa, the markets for them will become open.
All that being sayd the USA has the oppertunity right now to gain more allies, expose China for the totalitarian dictatorship it is, win over nations like India which Trump has done but it has largely abandoned africa, wants war with Iran and has ignored Russia, it needs to step up it's game internationaly and kill this dragon in it's crib before it can fly, after that there is no stopping it, perhaps it's already to late but you can at least try, don't underestamate China, it's foolish.
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@shorewall yeah that's somewhat true but if policy can give decline to birthrates then why can't police raise birthrates? looking at the costs of living, food, energy prices, housing prices and competition for jobs while wages are declining then starting a family might look like a bad idea.
it's like with animals if there are no resources to suppor them, they refuse to reproduce, perhaps many young people have experienced society as being unable to support them, while many people who have large families, seem to rely on both the state, their family members and the church/mosque for support while the natives get little to nothing and a more hostile additude thrown at them from the top and society at large.
I would say a combination of deregulations in key industries (like housing market), family support government spending, tax cuts for the lower classes and cutting off social programs that promote ''western values'' might be the best way forward, we spend so much money on so much useless crap and should realy cut some people loose, become more pragmatic and meritocratic based while supporting our own communities first.
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@CaptainGrimes1 well it's funny you would mention after ww2 because after ww2 you had a lot of ethnic cleansing of germans (on wikipedia they call it ''explusion of germans'' but it was clearly ethnic cleansing, about half a million people died)
Which in part helped prevent any sort of reunification of those lands to German, that's just how it works, same happened after the Greek - Turkish war, likewise Russia tried to do the same to much of the USSR, esspecially in Ukraine, that's why you see about 90% of russian people/culture in cremea and about 40-60% cultural ties to Russia in eastern Ukraine.
as for Ukraine today, many people do seem willing to fight, I believe Caspian report did a good report on the amount of people that would be willing to fight and how much Russian troops would be needed to hold them down it's quite a lot.
the thing with insurgencies is you don't really need many of them to cause a lot of trouble and damage for the oppressing forces, just minor things can hurt for a very long time, again with Afghanistan you can see how even after 20 years occupation, from the USA, Billions spend it all fell apart in a few weeks after they left, now the conditions aren't the same for sure, the people aren't the same for sure but there a lot of people who live there, Russia is not that powerfull, it's surounded by other more powerfull nations willing to help Ukraine or give supplies to the insurgencies if it came to that, so in many ways the odds are more in their favour than the Taliban was in Afghanistan.
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I feel like people are resentfull towards the USA exactly because of the americanization of their nations, both western and non-western through it's cultural, economic, political and military organisations and the fact that many nations need to be on the US good side because of the former cold war which divided the world into two sides.
both the radical leftist and radical right agree on a few things:
- they despise the USA/Western nations because of a personal loss towards them, be it identity, culture or religion
- the current world order is grinding the nations of the world down, no economic prospects, while they get exploited or reduced to consumer cultures.
- a desire to return/reinvent/destroy the current orders that rule their lives exists in both groups so as to create a new order that would be to their benefit and those they care about
- a understanding that the new rising powers are going to replace them or seek to influence their way of life in what little way they still matter to them
I personaly dislike the USA not for it's culture or technology but military and economical hegemony which it does defend through military and ideological conformity, any nation or people that seeks to threaten them will be adressed, attacked or get economic sanctions, it makes it that the USA is big enough to survive on it's own, yet connected enough and enforcing it's will that all have to work within it's economic and military system and ironically any nation that seeks to break away from it's current sphere would have to get in league with new rising powers (like China) or attempt to create their own (the EU, AU, Euroasian union) and as we have seen most of these organisations lack a strong unified body to enforce it's collective interest.
I think we are moving towards a multipolar world, based on continentalism, all it realy takes is a major disaster (bigger than corona virus though im not sure) to justify it's proper enforcement when the US system no longer can be maintained, we've seen this happen throughout history and the USA is no exception, remember that during the existence of the USA it has not been forced to fight any existential threats to it's power yet, perhaps the USSR but that was more in defence of other nations and their new world order rather than their national existence.
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I do think totalitarianism in the future is almost inevitable, the question I think we should ask is "has technology advanced to such a degree to make totalitarianism more or less likely?" From my perspective I would say, yes technology has advanced in such a way that totalitarianism is much more likely now, we can see the example of this in China but go even beyond that and observe it being slowly implemented in western nations, the media also shows us how easy it is to manipulate the masses, we see the corruption of education (a trait very common in totalitarian regimes) and we see the spread of what I would call "proto-totalitarian ideologies" in the form of sjw's, third wave feminism, racial identity politics, radical environmentalism, racial nationalism, neo-fascism, neo-communism, religeus extremism, transhumanism and multicultralism, each of these ideologies have either a utopian vision or a group of fanatical followers, sometimes both. Each has sinners who are meant to be dehumanized, segregated and harmed for the good of the ideology, often turning friends, family and individuals against eachother.
The only solution to these movements the way I see it, is the solving of their inherent triggers and an empowering of the individual, since this is not possible to do without compremise I fear the powers that be and people below are going to either supress these movements with no representation of their cases or they are going to ignore them which can then thrive in a moment of crisis and trust me the crisis's are coming, either through global warming, aging, demografic collapse, technology or the spread of mental illness due to things such as social media and incompetent leadership.
This is the great filter, we either reinvent our world on a democratic and enlightened manner or the masses and true believers of the world will do it for us.
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@stormysavage1677 no nation has ever benefited from prolonged warfare, the US wasted billions, upon billions in foreign wars and it did not improve the middle-east very much or at all, not to mention places in north africa that have become downright third world countries when before they were closer to second or first world, millions upon millions of people have died.
The costs have been huge, though you are correct in terms of arms and material the USA has plenty more to spare, almost a drop in the bucket but what it lost is much more significant and the bane of most empires in their history, the believe in their own nation and most of the goodwill of friends and foes alike, most of Europe after 9/11 were fully on board with supporting the USA and their wars, feeling justified in their actions but now most Europeans outright see the USA as a threat for stability in the world and more of a frenemie than a strong ally, we may work on the same goals to deal with Russia but the love between Europe and the USA has waned quite a bit.
the USA should spend less time waging wars and more time letting other nations fight wars using their weapons, right now the USA is making a killing in the Russian-Ukraine war and actually making NATO stronger and trying to stand up to China but it took a long while to get to this point and many more problems will come once again from the middle-east and africa as a result of bad policies in the early 2000s.
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Pan Indo-Europeanist, agnostic, Aryan supremacist Ataturk did a lot of good for Turkey, tried to turn it into a more western style nation, it's been a while since I've seen his videos (three parts now i think) but I remember Kraut saying how bad militarism was but then praises Turkey's militarism in how they retook a bunch of land they lost while also defeating the Greeks (who they tried to genocide from the rest of Anatolia btw) and ending with the UN doing a population transfer which by today's standards would be considered ethnic cleansing.
it's not the actions that bothers me much, it is the hypocrisy of first saying militarism is bad, then the greeks try and expand into turkey after you know what in ww1, then praising the turks for kicking out the greeks that were left over and saying how stupid it was for greeks to try and gain more lands, it's just so weird and dishonest, esspecialy when he then looks down on the nationalism that inspired it but also praising the same additude by the turks.
basically when western powers no matter what happened before to them act nationalistic it's bad, barbaric and stupid but when Turkey does it, it's smart, heroic and good and he does this over and over again in all his video's.
hell he even takes the time during his video's to make 2 second cut jokes about certain semi nationalistic channels on youtube and reducing their arguments to one sentence ideas which is very dishonest and kinda cowardly, if you don't like a certain channel make a proper video about it and why.
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@Sibert_ Flanders - Population ( 1January 2019)
• Total 6,589,069
• Density 484/km2 (1,250/sq mi)
Population Netherlands
• 2021 estimate
• total 16,655,799
• Density
423/km2 (1,095.6/sq mi) (16th)
naw your right, Flanders has higher population density compared to Netherlands, Netherlands has more land and people though.
Did not expect this since whenever you cross the border with belgium it's just lots of underdeveloped roads and small houses, they must have realy tightly build cities then and Netherlands must have more green and empty space then I thought, probably more in the northern parts like Groningen.
I did look up my sources but I was looking at Belgium as a whole compared to the Netherlands, instead of just Flanders, my bad.
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I miss Donald Trump, best President ever.
The loss of Afghanistan has more to do with the weakness in US military engage protocol, the USA could have easily crushed the Taliban and created a much more competent and stable Afgan government but that would mean much more brutal and extensive acts of war which the international community, the UN and the american people (and therefor elites elected by said people) would not support, ironically had they gone with that there would likely been less deaths, destruction and an end to the fighting, if China takes the place of security arm in the region your going to see a swift and quicky won victory over the Taliban but no chance of democracy being formed.
The USA is a very warlike nation and has always been so ever since the revolution against the British but as technology has advanced and communication became more clear many americans now dread the realities of war, same with Europe btw, China and Russia get away with their acts of war or human rights abuses because of their state propaganda, censorship and authoritarian systems of government.
I fear China and Russia have to remind the west on what happens when you stop waging proper wars, others do it for you on their terms.
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not a day goes by that I don't see a nonsense claim made by representatives of ''science'' with dogmatic followers claiming it's true because ''the science says so'', covid was a real wake up call to most people, seeing how corrupt most of science is and how often they lie to benefit themselves.
it's a real problem, it's eroding trust in science and the scientific method with the general public, in a rational society, the scientists who make wild, bold and inaccurate claims should be stripped of their degrees and potentially face prison time for having done damage to society on poor data and corruption to interests groups like pharma companies, this practice is now so widespread that a significant size of the population now mistrusts scientists and ''experts''
we must restore scientific, academic standards and hold people responsable, we won't as a society but we really should, perhaps the next generations will have to deal with that. @Charles-js3ri
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idk, depends on if it peace time or not, might explain why the USA are funding terrorists on one hand and then demanding military intervention to "liberate" the next one.
As for food obesity is the biggest killer in the USA, shortage of food won't realy be an issue, housing, getting a job, decent wages, healthcare costs esspecialy are what's killing many Americans, do I eat food this month? Or pay my bills so I have a roof over my head? People live day by day.
Meanwhile the less then 1% is making billions, americans have this strange view that higher inequality and goverment lobbies funded by corporations is capitalism, while it's realy corporatism without the totalitarian police state (yet)
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@swampdonkey1567 I know Texas and Vermont have some constitutional loophole to have the right to leave the union, most states don't and even those that do have that right would be suicidal if they think the federal government is just going to stand for it, in the case of texas they joined the confederates but after the civil they were kept in the union.
with say the EU which is like a semi federal/confederate system, member states have the right to leave the union, not in the USA where a state first has to have that right (few states have it) and then have to be allowed to leave by I believe a majority of the other states, something quite like this happened in the UK during the troubles, when irish nationalists wanted a path to reunification with northern ireland, after a lot of terrorism and a plot to kill the PM of the UK the UK signed the Bellfast agreement meaning they would allow a refurendum on irish unification, likewise if the USA as a whole is corrupt with it's federal government elites, crony actions and culture becomes something hostile to it's state members then seeking independence becomes much more likely and since there is no real path for most states to do so it only really leaves violence as a means of progressing it further.
the USA has changed a lot since it's creation and not always for the better, looking at the trends I can't help but feel that people are losing faith in it, it could change of course but I don't think that's likely unless something really gets them fired up.
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@Leafeon-gd5en potentialy but they could also be used for specific military targets, imagine nuking major weapons production sites, "hidden" nuclear sillo's to stop other side from attacking, air craft carriers, the nuking of cities is a considered tactic because of maximum moral, civic and human lives losses, such a blow would demoralize any resistance to keep fighting.
They will kill in the millions, though if you wish to see them gone it's just not going to happen, what you can do however is make clear treaty and communication lines to prevent a misunderstanding which has happened a number of times before, one russian commander even saved the world by disobeying orders to nuke the west due to communication error which told them they were under attack.
The only way to even consider removing them is to use the uranium for neclear energy production.
The worst case situation would be neclear terrorism, nukes in the hands of fanatics is unthinkable.
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@viktator4205 so does most of the western world, including the USA and esspecialy the UK and Sweden.
Russia is pretty big and shares borders with many muslim majority countries so it's no wonder they have more immigrants, esspecialy because of their demografic problems, that being sayd if the west under the USA did not engage in constant sanctions perhapd they could invest more in their own people, which btw the Russian goverment has tried to do, unlike most western nations.
Being part of a "gene pool" or rather "national identity" takes more effort then being an individual, your born an individual, you can mostly work for your own individual gains, convincing others to join your side as a strong, collective actualy takes a lot of effort, those who fail to do so will become victims by those that do, otherwise you would not have a state of Israel, a European civilization, a Chinese civilization, a US civilization, it's the base line one we have negelected and paying the price for our neglect.
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@nightly3225 well China is very much in Africa which could clash with say France´s interests in africa, if the USA or anyone els starts a major conflict with China those regions could flair up as well.
Antarctica is likely to become more and more ice free and will thus become a regional conflict for Russia and certain European countries, including the USA, while not worth a war on it´s own it could come into dispute and motivate Russia to side with China in such a conflict.
as for the middle east, factions already exist within it, mostly towards israel, the USA, Iran and Russia, if China starts playing there game there too it could become a hotbed as well.
predicting the future is always tricky and never 100% accurate just assumptions and probabilities, ww1 did not just happen because of a single shot, it took years of minor conflicts, shaky alliances and a warmongering cultural elite to make it happen, the shot that lit the powder keg was just that, hell Bismark even predicted it would happen saying ´´probably some idiotic issue in the balkans would cause a massive war between the European nations´´ he was correct.
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@leto.o5759 if China invaded Taiwan today it would be a regional war and the rest of NATO and Asia would respond, China would be surrounded from all sides and just starved out, they would attack from all sides and would be repelled from all sides, unless they break through all that they can't win and they know it.
which is why China needs allies all over the world so when it does something like that, that's what makes a world war a world war, there has to be fighting and conflicts all over the world, during ww1 people all over the many empires came and fought in the war, in ww2 even more so with more conflicts in between some starting even before ww2 was offically going.
ww3 is going to be fought in the regions that are most contested, which is Africa, Europe, Asia and on the seas.
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That's idealistic nonsense, hundreds if not millions of different people all across time have been assimulated, destroyed and absorbed into different groups and will continue to do so, even right now we see this in Hong Kong, Russia's attempt in Ukraine, China with the Ugur muslims, probably some others in the world today.
Nations attempt to do these things because they know it works, without outside help Korea could have become fully part of Japan, it's not a good or bad thing, it just is.
However that being said a strong culture can fight and win it's right to exist if commited enough and willing to spill it's blood for their identity, it's just not always going to work out.
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@b4u334 your not making an honest and objective analisis of a real potential total war set up between the US and China, you are correct in seeing the defensive geopgraphy of the USA but you aren't looking the same way at China's or their level of technological advancement.
China has airplanes with the same level of US ones and they are expanding on every front as well, if a war broke out now the USA would win but look at it long term and consider where the USA will be within 10-20 years, China can innovate in ways which are literally illigale in the USA and has the potential to engage in next level forms of warfare of which the USA is not prepared for.
Im not saying this as a childish "bro China could kick the USA's ass" but more as a warning that I don't think the USA is fully prepared or able to see the potential outcomes.
I do think the USA can't be invaded by China, partly because it's hard but more so because there is nothing to gain through it, there is no land to annex, no spoils to be had, the way China wins is by removing US allies in the region, so Japan, Korea, Vietnam, India, Taiwan and wild card Russia, there realy is no just US vs China and in China's sphere they have the advantage.
China would have to make war to costly for the USA while giving the american public an alternative that's way more tempting.
The US government under Biden esspecialy is not going to be tough on China and is going to undermine their own position, China is just buying their time and the USA has decided to abandon much of the innovation they had before while China is attempting to build their own high tech development sector and already they dominate upcoming markets, AI, quantum computing, 5g, so on.
The biggest thing the USA has got going for them is they have become an oil exporter and have the potential to outgrow the Chinese economy as their population shrinks but it will be the US allies that will help contain China the most, if you lose them, you lose the war or rather you will give what China needs to become the next super power.
As for ww2, USA got late into the war and supplied most other nations for the main fighting, they were the ones fighting the jappanese the most, it never realy was a threat to the USA, just to US expansion and jappanese expansionism, same now with China but much worse than during ww2, hell soviet union was not as strong as China is today in my opinion.
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@b4u334 like I said nobody wants to invade the US mainland because it's not worth investing in, there are nations that can do it like China, the issue is they need to get rid of the US fleet and allies first but if they can land there then they could take over, it's just that no sane nation would try and do it because it's not worth it, the natural barriers and way the USA is positioned as well as their rather weak allies around them means no-one can directly attack them unlike most of the rest of the world's countries.
as for Biden, Im not sure what his plans or what the department of treasury, commerce and defence are planning, if you know any sites where i can read up on that I be happy to but so far very little seems to be reported on and most of the ''news'' channels these days aren't exactly trustworthy to report on such things, as for Biden himself he does not seem very hard on China at all and seems dead set on erasing all of Trumps policies so why would I assume he's going to be tough on China?
as for Innovation, the USA has been going down on many of it's former great advancements and as a political and cultural entity seems to be going down as well, the reason why the US is an oil exporter is because they have oil and the technology to extract it, that's not proper innovation, innovation is creating new methods of extracting or using new forms of energy which the USA is not investing in at all, while China is.
KT ratio for the USA is easy when all your enemies are small nations and aren't that impressive, during the korean war the USA suffered a lot of hardships against the north korean's and chinese some of which had better tanks and more soldiers then the USA had, at one point they were driven back to a small piece of the country and only because of bold strategy of Douglas Mcarther were they able to hold and push back due to continued air strikes and support, those supply lines are easy to maintain when Japan is your ally next to it.
if the USA were to go into a ground war with China, Iran or Russia things will be a lot harder for them, if they did not have the allies with supplies to maintain their armies they would shatter over time, it's the US manpower, industrial power and ability to gain allies to maintain those that make them almost impossible to beat, they only realy lost vietnam because the goals of the war were silly and unfocused and the people at home got sick of the war, the whole vietcon strategy was based around terror and injury rather then killing and it worked.
I think americans are falling into the arrogance trap of having few enemies to match their power, so they assume China is the same, regardless even of China the rest of the world is changing and the world is moving towards a multipolar world and in the meantime the USA has taken all the steps to ensure and speed up this process, US politics are a joke, their society is polorized (as is the west in general) I don't believe they will maintain their sole super power status the way they continue right now, they are becoming the byzantine empire in a way.
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@b4u334 that seems fair, well yeah if it's a 1 on 1 I don't think any one currently existing country could invade the USA, the USA has so many major benefits that most other nations fought world wars to even get close to and then failing because the USA beat them to it 200 years sooner, combined with the weak other countries in the region, I mean it's kinda amasing how south america is nothing compared to the USA and is just filled with cartels, socialism and instability.
and yes nothing unites quite like a common enemy which is why india, south korea and japan are such strong US allies because each of them knows they would be pretty much fucked without either eachothers help and/or the USA's support and this is also what helps the USA maintain their superpower status, before ww1 and ww2 the USA did not have nor desired to march all over the world to maintain a global super power, im just a bit frustrated that they claim they do it for the good of humanity or ''freedom'' while it's realy to maintain their global order and im not saying it's bad that they do when you look at the alternatives, it's just that they forget how they got there and that there are others who would wish to one day replace them in part or in full and that at some point the USA has to realise that and let go of some parts, I for one wish Europe would take a bigger part in world issues rather then sit on our asses getting wellfare programs and limiting our military.
as for China, they are realy trying to go back on their pre-communist era glory days, they are basically like national socialist germany, superiority complex, advanced technology, desire to rule and enslave others, the whole genocide thing, where as the USA seems more like the roman republic moving towards the empire or it might already be there and is now transitioning to a more byzantine empire style by abandoning their former places like the middle-east and perhaps Europe at some point.
I think the collapse of Russia will be the major turning point in world history as it does not seem likely to be maintained in it's current form and it can't realy intergrate into the west or asia sphere's so it will split, that's what I expect at least and at that point lots of other things will start to move on the world stage, could be wrong but that's how I see things moving forward.
I don't like Biden, I don't trust him, I also don't think he's good for the USA as a country, nor good for it's allies but if I see him or the people around him do a good job il complement him I just don't expect it, it looks like the end of the republic.
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@e1123581321345589144 I sayd most not all, the african people work hard but have no machines, no infrastructure, esspecialy not in central Africa, africa also has no deep water ports and like you sayd the local tribalism and lack of western style institutions makes it a very unstable place.
Braindrain from the west is also a major problem, now if they Just studied in the west and went back home to enrich their local economies that's diffrent, most of them decide to work in the west, which the governments and big corporations like but alienates the natives.
Africa has to play at what they have in abundance which is resources, food production (with modern technology) and solar energy production, to do that they need infrastructure and energy projects funded by other nations or themselves but to secure that investment they also need protection, so perhaps mercenaries? Private military contracts? China? They still have to implement property rights in much of their nations and try and reduce corruption.
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k bw if you have an aging population and declining birthrates the last thing you would consider a solution is immigration, it's not even a solution it's just giving up and allowing others to reap the rewards that were done by said generations.
Most of western Europe has not benefited from immigration, the USA has been in decline for many years now partly because of immigration, while nations like Israel, China, South Korea, Turkey, Poland and Ireland have all prospered and developed more economically and technologically, why? Because what makes an economy good is not immigration but the conditions of both capitalism and state regulations of said economy, immigration can be a benefit but only if the economic policies reflect the interests of the nation.
Immigrants want to move to nations with good economic prospects because it is good for them not nessisary for the society to take them.
Having a large influx of low skilled labor like in the USA is not a major benefit, the influx however of highly skilled labor is a benefit but this is not the majority of immigration nor is it a benefit, there is also the limitations of a nation to even have immigration, a nation like Japan is already very densly populated, immigration to their country would not add to their economy it would simply delay an aging population by presenting bigger problems for the future without solving the general issue, a nation like the USA has a lot of space and wealth to deal with these burdening economic migrants.
The ideal country or immigration policy is more like something like China or India where immigration is mostly internally, the growth rates are beyond replacement level and immigration is mostly if not only of high skilled labor that actually benefits the nation.
The age of endless population growth via immigration = prosperity is a 20th century view point that no longer works in the modern era, the policy of low immigration, highly skilled immigration, ease to assimulate and stable growth rates and automation are the keys to the future, aging population is not an excuses because this process happens in all industrial economies and those same migrants are going to age as well and destroying native cultures is not going to add to the society, just look at Brazil, high corruption, middle income trap, cartels, that's not the economy of the future.
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k bw I don't think you have a proper grasp on how economics works and have a very outdated leftwing view of how people assimulate to a culture and how immigration harms and benefits society.
job losses due to not having students make very little sense since students have to first set those companies up and many of them will fail, what you most likely mean is capital and intelectual value which is generated by talented workers and students who set up new companies.
the free movement of goods and people is not how immigration works, not today and not even in the past, it's also very open to interpretation because do you have no border security? do you let everyone in? do you have any amount of standards? is the amount of people let in calculated within the carrying capacity of the nation? what if a group of people come from third world nations that clash with the native people or other immigrant populations? or criminal organisations? these are all factors that clash with the very idea of free movement of people.
what made the USA so strong and a powerfull economy is mostly due to geography, conquest of land, capitalism and stable property rights, also immigration was very controled and motivated by basically giving people land to farm, a demand and a need to fill that demand with controled immigration not open borders.
also there was no wellfare state back in the day so people who came had to make it on their own labor a condition no modern economy has today and because they do have it, it means many immigrants are economic migrants and not labor force or skilled labor, you can have skilled labor and immigration of skilled labor is good but that's not the majority of immigration in any western nation and the way you get those talented people is through incentives to draws those people, as in lower taxes, easy of starting new companies.
people who are native or assimulated to this type of culture and economic structure is what made the country prosper in the first place, saying that it's build by or reliant on immigration to function is a failure of that society to maintain it which is what has happened in most of the western world, arguing that immigration must go up because aging is a bad argument because it does not solve the issue of that aging in the first place, a better solution would be to try and raise birthrates or have a more export focused market which is also what is going on in China along with automation.
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k bw in the case of the USA btw you have a new country that is mostly empty of people, esspecialy at the start of it's creation, now I understand australia has room as well but most of it is deserts and rocks, great mining companies, not so great to settle besides the coastal area's.
immigration today is not much of a benefit, besides highly skilled labor which is the minority of most immigrants and you will see that long term nations that prosper will be those with high birthrates, low immigration of skilled labor and strong property rights, while nations that fail and fall into corruption and decline will be those with high immigration of low skilled labor, bad property rights, high taxes and low birthrates which is part of most industrial nations right now.
the places with the fastest growing economies are in africa with low immigration besides internal migration, low amount immigration of skilled labor, proper property rights and high birthrates.
unless you discover a new continent with a good climate and plenty of shoreline that has basically no people at all your views are outdated.
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k bw you have plenty of studies claiming all sorts of nonsense, vaccines cause autism, study shows, why mass migration is a good thing (it's not) study shows, why LGBT policies are critical for a growing economy (it's not) study shows, a study in of it self does not mean it is truth, what is true is what observeable reality reflects both in the present, the past and the future and certainly not by ''studies'' made by corporations, new networks or government agencies.
to come to a true understanding of proper economics is to study the basics and history of what drives economic growth and understand that it is not an exact science.
also you don't seem to read what i wrote, skiled immigration is usefull and good for an economy, im not saying it's not, im saying most immigration is not of skilled labor and most of it is actually low skilled labor which raises social costs, lowers wages and can have a net negative effect on the economy.
I find your comment slightly funny because we actually agree on most issues except the idea that immigration is the key to a good economy or how it is nessisary for a growing economy, it's only ''nessisary'' when the economy is unstable and can't sustain itself, which is what causes decline in economic growth, you aren't fixing the problem long term with immigration, you are at best delaying it or at worst making the situation worse long term.
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k bw like I said, people will use ''studies'' to support their political or ideological agenda without having any or significant scientific methodology.
in fact there are fields of science where even experts make wrong calculations or conclusions or what they find or are incomplete, mostly this is in fields of non-exact science, things like math, chemistry, biology (for the most part) phisics are quite clear and exact with easy to prove and disprove methodologies.
fields such as social sciences, psychology, economics, law, politics, linqistics are all more fluid and non exact, the treatment of people based on their sexual preference is a non exact field of science but it's easy to understand how Paraphilia and non-hetero sexual behavior would lead to ostracization because from a biological perspective it is maladaptive to the survival of the group, that does not justify chemical castration which is a subset of law used in the past but we can understand why it was enforced and why nothing will ever change such ostracization, except perhaps the total collapse and extiction of humanity because it goes against human nature to pretend it is not maladaptive.
this whole argument is about the negative effects on a modern economy due to immigration of low skilled workers and the negative effects of immigration on society all together, of which there are many studies that show a breakdown in social cohesion, trust and overal cultural unity in a society with a high concentration of immigrant populations, over time people are likely to assimulate but even then there can still be problems, when ISIS was formed many muslims living in western nations went to the middle-east to fight, many of whom where 2th or 3th generations with good educations for the most part, the excuse that they weren't treated fairly is a simple one to make, the truth is that a non-compatable culture and non native people clash and feel excluded and isolated due to not fitting in and most likely never will unless their children and children's children become part of and feel connected to the native population, in the USA this is much easier then in old world cultures and people's due to history, language barriers, cultural and religeus identity clashes, so on and so forth.
today millions of people are persicuted for wrong think, thinking for themselves, making legitimate studies with ''offending'' conclusions and observations, censorship of free speech, limits on movement and individual freedoms, coming to a concensus that is both accurate, non-offensive or incompatable with globalistic and ideological agenda's is literally impossible and a major reason for western decline and rise of China, they have concensus, a brutal and authoritarian one but one that understands how the world works and human nature, the west needs to catch up and not be stuck in the 20th century or neo-marxist ideology.
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k bw there seems to be no reasoning with you, you don't seem to understand what im saying and taking everything to the extreme and misrepresenting what im saying it seems, pitty, you should try and be less ideologically driven and more opened minded to new view points, even ones you disagree with.
again im not talking about skilled immigration so why do you keep coming back on this? it seems like you are focused on trying to maintain your own viewpoints and aren't interested in questioning your own views, I could go into details of problems in the (censored) community but sadly youtube would censor it and I won't waste my time trying to explain it, in short it's maladaptive lifestyle and mental condition which leads to bad and self harming behavior both from society but esspecially themselves.
the use of math in non-exact sciences does not make it accurate, in fact their conclusions are often inaccurate and pose a real danger to society while discredting real science, though social media and mainsteam media plays a big rol, since they often isolate and indoctrinate people.
I've met plenty of liberals and many of them seemed less intelectual then many christians or any religeus group.
regardless, I hope you have a nice day.
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k bw there seems to be no reasoning with you, you don't seem to understand what im saying and taking everything to the extreme and misrepresenting what im saying it seems, pitty, you should try and be less ideologically driven and more opened minded to new view points, even ones you disagree with.
again im not talking about skilled immigration so why do you keep coming back on this? it seems like you are focused on trying to maintain your own viewpoints and aren't interested in questioning your own views, I could go into details of problems in the (censored) community but sadly youtube would censor it and I won't waste my time trying to explain it, in short it's maladaptive lifestyle and mental condition which leads to bad and self harming behavior both from society but esspecially themselves.
the use of math in non-exact sciences does not make it accurate, in fact their conclusions are often inaccurate and pose a real danger to society while discredting real science, though social media and mainsteam media plays a big rol, since they often isolate and indoctrinate people.
I've met plenty of liberals and many of them seemed less intelectual then many christians or any religeus group.
regardless, I hope you have a nice day.
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k bw there are different schools of economics and economics is the study of what people value, a loaf of bread or a computer, the study of currency and economic models on how to distribute wealth or create wealth, all of these things are not exact sciences, the use of mathematics can be accurate because that is an exact science but the theory upon which it is modeled on can be incorrect, in the USSR there were plenty of mathematics and models involved but their theory of how planned economies worked led to shortages and famines due to government policies.
Also technology changes and with it changes economic outcomes, crypto currencies are an example where the economy is changing and value is changing despite it not being a part of official economic theory of value another potential problem is automation which would create a need for an economic policy change, in short economics is not an exact science, there are economists who use mathematics to make models to predict economic outcomes and many are correct but others are incorrect and clash with other economists despite using math an exact science to create models, therefor economics is not an exact science, math is which is why it might appear as an exact science.
Social sciences these days is more inaccurate then accurate then economics due to it not having an exact science within it or with models, mathematical observations using statistics perhaps but no way of quantifying an exact amount because people are individuals, groups, ideologies and have politics to deal with.
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yeah because the democratic party totally aren´t the party of the rich, it´s those evil, money grubbing republicans want to harm the economy, it´s not like the current government policy has seen a rise in prices or anything or shortages, it´s not like this is a trend around the world, just keep printing money, it´s never going to fall, USA! USA! USA! go Biden!
as someone outside of the USA, the USA looks like a joke, it´s politics is a joke, it´s current cultural movements are joke, it´s economic policies are a joke, the US government is a joke.
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It’s important to ask the question, is this caused by our environmental conditions or is this caused by an elite class who push this top down via a variety of ways?
The mouse Utopia is a fixed system, nothing really changes but the social structure between the mice, human civilization is so far removed from that reality, we interact with the world, we have limited resources, we fight over resources, we fight over random nonsense depending on the IQ levels of the people doing it.
the reality is that this is not a feature of the system, rather this is a bug, a hijacking of what should be enforced and done but in reality is not done because the changes caused by things such as the civil rights act or government policy, hell we were locked in our homes for close to 2 years because of covid, how is this in any way a natural reaction?
technology and policy changes on the top level as well as the international order itself has caused this, the only way it is going to end is with a collapse.
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@J.D.M.R not realy, there is this concept called propaganda, censorship and mass media, simply by being everywhere, removing critical voices and using technology to manipulate people's perception of reality can the most weakest, most insane and least educated people on the top dictate to others how things should be run.
There are whole lists of grifters of every color, creed or ideology who's who purpose is to gain personal wealth from promoting stupid ideas and actually removing services and freedoms from society, no sane person would ever listen to such people but thanks to the power of propaganda, technology and sheer radicalism can some become millionairs, people don't listen by choice, they are force fed information, lack other critical forms of information and generally are suckered into ideologies as a collective to gain individual sense of worth.
there is a great book called ''the true believer'' that goes into this type of personality type and it's very rampant in the social media era, before that little piece of technology their reach was very limited.
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@breanainnlyness7910 ironic since all of Europe are ethnostates, israel is an ethnostate, China is an ethnostate (han Chinese) the USA for a long time was a white ethnostate, the truth is most nations are ethnostates the exceptions are former colonial countries which have a disputed ethno-cultural identity which often leads to conflict between natives and non-natives, like in south africa, israel (colonial country), western Europe between migrant populations, things like multiculturalism have often only been forced through authoritarian rule and oppresing of people, like with the mongol empire or south america which had the biggest and cruelest slave trade.
Ethno nationalism is not ignorance, ignorance is multiculturalism and globalism, you are correct that no nation is "pure" because people move around and wish to assumulate to the core culture, things like multiculturalism and pro immigration elites aren't intrested in assimulation, only replacement and deconstruction of core people's, like israel is to the palastinians, the Euro-americans to the native americans, the han Chinese to tibet, it's realy no diffrent from old Adolf's lebensraum concept.
People assimulate or they replace cultures, nations, religions and people's, it's like evolution, except it's not realy natural selection, more artifical selection, unless organic with no forced political supression of natives which is almost never the case.
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@breanainnlyness7910 I don't think you understand what ignorant means.
It means you don't understand something, like you are doing right here by denying that culture and ethnicity are connected, this is how cultural identity works and you sound like the type of authoritarian who would call others copying other people's culture cultural appropiation, yet deny the existence of a people when it suits you, how can you copy something that's not separate from you?
I understand the world and have studied and learned from many diffrent cultures, people's and history that's why I know there are diffrences.
Have you ever worked with people from Poland? China? Ghana? Spain? The Netherlands? Would you say they are all the same or that their culture is not linked to their identity?
Ask any doctor and they know where people come from, their genetics and therefor their ethnicity matter for medicine.
Voting paterns in diffrent demografically and diffrent ethnic groups matter, that's why politicians try to cater to collective populations voting blocks because they are different from others, this is not very hard to understand but it seems like this is some advanced rocket science for you to grasp.
I understand how you are ignorant, irrational and dishonest about culture and ethnicity because it's easy to be lazy and it's hard to understand the diffrences between diffrent people, perhaps if you experience the world and other people more you will come to understand my point.
No wonder the han Chinese are taking over the world, they have a good understanding of themselves, they have a unified population while here in the west I have to try and explain to you how civilization works.
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I have to disagree stxy, the draft exists in case there ever is a major war and you need the manpower for multiple reasons, mostly for occupation of lands but also to guard the distant corners of the world that are unstable, the USA has made the world a lot less in need of this which is why manpower needs are low as they are but the idea it could never switch back is idealistic.
As for Nuclear weapons at some point Nuclear weapons or rather ICBM's won't be the end all be all of warfare, war is always evolving, we used to have knights, longbows and mounted horse archers be the pinacle of warfare then it became dominated by guns, then cannons, then cannons and guns working in the optimal set up, then the machine gun, the nuke and ICBM is just the last in a long line of new technologies to change the battlefield at some point it too will become replaced.
and last, the reason why some people want the draft is to teach people certain skills, instill a sense of structure, order and loyalty to people for the state or it's ideals, some with good intentions though many also with bad intentions, the rich and powerfull always dodge the draft because they feel they already are at the top and don't need anything from the government.
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Fecal Matter ik ben het ook niet altijd eens met FVD of de PVV maar als ze de enige partijen zijn die verandering durven te brengen in een verouderede en rottende orde dan is er weinig keuze over.
mijn angst is juist meer dat als men ze blijft afstoten, en aanvallen als dit of dat, dat het juist een nog ergere tegen reactie veroorzaakt.
we begonnen jaren geleden met Pim fortuyn, die wilde alleen al een problem op roepen, toen kregen we de PVV, nu FVD die sommige mensen zien als nog meer nationalistische, wat zal de volgende partij dan worden?
ik zie tribalisme niet als een vermindering van waarde voor onze samenleving maar juist als een reactie op de groeiende afgunst van onze maatschappij en vooral toloratie voor andere ideeën die juist het soort agressie en angst op wekken met hun plannen zoals DENK en multinational corporaties zoals Google en Facebook.
mocht de EU ooit meer worden dan alleen een supranationale organisatie dan zullen de populisten nog steeds hun argumenten versterken en aanpassen voor mogelijke verandering het is niet iets negatiefs of positief op zich zelf maar het is de werkelijkheid, mensen willen verandering.
het alternatief is wat je ziet in Frankrijk nu met Macron, hij wint met zijn crackdown op radicale religie grond met populisten en dat zal waarschijnlijk verder verspreiden, zelfde in andere landen zoals Polen, Turkije, zelfs Duitsland, het is niet niets.
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i''m often quite critical of the USA (not an american) but Donald Trump from where im sitting seems like the best president I've ever seen, some say they miss Obama but people have such short memories, they don't remember all the things he did and how much he divided not just america but the world at large, he was just black bush, Trump on the other hand seems to bring something of change to the world, might not all be roses and flowers but he does represent the USA more honestly, he stands up to China, he has not started any major wars, he lowered taxes, not sure if he actualy got that wall yes or no, seems to have forgotten all about it, probably because the dems are so busy trying to burn their own cities to the ground.
I take 4 more years of Trump over biden any day, the only down side I can think of is 4 more years of non stop anti Trump propaganda from the media, which has been a true yawn fest since he won in 2016, 4 year long! no wonder gullable people think he's the new adolf it's all they ever hear from the legacy media.
it be great if Trump got a bit more enviromentally friendly with some of his policies, I wish he could/would invest in more nuclear energy but I understand that's a hot patato for election season.
while Trump is great I do hope the USA starts talking about real politics instead of all the strange and weird american only topics I see come up so often.
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Kartik Gupta actually the USA has been mostly European with multiple European people's moving there but mostly drawn from English, German, Dutch and French settlers for most of it's existence and it has never been multicultural till about 1960s when more global groups came pouring in.
the USA was multiethnic but it was not multicultural, ironically once this did start to happen the USA started to become more corrupt, in decline and less of an example to the rest of the world, in addition they started to chip away at their constitutional values.
btw this is not an isolated US thing, the same decline, unstability, lack of trust in the society and government along with rising crime rates and corruption are common in all multicultral societies, from Indonesia, to India, to western Europe, to Iran, to Brazil because it's human nature, often times the only way multicultural state/empires can exist is through repression and authoritarianism.
it is what it is but the denial of this reality is often the most dangerous part of it, since it leads to racist ideologies like believe in ''white privilage'' to blame for when the results keep coming out as negative.
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I can explain if you want, I have studied history for a very long time and I understand the mindset of the germans (im dutch btw not german) Germany never had any collonial holdings, the british had their empire, the dutch, the french, the USA, but the germans never had any real colonies.
That's why they wanted lebensraum in ww2 and that's why the need to find ways to unite nations around them into their sphere if influence.
Germany does not have the benefits of the USA, they are surrounded by potential enemies and potential allies all the time, this is the german mindset, you don't know if Poland might side with the commies or the americans, they need to ensure their will, their power is king over their subjects.
If Germany tried to be as liberal and "freedom loving" as the americans they would have been invaded and annexed decades ago.
Germany has a gun culture, Germany needs authoritarianism to enforce it's economic policies on the rest of Europe.
Security breeds freedom and freedom is just power, the USA only liked freedom when they could not enforce their authoritarian rule over it's citizen, after the new deal they became much more authoritarian.
The USA is authoritarian, most of the world is, there are few exceptions and they don't last very long or are contained in small city states.
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@genelearnsenglish4242 kinda the opposite, tanks, drones and what not show lack of controle and a self destructive situation.
True controle is more like public education, health care, google tracking, censorship, age restrictions for products, courts that favor prisoners, political mass movements, the police.
These are powerfull institutions those with the army is what keeps the people under the whip, guns help but quite minimaly, in national socialist Germany, people had guns and it changed nothing.
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I just can't believe these results and I worry for the future not just the USA but the western world, Trump was this symbol of resistance towards Globalism, to the elites and they threw everything at him to try and stop him in 2016 and for 4 years too.
Now with the weakest of candidates, sleepy Joe Biden, they seem to have cheated their way to victory and now it feels like the media and far left are going to realy try and destroy any resistance towards their power, they are going to detrumpze our societies and seek to ensure that Trump like candidates never win again.
I thought that the perception and reality was in our favor, that Trump had it in the bag, Hillary Clinton was way worse than sleepy Joe and now I don't know what's real anymore.
I don't mind losing if it seemed fair and at least even but this is so wrong on so many levels, it's going to be four years of constant propaganda and leftwing nonsense and decline.
I realy hope Trump can somehow still win and I hope things don't turn out that bad even if Biden wins but after 4 years of seeing what the left has done, I worry about the future, idk what to think anymore, if someone like Trump can't defeat them anymore, who can?
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@kingshermanii idk what your talking about fascism is literaly a form of socialism, as were many military juntas in some form or another, the exception to this is Chille and Brazil during their military junta but communism and communist subting groups existed for quite some time and caused a lot of damage.
you don't seem to realy understand what gives rise to those military junta's and dictatorships, they don't just pop out of the ground for nothing or for fun, they rise due to a clash of far left and far right ideology often times feeding off eachother, to give an example, Cuba became communist, Venuzuwela became socialist, other nations see the spread of communism, USA gets involved starts supporting dictatorships to prevent spread of communism, other nations instal their own military junta's out of fear of becoming puppets to the USA or the USSR, communists flee into the jungles, this is not something that's that special for south america btw, this happened in asia, in africa and parts of the middle east too, that's the cold war.
after the cold war some of these regimes remained, fell out of power or the socialists became less revolutionary but still corrupt and authoritarian, to say communism and socialism aren't that big a deal in south america is very wrong and is either feigning ignorance or outright lying.
socialists and communists had power over large parts of south america, the junta's and dictatorships was just a way to snuff them out and they are still there btw, same in the west only less violent.
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@kingshermanii fascism is socialism, the leader of fascism was a former socialist and their economic policies are about the same, the only differences is that fascists/nat soc believe in the national version of socialism, socialism for the national people for the good of the people via the dictatorship, where as communists and some socialists believe in international socialism which wants to spread the world revolution and break down many national cultures, identities and elites.
communists also sold land, stole from the people, also invaded other nations, also introduced price controles, rent controles, a planned economy, just like the fascists and nat-soc's did, they did still have a model of market economics but it was not capitalism, it was authoritarianism to the extreme and the government controle it all.
I get why socialists who want to continue their cult of death don't want to admit that they are basically the same thing as fascism if not worse but this is nothing new, commies gonna commie.
it's just so morally backrupt that's amasing they still have supporters, that's why it's like a cult.
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the people in charge of these shows have no talent, skill or passion for what they create, they know they can't create anything good, that's why they can only corrupt and destroy that which existed before them and frankly that's pretty much the point, they aren't even driven by profit or ideology, they are driven by hatred and spite and that's what is reflected in their works.
lucky for us there are still people who have passion for creating art and it's on the fans to abandon those who only seek to corrupt and promote those who dare to create, look to things like Manga, Anime, look for lower budget movies that still have creative freedom, don't give these dark lords any attention, let them starve in their own shit.
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@pixelgoatstudios-2025 yeah you are a typical ignorant, leftwing drone, you people are anti science and racist as hell.
All you care about is yourself, wanting to tax the poor so you can enrich and empower corporations, wage war on the middle east and sell out to China, you want slave labor in the US and want slave labor used in China as long as you get the cheapest product while ensuring americans are on wellfare.
The only marganalized people in the USA are white people, never before have I seen so much racism from you leftwing, ignorant, hillbillies, affurmative action, telling white people they got "white privilage" just for existing, disgracefull.
You people have no compassion or understanding of economics and just want to defend your corporations from harm, even if it hurts your only family or country.
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@pixelgoatstudios-2025 the fact that you think rightwing is fascists shows you are brainwashed to the highest degree and no amount of facts and logical arguments is likely going to convince you otherwise, which is exactly why leftwing political parties are so in favor of mass migration, open borders and wellfare spending, if you can't win with arguments you have to use bribery and cunning manipulation to gain and maintain power and for a long time the leftwing has won because and only because of these policies which you ironically call "xenophobic" if anyone opposes them, when in fact it is your side that uses minorities the most for your own goals while those on the rightwing treat them as equal, the response you see today is a logical one after decades of anti white racism and targeted attacks by leftwing elitists and their lackey's some are resisting this racism which makes you very mad and angry, a thief hates it when his con is exposed.
This might be hard for you to imagine but I am a former leftists and whenever I talk to leftists i'm amased at how regresive and dishonest they have become, gone are the days of the anti war left with their love for science and reason, today they stand for corporations, racism and simple minded topics that only they care about, not the people, the leftwing hates the people with a passion.
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@toddharig8142 clearly you never met a nationalist before, I find your comment very amusing but also sad because the truth is that globalists, corporatists and progressives tend to rely on shunning everyone but the strong (aka the rich), creating pages of pages of dehumanzing propaganda and they are far more ruthless and manipulative then any nationalist alive today which includes actual fascists.
There is no capitalism, there is corporatism which means the government must create the Tyrany for them in the first place, it was not capitalism that forced a global lockdown due to a disease, that's the state the same state leftists, socialists and progressives want to empower even more and believe libertarians are the same as fascists.
The USA was based on racial nepotism and expansion through war, that's how they became a superpower in the first place, China today the second largest economy in the world is 99% han Chinese, India wants to be the same kind of country with a strong hindu identity.
Meanwhile in the west we allow rape gangs to run free because our police don't want to be called racist, can't have any promotion of our own population growth without being labeled nazi's, how els would you preserve and create a new pan European identity without using the identities of the European nations and people's that exist in the first place? Seems very irrational and illogical to me, almost anti white and racist to presume otherwise.
But from your use of language I don't think you are intrested in any logical, rational, mature conversation, more likely trying to convince your own ideology of being somehow superior while ignoring reality, well as long as you don't wish to censor me or use violence to defend your corporations I don't mind, I just hope we can stop the mass migration waves before democracy is destroyed from within which it already has to a large degree.
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@toddharig8142 ahhh I see your a leftist troll, no use talking to you then, I do hope you read some more US History, basic economics, demografics and about the current anti white racism that's at work in our society today.
Things like "white privilage" is racist by it's very intention.
I would try and anwser your questions in more details but that would be 20 pages long, cause your defence mechanisms to kick in and most likely my comment would get censored at the 2e page by youtube.
USA was very special in it's collonialism you sould read up on it, it's rather intresting, in fact the EU is at it's core an attempt at copying the US model for superpower status, except we messed up by adopting the anti white and multicultral policies of the USA too, which is why our societies are in such great decline.
I'm having a hard time taking you serieusly if you refuse to look at things objectively and with a more critical and open minded mindset, it's sad realy.
Do you think the UK is beter off due to mass migration and state enforced multiculturalism? I think it's utterly backwards and regresive.
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@toddharig8142 sorry did not read all, I don't think you are realy worth talking to since you are kinda stuck in a leftist loop mindset of thinking im somehow a "white supreemist" while ignoring the effects of demografics and actualy policies made by the EU and it's goal as a organisation, how pretending ethni-city does not matter in a collection of nation states based on ethno-cultural identities is beyond me.
I feel like your stuck in a loop where if someone mentions say nationalism, you automatically respond with certain defence mechanisms, try to change the subject or make assumptions and then believe your assumptions are true.
If I mention the ra-pe cases by isl-amic groo-ming gangs in the UK, you say that does not matter or X is a bigger deal or you believe X matters so you must be a na-zi, how would anyone be able to make you doubt your own authoritarian believes and anti whi-te rac-ism if anything someone says can be warped into somehow being w-hite supreemism?
Regardless if you think it does not matter or whatever assumptions you think are true, in real politic and in power politics, demografics matter, that's how Russia was able to get a vote in one cremea, why the state of israel exists, how peace came to Europe after a series of population exchanges after ww1 and ww2, why the british government needs to censor people's opinions if they offend certain people, why terrorism happens on all sides in western nations, why certain political parties like pro migrant parties in Europe exist, due to immigration in the first place.
I don't understand why you pretend like these things don't exist, don't matter or why you would write pages of pages of word for word responses rather then adressing the overal message of the comment, idk how I would be able to convince you nor would it realy matter since what actualy influences society is demografics, education, censorship, media, government action and immigration policy more so then rational debate which we aren't realy having right now because I can't seem to break through your ideological bubble your in.
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I would have to slightly disagree with you styx, people in the netherlands smoke less because we have lots of programs to try and get people to stop smoking, I think we even have health insurance that covers things that help with nixotine withdraw but more so because the government has been taxing cigarettes into oblivion, going from 3.50 in my youth to 10 euro as an adult.
the other issues is the netherlands has some of the harshest, most expensive and silly gun laws in the world and can't be used for self defence, in fact if you find someone in your house, attempting to rape your wife or something and you shoot them, then they can and will sue you (if they survive) for attempted murder, often times they will get away with a few years in jail, while you might see 20 years or life, depending on how much in a good mood the judges are that day.
however what we do right which the USA could learn from is our slighty less insane government policy on law and order and wellfare spending to not have so many poor people next to rich people towns, besides that however I do wished we had US style gun rights, at the very least hand guns or something, though if we did I think most politicians would suddenly fear for their lives more often.
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19:12 how was Nazi germany atheist? they just replaced Christianity with the swastika (which is a Hindu symbol which you surely know)
and communism is a lot like a religion, so many believe in it without evidence and they constantly make up nonsense to try and justify it, if that's not a religion then idk what is.
as for western Europe, it's not Atheist Regimes, it's western and americanized regimes, there is no state Atheist governments in western Europe, just the people having lost faith in god and religion, the USA largely still believes in Christianity but when you got all that room to expand, told your the greatest nation ever and don't have to directly deal with the horrors of war like most of Europe did, you tend to be more positive in your nations ability to project power.
ironically if western Europe became less like it is today, it would mean it would become competition for the USA and China and we can't have that now can we?
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@damianjf6357 easy to prove, Caspian report is not a big corporation, it's a small, independent news source and analists of geo-politics, therefor he is not in the pockets of wealthy multinationals or parent companies, he also does not promote any ideological agenda which many "news" sources do with opinion pieces that are outright propaganda and hit pieces.
It's not that hard to understand and if you think China is a great country to live in and not a totalitarian state then you are delusional and uneducated.
To be honest you sound less like a person and more like a Chinese shill or troll.
The BBC and Fox news channels are exactly the types of channels that don't adress China as harshly as they could, though visual politix is much worse on this issue, the western media in general has gotten very lazy, corrupt and ideologically driven, there is a reason why TNYT writes hit pieces about alt tech and new platforms they don't want any competition for minds, it's why if you look any international subject on YouTube the corporate press comes up, hell sometimes they don't even show any alternatives or independent news sources, you have to know where to look where to find them.
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I love this video.
on the issue of evil though, while real evil does exist it also matters to the perception of the person who sees it and ask the question if they think it's worth it to realise their goal/dream.
for example, take the nazi's who wanted to created their utopian vision but to do so they believed they needed to do horrible things, many of their focus points ironically are somewhat in line with what Tolkin wrote being good, like the preservation of nature (animal rights, environmentalism, vegitarianism) and trying to be in line with biological realities (social darwinism, Eugenics, birthrates) and expansionism to secure what they need long term. Thus for many both back then and people today they view what happened as either nessisary or unfortunate but would not consider it evil just for being evil but as a nessisary evil, same with Communism, social justice and other ideologies which also include religions like Christianity, Islam or the Jewish faith.
evil does exist in the sense that sadistic people with desires to see the world or civilization destroyed exist but that most of what we consider evil are just normal people who believe in their own visions of the future that they are willing in full or in part to give up their humanity or come to view certain people as being evil (aka given up their humanity) to justify their own cruelty, it can also be that hatred of your enemies can make it easier to destroy them, which is why you can see soldiers being very cruel to their enemies because viewing them as less then human makes it easier for yourself to destroy them and thus survive, there is a evolutionary benefit in doing so, it's not always ideal or justified and often driven by fear but it is there.
evil is both subjective and very real but most people are just normal that can become forced or possed by ideas that drives them towards violence because they see it as nessisary, almost nobody wakes up thinking ''ohhh boy here I go killing again'' most people simply follow orders or convince themselves what they are doing is nessisary and sometimes even good to justify giving up part of their humanity.
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@kaetamine I find it intresting that poland is able to annex lands supposedly ethnically cleansed by sovjets yet given to poland, yet Russia had already annex parts of poland, so tell me why would they do that mmmmm? Out of the goodness of their heart?
Or does it not count if the polish leaders and military do so with approval of the allies and the sovjets? If that's the case why is Germany held responsable for the war? After all the nazi's did it not the germans?
Also funny how supposedly the polish military had nothing to do with it "it was not the polish people! Or military! It were the sovjets, I mean the polish people annex the land, gave the former german towns polish names and became settled by polish people but clearly they had nothing to do with it" right.... Because that makes sense right?
And who am I to Believe? Some west-german puppet goverment set up by the allies? The records from the nazi's? The sovjets? Or the polish? What if there are no records? Did it realy happen then?
I think it's fairly clean that the polish people and their military pushed for this out of revenge and to ensure that old wounds aren't reopened they reduce the numbers after all it's not genocide, nor is is ethnic cleansing but "population transfer" anyone with a basic understanding of linqistics can see that these terms and these excuses are used for national intrest by the polish state, blame the sovjets, blame the allies but not the innocent polish, they can do no wrong because ww2 is a creation myth more than anything els, each side just makes shit up as they go allong and it's easy to see way.
But like I sayd your boring me, we can go back and forth but I can see who benefited and I can see through this bullshit.
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@kaetamine At the Potsdam Conference (17 July–2 August 1945), the territory to the east of the Oder–Neisse line was assigned to Polish and Soviet Union administration pending the final peace treaty. All Germans had their property confiscated and were placed under restrictive jurisdiction.[148][154] The Silesian voivode Aleksander Zawadzki in part had already expropriated the property of the German Silesians on 26 January 1945, another decree of 2 March expropriated that of all Germans east of the Oder and Neisse, and a subsequent decree of 6 May declared all "abandoned" property as belonging to the Polish state.[155] Germans were also not permitted to hold Polish currency, the only legal currency since July, other than earnings from work assigned to them.[156] The remaining population faced theft and looting, and also in some instances rape and murder by the criminal elements, crimes that were rarely prevented nor prosecuted by the Polish Militia Forces and newly installed communist judiciary.
The German Federal Archives estimated in 1974 that more than 200,000 German civilians were interned in Polish camps; they put the death rate at 20–50% and estimated that over 60,000 probably died.[158] Polish historians Witold Sienkiewicz and Grzegorz Hryciuk maintain that the internment:
resulted in numerous deaths, which cannot be accurately determined because of lack of statistics or falsification. At certain periods, they could be in the tens of percent of the inmate numbers. Those interned are estimated at 200–250,000 German nationals and the indigenous population and deaths might range from 15,000 to 60,000 persons.
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@emonlevircni4617 that's because all multicultral founded nations are unstable and authoritarian, Russia, Yugoslavia, Brazil.
Diversity is the norm in most civilizations, unity among people is the exception and has a wide range of factors, the biggest of which is property rights and indeed language.
Brazil with it's diversity and history of slavery has made it very difficult for themselves to move beyond, corruption, violence and authoritarianism is the norm there.
In Europe, not so much, yes the language barriers exist but is less of an issue since most nations speak english as a second language, they have pretty firm but not perfect property rights, as such and with changing world they are probably more able to unify than Brazil would be but only time can tell for sure, it depends on what people want of course.
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@ebonytv3414 that´s nonsense, in fact they one of the most secure, stable, wealthy, free and the capable nation in the world, the world is their pearl and they defend it even from minor threats which in most cases makes it seem weak by exadurating threats and using full force against any such foe, even while it would cost them more and not win them any favors in the long run.
if anything the USA is a victim of it´s own greatness, believing themselves that they can do no wrong, that they are so free that giving up certain freedoms won´t be as bad in the long run, that they can afford to ignore problems in their communities and that the elites in charge become out of touch and feel like nothing can hurt them.
I don´t even like the USA that much, esspecially their government but they aren´t realy evil or scared, they are corrupt and incompetent, as is most of the western world right now.
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@chuckhoyle1211 "freedom" what freedom? Are you drunk? What are you talking about? USA has the worst infrastructure of any developed nation, the last 20 years allone you wasted billions on useless wars that burden your "allies" so much, your population is even more demografically fucked than Europe, your deep in debt.
I agree Europe sould invest more in it's own military, Germany sould tear apart the treaties forced on them that limits their military spending, Europe sould reject NATO, seek Russia as it's ally and try and join China to undo the decades of US propaganda and anti white bullshit, yes, Europe first, which means byebye to US global hegemony.
I don't get why you would want other nations to be like you, it's what your military and goverment fears most, USA became great because after ww2 it took all the talent from Europe and left the other half to rot to communism, cold wars over, China is leading in biotechnology, computer science, throwing muslims in concentration camps, while the USA arms them and sends them off to Europe.
I live in Europe, I don't envy the USA, I resent and hate the USA, mostly it's goverment not the people, you guys are fine and can hide from the rest of the world and your Actions, we are left to pick up the pieces and we will, Just don't side with the Turks when shit hits the fan.
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im getting realy depressed with the potential prospect of a Biden presidency, I´ve been trying to get a grip on how the election steal could have happened and wonder how Trump can prove it in court before the deadline of december 14, it´s the time window that´s the main issues here in my opinion, with enough funds, force and time all would be revealed, the dems had 4 years to prepare this and now it has to be undone in less than a few weeks while the media and big tech wants to bury and censor any mention of it online and elswhere.
when a skinny, weak minded, low information leftists starts to gloat or defends another war started by bejing Biden or how he cucks to China is all we can say is ''well he just rigged the election''? if all the courts deny that it even happened, if SCOTUS does not get to look into it or if the evidence gathered which does exist but might be to little or to inconclusive to flip the election results or a single state, how can we accept that?
how can anyone explain Biden's ''victory'' without it? besides the trope ''orange man bad''?
we truely live in bizzaro world if this allows to happen, if it does there better be a damn good explanation for it.
I hope Trump can still win but it feels like the walls are closing in.
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@f3tsch906 well that's funny because most people and some historians would praise Gengis khan while demonizing hitler as the prime evil of humanity, intelectuals would praise communism and make excuses for mao, stalin and polpot or not even mention them at all, most documentaries are focused on ww2 and the nazi's very few focus on the jappanese or the soviet style camps, famines and genocide, including of jewish people btw by stalin.
point is you say althistory is bad because he does not condem them all equally but nobody els seems to do that as well and they don't even look at the numbers to begin with, they don't even make a scale or attempt to make a scale.
people today treat hitler like napoleon was remembered back in the day, I don't like depicting people as inhumane monsters despite their best efforts to be like that, that does not make them good or oke, it just makes them human with flaws, good and bad sides and evil vs nessisary evil, because lets face it if you want to expand your borders and take over Europe or the world, people gonna die, that's just how it is, same for the USA, China and every other future super power, violence is just the key to all things within power politics, wealth, riches, influence, technology, it all means nothing if you don't have violence on your side as a power.
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@jacobw2573 in terms of government structure, policies, outcomes and enemies they are quite the same, the only real difference is fascism still maintains some form of market mechanics, while communism seeks to create a planned economy, communism has a worldwide agenda while fascism is more local and focused on national interest to the extreme, both hate capitalism, both hate democracy, both hate free speech, love censorship, militarism and supressing people that disagree with them.
they aren´t identical and there are some varients through out history but overal they all work the same way.
a good side note is that these ideologies would not be able to exist without modern technology, from radio, mass printed media, propaganda, logistics, administrative bodies and secret police, people like to think these ideologies are gone but they are more present then ever and a potential super power China is create even more advanced forms of controle which is quite a terrifying development, even more so due to people not taking the threat serieusly while pretending to fight ghosts of the past, it´s all rather childish and insane to be honest.
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I did not expect these guys would talk about IQ or IQ statistics, so a little introduction.
IQ tests were used by the US military since ww1 to determine if someone has the general intelligence to perform basic tasks and remember their training properly, if they did not pass the minimal nessisary IQ they would not be allowed to serve the military because it would have been a waste of time, money and human resources to train that person.
IQ tests are not biased or catered to a specific demografic, it's simply a tool used to measure and quantify Intelligence.
now for the spicy part some people for some reason have issue with IQ tests, not all human population groups have the same general intelligence and there seems to be a gap between specific demografic groups that indicates a lower IQ and therefor lower Intelligence than others, which makes sense if you understand evolution, evolutionary pressures and sexual selection.
people who are smart have a higher IQ compared to people who are generaly less Inteligent, due note that IQ is not an indication of success, many people who are very smart are also autistic and have trouble socializing and getting ahead in human societies, not only that but from a evolutionary perspective, less intelligent people tend to have more children so they are evolutionary more successfull compared to smart people who tend to have few children if at all also many smart people have mental disorders.
IQ is not an indication of someone's superiority, it's a measure of someone's potential to perform and advance specific fields of science, art, education, technology or other ventures.
I would hope most people here are open minded enough towards this concept and not shout people down or demand their opinions to be silenced which happens way to often these days.
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@josephsaafan7838 it realy only has two political parties and so was the roman Republic, the Weimar Republic and many modern European states still today they already ruled multiple lands and people's before being official empires and in the case of the USA you already have dynastic families that are deep into the political elite, a corporate class with more power than most nations who openly manipulate and effect elections.
The USA already waged wars for land in it's own continent and was expanding into south america, had war with Cuba, Canada, Mexico, puppeted the philippines, annexed Hawaii, how is this not an empire?
And yes China is also an empire that wants to expand, they aren't just an empire, they are a totalitarian dictatorship.
Btw being an empire is not a bad thing, many empires in human history were great era's of peace and prosperity, though they never last forever, one empires fall, means a new one can and will take it's place.
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@joejoejoejoejoejoe4391 to me it looks more like a natural behavior to bad enviromental conditions, animals in times of great crisis, hunger, predators, other will sometimes not mate and pass on their genes because the conditions are so bad that attempt would lead to loss of offspring and waste of energy, so they postpone having children till conditions improve, human beings are so much bombarded with information, large numbers of people in small area, abundance of unhealthy food, enviromental conditions that demand sitting at a desk all day filing paperwork or being on the computer that it might be tricking the brain into thinking conditions are bad, this is supported by the fact that people who are religeus have more children, as well as more rural area's, they are less exposed to these presures.
Of course this is an over simplification and all industrialized nations have decline in birthrates regardless of other factors but it's clear that while we can produce a lot of goods and services those same conditions seem to reduce our population growth.
Perhaps the solution is a return to more rural lifestyles? Perhaps have less urban cities? Idk.
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Frankly I don't care about any of this shit, people pretend to care but they don't, some idiots get all emotional like it's a big thing but they don't, then there are the morons who want to riot, loot, beat people up and pretend to be the good guys.
It's all a bunch of bullshit and in the end other people will have to clean up this mess, people will focus on some other stupid shit, till the next jogger gets killed by police and we start this bullshit all over again.
Don't comment that you care, you don't, let the fires burn out and rebuild and wait for the next bullshit to come along, waste of time.
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@RandomGuy010 in my country "the Netherlands" it's also legal, prostitutes are able to sell their bodies in certain districts behind windows, the police can help them if they are forced into it (not all of them call the cops because of pimp or language barriers, foreign woman do get used into it), they can do their work with basic hygiëne and security from customers and it's more regulated.
Prostitution is always going to be happening, I've seen how it goes in places like the USA where it's illigale, prostitutes beaten by pimps, selling on the streets, sometimes murdered by customers and can't go to the cops because it's a crime, it's much worse compared to it being legal.
I don't quite get how prostitution erodes trust between man and woman, it's just a service, isolated in specific parts of the city, people who want it have to go on their own to get it and everyone knows how that industry works, most aren't there because they realy want to but they need the money and it pays pretty well, I've heard stories of some college girls working in it part time and making more money in a day than most guys with 20+ hours part time jobs flipping burgers to pay college do.
So why should you allow prostitution? Because it's safer for the prostitutes and it gives them more rights and easier means of getting out, it's always going to be there just in what way do you prefer, in the streets, at night, everywhere with no protection from cops, or one specific place, safer and with more means of getting out if they want to? For me the choice is pretty easy.
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@currymunch6097 the right to bare arms has two specific purposes, one to give the citizens power both against their own government and their own safety the arguments made by people on the left that it's useless against the military is propaganda to hide the reality that it's a big amount of power that the government very much fears, which is why their main goal is to try and abolish or limit it via law and not by taking away people's guns by force.
second is the national defence of the country, a country that has citizens that know how to use weapons and have many of them is a country few nations would want to invade, the jappanese army during ww2 even commented on it ''a gun behind every blade of grass'', if say Europe had a more gun heavy culture and knew how to use them properly (we have guns just not many people that know how to use them or in citizens hands) then nations like Russia would feel much more threatened against such a population to invade.
the reason why the USA is divided is because it abandoned it's early american culture, it's laws and have due to becoming a global super power more international and globalistic identity, this is both a good and a bad thing, it's good for the USA to be well liked by most of the rest of the world and people enjoying it's culture and bad because it destabalizes the USA internally and makes people think the USA is not in their own interest anymore.
combine this with the ever inflating currency, the corruption in government, the many wars in the middle-east, the economic crashes, race relations, the polorization within government parties and you can see why the USA seems so messed up these days.
the USA overal is still doing great and many nations are going through hard times right now, not just the USA but the USA's bad policies and ideologies can and do spread to other nations which hurts them as well.
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@currymunch6097 arms as in fire arms, nukes not having been invented at that time would mean they don't fall under that law and also have no practical personal use, it's a weapon of mass destruction for use in war only.
specific laws can countredict other laws, that's the issue with laws in general, some are clear as day and night and others are open per interpretation and others still are very clear but individuals and groups want to put them into interpretation, right to bear arms for example.
a culture almost always changes in one way or another but legal rules only change when people in charge change them, you can question the foundation for sure but if you can't change them it does not realy matter.
there are always flaws because people are flawed in general, there will never be a perfect society, no problems with the law or with cultures because they are always changing, demografics change, nations change borders, people change religions, war and war crimes create new realities, history is full with these things and they will be present in the future.
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@wokesheep wration, lock heat martin, MSNBC, CNN and all the other corporations that fund, promote and support war with Iran, they did the same with Iraq, Syria, libya, I think it's general Robert Clark of the US military who explained this years ago, how they were going to invade 7 countries in 10 years, might have gotten a little delay and they lost in Syria but they realy want Iran.
Que bono, who benefits, there is a reason why comments and video's on YouTube get censored so much, I face it everyday while your opinion because it's pro war will likely never get deleted or censored.
It's not hard to figuer out, you just have to question your own believes from time to time and think critically, don't be a warmonger you only hurt your own family, country and future if you do.
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@francesconicoletti2547 well all they would have to do is cut wellfare for all citizen, while they bring in their millions of "migrants" then everyone would have to invest in their own society instead of what we see today which is "no I don't want kids, someone els their kids will take care of me when im old, lets party and let other people take care of my bastards because i'm special"
The government can't create it can only steal and redistribute, if the government were to cut all taxes, all social spending, all woman quota's and other nonsense, then natural selection and personal responsability will become the law of the land, the biggest threat then are huge corporation that benefit from large and corrupt goverments.
Charity for the poor will become populare again because people (real shocker this one) don't like starving children and bums around their town.
Police care barely protect anymore, uselesd most of the time and a danger to society because in most countries your not allowed to defend yourself if attacked, perhaps keep only the intelligence agency around for combating terrorism and political subversion.
But the government does not want that, they love their slave labor.
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Im no expert but seems like this would only worsen the overal effect, if one nation prints money the other currencies can adapt, can compete, can export currency, many nations in say Africa don't use native currencies but US-dollars, Euro or other currency due to hyperinflation or simply low value, in a world where every major currency get hyper inflation there is no backup, people will start to barter again or create some other means of exchange, like bitcoin for example.
Printing money is not a market based thing, it's a banking and government policy, often to make up for bad government policy before.
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@hendrikdependrik1891 ''mass defamation of the Dutch by Latin countries might be more interesting for the near future.'' no idea what your talking about here, dutch btw.
Germany is not weak, in fact the main power drives in the EU and Europe in general is Germany, France and the Netherlands, of course they don't want to give money to the southern and eastern European states without getting something back in return, Poland has benefited the most from trade within the union, only countries like Italy, Spain, Portugal and greece have not realy benefited though that's more their own fault and partly the disfunctional traits of the EU and waves of migrants that cause stress and conflict, we already pay for most of the rest of Europe, we don't mind to pay as long as we can have a voice in trying to change things for the beter and in that respect most of Europe can learn a thing or two from Poland and visa versa.
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@DanielKivari i think that's rather ironic since the USA through economic and military might keeps other nations from competiting in the same way the USA had done for more than 200 years now, I don't see the current USA or the civic nationalist states as the next evolution, I see them as very regresive, much more tribal, backwards and irrational than some of the more early ethno states, though i do agree the old tribalism of the 19th and 20th century is no longer the best system to have, nations are being forced to adapt or remain stagnant, what we see most likely to replace it is continentalism, we see this in organisations like the EU but also the african union and the south american economic union, what they however still lack and what makes them not as effective is their over reliance on the USA and an embrace of the more backwards parts of civic nationalism and globalism.
the USA of many years ago was much more stable and more civil than today, while nations like China under their more authoritarian model and a ethno identity are way more ahead compared to the west today.
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@vojislavl6665 the first wellfare state was made by Bismarck a conservative, the wellfare state is more of a nationalistic and community based system of a distribution of wealth, Socialism aka unions, labor groups and nationalisation of the economy are means to controle and distribute the means of production, in communism the state has direct controle, in national socialism the state rules it's economy through corporations, called corporatism, current day China is a lot like national socialism.
Take unions for instance, unions aren't realy mean't to give workers beter pay, unions are mean't to get benefits and protectionist policies, in the UK the metro networks are controled by the unions, they influence the government to enforce licence for their specific job and they controle who gets such a licence, so they are almost never fired, they don't grow the economy, they ensure the economy stagnates.
In venuzuwela they nationalized the oil industry and the government gave out all kinds of goodies like mircowaves, cheap housing, consuming products because oil prices were high, they did not diversify their economy which as a result when oil prices collapsed so too did the economy of venuzuwela.
Socialist movements are less about the people or providing benefits to citizens and more about controling the economy, it always needs authoritarian means to enforce it's policies and long term the economy always stagnates.
In sweden the so called "socialist" ideal state, the economy is largely free market with a rather large wellfare state and the biggest problem there is mostly progressives and socialists that want more and more immigration to replace workers rather then support their intrests.
The only some what socialist I have seen in Europe at least that cares about workers is the current PM of dennmark that also wants protectionist policies but in terms of migration laws and benefits to it's citizens.
Idk what your idea of Socialism is but I don't think you understand how historically socialism had failed, you could argue because of how large multinational corporations have become that some form of government intervention aka neo-liberalism is nessisary but this has led to corporatism.
And on a short note of healthcare, the USA has such a expensive healthcare system because 1. It's people are largely unhealthy and fat, 2. The government is highly involved with medicade and medicare programs, 3 private healthcare providers compete with eachother, get to enjoy pricefixing while the government takes their share of the profits, in Germany and in the Netherlands we have a mixed model where we have private healthcare but all of the corporations are partly backed by the government, not socialist healthcare unlike the UK which is currently failing and can't provide healthcare to most of it's citizens anymore, esspecialy elderly.
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@adamnesico I think that's nonsense, the drive to space is not fueled by religion, otherwise islam would have reached mars by now.
Space exploration and colonisation is driven by security and oppertunity, once you are secure in your national intrests, have no enemies that could invade you and have enough resources, wealth and know how to reach the stars, you will.
The youngest person in space is a 18 year old dutch person, which was today, I know plenty of people in Europe who want to go to mars if they could, again the desire is there, the only thing that's stopping it is that we don't have the same scale of technology and privilage as the US, in fact most nations and most of humanity don't, including most americans.
However I will grant you this, if Europeans are going into space, they would first focus on gaining and economic or scientific goal instead of wanting to make a moon base or mars base, which the US and Chinese might be more inclined to focus on since it might give them a military advantage over the other.
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@adamnesico interesting theory, only im not realy seeing much evidence of it.
the last part though is more true for western and northern europe on a lot of issues, why or how it came to be, I don´t know for sure but I don´t realy see it as something permanent or something that can´t be overcome, it´s more of cycle of history you see constantly, great powers, rise and fall and then a new power emerges from the ashes to take it´s place, in the past this was mostly fueled by the desires and wishes of kinds and queens and then in the 20th century it was force by iron and blood through nationalism and in the 21th century i think it will be forged by technology, will and desperation, as the world goes into a new era and the old idealism of a bygone generation die out, what will be left? my believe is not the soft and shamefull state you see today.
if you look at it from a global, geopolitical perspective, Europe as of right now is 3rd on the global power scale but lacks the focus to grow further, likewise other powers are much less powerfull but have more momentum, the question is how will those path's clash? I predict a great series of wars on the continent of africa, I predicts stagnation for nations like Russia but also Germany and the UK, I believe the USA will become more and more divided and will want to move towards revolution of some kind, at which point it's enemies will try and secure their futures, as for Europe, it stand on the crossroads between it, does it wither away in the fires or does it fight back and regain that lost piece of identity they used to have, both can happen, I just don't know for sure.
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you know it's both upsetting and silly that corporations do this and it does seem to be deliberate and specifically towards both historical and iconic European stories, historal figures and old fairy tales that go way back to give them this treatment. At first I thought they do this because of some huge anti white conspiracy and while some might have that agenda for sure that does not explain why a corporation would not pull the plug on an idea or policy that does not make them money and to be clear this does hurt their bottom line, it's bad to insult your customers, it's bad to offend people, it's bad to rub it in your customers faces that you changed the type of product that they would enjoy.
then why do they do it? well because they are lazy and can't think of new ideas, that would take talent, that would take time, while by doing this they can create controversy, they can get free publicity, they can put customers against eachother and they can make money off that.
even though they will lose money in the long run, in the short term they gain some attention, I for example don't care about these types of movies anymore but since they want to change it like this, they seem to want to piss me off and piss other viewers off and that gets them clicks and attention.
if they want to continue down this bullshit path, meh, go ahead, im not going to watch any of this crap, il just watch some anime or other shows that don't do this type of bullshit, let Holyweird crash and burn for all I care.
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man this does hit hard, im not sure if it sounds like depression or just dealing with the reality of like being autistic, there is a major difference between not enjoying change and being unable to change, I for example don't enjoy change, because my experience is that change brings hardships and loss of something and it's not always replaced with something that's better, also today's world is just damn insane, you can't just wake up anymore, do your job, come home and have a normal life, there is so much noise and insanity both in the world, your own life, your relationships, your family going on.
Sometimes we feel haunted by our past or fear the future, sometimes both, we also don't know if we can overcome or change for the better.
myself, I had a pretty shitty childhood, teenage years weren't too kind as well, graduated college and could not keep a job, then got a pretty nasty injury which took away other parts of my life I enjoyed, I felt pretty lost.
then I decided to change, quit smoking, quit doing any types of drugs, little alcohol and found a new job where I work full time now, slowly bit by bit, piece by piece we try and improve and overcome but we can't always change everything or even the things that make us sad the most.
but we can't give up, we have to keep going, stay positive, don't think of what could go wrong and be greatfull for the blessings we have in life, we won't ever be perfect or fine but we can endure and be better than we were yesterday, that's good enough for now.
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28:30 what if everything is a false premise and everything is only ever forced and made into reality by those in power and not from anything real or objective? don't get me wrong the material world exists, laws of nature exist and many things can be objectively true but when it comes to political ideology or how society works, it's always been a mess of elites acting in their own interest or being destroyed by those that did and crafting narratives of themselves, their destiny and/or reason of acting the way they did.
Now you can say ''well those ideologies or those people failed because where are they now?'' but that's not how the world works, the world is not fair, no side is equal or tries to be, one has an advantage in some aspect while the other fails at something else, it's when those ideas are multiplied on a large scale with many different factors do you get one side wins or one side loses it does not prove them to be the best, it simply means the variables in question led to them winning, being the best or winning are not the same thing, otherwise we would not have so many messed up leaders winning wars or causing so much chaos in the world.
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@roush26 you are very brainwashed by the media and delusional.
conservatives want to defend their values, be it good or bad, everything you just sayd is reverse, people vote in socialist and leftwing goverments when times are bad, they tend to stick to conservative values when things are good.
when a right wing party rises to dominance, it's mostly when the leftwing parties have ruled for so long, with so much corruption and bad policies that they will take a risk with a populist, a conservative or even nationalist to turn things around.
you don't get Donald Trump as president, if not for 8 years of Obama first, you reap what you sow.
besides neo-cons and neo-libs are corrupt and warhawks no matter what, stop viewing the world in this childish black and white view point that's how the powerfull divide and rule over you, im a nationalist and a libertarian so best of both worlds.
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@Ifraneljadida no it's not, it's might makes right and what's good now, will be deemed evil later, what works now won't work tomorow, there is no true balance between the two, there is only irrational and rational and it's almost never clear which is which.
people are easy to control and divide by any issue, what brings the decline of nations is an internal rot from within, trust in traitors, love for enemies, hatred for your own people, desire for death and misery that is what brings decline, the western world right now is in such a phase, Trump or obama, this started decades go, this is just the new form, 4 years from now it will be diffrent still but it will probably be more of the same.
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what makes you say that? to be honest that's a very entitled and sexist statement, because we clearly aren't equal because men do most of the work, pay most of the taxes, have to endure the constant male hating and female empowering narrative of society and when they ask for some affection they get used and taken advantage of and then you just say ''blaming others not yourself''
i''ve seen and talked to many incels and they aren't entitled at all, in fact they love woman often more than they love themselves his reaction seems to be more of a frustration that there aren't any good, loving, caring or even feminine woman around.
so men must be beter than woman in every way before men even have a chance to be with any woman whatsoever? I just don't get your argument from my perspective it's like we live on two diffrent planets.
I don't know what woman want out of a relationship because love, care, money, affection, romance or anything that seems logical to me is not what they seem most attracted towards.
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@Hello World true, it's not all genetics, ideology and goverment institutions matter more than race but to say they don't influence the outcomes is also false.
Eastern Germany was taken via war, north korea via civil war, Iran was a democratic country untill it got a coup supported by the USA, now they have a theocracy but they suffer the most because of US sanctions.
Russia today is a somewhat capitalist (though more mixed) economy, yet it does not reach the same level of development because of US sanctions.
Africa is poor because of a lack of deep water ports, their populations are highly isolated and have low IQ populations because of their isolation.
China was communist and still has it's communist party but it has a market, it's communist only in name and totalitairian controle, much more like national socialism, very high IQ populations, all these things play a roll, it's why africans in the US and Europe often can't prosper because of their lower IQ, though the leftwing likes to blame whites for that without any evidence.
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@zanitzeuken just look at you rant and rave, changing the subject and falling back to the same old defence mechanisms, we are talking about Iran, we are talking about the USA's actions these last 40+ years which have all only benefited israel, the war with iraq caused by "evidence" fabricated by the mossad and you suddenly bring up vietnam and the coldwar, it's very amusing to see you flap about but real talk now.
The USA has lost s lot of legitimacy, lost trillions of dollars, hell I want my country to get out of NATO as fast as possible, meanwhile who benefits? Mmmm? China buying and taking over most of the world, USA defending saudi arabia and invading what little seculare countries there are in the middle-east, meanwhile israel gets to sit back and watch the USA do all their work for them, they benefit the most of it all and whenever someone points out the truth which you can read up on Wikipedia, the legit news, intelectuals, political comentators and all these groups just happen to get censored the most, I wonder why?
If your going to play this game you only have yourself to blame for not paying attention and being hated by the world because of it.
Iran is not a threat, esspecialy not the west, the USA does not act in their own self intrest and all the real enemies of the west are growing stronger while you rant and rave about the cold war as if that matters in this current situation, it would be funny were it not for the millions of lives it's costing.
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@zanitzeuken hahaha thanks for the laughs, again more ranting and raving and childish defence mechanism, notice how I keeo saying israel and zionism and you just keep using jews as if anti zionism = anti semitism, it's a great tool to keep you plebs confused and irrational.
Very amusing but real adult talk now, the USA did once act in it's own self intrest, ww2 was the most profitable war for the USA and during the coldwar they also got suckered into other useless conflicts like vietname but again im talking about the past 40 years which you just can't seem to comprehend no matter how much i repeat it.
Israeli intrest is why the USA is warmongering after Iran, the mossad lied to you which got you into iraq war, while not attacking saudi-arabia, the USA does not act in it's own self intrest and after the cold war it has declined greatly, hell the USA has to force sanctions on Russia and the EU just to keep the NATO "alliance" together, meanwhile China has profited immensly from these useless wars and NATO is destined to be replaced.
The USA has gotten itself into massive debts, wars, alienated their "allies", lost all credabillity as a "peace keeping" force, all the regions you are in you are unwelcome and it's made clear "might makes right" and everyone is a terrorist in the USA's eyes.
But just keep ignoring the problem, keep up the rants and delusions of self intrest, while the US empire collapses all around you both domestic and abroad.
Hahahaha please make me laugh some more.
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@zanitzeuken it's a multipolar world now, the USA has to force nations under it's "protection" the Chinese are arming and building their fleets, the EU want their own army and want an alliance with Russia which the USA fears perhaps the most, israel had benefited greatly while leading the GCC with saudi arabia, south america has problems but is also developing, we are looking at a future where the USA is reduced to it's two continental spheres of influence while losing in Europe, Asia and Africa.
The US economy is in massive debt, does not produce much of value to outside it's continent, lowering standards in education, science and technology.
Sorry to burst your bubble but the world is pretty much done with the USA, hell we got a lot more conflicts coming because of your stupid actions so perhaps you will just start ww3 and nuke everyone, that might keep you on top, hahahaha.
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@zanitzeuken why? Because the US military backs it's claim and economic value, the USA spends the most of any nation on the planet on it's military, nobody denies the military Supremacy the USA enforces on the world and a long time the USA got away with it because of the coldwar, however the cold war is over, culturaly, technologically and esspecialy in terms of prestige the USA has lost on all grounds, even demografically the USA is falling behind.
Economically the USA will be surpassed by China before 2030, our your "allies" in Europe they already understand they need to beef up their own military if they want to get rid of NATO for further economic growth, something only the USA opposes and for easy to see reasons.
In terms of trade you don't have much left to offer the world, likewise the rest of the world does not offer much the USA could not produce on it's own.
We already live in a multipolar world, China's belt and road, Europe's single market, Africa's african union, the south america union that just passed a trade deal with the EU, the world allows the USA to dominate the seas because the USA used to promise protection and ensured free trade, these days the USA rules more with threats, sanctions and corporate controle over communications, all these things clash with a new multipolar world that already exists and will continue to develop.
As for US education it's one of the worst in the the world, close to third world nations, the universities aren't even that good anymore, lowered test scores and racist policies, the only reason people go there is for the corporate contracts and prestige which is in decline as well.
China is trading with more than just the USA, hell for sanctions to work the whole world would have to obey the USA which they don't.
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@zanitzeuken what even is a superpower? The USA likes to pretend it still is one, the USA can't even controle their own borders, their own goverment, their infrastructure is that of third world countries, most movies from the USA suck, perhaps gaming and military grade weapons you might have something to offer and the 3rd world needs your grains but again your being, angry, emotional and delusional to think the USA is still the sole superpower, it's clearly not, barely able to hang on, can't compete with other countries without sancrions, wasting away trillions on useless wars that mostly benefit israel.
Israel wants to dominate the middle-east and you have given them Just that, the GCC, with saudi arabia and the rest of the arab nations are allowed to fund terrorism while you defend them!
If you fear losing your power so much, if you hate competition so much, if you want to remain top dog like you wish to be, then you have to understand the changing times.
The USA has only been around for so long, benefited the most from ww2, cold war you won mostly because communism is stupid as hell but now? The whole world is against you, the Europeans are plotting, the Chinese are taking over right under your noses, while you play in the sand!
Hell and india might even surpas China one day too, your spread to thin, why els would you need more support from NATO members? Which I highly promote by the way, make more demands, put more sanctions, more warmongering after Russia, hell raise more sanctions on them, let the whole world see the USA is in decline and is a unreliable ally hanging on to a dying glory they pissed away for nothing.
Hell Europe is doing bad on many fronts exactly because they copied the USA, big mistake they will have to correct soon enough.
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@zanitzeuken I find this talk rather amusing but it's getting kinda boring, me trying to teach you, you denying and falling back on childish defence mechanisms and keep trying to change the subject, just keep doing whatever makes you sleep at night.
Trump btw is pretty good for the USA, trying though i wonder if it will work, to get out of the region but once again because he is so close to the kushners and gives Israel the golan hights and now this shit with iran, makes it clear for me at least he is gearing up for war in his second term, hopefully when he wins again (which is like 100% certain at this point) he might find some new allies, hell perhaps lift sanctions on Russia so they come closer to the west rather than China, after all Europe is so weak and unimportant why would you wish to defend us from Russia?
god I hope that happens, everyone wins then, would that not be wonderfull?
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@zanitzeuken well your right about one thing, might makes right but the USA has never seemed this weak, hated and despised than ever before.
The Europeans don't want the USA to stay, hell the USA has to force us to buy US natural gas because you hate economic competition and good relations between Europe and Russia.
Btw why are you so angry and emotional? Are you afraid or something? Did I struck a nerve by educating you on the changing world? The multipolar world you so fear? Seems so.
The USA is acting out of weakness, trying to project an image it no longer has, I don't see a strong USA, I see a weak, corrupt, unlawfull, narcisistic, delusional and cowardly nation that hates the rest of the world and envies other nations more than anything.
Nobody here in the Netherlands wants to be like the USA, nobody wants your education, hell I don't want your media or armies here but the USA does not allow nations like Germany to build up their military to compete against US warmongering, of course that's slowly changing despite the USA'S best efforts to stop it.
Trump launched sanctions on Russia and Germany for Nordstream 1 and 2 and will they back down and stop their projectd and bend over backwards for US "protection"? Hahahaha fuck no, hell this will only further promote distance between the US and European intrests.
As for the UK, the UK was always more cucked and like the USA (that's why they are so full of muslims and are so weak as a people) brexit will likely happen but will it last? Will the UK survive? Will scotland or northern ireland break off? Idk, could be but I doubt it.
I do find your rants and delusional ravings and childish insults amusing, it's a perfect example of american ignorance, narcisme and delusions of grandure.
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@zanitzeuken yes Europe has problems, it's very amusing for you to not take any responsability for your wars and humanitarian crisis that we (once again) had to solve and clean up the mess, I do wonder what the american perception is and how it's so screwed and delusional, our perception is the USA caused a lot of wars and we are the ones who have to deal with the fallout, perhaps that was your goverment plans all allong?
Get Europe flooded by migrants, refugies, going into debt to fix your problems for you, sanctions on Russia to deny us further growth while trying to bend China to your will through tarriefs and hoping it would all come together, seems to have backfired greatly except for the UK, where the fear of refugies and lies by every media company to get them to leave the EU, if so good job on that project.
Russia is our ally, more so than the USA, hell if we wanted to stop the islamization of Europe we first have to get rid of NATO, the one who fears that most is not Europe, it's the USA, you might not realise this but we are kinda in the way to all your wars in the middle-east, without NATO here you could not operate for long and most likely would have to declare war on us if we tried to stop your future wars in the middle-east.
Im sure the USA is going to attack us when nukes are pointed your way, ohhhh joy.
Im glad though that your sick of NATO, lets get rid of NATO! Yes kick us out! Kick Turkey out, another fun little problem you left for us to clean up, no doubt you would side with the turks than the west.
Lets get rid of NATO, I fully support this, I know the USA won't let us leave and we do need to build up our military to force you out but it seems inevitable.
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@zanitzeuken dude stop ranting and being delusional and look at the fact, Russia sells natural gas to Germany, Nordstream 1 and 2 are binding the two countries together, only one nations hates that, fears that and puts sanctions on both, the USA.
Now why would the USA do that if they have nothing to fear? The Russian goverment and the Russian economy has been under economic sanctions by the USA for decades.
Russia is not a threat, I repeat Russia is not a threat to Europe, the USA hates economy competition, fears good relations with Europe and that's why they hate these economic policies which are good for Russia, good for Europe but bad for the USA.
The USA threatend European nations that imported Russian gas and has threatend sanctions unless we buy shitty US gas just to spite Russia.
Why do I care that the USA likes to pretend it's a superpower? Because the USA is a burden, the USA caused the refugie crisis, the USA sends most of the propaganda we have to deal with, the USA funded and armed most of the terrorists we deal with, the USA destroyed seculare goverments that cause mass migration that you don't care about because you don't have to deal with the fallout.
The USA for decades has forced us to pretend like you are our "greatest ally" and how you "liberated us from ww2" even though you profited the most from it and played both sides and left half of Europe to rot to communism.
You might have a fleet but good luck defending against ICBM'S you idiot.
The USA is hated and you just can't stop making things worse, you won't leave yet pretend we want you here, you cause problems that your too childish to try and fix and thus for our own national intrest we have to fix it for you.
Stop with this fearmongering about Russia, Russia has an economy the size of italy, Russia is almost as much as a joke as you are but more of a reliable and economic beneficial ally than the USA.
But no matter how hard we try to point that out to you, no matter how hard we try to break free, no matter how much problems you cause you still want to pretend that we need you.
Why the hell do you think the EU even exists? Why do you think Europeans are in favor of an EU army? Why do you think Russia is in support of an EU army? The only one who fears our future growth, our deals with Iran and China is the USA.
But I think untill we get our own army, force you idiots out, point all our nukes at you and ally with China and Russia are you going to learn how the world works.
You can make your petty threats and pretend to have a big dick but your weak, your nation is weak, your goverment is corrupt and the world is changing, so cling to your ideas of "being allies" and that your still a superpower while China and the rest of the world move on without you.
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there is so much wrong with your take that it's actually a sign that supports his argument, your ''logic'' is the decadence in motion and not understanding of reality that actual people of the lower classes have to deal with.
there is nothing alt-right about this take, it's simply accurate which is why you have to pretend it's ''alt-right'' to not take it into account.
most lower class people don't want more low skilled workers, why? because letting them in lowers wages, now highly skilled labor and educated people are a huge benefit to your nation since you basically steal years of upbringing and education costs from another nation to benefit your own, while taking in violent, aggresive, criminal and huge families from third world countries who's only skills are low skilled labour jobs aren't going to benefit your nation at all and in fact will be a net drain on few resources.
you are wrong and simply repeating the establishment lines who live in their own bubbles, harm the lower classes and actually fuel the ''far right'' side of politics and the reason why is because you prove them wrong, all politics in Europe from 2000-2022 has slowly moved to more acceptance of so called ''far right'' views becoming mainstream, politicans of today would be considered far right in the early 2000s and they come from both the leftwing and rightwing.
you are out of touch and not part of the working class or lower classes, otherwise you would not think these elitist, ideological things that don't match reality.
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I hate being a millenial as well, most of us are far left, stupid, ignorant, lack critical thinking skills, in debt, no great future prospects, wars, blamed for everything and somewhere millenials started loving big goverment and socialism, I noticed this when i was just a teenager.
granted we got a messed up world, lies by goverment and the media and most of us did not have two parents so that sorta sets the stage for failing to begin with but damn it's humiliating to see a whole generation be wasted.
god gen z please dont be like us.
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@nosoulnoproblem3368 that's sexist nonsense and you know it, plenty of woman with hard work and sacrifice made it to the top position in corporate life but here is the punchline, it's bloody awful and miserable to be there for most people and for woman it's even worse because they have to give up much more than men.
men can have kids while in these positions because they don't have to take 9 months off due to being pregnant and can simply exist as a provider for the family.
Most woman consider themselves to be more emotional compared to men, knowing this why would woman want to be in a position in which they have to be cold, calculating and fire people if nessisary to keep a massive company going?
men do it for the status and the wealth it brings which in turn attracts woman, that's the type of men that want those things that are attracted to those positions, woman don't get the same benefits because most men don't want a woman who is working 15 hours a day, earns more than them and can't help them raise their kids and spoiler alert most woman don't want men who earn less than them, so it's a lose/lose situation for woman in these positions.
you know who demands these quota's to begin with? woman who can't reach those positions on their own merit so instead of accepting that, they demand the government to force themselves into those positions, where they will earn more than most men below the corporate structure and at the same time devalue the woman who actually did work their way to those positions, you just reduced a successfull woman to a mere ''quota hire''
this quota system is disfunctional, sexist, anti meritocratic and is only going to see more sexist and gender based discrimination laws going into force, the only ones who benefit from this are oppertunistic woman who don't care about gender equality and just want money, they fill their pockets, the company suffers, woman are worse off as a whole and men will look at woman in positions of power and say ''ohhh look another quota hire, how cute'' it's insulting towards woman, discriminating towards men, lowers quality and makes feminism look like a joke.
any system that is not meritocratic in nature will always, always, sooner or later find itself being replace by a competitor that is, this goes for anything in nature, as well as human systems regardless of class, colour, gender or system of economics.
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idk what he's talking about, gaming in general is dead as fuck, games look, feel and are shit.
I miss the old games because they were just better, no loot boxes, no nonsense, no stupid cringe writing, no diversity bullshit, nothing, just you, he game, the community and everything.
one of the best MMORPG experiences i have had is with classic this and last year, not 15 years ago, 15 years ago the internet was pretty crappy and the game was weird and what not, experience now with old games feels a lot better than before.
in the netherlands we have a saying ''oude wijn in nieuwe zakken of nieuwe wijn in oude zakken'' which translates to ''old wine in new sacs or new wine in old sacs'' which means do you prefer the old ways in a new format or the the new ways in an old format?
classic to me is old wine in a new formate, it's a relic of a bygone era in the modern world with all it's problems and benefits with it and I love it
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I think this is a realy stupid and ineffective plan that will never become a reality for multiple reasons.
for starters these places are far too distant from eachother and don't trade as much as they used to, they are seperate with their own issues, governments, people's and conflicts, the reason why the EU is focused on it's region is because that's what matters to their position, their self interest and having that in order is actually their best way to grow and move towards a more impactfull union that can compete with the USA and China.
the UK can't do that and seems more likely to fall apart right now than ever before, it's government is disfunctional and frankly insane with their policies while their populations suffer and can't even get the most basic self respect as a nation, it's entirely living on it's history, it's relationship with the US and now declining power around the globe, in many ways it's a joke.
as for the other nations they are focused on other things, Canada has it's own internal problems and has to work with the USA, New Zealand and Australia are focused on China and in many ways are becoming like puppet states for Chinese interest.
this whole concept has no foundation to stand on, at best it could become a military alliance but that roll is already being filled by NATO so unless the USA ceases to exist this will never become a reality, it's more likely that the UK will fall apart and it's members try and rejoin the EU.
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the people in charge of these shows have no talent, skill or passion for what they create, they know they can't create anything good, that's why they can only corrupt and destroy that which existed before them and frankly that's pretty much the point, they aren't even driven by profit or ideology, they are driven by hatred and spite and that's what is reflected in their works.
lucky for us there are still people who have passion for creating art and it's on the fans to abandon those who only seek to corrupt and promote those who dare to create, look to things like Manga, Anime, look for lower budget movies that still have creative freedom, don't give these dark lords any attention or money, fuck em.
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@henkpost3379 Dat is Kraut die ken ik wel ja, hij is een beetje ....mmmmm hoe kan ik dit goed zeggen, hij is een beetje controversiële, lang verhaal waar ik liever niet in ga maar in het kort was hij erg links qua politiek, maakte vaak video's over de "far right" en "alt right" en vervolgens maakte hij een aantal vergissingen maar weigerde die toe te geven en vervolgens ging ie andere mensen in zijn eigen vrienden groep de schuld geven van zijn fouten, toen had hij zijn kanaal verwijderd en ging hij weg voor iets van 2 jaar, nu maakt hij video's over geschiedenis, vooral over Turkije, niet heel slecht maar nog steeds erg linkse oogpunt in mijn mening.
Ik hou zelf niet van socialisme en haat communism maar snap ook wel dat er vele versies van zijn, in Zweden bijvoorbeeld hebben ze een erg sterke vrije markt maar vele sociale programma's, zelf zou ik meer dat soort programma's en geld gebruiken voor steun aan families en het leger (Zweden heeft vrijwel geen leger) maar dat soort socialism is nog soort van acceptabel.
Helaas zoals je zelf zegt leven we in het tijdperk van progressive socialism, wat eerlijk gezegd het meeste op fascism lijkt, met knokploegen om mensen te intimideren, zaken in de fik zetten, normalizeren van "white privilage" en mensen verdelen over ras, culture, geslacht, derde golf feminisme en cencuurschap via big tech corporaties, het is echt verschrikkelijk allemaal.
Ik was zelf in mijn tienerjaren links maar ben door dit soort zaken meer en meer naar extreem rechts gegaan en meer liberterisch geworden over dingen zoals vrijheid van meningsuiting, wapen wetten, identiteit, markten en versterken van familie waardes en militaire zaken, het enige waar ik met progressiven en linkse mensen in het algemeen eens mee ben is klimaat verandering, bescherming van dieren, natuur en Kern energie, maar helaas focussen vele nog op dingen zoals wind energie waar ik niet echt voorstander van ben.
Hou ook niet van schuld naratief van onze verleden, ja het was niet altijd goed maar was ook niet altijd slecht, beste is om het achter ons te laten en kijken naar de toekomst, we kunnen vooreeuwig schuldig voelen en onze zondes omkopen door geld te geven maar dat lost niks op en worden beiden zwak en zielig van, het moet op een gegeven moment ophouden, hoe sneller hoe beter.
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@henkpost3379 over de video, ja democraten verdiende te verliezen maar ze zijn niet veel beter geworden in 2020, sterker nog ze lijken nog meer in de autoritaire vorm gekomen te zijn, zonder covid-19 en hulp van de media en big tech zouden ze nooit gewonnen hebben denk ik, verwacht niet dat ze zullen winnen in de midterm of in 2024, Joe Biden is ook gewoon niet echt president waardig, zeg van Trump wat je wilt maar hij heeft een aura van superioriteit, eigen mening, doorzettingsvermogen en visie van Amerika die positief is, Biden komt over als een npc en tijdelijke figuur om uiteindelijk Kamala Harris als eerste zwarte vrouw op de troon te krijgen, alsof dat op zo manier zo geweldig is, best wel zielig vind ik en niet echt iets waar vrouwen trots op zouden moeten zijn als dat gebeurt.
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@henkpost3379 Trump deed het eigenlijk heel goed, geen nieuwe oorlogen, vrijheid van meningsuiting beschermen, was tegenstander van de media voor 4 jaar, zijn staat schuld is pas erg omhoog gegaan door covid lockdowns, belasting verlaging van elke klassen rjjk of arm, deregulatie, veel meer mensen aan het werk gekregen en over Biden, Biden heeft niks veranderd van Trumps buitenlandse beleid richting China, betere relaties met Europa is ook niet echt verbeterd.
Eerlijk gezegd de enige reden waarom Trump verloren had was door covid-19, 4 jaar lang media heksen jacht en verdere radicalisering van de linkse mensen daar, die politici daar waren pas schandelijk, oproepen tot geweld en intimidatie, hele zaken en huizen in de fik gegooid hele jaar door, de bestorming van congres was niks, sterker nog burgers die geen wapens hadden waren om het leven gebracht, mensen zitten nu voor lange tijd in de cel en de linkse hooligans en media gebruiken het als justificatie voor nog meer mensen onderdrukking, als je denkt dat Trump erg was ben ik bang dat in de VS je nog veel erger gaat krijgen als dit de norm is van linkse partijen zijn, de rechtse partijen lopen eigenlijk achter op radicalisering.
Heb zelf ook weinig vertrouwen in de verkiezingen juist door de covid-19 verandering van stem gelding plus de media en big tech die zich inmengde met de verkiezingen, Rusland deed niks in 2016 maar deze andere groepen, verbittered door hun verlies in 2016 hebben alles op alles gezet om Trump te ondermijnen, zelfs zijn Twitter stop gezet, van de president! Dat is pas schandelijk en reden voor anti trust rechtszaken.
Ik vind Biden echt een idiot, die weinig zal waar maken en hoogst waarschijnlijk een 1 term president zal worden, Trump kan nog terug komen in 2024 of iemand aanwijzen als zijn vervanging met een andere soort visie.
De VS is sowieso een zooitje, Trump is eerder een gevolg daarvan dan de oorzaak en dat zal zeker nog terug komen als de innerlijke corruptie en incompetentie binnen de regering niet opgelost zal worden.
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@jimpad5608 he actualy had the best economy in any US presidency and nothing was ever going to change China's economic policy but at least he attempted to bring back manifacturing back to the USA and called China out for it's hostile economic policies and theft of technology and intelectual property.
His biggest mistake was using tarriefs and a more hostile stance towards allies such as the EU which naturally does not seem wise if you want a powerfull coalition, his other mistake was being stuck with the CCP virus which drove democrats and the media into lockdown hysteria to destroy all his work and halt the economy which was his main selling point.
Everything els he was the best president in US memory, no new wars, pro free speech, anti authoritarian and wanting to make America strong again and now we are stuck with Biden and his disaster policies, the media, the corporations, big tech, the elites, the activists they won over the people with fear, propaganda and violence and the USA will suffer because if it as will the rest of the world, it's quite tragic after all we had to endure.
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@whitephoenixofthecrown2099 1. you be surpised at how many babies can be born if the men find wives outside of China and the government takes away most woman's right, western nations with mostly positive policies (like Sweden and France) have gotten it around 2.1/2,2 China could in theory get it up way more and faster.
2. millions of people try and get to Europe every year, there are plenty of people, the main question is if the people want to go to China and if they can assimulate to the culture.
3. yes, China is investing more into automation then many western nations are.
4. depends on what they can get away with and how situations develop around the world, they could easily annex Mongolia, if Russia collapses far east asia, Taiwan, North Korea if that regime starts to become unstable and perhaps meddle in civil wars or proxy conflicts to destabalize regions and give refugees a one way trip to China.
5. ???? you want young people don't you? elderly are a burden but they tend to self delete over time and with automation can reduce burdens on the economy.
China is unlikely to become a superpower overnight just like the USA spend decades being the worlds biggest economy before turning that economic power into hard power, USA might try and start a conflict or sanctions to prevent China's rise further, USA might collapse, China might collapse, world can change, nothing is certain anymore.
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the only way I can see Europe becoming something of an independent and stronger force in the world is if the EU somehow becomes a proper federation but also embraces more of the values that would sustain itself and refocus their efforts on both native reproduction, capitalism and return to actual western values like free speech, liberal values and some kind of collective ideology or religion.
sadly I don't think that's going to happen as these values have been eroding for decades, nations still cling to the desires of national identity (while ironically ignoring the demographic issues and mass migration problems) and religion has been on the decline for decades as well with the only new religions taking shape are either Islam, Wokeism and communism/socialism while firmly rejecting anything close to fascism, extreme nationalism or even some secular, competitive, hyper environmentalism.
it is rather depressing to see how far we've fallen and how both the USA, Russia, China, the middle-east and Africa seem posed to take advantage of it or even if we somehow turned this all around would team up and kick us down again.
there was some hope that maybe slowly getting Russia into the EU or at least some kind of economic alliance would benefit us both to remain competitive and then the war started in 2022 which is not only hurting us and Russia, it's also throwing away many young people's lives and potentially risks nuclear war and drives us further apart from where we could have gone.
what little hope is left is that people know things are bad, there are some signs of political disruption of the elites that helped caused all this, pushback against immigration and woke ideology but it will get worse before it starts to get any better and in the meantime we will have to endure being the humiliated third place between the world powers of the USA and China and risk falling yet further behind others.
what a mess.
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@michaelpapadopoulos6054 not realy true, a single nuclear power plant has more maintance then a single wind turbine but in terms of energy produce of a single nuclear power plant, beats way more then equal amount of wind turbines, plus the use of land is much more compact and less damaging to nature, the environment and can be used 24/7 and is not dependent on the wind.
I don't understand why some people think wind turbines are such a great thing, they are horrible, cost a lot, kill animals, don't produce a lot of energy and other methods of green energy are much better than wind alone, solar is good, hydro is very good, geothermal is also very good, wind? It's the most useless, expensive and inefficiënt way of producing clean energy and mostly only exists to give some people that are in favor of it the illusion that they are helping the planet and fighting climate change.
While Germany fell back on their co2 reduction aims and reopened coal plants and build more wind turbines, France reached their goals and more, why? Because they use nuclear energy.
There realy is no logical and rational argument against nuclear energy, it's just fear, lack of understanding of technology and government policy, the only real argument you can make is that such power plants can be potentially used to create enriched uranium and thereby potentially build a nuclear bomb, so basicaly nuclear power works so good that not all nations want it because it's so potent and amasing.
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@sidibill I never claimed that fascism is about ethnicity it clearly is not, the main issue is that people aren't assimulating and becoming a open threat to the stability and social cohesion of the nations in the western world, therefor I would argue the main focus point would be the carrot and the stick of rewarding people who assimulate and removing elements that don't, which in essence will promote the same results as nat soc only less extreme.
the issue is not that the whole of Europe has to be prepared to do anything, in fact the whole process is reliant on them looking the other way and not getting involved at all or at least for the most part, the main reasons why it does not happen already is because of the USA and political elites within our own societies which terrorize and indoctrinate the people to not fight for their own self intrest.
as the EU becomes more independent from the USA they will start to bring more and more presure on the people who don't intergrate we see this process right now in France and it will spread, it's not a very unpopular policy for the majority of people and leaders will notice that the voters and support gained by enforcing such policies is worth more than the condemnation from other nations with perhaps the exception of the USA (esspecialy if Biden becomes president)
there is no ''final solution'' at least not now, it's just an enforcement of assimulation, in fact these kind of policies ensures the unlikey event of actual fascism taking root in the west but if these policies are reversed, if they are ignored in say the UK or Germany, then the idea of an actual fascistic state or even nat soc state in the modern sense will become more likely.
remember, resentment, alienation and loss of cultural and self respect of nationhood was what led to both fascism and nat soc as it eroded the trust in liberal ideology, which we see in full today, was it not for entertainment and technologies used for enforcement of government ideology these things would have erupted much sooner and much more violently.
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@XBeautifulParadoxX yeah that's about how far your brain can go, very predictable, here is your virtue signal points, good job, you are so smart, you are so special, you have empathy! wow you sure showed me with your high IQ level of thinking, good job.
so very smart, so very rational and highly educated you are, now go join the rest of the masses, you are part of the majority, how does it feel? do you feel special yet? good job, im sure your parents would be proud.
wow if only everyone in the USA was as magnificent and brilliant as you were perhaps then these looters and thugs would leave your house alone and plunder someone els is house, very brave, so very brave.
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@CupcakeDeity ''TBH....i dont see how this poster is sexual at all. The twerking part, eh. Maybe. Its a dance move these days, i don't think anything of it. I feel people who are bitching about it are the ones who see it in a sexual light, and THOSE people are who we have to watch out for. Cuz yall looking at little girls and thinking, "yo what's up with this, them girls ain't got no business bein' that damn sexy"''
first you deny that the poses they are making are not intented for sexualizing their bodies, even though the poses they are taking have been in explicitly sexual music video's like Nikki Minaj anaconda video, whole strip clubs have twerking specializations, then you proclaim that people who bitch about it being sexual sould be the ones looked out for because according to you the fact that people are discusted because of their poses and imitation of adult poses means they are secretly the ones who are attracted to children, I return this accusation to you by saying there is something wrong with you with having this additude and pretending like this is not the case.
TBH idk how this is so hard for you to understand and why you feel the need to do these mental gymnastics, if you mispoke, fine, if you don't consider these poses to be of a sexual nature (even though they imitate sexual poses from adults) then whatever but don't acuse those who point it out as being the ones who need to be watched because that makes it seem like your defending this, it's realy that simple.
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The truth is the west is failing and it deserves to fail, for us people who want to return to a time of openness, debate, honesty, high trust and respectable behaviour, it seems we have our work cut out for us and its not certain the west can even be saved, aging populations, mass migration, low birthrates, failing institutions and incompetent governments, it's a lot to deal with and in the meantime our self respect and lives will be effected by these idiots.
It's a great shame and idk how to fix it but the first step is to let these people fail, universities should be avoided if subverted to these things and nations like China will benefit from it but so be it.
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Idk man, I like your video's but im seeing the USA as being quite in decline, long term it's hard to see which way things will blow, will China take over the world? Unlikely but will the USA dominate the world like it did before? Also unlikely, most likely we will see the creation of a multipolar world where certain new countries and organisations will come to dominate their specific region, brazil in south america, USA in north america, EU in Europe, China in Asia and a whole bunch of other nations in between fighting over their alliance with the rest.
This does not mean NATO will cease to exist but over time it's power and reach will likely be undermined, we can see it in places like Turkey where, Erdogan is turning a former strong NATO country into a potential enemy for that very alliance, which undermines it, the USA is also spread thin and nations like China can fill te void whenever they are found.
It will take some time before we truely see the end result of all this but I can't imagine things return to the status quo for very long.
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@sirgags2738 I strongly disagree, any sudden isolationism by the USA will cause a massive chain reaction to the rest of the world, most of which will focus on China and the EU to be resolved, this could go bad very fast.
I don't think Trump is that isolationist at all, he is more pragmatic and has attempted to focus more on eastern asian politics than on the European or middle-eastern countries and I think this is a good thing, I say this as a European citizen.
Europe sould be more independent, invest more in it's own army, Trump has been a good wake up call for us but I do think as leader of NATO, the USA has to react to Turkey because they helped to create this problem and if they don't help solve it, it will create huge resentment which risks alienating European Alliance with the USA.
But I do agree, Trumps focus on domestic problems at homes is good for the USA but I would hope he understands the importance of a collective force against China which I think he does.
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@mitrimind1027 yeah it's commies like you why Trump won in the first place.
You come off as brainwashed and delusional, anything I say will be seen as "nazi speak" to you, anything you say will be corporate propaganda repeated to infinity.
I was hoping most people on the left would have learned from their mistakes, you know, be rational and objective? Not hyperbolic, emotional and insane.
Not to mention the constant anti white racism from the left, if the left had not done that Trump would have never won.
There is no class warfare, only greedy commies and greedy politicians putting us agenst eachother while they gain the profits.
Why sould I trust someone like Bernie Sanders? He's a criminal, a commie, a sellout and a delusionally weak old man, say no to big government.
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9:19 the issue was never that we would somehow be unable to feed the world or not have economic growth, the issue is that our current models of economic growth means our growth as a species inevitably will come at the cost of the enviroment and other animals species and ecosystems and in this regard they are correct, the current 6th mass extinction event is us humanity and while population growth is falling in the west and in some parts of asia, most of the world is exploding and all those people need food, homes, water, jobs, they all need economic growth which is why many far leftwing groups want more immigration, ultimately we aren't solving the climate crisis and the enviromental crisis because we aren't being mature about what works and what does not work, it's a giant mess and frankly it seems we deserve a collapse for our hypocracy and ignorance on the long term effects.
I dont have all the solutions at hand, idk how to sustain economic growth, population growth while at the same time protect enviromental issues but I do know the first step in solving a problem is admiting there is one and both sides aren't looking at the bigger picture.
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I think it's a massive shame and disgrace that NATO is not doing anything it seems to defend Ukraine, people need to understand that nobody wants ww3 but not being willing to show force invites the dangers of war, if Ukraine today became a NATO member and the USA and it's allies rushed to match Russian military buildup then do you honestly think Russia is going to invade them? Of course not but what happens if Russia takes most/all of Ukraine? Then China and other nations are going to see that and say "ohhh it seems NATO does not want to act at all, well why can't I take country X then?" Russia could then go after Finland (not a NATO member), China after Taiwan, North Korea to South Korea, the list goes on, for the Alliance to be strong it has to act.
Trump would have acted, Biden is just going to do nothing and the EU can only do sanctions, while Germany bends over to Russia, only Poland and France have any kind of military to respond with, it's disgracefull how weak the west has become.
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@Bothandle70 just the western world having sanctions on Russia are a big, big deal, those nations are the major players in economic terms and are currently doing immense damage to the Russian economy.
China is way bigger than Russia in economic size, sanctions on China would be much harder but not impossible if needed and more harmfull for China than the west, however sanctions on such a scale would lead to ww3 for sure, which the west would win simply because they have the bigger alliance.
Now if China, India and Russia suddenly had a major alliance block and were able to unite smaller nations against NATO that would be a big deal, right now India is hostile against China, Russia is falling apart in Ukraine and most of the rest of the world is either with the USA or within NATO.
If I was China I would wait and buy my time till 2050 and try and deal with my own demografic collapse while the west continues with stupid policies, trying to use force now would be stupid and it's much more likely the USA would try and start something, perhaps indirectly if China keeps growing as an economy, assuming they will continue to do so.
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@jellyfrosh9102 they can claim it to be but that does not make it fact, the real issue is the counting of votes and election fraud which seems to be the clear and only reason Biden won, Trump showed he could beat the media and it was great to see but this election fraud, this shows just how corrupt and broken the USA is and it needs to be exposed, it needs to be adressed, if not then no election ever afterwards will matter, idk what els to say, if elections can't be legitimate, if no Investigation comes about, if the soctus rules that yes Biden is the new president because reasons then you might as well have a military coup, might as well forget any principles of fair play or constitutional rights because they will be broken anyways in such a system.
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@Mustafa Kemal Aygün USA uses anyone they can, kurds, iraqi's, commies, IS, FSA the list goes on and on, the problem with Turkey is they spend the last 40+ years helping them build up their military and now they have gone rogue with their new sultan Erdogan, I think they are hoping to get a shot at him or try and get a people's revolt going without going to war directly with them but I think the best way to deal with Turkey is to get Russia into the fold, surround them and starve them out with sanctions and other non direct means, at that Point they will have no choice but to step down or watch their people starve, that might sound cruel but it's a matter of national security for all surrounding nations, nobody wants a second ottoman empire, including many turks themselves.
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@lynn4062 this is simply not true, the Europeans could barely survive in Africa due to the enviroment and diseases there, the continent is vast beyond any other continent, it has barely any shore or deep water shoreline that go into it, the Europeans were only able to supply themselves somewhat due to railroads which were the main investment to try and link african colonies together, there was no mass migration from Europe to africa, only minor settlers went to south africa, most went to north america or australia.
as for the genocide and slavery subject, this simply did not happen at all, slaves were bought by europeans from other local african warlords, the slave trade was not as massive as the ottoman slave trade in the same region and was ended on a global scale by the british, something barely even attempted in most of human history. In fact many other african tribes like the Bantu commited genocide against the Koisam people's, the populations in africa exploded during colonialism and the entire concept of a nation like south africa only exists due to western style education and institutions that set it up.
that being said there was widespread racism and often times resistances were brutally shut down but nothing like we saw in ww2.
I think you like many other people in the west just can't accept that the african populations are as aggresive and unstable like Europe was centuries before, remember the west is the exception to most of human history and it's a miracle it even happened, most of the world is very brutal, unforgiving and harsh and their histories reflect this, this does not excuse any abuse or exploitation the Europeans did inflict on the local people but if you judge them on their bad actions you have to contemplate their positive actions as well which far outweigh their rule of africa, in fact all leaders during that time would have said ''we have to rule these lands or else another european nation might do it and that would make us look weak'' nobody was focused on exploitation or profits in this part of their empires, it was all about prestige and having a huge empire, at best the french, british and germans used colonial troops to add more manpower to their military but that's basically it and their use were very limited and often costed more than they were worth, this is why Germany is such a rich and powerfull nation both at that time and today, it has massive industry and non of these colonies that took resources, manpower and logistics for barely anything worth having.
I don't blame you for not knowing, our educational systems don't paint a fair or deep understanding of history or the people there, the media we consume only ever speak of exploitation or racism instead of things like the abolision of slavery or the population explosion, they also don't focus on african history, they don't know anything about the rich and powerfull west and east african kingdoms, nubians, the Bantu people or how the communist Mugabe destroyed Zimbabwe or how Nelson Mandela was a terrorist or how south africa is falling apart due to racism from the majority african populations against the white minority populations.
it's so much more complex than you think it is, it's not good or bad, it just is what it is.
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@lynn4062 what's most sad about your reaction is that it gives no benefit to the african people themselves, who had to suffer through great hardships during decolonisation and the african wars that followed, nobody is saying collonialism was perfect or ideal but many of these places were slowly modernising, they were getting beter and like many other nations before could have become strong nations, linked to the global economy more than just resource extraction, south africa is prove of that, as well as Zimbabwe before Mugabe took power, today places like Nigeria are getting ahead due to investments from both the West and China and embrace of western capitalism which they could have gotten sooner.
It's like the nationalists vs the communists in China, the communists won and when Mao died it was one of the poorest nations on earth, they injected some market forces and capitalism into their system and now they are almost at superpower status, imagine if that happened 60 years earlier with the nationalists? The same could have been true for many former african colonies.
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@LuckyG_ they aren't even far right and yes the ruling parties that are mostly all the same have what we call a ''cardon sanitaire'' which is the exclusion of political and esspecialy populist (as in the popular support of the people) parties that stand against them and their corporate interests.
and we all know how trustworthy polls are these days so no further comment needed.
basically the real reason why populist parties particularly in germany have not risen to total power is they aren't given a chance, are openly discriminated against by political elites and are distrupted by the media, intelectuals and other institutions of power, meanwhile in places such as Austria, Poland, Hungary, Turkey, The USA, Russia to a lesser extend, the UK there has been a move towards the rightwing and populist movements, it's not that they aren't growing, it's that the elites of the western world are desperate to keep them out, to the point that Macron himself has to copy some of their policies just to potentially stay in power.
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@rey_nemaattori which parts? Eastern Europe are some of the biggest supporters of an EU army, while the UK (which left) and only a few southern European and northern European nations are somewhat against it.
Germany and France dominate the EU economically so regardless on which way things go, no army? yes army? that won't change unless nations leave the EU which at that point might cause more nationalist movements in all nations, there realy is no way around it.
As for a Grand battle plan, it's rather simple, protect, share, innovate and produce military grade weapons and organise European nations into a cohesive and shared army, it's not that hard to do, what's hard is to decide who gets what, where are the tanks produced? What types? What airplanes? Which air force command will lead said army? Which soldiers? Should it be poorer nations that get conscripted? Or just individuals from member states? What language should they use? What barriers could exist? What missions should they be used for? Would NATO be involved or not? These are some of the real questions about how it should be created.
Many EU nations are members of NATO so that commanding army mostly protects European nations, to change that many nations would have to lose trust in NATO and the USA, which has already happened to a degree but it's unclear where we wish or can go as a continent.
Only time will tell how things will go but I expect as the situation with China, Russia, the USA and third world nations start to heat up the move to ever closer union or even EU army will become more nessisary.
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@hatchxable don't you know anything about the history of socialism and communism? The first thing they do is abolish capitalism, yes most nations today don't have completly free markets and I agree it's impossible to have a completly free market simply because every government needs checks against competition from corporations getting too powerfull, we see this in the USA with the robber barons during reconstruction period where they could bribe government officials that's when the government and part of the middle class and progressive intelectuals started to demand changes and anti trust laws (which ironically enough they should realy use on big tech companies today, yet they don't even while not under actual capitalism)
However that does not mean capitalism is bad or that socialism is therefor good, in fact the richest nations today are those with free market capitalism but who also have big wellfare programs, that does not make them socialist however, wellfare is not socialism, socialism is the controle of and manipulation of market forces by the government, no exception, was the case with communists, the fascists, the nazi's they all implemented policies of this nature, rent controles, price controles, nationalizing of key industries (like in Venezuela also real socialism)
Paying taxes is also not socialism because taxes have existed before socialism and will continue untill another form of wealth creation valued by humans is found, the USA however does have some socialist policies and does not rank that high anymore on free market index and that's also why the USA is in decline, some leaders and the american people themselves try to keep it running as best they can and with such a large land mass and population with continued immigration it can sustain itself for quite a long time but the corruption and inefficiënt government policies will continue to grind economic progress down.
In communist China they were one of the poorest nations on earth when Mao died, after economic minster Dong started opening up the country, bringing in investment from the west and basic market forces did it's economy skyrocket and even now they have a mixed economy with little actual socialism but still the cultural and government structure of a totalitarian dictatorship, it's almost a more capitalistic form of national socialism held together with modern technology for censorship and controle but it will most likely not last, already we see some creeping of modern and western style of thinking which will speed up with each generation.
Socialists don't care about workers, they care about power and about controle, they don't work for the people but against it and any government regulation or anti trust is put in place because capitalism works so well that it threatens the power structure of most governments, that's why in most nations there is a balans or rather attempt at it between corporations and the government, nobody realy represents the people or the workers anymore because truth is if workers in one country are being difficult then corporations simply export their factories to nations that aren't difficult, the market needs consumers so they do have some interest in keeping people fed but only as long as some workers and essential industries keep running, there is no easy solution, socialism however is not the solution and never will be, people have to adapt or they will be used by those that do.
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@hatchxable if your ideology has the same results in north korea, vietnam, South africa, Zimbabwe, Venezuela, soviet union, sweden (had a socialist government in the 80s I believe), Ukraine, Poland, Romania, China, so on and leads to famines, shortages, authoritarian governments, dictatorships and you still think that's not true socialism then how are you not a cult with a believe focused mindset that can't think rationally and objectively on how economic and society works?
The record stands, capitalism has won, created the modern world and has worked everywhere, regardless of race, class, gender or religion where ever it was implemented where as socialism has failed on every front and produced some of the most horrific and genocidal results in human history (and im not just talking about ww2, pol pot in combodia for example)
The record is the record and if you can't accept that then you are just being dishonest to yourself and not interested in the truth, all you are left with is a immoral fantasy and ideology that deserves to be ridiculed.
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@dogzebra2708 you do realise that without NATO that's an end to US global power projection, yes thanks for arming all our enemies, thanks for destroying our economies, thanks for spreading so much propaganda, thanks for waging war on seculare muslim countries, thanks for stealing our technology, citizens and wealth.
Thanks for helping the commies win half the world, thanks for endless wars, thanks for forcing us to not be able to invest in our own military, thanks for proping up Turkey our next great war (gees I wonder who the americunts are going to side with then, probably the muslims)
But im glad most americunts like you want to get rid of NATO, I mean I know beter and your generals know beter, only way to get rid of NATO is to build up our military and force them out like any other occupation army.
No more multi billion US military contracts for the US military to European nation, a booming European military economy is good for us, yes lets end the US set up corrupt UN too.
Im glad to see that you want to be weaker and less in controle of other countries, less influential on the world stage, I wished you guys did that during ww2 but then you never would have been a superpower.
Ohhhh yes let us "fend for ourselfs" no more muslims being armed by the USA, no more wars for israel, no more global US hegemony, Russia would no longer have sanctions, no more forcing us to play allong too, no more shitty US gas instead of cheaper Russian gas.
Funny how the nation that's "not threatend by anyone" is scared of Iran, EU, Russia, China and every other country in the world.
Don't worry we will put an end to NATO and hopefully send you cowards back in bodybags, then it's going to be a few decades cleaning up the mess you left behind.
God i hooe your generals are as stupid and retarded as you are, great benefit to us, just too bad you propped up all our enemies for so long, you don't protect shit, your all a bunch of leaches, parasites, muslim loving, globalist cocksucking, commie loving americunts.
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I envy them greatly, wished the west was that wise.
Germany is a lost nation like most of the west, ready for a reccesion because of the billions spend on migrants and the rise in crime and social unrest because of it.
in the USA you got Donald Trump who never would have been elected had the country stayed sane and out of wars, the USA has millions of illigale immigrants, it's a mess.
Dubai is an oil country, being smart in trying to diversify it's economy, migrants have very little to do with it besides getting experts in new fields.
japan is smart, it's waiting for it's elderly population to die off, they sould invest more in their own people, try to get cheaper houses and less unhealthy working conditions, raise birthrates as their elderly population dies.
you can only have endless growth by taking new lands to settle and grow the population so unless you want war in the world, letting their economy shrink then rise again in a few years or decades is the wise choice to make.
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@UpperEchelon8 I found the arguments presented and while I agree there is a lot of truth in the arguments presented and things I did not know about the jappanese economy, there is some things that caught my attention or rather that felt left out in this situation.
For starters it does not realy explain what the koreans have done that's so diffrent from what the jappanese are doing, if I remember correctly the birthrates in korea are almost as bad as that of japan with just as much restrictions on immigration as Japan, remember after ww2 japan was rapidly rebuild, now they are even more densely populated then ever before, esspecialy in urban area's, this tends to reduce birthrates, korea had the korean war and after that period they had to rebuild but also adapt to the rest of the world, back then China was barely becoming part of the world economic, untill mao died and China started to become the powerhouse it is today.
What's intresting is that the youth in japan seem to have jobs because older generations are entering retirement, they all seemed to have saved up money for themselves and while the youth probably have to work harder and harder for the older generations to basicaly die off, as they die off they will reduce the social presure on their economy, lowering housing prices, healthcare costs, so on.
But with so much competition in AI and mobile phones, robotics sould be their focus, I saw a prototype of civil purpose cybersuits to help individuals move and work in their old age.
The Neet problem is a more depressing kind of problem that does need fixing but how? Well why not kill two birds with one stone? If japan needs people and it had a sizeable population that can't do much, why not offer them a way to work outside of japan?, Im sure they can do something, they work abroad, they meet new people, they perhaps find someone there, potentialy offer them an easy way to immigrate back to Japan when they find a mate to start a family, it might sound a bit odd if they are just useless at home or in the jappanese economy, they be more usefull elswhere and thus at least change to some degree, idk just a thought, just leaving them to die seem useless, depressing and a burden for the state.
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@TheProjectVoid I could not watch because i was at my job, I did watch it now and it's very poorly made, it's the same pro socialist cope argument made without actually going into the source of what the nazi's did or what facists said they believed in, you can look at speeches gives by both Hitler, Mussolini, the works of Ginovani Gentile (seen by many as the father of fascism) and many of the social wellfare programs and work programs funded by both the nazi's, the fascists and even FDR's new deal which Adolf Hitler and Mussolini praised before the start of ww2.
every real intelectual who delves into socialism and national socialism/fascism can see how they are quite the same, the only exception which puts both fascism and national socialism slighty to the right/left of center authoritarianism is their focus on certain traditional focuses, family values and a replacement of the chruch with the state as a form of worship which makes them appear more rightwing compared to say communism or marxism but they are still socialist, the only ones who make the argument that they aren't socialist is made by well... socialists supporters who don't want to be associated with the nazi's or the fascists but their ideologies are almost exactly the same, Mussolini was a socialist before he set up the fascist party, most of nazi elites were socialists before the nazi's took power, their controle and regulation of economics is a common act of socialist policies, like price controles, there is a video by razorfist that goes into proving that nazi's were socialists as well as fascists.
the argument that they weren't socialist is laughable and often based on bad comparisons between say the democratic republic of North korea, everyone knows it's not democratic because you can only vote for one person and that's always the great leader or else, this is has nothing to do with economic policies or social policies which are much more complex.
the ''work through joy'' social program by the nazi's for example was a means of both propaganda, work creation (based on debt spending for the most part) and cementing nazi controle on more everyday lives.
I could go on but second Thought is not a very good channel, the bias is clear and they don't know what they are talking about.
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@LegendNinja41 so you are in favor of population transfers? too bad the west backed a coup and so the Russians acting in their own national intrest, looks bad on them if they abandon their people to another nations mercy, that's just the way it is.
you are acting on a dubble standard, the west can engage in whatever way they want but Russia can not? Russia faces sanctions by the US that costs Europe billions as well as Russia billions, the USA is now targeting Nordsteam 1 and 2 which would give Russia a way to sell more gas to Europe.
and about independence, idk if you heared but Catalonia in Spain voted to leave but the spanish goverment and support from the EU denied it, don't pretend like one is not the same like the other, Russia faces a lot more hardships than the rest of Europe so their behavior is not that strange.
besides all these sanctions are just bringing Russia closer to China, making Putin stronger because the Russians see him as their great leader, I think the USA wants bad relations between the west and Russia because the USA wants to keep their power and global military running so they need to fear and warmonger, if we had rejected the sanctions, if we allowed trade to flow, then we could work to divide Russia towards more western intrest.
it was Russia who defended Syria when Obama tried to invade them, the USA can't be trusted anymore, Russia is a starving dog, we need more stability not threats of war.
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@LegendNinja41 the problem however is that it was russian territory and was given to ukraine in the 1980s i believe, what was given can be taken back and many nations have annexed and ethnically cleansed lands that were not theirs, latest of which is golan hights by israel so the idea that this is some huge threat is kinda overblown.
This is however how geopolitics works and Gets messy when both sides have arguments and secret agenda's for proxy conflicts.
Population transfer are a bloody and messy affaire, people resist, people die, need to be relocated, start over, lose their homes, some become terrorists, having Russia annex cremea might not have been the best but might also have prevented further bloodshed.
As for sanctions you are correct the sanctions hurt Russia more then they do the US or the EU but that does not make it oke, it creates conflicts, it hurts people and those who enforce order which is the whole purpose of them, divide the nation of Russia, weaken it to the benefit of the USA, Europe does not benefit, Russia is not closer in our sphere, we can't influence their society in isolation, they get stronger ties with China, much beter plan would have been to lift sanctions on Russia and demand sanctions or limits on Chinese intrest in Russia, divide and rule, the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
I don't consider Russia a threat, they are paranoid and surely must be matched in greater or equal force in case of a military conflict but trade and diplomatic solutions are beter.
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@MadM0nte ohhhh cute you actualy try to seem clever, how refreshing.
Well duh they Just lost their top general in an act of war by the USA, from what I gathered the air defence saw a plane, thought it was an american plane and shot it out of the sky's, they even apologized for it.
I tend not to try and go into too deep on these kinds of channels rarely do I see any civil or well educated people worth engaging, so I try and keep it simple so they can keep up and don't fall in the typical media traps they like to pretend matters.
As for geo politics, demografics matter because they determine the actions of goverments, which influence geo-politics as im sure you would understand, take brexit for instance, in terms of geo-politics, the british will likely seek closer ties with the USA, as the british have left mostly because of the threat of immigration, caused by geopolitical instability caused by the USA and with the actions of Merkel, again, demografics matters, as we need the rise of nationalist parties all over Europe, largely due to demografically shifts, so too will geopolitical agenda's change.
I happen to agree with you though I would add that the democratic party is less wellfare oriented and more warfare and insanity oriented, the whole democratic debate was a heap of trash and insanity from what little I cared to listen to, only Andrew Yang seemed to have any new intresting ideas at all but you wanted more about geopolitical changes and less about my observations around political and demografic changes.
Most of the world just wants to trade with Iran and Europe wants to trade with Russia, as we see with Nordstream 1 and 2, the only one getting pissed off about that is the USA and some eastern European countries, so this will create a geopolitical issue for the USA, while China continues to buy ports and gains more influence in Europe and Africa, their one belt one road project will continue to expand, while Russia will strugle to get by, potentialy facing implosion if something were to happen with Putin.
You seem rather angry and emotional, please when you respond can you talk like a civilized person? If you wish to learn more you sould just ask, not yell and act like a todler, it makes you look unhinged.
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@MadM0nte except trade with Russia and Iran, then the USA gets scared as hell, because imagine if NATO were to collapse? Europe is basicaly a toll booth for the USA to get it's armys and supplies through and for a long time this went on without much problems, now however the USA has pissed off most of it's "allies" and wants to continue to stand in the way of working together which would be against US intrest.
But I sure hope the US military and goverment elites think like you do, then perhaps we can get rid of NATO sooner, sadly I know beter and the USA has left a lot of pets for us to deal with, mostly Turkey and the chaos in the middle-east and of course libya.
The USA can continue on without us, they Just can't stand the idea that we can go on without then, thus sanctions and endless fearmongering and warmongering, the people aren't that stupid, ask any random European and they are against the US goverment and they will tell you why.
ps : it ain't about your freedoms
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@telltellyn well at least we can both agree on that last part, right, left, it's all lies most of the time.
I just don't see this as being very corrupt, perhaps it is abuse of power but he won't resign from it, won't effect his relection, in fact all this time spend on impeachment is wasted time that the democratic party could have spend on promoting ideas, policie changes, all I see is a lot of anti white racism, stupid shit and old, rich, white corporatists asking people to vote for them.
If I were Trump I would worry more about the inevitable media attempts to promote violence against Trump supporters and Trump himself or the CIA going to wack him then I would the election this year.
Regardless of impeachment or not, weak opponents, untrustworthy media, already president who did an oke job considering everything, no new wars (yet...) And the polls had been wrong 4 years ago with then a "sudden" surpise win for Trump, while some people already saw Trump was likely to win.
If the democrats are smart they will try and remove the electoral college if they can, many already argued "populair vote" which kinda explains the lefts love for immigrants and wellfare spending.
Perhaps it's best we agree to disagree, unless you know something I have not realised or can't see, I want to know if it's new info i have not considered.
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@mercilessmountains4682 I''m not sure if just sitting in the cold and breathing will do me any good, it won't cure me of who I am, nor will it magically make me a beter person, I have a hard time wanting to be someone, I dislike being itself, I could be more, I try to do more but the things I actualy wanted are not clear to me, everything I can do and know is something I don't care about, others care, it makes me bitter that we are so limited in what we can do, that we have to endure this life for so long.
there are things I want and work towards but it's such a long way with so many people and events that honestly bore me to death, boredom is my worst enemy, second is misanthropy.
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@Horseless Headman poland gets most funding from the EU, poland is most in support of a EU army, Poland benefits the most besides Germany from the EU schengen area and open trade flow between it and Germany.
Poland is not going to leave the EU, if they did it would put them much closer to Russia's eurasian Union and they hate Russia.
If anything Poland is going to play a much more dominate roll within the EU and the idiots who try to sanction poland are the ones who are going to be kicked to the curb.
As for Italy, it is very unlikely they will leave since they already have the Euro, they are under huge presure from immigration from Africa and they benefit from trade with the EU.
Only the UK and Norway have the means, the funds, the reason and the geography to leave and actualy potentialy benefit from it and the UK with brexit ain't looking to good.
Just leaving the EU won't stop globalism, nether is the EU the source of globalist ideology, trading the EU for the USA won't improve their conditions, it just brings them more corruption, more of the same.
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you honestly believe the CCP's numbers? I've done the math and the numbers in the USA are about the same as the ones in Europe and the amount of deaths are realy low worldwide, it only looks bad because most of the western world has aged so much so this is to be expected.
realy the disease is not much of a problem, the lockdowns are and in the meantime nobody seems to be taking the real issues to China, if the virus did not come from a lab it must have come from one of their wet markets and they don't seem to be in a rush to change their pathogen spread.
btw USA created a vaccine, as did Russia, China as far as im aware of did not, though im sure they will.
USA is a big country and it's only realy being brought up because orange man bad, quite literaly after months of saying Trump caused this, blablabla, they had a vaccine, it's quite clear this is mostly agenda driven and not actually a threat to the world.
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You have to admit stxy, things seem pretty hopeless, government lockdowns (again), constant censorship, media propaganda, i'm not trying to be black pilled or anti individual effort, I'm just asking, how do you remain motivated and empowered to keep going despite the odds and constant attacks on our liberties?
Planting a tree randomly is actually illigale in many places, not everyone has land to grow food, many people don't have their own homes, how to improve in such environment?
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I think this is a very poorly made video for a number of reasons.
The first reason is that the current rightwing is not actually that rightwing, the republican party consists of many factions that aren't that willing to see eye to eye because they don't agree on many issues, the left also suffers from this but is more conformist to the elitist class so they appear stronger, while in reality their alliance is very fragile and growing more fragile by the day which will likely be reflected in the midterms.
The second thing is that it's jot just about raw fire power which the rightwing still has plenty of and many democratic states aren't trying to catch up to, groups like Antifa might but they are a very small group and pose more of a threat to themselves and their political ideology, the scale of potential is realy small for them while the rightwing in the USA consists of Veterans, gun fanatics, patriots and the military itself.
The third thing is that Trump while a leader, is not a warlord nor is he trying to become one, he mostly lost due a temporary chain reactions of bad luck, democratic policy changes and a very powerfull alliance of elites within big tech and within the deep state these are the truly powerfull forces that pose a major threat to the rightwing and controle narratives, major corporations and universities, these forces would be much harder to defeat then the actual voter base or army forces of the democratic party.
And fourth is the USA as a super power has a vested interest of the rest of the world to remain stable, even if it's breaking down from the inside and having major problems the rest of the world would support the side that benefits them the most, these are also a powerfull group that influence public opinion and is what makes rightwing people not risk a civil war because unlike the leftwing, they realise just how important the USA is and their image to project power.
As China grows stronger under the current regime more and more nations will prefer Trumps policies and pro americanism over the weak and anti americanism of the democratic party but this also depends on Trump or his replacement, there is a real probability that someone from the democratic party might even become tempted to switch sides to symbolise the change of hearts and mind due to power Trump has it will grow stronger as Biden fails to rule things properly, it would not be someone well known, it would be someone from the lower ranks but who sees where the democratic party is going.
To win is not to crush your enemies, to win is to make them switch sides without having to fight at all, a civil was is just not beneficial for the USA for now but that might change.
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@bilalafzal7442 I think he's pretty accurate about much of this video except perhaps the last part where an era of conflict brings about an era of prosperity and peace, there is no reason to think that's going to happen at all, in fact wars tend to lead to more wars and conflict since everyone is dragged into major conflicts when they do happen, esspecially with superpowers and since we don't have a solution to the nuclear weapons problem that would mean uttter destruction on a global scale and radioactive fallout in most places or a series of shorter but intense minor proxy wars between many nations and superpowers.
The elites in the west are delusional, out of touch with reality and corrupt, the elites in the east are power made, insane, corrupt and totalitarian, there is no USA leading the future for a better tomorow, there is no hero nation or creed or ideology that can save humanity or even a fraction of it, we are all living on the shadows of former empires and civilizations while everything else rots and corrupts around us.
at this point perhaps a new religion in which everyone becomes fanatical and insane is somewhat more desirable than the alternative that is being presented as the former gives meaning and an end to the current era where as more of the same just keeps us on the same line we are on now.
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the people in charge of these shows have no talent, skill or passion for what they create, they know they can't create anything good, that's why they can only corrupt and destroy that which existed before them and frankly that's pretty much the point, they aren't even driven by profit or ideology, they are driven by hatred and spite and that's what is reflected in their works.
lucky for us there are still people who have passion for creating art and it's on the fans to abandon those who only seek to corrupt and promote those who dare to create, look to things like Manga, Anime, look for lower budget movies that still have creative freedom, don't give these dark lords of wokeness any attention, let them starve in their own filth.
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@marekkac7046 I agree with the economic argument but I think eastern europe ironically is more liberal minded than western europe is, leaders here lock people up in their homes, jail journalists, fund and support extremist far left causes, regulate the economy into oblivion, bring in migrants beyond the means of dealing with them or assimulating them at the cost of native citizens, they ban fertilizer that ensures food for everyone during a food crisis, wellfare spending is way, way higher than in eastern europe and western europe is very censorship heavy.
sure eastern europe is not a liberal wonderland compared to western europe on specific issues but overal I think western europe is more of a mess right now than most of eastern europe is, they know what it's like under the bad days of communism, western europe is still very naive and unware of that and I say this as someone living in western europe.
I would like to see eastern europe become stronger tied to western europe both politically and economically to be a good counterweight like how the south in the USA is more conservative compared to the coastal states, that's the ideal though, in practice we have to wait and see.
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A̐manjol M̐əmbetjanūlı USA has so many major advantages, the biggest being that it was a continent wiped out of natives by disease and government policy and then decided to expand further for dirt cheap and made war on Mexico to expand even further, same in Hawaii, Cuba, Panama, the USA was born from blood and steel just like nations like Germany and in ww2 the germans tried to expand in the same manner like the USA did, only it was 200+ years later and in a region that had industrialized.
The USA even now still has lots of room to expand while most European nations are already highly urbanized, one of the reasons for the EU was to be able to grow and urbanize into more rural eastern Europe.
However once major states in the USA gain critical mass, they might break away from the Union due to ideology differences and form new unions to rule more directly, we kinda already see this in States like Texas, Callifornia and New York but are kept together due to loyalty to the Union and likely civil war if done without federal government approval.
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I disagree stxy, well partly, I agree that the USA is not going to just Balkanize overnight, esspecialy not because of some commies, however if you look at the history of the USA and where it used to be and where it is now, it has declined in a lot of ways, respect overseas, internaly, economically it has taken a hit though only minor, demografically it has been utterly transformed to the point that white people will go on their knees to please black people, divource is up, single parent households is up and in Asia China is becoming a new super power that is the exact opposite of the USA and still rising.
disfunctional as it may be the EU has it's own long term plans, same with the African union, Brazil is becoming a major shaper of south america, things do not look good for the USA and the west in general right now, times are changing and somehow the USA maintains that it is perfect in every way and does not have to change even though it has been transformed into a mockery of what the founding fathers first wanted in the first place.
this era is merely a start of things to come, it's sad but true and the only one who is giving any kind of push back to it is Donald Trump and he's not even a real republican but used to be a democrat!
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Europe is still here mate, despite the fallout from US wars, demografics matter for sure but what matters more is technology and automation, in fact immigration right now is more of a threat than a benefit, many will just claim that's "xenophobia" but it's rationality being attacked as bigotry.
Societies that don't lead with rationality are doomed to fail, which is what's happening to the world at large, esspecialy in the west, USA more so than Europe.
The USA has one of the lowest education standards in the western world, China and India are doing fine but lack of European self determination and US sanctions on potential European allies like Russia and Iran are what holds it back most.
For western world to grow it has to not only adapt to a rising China but reject a declining USA and seek to purge the harmfull and delusional narratives from subversive forces, islam, communism and the rest.
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It's salt, so sodium-cloride, if you want to seperate them you have to make them react with other chemicals, which is costly on this scale, throwing it back into the ocean is not as bad as it seems, you just need to distribute it a little and the effects are minimal, the water just becomes part of the natural water cycle again, humans don't consume that much water, the main issue is energy costs, right now it's cheaper to fight over water supplies than it is to invest in desalination plants and the nations most effected don't have the grid of funds to set up such plants, it would have to be paid for by richer western nations in exchange for something because nothing is for free and those plants need to be maintained.
One possible solution is offering to hold refugees and halt illigale flow of migrants in exchange for such desalination plants and it's energy needs.
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@Ghana2012 I think it's ironic how the man who is pro free speech, anti authoritarianism, against the warmongering and lying press, kept the USA out of any new wars, money president, is somehow labeled a racist and a fascist by all the mainstream media, yet the violence promoting, assination calling, racist, thug armed, rioting and corrupt mass of far leftwing, anti free speech mobs are somehow a force for good and not insane and corrupt.
it's like im living in bizzaro world, every day I wake up and ask ''what nonsense and violence is the media and the far leftwing going to do today?'' and every day in the past few months it's a new low, im not even an american but I want him to win for the good of the world and the USA.
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I agree, the more we reject who we are as a people the more we move towards this sad and miserable state of being, I however would add that since we are animals under darwinistic presures, there is the inevitable that those people who are weak and bend over backwards for the outsider groups and bow to their desires will cease to exist while those who reject it and embrace more ''far right'' views will likely grow in size, power or seen as nessisary, we already have seen this and continue to see this in Europe, with populism and nationalism taking center stage while centrist parties are forced to resort to desperate measures, adopt those same populsit policies they reject to get relected or forced to face the truth that assimulation is not happening and there are issues we need to solve.
I would say Europe right now is a lot like weimar germany, lots of conflicting ideologies, problems in the right wing and left wing, minority groups seen as problems (real or imagined) diseases, economic depressions, crisis, incompetent leadership, it's all there.
im not saying or hoping the nazi's come back or the commies but I think from this will most likely come a new type of ideological which will be seen as radical and will most likely attempt to unify Europe into a single state in order to give it new purpose and to reject elements within society that it sees as threats or burdens to reach that goal, I'm already seeing it in many of the youth, even if they are far left or far right they both have some form of pan European idealism some out of a sense of culture others out of pragmatism others still more racially or enviromentally focused.
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@PlatosGooncave plz watch this romanian who speaks russian on the subject of Russia
https://youtu.be/Kesrrj450JI
Not sure who this blogger is so can't give my take on him but your partly right, Russia has lots of resources, food, land to grow food on and is likely to benefit from climate change in the long run, all of these things are true, Russia also has one of the most abortions in the world, highest alcoholism, most m.......s and mosques in all of Europe, their demografics are terrible but at least their government is trying to do something about it, which is not always the case with most of Europe like Germany.
As for Putin's regime, it's realy not that popular and has many problems that makes a stable Russian government difficult, esspecialy when Putin can no longer rule which is likely to be pretty soon since he has Parkinson's disease.
Russia does have a lot of potential if it could solve it's problems within and solidify positive relations with China and Europe and no those relationships, even with China are not great, you can look up Caspian Report on that geo-political relationship.
As for Europe many of Russia's former USSR nations dislike Russia, even Belarus has issues with Russia, Ukraine might even join NATO and the EU over time.
Russia like most of Europe for that matter is in a difficult spot, it can try and cling to it's former empire and try and maintain it with a strong military while everything else falls apart, pray that climate change will give a massive boom to their economy or it can try and improve it's relations with the west and be a stronger block against China or become a second junior partner with China against the west but this might not be in their interest.
Russia is not in a very good spot right now but it might if it plays it's cards right and benefits from climate change but even then I doubt they will be able to maintain their current power forever, they aren't weak but they are stagnating the same as everyone else.
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@Inquiring well he is partly right, Airbus for example is now the nummer 1 airplane producer of the world, having beaten US Boeing.
Europe produces a lot of chemicals, laboratory supplies, measurement equipment, computer chips, ships, food, a lot of things.
However we aren't very far in AI technology, automation, innovation in new fields, we don't have any major software or electronics companies like Google or Apple, all we have is Nokia and Alcatel which is not much and these are big fields of the future, we also don't pull a lot of billionairs or millionairs to invest in our countries due to our high tax rate for the rich sure they want to expand into the EU single market but it's not as big or easy like China, we are like a distant 3th or 4th in that regard.
Europe has to change, perhaps learn from Both the USA and China on how to draw in more innovation and make it's own software giant like the USA has, perhaps the same way we created Airbus.
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@dadsonworldwide3238 the germans got pretty far with what little they had, I find it very hard to believe they negotiated an end to collonialism, since every European power wanted to enforce their collonial rule but was stopped by the USA, you even had opperation unthinkable that would have liberated the rest of Europe which was supposedly the whole point of the war to begin with but the USA sayd no.
The USA is hypocritical because it's propagandized this image of "freedom loving, americans, liberating Europe from the evil nazi's" but in reality the nazi's were the closest to manifest destiny of the USA, the USA was what inspired Hitler to begin with, there is reason why they banned his books for so long, you read worst things on youtube comments everyday.
But the issue i have is not on any moral grounds, it's the lies, the fabrication and theft of European culture, citizens, media and history for the gain of the USA, while communism was left to ravage the world.
The USSR was largely incompetent, ruled by an even more totalitarian leader than Hitler, the whole of ww2 is a giant joke to me, of lying self intrested people and nations on all sides and nobody has learned anything from the war.
But I don't care about all that much since it"s not going to change, the USA has enforced it's will, tricked the british, betrayed the west and took what they wanted, what my issue is that NATO sould not exist, the USA sould not be in any other country besides their own region and perhaps Japan and south korea, yet they expanded more and more, use sanctions to kill millions and use wars and arming of terrorists to finish the rest, the USA loves the current order because they benefit the most from it.
The USA hates peace and loves war, they love "free trade" but only if they benefit most, they hate theocratic goverments but ally with saudi arabia and israel, they say they respect nations but ignore problems that makes that a delusional fantasy.
What future is there with the USA? Non, worse than non, as long as nations buy US military goodies they are happy, if they want independence and self determination they will make threats and sanctions.
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@dadsonworldwide3238 yes I read all about the middle-east and those treaties, typical people say read more on history when they lack an understanding of it, I don't realy have that, I read all the history books, most of the banned books and books on power and goverment institutions.
Not very important in the Grand scheme of things, much more important would be the partition of british mandate of palestine into the state of israel and palestine, which is the flashpoint for most wars in the middle-east today.
WW2 was mostly a unessisary war that destroyed Germany because of the poor decisions made by the british, the americans and the french, not having population transfers after ww1, blaming the war on Germany (while austria-hungary caused it by threatning serbia with their insane ultimatum), combine that with the stab in the back myth by german generals and the monarch elites and the rise of communism partly led by jewish intelectuals like Rosa Luxemburg and Leon Trotsky (see spartacus rebellion, Bavaria) stoked the fires for a wave of anti semitism.
Something most history books will fail to mention.
As for India, the british raj was quite brutal in it's crackdown of protests, starvation caused by Winston Churchill actions to ensure food rations were filled for the war made India rebel again.
But it was the americans and their involvement because of the Zimmermann telegraf that "forced them" into the war that was the most stupid act by the USA, the USA for decades wanted isolation and denied any attempt by European empires to gain influence on the two continents while the USA could just get involved with European affairs.
The true irony is that Germany in ww2 basicaly tried to copy the USA's manifest destiny, just a few centuries to late to be tolorated by the other powers, the UK lost the most while they could have kept their empire they decided war was the beter alternative then sharing influence with Germany.
Im not here to make excuses for what the germans did in ww2, simply saying the Actions by the british and americans contributed more to the german reactions during the war then they like to admit and in the end, they simply traded one despotic tyrant in for an even worse one Stalin.
And now we live in the shadow of the fiction that largely is ww2, not because it did not happen but because history is not remembered at all, every year we repeat the same puppet show while we ignore what caused it, dooming humanity to repeat it again.
Fdr was praised by Hitler and Stalin for his new deal, he was basicaly the third dictator in the making, though as they say, the victor writes the history books.
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@dallyh.2960 I think you don't quite understand the cultural clash it would be for the USA to attempt to well... annex basically most of central america, the people in these places aren't like people in north america, violence is common in many of their urban cities and rural places, the mentality of the people and culture is also very different from north america, it would take many generations of hard, hard work to attempt to anglo-fy those populations, if you think some of the getto's in the USA are bad, you've seen nothing yet.
is it possible? well if the USA was willing to have like a Marshal Plan for central american nations on the condition of military bases, crackdown on cartels and code of law, backed by a wide support from the people there and the USA, then it's possible, again if Canada was intergrated first that could be a good stepping stone, it would set a patern and good results that other nations can see and respond to, if the USA can't even intergrate Canada what makes people think they can intergrate central america?
as for Hispanic guys, if you picture the Enrico Engricias types, those are quite rare and are more likely to rob you and/or be violent then show you a good time, probably your best bet would be to go to New Mexico or Texas to find those types not Guatemala or Honduras.
I once worked with a woman from Venuzuwela, very beautiful, also quite nice.
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I think this is a rather incoherent pipe dream if im honest.
Like I understand and agree that France and Germany have weak, putinist leaders who don't have the brains or will to see the big picture and are still pretending like this won't end any other way than the collapse of Russia as a state or a complete replacement of the Russian leadership with a weakened and humiliated Russia.
But the idea that the UK of all nations is going to lead some economic and military block/alliance is just a very bad joke, they can barely controle their own borders, aren't economically that connected to any other nation besides the EU and would have to replace the EU which has decades upon decades of further evolved laws, regulations, trade deals, cultural projects and joint military projects all because the current leadership of France and Germany are somewhat out of touch in a conflict between Russia and Ukraine? Really?
France and Germany have already send some heavy weapons, Ukrainian soldiers are getting training with some modern weapons systems in Germany, as well as old weapons systems for Ukraine to use, now is this great? Not really but it's not nothing and sooner or later these nations leaders will have to come to terms that their big investments into Russia and with Putin have failed and were a huge mistake which some people warned about for years and now they have to really come to terms that they need to step up or lose faith on a big scale.
What's shamefull is that it's taking them so long, they should have seen the writing on the walls at least 2-3 months ago, though they might be able to redeem themselves by making Ukraine a potential EU member and esspecialy providing funds for a kind of Ukrainian marshall plan, EU membership within 5-8 years is a bit too fast but within 10 years with proper effort by both the EU and Ukraine should be reasonable.
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@mistermyself1128 you are kinda contradicting yourself because you said that they are traitors and were trying to overthrow the government, I said they were fighting for their independence just like the USA did to the british, your reply is that they are traitors because they lost but if they had won they would not be traitors but revolutionairs?
how are the founding fathers not trying to overthrow the british government if in that case they aren't rebels? last time i checked the british crown still existed and the USA does not rule the UK but by your logic they are still traitors and therefor rebels and trying to overthrow the british government even though they won, which then does not make them traitors in your word? im sorry but your not making a lot of sense here, perhaps your logic is that the victor writes the history books and that this whole notion of treason or revolution only depends on who wins? is it not that they are both the same thing but you are simply unwilling to admit it because otherwise how els can you depict the losing side as being not exactly the same as your side? sure seems like it.
if your states declare independence then you are a seperate state, former part of the USA if the other state does not recognize the newly created state then they send in the army which the US did, aka they invaded the south, your strange attempt at logic by saying they aren't independent because they aren't recognized rather then saying they aren't recognized because they aren't seen as legitimate so you can therefor not invade them seems silly but again you seem very biased and unable to wrap your mind around simple concepts such as an invading army attempting to stop another nations independence because treason, idk you aren't making a lot of sense in what your trying to say.
what do you mean you guys? im not american and it's the federal and state government and teachers unions that regulate public eduction no?
your using emoticons, seem very emotional and can't communicate properly what your trying to argue for while making childish assumptions, so I don't quite value your opinion on anything realy even less so now but I just find it amusing how you think logic and words work and laugh at how emotional and clearly frustrated you are about this specific topic for some reason.
im not american so perhaps that's why, it's less of a personal issue for me then it seems to be for you, again not quite sure why.
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@mistermyself1128 insults, check.
Ad hominem attacks, check.
anger, check.
whataboutism, check.
threats, check.
and your trying to convince me you aren't emotional?
you sound like an edgy, teenager, who's pissed off that someone who is not even american disagrees with the way you view the civil war on the internet.
again why are you so emotional about this? it's just bizzar to see to be honest, while also kinda amusing.
looking at the current USA perhaps they will have a second civil war, talking with you I have no idea why anyone would wish to leave the union, clearly you are bastion for freedom and rationalism, nobody would dare to start a civil war.
your response is pretty funny though i'l give you that, so angry, so edgy, so dark and brooding.
i can almost hear the linkin park album playing in the background, not trying to insult you, it's just funny to see you get so worked up about this.
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@mistermyself1128 except you can't because then you will be invaded.
kinda ironic that the USA started with a rebelion but then it wants people to obey it's laws even if the states themselves disagree with it but is enforced by the federal government.
I feel like im going in loops with you, can't change the laws because federal government, can't leave because the government won't let you, can't rebel or your army will be crushed via brute force, can't have any unincorporated land because the USA annexed it all.
so how els but via violence and rebelion and fighting for independence can you break free? there is no legal process to get out, there is no election process, there is no voting mechanism, there is no manner in which nations/states peacefull break off from the union, it's literally obey, fight or die.
now if your in favor of obeying the government that's fine but don't pretend like it's for some moral or ideological reason, it's just you obey and there is no way for you to get out besides waging war, I mean if that's the standard that's set so be it but that pretty much ensures there is no peacefull methode of seperation and thus being sneaky and deceptive becomes a rational manner to gain independence, does not seem like a stable system to build an empire on but the USA is still around so there must be some truth to it I suppose.
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@mistermyself1128 actualy we are, we get censored on all major platforms, we get attacked by the media, we get racially discriminated against by the state and publically funded institutions and typically face more crime and police brutality while also being denied equal treatment by both the government and the media companies that contole most of the global forms of communication.
The truth is you don't care about that because you are a pro authoritarian who likes the power and the silencing and oppresion of others who you disagree with but will likely realise your mistake when it's you that get censored, attacked or discriminated against.
The USA is an oligarchy in all but name, the rich and the corporations rule most of the government, political parties and get the most favor and even public support via subsidies paid for by tax payer money.
YouTube is a company under Google and Google is a group under alphabet and with other groups they controle most of global communication and dictate who gets to have a voice and who does not, not only do they controle most forms of communication and work with political groups to maintain and direct that power and influence but they also work together with other companies and media corporations to attack potential competition and seek to remove their presence off the internet, sometimes attacking payment processors or writing hit pieces with the specific purpose to get them censored, it's why most US citizens don't trust the corporate media and why anti trust lawsuits are being made to remove Facebook, Twitter and Google off 230 protection.
Now you can just pretend like non of this matters and that people like me aren't being oppressed, alienated or discriminated against or are "snowflakes" but in the real world these things matter, this is real power, and more oppresive and threatening to both the west and the world then groups like ISIS, Iran or Russia can ever be, the only one close to it is China and that's because they have their own system of controle and censorship, theirs is even more oppresive and they use the same systems as Google and Youtube they just don't use a proxy like the USA has right now.
Just remember next time you get censored, attacked or discriminated against just know that some people warned you about it for years before you caught on, your welcome.
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@mistermyself1128 you don't seem to mind losing most american values, annexing land, demonising people who fought the federal government, supporting racial discrimination, police brutality, covid lockdown hysteria, media censorship, big tech censorship, university indoctrination, cancel culture, no voter ID's for voting, tolorance for calls to violence by far leftwing activists and politicians, riots, support for domestic terrorism and warmongering.
Im sorry but most of what you believe is just media propaganda and fabricated narratives while ignoring the same and often worse end results by your side simply because again the media does not report on it and censors voices that mention it.
I believe not so many years ago leftist groups stormed the capital during a hearing, another time armed militia's of the black panthers stormed the capital as well.
Also ironic that you don't care about the police and guards shooting unarmed civilians.
Idk what it will take for you to get out of this authoritarian mindset and anti american ideas you have but I think it might be when the government and corporate entities start hammering away at you for a while, that's often when the masses realise they are on the wrong side of history to use a leftist quote of framing the situation.
I don't hate you, I honestly pitty you, how lost you must feel, how angry and confused.
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@METENOR actualy Erdogan wants and needs the west, wants our money, has gotten in too via NATO that´s why Turkey´s military is so good today because we build it not Turkey.
Erdogan is bringing Turkey back to the dark ages, a collapsing currency, a mass exodus of people to more wealthy western nations to be able to work, so much so that they cause nationalist reactionary movements in opposition to Turkey.
and about war, Turkey got destroyed by a bunch of idiots with guns in ww1, Turkey has no nukes and is dependent on western aid and military production for it's tanks and airplanes, right now Turkey's strongest weapons are refugees not soldiers and Erdogan knows it.
Attaturk would be ashamed if he saw current day Turkey, a shadow of it's former self, heading backwards and threatning the nations that made it western and wealthy to begin with, disgracefull.
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@concacaf3898 your comment is ironic because the big corporations today all support leftwing policies, talking points, censor rightwing groups, promote progresives and pro socialist policies, almost like corporations benefit from promoting these things to exploit society, ignore real issues and divide everyone so no real coherent response by the people can be made.
I remember being on the leftwing in the early 2000s, back then social media was used to topple authoritarian governments, now those same governments use social media to oppress the people, usefull idiots spread their corporate propaganda and put a rainbow sticker on everything instead of actually improving people's lives and most people on the leftwing, progressives, socialists, starbucks marxists all support it and think it's great, it's a joke.
The rich and powerfull aren't worried about people who are pro socialism, progressive or anti capitalism, in fact they promote them constantly, the people they seem most worried about are capitalists, free speech advocates, populists, free thinkers and so called "far right radicals" the moment they show up all the corporate media and elites run 24/7 propaganda pieces and beg big tech for them to be censored off the internet.
How is being anti capitalist fighting the system or fighting for the people? All I see are rich snobs and usefull middle-class idiots Fighting for corporations.
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@doncarlodivargas5497 look at it this way, you can cut corners with the army and corruption can erode equipment but the core of the army remains functional, the army is very big and in many places at once, corruption is everywhere and people in all sectors don't get paid very much, so they cut corners.
Now compare that to nuclear weapons, they need more highly educated people, they need more work to remain functional, are essential for the regime's national security, pretty small teams compared to the army, get paid better and are located in small sections of the country, the chance of corruption and opportunity to cut corners is very small and benefits to do so very little.
Now is it impossible? No and I would be surprised to see all nuclear weapons in perfect condition but compared to the army it has to be way lower and from a strategic point of view you only need like 10-100 nukes for the same effect as 10.000 nukes, in terms of leverage on the world stage and influence on nations behaviour.
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I kinda dislike both sides ultimate goal of what they consider to be ''good'' while at the same time viewing some of their views to be correct or noble to a certain degree.
I don't realy understand religion, it's something I've never been able to feel or understand so I can't say religion is that great, however i do notice that people need religion in one form or another, if not christianity then they will devolve into social justice insanity, so no matter what people need some sort of believe structure, though I don't know which one is ideal, I have some views in mind but I also understand that most people don't believe in them or consider them morally correct.
as for the perfection of humanity, I sorta understand this mindset, the progress made by technology has given western civlization immense power over the world and thus believe that humans could be perfected can give those that do so immense power, perhaps by gene editing, advanced AI, quantum computing, robotic warfare, automation or cybernetic implants are a real engines of change that will shape our future in one way or another at least for those who will grasp it correctly.
humanity's nature is that of conflict and wanting to dominate others in one form or another, this does not mean that people born low can't rise to the top, the very idea is that those that earn it deserve it and that the system that creates those that reach the top are there because they earned it and it shows the fairness and competitive nature that leads to improvement of society, sadly our western society today looks almost nothing like this, those that are weak are rewarded for their weakness, people who are parasites on society get rewarded and those who rig and manipulate the system via government, big tech monopolies, media manipulation or social justice are seen as powefull while they live off the labor, works and effort of better people, this is why western civlization is in decline, if you aren't rewarded for noble acts or powerfull action then why would you believe in the system? why would you want things to continue? for many people the collapse is seen as salvation because it would mean the collapse of this house of cards.
as for what could save the western world? honestly a pandemic (a real one), war or total economic collapse might do the trick, it's not something I look forward to but I can't think of anything that would shake up the system or lets people question the next move, also since nations are aging rapidly, a pandemic would remove those currently in power and their main voter bases that are stuck in old lines of thinking, giving way for radical new political movements, religions or ideologies.
enough ranting for today but this issue is something I see pop up everyday, on the radio, going to work, online, in the family and friends, it be nice if it could be solved and have some more stability in the west.
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@frankthetank5708 that's not actually true, the membership process is not dependent on time, it's dependent on the situation, the value of the nation and the amount of democratic, values and economic development the nation in question has, Turkey was making strong headways into becoming part of the EU, there were a lot of voices within the EU, mostly eastern europe but also some western european nations that did not want Turkey in the EU but progress was made, that all stopped when Erdogan started issueing purges of the army, his parlement, the judges and imposing himself as being able to be relected forever, since then the membership progress has been on hold.
as for north macedonia, Serbia or albania, the main issue stopping them is their low levels of economic development, high rate of corruption and the issues around Kosovo.
the UK has non of these downsides, it already was a member not so long ago, it was one of it's founding member even, the UK has a strong economy, democratic values, nobody would oppose them joining the EU, if the UK today decided we want a new refurendum, they hold it somewhere in mid 2022, they vote majority yes on joining, then starts the joining process but since the UK already has all the major boxes ticked it would probably only take 1/2 years to be complete, perhaps sooner if all sides can agree on certain issues.
Scotland could break off the UK and have an even shorter time in joining the EU since their issues are less severe compared to the UK as a whole, esspecialy with the northern ireland issue.
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I find it intresting, back when bojack horsemen started I was an addict, going through life much like Bojack did, I tried to change on my own and felt any help from anyone els was just another weakness, another burden to others and only recently with the help from friends, mental help proffesionals and shows like Bojack have I changed for the beter, I quit smoking, I got back into boxing (sadly injured now) it's like Bojack's life mirrors mine, gatta keep improving and learning from mistakes.
Il miss this show, how real and intresting it was but all good things must come to an end, also all bad things as well.
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I did not expect swift to also effect these sorts of sites, I feel like this is not going to help the fight against the Russian government, well in a way it does because it steals money from the russian people who make stuff and ensures the Russian government can't tax it, it also makes their regime to be blamed for this, the problem is that it is immoral to just use citizens like this, we know governments do it, we know that in war any tool you can use will be used but this is very bad for everyone and won't actually effect the Russian government that much.
it's like stopping all food aid to North Korea, you know it hurts the North korean government and the regime but in the process millions will starve and die as a result, so it's the choice between two evils and who decides which is the lesser of two evils? well we don't decide that it seems, the government decides.
idk, it's horrible, I hope they make exceptions for these platforms that don't benefit the russian government that much but does provide something for ordinary people, that's the best we can hope for it seems.
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@MAamir-co3xm I don't care about minor terrorists, im talking about the big boys, the USA has funded hundreds of terrorist organisations all over the world, supplied them with guns, high tech rockets, information, sometimes bailed them out of prison so they could go an attack other countries, terrorists are like modern day pirateers, the state uses them for proxy conflicts and if they are caught they claim plausable denialability.
Isis, el Qaida, SFA, gurrila groups in south america and multiple coups in many nations, which includes Iran.
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@chfgbp6098 Vietnam, Philippines, combodia, india, only exception to all asian countries are landlocked nations like north korea (goverment forced isolation), mongolia (landlocked, China buying all their mines), the stans in central asia (harsh conditions, bad infrastucture, low population)
The rest of Asia, esspecialy South korea, Japan, China and India are booming.
Won't take over the world but they will likely act in their own best intrest, I think we already live in a multipolar world, Europe, africa, south america, asia, they are trying to move forward in their own intrest, while the USA wastes billions and puts on sanctions on any nation that Comes closer to threatning their hegomony, it won't last forever.
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I don't want to be defeatist, I like to see myself as a realist and il be honest, I'm just not seeing the resistance towards China, many elites and companies still sell out to china, most goods still come from China, the EU and others are acting in ways that benefits china or their allies.
The Chinese have a lot of influence in our politics, educational systems, they are projecting force in a way the USA and others don't seem to keen to match or act upon and we aren't stepping up our game to match them and China's technology and military development is becoming on par to that of the USA in many but not all fields, I would say it's scary but really it's all very predictable we aren't focusing on the long term future or making plans for the future, China as authoritarian and totalitarian as it is, is doing that.
the only thing we (we as in the west and our allies) have going for us is that nobody wants China to be the next superpower, that does not mean they won't become one anyways or become desperate and start acting irrationally but if we can maintain and improve our alliance around the world and match China's military and economic might as well as dare to stand up to allies of China and China does nothing to help them, the world would then view China as a paper dragon, however right now they aren't a paper dragon and despite what your seeing and people being angry against China at the end of the day as long as the CCP is around and we keep stagnating and China keeps improving however slowly at some point they will catch up and erode the alliance we have against them, the best thing you can do today is don't support or vote for people who support China's agenda and weakens your own nation or it's military, to enforce one must first have force, otherwise all you have are angry letters which did nothing to stop Hitler or Stalin.
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I realy can't imagine that happening, I keep hearing the same thing with Trump, Bolsanaro or Modi, never seems to be people who are leftwing, corrupt and known to be incompetent.
the pandemic is nothing, the economic effects from the lockdown that's something unheard of in human history, whole nations locked up for weeks, months now a year + and some nations have gone completly crazy in hysterical lockdown insanity like Australia, that's scary the pandemic is literaly a snooze fest.
Modi will be fine, his Hindu nationalism is what's binding the nation together and will likely continue moving forward for greater indian unity and self identity, their main problems are external not internal, pakistan, china, the USA are what matter to india.
in the west it's the opposite, external threats are quite minor, internal threats are a constant wound that keeps on infecting further and further and a bigger and bigger gap in unity and vision both from the left and right.
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@queensrule4450 it actually does not pop up in english, you see I''m not American or English, im Dutch and so it corrects to dutch not english, if you know how to change it to english i be happy to hear it because I don't know how to change it, I've just been writing in english as best as I've learned it as my second language.
honestly though, I never understood why some people rather focus on perfect grammar of any sentence instead of the content of the information it tries to explain, seems like a coping mechanism for people who don't like to be challanged on their ideas and ideologies more than anything.
but I suppose if someone can't produce a perfect sentence, why would they ever produce intresting perspectives or good information right? that tends to be how this argument goes in my opinion, seen it for years, always same type of people too, no offense.
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I don´t think that´s accurate, I´ve seen plenty of talk on climate change, major governments and corporations talk about it all the time, the media does as well, as well as big tech companies, movies, the thing has been promoted constantly.
however what I´ve noticed is the solutions for it have been very weak, often times people who advocate for policies to ´´save the planet´´ end up harming it more, France for example met their CO2 immisions reduction over Germany despite Germany being much more filled with green energy and climate change fanatics, the reason for this is because France uses nuclear energy a lot more than Germany, while Germany has been busy destroying their nuclear power plants and reopening coal plants, likewise most of the western world has shifted their industries towards China which have much lower standards for polution and produce a lot more CO2 compared to the west, esspecialy Europe.
I can´t say for sure if Climate change is the end of the world or not or if it´s exaggerated or taken conservative estemates since there are so many different studies to begin with so can´t know them all or if they are valid or not but the solution by those most focused on solving it have been the most incompetent and least effective group involved, unless they start calling for more nuclear energy and becoming more realistic about what´s going to happen, I find it hard to take the whole thing that serieusly.
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@MrDude826 not sure what your talking about, sounds like nonsense to me, what does chemistry, the natural order, social or physical have to do with politics and the organisation of people and society?
Unless you mean natural selection, in which case you would be arguing for social darwinism, though I would argue all of human civilizations are artifical constructs and artifical selection presures that produce certain people, nations, cultures, religions, technologies and so on, they can be made and unmade by the actions of people in whatever way they deem optimal and that would then be tested into competition with other forces, not as social darwinists would claim is natural at all.
Saying someone lacks perspective, is an idealist and lacks understanding while not giving any explanation why that is the case, is both arrogant and insulting.
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@nightprowler6336 I'm not so sure about that, while it is true that a christian society had more morals, more self restraint, was more negative ethnocentric, had higher birthrates, stronger sense of community, it also inspired the pathways to terrible wars, very nationalistic and self destructive behavior which ended up becoming the downfall of Europe to begin with.
Furthermore, the ironically aspect of this decline is that after ww2 Europe was divided between the godless and atheist east in the USSR and the capitalistic, christian west by the USA, what's ironic is that western Europe is more atheistic today than eastern europe, yet at the same time western Europe is richer, more technologically advanced yet has equal or less worse demografic crisis compared to the east and Russia.
what to me is at the core of European decline is more to do with americanism and a lack of a proper enemy to bind these nations together, along with the changes with technology, globalism and the nature of society, the ironic part of your comment is also that many christian groups in Europe and christian political groups are in favor of all the things which have brought about our decline, just look at the behavior of the current pope.
I do think some form of ideology or religion has to take the place of the current decline society we see but I doubt it will be christianity, islam or any of the old religions that are in decline and can't lead into the future, it's going to have to be something else or a new way from the older religions, like idk a christianity focused on recreating a eden on earth with technology, I could see that happening.
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blaming Iran for every ill in the world, totaly not warmonger
sanctions put on iran that kills innocent civilians because the USA and esspecialy israel dont want economic competition, totaly normal
blaming iran for an ambasy attack by local iraq's, totaly justifies attacking the highest ranked general in Iran, totaly not an act of war
getting out of the Iran deal that everyone signed on except the USA and israel, totaly not out of self intrest.
I hope Trump can keep the USA out of war, you had your fun, got a last little kill before you left the country to implode with more sanctions, bravo don't start any wars, though anyone who has been paying attention can see that Trump is probably going to attack Iran in his second term, I hope im wrong but it's almost comical how the USA and most of it's citizens think they are the ''heroes'' and are so ''brave'' and ''free'' because they assasinated someone with a bomb, this is the hight of what you consider a victory? ohhh how the mighty have fallen.
the left will never do anything good these days it seems but Trump is not making himself look good despite the left's best attempt to discredit themselves.
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@hopeintruth5119 I don't consider myself a racist, I consider myself just sane and wanting to support my own self interest, I have no problems with other people's if they intergrate and become part of the majority, to me that's just pragmatic not racist.
unless you think racism is being pragmatic, I don't quite see it that way but if that's how you view it then that's how you view it, in that case lots of things become racist without it actually being racist.
not supporting minority victimhood complex becomes racist, defending cultural identity becomes racist, human rights become racist, nationalism becomes racist, having a strong military becomes racist, family values becomes racist, so on and so forth, so I reject this myth of racism and simply view it as nationalistic pragmatism, if people aren't usefull or pose a threat to society, wanting them removed or reduce in presence is not racism, it's just self interest and I''m much more focused on our own mistakes and rejecting people of my own ethnic group for supporting outsider groups that cause problems, so would that then make me racist towards my own ethnic group? i just don't get this labeling stuff it makes no sense to me.
if people don't intergrate the country becomes unstable, you will get a balkanization of society and will end in civil wars and internal conflicts, not the basis of a stable, modern and technologically advanced society, in fact the USA seems to be in decline largely due to this conflict internally which they did not have before same with Europe.
in places like India with a lot of diversity of cultures and people's they are trying to create a single cultural and hemogenic society centered around hindu identity which will put them at odds with islam, you see the same going on in France now.
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@hopeintruth5119 Europe's history is different from the USA of course, the USA is a nation of Immigrants, those same claims are sometimes used for the british, german, french nations but they just aren't true, they exist as ethnostates with distinct histories for millenia and have only been realy influenced by culture and people's on the European continental or at best north african and middle asian cultures, we aren't immigrant nations and should not wish to become so, at best we could become a more pan-European civilization where we tolorate and view people and nations within Europe as equal or like us while considering those beyond it as either not us or as potential threats, this is a over simplification of course but at it's core that is what it comes down to and what's holding back organisations like the EU, they don't have that vision as much anymore, they don't codify it properly in their laws, they don't promote the things that would allow such a thing to grow which is why there is resentment and opposition towards the EU and national governments that do the same, both on the left and the right wing.
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@TosiakiS ohhhh no you don't understand, im not saying they can't get their hands on the software, that's the easy part, im just saying terrorists specifically won't be able to make much use of it because it's one thing to have the software, the other is the hardware and weapons systems to make effective use of it, the amount of time and know how you need to make it work is just not something terrorists will be bothered with, unless they are state supported perhaps?
terrorists can buy a shit ton of TNT, poison, chemical weapons, explosives, make IED's or just commit acts of suicide bombing for way cheaper.
now will that always remain the same? who knows? but I doubt terrorists will make much use of it, it's just not practical for their type of asymetrical warfare.
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@TosiakiS explosives are much simpler than most people think, in the west you need explosive experts to difuse bombs and mines safely and minimize damage, terrorists don't typically abide by those standards and are mostly focused on how to make things explode, IED's are quite simple to make, all you need is an explosive matterial which could be Nitrate or an incendiary material which could be gas, gasoline, alcohol, methonol most of which are easy to get, and a trigger and that's basically it.
some simple household chemicals can be used to syntheses some of those materials and you don't realy need an advanced chemisty degree to know how to make em, most of the know how is online and terrorist cells often copy blueprints and easy instruction manuals to spread information on how to make explosive.
now if your talking about the very big explosives, like say in rockets and military grade weapons, yeah those are bit harder to make since they use multiple layers for different types of rockets and use more highly explosive matterial which is both hard to find, make and turn into weapons, terrorists don't realy need those though, a simple pipebomb, some TNT and a car or IED gets the job done.
I studied chemistry for my laboratory degree, so I have some understanding on how explosives work.
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@dennisgichohi5392 because the west is not in africa, these are states that act and destabalize themselves, if you've ever been to or seen african countries you will see they have very different mindsets than western people, first off most don't believe in democracy, secondly most value their tribal identity over anything else, nepotism is everywhere in most african countries and third most of these nations don't have anything other to offer international trade besides resources, if they weren't being ''exploited'' then they would have zero investment at all, in fact some argue due to aid from the west, africa is less developed because they can't compete with free goods.
the irony is that before decolonisation this was not the case, tribal groups were kept in check, western investment flowed into these places and places that were the most exploited like the congo was during the reign of leopold the second who ruled it less like a colonie and more like his own personal kingdom where he could do whatever he liked, even the people at the time said ''yo dude chill the fuck out would you, your making us look bad''
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28:40 I don't think we are that far removed from it, it's basically the norm already for many cities, we got multiple wars, these shifts and chaotic events seem to excelerate, many nationalist parties started only 20 years ago, many of them started within 10 years and a great many of them have made gains in rapid time, the reaction by the left and goverments in general has been hard censorship, use of lawfare, subversion and outright inteligence services conducting psyops and inflitration tactics, these are not the reactions of a strong elite class with ferm control over the situation, these are desperate attempts by the elites to maintain power, which they have done.
the populist side also suffers from any long term vision and lack the ability to spread that vision, that's hard to do on a collective scale and many nationalist parties don't aid eachother where as the globalists elites have huge amounts of wealth, control over institutions and fight tooth and nail for every inch.
so what it comes down to, what breaks first? the control of the elites over institutions vs the reality of citizens, you can only ignore reality for so long till it becomes impossible and the chance for abolishing institutions to set up new ones becomes possible.
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@ytyt3922 it's weapons first came from Europe actual, then later on the USA, the whole concept of israel was drawn up by the zionist movement and the UN, it's basicaly the last colonization project of the western world funded by the west for zionist fanatics, the very existence of it from the start is a declaration of war on the surounding region, not that it matters, might makes right is the law of the land, everywhere, what's worrysome is their nukes, their bio weapons, their acts of war, their assasinations, their influence on western nations and threat to world peace.
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@chitto4054 Iran has not invaded anyone for centuries, they had a coup by the USA, Iraq declared war on them (iraq got military funds from the USA, this was Sadam btw) which killed 1 million iranians, israel has assasinated scientists, soldiers, generals and has been threatning Iran since 1984, saying they have WMD's, just how the mossad lied about WMD'S in iraq when Sadam was no longer usefull for their goals.
I don't blame the iranian government and it's people for going for radical theocracy and calling israel and the USA the big and little Satan, once you see what they did to them, it makes a lot more sense.
They hate the USA because they killed their people, their children and their future, sanctions kills people, people seem to forget that for some reason.
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@ytyt3922 also I just mentioned that he gets censored from nearly all major platforms and payment processors, it's like you did not even read my response, you are very emotional, closed minded and immature.
I thought I anwsered your question then you went off incoherently into something els, saying "collonialism can't happen without a parent country" which is stupid because that's what zionism is, it's literaly the political movement to create a jewish state with jewish people in it, that's collonialism.
If you watched Ryan you would know how it came to be, how the UN basicaly gave them the land, how israel got the nuclear bomb, how the mossad works, he sould be far more well known he does good work, which explains why he gets censored so much.
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@user-to2jw7nb8v what does it matter if it's the biggest industry if that industry can't provide for the huge number of people that live there? I bet farming is a big part of north Korea's economy but that still means they have food shortages and famines which they get aid from the west from to not starve to death.
There are parts of Africa in terms of soil, enviroment and industry to support industrial scale farming and most of those places are in the southern parts of Africa, though even there some are dependent on fertilizer imports from the west and they can't grow enough food for the whole continent, also don't forget that most of Africa is very hot but not very humid except for certain parts, most of Africa are arid, supporting safe drinking water while also providing enough food is difficult, let alone if climate change continues, pretending like they are food secured is going to backfire very badly, however with the right investments and proper farming technieks, along side GMO's and industrial farming they might be able to better sustain themselves long term.
As for Europe, we export a lot of food and farming tools to the rest of the world, we are very food secured but import a lot of exotic foods and sweets which yes are farmed in parts of Africa but they are mostly luxury goods, we also export a lot of dairy and animal products, unless your talking about very small states in western Europe or the colder climates in northern Europe we produce more than enough to sustain ourselfs and if need be we could switch to more productive methodes to overproduce more than we currently do, most of Africa can't do that, same for the middle-east.
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@ziyaulansari2759 actually many colonial powers did do all that, there is a good book written about this the victoria falls railway, also other books that go into details of different colonial policies, India largely exists today because they have british parlement system, many of it's highest elites before and during collonialism were western educated, including gandi.
South Africa is the wealthiest nation in Africa and after decolonisation many regions started to go back into poverty and dictatorships.
If you do want to adress real colonial abuse, the Belgium Congo was the worst one, then followed by the ottoman slave trade in north Africa, you even have some african political parties today who's main platform is "drive out the Chinese, bring back the Europeans" and France has the most military presence in Africa today, not by force but asked to by some of the african governments.
There are nations with some discontent towards Europeans most of them are marxists and those who envy some of the richer white africans, who btw provide and created a lot of wealth for the locals, don't believe me? Ask how Zimbabwe is doing.
Honestly your views are largely a myth, kept alive through misinformation about history and censorship online, it's not all sunshine and rainbows but it's also not doom and gloom, you should get a more realistic view about history.
Now to check if YouTube censored this comment, it does not like people poking holes in their leftwing propaganda narrative.
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@george4281 western europe was already the richest place before colonialism, many african countries are dependent on fertilizer from western Europe, places like Zimbawe used to be the breadbasket of Africa untill Mugabe and his commies started to deport and take land from white farmers who farmed on an industrial scale.
african governments are very corrupt and often steal from foreign aid, there is no negative coverage of african nations and people get punished if they do report on it.
western countries are the places people from africa, the middle east, south america or asia flee to because they know they have a better life there, western nations buy luxury goods from african nations as in rare resources, diamonds, copper, cash crops like Cacoa or Sugar, no african nation has a major manifacturing or scientific institutions.
you don't know anything about geo-politics or history, now time to see if youtube auto deletes this comment for being hard truths.
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@theliato3809 I disagree, you can basically divide periodes of US-EU relations as thus
1. ww1 + ww2 era
2. coldwar era
3. post cold war era
in part 1 there was a moment of equal footing to a degree, Europe was the center and the USA was a sleeping giant, after ww2 this relationship changed with a focus on the USA, decolonisation and reconstruction of Europe.
in part 2 the cold war era was focused on rebuilding Europe, controling the spread of communism and the USSR and the creation of NATO, at this point the USA was more advanced, ahead and had more people while Europe stagnated and slowly recovered.
in part 3 after the cold war we see an expansion of NATO and with that came also an expansion of the EU, i remember the early 2000s as a periode of optimism and sense of pan-European identity slowly being formed, most books about a united Europe started to appear in this periode and we got the Euro and other changes that made the EU parlement more representative to it's citizens, lots of changes.
though at this point we also started to see more of a shift and divide between the USA and Europe, due to refugees, wars, terrorisme and the rise of a more modern Russia that still packed a punch, we are here now and we are somewhat at a stalemate and uncertain of where to go now, the USA is still far ahead of us but also becoming more hostile while China has catched up and appears more on equal footing to the USA or at least getting there.
I think Europe stands at the crossroads of where to go to now, collapse, unifying, war with Russia or friendship, conflict with China or perhaps being neutral and being influenced by both the USA and China, idk, We understand we are not on equal footing and many want to change that to be more equal but to do that would mean to oppose the USA on subjects like Russia, while also breaking certain treaties to create and use a potential pan-european army, the USA for the most part does not seem to want this but might be forced to bend due to presure from China which is a competitor and threat to both the USA and Europe.
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BB Wolf please don't play the Leftist troll game, it's what they want/need.
They can't debate or use logic so they resort to slander, defaming, hit pieces, trolls, insults, dehumanzing language, racism (actually racism not the extreem tolorance of whites towards non-whites, despite their racism towards whites) to get people banned and to create conflict.
Don't give them any kind of victory, they are weak and we are strong, they scheme and plot while we rally in the open, they demand loss of rights and guns, don't play their game.
We have already won, god bless Donald Trump, best wishes from Europe.
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Randolph Carter yeah back when I was a kid we only had like a few hundred islamic morrocans, now they are millions, overtaken my home town, having their own political party and generaly being the most imbred, discusting, anti social little cockroaches you can imagine.
On the plus side all of this hardens you, to the point where I realy don't care if they live or die, dying just tend to be messy but if someone els were to do it, like China, that's a different story.
Islamic states of America will protect their true allies, while demonizing the Chinese for throwing 3 million into camps, happy camps of course.
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@TrumpyBear_Armageddon I'm a bit confused with your argument, im not talking about how were they defeated and I even agree that most of the work was done through disease and due to inability to form long term forms of government due to a lack of technology and cultural differences, the European settlers were just far beyond what they could get together, though it should be said that many of them did form confederate alliances that gave the early american settlers a hard time but the american settlers could always get more immigrants, their populations would always keep growing and would continue pushing west, the best they could hope for would be some power taking pitty on them or use them as puppet state/people for their own benefits, the French did this a lot as well as the British to a lesser extend.
the issue now of self determination is of little significance to the native americans, their numbers are so low and they still don't have a single identity, language or culture that could ever hope to be an independent nation, let alone a nation that could carve it's own state within the USA, so their struggle is pretty much a lost cause.
it's pretty sad though and it did not need to be like this.
self determination is a funny concept because some people/nations have it while not being free as a people, other nations are puppets by stronger powers and are more wealthy and more free, some nations give up some forms of self determination but in the process get more power and influence than they would have otherwise, it's an idealistic idea that every people deserves a state but in reality it's mostly artifical and true power still comes through the barrel of a gun, no matter which way you slice it, it's inevitable.
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I don't think even if Russia invaded they would try and reach a federal Ukraine for it's regions, simply because that would not adress the underlying issues with the people and Moskau, eastern Ukraine would probably love it since most of the people there are pro Russian to some degree or more, western Ukraine however is much more pro western and anti Russian, any such peace would create a very unstable situation in which Ukraine would likely become more divided and a civil war within it's borders becomes even more intense, there just is no way Russia is going to get an easy and quick victory, even if they win it's going to bleed them dry, sanctions will hurt, diplomatic relations will be lower than ever, constant acts of sabotage and terrorism would be the norm, it would be very bad for Russia and Ukraine.
A more realistic situation would be for Russia to lay claim on eastern Ukraine and make them do what they did with Cremea and act with a "legit" refurendum, allowing Russia to annex eastern Ukraine and undermining the legitimacy of the Ukrainian government and it's people.
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@tomasvrabec1845 in the case of the USA, it is very much a bad thing since it had lead to certain dividing and polorizing ideologies being formed, which is tearing apart the fabric of american life, rule of law, culture and identity, it's not even so much about people being of a different color or background but the lack of intergration, assimulation and americanisation of people coming to the USA and this is by design by the government and policies enforced by the government, the USA has to realy force adoption of american values on people somehow and reduce immigration to a certain degree if it wants to remain stable.
as for Europe, Europe is much worse and the very idea of assimulation is a rather new and imported american value which does not realy match these cultures.
lets try and wind back time a little, Europe the continent that went into multiple world wars over nationalism and different ethnic groups fighting for their national right to rule, are now allowing million of people to come from all over the world, to settle and change the nature of those countries, who thinks this is going to have a good ending? if the EU can't even agree for the most part on policies made between Europeans, how bad are things going to be once migrant populations settle in for multiple generations? it's just silly to think this is going to work.
what's likely going to happen is a series of stagnating and humiliating decline of european nations as well as doubts in it's institutions and a disinterested USA is going to lead to major unstable governments, add to it financial crisis and humanitarian and refugee crisis that makes 2015 look like a joke and you will likely see the rise of extreme political parties, both left and right with radical solutions.
it's not pretty or great but it's very predictable to expect that to happen, the best outcome I see going forward is new technologies and rise in wealth in 3rd world countries, limits waves of migrants, and reverses some migrant waves and a more sane and revival of older nationalist and pan-european nationalist ideas will rise and hopefully restore some order and sense of self in a civilized manner, otherwise well we know how nasty history can be, now imagine that with robots and nukes just to add to the spice.
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@unnanointedonesufi that's silly, esspecially in this age, nationalism is different for each country around the world, some forms of nationalism is against tyrany from an oppresive government, others are expressed with a focus on individual rights and a strong sense of community and connection to the land, family, culture, religion and identity.
the only thing that would lead to war within Europe right now, is if Russia invades eastern Europe, at that point you would want nationalists willing to fight to defend the nation.
likewise the EU is not against nationalism, in fact it is nationalistic to a degree but it's rules, policies and mechanism for rule does not represent the majority of the people and so you have a democratic, nationalistic and populistic backlash, ironically the fact that those people are often oppressed, makes nationalism stronger and more radical.
if the EU wants to curb the potential of nationalism leading to war of any kind be it civil or foreign, then it needs to act and be seen as legitimate in fixing and having solid long term policies that people can believe in and not sow doubt, distrust and resentment, because those things actually lead to nationalism and so called ''far right'' politics.
how did fascism and national socialism and communism rise to power? because a lack of unity with the people, a loss of legitimacy and a rising sense of dispear and resentment which then empowers authoritarian leaders with the promise of ''returning to the good old days and making it better than ever''
even if the EU fell apart their main enemies would likely not be eachother but more so minority groups and factions they consider their enemies, mostly the elites, corporations and those deemed to be hostile forces for way of life and/or existence.
as someone who knows a lot of nationalists, non of them want to wage war between other europeans but almost all of them hate the current EU leadership, the heads of state, corporations, the media and outsiders of their native countries.
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@af8828 you just sayd Bernie Sanders who is an open socialist, many of the green parties in Europe are socialists, often we call them water melons because they are green on the outside but red on the inside.
I don't understand why you think the western nations are more to blame when India, China polute the environment more then all of the western world combined, Partly that's due to enviromentalist policies in the west and lack of those policies in asia.
Idk if you know your history of enviromentalism but the nazi's were enviromentalists and if you want a global effort or want other nations like say Brazil, developing nations like in Africa to stop contributing to climate change you would have to force them to stop having so many kids, block their economic growth and force enviromentalist policies on them, how are you going to do that without use of force and authoritarianism?
Idk why you are being so illogical, naive and judgmental for what I see as a logical observation based on historic and objective facts of politics and human nature, seems rather easy to understand.
Idk seems like you just hate the western world while pretending to care about the environment.
I used to be on the leftwing, even somewhat of a progressive and this lack of objective argumentation and emotional arguing is why I left the leftwing and became more rightwing and nationalistic, I don't want imperialism but how are you going to enforce your ideas without use of force? People are just going to vote for the environment? On a global scale? You realy believe that's realistic?
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@af8828 you seem to believe most of humanity even the democratic ones are rational as a standard which I no longer believe is true, people act in their own self intrest, their group intrest or an outgroup intrest, what's best for say the enviroment might mean is a bad outcome for you personaly, it might mean that such policies are bad for other outgroup people.
an example perhaps though you might disagree with it.
here in the netherlands we have an enviromentalist party multiple actualy but il focus on the party Groenlinks for now, one of their spokesmen has sayd that they would abandon treating older people because they aren't worth the investment of time, thus the older demografics have an insentive to not vote for such a party, we have another party called DENK which is a pro migrant, pro islam, pro Turkish almost 5th collum party here that only exists due to waves of migrants, their culture and our culture is diffrent and this is not just culturaly.
thus as a result people don't vote for what's best for the enviroment but on issues that effect them the most, therefor your never going to get all the enviromentalist policies even if you do have the right scientific data, it's just not how democracies work.
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@af8828 nationalism historically has been the foundation of every civilized nation in the world, every civilization in human history had a identity, in the past this was based on religion and tribalism, nationalism abolished those primative concepts or absorbed them into their national identity, which allowed some sense of unity and stability, no it's not perfect nothing is but if you don't have a baseline, if you have no history, you have no future and can't defend your own intrests because you will become victim to those that do.
in fact organisations like the EU are suppose to create a sense of pan-nationalism, to bind all the national states together, they want to be like the USA which is a superpower because of it's national unity.
nationalism is civilization, pan-nationalism is the attempt at greater civilization.
in order for something to be, means other things can't be it, otherwise it would cease to exist.
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@af8828 your lack of an education on colonial history and your anti white racists views, combined with your childish, immature additude towards real problems is exactly why I left the leftwing.
I think it's a shame how so many of you are so convinced of some supposed evils of the past that you would force your lack of mature additude on younger generations, they won't be greatfull or tolorant of such views.
In fact gen Z is becoming the most conservative generation in decades and nationalist parties are rising all over Europe, even in EU parlement.
I'm not a ism or whatever childish name calling you want to commit yourself to, to avoid asking real, mature questions about globalism, enviromentalism and nationalism.
I love my country, I love my and all the people's of Europe who have suffered under the boot of authoritarian globalism and state enforced mass migration, standing up for your people, promoting the values of your nation, exposing those who wish to do harm to your Ideals while they censor you, bully you, intimidate you, hurt or even try to kill you is the meaning of bravery.
I'm a man and you are a child in my view, the world would be a lot beter if you outgrew this childish, self loating and racist additude you have, the rest of the world already has.
I pitty you, have a nice day.
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The only thing I find impressive of the USA is that it's a collonial power, that annex most of it's land through war and annexation, ethnically cleansed the natives and had a white pan-european identity basicaly, kicked out any European powers, then went to war in ww1 and ww2 basicaly dicking around in countries they asked before not to dick around in their sphere of influence and then magically convinced those same nations that they sould feel bad for collonialism and that they are the great evils of history, while also gaining their superpower status by absorbing refugies and migrants from Europe.
Well times change and now the USA likes to pretend it's a mono power when it's not, china, Russia and the EU influence the world as much as the USA does, only diffrence is the USA can hide from their wars and pretend to defend trade routes, while bombing 3rd world nations, how very impressive, cold wars over buddy.
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@oremfrien ''Lack of confidence in institutions existed before Trump; lack of confidence in voting being free and fair did not exist before Trump. He is responsible for his voter base's distrust of voting. Their belief, notwithstanding how strongly they feel it, is not based on evidence. It's based on a lie that has been repeated.''
wrong, this subject has come on multiple times in almost every election since bush vs al gore at least, the reason in sprung up in 2020 was not simply due to Trump but the actual fact that some of the states changed voter laws in april of 2020 due to the corona virus, expanding mail in voting and lowering standards for admition, in 2020 there was a decline in declining votes counted due to mail in voting errors, how this happened is unknown but it is often mentioned as evidence of vote rigging though it's not that big of a deal, just an observation.
there is also the issue of counties having absurdly high votes for joe biden in democratically controle counties while the rest of the counties were mostly red, there has been very little update on this and no denial or rejection of the mail in votes coming in at 4 am as cited by most Trump supporters, either this did not happen and it's all nonsense or it was simply thrown under the rug and ignored by all mainstream media platforms which also happened to not mention the Hunter Biden laptop scandal which if people were informed would have changed their vote, think some figures are in the 1/8 voters in some states would have changed their vote, this paints the picture as we have seen for the last 4 years that the media is working with politicians and big tech to influence the election against Trump and in favor of Joe Biden which is why so many don't listen to the media to begin with.
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@oremfrien ''Because the voter ID laws are enforced without providing a free ID for all legal voters, this is effectively a poll tax on the urban poor.''
I don't understand this issue quite well, perhaps you can clear it up for me. In the Netherlands we also have voter ID's which cost about 100-120 Euro's and need to be replaced once every 10 years I believe, these are needed for everyone to vote, though our election system works in a way that allows expired ID cards below 5 years expiration date to still be allowed, the issue of ''minorities or poor people not being able to afford this'' is unknown to me and never seen as a legitimate issue in the Netherlands, now perhaps the Netherlands has more equality in terms of income to render this a mute point, im not sure but if you can't afford an ID card how do you buy alcohol? how do you have a citizen's ID number? how do you get a drivers licence? how do police check who you are if they pull you over?
if you are so poor you can't buy an ID card once every 10 years (assuming it's the same time frame as ours) then how are you going to be able to vote properly if you have to live day by day? such a voting block would be easily bribed or manipulated, now if you favored a democratic government system then yes, this might be in your interest to allow but the USA is a republic, so is the very nature of it's government not to allow people who can afford the minimum costs needed to be a citizen to be allowed to vote not in the US constitutional interests? I know this might sound harsh but from an outsider perspective like mine this whole concept seems alien, esspecialy the narrative some people have of it being racist when it's at best against just the poor regardless of color.
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@oremfrien ''other laws in the bundle Georgia passed show animus towards the voting rights of the urban poor, such as closing down voting stations in highly populous districts, causing crowding at the remaining voting stations, and criminalizing people from providing water to voters waiting in long lines to vote – lines effectively created by removing voting stations. It reads to me as being much more concerned with limiting voter access to the polls than trying to prevent voter fraud.''
how many voting stations do you have? I assume it differs per county or city district but here it's pretty much everywhere, schools, gyms, transportation zones like train stations, government buildings, if you go in at rush hour, you might have to wait in line for like 5-10 min but that's it, if it takes hours then something is very wrong in voting stations, either there is only 1 station for 2 million people or you have to drive 2 hours to get to one in the rural area's, again I have no frame of referrence for this, it seems bizzar, then again the USA is rather large, a solution to this would be to have more days to cast votes before the actual counting begins.
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@sahhaf1234 you actualy have two versions of collonialism, biological colonization and resource extraction based colonization, in the later case you are correct and the institutions, roads and education system is largely focused on exclusion, extraction of resources and use of cheap labor (often slaves), worst examples of this was in south america and the Congo.
Biological collonialism means having people settle and replace the native population, creating a new society, a new people or a mix of native and non-native settler collonies, the USA is the best example of this, which basicaly through war and colonization still rule the country they have today because they annexed through war and replaced the native population, likewise to a degree this is currently happening in the west and esspecialy Europe which will inevitably lead to the same kind of reactions as the natives did to the USA, though that's more speculation on my part.
Europe is actualy very densly populated and there is a need to expand but more economically then traditionally, we actualy want to trade more with eastern Europe and Russia but the USA knows they can't allow that long term so they have to keep conflicts going, refugees are a big problem for the west, few people understand the military industrial complex but it's mostly the USA, France and the UK doing that.
We sould do more for the refugees but to do that we first need to be able to stand up to the USA, which we currently Just can't do.
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@sahhaf1234 well yes and no, most Europeans are aware of the USA's involvement in the middle-east and some are aware that the major nations, aka UK, France and to a lesser degree Russia, Italy and Germany have a hand in the development there, it's largely been a US led effort so it's easy to just focus on the USA and not see the influence we had in the matter.
That being sayd we suffered the most compared to the USA from the fallout of these wars but are unable due to NATO the current issues with Turkey and Russia to deal with the matter effectively, we just don't have the military, the willpower or the influence to change course set by bigger players.
The refugees have been largely focused on Turkey, Jordan, Italy and Greece and for a long time the EU had resorted to allowing refugees to come to Europe by influence from Merkel, however after the brexit vote which was largely fueled by fears of migrants and refugees they are now (slowly) realising they need a more direct and militaristic solution to the conflict and the US in these regions.
As for why they attacked iraq, Libya, Syria and others is difficult to say, some say the military industrial complex, others to counter Russia, other because of israeli influence through APAC and other lobbies including the saudi lobby, perhaps a combination of all of them? Idk for sure anymore.
As for the USA, it's change a lot from it's roots and became very corrupt through banking and corporate power, some of which now have more power then most western nations, which is what fuels anti americanism and anti globalism around the world, that's why you had Donald Trump to begin with he presented himself as an outsider and it got voters, it won't be the first time and seeing their current state, it would not surpise me if they somehow make it so he can run again in 4 years, breaking the 2 limit termship rule in the USA or just becomes a new political dynasty like the bushes and the Clintons.
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@SilvesterBathroomStallone that's pretty interesting because from what I've seen that type of behavior is most common with people either suffering from depression, autism, lacking social skills and attractiveness.
The acting out towards woman, feeling resentfull, anger at both their rejection from woman and experiences of societal gender rolls, the ironic thing is these types of behaviors are extremely common in feminist movements, black activist groups, fundamentalist islamic groups, certain types of men going their own way type of behavior.
But it's realy only incels that get hated on freely, so it becomes a self premoting cycle, person gets rejected by woman (not just once, constantly) abandoned by society, told to man up, unable to do so either at school, personal life, family, media, becomes resentfull, needs to express that resentment and despise woman for their privilaged roll in western society, finds other men who experienced the same thing, fuel eachothers resentment and frustration as a means of finding some form of community and attention, society reacts to their existence and community, labels them hatefull, spitefull, losers and what not, gets more resentment and repeat.
Now I understand that for these people to change they need to both change their outlook but also find some path of redemption and frankly non exist in society, the churches are empty, family structures have collapsed, the media is a shitshow, governments are abusive and stupid, western society is dominated by feminist movements that actually want more wealth and privilages towards woman (you got a woman quota for top end jobs in the Netherlands forced through by the government for example) with ironically less responsability for either their potential husbands, children and society.
It's all just such a mess right now and it's also worrysome because these types of men and this type of society is ripe for political, ideological or religeus extremism.
To me incels are just another symptom of a deranged and disfunctional society and I pitty them.
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I think stxy is kinda dishonest here, the argument being made is that the USA became rich and powerfull under a libertarian model, this does not add up if you look at the historical and ideological basis of the USA as a Nation/Union.
is wagin war to annex other nations something a libertarian would do? if so libertarianism is not much diffrent from fascism then, you can't claim your nations became powerfull because of libertarianism when it's main ideology for a very long time in it's early history was Manifest destiny, waging war on mexico, canada, annexing hawai through military force, Island hopping, the Philipeans, the USA is largely an empire that acts under the illusion of libertarianism.
the reason the USA became powerfull is the combination of the most cruel elements of national socialism and the most free market based model of capitalism, did it make you powerfull? look around you but it would be nice if the USA owned up to it's own history and stopped this bullshit of ''libertarianism''
hell where the hell do you think Hitler got his idea's of lebensraum from?
I know americans don't like to be reminded of their history and they don't like to admit that they as a people and as a nation have largely given up on the idea of the USA as a nation to exist, the constitution has been eroded for decades and was largely ignored when it did not suit their goals.
other nations will react to this as we see in the world today.
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@jeffdemongo5678 your whole ideology is one based around taking people's freedoms away, lowering wages, destroying communities and eradicating traditional cultures.
capitalism is not imperialism but ironically even imperialism is not as destructive as communism or socialism, you can see the historical records and compare it to the deathcount and poverty caused by communism and socialism, many nations today still barely function as modern nation states simply due to socialism or a history of communist policies.
I've see this defence mechanism by communist apologists so much, it's always the same, hyperbolic emotional ranting, followed by denial of warcrimes and policies which led to the deaths of millions, probably near a billion deaths at the end of the century if not more.
I don't expect you to change because religieus fanatics tend to have to change on their own or die fighting for their dogmatic believe, I've seen it all, the commies are always violent oppressors and immoral people, all we can do is attempt to inform them and hopefully keep them out of public education, the media and the military.
I rather have more capitalism, that's truly hard to get, not the easy, false promise that communism offers, it never delivers anything good.
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@jeffdemongo5678 it's more of a religion than a ideology or economic system, it can't produce things like in economics and is not an ideology that promotes individual or collective improvement or meritocratic values, it's just accumiliation of wealth for the state, theft of workers and citizens, authoritarian controle over society both in culture, law and economic freedom.
the true irony is that even the so called ''socialist democracies'' like in northern europe are realy hyper capitalistic with high taxes and wellfare programs, not socialism, the swedish government tried that once, same results as everywhere else, luck for them they got out before the next dictatorship came to be, unless countries in africa, south america and asia.
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@jeffdemongo5678 im saying your ideology is magical thinking, that it has been objectively proven not to work and has failed many times in many different forms, yet you like all communists continue to pretend like communism/socialism is a legit economic policy or ideology, while in reality it's more like a religion, fundamentalist religion, it's blind faith and violent radicalism, combined with magical thinking that "this time it will be different!"
I know exactly how your mind works because it's the mindset of a "true believer" and you (like a religeus person) will continue to make excuses, not adress all the times communism has failed and instead will pretend like I don't know what im talking about, focusing on a mundane little detail or pretend like pretending capitalism is evil is somehow evidence that communism and socialism is somehow good.
But lets go into specifics and see how you will react? tell me what was the Holodomor? Is aggrarian communism like in combodia true communism? Has the prediction of karl marx that communism will rise from wealthy capitalist states correct or did it happen elsewhere? Do nations that call themselves communist, follow communistic policies of collectivisation and take controle of key industries with the specific purpose of distribution of wealth like karl marx said is the path to communism, true communism?
Good luck, im sure you won't try and change the subject or will start talking about the evils of capitalism because you are a sane individual and not a fanatical ideolog, right?
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@jeffdemongo5678 like a religeus fundamentalist.
Good luck making those golags and killing more millions for your Utopia hellhole, meanwhile the actual workers of the world will try and return to capitalism and reject your ideology of exploitation.
You are literally spreading propaganda and brainwashed and don't know anything about modern economics, that's basicaly the only way communists continue to exist, by avoiding basic economics and trying to subvert institutions to promote communism.
The USA is not even that pro capitalism anymore and the only propaganda that's being produced today is anti capitalist propaganda by communists and corporations, you live in a fantasy and are promoting an ideology that's a danger to society.
The irony is that it's better to have a dictatorship with capitalism like in Chille than a socialist state like Venezuela, even with loads of oil the people continue to live in poverty and starve only due to socialism and no the USA did not sanction them that caused that, if you want to look for the effects of US sanctions when it realy hurts try Iraq after the first golf war.
Socialism is evil and has to be fought the best way to right it is by showing the superiority of capitalism to produce wealth and prosperity which it already has, all you can do is burn all the history books, silence the people and send the army to do your dirty work to make everyone poor again, it might have worked in the 20th century but today most people know better, the only people who continue to promote it are moronic old socialists and soy latte sipping starbucks marxists.
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@ATD1990 except in many cases we don't have a choice, many people are born with disabilities or problems and god is silent to their problems, no path of redemption or liberation exists.
Do we even have free will? When we are governed by chemicals in our brains, when we need food to survive, when we wage wars or behave in cruel ways against all, aren't we just animals that just learned how to make guns and bombs, competiting for resources, power, money and fame?
I can't find the will to believe in a god, because there is nothing divine or special about humanity, it's all just a circle of life, death and rebirth and we can't change it, just be part of it.
Sometimes I wish I could believe in something like Christianity but I can't, I hope you can.
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@ac2722 it's not just in the EU, it's in China, Japan, the USA, all western or close to western nations level of development, even eastern europe which is more religieus has the same issues, it's a civilizational level collapse, the only thing we can do is endure it and try and find solutions as best we can, I for one am working my ass off so I can work on improving myself, try and get a house or at least some capital to invest and try and find a mate to raise a family with but it's very hard right now and the government is too focused on stupid things and elite leftwing agenda points than actually improving the lives of people and frankly most of society votes for these things or does not oppose leaders that focus on the bad policies, people need to suffer before they realise what they are doing is hurting themselves and the wider society.
I can't say what's best for you but raising a child as a single mother is very hard, woman should have a easier time finding a mate compared to men, though dating apps aren't very good, honestly I almost think it's a better idea to just go to church and try and find someone there.
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one thing I will say is people should be concerned about automation and losing their jobs to AI and it should not just be brushed aside as ''hahaha learn to code, bro'' this if taken to it's logical conclusion will have far reaching effects on society, capitalist systems and the very nature of society, political power, ideology, everything. it should be engaged with honestly and help shape a potential long term prospect for people to adapt to this new reality, if we can adopt these new technologies, intergrate them into the capitalistic system while also maintaining basic demands of the public and their limited ability to adapt to these changes, we could create a truly amazing future where most low skilled jobs are automated and people have the ability to specialize into new fields as well as people who can't to live a relatively comfortable life and those that do can reap the rewards from it as they should.
if however we mess this up (which we likely will because we are humans) it could create a really, really bad situation that either makes it a kind of cyberpunk dystopia but stupid or a totalitarian dystopia where people empower the wrong people to make things much worse, potentially both.
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@lordbuckethead9768 I know a lot about US history more than most Europeans or most americans, the USA has not been isolationist for a very long time and has both engaged and funded both sides in many a conflict or rise of new conflicts, the USA was already strongly involved in ww1 selling arms to the UK with civilian ship, got involved directly due to a telegram from a German diplomat which basicaly was wondering if Mexico could help out if USA got directly involved in ww1 (it was already selling arms and food to the UK long before this)
The USA was also strongly involved in ww2 and set itself up to be attacked by Japan with it's oil embargo, the USA is not an isolationist nation it was even involved in aggresive foreign policy and expansion both in north america, asia and Europe almost from it's creation.
The current world order is the US order, Globalization has been it's creed for a very long time, from an american citizen perspective it looks bad but from the perspective of the rich and corporate class as well as political elites things have never been better which also explains the wealth gap in the USA between rich and poor and the need for the USA to be involved with wars even if they don't pose any threat to the USA, the irony is the USA has wasted a huge amount of time, trust and resources in the middle-east while China grew rich in the background.
The EU does not really need the USA, the European nations are more than able to fund and keep their own militaries for defence, we done so for centuries, the current weakening is due to the USA world system and denial of European involvement in wars or military spending, if the USA wants to leave the rest of the world it could do so and all it's allies would need is a few years to make up the difference but it be a huge shock for the rest of the world "why would the USA give up it's super power status and major economic reach in the rest of the world to return to the illusion of isolationism?" Russia and China would be overjoyed as well as many European elites, in public they be disapointed but behind closed doors they cheer for the oppertunity to gain more power, though they might worry about other European powers causing conflicts it's not something that's really new.
Let the old world burn? More like the new world order burn the old world will be doing just fine.
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@Qrt45 I don't expect the middle east to be a bastion of love and freedom without the USA but without a doubt the actions of the USA made things much, much worse, if the USA just went in like it did in Iraq and overthrew the regime there and replaced it with a monarchy, a new dictatorships or even a silly democracy (silly as in silly trying to make a western style democracy in that region) then that would have been better than what they actually did do, which was put sanctions on the regime in charge of syria and fund terrorists groups in the region, all of them, they called them ''moderate rebels'' as well as the whole ''assad attacked his own people'' trope that was going around, this became the basis and breeding ground for ISIS which was basically the islamic version of the nazi's in our era, this would not have spiraled out of controle had the USA not given arms and funding to these groups, if the USA had left the situation alone Assad would probably have crushed the rebels or been defeated by one side or the other, by funding the terrorists it made the assad regime look like a force of stability and sanity in the region (he's still a cruel and ruthless dictator but one that has some respect for the rule of law and is a sane actor)
israel does complicate things and has acted very poorly as well in the region, though with the USA has also allowed Iran to get more influence in the region, again the USA has been funding terrorists and helping their enemies like Iran gain ground, that's not just bad that's the exact opposite of what the US had to do.
Saudi arabia and Israel aren't exactly enemies, Turkey is a relatively new player in the region and that's mostly due to the fallout from Syria with presure from the EU.
but how to move forward now? well for starters the USA has finally stopped (at least as far as I know) with funding terrorists groups in the region, it could also help with rebuilding the damage it helped cause with supporting the assad regime or not openly support the regime but give funds to help stabalize the region, the USA could also take some refugees from Turkey and house them somewhere (something Europe had to deal with since 2015 but the USA has done little to nothing to help, Trump at least stopped the funding of terrorists and attacked ISIS for the most part)
the middle east is a mess but it's made worse by the USA and it's agenda does not work to counter China, in fact China has grown powerfull while the USA was dicking around here, overal it's been a disaster for everyone, the USA, Europe and the middle-east.
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@stephenjenkins7971 the USA funded multiple groups, pretty much everyone, not sure why you think they only funded the SDF, most of the early weapons of ISIS were given to them by the USA or taken from other "moderate rebels" there were multiple scandals of warcrimes being commited by some of groups supported by the USA.
Assad did not start the syrian civil war, you can actually watch the timeline of multiple places during the arab spring and how they devolved.
The arab spring happened in multiple nations and some groups in Syria started protesting, those protests started turning violent and there were a number of terrorist attacks, at that point the assad regime started cracking down on the protests and terrorists, at this point most of the civilians had no major weapons or much organisation, then the USA started arming many of the rebels in the hope they would overthrow the assad regime, Obama even threatened to invade Syria, meanwhile groups from Iran as well as Iraq started pouring in to add fuel to the fire.
The reality is today (which is why the media does not report on it anymore) is that Assad is the only form of stability in the region, everyone else are either foreign fighters, proxy groups or islamic rebels, the civil war became a proxy war for Israeli, US, Turkish, Kurdish, islamic radical and Iranian interest, the only ally left of Assad is Russia and it started due to the USA's actions, it's funding of rebels and sanctions on Syria, sanctions are a tool of war which in this region can kill thousands, when the USA imposed sanctions on Iraq after the first golf war 500.000+ children starved to death, likewise it turned a minor rebellion into a civil war within a proxy war but somehow Assad is the one to blame? Not the super power, proxy groups or foreign governments getting involved? The dude ran Syria for decades without much opposition, with economic growth and some form of rule of law but suddenly he's the cause of everything going to shit? Not the rebels or USA? Im not buying it, the media Lies all the time as does the USA why should I trust their words over what I can see for myself to be the case?
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@crescent4996 I don't understand why you think the USA is footing the bill for it's military, it's by US design that it is the case, we aren't talking about third world nations here, the European nations are more than able to pay for their own militaries and would have some of the strongest in the world, matched only by the USA, Russia or China.
China is gonna China for sure but in a world where the USA is not the global hegemon does not mean China is going to dominate everyone, it would just be a multipolar world like it's been for centuries, the US hegomony is the rare case and the exception in history, most of history has been a multipolar world.
Soft power is very usefull but indeed hard power is more important in the long run, which is why many European nations and the EU are attempting to gain more of it.
Imagine if the USA left Europe, that would force the EU to become a federation much more quickly or be torn apart, if done so it would have the second biggest reserve currency (which it already is today) it would probably be richer than China and only slightly behind the USA, if it's military spending was close to 3-5% it would have the world's second biggest military budget in the world, the idea that Europe is somehow super weak and unable to influence or defend itself is a fantasy with no basis what so ever.
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@stephenjenkins7971 the USA does secret opperations, uses sanctions and picks which ever side to support long before any civil war starts and the USA has been giving weapons and arms to terrorist groups in the region as well as outside of it for years, the USA does this all the time, pick a nation, start looking for radicals there, send them arms and money to start causing chaos, government reacts to shut it down, use the media as propaganda to demonize the regime, put sanctions in place, economy collapses, causes more chaos, say that regime X has got to go and threaten to use troops or fund more rebel groups to do your fighting for you, in the case of Syria last minute the Obama regime backed down but kept funding the terrorists, only till Trump came along did things start to cool down and the media stopped reporting on it, there are still people who report on it but nothing like before, even though the situation has only improved slightly but no mention of Assad's regime, the people or the situation, you have to look for it to find any info and what you find is barely any real information.
There is a huge information gap between the media around the 1990s and early 2000s and today, even though technology and the internet should have made more information easier to find, the reality is the opposite, less information, more secrets, censorship and open propaganda networks both the west, China and Russia engage in.
Idk what sources you have, all my sources from the past few years have been censored and kicked off most platforms, I think only Caspian Report still does some reporting though little with Syria, Google is perhaps the most censored and all you get is reporting from CNN or other three letter networks not worth a damn and are deeply untrustworthy.
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@stephenjenkins7971 I really don´t understand how you think the world or NATO works, NATO is the USA and if a nation acts or has a government the USA does not like be it democratic, authoritarian or totalitarian it could just kick that country out of NATO and make justifications to justify attack it if it wanted to.
but on the issue of EU federalization, help me to understand why the USA would be in favor of it? if doing so makes the US alliance weaker and the presence of US bases uncertain? NATO command itself has always been picked by the USA and does not want EU to become more federal since that would mean a federal army which would mean less reason for NATO alliance existing but you say ''NATO is not part of the USA'' except the fact that NATO is leaders are picked by the USA, is mostly funded by the USA and opposes other nations from forming blocks to replace NATO so in what universe would the USA be in favor doing something that would limit it's ability to project power and maintain it's global alliance!?
btw just because the USA does not want further independence and federalization of the EU does not mean it can do anything against it, if one nation goes against US interest that nation would be isolated and crushed if all of the EU suddenly say ''yes lets make a proper federation'' the USA can't wage war or subvert the whole of Europe, while also being in conflict with Russia and China that would be really stupid.
this is the issue with NATO, NATO is from the cold war era and worked really well back then, after the collapse of the USSR, NATO has just kept expanding yet has not updated it's mission statement, after 2001 the alliance has mostly been about engaging in foreign wars in the middle east which has been a disaster for US credibility, that on top of the fallout of said wars and covert activity is what helps drive the push for further EU federalization, geopolitics are in action here with multiple conflicts of interests, the USA has not had a leader that is able or willing to change it's mission objective and structure or expand further to solidify it's legitimacy, instead the USA has actually gone behind the backs of many of it's core NATO members without discussing how that conflicts with member states national interest, case and point Australia and France submarine deal as an example.
for most members of NATO, NATO has ceased to be an alliance to protect against communism and the USSR and is now mostly a tool for US power projection and influence which is now waning due to the rise of China, energy conflicts with Russia and new economic interests in africa and the middle east mostly about oil, untill the USA resolves these issues and conflicts and makes a new concensus on it's mission goal which could easily replace the USSR with China (communist still in name) with economic support for nations hurt by China's policies, the Alliance could get a new fresh start and help come to a mutual understanding of long term EU goals and NATO, right now that does not exist and thus the cracks in the alliance are forming and conflicts within NATO are no longer out of the question.
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@stephenjenkins7971 again I don't understand how your worldview works, France after ww2 was not exactly the world power and even when France left NATO it was still open and talking with the USA that in case of a war with the USSR they would side with the USA, there was no reason for the USA to become engaged with France because France was not much of a threat, now if France became an ally of the USSR or started doing stuff in Africa or it's colonies that would most certainly get into indirect or direct conflict with the USA.
I don't see any difference between the concert of Europe before ww1 and the current era we live in, the only difference being that instead of one European power becoming dominant enough to dictate peace on their terms (currently done by the USA) we had the failed attempted peace by the league of nations which the USA did not back and thus it fell apart, the USA got involved in ww1, made sure nobody actually came to dominate it, then left and did a pikachu face when Germany and the USSR wanted to become the hegemon which again is now filled by the USA.
I don't really bother with make believe or childish illusions of propaganda or fake morality, nations act in their own self interest, just as the USA, China, Russia and EU are doing today and as they did in the past, same with the roman empire or the mongol empire, it's more about the nature of war and the nature of civilization that turn the wheel of history, the current moralistic idiots can very quickly become the nazi's of the future, it's all just pretend, same with the USA, the USA is powerfull because it expanded, commited what we would call warcrimes and the current world order is as fragile as it was before, no morality is going to punish nations that win the wars and write the history books .
the irony is that many of the founding members and people who made up the EU were actually former fascists and member of the national socialist party of germany and many of it's policies were actually on the agenda of Germany in ww1 and well as ww2 just less voluntary and more directly organised.
the USA could very easily become an enemy of Europe if say the EU federalizes, it would start small with minor conflicting issues, Russia could collapse and make the Chinese and EU willing to engage to ''bring peace and stabilty'' back which at that point would anger the USA or imagine of Russia became a democracies and wanted to join the EU? what if conflicts in the middle east and africa made the Europeans act more directly which to the USA could be seen as ''problematic'' the current era exists because the USA forces it to exist do to it's economy, it's industry and esspecially it's military, once one or more of these variables changes so does the behavour and national interest of the USA.
''the USA does not have friends, it has alliances that serve it's national interest'' same with China, same with Russia, same with the EU, thinking it's going to last forever or won't at some point lead to conflict is a great error of reading of history.
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@crescent4996 wars today are realy weird, there have been multiple proxy wars with semi legit democracies and the USA as well as others the funny thing is most often they don't declare war on other nations, instead they use sanctions and use allies to also put up sanctions while/or at the same time actually engaging in acts of war, coups, vote rigging, hacking, air raids, covert opperations and assasinations to get the desired outcome, most of Europe just follows the same line as the USA so there is little need to use such forces but without a doubt the USA would engage with such behavour if it's national interest is being threatened, many elites in Europe (not me) do want China to be the world power or at least the main power in Asia because they believe an alliance with them with or against the Russians is in their interest and in a way they are kinda right.
Imagine your some wackey EU politician who just wants power, that wants Europe to be one of the main dominant forces in the world, an Alliance with China makes perfect sense, the Chinese need markets, Russia has resources and you have modern weapons and technical know how, the Chinese aren't going to care about human rights violations, the Chinese system would give that type of Eurocrate immense power over society, the Chinese would not care about imperialism in Africa or the middle-east, the EU + Russia + China would have more than enough power and resources to take over all of the old world and change the status quo, of course some EU politicians imagine these things, some care about the people for sure but others just want the power same with the USA elites.
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@crescent4996 I've read a few articles that many leaders within Germany and France want to try and move towards an EU federalization by 2025, though it would probably take much longer, it's not impossible to happen since a great deal of Europeans want it for security reasons.
I've often compared the current EU to the USA under the articles of confederation (the laws within the EU are also called articles btw) back then the USA had the same issues the EU does today, lack of a unified voice, unrepresented populations, lack of proper tax and spend controles, more of a state by state identity than a real american identity, it took great leadership, vision and also a desire to expand that secured and created a true american identity that many americans still have to this day.
Europe is much the same, though much older, much more divided and with a lot more bloodshed in between but what makes it work is external forces that threaten them as a whole, that almost forces them to work together and understand that it's either eachother or the Russians/Chinese the USA does not really have sure presures, it could indeed become very isolationist and many of it's people would probably benefit from it, for a while... However history shows that isolationism tends to lead to decline, lucky for the USA they had already expanded so much so it's not really isolationism as much as claiming a mountain of gold as your own but with time isolationism would probably cause stagnation, Europe can't be isolationist it does not have that luxury thus it is much more focused on playing both sides, getting rich while waiting for a chance to justify a full EU Federation.
And about the wellfare state, the EU has many different types of wellfare, most of southern and eastern Europe don't have a large wellfare system, sweden has one but is also hyper capitalistic on top, Germany and France have large wellfare states but the people don't have giant big macs or are as unhealthy as many americans are and that has more to do with their culture and their governments, taken all together the collective wellfare systems probably look slightly better than the USA as a whole.
The USA also gets major power in trade due to it's military, it's the main reason the USA is the main reserve currency in the world.
The EU has to do more for sure but that has to go with a decline in the USA, one gives rise to the other, it's not that it's good or bad but it is what it is so we better make the best of it.
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@crescent4996 the birthrates are an issue but at the same time they also aren't, the economic models of just consumption = economic growth no longer seems to be work as it used to in the 19th and 20th century, much more is economic growth determined by having the right skills, property rights, technology and trade with other nations for vital resources.
Automation and AI is going to be the real drivers of economic growth, drones and AI could replace major parts of the military, the only thing really stopping these developments is lack of vision, political capital to promote such things, technical know how and moralistic arguments, in many ways the drive for more and more people regardless of skills is going to become a major drain and issue within politics, while quality and skills will be much more important.
I really hate China, it's government is a damn nightmare state but it pains me to say, the Chinese have a better long term goal and agenda compared to the west in general, the USA included.
That's why I kinda fear the EU is going to try and become more like China, it will kinda depend if the USA or EU at some point change to lead the way into this future, otherwise it will most likely be the Chinese that do it, China and South korea have invested more into these types of things than the USA or Europe have.
China is hated which will be their major issue but if they make themselves powerfull then others will just come to them.
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@crescent4996 I think Russia will at some point attack Ukraine and Europe, the Chinese-Russian alliance is not as strong as it seems, while I don't think it's likely it's still possible that European politicans might side with China against Russia, it sounds crazy but hear me out, Russia is kinda weak in terms of economy and political stability, China might backstab Russia and take it's eastern lands while EU tries to make a russian democracy or just get it into their sphere of influence, if relations with the USA then break down China becomes the only alliance possible, sorta like how Germany and USSR divided Poland and Baltics for mutual agreement pact and non aggresion, China would then be free to focus on the USA and Asia while the EU would be focused on Russia, Turkey and north africa.
It might sound insane and unlikely but stranger things have happened and regardless of right or wrong many Europeans and elites dislike the USA, it's unlikely but I still think the idea must be floating in the minds of some.
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Well yeah because your education is a joke, because it's run by leftists, you are an anti white racist so of course you don't like it when people expose your racism.
Trump has been slandered by the media non-stop since 2016 and he still won.
I sould not bother to comment because I know you don't care about facts or reason, just emotions and feels.
But here is a wake up call for you, your going to lose in 2020 and no amount of cheating, mass migration, anti white racism and leftist bullshit is going to change that.
Perhaps a leftwing nutjob with a sniper can get lucky or the CIA since Trump does not want endless wars.
I remember a time when the leftwing stood for the workers, the people and liberty, not racism, corporatism and endless wars.
Not to mention all the anti science claims abour gender and the authoritarian violence used by leftists towards white people and rightwingers.
But do continue, I used to be leftwing but you anti white racists showed me the way, why bother caring for other "races" if you hate white people so much? How is immigration not a threat to white people if you keep harrasing and killing us and pretending like it does not happen?
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if the USA just left tomorrow that would be a huge power vacuum and would probably lead to war with Russia that would want to expand into eastern Europe, the Europeans would probably rush to try and get their military production up to size but either it's not enough time to compete with Russia or it can barely hold off long enough for the rest of Europe to counter Russia, it would be a bloody war and people would hate the USA for not just abandoning them but doing so in a way that they could not prepare enough in time, perhaps you see limited nuclear strikes too.
however if the USA wanted to leave NATO and Europe, it could do so very easily in a very responsable way, there could be agreements of a slow but steady withdrawal from Europe to other parts of the world/back to the USA and the need for the European nations/EU to fill the void, if given say 5 years or more they could probably have their militaries up to the same level as the USA military bases provide today, the only thing they would be lacking is the army experience of their soldiers, these nations have enough wealth and manpower to deal with Russia if properly prepared, they aren't weak or poor, stagnating to a degree perhaps but not weak.
but the USA would be stupid to do this, NATO is a great benefit to US power projection, it ensures stable supply lines and logistic support as well as access to intelligence support for the whole region from the middle-east, to africa to central asia, giving that up without a fight would be bizzar from geo-political standpoint as well as a historical standpoint and would make the USA seem much weaker than it actually is.
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I don't have time to watch this in full but I expect it will talk about how Europe has low birthrates, lets in migrants and how they somehow want to copy the USA or how they are dependent on the USA for everything which has been a repeated theme with whatifalthist video's for a while now.
And much of this is actually not that accurate, low birthrates and migrants yes but Europe has been moving away from the USA for quite some time now and will continue to do so, culturally it's hard for americans to see native european culture, movies, songs and series but they exist and are quite popular but they are very local and hard for americans to understand.
Just because Europeans love eating a burger or pizza does not mean that is a sign of american hegemony, it just means they like burgers and pizza.
American movies and tv shows have been on the decline in quality and quanity for a while now and local series or UK remain a big chuck of entertainment, USA is the only global game in town because everyone speaks english as a second language.
as for the EU it's moving to become more and more of a federal state and is less inclined to trust or build on the USA which can change within each 4 year election cycle and is very polorized to say the least.
Europe has problems for sure but if you compare Europe to the problems in most of the middle-east, africa, India, south america, Russia or even China we are doing very well for ourselfs and trying to take steps to become better, the issue is that americans are safe from the fallout of their own actions, Europe is right next to hostile powers like Russia, problems in Africa Hit Europe first same with the middle-east and China has no human rights to worry about while we attempt to actually held them up (unlike the USA)
I would say Europe's biggest issue is that it has to implement full federalization of the EU and tackle these global issues that come to their shores from outside and they need to realise and fund a better more united military to match both the USA and Russia in order to maintain some kind of order as the US led world order slowly falls apart.
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@incarnation151 im not sure if that's accurate, I'm not an expert on han dynasty but at that time Chinese culture had already cemented itself for quite some time, the only matter that changed was who would end up ruling most of China, the Mogols were a brutal bunch if you resisted them but if you opened your gates for them and peacefully changed rulers they would be pretty mild, in fact Koblai khan the ruler of the Chinese part of the mongol empire, quickly adopted chinese customs and in essence became just another chinese dynasty with no real intention of destroying Chinese civilization.
Now go back to the communist take over, you just had the century of humiliation, the overthrow of the imperial system that lasted 6000+ years, you just had decades of warlord driven civil war and a brutal jappanese war that killed millions, then on top of all that you get a communist regime that tries it's best to uproot the whole of chinese culture, religion, history, causing the biggest famine known in human history, millions fled the country and when Mao died China was one of the poorest nations on the planet, it only took mild market reforms for China to become the second biggest economy in just a few decades and even now the seeds of the communist one child policy is haunting the Chinese nation still.
I just can't imagine anything worse for Chinese culture and history than the communist take over of the country, even today it's still not mended it's wounds, who even remembers the han dynasty anymore compared to that?
Though to be fair actions in the past have had long term effects for the far future, Alexander the Great, Tamurlain, Charlemaine dividing his kingdom between his kids, the Discovery of america, the list goes on and on.
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@studhusky3168 have you ever bought a car or a tv and randomly someone would come and decide you don't need wheels or don't need certain channels on your tv set anymore because "reasons"?
That's basicaly Blizzard, streaming and gaming companies in general, the product you buy is not your product, you don't own it, it's their product which they lend to you and even if you pay it can be taken away.
Complaining actualy works in most cases, that's how sjw's got so much power and influence in a lot of these places, also due to help from social media.
What I want is just the game that was promised to me but the company does not deliver the product I desire so me and others complain, if the company does not change I can vote with my wallet and buy something else but I can't get the product I want anywhere else, Blizzard has a Monopoly on the specific product, so all I can do is not have the product I want and Blizzard can't get my money and Blizzard can't/won't change either way.
But perhaps it's time to let the company die then, I rather have them just give me what I want though, it's not that hard.
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what pisses me off the most is I had the game years ago but I lost the cd and could not play it anymore, i wanted to buy it again but Blizzard had removed the old version and had only the beta that was only to be played if you pre-ordered the game, for over a year I had to wait untill i was able to even just play the game, wondering if the game would even be as good as I remembered it, i decided to pre-order it anyways just to see how the beta was.
and OMG! i had a patato pc back then and i still do today and back years ago i could play for hours and hours with relatively good framerate and smooth gameplay, loads of fun.
now?! i could barely log in, could barely move on the title screen, i wanted to play the game by settting the settings to the lowest levels, even then it was a giant mess, the game is unplayabled and I had hoped on release day they would fix the bugs or at least improved on it, hahahaha NO! still a giant mess, idk what's going on with Blizzard but it's insane that just bringing back old games from years ago could even be fucked up and they found a way! they found a fucking way.
Blizzard fix this shit! we want to pay for our games but you can't deliver even a simple remastered version.
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I sometimes go to the leftwing side of the argument, the academics, the intellectuals, the so called best of the best.
They are all hysterical, living in a paralel universe where Trump is somehow immoral, a fascist, an authoritarian, an idiot, a racist and incompetent, all his fans are either incompetent or only follow him out of desperation or being brainwashed (somehow)
It's so striking how their reality is just so disturbed and delusional, it's shocking how they can function believing this nonsense.
Im not american, im Dutch but people here and in most of Europe are even more delusional and hysterical and it's pathetic and sad to see.
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@IceGuadian that's the most mindboggling thing, the greens should be all about having nuclear power, it's much cleaner than coal, gets us off russian gas, produces so much power for the amount of space it takes, it does have some dangers for sure but there really is no risk of a chernoble disaster, esspecialy not with the new gen 3 and potential gen 4 models, all the disasters that did happen was due to human error not the model itself.
And yet the greens are most against nuclear energy, hell they say the AFD party is in "denial of climate change" but they are actually in favor of keeping nuclear power, while the greens open up coal plants because they shut down the nuclear power plants, it's beyond stupid, Germany is going in a very bad direction, meanwhile France produces 70+% of it's power from nuclear energy and has reached it's climate goals unlike Germany.
I can't stand the green parties, I hope they collapse.
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AI is most certainly going to change the world and put most people out of a job, more then AI restrictions we need laws based on profits and use of AI to be monitored to see compensation for society in loss in productivity, wealth creation and loss of controle of data, you can't trust the government with it or corporations, we need a firm third party to enforce influence and controle over what AI is used for, who profits from it and redistribute a certain degree of wealth if not letting the AI run free would result in the loss of freedom, wealth and agency.
the idea of free market capitalism works in a world of equal human beings judged by merritocratic means of selection in the market but with AI you can in essence create super human machines that don't tire, that can work for much longer and in ways that humans could never compete with, sometimes for a bargain of the cost, expecting humans to be able to compete with this, is expecting pigs to build a spaceship.
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8:22 starving people actually make for bad revolutionaries, revolutions mostly happen from within the upper and middle classes in society with only mild support from people from the bottom, elites have better organisational skills, they know the weaknesses of the system and most often they have some influence in the keys to power to overthrow the government.
When you look at China there really aren't that many forces you can rally around for revolution, the cops are corrupt, the CCP has all your data and social credit system keeps you in check, you can't suddenly move via public transport because you will be blocked from access because of "covid" there really is no force within China that could overthrow the government, except maybe the CCP itself.
A lower GDP, less young people to support the system and poorly paid cops, soldiers and government workers are a more likely indicator of potential revolution than signs of starvation, a CCP that tried to invade Taiwan and gets humiliated might also compound these pressures.
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It all realy depends on creating artifical gravity, everything else can be recreated to a large degree, temperature, food, water, medicine, resources, everything can be recreated or stored, everything except Gravity and without it, bones can't form properly, can't have sex, it's like having a fish from the Bottom of the sea come to the surface, it just falls apart.
You would have to create like a mini black hole to produce the gravity in a compact space ship for it to work.
Perhaps you could do it cheaper somehow but I'm no expert on artifical gravity.
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that's very naive, idealistic, utopian nonsense, look to the past people who were of no benefit to the tribe or group were banned and exilled from the society and most often died or did not reproduce as a result, this has been the norm since humans if not all life existed on this planet, only after the industrial revolution were we able to provide for most people and did we stop having natural selection and instead had artifical selection, this is what helps lead to genetic diseases as well as mental illness most of which are in the cities and urban centers.
humans are only worthy of what they can produce of value to other humans, the people that can't/won't produce anything are a burden, now that does not mean they should be removed or done away with but it's important to understand ''this thing is a burden we should try and produce more than this burden is burdening us and do so for the long term not just short term'' this could then lead to automation of key industries, a focus on technology and new forms of economics, new ideas of culture and identity within society and hopefully lead to a better outcome.
what we can't do is be bogged down by sentimental emotions or naive idealism (not specifically to you but to society in general) migrants can be a benefit but they are also a risk, raising children should be a primary concern of the government for the long term future, the elderly have to understand they are a burden on the youth and need to contribute more or be taken care of by their close family members, these aren't easy choices but we allowed them to fester and become worse due to inaction and naive idealism.
again we can provide for everyone if we wanted to but that means being willing to implement radical changes and understanding that not all people are equal or valued, the first step in solving a problem is realising there is one.
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@turdferguson3400 what are you talking about? Children are the literal future, elderly people can't produce, can't reproduce, have lived long lives already, there is no potential for growth anymore or new energy for society and raise costs for children and young adults that they can't have many children to make the future but somehow im naive for telling the truth?
I like how you call me an edgelord like that's some kind of high minded argument and not something teenagers and children would say about someone saying an unfortunate truth.
Technology is what leads to change in society, good and bad and gives humanity the tools to help, harm and manipulate their environment around them to their and others benefits, why should we not try and advance technology? The only people that want that are luddites and religieus fanatics, at best you can say we should be carefull with using new technology for the dangers it could bring but history shows those that don't advance get left behind and get crushed by those that do, so in many ways technology is nessisary for our very survival as groups, nations and as a species as a whole.
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@scotthalland yes the Chinese and east asian communities have a large group that votes for conservative values but the majority of 3rd world countries do not and these are the groups the leftists and progressives seek the most, protect the most and demand the most.
Your lame excuse of "they switch leftwing when the rightwing becomes racist" is a very childish and uneducated argument because it has no bases in reality and does not effect the migrant groups in any meaningfull way, they don't het lynched, they don't get terroized, they don't get robbed or slandered in the media, in fact your argument is the exact opposite of reality, whites face real racism, face terrorism, face abuse, humiliation and loss of wealth and wages and as a result of those conditions they become more racialy aware and more nativistic because not doing so just means more of the same.
You might not have noticed by the rightwing and those who oppose anti white racism (like me) face constant censorship, racism, anti white propaganda and can see the attempts by the leftwing to use authoritarian means like immigration to take controle and abuse society.
People swing to the leftwing when the leftwing and their media allies report fake news on supposed racist abuse by whited while whites face actual racism and you can just look at most posts on youtube by progressives and leftists they are some of the most genocidal, evil, racist and tyranical things you will ever read.
I talk to a lot of different people, alt-right, neo-nazi's, fascisten even commies and non of them reach the level of hatred and racism the progressives and leftist do on a dayle bases.
And I love them for it, a few years back they pretended to care about minorities or hide behind the illusion of "fighting the evil racists" now they don't even hide their racism anymore which makes white advocates, nativists and nationalists seem like the sane and rational people.
Racism is simply a term used by the elites to slander people's own self intrest, notice how they don't adress racism directed at whites.
The more people hold on to this childish Believe of "anti racism" or "racism bad" the more they actualy create and support real racists.
The left needs migrants to get votes because they have abandoned logic, reason and the people who made the country, all they have left now is violence and that's the main goal of immigration today, to promote violence, Division, us vs them mentality not the rightwing, the rightwing wants to go back to normality which inevitably means seeking to reverse the racist policies of the leftwing there is no way around that, deportation and assumilation, multiculturalism is tyrany always.
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Russia is a strange sort of colonial empire that has a core cultural and ethnic identity followed by a large land area of non russian people as their meat shield and now that Russian core is going into collapse on all fronts.
I can only speak for myself here but as someone who lives in the Netherlands, I imagined that Russia would slowly start to become more liberal, more western and would perhaps one day become more democratic or at the very, very least not warmongering against other nations for more land, people and resources, putting to rest the idea of a restored USSR.
Sadly I was naive to think that but when you look how bad things are going in Russia the last thing that anyone would do, would be to start a major war and do it so badly as they are doing it now, basically now, Russia has no bridge to try and cross into something else, it's stuck on this path that goes nowhere, the west can't just go back to the status quo, they can't fall back on the Chinese or Indians.
Russia is pretty much doomed in their current path, there is still a chance that they could get a ''minor'' collapse and simply have a smaller Russia with less people but with a people and leader that tries to take it into a new direction, while that's very unlikely and won't win over the west, it's either try and crawl back to where they were or face total collapse.
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here is a much easier and much more logical reason why civilization will collapse.
no more natural selection, due to technology, the industrial revolution we no longer have the same environmental presures to select for traits that help with survival, our society praises our ability to keep everyone alive but does not attempt to correct this mistake of no longer have natural selection as we did before.
unless humanity finds an artifical way of correcting this gap or returns to natural selection, civilization will collapse simply because people will be unable to maintain it's high trust society, it's machines, it's level of technology, it's biological fitness, it's mental health, it's immunity, everything will be effected.
im optimistic that we will be able to survive untill this correction happens but that might take decades and in the mean time we risk inflicting great damage to ourselfs due to the fallout of this lack of a correction in gene selection.
I can't say what will be the optimal solution but I can tell you for sure, not realising this reality is probably what will doom us all.
feel free to disagree though, im quite convinced though.
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@leon-jj9dv I disagree, China is expanding in every direction and while some of their actions aren't as smooth shall we say as they wanted it to be, they do get away with it, facing little to no problems in doing so, if a western nation even did 1% of what China is doing to the Ugers in Xinjiang (which we even got on tape for crying out loud) then there would be a huge outrage world wide but in China? nobody seems to care or at least not enough to actually do something.
I have to be carefull with language on youtube since it likes to censorship issues related to race, esspecially with a few specific demografics but basically the reason why they aren't assimulated is that black culture is by it's nature very hostile and independent of the wider american culture, you got a diversity of european people's hispanics, asians, so on people who consider themselves american but the african americans for quite some time now consider themselfs victims of america and not a part of the wider society, miscegenation won't realy let them assimulate because that would mean losing their oppressed status in society a fact that many democrats use to maintain influence over their voter base.
for them to be assimulated would mean two things, 1. an exodus from the USA as no longer being one where they exist as ''african americans'' but just as americans, some black nationalists want seperation (unrealistic) or a return to africa movement (more realistic) some movements have been made to promote this and as the african continent grows more wealthy this might become a realistic move to make.
2. the people who are mixed have to basically become ''white'' as much as possible along with many hispanic groups, there can be non of this hostile, racialist, turning america black which many, many african americans believe in for them to be accepted properly, people realy have to push down on this mentality, it's not even good for african americans themselves, it's them creating themselves as the ''other'' and different from american values, history and identity and does not earn them any favors, it actually make certain white nationalists look good and democrats love to see the fires rise in american cities.
idk how would the USA incorporate northern mexico? since it's government still controles it's territory, the northern counties would have to leave Mexico and then join the USA which they could reject, could happen but im not so sure.
as for Canada, I don't think the USA wants Canada, Greenland is perhaps the most likely since it's basically a puppet of Denmark and might have more to gain by being an actual state of the USA, the USA would also love to have Greenland because most people there are white, very few in number and would give them a greater reach in the artic which is a potential new front for the USA and Russia.
though to be honest, why not make a EU style North American Federation/union? won't change US laws, no extra senate seats, more interconnected movement of people, goods and services, might be difficult on the mexican border but perhaps have the US controle the borders on the Mexican southern border, way cheaper and easier to maintain compared to the US southern border.
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@leon-jj9dv yeah China is not loved, it's more of a boss employer relationships than a sense of brotherhood between civilizations, Europe and the USA might bicker and hate eachother on specific topics or feel insulted by eachother sometimes but there is a civlizational sort of bond that's way stronger than say Russia and China.
China's economy will have a downturn at some point, esspecially with their demografics, the question is can they act now and create the type of economic and military alliance to challange the US superpower status? im not sure, probably depends on if they can get India on their side and gain minor victories like Taiwan.
as for african americans, if it were the 1920s I would agree with you but it's 2021 and from my perspective it honestly looks like african americans (the majority) are very hostile to the USA as an identity and I don't mean that as in ''they want to destroy the USA because they hate it so much'' (some do for sure) but more so that their whole identity is incompatible with the idea of the USA as a whole, the majority sees themselves as victims or simply enjoy the perks of being seen as a victim by both the republican and democrat parties, just for different reasons, let me give an example, the George F riots, the saintfication of this man both by the media, the african american community as a whole and the democratic party shows an immense disconnect and subjugation to the idea of victimhood, the BI_m movement even furthers this victimhood status, while at the same time having this one-drop rule become flipped on it's head, in which every mixed race person becomes seen as part of the african american identity not mixed or white, it's not that white people aren't accepting of them, in fact they tolorate them too much and play along with the victimhood game, the divide is deepening not closing.
the main reason why african americans don't move to africa is not because they don't feel a connection to the continent but because that would mean they aren't victims of evil white oppresors, also due to africa not being as rich as the USA going to africa would mean losing many privilages, standards and rights that they have, it's a bad deal indeed but instead of becoming fully american they want both which brings them into conflict with the wider american culture.
they don't feel at home in the USA or Africa, their identity is always the oppressed, not the oppresor, not the american, not the equal, that's not my view but the view of themselves and the elites, I just don't see them suddenly giving up this identity to go back to making jazz music and having stable families, I just don't think it's going to happen, I could be wrong, im not an american but that's what I see when I look at the USA, a nation of americans of all colors and backgrounds and the african americans acting like crazies and tearing it all apart for some new sneakers or something, a minority of african americans have adapted but only by rejecting this majority view of african american identity.
Canada might fall apart and then the USA could annex bits of it, that might happen but I have my doubts that the elites in government will want it, even if the people supported it.
as for Mexico, that might be the same situation, still seems unlikely though and would piss off the mexican government, of course the US can say ''fuck you'' but idk, kinda asking for a potential cuban missle crisis if it became a chinese ally.
I think the EU style relationship between mexico and canada might be for the best, it would stabalize both nations potentially and get them into the US sphere even more, that might smooth the full annexation process and perhaps give a frame work for new potential members like Guatamala or something.
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I do enjoy these video's, while I feel you are pulling your punches a little, I can see why because you want to be fair, reasonable and not get censored.
It is a big shame how much the west has degraded and how little we've actually evolved to something worth defending at this point, not saying everything in the past was better but the modern world has very little to offer in terms of prospects, hope, wealth, joy, relationships or purpose for existence.
Not sure how you can fix it but I feel like a great shift is nessisary at some point, nazism, fascism, communism, capitalism they were all products and reactions of their times and we are no different.
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@savvas4676 if the comment is racist in reverse of any other ethnic group, it's racist, you don't need to be an intelectual to understand how racism works, hell these days you have to be an intelectual to act like a total racist.
The entire ideology of "white privilege" is racist by it's very nature and used as such as well, it's basicaly the N-word for white people and used to discriminate and create hatred and division in society.
The issue is that were white people to act in any way near the way these people (mostly on the leftwing btw) act towards white people and replace the same words with B or Jewish people you would be labeled a huge racist, lose your job, be attacked or even get death threats but because it's white people, they just mostly just take it without any issue that's how demonized and alienated they are.
If your the type of person that defends this racist garbage then you don't deserve any respect or have any intelectual credibility but since you are defending this kind of language, makes me not have any respect for you, your racist and ignorant opinions means very little to me, go back to your echochamber if you don't like it.
Most normal people are sick of being treated like second class citizen and allowing this garbage in our society.
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I quit smoking about 2 years ago and I've gotten rather fat, used to do a lot of boxing but due to an injury on my hand from boxing I can't or rather it's a big danger for me to try it again so it really sucks and really miss it, it was a big motivator for me to try and stay healthy, now idk, not sure what im going to do, I got a new job and walk and stand a lot all day and I feel like im slowly losing weight but do feel I should be doing better, eat more healthy foods, work out more, work on other things.
Idk, feel like we all got struggles and it's never truly good times, the good times are always in the past and even then it's more the way you look back than it actually was good or not, likewise hoping and working towards a better future might actually make it come true, hope everyone here has some kind of future they can work on and believe in.
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@gustavocarmo2500 you do realise im talking about the political and strategy parts of the military right? If you look at the US military command upper levels some of the things they do is clownish and stupid, they make constant mistakes or write mission strategies that fail and fail hard while costing the USA trillions of dollars, gains nothing and in fact allows their enemies to grow bigger and faster, while their allies question if they should rely on the USA at all.
If you compare those people at the top and some of the clowns in the military industrial complex with say the marines, the navy or the army they are way more competent and focused on results, the US marines esspecialy are some of the most competent, drilled and amasing elite soldiers in the world but would they be able to make a global wide strategy that would secure the interests of politicians and their corporate buddies? Of course not, they are there for the nation, to serve, basically to obey orders, hopefully because they just love the country so much but sometimes, it's more so the lack of other options or skills to thrive elsewhere and there is nothing wrong with that.
I don't think you are much of an adult if you can't understand what I'm saying, feel free to disagree but I'm not the one throwing insults.
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I think it goes both ways but because of social media and woman are much more presured by social presures compared to men they become much more narcisistic than men, feminism itself has become a form of narcicism, "im female im beter than a man because reasons" "vote for me I have a vagina just like you" it's utter self gratification and entitelment.
I agree I think incels start loving females more than they love themselves and get used by woman with narcisistic personality disorder which is more common now because of social media, victims of narcisistic abuse become themselves more narcisistic and there is a element of this in some not all but some incels.
"I am good enough for female attention, they can't see how brilliant, beautifull, smart and compassioned I am, I deserve love, it's females fault, im perfect" it sounds like egoïsme but it's realy a reaction to narcisistic abuse, it's a defence mechanism.
If someone can't be loved they will seek to be hated because hatred is a form of affection compared to being ignored.
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@BuiltSimilarG I am, they are small fry who spend most of their time bringing in drugs, failing missions, letting the KGB steal their secrets, their nuclear blue prints, getting their asses handed to them in the bay of pigs, often times getting the best results when they just send the guns to locals to do their work for them.
if your ''secret security agency'' is known by everyone to be shady, be exposed on all sorts of projects and fail many times over, that's not a very good secret agency, im just saying.
compared to the KGB who set up whole networks, ideologies and subversive actions for minimal costs that destroyed whole nations the CIA are a joke and I say this as someone who deeply hates commies but gatta admit they know their espionage, a legacy the Russians still have though their reach has dulled a bit.
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@rickharriss the whole world has suffered from covid-19, the EU does not have the power to rule over all the Actions of the member states, that's the whole issue, if the EU is to respond in the future it would have to have more power and more of a say on a federal level which many nationstates might not wish to give up, in an attempt to get the best of both worlds, confederate and federate models of organisation, the EU has shown to be disfunctional at this stage to handle these crisis situations, most statistics I see indicate that most of the people and elites in Europe want the EU to remain, only Italy and Sweden I think are against it, the UK was the major eurosceptic nation with them leaving the EU might actualy become stronger, less rich, less powerfull in terms of military short term but long term perhaps stronger, only time will tell for sure.
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@Pazusky Russia is not a threat, USA is, the fact that we are forced to "rely" on them is what made us weak.
We sould invest in our own military, Russia would come begging to join us, Russian economy is a mess, they need us more than we need them but we both could benefit.
Sorry most people who fear/hate Russia are american and don't see the many problems inside Russia, Russia is dying, it would be nice if we can save them.
Sanctions by the USA hurt us all a lot, people still think we live in the 20th century in terms of warfare, if Russia ever invaded Europe it would be a total disaster for Russia, they aren't that stupid, Russia did not annex cremea they joined willingly and when you look at the reasons why, no wonder.
The west backed a literal neo-nazi coup in ukraine, the west is threatning Russia not the otherway around.
I don't want to be offensive, im just tired of constant warmongering towards Russia while the people there bleed in poverty as a result.
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@charlieputzel7735 honestly your response sounds like something a bot would say, it's a word for word repeat of articles written by ''game journalists'', the methode to this maddness is how they infect media, it realy is like a virus, they don't target low budget and low reach movies or series, they tend to go for the higher up shows and series, the popular shows, they then say X (X most times being ''toxic masculinity'' or ''whiteness'') is problematic and needs to change, they make edits to shows and movies to inject it with woke ideology, things like strong female character that has no real enemies, mary sue characters, gay or minority characters in historical or unrealistic settings and then when fans or just movie observers point out how silly, inaccurate or poorly written something is, the accusations and frankly hate towards quality comes into play by some of these ''article writters'' as a result they don't realise their mistake, these movies or series lift on the creative and fanbase loyalty of their former creators and basically kill the series as a result, after they destroyed that medium or show they tend to look for new victims to drain the life of that as well, from TLOU2 to the walking dead, to comics, to tv shows, to historical drama's to everything, they destroy and collapse whole industries of medium.
game reviews and movie reviews have bought and sold positive reviews by producers to avoid fan backlash and they have damage controle within the media, this is what is quite popularly observed by most people as the dark age of movies, series and medium, nothing is safe from them, all your favorite shows are being subverted and destroyed by their actions and forces people to look to far away places that don't have this ideology for a form of entertainment, right now Manga, Anime and some video game developers fill that void but block buster movies, western comics, woke game companies like Ubisoft or Blizzard are bleeding their fans dry and are not as profitable as they could be.
this is not the first time that we've seen a decline in movies and series quality but it's never been this far reaching and destructive, the power of social media and the internet plus big tech companies has just made it more global, that's why it's seen as the dark ages.
don't believe me? most reviews by fans dislike wokeness, the ''writer class'' of people often praise series that inject it with this woke ideology, while the company that produces it suffers as a result, corporations don't just want money, their quality would be much better if they were, this is just the fallout of a lazy industry that does not want to innovate or improve it's writting, that's teh truth.
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@charlieputzel7735 the anti woke people have already won, because nobody is buying western comics which are woke, while they are buying anime and manga which is not, games that go woke get constant negative reviews by all customers, old fans and new, movies that are woke are failing, series that are woke are being laughed at by everyone and all the media can do is attempt to smear, censor, attack and bribe postive reviews to make themselves look good.
Like I said we are living in a entertainment dark age and people are looking elsewhere for quality content, looking towards Asia, new content creators and b-tier movie makers, good example is "Joker" a movie with a much smaller budget than any marvel movie or marketing, hated by "reviews" of media companies but loved by fans and movie watchers and made millions and actually puts effort into their writing.
Being anti woke is the future, the grifters will pass, the corporations will be done with losing so much money while new content creators will prosper, the "go woke, go broke" phrase works so well because it's true, just not everyone realises how true it is yet, mostly people on the far left and those who only read reviews bought by corporations that make those woke movies to begin with, you are not the majority, you are a very loud, small, minority of people stuck in an echochamber and you don't even realise it.
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@KungKras idk sending police to people who insult or offend politicians online, jailing journalists, imposing strict censorship laws more so than saudi arabia, that one time a swat team came into someone´s home for live streaming a discussion about covid lockdowns, covid lockdowns, Germany does not have free speech, it´s illigale to home school children in Germany, that time the german government gave orphan children to pedo´s for 30 years as a social experiment, the far leftwing regulations on economic freedom like not being allowed to have certain types of cars in big cities or their politicans saying that germans having low birthrates is a good thing because they are somehow all nazi´s or how the media there is mostly state owned or coopted for government talking point.
the list goes on, Germany is not a free country at all, I live in the Netherlands and im shocked whenever I go or hear something from Germany because it´s always some kind of 1984 authoritarian clown show, it´s really sad.
ohhhh yeah or how Merkel and the new german leader Schultz were/are both pro Putin shills and dependent on Russian energy because of their own stupid policies, that's a big one.
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@ulyssesglemao6783 except Trump had the best economy right before the CCP virus, which btw he tried to prevent coming to the US but the democrats called his response to block people from entering who came from China "racist" then after it spread the media and elites started to blame him for everything (like they did for 4 years?) Biden meanwhile made all sorts of promises without giving a clear sign of what he plans to do, while hiding in his basement.
Btw unlike you I've actually done the numbers and the USA is about the same as Europe in terms of death per population, the only difference is the US population has a worse health then many European nations, plus healthcare is expensive so many people probably don't want to be treated at a hospital, but "Orange man bad"
Without the help of the CCP virus, big tech censorship, 4 years of legacy media propaganda and calls for violence and polorizing leftwing elites calling for violence along with the potential fraud commited via mail in voting, it would have been a land slide victory for Trump and Joe Biden barely won in 2020.
You have no idea what your talking about and know nothing of actual politics or how great Trump was, he was the best president ever which might explain why the elites wanted him gone, pro free speech, anti war, anti censorship, pro guns, you know? What a liberal used to be? But no "Orange man bad" said the media, he's an ism of all kinds because reasons, grow up.
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@Sunbearvygv what the hell is the WBC?
what is polite day to day conversations? since the goal post of what consititues that changes every day because of authoritarian leftists, woke ideology and political correctness, literally anything can be deemed ''offensive'' and is therefor either forbidden or punished if you simply mention things that are true or real, a few days ago i heared about a woman that got banned from university because 12 years ago she sang a rap song that had the n-word in it, so what you say can also be used against you even if it was said in the past, it's too subjective and open for interpretation so im not sure what you mean by that, speaking out against censorship and sueing companies that do it, as well as anti trust lawsuits seem to be a method to adress it.
islam is alt right? have you ever met anyone who even still uses that label? they hate islam with a passion, at best all they share in common is they desire to have higher birthrates which islam does as well, other then that nothing realy in common, their views on woman, what they should do and their views on religion are far more secular, pagan or christianity focused, so I don't quite understand that connection there.
many of the so called ''far right'' ideologies are very compatable to western democracies in fact historically they were the ideologies in the past that people had that led to western society in the first place, it's a return to old ways of looking at society and value of society, in sort it's basic, actual conservatism, it's just labeled ''far right'' by those that wish to censor and discredit them, ironically this fuels actual far right and far left ideologies and they feed off eachother, it's much like weimar germany.
many people don't seem to be aware how much censorship there is or how corporations like Google and Facebook are used as proxies for political parties and rich elites to censor their competition to influence society, which is also why they fund you know who groups on the left we have seen in 2020 in 2016, you can't even mention them in any negative way or you will get censored online, same for video's, same on facebook, same on twiter, parler gets kicked off app store because they are competition for their influence and controle.
in a true free market they would face competition and would not be able to maintain their monopoly like they do now.
so to keep seeing channels i watch get banned, video's taken down, comments removed, political parties demonized, politicians call for violence and special rules for one class of people and different rules for others then to hear censorship is not a big deal or your not actually being repressed, is quite offensive and insulting, which is why society is so polorized today.
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@Sunbearvygv the fact that google and facebook are going after their competition shows they fear them, will take a lot of time before they catch up but in the meantime the government and media are going to side with them over their competion, that's why NYT and such write hit pieces on their competition to justify blocking them from the app stores to limit their reach to customer base.
the WBC is nothing, they barely exist and are more a usefull tool for media, government and corporation to try and argue against free speech, you can find the same types of people in the black isrealites but you won't realy hear the media mention them because that would mean ''african americans can into hatred, anti gay, racism and anti semitism.
ironically islamic countries and the former USSR were the ones pushing for so called ''hate speech laws'' because they don't want their bad ideas to be attacked, that's where it always, always, always comes down to.
Slavoj Zizek is not that impressive in my opinion, I will admit his anti post modernist and anti political correctness stance is good but he only really scratches the surface rather then look at the big piture though it's been some time since i last seen his work so he might have moved past that at this point, esspecialy after what happened in 2016 and 2020.
there realy is no good, rational and objective argument against free speech, it always comes down to emotions, hurting people's feelings and just wanting to shut down views one group does not like, mostly authoritarians, communists, islamists, fascists and globalists argue in favor of censorship and political correctness, the only real solution is to fight back against this type of tyrany which always ever few decades start to pop up, often in different forms and from different groups, i remember the early 2000s the left were the ones being censored by the rightwing christian groups, you had patriot act and war in iraq and stuff and now the left are the ones calling for more wars, more censorship and demanding people be treated unfairly because meh feelings, in 20 years it will likely be the rightwing that repeats this same cycle because people don't seem to get it or keep making the same mistakes once they win.
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@Sunbearvygv I think it's pretty clear they want to move to a Chinese model of state controle they just want the corporations to regulate it but in essence it will be the same and perhaps even worse since they will regulate it based on woke ideology and other social justice nonsense (which is also marxist realy)
I don't get why you would say that rightwing libertarians are close to marxism, they are polar opposites in everything, from how economics works, to how government should work, to how workers are oppressed to how the solution to that problem could work.
First time btw I've ever even hear anyone mention the WBC in anything realy, again they are nothing, it's the same with the KKK, in fact they are mostly cited by leftwing groups as if they are a big problem and trying to condem others simply by association even if they don't exist in any big way at all, it's just bizzar how the media creates narratives, while ignoring real issues and enforcing harsh attacks on people for minor things or how they defend leftist (sometimes terrorists) for their crimes, it realy creates a us vs them mentality, if your not hated by the media or big tech then you aren't realy fighting against tyrany or authoritarianism.
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@miroslavstojanovic5620 US and UK sould leave the UN, the UN exists only because of the USA after ww2, the goal was to ensure solutions to global issues could be solved diplomatically but in truth it's been used as a mouthpiece for waging war for the USA and UK and ignored when a resolution was taken against their intrest, their veto powers are used all the time, the UN is toothless and has sold out to Iraq, Iran, Saudi arabia, China and every other dictorship in the world, in Hati allone they keep finding pedo rings led by some UN rep, same in most of the rest of Africa, the UN is a joke and has lost most if not all of it's legitmacy.
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@Warren_Peace yeah you just keep telling yourself that while China gets stronger and stronger, they already own most of africa, ports in Europe and their one belt one road is an attempt to remove the american sanctions and searoute tradelines.
Russia and China are now buddies, the USA build up turkey's military that now has a dictator, USA has been waging billions worth of wars in the middle-east and all it has done is spread islam and terrorism far and wide esspecialy to your "allies"
The EU is looking to become a superstate in an attempt to remove american influence on our political and military abilities and to get rid of NATO.
Meanwhile the USA has to put sanctions on every nation out competing them, has to force Europeans to buy their shitty gas instead of from Russia, plus the demografics of the US are worse than in Europe.
The US dollar has lost 90% of it's value, it's military is the most expensive in the world, your trillions in debt, no end in sight to the endless wars.
If you study history it's clear the USA wants to hold on to a fake legacy that never existed they keep shooting themselves in the foot.
And who cares about consumer markets? Europe is the biggest single market in the world, african union just passed a free trade deal for it's nations, the only reason nations trade with the USA is they get invaded if they don't.
Not to mention all the propaganda from the USA, honestly you need the world a lot more than the world needs you, the world hates you and for good reason.
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there is a sense of powerlessness in the modern era in that all the old ideas that made sense are dying or already dead, at the same time the powers that are decadent are the ones with the most power and influence on society to prevent any kind of revolt against the status quo, while at the same time economic growth has slowed down and people are more disconnected than ever.
it's hard to view our society as being the best in the world or the most peacefull even while it is since it's so broken down to bare minimum of needs met instead of things that give meaning to people's lives, there are no great teachers, no great connections, great new ideas or means of really self improving yourself beyond merely going to the gym or studying for a degree to become another cog in the machine of the economic engine which can then be taxed into oblivion by elites that are out of touch with reality and openly mocking towards the working class.
there is also the lack of god or religion to offer redemption for sins or promise of a better future be it heaven or anything material, how to overcome these trends? I don't know but the first step is knowing that this is the reality of many people today and that we have to look for new ways to improve our society in whatever small way we can.
for starters be aware of your vices, try and give back to your community or country in whatever way you can, be humble, know your own limitations and try and surpass them if possible, keep a positive and stoic additude in life, be greatfull for the good things in life however small they may be, try and be happy for other people's joy and happiness even if it might give you a sense of envy, try and respect other people but also don't judge yourself too harshly if you distrust or dislike certain groups for whatever reason and don't let that stop you from trying to treat people fairly when possible, have a code of personal honour and rules you wish to maintain and be willing to admit whenever you have been proven wrong or have come to doubt something you held true for a long time.
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16:23 no offense but you make this argument quite often and you never seem to adress the issue of any one nation simply producing more nukes or gaining them by some other means, China has been upgrading their stockpilles of nukes in the last few years and going up as well as nations like Iran and North Korea trying hard to build or upgrade their nukes, not to mention nations that could very easily get nukes if they wanted to but simply follow the USA's policies for protection which could very easily be replaced with nukes of their own if they really wanted to, like Germany but also Poland, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Japan, Australia, Indonessia, South Africa, Turkey, Ukraine used to have nukes as well, the technology is about a century old now so it´s not like they can´t make em, it´s just very expensive and puts a potential target on your head as well as motivates other nations to get them as well, Israel has Nuclear weapons which is one of the reasons why Iran wants nuclear weapons.
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there realy are only two solutions here.
1. punish gold buyers/sellers
2. punish botting
Blizzard sees wow classic as a cow that has to be milked dry but has nothing to offer long term (their view now mine) so their main focus is on getting more subs from more or less people but as long as they get payed they don't realy care unless it's realy hurting the community to the extend that it hurts their profits and the thing is, they don't realy hurt their profits as much, people adapt, they buy gold which feeds more botting, more botting creates more gold in game and repeat. You could argue this harms the game and makes them lose subs but that's not realy the case since most players aren't new to the game, they are older players who return for classic and TBC, have a way to skip the grindy stuff to get what they want for real life money is a easy way compared to spending their time, they aren't going to punish the gold sellers and buyers because it hurts their pay check so would not count on that happening unless it's very specifically for realms that are bleeding player subs because of it.
then there is the punishing of bots and Blizzard has (finally!) done a great deal of purging of the bots from most realms but here is the catch, they adapt very fast and even now in ZT, EU server they still are everywhere, they only play for certain hours on certain times, in specific spots, not realy looking for the highly valued stuff and just farming mobs for hours and hours non stop for raw gold and perhaps leathers and stuff. In my opinion dealing with the bots is far more realistic, since they can and do mess up the in game economy to a large degree and if they are stopped, gold sellers will have to jack up prices to be able to make a profit, which lowers the amount of people willing to buy them while keeping most accounts active.
perhaps the Bllizard of early 2000s would have done more but this era of Blizzard just does not care at all.
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@leon-jj9dv the USA is a colonial empire, in fact it's the biggest one, their settler based colonialism is superior to the European explotative colonial system.
The European people still had some desire to maintain their empires but not to expand it, however the american presure is what realy killed the desire for empire, since empires was about prestige and about making money but now in the modern era they would have neither due to how both the USA and the USSR opposed European colonialism, after that decolonisation set in many places, often against the wishes of local leaders and elites who had power over their local regions, many of these nations economies collapsed afterwards, so basically it was an indirect splitting up of colonial holdings due to the rise of the new two super powers and the entanglement within the cold war.
The desire for empire is dead in Europe but more so because the USA would not allow it to happen first and the economic reasons behind it no longer make sense, it would cost to much and give them nothing.
The roll of expansion and empire still exists but it's more subtle, it's in the form of corporations, military projects, web of allies and military involvement (like France in Africa) and internal expansion with supranational organisations, the EU is a good example of this, starting quite small, expanding to eastern Europe, trying to improve it's system of government, the era of empires might be over but empires still exist, the biggest one remains the USA.
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@leon-jj9dv forgive me but I feel like we aren't talking about the same ideas when it comes to what an empire is, to how it acts to what it means to be an empire, so if you could help me understand we might come to a better understanding of eachother because i feel like what your saying is a very american focused perspective without the perspective to how it looks from Europe or how we experienced/would want empires.
an empire (at least in my opinion) is whenever a core nation/people expand into the historical/literal territory of another nation/people to either settle it or exploit it, in the
case of the USA, the thirteen colonies are it's core, it then expanded into other territories either by buying land, using force or simply by demografics to spark joining the core like with Texas, with this in mind most of the USA is a colony used for settlement and expansion of it's core, some are more empire like compared to others, like Hawaii which was openly annexed against local wishes by force but they could not do anything against it.
Russia and China are also empires and they have mixed amounts of controle per period in time, Russia today in fact has had many breakaway parts and continues to have issues with some regions, might even come up this century.
now on the subject of the EU, this is where I get confused, you say that ''empires demand aggresion and expansionism that the EU lacks'' but the EU has expanded, just not by force, you then raise the point that if Bulgaria or Romania didn't join the EU they wouldn't force them, this is confusing to me because you seem to propose that the EU could do this but that it just does not want to, this realy confuses me because the EU does not have a standing army to do so but if they did they would probably use it to expand if the USA and it's EU member states would not mind in them doing so.
If you listen to some people in the EU they very much want to turn it into an empire, I think Guy Verhofstad says it the most, it's not that they don't want to, they literally can't due to them not having an army and the USA would divide and invade them if they did, so it's a bit odd to say they just don't want to and it has nothing to do with european citizens opposing them, they barely oppose their own governments, if the prospect of empire was there for them to perhaps beat back Russia and defend Europe (a narrative mostly only expressed by people in the so called ''far right'' and fascistic groups) they might be willing to go for it, they just don't have the choice right now.
it's a bit of subjective point on who caused imperialism to die down in Europe the most, the americans, the soviets or the Europeans themselves, personally I think it's more the americans more than anything, since the soviets were seen as a threat to unify against and many Europeans still wanted to keep their empires but the USA wanted them docile and also made treaties to the strongest European nations like Germany to limit their army and remove the right of being able to cause wars for Germany, France even left NATO for a while because they did not want to be subjects of the USA and keep their colonial empire as long as they could.
as for the future, I think we will see a return to empire in Europe with it's main enemy being Russia and/or Turkey being oppossed to them, probably a flash point with ukraine or belarus, at that point the empire so to speak will become necessary and openly supported by the USA, right now it's not necessary, not allowed, not promoted and serves no purpose, that's why it does not exist yet in the way you consider empires.
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@leon-jj9dv I see, there is some truth in what your saying, to me though it's a bit different, the EU today kinda reminds me of the early period of the USA under the articles of confederations, that one was also disfunctional, in an era where each colony saw itself as more of independent nation state than one single country, a feeling that would remain untill the american civil war.
likewise Europe is divided between itself, in a disfunctional system in an era where each member is a nation state of itself.
however, I would say that the EU does have other tools besides military expansion (which i maintain the US would want to shut down quickly) which is economic presure, when Greece was at risk of leaving the EU, the EU, France, UK and Germany bailed them out and implemented reforms, while the greeks aren't hardline pro EU members they are less inclined to leaving the EU, same with most nations that wanted to leave but after Brexit all seem to have become soft Eurosceptics, not as hardcore as they used to be.
as for military expansion in general, when was the last time any major nation annexed another piece of another nation? all I can think of is cremea and looking at Russia they don't realy give me the impression when i look at their demografics and economy that they are going to suddenly take over all of Europe, of course if the USA suddenly left tomorrow that would give the Europeans a panic but at the same time it would be a silly move by the americans since access to Europe and military bases is good for it's power projection towards Russia and in turn more bases for reaching into Africa, the middle-east, western asia, the other expanding force in terms of military use is Turkey under Erdogan and he is becoming quite the dictator and not very well liked by other NATO members and Europe, sometimes been a question for me what would the US do if a NATO member attacks another NATO member? ( I honestly don't know)
What im trying to say is, for a long time, empires were seen as backwards, destroyed, sanctioned, invaded or isolated from the rest of the world, often by the USA but not always just them, what modern version of expansion via military means exists in today's world? in order for military expansion to become reasonable there has to be some motivating factor that drives it, it does not simply come from nothing.
for Europe to become stronger it can't return to the old days of empire, even if the people wanted it, it would go no-where in today's era, the only way I can see it happening is if it unified to then focus on it's major rivals which any single member state would not want or be able to but as a collective might be driven to.
it's a bit hard to say where things are going in Europe, there are nationalistic and even pan-european parties trying to turn the EU into an empire or a desire to return to nationalism as a sort of national revivial but would that work? would the USA tolorate it? would that not bring about the nationalism most Europeans seem to fear? if so then they would want to stick with the EU disfunctional as it is, the alternative would be empire on a smaller scale, right?
it's all very complicated and difficult to predict how things will go, I also don't know if the EU itself is able to change or if the people will just come apart like some people predict, when i talk to some of the youth though, they do seem more pan-european focused, even some of the nationalist groups i've seen want some form of European cooporation and nations like the UK seem to be falling apart even faster than nations in the EU, that might also be the spark that forces the change, seeing how the UK collapses and perhaps due to global warming more humanitarian crisis's and threats from Turkey and Russia could motivate more militaristic focus.
idk but food for thought, thanks for the reply.
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so why not break apart the USA union? since you don't need a federal goverment to enfore trade, law and so forth, no outside threat, no reason to allowed washington dc dictate it's rules no?
I can see why an american would want the EU fall apart, divide and conquer as they say, I don't think many Europeans would be in favor of the EU if there weren't other unions like the USA dicking around the world and demand we bend over backwards for the USA, at least we have a vote in the EU.
I say this as someone who is very critical of the EU policies, I think we sould have a European constitution, gun rights, free speech and freedom of movement within Europe, not outside of it, I think many americans want the same for their country, though their goverment like our national goverments seem to want something els.
can someone honestly give feedback on this? no insults, no childish remarks, just honest, rational arguments? plz? is that too much to ask?
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yeah I agree but it's not just an american thing, it's a western thing, since most people don't realy have close knite communities anymore and friends sometimes have bad advice, the truth is at least from my opinion is that, it's oke to be worried, it's oke to be sad, it's oke to not have everything figured out, what's most important is to keep moving forward, keep trying, accept the things we can't change and figure out what we can.
it also does not help that we live in an age where we see constant happy people (commercials, beautifull people, celebrities) , rich people lecturing us, politicians forcing us to do this or that or censorships online, while we live pretty mediocre or below mediocre lives, I've cut social media out of my life since 2014, best choice I've ever made.
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@psychoboyjack285 the fuck you talking about? of course im condeming Russia, I'm simply pointing out the objective fact that if the USA had pushed for defending Ukraine before any of this or after the annexation of cremea in 2014 then this war never would have even happened.
you are trying to twist this into claiming the USA had no way of doing anything or claiming the Ukranian government is just so incompetent and stupid they would not even ask the USA or EU nations to help them out, which they did multiple times even before this conflict but the USA, EU and NATO all said no because they did not want to antagonize Russia because if they did the Russian media, the government, the mainstream media and all the people in those countries would complain and worry that those leaders that would be defending Ukraine were trying to start ww3, remember when Trump got elected and they all screamed that he was going to start ww3? strange how non of this happened when he was in charge and Biden took office and within 2 years Russia invades another nation, this is not rocket science it's very predictable and rational from Russia's part to take advantage of a weak USA and a gullable and dependent on Russian oil and gas Europe.
the west had everything to do with this, it acted weak and other nations take advantage of that and it's not going to stop untill you get smart, competent, gutsy and great leaders, the west used to have those for days, now it's lucky to even have 1 leader close to that level, btw Russia's leadership is also incompetent and corrupt, look at how poorly they are doing within this very war, again all of this could have been avoided, that's the harsh truth and that's why you don't like to hear it, the idea that we could have prevented it and we did nothing, same with how ww2 could have been prevented if the allies acted sooner and did not demilitarize their armies, learn from history or be forced to repeat it's mistakes.
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@Ifraneljadida uhhhh I think everyone can see that the impeachment process against Trump is a joke, more of an attempt at slander then actualy trying to fight corruption, in fact it almost seems like Trump himself leaked the audio, so the media would report on it, people investigate, goverment investigate and found that "hey Joe Bidden had gotten billions from corrupt money laundering, through Ukraine" I believe his son was also involved.
Nobody in the public trusts the whole impeachment process and all the talking heads condeming Trump are the most corrupt and biased.
Trump ain't no saint but they aren't going after his real corrupt or shady dealings, instead they focus on low hanging fruit so to speak.
Other officials, Clintons, pompeo, all deal in much more corrupt and shady dealings, hell the conspiracy theory right now is that epstein killed himself, everyone knows he was murdered.
I know im going a bit off topic here but nobody is realy fighting corruption, everyone is a crook and they are just trying to get eachother busted.
It's almost certain that Trump will be relected now, the worst thing he has to worry about now is not to get epsteined.
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@Ifraneljadida the odds were pretty stacked against him, it was largely Trump himself who made it happen, not anything the public or the institutions did, in fact the media was on a neverending witch hunt (still is) and he barely got elected only because his opposition was the imbodyment of all that is corrupt and wrong with the USA today, it was realy slim and perhaps the last time it will happen since now the demografics are going to shift even more radically and the democratic party move to remove that last piece that got Trump elected in the first place, the electoral college, since Trump did lose the populare vote, without the electoral college, he would have lost.
As for why the USA is so powerfull today, is realy too long to explain in just one comment but typically americans will cite their "freedom, institutions and constitution" as major reasons for their rise to power but in reality while their constitution is impressive, it was realy the US style collonialism called manifest Destiny, waging war and annexing fertile land and "removing" the native populations and creating basically a pan-european ethnostate under libertarian and capitalist economic models, plenty of things could have gone wrong that would have made it a regional power like Brazil, Argentina and others, it annexed large parts of lands from mexico, tried (and lost) in 1812 to annex Canada, it got rid of it's native americans in such an effective way Hitler would even quote and admire it and work the same kind of model for his lebensraum plans.
Then ww1 and ww2 happened and with no real competition left the USA stood strong ontop a pille of bodies.
Im not saying this as some kind of moral argument or demonisation, all nations did messed up and violent stuff, some of the worst were the british, the french, the Germans and the Russians but the USA is just not strong because of it's freedoms, it's strong because of it's version of collonialism and waging of war like nearly all great nations throughout history, the USA has been and is a lot like the roman Empire, esspecialy now with it's idea that anyone can become a US citizen.
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@woof7538 because the USA wanted more power and so we live in the world as we do today, they don't care about the world, they did not care to destroy communism and nazism is they actualy cared about such things they would have done it, all they care about is being top of the world, stealing from others, making sure nobody els can rise beyond what they demand and so we live in these new darkages and at some point when the nations of the world wish to be free again the USA is likely going to attack again.
There is no peace, only more wars for the intrest of the USA, I think it's a tragity that they did not commit to destroying communism, the USA and USSR did not save the world, they only served their own intrests with everyone in between having to play allong, not a good ending and one that is likely to spark a new series of conflicts
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It's messed up on many levels, you could write whole articles on how we got here, how insane it is, how little effect it's going to have on changing the war and how immoral it is, the west is not really the land of the free anymore, we are just like the Russian government or China we have little to no moral high ground.
The situation looks like "economic total war" where there is no such thing as an unvalid target and all resources are being used for the "war effort" in the hopes of changing the governments actions, will it work as intended? Well it will harm the Russian economy and people for sure but what if Russia ends the war? Do these things get reversed? What if Russia wins? Are the enforced sanctions forever till Russia gives back all Ukraine's lands? When and where does it end and now that it's being normalized who is going to be the next target? Not China though, the corporations love China and the Chinese government does not bow to corporate interest, corporations bow to it. It's really scary to see just how much the west has lost it's way.
I can only hope when the dust settles we look in the mirror and realise our mistake but knowing people, Twitter and the media in general, it's probably going to get a lot worse.
Cyberpunk here we come....
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I disagree, Trump is a good candidate, the media has just been shooting themselfs in the foot these last 4 years, the real problem I see for the USA has nothing to do with Trump but your corrupt goverment and lack of social cohesion, your monuments are torn down because ''meh racism'', anti white media everywhere and in academia, SJW in universities, Antifa, the list goes on and on, Trump can't fix all that and even if he wins his second term (which im about 99% sure is going to happen at this point) it won't solve the underlining problems in the underbelly that is the USA.
the dems will gain power through sneaky means like they always do and the american people are just going to let it happen, because they already have for the last 60 years or so.
honestly I fear the day the US people realise how stupid most of them have been these past generations, will it be enough? I dont think so.
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I noticed you did not put the EU on this list, while it's technically not a country, would be hard to create a federal united states of Europe and has a lot of other problems like demografics and cultural differences, I do think as the world gets more insane and divided that it will play a bigger roll and might even become a country, it won't be as powerfull as the USA is but if it can pull it off and stabalize then they would be a great power, esspecialy if say Russia collapses and it's western half becomes part of the Eurosphere but i could be wrong, just found it interesting that you did not put it on the list, thought France is the closest to it I suppose.
love to hear your perspective on this issue and why it would fail or work, I feel like the EU today is a lot like the USA during the articles of confederation (we even have articles as laws in the EU) it's a mess but if united under a proper system/constitution it could work, all depends on if people have faith in it and ruled by competent leaders, probably not right now but perhaps in the near future.
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Is it not a situation of give and take? One government causes a problem, gets removed, new government gets voted into office starts implementing policies to reduce stress, remove problems in society local government can't solve, times change, new stress, people vote government out of office, new government is more liberal or authoritarian and so on and so on.
The main issue stxy is mentioning is that authoritarianism does not actualy solve any issues and that libertarian and classical liberal values always is the right choice, in the case of the leftwing and legacy media lying about army of fascists I think he is correct, the threats not their, yet the real threats are ignored and unfocused, it's why they want alt-right terrorism, they want a violent reaction so they can argue and promote real authoritarianism that won't solve anything but if the government gets replaced by a more rational, pro western, anti communist political party than this real issue could get solved, here is the catch, people that get elected are unlikely to give up their new found power which they worked so hard for, so they become the new threat which may or may not be worse.
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@ten_tego_teges not realy, most of our media is US based not Russian, Russia helps fund some nationalist parties because they want a more independent Europe, they fully support a EU army, they need trade with the west.
Truth is Russia needs peace and trade, the USA needs conflict and sanctions.
We aren't treating Russia honestly because we can't because of NATO.
We are currently in a transition situation where Europe needs a stronger military that's strong enough to repel the USA and Russia, then we could actualy work together, Russia fears NATO, they want to work with the EU.
Fake news comes from all sides, mostly the USA, UK and China, Russia only realy has RT, their power is largely overblown and exadurated.
What Russia does have is a strong military and rich resources, largest natural gas reserves in the world, 150 million people.
They don't threaten us, they threaten the US plans in the middle-east.
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can we please stop with this nonsense fearmongering, the only thing Europe suffers from is political will and unity to organize as a whole unit.
the americans have co-developed much of our and their own weapons and intel gathering tools, them suddenly shutting down any and all hardware we already have is very unlikely but also something that could be bypassed, hacked or find other means of doing so, these technologies aren't that high tech or hard to develop.
can we also please stop fear mongering about Russia, Russia can't take Ukraine, Russia has less people, it has less money, it's most scary weapons are it's nukes and it's even uncertain if those will work.
meanwhile France has nukes and could make more if they wanted to, same with Germany if they really wanted to.
one of the reasons we don't make that many shells for the modern battlefield is because the western NATO nations are heavily air forced and in that department Europe has many of it's own systems, domestically created systems and could make adaptations for current existing models with non-US systems if need be.
Russia is not going to blitz into Europe and even if it tried it could be held off long enough to push up production and that's assuming big players like France, Germany, Turkey or the UK sit on their ass and do nothing.
we need political will, we need to deregulate much of this market to set it up quickly and we need to return to good old coal, steel and older models for quantity and speed to fill the gap.
this is not the end of the world, Russia is not all powerful, now unless the USA + Russia + China decide to team up to destroy us, we can easily overcome this situation.
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I remember a bit from I think it was college humor, where they compared fan bases to religions and it's pretty accurate to a degree, fans love shows because of the stories told within them, characters exist, they suffer, they adapt, they overcome, they grow and we the viewer can grow with them.
many people will say ''it's just fiction'' but how would those same people or many other people react to a story like the Bible? the Koran? the Saga's? many of these stories have fictional events that don't reflect reality at all and yet millions of people worldwide believe in them, inspire them, drive them to actions or views on the world at large and their part in it.
fictional stories like Star wars or Star Trek aren't my cup of tea but I've seen other people love those shows, they love the characters, what they represent and when a cannon gets changed it's like hearing those stories who might have inspired you, be ridiculed, disgraced, changed, mutilated and to you it's insulting and offensive.
I don't recommend anything violent but I can guarantee you if fans of shows were fanatical that they would commit say terrorism against corporations that change their cannon, those companies would not attempt to change it, nor dare to add anything to it. That's silly I know but in the real world we do have people who commit such acts and corporations, leaders and nations dare not make fun of some of those religions out of fear of violence against them.
btw, Im not bashing religion, it's a fundamental freedom for people and plenty of ideological nonsense out there that's just as if not more destructive, im just making an observation on why people care about stories, cannon and fictional stories because people care about that which inspires them or gives them hope and dislike or even hate those that take their stories away from them for their own profit.
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That's a very intresting question, there are a multitude of anwsers but the most likely would be that they are leftovers from abiogenisis during the first million years of single celled organism and evolution.
The thing is so small, it could not compete with the growth of bacteria so rather than adapt towards a higher multicelulare form they adopted to a smaller, parasitic form of repoduction, viruses mutate realy fast, bacteria mutate also very fast, the more complex an organism becomes the less but more radical mutations you get (autism, blue eyes, sickel red bloodcels)
While viruses mutate realy fast they are dependent on the infection rate for further mutation, once in a while you get a spanish flu (influenza) which first infects a few million people, then mutates to infect a few 100 million people but it always burns out because otherwise viruses would lose their host, unless humans start tinkering with it.
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@clairemcfadyen90 im sorry to say but you have a choice between the EU or the USA, you can't vote in the USA, you don't know if you can trust the USA, if you become dependent on them you will be at their mercy, the EU might not be perfect, hell I Hate most of the commies that got elected into parlement there but when it comes down to it, people will probably pick economy over politics.
But that's just my opinion and if they don't want independence then so be it, if they do that's democracy, same with brexit, if the people want a hard brexit they can get it but I very much doubt that they want to.
Plus both sides during brexit lied insanely, I used to support brexit but after the cowardly actions of Nigel Farage leaving in the face of victory and seeing how fucked the Uk is right now I think it would be best if they stayed in the EU, that's my honest opinion and I would love to hear your response.
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@gentleshark972 I don't think that's realistic or something people actually want, it's something forced on them that they have to accept or be threatened with, this creates resentment and alienation in the public which can only be suppressed by authoritarian governments and equal resentment from migrant populations for not being accepted or seen as equals.
In many ways it's tragic, both sides lose, nobody gains anything of any real value and the only people that profit from it are authoritarian politicians who now have more tools to divide people with without solving issues in their community and corporations that erode resistance towards their power, influence and controle on both the public and the governments that they have in their pockets.
I can't imagine it having a happy ending, just more white flight, resentment and political radicalism while at the same time less of a footing on the global scale compared to China, India or the USA and before you say it the USA also suffers from this ideology, they however have the benefit of being able to leave their urban cities to rot while most European nations lose their identity, self respect and trust in the government that is suppose to represent them.
In way it's a repeat of the conditions that led to fascism, communism and national socialism, disfunctional governments, a humiliating state of their nations and culture and the temptation creeping in that only anti democratic and counter authoritarian ideology can save them.
I don't have any faith in that future generations will be greatfull for the legacy we are leaving them, they have no hope with the status quo and everything to gain by seeing it collapse.
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When I was 16 years old, I used to try and come up with theories what viruses are and where they came from, I read about certain theories that existed at the same and non of them realy made a lot of sense to me, the lost piece of dna of another organism esspecialy just seemed like lazy science, then I thought back at the orgin point of life and how most theories believed bacteria just came into being but that made no sense because they already were way too complex for early life, then it hit me, viruses are the survivors of the primordial origin point of life, it explains their small sizes, their border position between life and dead, their quick mutation rate and their parasitic survival strategy, instead of evolving to compete with other single cell or multicell organism, they would adapt to take over their hosts and as they evolved they became the viruses we see today but I'm willing to bet in the early stages, you would have seen a great diversity of viruses, what's left today is just what works best.
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Saudi-arabia is realy a weak third wheel, they can barely controle their military or country, they fund lots of terrorist organisations and have lots of money to spend it on but they have no advanced tech industry, no massive amount of spies, controle over media and NPO'S like israel, israel has billions and stole thermo nuclear weapons, while saudi-arabia does not even have nuclear weapons.
Mossad provided "evidence" for WMD's, these were lies and the wars and future war with Iran is in israeli intrest, though saudi-arabia also benefits, they don't pull the strings, they just fund the terrorists.
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It's not that simple, if you want the USA to defeat China you can't do it allone, that additude is how China became so rich in the first place, the USA needs a few key allies to ensure China's government collapses, that's what you want, not war.
Trump has already worked towards korean intrest, perhaps unification is a good goal to work towards, second is Japan, japans has to become much stronger to halt any Chinese advancement on the seas, third is India which Trump already has influenced but it needs to step up it's game and finaly Russia, Russia is an old bear and won't bend to the USA, you can continue to harm it's economy through sanctions but this will backfire as China will gain more influence in the region, Russia won't become a NATO member but if the USA promised and helped to fund Russian economic intrest and be less helpfull towards China then China would be surounded by all sides, it's belt and road project would become a major falure, after that the USA might influence international sanctions and that would choke the dragon slowly, war and brute force is going to end in disaster just like it did for Germany and all of Europe back in the day.
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@zhoupact8567 the way China has become so strong is by offering nations a chance to benefit in one way or another, that's how they win them in, make deal, debt lending, technology exchanges/theft, bribery, they sweeten the deal before they drop the hammer, the USA as the world military force feels comfortable and secure but it's not the same in Europe, Africa or Asia, this is where China has sought to expand and influence the most, they don't want a open conflict they want to replace the USA as lets say old world hegomony, then once everyone is dependent on them they can do anything they want, annex taiwan, annex hong kong, annex mongolia, perhaps if Russia fell apart get it's eastern parts in it's sphere, it already has major influence and funds in Africa.
And make no mistake Europeans as loyal as they are to the USA still have a sense of bitter resentment towards the USA, mostly because of a sense of second rate power, often humiliated in the news because of mig-rants and what not, the Chinese could promise them everything and most of it's leaders and people would take it, I think NATO and the EU need a total reorganisation of ideals and policies, in order to straighten out it's angry voices and make working with China seem less viable, sadly the USA because of wars, globalist policies and a lack of constructive long term action has lost a lot of favor, it takes things for granted which is a major mistake.
It might be impossible to unite and help fund all these different forces at the same time, perhaps actual war is inevitable, I think the cards that will decide it for certain are in India, Africa and Russia, though will they become american spheres? Eurosphere's or Chinese spheres? Idk.
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children don't see race or understand differences as well because they aren't yet off the age of group competition and understanding of social status, kids and teenagers do have inborn racial bias which comes natural to them of all colors and groups, we like to imprint the innocence of children in this regard but realy it's their naivety and lack of understand which is showing.
personally I don't like the label of racist or racism because it's very black and white thinking as in someone is or is not a racist, while in reality all people have racial bias proven by science and on top of that there are positive and negative ethno centric views to varying of degrees, someone could be helpfull towards other races in one setting like say work, while being opposite to those same people living next to them or marrying into their family, not because of individual traits but as a group.
what's most interesting though is that modern society does not reject racism, in fact it very much promotes it and pushes for it, it is only that each era in time it's a different group that's being targeted or accepted to dislike by the society and the elites that govern society, in the past it was irish, blacks and jews, today it's whites, males and christians.
to be a ''racist'' one must belong to a group and then advocate for the self interest of that group over other groups, by this definition, all human beings with any amount of power, self or group identity interest is a ''racist'' therefor this label is just silly in the manner it's being used today.
i think someone being negative ethno centric is much more honest and objective than terms like ''racist'' or ''anti racist'' which as we can see is clearly not what they think it means.
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@fritzamparo3209 the russians can sell their oil and gas to China but that takes time and since China has other options but Russia does not means they won't be able to charge them full price.
I would say Russia invading another nation is perhaps the most clear show of expansionism you could have, not sure what you mean by this, I'm pretty sure Russia does not really care how close NATO is to Russia that's just propaganda nonsense, what they do care about it a former close ''ally'' of Russia being converted to the western side of doing things and showing Russians what their society could look like without Putin, that makes way more sense than the current Russian narrative.
the civl conflict is due to Russian annexation and Ukraine not giving up claims to these lands which is their right but if there is a peace treaty in which these lands are legitimized as Russian lands then that would solve that issue and Ukraine could join NATO but again that's not what the conflict is about, even if Russia got 50% of Ukraine that's not a deal they want, they want to crush any sense of Ukraine becoming western, still if the war goes badly or NATO steps up then they might be forced to make a deal.
Afghanistan and Iraq were never democracies, never tried on their own to become democracies and were never really part of the western world in any way, Ukraine is closer to Europe, has some history with the rest of the continent and is strongly economically connected to both the west and the rest of the world, this would not be a NATO occupation, it would mostly be a western liberation of Russian aggresion, like in ww2.
nukes won't be used, small yield nukes won't destroy the world, humanity is fine, the scale of nuclear war has been reduced by a lot and nobody wants it, again this is fear of nukes is what's part of Russian propaganda tactics the world is fine, don't fall for the Russian bluf and also the early 80s predictions of nuclear fallout or winter have been disproven because the people that promoted it feared nuclear war would happen otherwise and they were somewhat right to think and thus fearmonger about it, not so much now, back then the global warhead count was like 500.000 now it's like 15.000.
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I think your predictions of Turkey becoming a new super power/great power is very optimistic, a bit too optimistic but not 100% wrong like someone might say.
Turkey is a strong nation for a number or reasons but the biggest reasons for it was the westernization of their society away from the ottoman style system that made them the sick man of Europe for such a long time, their major advantage over the western world is mostly their location, their demografics and their military (funded by NATO and western ideas of war).
however while all this growth and westernization has gone on, Turkey itself has become very divided between both rural and urban cultures and Erdogan has revealed himself to be a dictator and is slowly eroding all major freedoms of the turkish people, while at the same time making threats across the region and a lot towards Europe which does not give them any favors.
I find it ironic that Erdogan keeps comparing other nations, western leaders somehow to nazi's or Hitler it seems like a projection in what he might wish to be, he has made threats to israel and has been promoting pan-turkish nationalism to create a new sphere of influence.
it all depends on what happens with the Turkish leadership now, if they continue down the current road i have great doubts that Turkey will become a superpower, if they get rid of the current insanity and focus on becoming more westernized, creating stability around them rather then fear and hatred for them then they will be a major power in the region and most likely will be a great power but right now, almost everyone in the west hates them, are trying to limit Turkey's influence while the population within Turkey is more and more polorized and divided.
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Maria W except the oil was not stolen and it would have been cheaper to buy it, iraq wars were not about oil though that's a popular myth but it's just not accurate, Afghanistan is a pretty worthless region except for one resource, well two technically, opium and jihadi terrorists, taliban were basicaly soldiers for hire and illigale drug trade gives money for illigale opperations and funding of terrorist cells, it gives nations in this case the USA, plausable denialibility.
Nations like saudi-arabia wanted US protection from iranian competition and to protect their oil pipelines.
Turkey meanwhile bought oil from isis, is trying to cause wars in the middle-east, is throwing oil on the fires between Azebetijan and Arminia (or however you write their names) threatening Europe and is openly hostile towards Greece which is a NATO country and a member of the EU.
Trump is anti war but no matter how much he tries to avoid it, Turkey is bound to drive them back in, forget Iran that's a non threat almost, Turkey on the other hand is a real threat, years of NATO funding and western weapons in the hands of a backwards authoritarian leader like Erdogan? Only bad things will come from his rule.
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@craigkdillon well yes and no, Putin is not an idiot from the perspective of someone who wants to stay in power, however he is a crook and an idiot in trying to create the best country Russia could be but seeing as Russia used to be the USSR that little progress he did do were leaps from what they used to be.
as for Russia itself, it's a different type of country than say the netherlands or germany, where both have stable cultures, governments, low corruption and access to sea lanes and trade routes, Russia is huge, very difficult to move goods to or from, frozen ports for most of the year and has multiple ethnic groups and cultures who in a more democratic and western style situation would likely move towards independence and seperatist nationalism.
Russia is a bit of a relic in a new age trying to find it's place while wanting to hold on to the old ideas of being a super power, Putin is keeping the country down but his replacement might do so as well, there realy is no easy solution for Russia, at some point they have to bite the bullet and accept the world has changed and get a public as well as elitist movement to change the country and make peace with the west but since that is also at the cost of military security is very hard to pull off.
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@craigkdillon yeah I agree, though Stalin did suppressed and killed many more people than the tsar his rule were about the same, except perhaps replacing the orthodox church with himself.
Yes Putin has recreated the orthodox church but even further he has been trying to embrace islam as well as they are a growing demografic which clashes with more nationalistic people like Nevalny (the western media likes to display him as some pro democratic, anti authoritarian politician but he is realy a ultra nationalist)
Everyone can pass through the sea lanes but what can they sell? Cars? Microchips? Bikes? I have no idea and the USA can blockade any progress they make with sanctions, because resources are so nessisary for western nations these lines of flow are less likely to be targeted with sanctions and can be used as political bargaining chips for other issues, it's why Nord stream 2 with Germany is a big deal because it makes Germany less energy independent.
Further Russia has so many problems all at once, demografics, corruption, military security, distrusted by other nations, seperatist movements, all at once and Putin as a authoritarian leader is more focused on staying in power, it's very delicate and balanced between reform and holding on to power, once Putin is gone you could see some major changes or a repeat of his policies, who knows for sure?
As for Xi, im not sure actualy how he compares, he's an authoritarian leader for sure, basicaly a bit like Hitler in terms or totalitarian government but China's economy is still growing right? Also demografics problems but in terms of growth still very strong I believe.
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@craigkdillon not sure if that's fully accurate since China has gotten sanctions and trade war with USA due to China's actions yet the same was applied to Europe to a lesser degree, Russia has no warm water ports except the one in Cremea which due to them annexing it in full caused the sanctions to begin with, you also have some trade in the far east but again the distance from western Russia to eastern Russia is huge.
Russia does make things and exports them to European markets but those same markets are in competition with eachother, the US and China, not all countries can make micro chips or smart phones and even if they could they would get out competed with other companies, Russia can only stick with what they are good at which is basic things like food, oil, gas, weapons and so on, the only way for them to diversity their economy would be for their people, economy and government to be stable with stable property rights, the way Russia works just does not support this.
Wealth creation is all about possibilities, capitalism, trade lanes, stable property rights and innovation and Russia has almost non of these things and simply changing the leader won't fix that overnight.
I do wonder what you think would happen if say Russia became more of a legit democracy, had more western values, property rights and perhaps become part of the EU, I know the EU itself does not want Russia to join it but if it by some miracle did would that be possitive for Russia or would it harm both Russia and the EU? Love to hear your thoughts on this.
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@craigkdillon I did not know about the Niger river or Congo river but you are misunderstanding what I mean, I mean water lanes, via rivers or shores gives access to greater trade routes from which civilizations can grow and can create multigenerational wealth, most of Africa is one giant land mass with only few large rivers and no interal shorelines, it's hard to explain but when you look at a map of Europe you see a relatively small land mass with many shorelines with interwoven river systems and canals to give greater access to the seas, the Netherlands is a good example, as is the UK both of which became sea focused trade empires, while countries like Germany and Russia are more land based, though Russia used to have access to the baltic countries and even learned boat building from the Dutch thanks to Peter the great.
The west of Russia is where most of the people are because most early russian civilizations settled near the rivers, it's also where most of their trade takes place, however the north east of Russia is the Frozen Tundra of Siberia and the vast boreal forests beyond, compare that to the USA which habitat and sea access is far more easy to access and is located in a perfect location for trade with asia to the west and Europe and west Africa to the east, along with south america to the south, made even easier with the panama canal.
What im trying to say is sea lanes are the lifeblood of trade which generates wealth, it's not only that of course but it's a measurement of potential of wealth, Kasakstan or western part of China are never going to be as wealthy as the eastern part which is closer to the sea.
Likewise Russia has huge amount of land but very little shoreline which they can use, which limits their access to trade, they could solve this issue by investing in better trains and gaining better access to western markets which would then give oppertunity to invest in new Russian products produced in their countries, though not all western nations would like this as well, it's complicated but in most cases easier trade and free markets does produce more wealth.
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@AeneasGemini that's how technology should work but right now we are doing the opposite of that, we are limiting ourselfs just to one source and moving backwards as a result, in the ideal world we would have a optimized set up of both nuclear, gas, renewables, geo-therma, hydro and biofuels, instead we are limited to mostly just biofuels, renewables and hydro which is just silly, we have barely even tapped into nuclear innovation so we aren't developing the technology we need and are more dependent on technology we already have.
Meanwhile places like China and India understand the value of nuclear energy and will leave the rest of us in the dark ages if we don't try and catch up, only France is really bringing their game to market and even investing in fusion, that's the future not Germany's renewables agenda.
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@RexGalilae but that's actually not true, there are nations like the USA that are mostly self reliant and have enough resources, Russia is a close second, China would like to be the same as would other nations, the world system as created by the USA is made this way on purpose, if nobody is self reliant they are forced to trade for most of their goods and services, while the USA can mostly sustain itself, this goal was actually what the Germans in ww2 and ww1 to a lesser extend wanted.
Now you can argue that no nation can always be 100% self reliant all the time as disasters can strike, new resources or technology changes the system, too many people for limited resources, so on so forth but as an economic concept most nations try to be self reliant if they can be, food security is an important factor of this or water security, in the coming decades you can expect more wars over water.
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@TheGargantuanLeviathan actualy BLM gets major donations from all major corporations, big tech and was funded by Gorge soros open society foundation for years even before 2016.
BLM don´t care about black people, they often burn down black owned stores and shops, all they care about is money and these corporations are basicaly bribing them ´´here take these millions of dollars, we will put up the black screen, please don´t label us racists and burn our stores, say nice things about us so you will promote our products´´
it's realy sad how so many people are fooled by BLM, you know what would have realy helped? if everyone had taken on the ''all lives matters'' motto and actualy stood for equality and fairness, the only problem with that is, it does not produce money, only a just and fair society, they don't want that.
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@1996koke actually yes because the USA legal system is a lot like the British one, just not a Parlement but a republic, I find this whole comparison to be just kinda silly to be honest.
as for Singapore and Hong Kong I don't see much of a difference in fact Singapore with it's location right on a trade line between India and China via sea was in a much better place to become a rich nation compared to Hong Kong which was right next to a communist dictatorship.
you don't need to have direct influence to guide a nation to a good path, India for example was abused far more than the people of Singapore or Hong Kong by the British and after ww2 they pretty much got their independence but did they fall back to how india used to be? no, they copied the UK legal code, Property rights and now they are doing very good, it's not something that's shamefull or bad, it's good.
it's silly to say ''ohhh X specific country did not do as well as Y specific country therefor nation that ruled it before is bad'' that's just silly, nations that copied the british model in one form or another are richer and more technologically advanced then those that did not and those that are rising right now have either stopped doing it after they left or their new leadership after a period of bad times are going back to the same type of model.
give me an example of a nation that copied western models in full and somehow got poorer and devolved into tyrany, cuss I can't think of one, the closest i can come up with is Russia after decades of the USSR where it collapsed and had to shift to a market economy and had a short drop in economic growth yet then it magically picked up again and not because they went back to the former USSR model, im just saying.
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@dru4670 my main weakness is I have too much empathy, I always reason which is why im often censored and insulted by people who hate the truth, I always listen to people who I disagree with, that's how you prevent being stuck in an echochamber.
There is a Imam in new sealand, they call him the Imam of peace, why? Because he dares to talk about the violence, inhumanity and threat from islam, he gets death threats from "peacefull muslims" every day, he gives me hope, not those who actualy defend islam and call those who speak the truth hypocrites, it's easy to call someone names, it's hard to actualy confront the truth.
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they aren't taking drones seriously? aren't they putting a lot of effort in making new drones both in Europe, the USA, Iran, Russia, China and Japan?
Rheinmetal's new tank the Panther is going to have build in drone linking capabilities, as well as light anti air defence against drone targets I believe.
then you got the US switchblade drones that Kamikazi into targets.
I think they take drones very seriously but don't have a good, cheap and easy counter to many of these drones, so far their response seems to be either counter drones, improved radar systems and anti air targeting systems.
I feel like nations are looking at the war in Ukraine and trying to figure out if the same conditions would apply to them if they got involved in such a large scale war or if the drone warfare we are seeing are due to the lack of air superiority as well as much of the low tech we are seeing being used on both sides, after all it might not be a good idea to start rushing into any specific system for billions worth of R&D and testing if it turns out those systems won't be used in any new modern war.
one thing I've notice the focus from the west is on, are new fighter aircrafts and maintaining air superiority to bomb any potential enemy before they get to use any local level drones on ground forces.
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Populism is simply what is popular with the people, it can mean anything from communism, anti authoritarianism, fascism, pro free speech, pro guns, pro wellfare, socialism, traditionalism, nativism, natalism, anti natalism, everything.
The irony is that in the west right now the least authoritarian political movements tend to be (not always) are populist movements because the governments have become authoritarian and are doing things quite on a softer level than China but slipping further to authoritarianism.
The current leadership in the west tend to use corporations and big tech companies to do their censorship and spying for them, also arrest people for "mean tweets" the phrase "it's a private company it can do whatever it wants" is much closer to fascism than the populist movements against it.
Always look what the populist stands for and who opposes them, most often in the west those who oppose them are the authoritarians who fear losing their power, propaganda is a great tool they use to demonize populists, just like in China.
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@HeadsFullOfEyeballs Populism refers to a range of political stances that emphasize the idea of "the people" and often juxtapose this group against "the elite". It is frequently associated with anti-establishment and anti-political sentiment. The term developed in the late 19th century and has been applied to various politicians, parties and movements since that time, often as a pejorative. Within political science and other social sciences, several different definitions of populism have been employed, with some scholars proposing that the term be rejected altogether.
A common framework for interpreting populism is known as the ideational approach: this defines populism as an ideology which presents "the people" as a morally good force and contrasts them against "the elite", who are portrayed as corrupt and self-serving. Populists differ in how "the people" are defined, but it can be based along class, ethnic, or national lines. Populists typically present "the elite" as comprising the political, economic, cultural, and media establishment, depicted as a homogeneous entity and accused of placing their own interests, and often the interests of other groups—such as large corporations, foreign countries, or immigrants—above the interests of "the people". Populist parties and social movements are often led by charismatic or dominant figures who present themselves as "the voice of the people". According to the ideational approach, populism is often combined with other ideologies, such as nationalism, liberalism, or socialism. Thus, populists can be found at different locations along the left–right political spectrum, and there exist both left-wing populism and right-wing populism.
Other scholars of the social sciences have defined the term populism differently. According to the popular agency definition used by some historians of United States history, populism refers to popular engagement of the population in political decision making. An approach associated with the political scientist Ernesto Laclau presents populism as an emancipatory social force through which marginalised groups challenge dominant power structures. Some economists have used the term in reference to governments which engage in substantial public spending financed by foreign loans, resulting in hyperinflation and emergency measures. In popular discourse—where the term has often been used pejoratively—it has sometimes been used synonymously with demagogy, to describe politicians who present overly simplistic answers to complex questions in a highly emotional manner, or with opportunism, to characterise politicians who seek to please voters without rational consideration as to the best course of action.
In the 1960s the term became increasingly popular among social scientists in Western countries, and later in the 20th century it was applied to various political parties active in liberal democracies. In the 21st century, the struggle over the term intensified in political discourse, particularly in the Americas and Europe, with it being used to describe a range of left-wing, right-wing, and centrist groups that challenged the established parties.[1]
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The irony of your statement is that authoritarians in power right now in the west argue via appeal to emotions, against critical thinking, very biased and openly promote authoritarianism, police state policies and censorship and label all populists as "extremists", "far right", "nazi's" , "racists" and via that appeal to emotion try to promote more censorship and authoritarianism.
You are simply incorrect.
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I realy have my doubts on a lot of these predictions and I believe technology and radical new ideologies might create new geo-political realities, while some people might cringe at the idea, I wonder how society would change if AI, robotics and artifical wombs would become cheap for a population, how it would impact custody laws, feminism and population growth, since we don't naturally select as much as before and with that the limitations of age on population growth becomes nul and void, men would be able to start families from a very young age and continue having children into their 60s, this could have profound effects on society, morality, governments and population growth.
I can imagine governments wanting to ban these things but if they become cheap enough and help to combat declining birthrates, it would only take a handfull of countries to start normalizing it.
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