But imagine how easy life would be if you did
Unsure if “ignorance is bliss”, or “life’s tough when you’re stupid” is the correct answer here lol.
I don’t know man … some of the (seemingly) happiest people I know are pretty dumb … their life may seem tough but they sure do seen to enjoy it
It’s such a fine line between those two statements haha.
Probably going to give this a read. For those with short attention spans, Turning Point on Netflix is worth the watch.
No. Look, this is an ‘old world’ notion. The fact is that we are split into factions. Fence sitting is no longer an option. One side has become despotic and authoritarian. The other side does nothing but meaningless platitudes to stop it. But one evil is greater than the other. It is the left pushing identity politics, social constructionism, Critical Theory, and the idea that there is no truth but power. That is a leftist invention. It is exactly what has infected your country and destroyed it. You can hate the conservatives all you want, but they have no institutional power.
Ask yourself a serious question. Do you really believe that if your elected and non-elected officials were (little ‘c’) conservative instead of (big ‘L’) Leftists, that you would be shutting cities down over 9 covid cases and restricting travel out of the country?
I don’t think you can honestly say it would be the same.
Right now, who would you rather live under, if the alternatives were only these two, the despotic boot of your current far-left government or the people you despise at Sky News?
You don’t have to be on the right, but you have to choose a side and recognize where all this authoritarianism and despotism is coming from. And are you going to be on the side of the despots, or be on the side that opposes the despots.
We’re are very far from dealing with policy issues, this is just about basic human rights and liberties.
I get you cannot blame somebody for everything. But you can blame people who do bad things for the bad things they do.
Look at the ideas you oppose, look at where they came from and look at not only who proposes them, but enforces them. Then look at their backgrounds and find what they all have in common. Then blame them and blame them harshly.
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Regarding US military action since 1950ish.
We keep getting bogged down in ‘civil wars’ of other countries. Their power struggles for rule of their countries. Korea, Vietnam, Syria, Libya, Afghanistan, maybe Cuba, covertly much of the Western Hemisphere, certainly ‘Yugoslavia’.
Only in Iraq, did we go in and decimate them.
Of course, decades of nation building followed.
Total idiocy.
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“When you are dead, you don’t know that you are dead. It is difficult only for the others. It is the same when you are Stupid.”
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But our government in power is right wing, the state that induced millitary patrols was under the rule of a right wing premier
Mass surveillance bills here were introduced by the right wing premier. Both our left/right wing paradigms encompass autocratic constructs
I don’t hate conservatives btw
Not exactly. North Korea was a Soviet invention who literally made up a communist puppet regime from around 500 Korean communist exiles in the USSR, Kim Il Sung being perceived as most loyal to Moscow. The puppet regime later went (partially) rogue but that’s another story.
It was a blatant invasion of another country and a challenge to the recently established world order - US and Allied troops fought under the auspices of an United Nations mandate responding to an act of undeclared war. Hell, even Ethiopian, Thai and Colombian troops fought in Korea.
As for Cuba, there was no serious challenge to communist rule from inside Cuba. There was no threat of civil war and the fiasco of the Bay of Pigs stemmed in large part due to a serious underestimation of Castro’s popularity inside the country.
In Afghanistan, it was the USSR that intervened in a “civil war” between two warring parties one of which was nominally communist. When the US invaded, 97% of the country was under firm Taliban control. Again, no mixing up in a “civil war”.
The only countries where you could theoretically talk about a “civil war” were Syria and maybe Yugoslavia but that’s a stretch.
Civil war" usually erupted after the US removed a dictator who held a multiethnic and/or multireligious country by force.
“Biden will have OSHA make a rule requiring employees of companies to be tested. Companies will have to pay for the testing, but they CAN pass the cost on to employees.”
This is going to go over well.
We changed our MO on how wars ought to be fought. A kind of soft and gentle approach, where you aim for military infrastructure to weaken the enemy, until they come to terms with the fact that they cannot actually go toe to toe with the U.S. military and accept the terms of a cease-fire and eventual peace, where the people of the land will then realize the empowerment and nobility of ‘democracy’ and choose to become our partners rather than enemies.
Yup, didn’t work, can’t work, won’t work. You cannot win a war tepidly and you shouldn’t even consider going to war unless you are serious about destroying your enemy so completely that they cannot even throw a pebble at you. We lost the plot, but it’s hard to pin point when exactly that changed. It seemed to have more evolved slowly, seemingly through the Korean War (which is ongoing).
I am not anti or pro war. War is an unfortunate part of human existence and I accept that it exists. But fighting a war, just to keep a presence is a disaster of a strategy.
It should have been clear after Vietnam, that not everybody likes or wants a democratic republic for a government. We didn’t learn a damn thing.
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I think our definitions of right and left are vastly different. So I went to each of your 3 parties websites to see what I can learn. They are all the best, according to themselves. The liberal party seems to align mostly with the U.S. democrat party. The National party seems to align more with the republican party and the only party I would call ‘right wing’ in any meaningful way. And the labor party seems ambiguously similar to the liberal party. The only party I would consider on the political right is the National party. Labour and Liberal seem to be different extremes of each other. That’s what I could glean from their websites.
Dems hate the Constitution so very much.
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It seems as though we should expect the general situation to grow more eventful under the watchful gaze of Joe Biden, winner of the most votes in what experts tell us was the most secure election in history.
I don’t expect this new vaccination “mandate” to be helpful to anyone, anywhere. I don’t expect it will result in any meaningful change in the pandemic’s trajectory. I do not believe this mandate is intended to produce any such change in trajectory.
I’m personally bracing for an increasingly disrupted supply chain that’s already more disrupted than it has been at any point in my 20+ year manufacturing career. Now that we’ve learned what happens when we pay people to stay home and not work, we’re now intent on finding out what happens when you set forth conditions for employment that will result in uncounted people walking off the job.
Not mediocre. Not a middle ground. This is an administration intent on division and chaos.
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We should be used to it now.
The vax mandates are a power play and a way to distract from Afganistan. It is unconstitutional and will not pass the next step. I am not awareof the legal wording you have, but such a mandate should pass judicial body before being inforced?
However the sad part is Greece had medical staff contacting Genevas Human Right platform regarding vax mandates and they were given the middle finger.
So I think the whole world is divided at the moment. With governing bodies being extremelly useless.
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Given we have been talking about this issue before Afghanistan was an issue, I doubt that. Besides, we would have moved on from Afghanistan, as we already have, regardless. Americans have a need for something new to get angry about.
Nope…the mandates are too distract from the recall election in California