More are just quitting…packin’ their bags…pussies.
Do you even have a passport, Karado? Have you ever used it?
Would you say that Albert Einstein was a “pussy”? He renounced his citizenship when his home country started imposing “stricter rules”, too.
[quote]Varqanir wrote:
Do you even have a passport, Karado? Have you ever used it?
Would you say that Albert Einstein was a “pussy”? He renounced his citizenship when his home country started imposing “stricter rules”, too.
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Are you really comparing Nazi Germany with the current situation in the U.S.? Your lack of perspective is shocking, although becoming more commonplace in today’s victim-mentality society.
[quote]DBCooper wrote:
[quote]Varqanir wrote:
Do you even have a passport, Karado? Have you ever used it?
Would you say that Albert Einstein was a “pussy”? He renounced his citizenship when his home country started imposing “stricter rules”, too.
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Are you really comparing Nazi Germany with the current situation in the U.S.? Your lack of perspective is shocking, although becoming more commonplace in today’s victim-mentality society.[/quote]
The situation in 1933, when Einstein renounced his German citizenship, was that Hitler had just come to power, and had not yet inaugurated most of the policies that most people think of when they imagine “Nazi Germany”. Einstein correctly interpreted the writing on the wall, and took action. A good many of his tribe did not until it was too late, to their peril.
My point was that every emigre has some reason for pulling up roots and setting off to find more favorable ground in which to transplant himself. The reasons may be strictly opportunistic, as in the massive westward migration in the 19th century United States, but emigration to avoid persecution of some form or another is as old as our species.
My mother’s familiy’s earliest ancestor in this country, an Englishman named Silas Bedford, arrived on a little boat called Mayflower. Whether he chose to emigrate from his homeland for economic, political or religious reasons is unclear, but it seems to be clear that he and his shipmates embarked on their voyage because they felt that the rules imposed on them were stricter than they would prefer.
My father’s family came from the Volga valley in Russia, ethnic Germans descended from settlers invited there by Catherine the Great. They emigrated to avoid “stricter rules” imposed upon them by the Tsar in the 19th Century.
To paraphrase Princess Leia, the more a government tightens its grip, the more of its citizens will slip through its fingers, and go live somewhere else. It doesn’t mean they are “pussies”, as Colonel Mustard seems to imply.
That’s my perspective, anyway.
As an aside, DB are you really in Malaysia? Are you Malay, or did you arrive there from somewhere else? If so, did you flee your native land to avoid “stricter rules”, or are you just an opportunistic Mat Salleh there to make a few ringgit, free from taxation of your home government? I’d like to hear your perspective on the matter.
[quote]csulli wrote:
And before I really get into any science; I would just like to say that humanity as a whole really needs to get the fuck over themselves. We’re not that big of a deal. Planet Earth is much more robust than she gets credit for. The amount of climate change elicited by massive volcanic eruptions and asteroid impacts ridiculously dwarfs anything humanity has ever done and probably ever will do. In all likelihood the Earth will outlive us and be just fucking fine for ages after we’re gone until the sun comes to swallow it up. We are cosmically insignificant.[/quote]
YES THIS. X2.
[quote]Varqanir wrote:
[quote]DBCooper wrote:
[quote]Varqanir wrote:
Do you even have a passport, Karado? Have you ever used it?
Would you say that Albert Einstein was a “pussy”? He renounced his citizenship when his home country started imposing “stricter rules”, too.
[/quote]
Are you really comparing Nazi Germany with the current situation in the U.S.? Your lack of perspective is shocking, although becoming more commonplace in today’s victim-mentality society.[/quote]
The situation in 1933, when Einstein renounced his German citizenship, was that Hitler had just come to power, and had not yet inaugurated most of the policies that most people think of when they imagine “Nazi Germany”. Einstein correctly interpreted the writing on the wall, and took action. A good many of his tribe did not until it was too late, to their peril.
My point was that every emigre has some reason for pulling up roots and setting off to find more favorable ground in which to transplant himself. The reasons may be strictly opportunistic, as in the massive westward migration in the 19th century United States, but emigration to avoid persecution of some form or another is as old as our species.
My mother’s familiy’s earliest ancestor in this country, an Englishman named Silas Bedford, arrived on a little boat called Mayflower. Whether he chose to emigrate from his homeland for economic, political or religious reasons is unclear, but it seems to be clear that he and his shipmates embarked on their voyage because they felt that the rules imposed on them were stricter than they would prefer.
My father’s family came from the Volga valley in Russia, ethnic Germans descended from settlers invited there by Catherine the Great. They emigrated to avoid “stricter rules” imposed upon them by the Tsar in the 19th Century.
To paraphrase Princess Leia, the more a government tightens its grip, the more of its citizens will slip through its fingers, and go live somewhere else. It doesn’t mean they are “pussies”, as Colonel Mustard seems to imply.
That’s my perspective, anyway.
As an aside, DB are you really in Malaysia? Are you Malay, or did you arrive there from somewhere else? If so, did you flee your native land to avoid “stricter rules”, or are you just an opportunistic Mat Salleh there to make a few ringgit, free from taxation of your home government? I’d like to hear your perspective on the matter. [/quote]
No, I’m on the fucking moon.
Einstein didn’t read the writing on the wall. He read Mein Kampf and heard the nonstop anti-Semite rhetoric from Hitler that he’d been spewing since the days of the Beer Hall Putsch.
I understand your general point, I just think it’s a poor analogy at best to draw any sort of comparison between what happened in Nazi Germany and more strict guidelines and laws for reporting income here in the U.S. It minimizes the former and exaggerates the Draconian nature of the latter.
[quote]Bauber wrote:
[quote]csulli wrote:
And before I really get into any science; I would just like to say that humanity as a whole really needs to get the fuck over themselves. We’re not that big of a deal. Planet Earth is much more robust than she gets credit for. The amount of climate change elicited by massive volcanic eruptions and asteroid impacts ridiculously dwarfs anything humanity has ever done and probably ever will do. In all likelihood the Earth will outlive us and be just fucking fine for ages after we’re gone until the sun comes to swallow it up. We are cosmically insignificant.[/quote]
YES THIS. X2. [/quote]
While i agree that Bauber is true in his statement , I do feel the point is more Human existence on earth more than the earth existing