WSJ/NBC poll ? Yeah, I'm sure that polled an equal amount of the country's beliefs.
A recent poll in Hustler magazine revealed that men like to look at boobs.
A recent poll in The Vatican news reveled that no one looks at boobs.
What the heck do you think you'd get out of a WSJ/NBC poll. 90% of their audience is liberal.
How do you think the same "poll" would play out if taken by The Daily Wire?
Ive been on this earth for almost 50 years, and no one has yet to ask me my opinion on any poll.
Do you truly think that the people who read WSJ - the business journal - are liberals? I'd understand that argument if you were talking about CNN twitter poll, or something along those lines. But this is a poll that isn't on the readers, its done scientifically to attempt to minimize the margin of error. They're calling people from all around the country -- probably around 500 or so from different parties and different ideologies, different income levels, walks of life, etc (or at least they try for this) So your argument is invalid. This isn't a bias on the readers or anything like that. If you would've started saying that you think polling is flawed for x,y, z reason (Ex: People who respond to polls are biased because they respond, issues with data gathering, issues of questions) then I would've said that your argument is fine. But the one you've presented isn't legitimate. |
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We don't need to be in tons and tons of foreign wars for no fucking reason. If it were up to me I'd want to leave most of the countries that we have troops stationed in cause they server no purpose and they're a HUGE drain on government funds.
Let Trump leave Syria and let it be. It's not our problem anyway.
War in the middle east is a lot more complicated than you think. There are plenty of good reasons to stay. And plenty of good reasons to leave. Nobody wants to keep fighting over there forever. But, Trumps decision to basically give Turkey a green light to slaughter the Kurds could very well help Isis more than anyone, and if they manage to regroup and organize themselves, it will be a problem that we will have to deal with again either over there or over here. Well here's the decision we have to make as a country. Either stay in the middle east and continue to fight wars over their. Or leave. That's it. It's pretty simple to me. Because we either stay or we dont. fyi, that's not what Trump is doing. He's not pulling out of the middle east, or even Syria or evening bringing any troops home. He's just moving about 100 of them out of North Syria to make way for Turkish attacks. Basically Turkey said "we want to attack the Kurds and secure a 20 by 100 mile area in North Syria" and Trump said "ok". His whole "We've wasted too much money, this war needs to end!" rant is just to distract from what's actually happening. I don't think that Trump is willingly moving Trumps to hurt an ally, I don't think that's something any President would do -- nor do I think the military would be on board and I think we'd know about it pretty quickly. Where did the troops move to if you don't mind me asking if you'd know that-- or are these people coming home? If there people are coming home, I think Trump is right and this is fair to do. If the troops are going to another base for no reason, then you're (and the people that are shitting on his decision) and others are right. I do think that we should leave the middle east, but hawks will disagree with me. |
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We don't need to be in tons and tons of foreign wars for no fucking reason. If it were up to me I'd want to leave most of the countries that we have troops stationed in cause they server no purpose and they're a HUGE drain on government funds.
Let Trump leave Syria and let it be. It's not our problem anyway.
War in the middle east is a lot more complicated than you think. There are plenty of good reasons to stay. And plenty of good reasons to leave. Nobody wants to keep fighting over there forever. But, Trumps decision to basically give Turkey a green light to slaughter the Kurds could very well help Isis more than anyone, and if they manage to regroup and organize themselves, it will be a problem that we will have to deal with again either over there or over here. Well here's the decision we have to make as a country. Either stay in the middle east and continue to fight wars over their. Or leave. That's it. It's pretty simple to me. Because we either stay or we dont. |
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This is more of what I meant. The Chinese government is the problem, they've forced the Chinese people to work under horrible conditions, be paid nothing, giving companies pretty much all of the power in China, and have stripped them of basically every human right.
Illegals in the US have more rights then regular everyday people in China. That's truly saying something.
Hopefully the protests in HK spark anger all across China -- though I don't think it's going to happen.
I personally understand what you meant, but I think it is important to be explicit, especially since a significant language barrier is involved. The people of China need to understand this is not an attack upon their nation if they are to feel enabled to resist the CCP. This is the CCP's primary strategy to rile up nationalism and cast foreigners as wanting to attack the nation itself rather than its criminal leadership. I don't think most of the mainland Chinese will be as much pissed over what is happening in Hong Kong, as they will see it as an example that resistance is possible. However when China's economy inevitably falters, they will in fact be pissed and be motivated to resist, and that is when the lessons learned in Hong Kong will become more important. China is a great nation with lots of gifted people, but its culture has long been festering under the rule of the CCP. China needs to bury the CCP and grow out of its corpse into the beautiful and strong tree it was always destined to be. Without a doubt fair, we wouldn't want any of our Chinese friends on the board thinking that we're demonizing them when we're not. So that's something that I without a doubt think is fair to be explicit about. I just don't see a way for the CCP to fall with the people under their thumb as they are now. It's not something that's going to be easy, and the people are going to need the support of other nations to allow for them to takeover the gov and be replaced with a Democratically elected one. That's not an easy task -- and regime change always brings about the chance of a power vacuum and violence. |
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So this is pretty much how the media and how people work right now.
If Trump does something (doesn't matter what it is) it's wrong and he should've done the opposite. This is literally orange man bad line of thinking right now.
We don't need to be in tons and tons of foreign wars for no fucking reason. If it were up to me I'd want to leave most of the countries that we have troops stationed in cause they server no purpose and they're a HUGE drain on government funds.
Let Trump leave Syria and let it be. It's not our problem anyway.
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New poll just came out from WSJ/NBC stating that there is a majority of Americans who support an impeachment inquiry starting into Trump. Though there is no majority present for removing the President from office. This is a very unique position to be in. Lets go back in history to look at Nixon.By the time that the house had started an impeachment inquiry into Nixon, he had already had horrible approval ratings and about 40 percent of Americans supported removing him from office. Nixon didn't even have the support of his own party. Look at Clinton. Clinton had great approval ratings, 68 percent of Americans supported him at this point and only 28 percent of Americans supported removing him from office at the start of his inquiry. Clinton had about 40-50 percent of Republicans approving of him. Trump is somewhere between these two in terms of impeachment. And an extreme on his approval rating. His approval rating his between these two -- but Trump has most of his support from Republicans (80-90 percent support of Republicans) and 30-40 percent support from Independents and pretty much no support among Democrats. Looking at history may not even help us here, as we're truly in an area we've never seen before. https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-is-in-a-unique-position-amid-impeachment-11570626125?mod=hp_lead_pos6I think it is important to point out that people, regardless of their support for the president, just want this process to move forward via legal due process. There is wide spread fatigue with this whole push to overturn the results of the 2016 election at all costs via media hype and political dirty tricks. Supporters of the president also understand if they begin official proceedings, that will give the president authority under the law to bring damning information against the Democrats, and force them to prove accusations of which they have never had any factual basis for. Oh yeah, I think that's the most vital part. People want to come to the truth, and they want it to be an independent investigation. They don't want to see Democrats or Republicans attempt to turn this into another partisan witch hunt of the President. Because Trump already can yell about (and truthfully) state that Democrats have been going after him through his entire presidency for different allegations and all of them have been false. The problem here though is that impeachment is typically a pretty partisan activity. We're even having this issue right now, as Adam Schiff goes into his committee that is on LIVE TELEVISION and paints Trumps conversation to be 10000x worse then it actually was. After sometime, Republicans (including Trump) point out that Schiff had been lying about the exchange. Schiff then has to say that he was reciting his interpretation and a parody of the conversation........ |
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Well, if she actually runs, she might be afforded temporary reprieve from her crimes. As it is, all it takes is one witness to come forward without being assassinated to bring her down.   She (as well as Biden) know that as long as they are running, they can just claim political interference if they are prosecuted. Pretty much the goal here. I don't think Bidens crime rise to the point where the public is going to want him prosecuted for it -- mostly because of the fact that the media is going to deflect for him and he's going to get away with it. But he's able to let it get out of the public eye for a LONG TIME. Pretty much enough time for the prosecutors to be able to avoid it. Only because people have no clue what is going on. That is going to change. Polls already show majority support for investigating Biden. He was able to escape prosecution in the past because of the complicity of the same entities which would prosecute him, that is no longer the case. https://www.investors.com/politics/americans-back-trump-impeachment-ukraine-scandal-biden-probe/Isn't it great how the news works. I hadn't seen one story regarding a Biden probe, but I've probably seen like 100 stories relating to how the majority of Americans are supporting an impeachment inquiry. Great to see the American people see that this whole scandal cuts both ways and that the actions of Biden weren't on the up and up. |
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New poll just came out from WSJ/NBC stating that there is a majority of Americans who support an impeachment inquiry starting into Trump. Though there is no majority present for removing the President from office. This is a very unique position to be in. Lets go back in history to look at Nixon.By the time that the house had started an impeachment inquiry into Nixon, he had already had horrible approval ratings and about 40 percent of Americans supported removing him from office. Nixon didn't even have the support of his own party. Look at Clinton. Clinton had great approval ratings, 68 percent of Americans supported him at this point and only 28 percent of Americans supported removing him from office at the start of his inquiry. Clinton had about 40-50 percent of Republicans approving of him. Trump is somewhere between these two in terms of impeachment. And an extreme on his approval rating. His approval rating his between these two -- but Trump has most of his support from Republicans (80-90 percent support of Republicans) and 30-40 percent support from Independents and pretty much no support among Democrats. Looking at history may not even help us here, as we're truly in an area we've never seen before. https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-is-in-a-unique-position-amid-impeachment-11570626125?mod=hp_lead_pos6 |
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As it should be.
China is a horrible country. One that has been able to bully the rest of the world into giving them what they want because they have a large amount of trade presence in the world. For decades we've ignored the atrocities committed by the Chinese onto their own people, and to others (think of the uighur's)
No other nation on this earth would be given the leeway that China is given -- the only reason they've been allowed to do this for so long is because no President in any country wants to be the one that causes some short term loss to the economy to allow for long term propserity.
Let China SUFFER.
China is a very fervently nationalist people. I think it is important to make the distinction between the peoples of China, the Nation of China, and the CCP which is largely responsible for most of the abhorrent crimes coming out of the nation. The CCP is not so much popular in China among the people as it is feared. It is essentially a mafia, and that makes them dangerous to oppose in public, creating lots of lip service and public support where it may not actually exist in the minds of the people. I don't think the people of China deserve to suffer, they have already suffered greatly under the CCP, but the CCP needs to be destroyed if China is going to enter the modern era with the support of the rest of the world. This is more of what I meant. The Chinese government is the problem, they've forced the Chinese people to work under horrible conditions, be paid nothing, giving companies pretty much all of the power in China, and have stripped them of basically every human right. Illegals in the US have more rights then regular everyday people in China. That's truly saying something. Hopefully the protests in HK spark anger all across China -- though I don't think it's going to happen. |
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As it should be.
China is a horrible country. One that has been able to bully the rest of the world into giving them what they want because they have a large amount of trade presence in the world. For decades we've ignored the atrocities committed by the Chinese onto their own people, and to others (think of the uighur's)
No other nation on this earth would be given the leeway that China is given -- the only reason they've been allowed to do this for so long is because no President in any country wants to be the one that causes some short term loss to the economy to allow for long term propserity.
Let China SUFFER.
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Well, if she actually runs, she might be afforded temporary reprieve from her crimes. As it is, all it takes is one witness to come forward without being assassinated to bring her down. She (as well as Biden) know that as long as they are running, they can just claim political interference if they are prosecuted. Pretty much the goal here. I don't think Bidens crime rise to the point where the public is going to want him prosecuted for it -- mostly because of the fact that the media is going to deflect for him and he's going to get away with it. But he's able to let it get out of the public eye for a LONG TIME. Pretty much enough time for the prosecutors to be able to avoid it. |
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This whole election meddling issue was brought about by Hilary Clinton and the DNC who couldn't just accept that Donald Trump was able to beat them in the Election, they have spent the last three years trying to discredit his victory all to nought. The Muller investigations yielded no concrete evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government.
Correct. The dems couldn't just accept that they lost because they had a horrible candidate. The sooner they move on from the Russia phantom the better for them. Play Stupid Games: Nominate Clinton and don't allow any other potential nominee even a chance of winning by rigging the entire contest from the start. Win Stupid Prizes: Lose to one of the most hated people in America at the time of his election Donald J. TrumpThat's the prize. You picked the worst Dem candidate, so the worst Republican candidate picked and beat you. |
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Ah -- you've heard it right. Hillary is saying that she might run again for the Presidency. After Trump had stated that Clinton should run again, she slapped back with "Don't Temp me. Do your job"
What a great timeline, this lady actually wants to run for president again and she MIGHT! Talk about an easy 2020 if she was to actually do something like this.
What an idiot.
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I don't know if I would even say that's the case, I could see it being the other way.
When the price of Bitcoin goes down substantially, and people have lost large large deals of money that they've invested into crypto -- they may turn to gambling to 'win it back' because they don't see the price of BTC (or whatever) recovering back to what they bought it for.
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Part of the beauty of the internet is no one really gives a shit, and your ideas and character are what people see, not your meat vessel.
Heh. You haven't been to twitter in sometime have you? You know the struggle on any social media site. People will search through your pictures and stuff to 'win the argument' even search into your other social media accounts to win. I don't use Twatter or Facefuck and try to use Googlag as little as possible. When I say "no one" I mean the internet natives, not the normie tourists increasingly infesting the interwebs. Ahahahahah. Fair enough. Big fan of all the names for all the different sites. Any reason in particular you hate the sites? I understand not using them to post yourself, but I do think the're good resource to keep track of different projects, companies, people, etc. |
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Part of the beauty of the internet is no one really gives a shit, and your ideas and character are what people see, not your meat vessel.
Heh. You haven't been to twitter in sometime have you? You know the struggle on any social media site. People will search through your pictures and stuff to 'win the argument' even search into your other social media accounts to win. Other -> attack helicopter
What the fuck is even the point of this thread?
I can tell you it certainly isn't for you to come in here and drop one liners for your daily btc collection. If you read what I said perhaps you'd know why I posted it? Basic reading skills... maybe I'm asking too much? If you don't care to vote get off the thread. Attack helicopter would fall under the gender category too btw. Peace oot. That's what the report button is for, in this case "low quality". You could also send the campaign manager a message here. He is currently burning out the dead wood. I mean I think we've all seen tons and tons of his little minions coming over here and posting garbage like this. |
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These are all games for the US. Watch the movie "Lord of war" and you 'll understand why the US do these things.
Long story short, the US can't survive in a peaceful world. They need wars and lots of gun sales to keep their economy running healthy.
USA is arming both the Kurds and Turkey. They want them to fight forever.
Everybody knows USA created ISIS as well. People in Europe also see the shit USA trying to pull and how it is going to harm the Europeans as they already suffer from it, that's why Trump is also threatening Europe as well.
This isn't true in the least. The US has a military to use strategically. I would think that most people know this by now, but for people that dont -- the US uses their military to get favorable trade deals with other nations, to get their companies into other countries, to sway politicians towards American causes, and so on and so forth. The US has bases in other countries to employ the locals in the area -- it's a way to get local politicans and then people past them on their side. It's a way to get American interests thought of in other nations. It's a lot of leverage when you can tell a nation you're going to be shutting down the bases in their city that employs a large portion of people in that city and then helps the city survive through food purchases, electricity, etc. The US plays the game. Just like any other country in the world. |
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There's a lot of chinese shit on Amazon and they are promoting it every way they can. In the daily offers for example 90% of products is brandless stuff. I mean it has some brand but it's a chinese brand that happens to produce only this little USB lamp or led strip. It's so visible in tools as you can find an electric drill that looks exactly the same and has one chinese brand on it and another, exactly the same, with a different chinese brand. Usually all that chinese stuff happens to be in promo or some special offer and appears on top of the search list.
Also, I find it annoying that Amazon doesn't give us a normal search option. It's always "amazon presents" or cheap/expensive, but there's no popularity search. You can't really see products listed according to sales. They don't want you to see it because new chinese brands always have 0, because their products appear and disappear and Amazon wants you to buy these because it pays good.
I try to avoid cheap Chinese stuff but sometimes it's impossible.
In this day and age I do truly think that it is impossible. There's no way to get around it in the world of ecommerce. I must say though, there are some reputable brands even in China -- think of a brand like Anker (who makes phone charges) -- they're a pretty amazing company in China. Though I guess they are a diamond in the rough of horrible brands. But yeah -- everyone is selling the same generic Chinese brand with different 'brands' on them. Good deal for most of these items, and if you buy them on Amazon you're able to return anything if it dies. That's the reason that most people like Amazon anyway, it's the customer service behind it. |
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This has been obvious but it is their platform. Unethical? Maybe. But not illegal.
I was under the impression that all of those random brand names were chinese rebadges of the same product. I can't recall the brand (searching now for the story) but I recall reading a story where some random kid ordered a shit ton of those dermasuction devices from China and slapped his own brand name on them. Started undercutting a real brand name... something about a large portion of them being faulty, shit storm of bad reviews after selling thousands, I don't remember exactly but I will throw it in this post when I locate it. ANYWAY amazon ended up kicking the dude off their platform for this.
Good example of the random rebadges.. just search "led night light" on Amazon. 20 various brand names of the exact same thing.
If Amazon is actually doing some of that rebadging then I'd agree that deserves a thumbs down. Bezos ain't rich enough yet eh?
I mean that's something thats going to be up for debate. Do I think that it should be illegal? No. I don't think that a platform that has given people great service through the years shouldn't be allowed to control their site in the way that they want. I do think that there is a large amount of people on Amazon that do re branding, Amazon might just be entering the marketplace as well. I don't see issues here, but we'll see what happens I guess. Could someone chime in who knows about this? Relating to law as a whole. |
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I don't fully understand how we've went from talking about Min wage on this thread, to literally talking about inflation and how bitcoin is the answer.
Do I think that a cryptocurrency could help a country like this with no real stable currency - yes. But I don't think Bitcoin is going to be able to be that currency unless bitcoin is going to be able to send money fast and cheap.
There are so many other coins that could work out there for overseas transfer: look at something like Stellar.
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