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6041  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Compiling a list of heroes with socialist tendencies on: December 19, 2018, 04:58:56 PM
Actually I think the one he did get right on this list was Lincoln. Lincoln actually held a personal correspondence with Karl Marx. Except even though he is lauded, if you actually look into his history he was a tyrant, quite a piece of shit, and not very bright either.
6042  Other / Politics & Society / Re: A world without borders? on: December 19, 2018, 08:46:25 AM


You know what makes even less sense? Letting everyone into these places of better quality of life there by bringing it all down to the level of the 3rd world. What you are advocating is literally holding others down to make them more equal to others who have less. Furthermore it is idiotic and won't work, because the very people you claim have no right to a better life style make that society function.

This is actually getting to the crux of the issue and is very accurate.  The reality is that much of our privileged quality of life requires keeping poor people poor.  If we don't force poor people to stay in poor places, who will dedicate their labor value to our luxurious lifestyle?  How would we externalize the true cost of our lifestyle?  We wouldn't be able to without borders.  We'd have to pay more towards the full price for the labor required to maintain our lifestyle.  If we couldn't steal anymore, our quality of life would obviously have to come down.

An Iphone would cost 2000 if made with western labor costs.  The true cost of an iphone is much more than that.  We currently pay 600 because poor people subsidize it with their labor value.  

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you can always vote with your feet if you have something of value to offer society.
thats open borders


BULLSHIT You just suffer the delusion that bringing everyone to an equal level of poverty to bring "equality" is some how desirable. The 3rd world isn't held down by anything but their own lack of development in their own nations. The best and brightest of these nations leaving for the industrialized world instead of fixing their homeland is the primary culprit. It is a self feeding cycle. No one is holding them down, it is just easier to come here and succeed because we maintain the conditions necessary to do so instead of capitulating to delusional children such as yourself, just like the people who run the Socialist nations these people are fleeing from. Being able to immigrate if you have valuable skills is not open borders, that is exactly the system we operate under currently in the US. People with desirable occupational skills get preferential access.
6043  Other / Politics & Society / Re: A world without borders? on: December 19, 2018, 04:51:54 AM
it could happen but only with a global communist police state, borders are then not between countries but between individuals and their access to consumption capacities. and socioeconomic structures.

The idea of an open border is to remove those very limitations and consumption caps. Why should you deserve more food and a better lifestyle just because you happen to be born at a certain geographical location? What makes you the better human?

Here I say you I mean everyone who is from a wealthy first world nation.

Even the term first world is derogatory, seeming like you belong to an alien planet and not earth. Makes no sense.

You know what makes even less sense? Letting everyone into these places of better quality of life there by bringing it all down to the level of the 3rd world. What you are advocating is literally holding others down to make them more equal to others who have less. Furthermore it is idiotic and won't work, because the very people you claim have no right to a better life style make that society function. You think they are gonna stick around? Fuck no, they will go to a nation that protects their investments of time, skills, education, and resources. Also this is why nations are important, because if one starts going down this self destructive path, you can always vote with your feet if you have something of value to offer society.


Let's think for a second.
Would such a world benefit mankind? Would it destabilize the current geo-economics? Is there even a remote possibility that we as humans let go of this ancient tradition of drawing lines on sand that have only served to create problems among masses and has done NOTHING good so far?

will you allow other people to sleep/eat/live in your own house ? i think not.

you see the human nature is designed or could be "programmed" to live within borders, they start small at your own bedroom that is surrounded with borders , then goes to your house as a whole building, then a yard if you have one , a street , a city/state then a country.

how can we convince the rich countries to share their resources with the poor countries when we can't convince our own kids to share the same room?

it is a beautiful dream that i would love to see ,  but sorry to tell you , this is never going to happen on any large scale  Sad

You are mixing privacy with nationality. You take pride on the borders drawn by others, accomplishments achieved by others and take credit for it. That is the biggest reason nationalism sucks.

But privacy is individual. Your doors do not equate to the border of your country.

This isn't just about pride. Pride is just a symbol. This is nothing but a gross oversimplification in a vain attempt to mischaracterize your opponent and attempt to make associations with racial supremacy groups.

This is about security, a means of earning a living, functional social services, and manageable taxes among other things. None of these things are possible with open borders and a welfare state. The two things can not coexist for any significant period of time, furthermore I argue an attempt to implement it is DESIGNED TO FAIL so that in the aftermath predatory actors can take advantage of the state of chaos and need.
6044  Other / Politics & Society / Re: A world without borders? on: December 18, 2018, 09:27:58 PM
Not a fuckin loon. And why can't we?

Sorry, heavily indoctrinated naive person. Is that better? Because no borders means nations will cease to exist. You can't have no borders in a country any more than you can have no borders in a pool. Without the borders all you have is a patch of wet dirt.
6045  Other / Politics & Society / Re: NPR's Border Fact Check on: December 18, 2018, 09:25:32 PM
Is this thread about open borders or this girl? This is what you do constantly because you have no original thoughts or arguments of your own. You know you are losing this debate horribly so you decide to focus in on the minutia of this incident to try to make it look like you some how are informed because you discuss details so much. Really it is just so you can avoid the rest. The girl was not complaining of problems until she got on that bus. It was only after on that bus is when her father made it known she was ill. The fact that she sat around for 8 hours is no fault but her fathers for subjecting her to this, then not telling the patrol agents she was ill. Also during those 8 hours she had access to food and water, so your argument is pure horse shit. This is what happens when idiots like you tell these people they have a right to be here, they endanger themselves to cross illegally just to be detained. If anyone is responsible for her death it is YOU and people like you telling them to come.
6046  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Compiling a list of heroes with socialist tendencies on: December 18, 2018, 09:02:45 PM
Jesus was a Socialist? I see you believe in Jesus, as long as it fits your arguments now?

LOL. George Orwell (not his name, really Eric Arthur Blair) fought actual fascists, so for a brief period he thought Communism was the good guy. Soon he learned, and guess what, he fought Commies too! He was no Socialist. He even wrote a book about the dangers of Communism/Marxism called Animal Farm! Orwell was anti-totalitarianism, not anti-capitalism.

This is why you like to keep your definition of Socialism vague and amorphous, so when it doesn't work like with Hitler you can say it wasn't Socialism. Then when a group or individual does some thing good you can say "look Socialism!".

Socialism has nothing of its own, it is parasitic in nature and requires the theft of resources of others, usually at the expense of the goals of the group or individual in the name of spreading Marxist ideologies. Socialism and Communism are a mind virus. Its only job is to spread itself at all costs.

How long do you think the list of villains with Socialist tendencies would be? I think much longer.
6047  Other / Politics & Society / Re: NPR's Border Fact Check on: December 18, 2018, 02:19:37 AM
I'm saying that the agents neglected the little girl. ....
In saying that without any facts to support your insult, you'd be making things up, otherwise known as lying. If you have facts, by all mean bring them forth, otherwise shut the fuck up, because you are insulting good people working in Border Patrol for clearly ideological biased reasons.

TECSHARE also said I don't know what happened to the girl.  The girl died due to dehydration which is easily preventable.  That is fact.  

Yes, I am sure the dehydration was during that 90 minute bus ride, not the hike thru the desert that the father exposed her to.
6048  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Demands of Gilet Jaunes (Yellow Vests) on: December 18, 2018, 02:15:23 AM
Just as predicted the Socialists and Commies roll in and try to take credit for everyone elses work and hijack the group and redirect it toward implementing Marxist ideologies. They are parasites and can build nothing of their own. I saw the exact same shit happen to Occupy in the US. Before you know it, it will be yellow vest consensus by hand sparkle (because clapping can trigger people). Communists and Socialists LAARP as revolutionaries, but the real result is they help maintain the status quo.
6049  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Brexit status on: December 17, 2018, 09:28:45 PM
You can't read? I never said the Globe needs to stick to American life. I was criticizing theymos for Chiming in on Brexit when he spends no time commenting on US Policies or happenings. You in the UK need to step up get some balls and deal with your own shit.

...and I never claimed you said that. I get the impression Theymos spends more time reading about these issues than most of you jamokes here. Just because he doesn't waste all day jibbering about it doesn't make him less informed. Yes the UK needs to deal with its shit, not sure what you mean by "your" but I am not a resident.
6050  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Brexit status on: December 17, 2018, 09:18:11 PM
May's deal looks totally dead, but May herself seems relatively secure. It looks like nobody wants to take the blame when everything comes crashing down. I don't like her politics at all, and her deal was basically EU vassalage, but I kind of feel bad for May...

I think that no deal is likely to be reached, and they're going to cancel brexit at the last minute, either via a referendum or even unilaterally in parliament. Any future referendum will have a pro-EU result. Brexit's cancellation will absolutely infuriate the substantial minority of people who are still strongly pro-brexit. IMO the brexit people celebrated too soon, and haven't been doing enough to lock things up. Moreover, the whole UK political system has long been hopelessly screwed up, even moreso than the US, so it's difficult to expect any positive results in anything.

A no-deal brexit would probably be the best long-term result, especially if they can also bring themselves to significantly loosen their regulations vs the EU. The "A+ plan" would be very net-good for the UK long-term, for example, but it seems impossible; IMO the people of the UK would sooner accept May's vassalage deal with the EU than reduce their regulations so much. In any case, a hard brexit will probably cause a several-year-long economic depression in the UK as the economy adapts -- will the people freak out during this and demand returning to the EU (under extremely unfavorable terms)?

What are your predictions? If you're in the UK, how are things looking there?

I get it that you have an opinion on Brexit and understand that you keep up with World politics. Let me say that out front and to the point.

You as an American with VERY REAL influence with American Forum Members are here Chiming in with your Views and opinions about Brexit?

Of all the things gong on in America that you stay silent about and voice no opinion about you are Vocal about BREXIT???

Really? Are you serious? Are you getting paid to say this shit?

You got some nuts with the whole globe sticking their nose into American life top to bottom to criticize Americans for having an opinion on Brexit. Sorry, the world doesn't get to have opinions about us while we all stay quiet any more. Also unfortunately Brexit effects us too.
6051  Other / Politics & Society / Re: NPR's Border Fact Check on: December 17, 2018, 09:14:56 PM
That article only talks about federal crimes because, conveniently, all immigration crimes are federal.  This is a genius slight of hand used by thehill to trick people like yourself into thinking the way you do but the fact is, most crime is at the state level so when sorted this way, its very misleading.  Just go to the article and search "federal" and you will see that all of the stats are based on federal crimes, federal persecutors and federal prisons.  Its a weaponized article because anyone who doesn't understand the difference between federal crime and state crime is going to be convinced.

And? Does the fact that they are federal crimes make it any less of an issue? The only sleight of hand is when you tilt your head a bit of that Postmodernist mind mush you call a brain leaks out and you wipe it from your ear. That and the fact you rely on collectivized state level stats to hide the exceptional levels of crime in Southern regional border states. Most crime is state level. You claim it is more accurate while in the same breath use the fact that some states have very low numbers of illegal immigrants as some kind of proof of their law abidingness.

Also most illegal immigrants DON'T CALL THE COPS, but lets pretend that part has no effect on the reported stats shall we? if anything the stats are UNDER reported. Illegal aliens are not more law abiding than citizens here of any sort. Every link you post requires some leftist to massage the stats other people present until they get the result they like. Also once again, even if every illegal immigrant was an angel, it still gives them no right to flood into the country, no matter how Postmodern your views on borders are.



Who said the US was the only country? No one. Please tell me a sub group of the population that does not break laws. We weren't talking about Europe until you made this statement.

"No nation can withstand open borders combined with a welfare state, it is IMPOSSIBLE."

I'll give you a chance to retract that wild statement since it somehow doesn't encompass Europe.

and this
https://www.newamerica.org/in-depth/terrorism-in-america/who-are-terrorists/

I just wanted to check to see how off your rocker you are, and you confirmed fully thank you. Essentially your view is no nation is valid and no one has rights to their land, borders, or anything because at some point in time it was taken by conquest. A subgroup of the population that doesn't break laws? How about law abiding citizens? Actually you brought up Europe, but far be it from me to expect you to even remember the crap you spew at me mindlessly.

I am not retracting anything. Open borders was fine for Europe when it was limited and the nations sharing those open borders shared a similar culture. That is different from just the open flooding in of immigrants from the 3rd world. As you can see that has been having negative effects on Europe for some time, and this is why you have the yellow vest movement. They aren't protesting gas tax, they are protesting the crushing weight of uncontrolled immigration combined with a welfare state. Those conditions are going to end, either in revolution or horrible failure, or maybe both. Of course people like you will claim you were right even as your own home is over run and burned to the ground, your last breath preaching tolerance and sacrifice, your ego too important to sacrifice, even for your life.



2.  Of course it doesn't make smuggling easier.  Smuggling is already easy.  You are the one who talked about all the bad shit being smuggled into the US.  A change to funnel immigrants through actual ports could make smuggling more difficult because you would have the main volume of people walking through ports being checked while the smugglers would be lonely trying to find another way in.  There would be no caravans to "hide amongst" as you suggest is happening now.

4. I think you need to understand the situation in Honduras before we can continue.  That will give you insight into why people are leaving and why the people who are responsible for the crime can only do it there where the political situation allows them to.  Those same people would be powerless to run their schemes in the US.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/07/crisis-of-honduras-democracy-has-roots-in-us-tacit-support-for-2009-coup

5. Human rights are very simple. Freedom of movement.  I'm not going to tell people where they have to go.  You wouldn't like it if someone said you had to go live in Honduras, (the place that YOU ruined) and tried to ship you there and you already think the analogy is ridiculous because you are convinced you earned the right to safety here more than them simply by being born.


2. So your argument is that having no security or checks on a border does not make moving contraband (including sex slave children) across it easier? You are free to have your own opinions, but not free to have your own reality. Either way under your scenario they still have a group of people to hide among. This is obviously a pretty retarded argument to anyone with any critical thought abilities.

4. You know, it really sucks some people live in bad places. I wish that was not reality, but it is reality, and inviting them all here to join us is not going to make anything better for anyone. In fact the end result will be worse for all parties, including the immigrants. Immigration has always been controlled to allow time for assimilation into the culture, without this the fabric of the USA is eroded, but people like you often think this is a desirable result.

5. Oh I ruined Honduras now? Fuck you and your guilt projection. Just calling it simple doesn't magically make it simple, though I know that concept is one Postmodernists and Socialists struggle with. I am convinced you are a fool, and I have a right to not let fools like you destroy my country with your moronic catastrophe of an ideology.



Hahaha the classic "hitler was a socialist" comment BINGO.  I'M CALLING BINGO.  

I have no reason to be biased against the nation that made me richer than most people on the planet simply by being born.  You have every reason to blindly believe might is right.   I'm just indoctrinated in the facts.  Anyone who allows crimes to be committed without doing everything in their power to stop it is complicit.  That means we are not only complicit in deaths at the border, but also complicit in the millions of deaths during unjust wars. We are also complicit in yemen.

Even if we don't support those wars, we allowed our government to do it on our behalf. I don't think we did everything possible to stop them. There was more direct action against the Vietnam war and those individuals I'd say are absolved

I'm saying that the agents neglected the little girl.  They didn't poison her but they didn't keep her healthy.  When you have a child in your custody, you are responsible for whatever happens.  7 year olds cannot care for themselves especially in stressed situations.  You have to talk to a child in a very gentle way and tell them stories and get them to open up to you so you can find out they are thirsty. You have to earn a child's trust before they will even talk to you.  

It has nothing to do with a welcome mat.  They had to leave and have nowhere else to go so there are no good options for them.  I've been pushing for immigration reform for decades and even recently called for more judges and processing at the border.  We have only seen an increase in cops.    Cops are not caretakers.   This is what cops do.

It is a fact, Hitler helped form the National Socialist German Workers Party. I know it is an embarrassing fact you socialists try to avoid at all costs, because if we started looking into every dictator who came to power using the promises of Socialism, the bodies would pile high and fast. You can't have that now can you? Easier to just make a joke out of it and pretend it is irrelevant and just avoid the whole discussion right?

You are either exceptionally incompetent or exceptionally duplicitous. I am not sure which but it doesn't much matter as the results are the same, just like it doesn't matter if you THINK you are bias against this nation, when you, in fact and action are.

Once again you can go fuck yourself with your projections of guilt. If you want to go self flagellate over it privately have at it, you don't get to pretend it entitles you to have me join you. You don't know what happened to that girl, and previously you were even saying they killed her with intent to punish them. You walking that one back now?

I submit the girl was already seriously ill, and they were trying to come here to get free healthcare. They knew if they checked the box that said she was ill, they would be quarantined and possibly have entry delayed. How is ICE supposed to protect the lives of people if they are actively lying to them about their condition? No what is most logical is they murdered a little girl to show the rest of those bastards what happens if you try to come here right?

It has ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING to do with your welcome mat. Morons like you preach the word that they are all welcome and that it is legal for them to flood in over our border, and that its ok because it is a "human right". Because of this they take huge risks to their lives and the lives of their children for a chance to get in, but then they get here and realize you were full of shit, but only after they made the dangerous expensive journey. Of course you don't give a fuck about any immigrants, you give a fuck that they serve to spread the good word of Postmodernism, and you get to feel good about yourself leaving bottles of water for them from your position of superiority.
6052  Other / Politics & Society / Re: NPR's Border Fact Check on: December 17, 2018, 03:19:28 PM
No I'm not doing what you are saying I'm doing.  Look at the links I posted.  Undocumented immigrants are not "legal immigrants".

" The incarceration rate was 1.53 percent for natives, 0.85 percent for illegal immigrants, and 0.47 percent for legal immigrants (see Figure 1). Illegal immigrants are 44 percent less likely to be incarcerated than natives. Legal immigrants are 69 percent less likely to be incarcerated than natives. Legal and illegal immigrants are underrepresented in the incarcerated population while natives are overrepresented (see Figure 2). If native-born Americans were incarcerated at the same rate as illegal immigrants, about 893,000 fewer natives would be incarcerated. If natives were incarcerated at the same rate as legal immigrants, about 1.4 million fewer natives would be incarcerated."


Yes, you are repeatedly trying to blur the line between legal and illegal immigrants. Also that is complete horse shit which I had already refuted with documentation from the GAO.

"That same year, the U.S. Sentencing Commission found that 75 percent of all criminal defendants who were convicted and sentenced for federal drug offenses were illegal immigrants. Illegal immigrants were also involved in 17 percent of all drug trafficking sentences and one third of all federal prison sentences.

The U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Sentencing Commission reported that as of 2014, illegal immigrants were convicted and sentenced for over 13 percent of all crimes committed in the U.S.

According to the FBI, 67,642 murders were committed in the U.S. from 2005 through 2008, and 115,717 from 2003 through 2009. The General Accounting Office documents that criminal immigrants committed 25,064 of these murders.

Illegal immigrants clearly commit a level of violent and drug related crimes disproportionate to their population."

https://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/crime/329589-the-truth-about-crime-illegal-immigrants-and-sanctuary-cities


Illegal immigrants by their very entry into the nation illegally show they have no regard for our laws. Even if what you said were true (it absolutely is not) it still would not make it ok that they illegally flood the country.



The land is the spoils.  Your citizenship and "right to be here over others" is the spoils.    The country itself is the spoils.  Everyone breaks laws which is why I showed you the stat supporting the idea that citizens break laws at a higher rate.   By that logic, citizens do not respect the law either.  Its not whataboutism its just obvious fact that all populations break laws.   How is the substantial list of european countries I listed not nations despite having open borders?  You can type things in caps but can you explain any of this paragraph?

I see, so this country will forever be the spoils of war. Not any other country of course, no, just the evil USA. No other country was founded by conquest, only here. Everyone does not break laws, and your "stat" is horse shit. Your "oh white men commit more terror" act is ABSOLUTELY what about-ism, and false at that. We aren't talking about Europe Captain Distraction, we are talking about the USA. Furthermore I don't think you want to use Europe as an example of the successes of open borders.



2. I don't like the status quo.  Smugglers are going to smuggle in the current situation because we have created a market.  I want the assylum seekers to be able to come in legally through a normal border entry.  I don't want them to have to run and hid and sneak like they do now. I don't want them to need to use smugglers. 

3. Again, please tell me where I am in conflict with myself?  I want them to be able to come walk in through a port of entry.  It is the current system that forces them to sneak via coyotes and be subjected to rape. 

4.  You have a total misunderstanding of what a refugee is and perhaps this stems from your generalization of entire countries.  It is very bad logic to say

a. there are a lot of criminals in central america
b. the refugees are coming from central america
c. therefore, the refugees are criminals   

It seems so simple to me that I don't even know how to explain to you how flawed your transition from a+b (facts) to c (fiction) is so I will just explain to you what refugees are. 

 Refugees are the people who FLEE violence and crime.  The people who are benefiting from the crime have no reason to go elsewhere.  Thats not to say that no refugees will ever commit crime because they are obviously just regular people and not perfect. 

5. I am all for screening but we clearly have to let them come through ports.  I don't want illegal immigration.  I want to legalize this immigration so that it can be done in a safe, effective way. 

6. 2nd generation immigrants didn't "come here", they were born here.  Everyone born here is a citizen.  There is no such thing as "illegal 2nd generation immigrants" so there is nothing to lump. 


2. I don't give a fuck what you like or want. Your argument is now having an open border DOESN'T make smuggling easier? Also you are just going to gloss over the fact it makes it easier to traffic children for prostitution?

3. You are CONSTANTLY saying shit that conflicts with everything else you say. It is a consequence of having no principals and the mental gymnastics you do to try to pretend like you have an argument. OH I SEE! The BORDER ITSELF is responsible for the rape and murder! Wow it is all so clear now. I never knew geographic lines were capable of such horrors.

4.  You have a total misunderstanding of ... pretty much everything in life that stems from your generalization of entire populations simply because they disagree with you. Keep your psychoanalysis to yourself Dr. Phil. Unless you want some one with real knowledge in this area to rip apart your frail little belief systems. You don't know shit about me.

"a. there are a lot of criminals in central america" - CHECK
"b. the refugees are coming from central america" - I never said they were all from S.A., but this current wave mostly is, yes.
"c. therefore, the refugees are criminals" - Fuck you. Don't speak for me. I never said all "refugees" are criminals.

Also they aren't "refugees", they aren't fleeing a war, they are economic migrants. Every word you use to describe them is a manipulative lie. It seems so simple to you because you are ignoring vast amounts of information because it conflicts with what you WANT to be true, and with your emotions, not because you are some superior evolved being that has more understanding than us racist plebeians who argue against you. People benefiting from crime have ALL THE REASON TO COME HERE, because this is where the valuable shit to steal is, and the people to sell drugs to and victimize live. This statement contains zero logic on your part (as usual).

5. GREAT NEWS! Legal immigration already exists, so your wish has come true. The fact that you want endless uncontrolled amounts of impoverished low skilled people to flood into the country is irrelevant. What you are advocating for is simply the same as the other bullshit you have said, only with a rubber stamp on top.

6. MOST 2ND GENERATION IMMIGRANTS ARE HERE AS A RESULT OF LEGAL IMMIGRATION. The rest of your argument is fucking pointless as a result.



I'm not a "good guy" because I am unwilling to do anything that isn't easy or convenient but I'm not quite a "bad guy" either.  I am complicit in the murders just like most american citizens.  The only real "good guys" are the ones willing to put their privilege on the line to fight against the oppressors and for the oppressed.  We lack these type of heroes which is why we have such an ugly world. 

The last holocaust happened because well intended people weren't willing to risk their own safety speaking out against/fighting the nazis. 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/12/15/year-old-girl-who-died-border-patrol-custody-was-healthy-before-she-arrived-father-says/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.05d249e3b7eb
The girl was healthy when she arrived, and died in custody.  If you have custody of a child and let them dehydrate, you are killing the child through neglect.  Not providing proper training, eyes, and ears is systematic neglect.  These people we have handling children are not trained in childcare.  They don't have social workers or child psychologists on the ground either.  They are basically just cops handling everyone like prisoners.  Its a humanitarian crisis.

Oh I am aware you are not the good guy. You are the willfully ignorant naive guy who thinks he is helping but ends up destroying everything. Most American citizens are complicit in murder? WHAT? You really are heavily indoctrinated against this nation aren't you?

The Holocaust happened because of knobs like you engaging in a hive mind mentality marching people to their doom with a smile the whole time reassuring them everything will be fine, and their fears are unwarranted, just like you are doing. I might add they were Socialists too...

Nice paywalled article btw, very moving. So your argument is that ICE some how poisoned her in the what 90 minutes she was on the bus? They had signed a form she was healthy 90 minutes prior. Your argument is not that she was actually ill and lied, but that ICE come how secretly killed her on that 90 minute bus ride to punish her father for crossing illegally?

Yes, why should the people who put that child in that situation in the first place be responsible right? Oh a humanitarian crisis is it? Well perhaps if retards like you didn't just put out the welcome mat, they wouldn't have the incorrect impression they could just stroll on in now would they? I submit that YOU AND YOUR IDEOLOGY are the humanitarian crisis causing ALL of this.

6053  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Vaccinated vs. Unvaccinated: Guess who is Sicker? on: December 17, 2018, 02:35:46 PM
https://sharylattkisson.com/2018/12/10/cdc-possibility-that-vaccines-rarely-trigger-autism/

Interesting quote from CDC official. CDC: “Possibility” that vaccines rarely trigger autism. Sounds like the usual slow walk they do when they know they are facing massive liabilities.
6054  Other / Politics & Society / Re: A world without borders? on: December 17, 2018, 02:19:26 PM
This idea would only exacerbate tensions in communities and destroy cultures whilst destroying lower class wages and increases upper class profits. I want growth but everyone needs to benefit.

These fuckin' loons think we can just swing the doors open and hand out teddy bears and everything will be fine.
6055  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Kremlinbots on: December 17, 2018, 02:16:14 PM
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“What is clear is that all of the messaging clearly sought to benefit the Republican Party — and specifically Donald Trump,” the report says. “Trump is mentioned most in campaigns targeting conservatives and right-wing voters, where the messaging encouraged these groups to support his campaign. The main groups that could challenge Trump were then provided messaging that sought to confuse, distract and ultimately discourage members from voting.”

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Researchers also noted that the data includes evidence of sloppiness by the Russians that could have led to earlier detection, including the use of Russia’s currency, the ruble, to buy ads and Russian phone numbers for contact information. The operatives also left behind technical signatures in computerized logs, such as Internet addresses in St. Petersburg, where the IRA was based.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/12/16/new-report-russian-disinformation-prepared-senate-shows-operations-scale-sweep/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.e7064a2e96bf



Can anyone explain why such "investigations" leak so slowly and so meteredly? As we understand that all info has long been collected and ready to be published.

Yeah, your article behind a paywall is very convincing. "As you understand" you need to understand you have been sold a load of horse shit, and think you have a barrel of apples. Bite into one and see how it tastes.
6056  Other / Politics & Society / Re: NPR's Border Fact Check on: December 16, 2018, 11:29:21 PM

"Undocumented immigrants" is just the humanized version of "illegal immigrants".  The phrases refer to the same people.

You are using the general statistics for "immigrants", including legal immigrants, and claiming that represents illegal immigrants. I don't care if you call them basketballs there is still a difference between legal and illegal immigration.



You should only hold guilt if you feel entitled to the spoils.  We have no reason to feel any guilt just so long as we don't walk around thinking we deserve to be here more than anyone else.  The guilt directed at people who don't think anyone should be allowed to immigrate to the US is NOT misplaced.  Those are the people who feel entitled to keep the spoils that were stolen long ago.

If I feel entitled to a money bag bank robbers dropped out of the getaway car, I'm guilty by association even though I didn't actually rob the bank.  I should not feel entitled to that money.  

There is a lot more to what makes a border and what makes a nation sovereign.  Believe it or not, Norway, Iceland, Lichtenstein, and Switzerland are sovereign nations separate from the EU and anyone can cross into them overland without border checks.   They still have borders and those borders still have all of their meanings.  The nations are still strong, sovereign states.

What fucking spoils? The spoils that were had hundreds of years ago by deceased people? We deserve to be here more than any one else because WE ARE CITIZENS AND WE PAY TAXES AND ABIDE BY THE LAW. By definition, if you come here illegally YOU DO NOT RESPECT THE LAW. Not enforcing borders means by DEFAULT THERE IS NO NATION. No nation can withstand open borders combined with a welfare state, it is IMPOSSIBLE.

I didn't rob anyone to get what I have, I fucking worked for it, and so did the vast majority of Americans who don't want you handing out THEIR SHIT so YOU CAN FEEL BETTER ABOUT YOURSELF, and in the end help no one, but harm many.



2a. Drug traffickers are not asylum seekers.  Those are people who go back and forth.  Ending immigration would not end drug trafficking.  Two separate issues being conflated with the hopes of demonizing poor people in search of a better life.
2b. immigrants are not forcing people to buy it from traffickers, the government is
2c. legalize drugs so they can be safely produced and consumed
2d. provide mental healthcare for people suffering from addiction

3. Great articles.  I am glad you posted them and hope they helped you see why these people must come here and cannot "just stay in mexico" . Its not safe for them there.  

4.  Yes.  Mexico is dangerous.  The people coming to the US from Mexico are coming to escape that danger.  The migrants themselves are not the danger they are trying to escape.  19/100,000 doesn't mean everyone from that country is a murderer.  The studies show us that the people coming are not only less murderous than the mexican population, but less murderous than our own.  

5.  It does have an impact.  That is why they want/need to come here so they can have those things.  Thats the whole point.  They are trying to improve their lives.  

6. 2nd generation immigrants are more educated and earn more money than their peers here across the board.  More earnings means more tax revenue.  BTW, national default is impossible.

7.  TSA makes it impossible for them to hijack planes yes.  Other forms of terror have overwhelmingly been committed by white males.  Its not my racism because I said "if you suspend ethics in an attempt to prevent all terror" but I understand that you cannot prevent all terror without restricting rights.  Using things that aren't likely to kill people is the definition of fear mongering.  You are trying to generate an irrational fear of undocumented immigrants by making people think undocumented immigrants entering the country will likely kill them.  The probability of being killed by an undocumented immigrant is very low.  Lets worry about the things at the top of the list.  

You can be racist without intent.  We don't "deserve" to be here and have basic access to things like education or healthcare any more than they do.  We are all humans.

2. And travelers are not terrorists, but we still check people for bombs before they get on a plane. The FACT is that not just drug smugglers, but HUMAN SMUGGLERS hide among "asylum seekers", and they are usually moving children to be prostituted. Why should you care though right? You got to put water out in the desert and feel good about yourself.

3. Those sites are trash. I just used them so you couldn't dismiss them as being "right wing", and show how your own ideology is in conflict with itself constantly. The fact is most women are raped trying to cross illegally, and that doesn't even count the rape resulting from the sex trafficking.

4. So their society is some how more dangerous, but at the same time they will come here and magically they lave their dangerous and criminal habits behind huh? Amazing. You should just change your name to Hegel and get it over with Captain Postmodern.

5. And fuck everyone who already came here legally that is trying to improve their lives right? The fact is without crossing thru a legal port of entry and being processed correctly they are not medically screened and WILL BRING DEADLY PATHOGENS with them.

6. Most 2nd generation immigrants came here legally. Here you go again trying to lump legal law abiding immigrants with criminal illegal immigrants to try to make your unsupportable ideology look better.

7. Nice whataboutisms. It is a COMPLETELY RATIONAL FEAR and the WHOLE REASON things like the TSA exist. It is a fact terrorists and foreign actors are infiltrating our unsecured southern border. All your horse shit red herrings about white men being terrorists is a meaningless distraction from the fact that YOU HAVE NO ARGUMENTS. All you have is feelings, theories, and moralizing like a modern day puritan.


I have spent a lot of time this week helping with water drops along the border in the Arizona/California desert.   There has been a really good showing and pouring in support from all of the country.  The problem is the CBP and DHS are actively destroying water drops because they hate human life.  

Its unimaginable that they killed a 7 year old girl to punish her parents from coming here.  They made an example out of this innocent child just to send an example to anyone else who might want to bring their kid out of imminent danger.  

It is hard to go on with the good work knowing the level of power and evil we are up against.  This country is already systemically predisposed to human rights violations and being controlled by an egotistical figure and the population has no moral compass.  Where can we find hope?

Yes, what is important is that you can tell yourself you are doing good, regardless of how much pain and destruction it causes. As long as you feel like you are the good guy, that is what is most important, and anyone else who disagrees with you wants to genocide brown people.

Yes, it is not the fault of the psychos bringing children into a fucking desert on foot, no, I.C.E. killed her to "punish them" for crossing. You are fucking out of your mind, really you belong in a padded room.
6057  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: Bomb Threat Email demands bitcoin ransom on: December 16, 2018, 08:01:16 PM
Even my grandpa would not take his threat seriously considering the way he has conveyed it.
In general, all bumb threats are taken seriously.

Does anyone think this is a viable method to get Bitcoin payouts?
Some say there is no bad publicity. What worries me much more though is if this becomes a big thing. Imagine this: terror threats with the capacity of internet spammers! All it takes is one actual bomb, and millions of spam emails will make it impossible to know which is real.

"no bad publicity" is horse shit, especially when geopolitics and the very institution of banking financial servitude are involved. They are conditioning the population that crypto is used for evil things, preparing us for the day they enact serious restrictions on it. It IS going to happen, it is just a matter of time. Watch as you see the state sanctioned good coins, and all the other coins become the Iranian, ISIS, Russian, drug dealer, North Korean, hacker, Chinese, global warming coins.

They are paving the way for the crypto lock down so they can then pull the plug on the regular financial system so crypto doesn't serve as a lifeboat for escape, because every dollar you lose in the fire sale they get to keep. Really though the money is just a tool to extract total control and submission from all of us.
6058  Other / Ivory Tower / Re: Bitcoin fractional banking? on: December 16, 2018, 07:53:03 PM
Margin trades and derivatives, especially with gearing, don't seem to be based on actual holdings of Bitcoin. They just seem to be paper gambling contracts. I suspect that real Bitcoin is only involved when profits/investments are withdrawn into a real wallet. Depositing Bitcoin into an exchange account  will probably lose the association with the depositing transaction as well. I don't think that these are really a problem. If you are going to play with speculative instruments, then you should be aware of the risks.

Much more of a problem is the deception that some "secure" investment holdings are creating. Investors believe that they are investing in an asset with the potential to appreciate. Rehypothecation allows the fund managers to pay withdrawals in a currency with a lower increase in value if Bitcoin shoots up in value. Alternatively, if Bitcoin drops in value, then they can repay in Bitcoin.

You touched on something very important here I forgot to mention. IMO this was at the center of the MTGOX scandal. In the case of MTGOX it appears to be an inside job. The idea was "oh we got hacked at the market bottom! I guess since all that Bitcoin is gone we must pay our debts in cash!".  When a company has obligations to you via these contracts, when they owe you a debt, they can choose to pay you in USD (or other relevant legal tender) value instead of crypto.

They do the same thing with gold and silver. In the case of MTGOX, I think they thought it would be the perfect crime to rob themselves at market bottom, create minimum possible dollar value liabilities, the market crashes more because of the hack, they accumulate even more, then pay everyone off in USD and Yen while they hold all the soon to be heavily revalued upward Bitcoin while they file for bankruptcy and use that sweet Bitcoin to pay lawyers fees.
6059  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Love's last hope: Consensual non-monogamy on: December 16, 2018, 05:07:19 AM

There might be a couple reasons people don't want to be a part of such things. You've described what is known in modern slang as "a clusterfuck." The term has negative connotations, describing a totally, completely screwed up situation.

clusterfuck
n.   A chaotic situation where everything seems to go wrong. It is often caused by incompetence, communication failure, or a complex environment.
v.   To fuck (something) up, to make a total mess of.



Make no mistake people want flexibility.  They want to have more than one partner (and they do).  They just use deception and infidelity instead of doing it within an honest relationship.  Chaos is the state of marriage right now.  I'd say when something fails for most people, its a total mess. The stats are on my side.   People lie, steal, and cheat at a high rate.  Divorce rate is beyond the critical point.


In nature what happens is 80% of the women go after the top 20% of men. This is a well known principal in science, one that is supported by studies as well as data scraped from dating sites. Essentially women largely overvalue their sexual marketplace value and only go after the top 20% of men. They see dating their equal as dating down, and dating down as men out of their league.

So the question is, since this is human nature, why would you support a system that works against it?  Why not embrace human nature?  I feel like you have said this in the past.  Why not let the free market have its say?  

Imagine there are 10 people.  1 man represents the 20% you mentioned.  Maybe he can have sex witha all 5 women but there is no way he can please all 5 women in every way so they will eventually seek companionship from some of the other 4 men.  If he can and they are all happy then what is the problem?   Most likely, those women would either take a man in the 80% to themself or workout something polyamorous.  

It almost sounds like you are a sexist socialist who says capital (women) should be distributed fairly evenly so that the 20% doesn't take more than their fair share.  Strange how you are 180 from yourself on this topic.


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Notice all the middle aged women now crying about how there are no good men left? You think that is a coincidence? All the men they COULD have paired with are no longer interested, because they have nothing to offer them with their primary reproductive years behind them. Instead of finding a man who would have stayed with them into old age during the years of her highest sexual market place value, she was busy trying to "trade up" and ended up getting traded in herself.
There is more reason for marriage besides building a family.  Some seek companionship, some seek sexual plaesure and yes, some seek to build a family.  Polyamory allows the individual to cater their relationship to their personal needs.  

In many polyamorous relationships, the women can have sex with a man  in the 20% to satify her fantasy within her marriage to a man in the 80%.  The man can do the same and the two can live happily ever after because it was all transparent and conensual.  Its the force sexual exclusivity that is actually tearing many marriages apart.  

Yeah because you are certainly some one I would trust to tell me about the functions of human nature. Acting like an animal is not human nature. There are consequences to being promiscuous. I am not doing anything but advocating for a cultural norm. You are however performing a rather embarrassing act of projection as you contort your argument and jam it into a snarky little refractory box that you think cleverly argues against me using my own logic. What you have is nonsense word salad that is impressive only in your own narcissistic mind.

Building society is more important than your feelings, more important than fucking, more important than your delusional Postmodernist dumpster fire of experimentation on society. As usual you have nothing but Hegalian contortions and baseless claims.
6060  Other / Ivory Tower / Re: A million gold bars were recast and converted to tungsten on: December 16, 2018, 04:36:03 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-89g1BJZ3Ts

Notice the date.
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