It's funny how "that crowd" loves Wikipedia when it says what they want.
"Our democracy".
Trump is the Gracchus for the Caesar that's to come.
Not to get all lolbertarian, but taxation is theft. Taxes are rampant damn near everywhere
I've seen you say that before, which is surprising from someone as rational as you. While the government is nothing but a band of robbers, taxes are also necessary, if not at the current level, at least at some level, not?
Incentives are often inverted. The more law-abiding you are, the worse you fair. The more retarded, criminal, or foreign you are, the better you're treated.
You're describing Europe. And in fact, it's gotten so bad that you could replace 'foreign' with 'illegal'.
That begs the question of what is a 'disproportionate' amount of power and influence.
If blacks, troons, etc. get power on account of being black or troons, then that is wrong for that reason. (Also because troons should not be allowed to be lunatics in public, but that is a different matter.)
But imagine say blacks completely turning themselves around, working very hard, avoiding crime, etc. and as a result becoming so successful that they are overrepresented in powerful and influential positions. That may be disproportionate, but it is not unwarranted.
On the other hand, if incompetent blacks are given pilot jobs, or powerful/influential positions because of the color of their skin, then that is unwarranted, and therefore wrong.
Well, I believe that Biden represents decency the same way Reagan and Clinton did. Not at all!
Tell me, if you walk into a strip club and find a pair of bare tits, who's at fault here? It would be you, right? So why is it that a woman attends a public event that's known to record the audience and suddenly it's everyone else's fault?
That doesn't even come close to being a valid analogy.
Wow, you really are retarded if you can't differentiate between personal responsibility and collective responsibility. Then again, that's typical of collectivists that seek to blame the collective for the actions of the individual.
I'm really retarded if I say that I can hold you accountable for Canadian/British misdeeds because you are YaruslavHunka/British, after you told me that you hold me accountable for European misdeeds because I am?
OK.
Seems I went a little fast
You're a fast one.
since you're looking to win an internet slap fight rather than discuss.
I'm just voicing my opinion that it's pretty gross and repulsive to focus the camera on two girls for 20 seconds. You then started shouting about "personal responsibility", I mean, what?
Interesting that you know my beliefs better than me. But no, I do believe that people are responsible for their own safety
I gave you the benefit of the doubt that you don't believe in abject absurdities, but perhaps I was a bit too generous. Apparently, you think that someone parking in San Francisco is too blame if his car gets smashed by a junkie, and not the junkie. Extend that logic and you blame a rape victim and not the rapist, etc.
This started out alright, but you lost coherency about 2/3rds of the way through. Wanna try again, because I legitimately lost what point you're trying to make here and would like to at least try to understand.
It looks fine to me, but the customer's always right.
You claim these victims are to blame because some creep pointing a camera at them for 20 seconds is 'to be expected' (accepted arguendo). So if it is, how could you change that? By restraining people from doing something like this. But when I argued that, you called me a Bad European.
""""""Victims""""""". Fuck that's hilarious. You really think they're victims. Here's the "incident" by the way. Now I know that a fair chunk of Europeans are now Muslims and cannot control themselves, but please Tony, control your raging lust when watching this because it's just too sexual in nature!
In my very first comment, I said that I don't endorse the sexist/sexualized nonsense. I think it's in very bad taste regardless.
Oh wait. No it isn't. It's just two chicks eating ice-cream, having a good time at a sporting event. That's it.
Apparently not, cause some jackass filmed them for 20 secs.
The law will probably be eviscerated by the ECHR
The ECHR only eviscerates good laws, never bad laws.
One of Trump's strongest boons is the fact that his opponents are so extreme
Honestly, I despised Trump say 9 years ago, but these people wouldn't stop lying about him and his supporters.
that it ends up with nearly half of his wins coming from his opponents.
I think if they had treated him normally, he would be gone from the political scene by now. The American political system is such that he would have failed to deliver on his promises, and he would have had nefarious actions of his opponents to blame.
Like the mugshot all the way to the "convicted felon" thing has only made him more popular. And they gave it to him on a plate.
I'm not sure of that one. This is certainly true of die-hard supporters, but what about independents? It seems that he tanked ever so slightly after the conviction, but then again, I just saw a poll that showed Biden gaining 1 pt after the debate. There's no explaining any of this.
I think he just gave the 'wrong' answer from the POV of the test just to see what it would say. 95% surprised me for NatalieBiden.
If you just replaced the word "Jews" with "Whites" then you would magically change from being anti-semitic to anti-racist.
Correct. Anti-semitism is just social justice for the ultra-right.
I got 17%, which labeled me as 'strongly philosemitic'. Which is wrong. I'm neither pro nor anti Jew. I'm Jew-neutral.
Most questions were legit, but some are stupid.
Jews are isolated as a group because of their inflexible religion.
The religion was intentionally designed to isolate Jews and prevent them from assimilating into the broader society. So unless rabbis are anti-Semitic, this is just a simple truth.
Disliking Jews comes mainly from misunderstandings.
There are many reasons people have for disliking Jews, none of them legitimate, but it sure as hell doesn't come from 'misunderstandings'.
There is no real difference between Jewish people and people of other races.
A lot of people argue that Ashkenazi Jews tend to have a higher average IQ. If you believe that, this test will label you as 'anti-Semitic'.
To be precise, 'Trump War Room' is different from Trump's personal account - which he hasn't used since he was banned except for tweeting out his mugshot.
Speaking of which, there's nothing that I love more that something that should have been a rallying point for his opponents became one for his supporters.
Incoherent gibberish. It's not a "defence", it's an explanation.
You keep repeating 'personal responsibility' like you're a leftist repeating 'racism', in every conceivable context where it doesn't apply.
Since you stand as a British/Canadian, given your spelling of the word "defence", I assume I can hold you accountable for all the misdeeds of these countries. Pursonal RESPONSIBILITY!
But also, being exposed to that environment over and over and over only leads to an eventual inevitability.
You have no idea whether these people decided to go to an environment 'over and over'. So not inevitable.
Fuck off with the disingenuity of this. If you enter a space with a known risk, that's YOUR fault. Plain and simple. THAT is personal responsibility.
If you had thought this true, you'd realize that even you don't believe this.
Don't want to be recorded? Don't go into environments that have a high likelihood of being recorded. It's that simple.
OK, so because total idiots decide to do this, it's the fault of the people to whom it happens, because "they go into [such] environments", and anyone who says that maybe then those total idiots should be restrained is a Bad European.
Ah yes, the good ol' "I don't like this so it should be eliminated" plea. Tell me you're a European without telling me you're a European.
Well, you claimed, falsely, that it's the fault of the victims of this because it's "inevitable". Here's making it not inevitable.
Why is that curious? I make sure that I don't. Makes it all the more difficult for people to doxx me.
I wasn't paying attention, I thought that map was how many hours people work.
I was surprised the US ranked so low. But since it is suicide, it may also have some other causes than just pressure at work.
You're fine
I didn't say 'I', but maybe you meant the plural.
with privacy being infringed upon at every point, so long as your privacy isn't infringed upon in a very specific way.
Many people have the foolish belief that the government is illegally spying on us for our own good, and all that.
Based on this map, Italy is the only civilized country in the world.
Also, who knew folks in Greenland worked that hard. Settle down. You live in a frozen wasteland. It's not actually going to grow more crops if you work the land 10 times.
That differs by country. It seems that you're talking about France.
Who are those undecided voters? One guy on Univision, which is apparently an American Spanish-language TV channel, interviewed by a professor of... yes... Chicano/a studies. Well, I'm sold.
Also, at the end we hear that Trump's complaints about crimes committed by illegal aliens are wrong, because a professor claims that immigrants commit fewer crimes. Well, certainly not in Europe.
The article is so excellent that it broke Newsweek's Bias Meter - it's off the charts 'Left-Leaning Bias'.
This was the top article on r politics, and I'd be a liar if I said I didn't enjoy their comments.
It gave me a level of anxiety I have not experienced for several years
I couldn’t watch it because it gave me so much anxiety (and I HATE his voice). And it’s not really anxiety for me, I’m past childbearing years.
2016 PTSD
I woke up the day after the election and checked the results, I swore that I was having a nightmare. And I'm Canadian.
I imagine Canadians get nightmares on VE day every year...
He has literally given the hole world anxiety. It probably can be measured. Because his whole strategy is to sow chaos - and he does it well
'Hole World' famously being a degenerate gay sex club in Canada.
Same. Was shaking. I can’t handle another 4 years of Trump
Yo, Same! I was straight up worried my dad was watching and giving himself an actual heart attack.
Right? Closest to a panic attack that I've been in 30 years.
I had to turn it off I was getting so infuriated and my anxiety was going nuts because of him.
And as usual the media spin was “Biden bad.” So sick and tired of corporate media’s bias toward Trump. Glad the polls are showing the debate wasn’t the campaign ender all the doomers have been angsting on about.
If I were an American, I'd crawl over broken glass to make these people even more miserable.
Helping old ladies? Giving too much to charities?
Ooooooooooh.
IMO work-life balance is skewed everywhere outside of Western Europe...
Your fanaticism on this matter blinds you to the fact that you made a ridiculous analogy. This has got nothing at all to do with 'entering a strip club' on any relevant - or even irrelevant aspect.
And why would that make a difference?
Yup. I don't see this sort of thing happening here, cause we're not retarded like ESPN - or WaffenSS / grooming gang country for that matter.
I was never 'good enough' to not call out BS when I see it. In fact, I always enjoy disagreeing with the mob when it is wrong. Hell, I sometimes enjoy disagreeing when I don't really, just to see if someone is able to present valid counter-arguments.
What exactly? You use 'you' for me as a plural, talking about Europeans in general, while somehow defending 'personal responsibility, justifying it because I said 'as a European' - because this is somewhere I agree with the average agreement. What's good for the goose... why should that not apply here?