2011-08-08, 21:25 | Link #15542 |
Gamilas Falls
Join Date: Feb 2008
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300 years is a long time. A lot can happen...and given our progress...a lot should happen in and beyond Earth orbit. The smaller Earth becomes in the grand scheme of human civilization, the less meaningful the fall of the United States will mean...if it falls, or just is absorbed into a planetary government (with other planetary governments).
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2011-08-08, 21:30 | Link #15543 | ||
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Though the US doesn't need to go the path of Rome. A decline does not inevitably lead to a collapse after all. It can even be reversed if you get the right people in power at the right time. Of course it's foolish to think the US will last forever, but I think it's rather premature to write it off just yet.
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2011-08-08, 22:08 | Link #15544 | |
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Honestly, I have been in for a one world Republic for years now. If every nation became nothing but a member state, war would not be necessary. Be-foe that can happen, we have to be able to reach other planets efficiently. Rape other planets, not our own. |
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2011-08-09, 00:00 | Link #15546 |
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Join Date: Apr 2009
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Son of a something...London's on fire! Even the posh areas on the West End!
And my brother is in England now...(in Chester, but still). He visited London for the first time just last weekend. When I talk to him after he gets back to the States, I wanted to ask if perhaps the UK is a place he'd want to escape to if things go to hell here...but I don't think I will now... Yeah, I know Britain isn't the stiff-upper-lipped, straitlaced society of Mary Poppins anymore, and I've heard about the unrest during the '80s, but I thought tensions had eased up somewhat. I just hope attitudes improve in time for the Olympics next year. The people who genuinely feel aggrieved by the white upper classes and police and don't just want to use this current period of tension to grab an iPod would do well to consider the example of the people of Japan and what they've been going through this year. |
2011-08-09, 00:11 | Link #15547 | |
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And no, I'm not excusing their violent bullshit because it only hurts the people in the community they are wrecking... but its emotional outraged response to this system. That's why a wise aristocracy keeps the peasants *relatively* satisfied and busy.
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2011-08-09, 00:27 | Link #15549 | |
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Sometimes I think it's these days of planet earth that make me think there was a point in me taking that class on Nietzsche in the middle of the night.
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2011-08-09, 00:54 | Link #15550 |
Did someone call a doctor
Join Date: Apr 2007
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I don't really see a country collapsing this day and age. The world is too interconnected, more so then it was even 30 years ago. When was the last time a country was obliterated? The Soviet Union? That was more an empire then one nation though. I'd be all for a global government, doubt it'll happen in our lifetimes though! I hate how corporations take jobs off shore and focus only on the bottom line. Makes it quite hard to find work that doesn't suck.
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2011-08-09, 01:38 | Link #15551 | ||
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More great news for the economies around the world(including the U.S.)... [/sarcasm] We're in for a long decade. This economic slide was a long time coming, and it won't go away anytime soon. Spoiler for Asian stocks tumble after Wall Street Rout:
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2011-08-09, 02:20 | Link #15552 | |
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Oh, normal people have been screwed for years now. Things really can't screw up too much more for us.
But now finally those assholes at the top get to feel the pinch. Those "too big to fail" banks are going to get something a little "too big to fit" right up their back doors. Relevant IM conversation snippet: Quote:
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2011-08-09, 02:33 | Link #15553 | ||
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I was just thinking that last night when I was watching those kids trying to break in the antique shop. Japan's been hit by one of the biggest disasters of the decade, both present and previous, and we have seen no protests, looting, or hardly any crime at all that was above the norm. They stood for each other. Here, instead, we displayed the exact opposite behavior. We weren't suffering, we didn't experience a disaster, and people are taking advantage of the situation to destroy whatever they can. |
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2011-08-09, 02:38 | Link #15554 | |
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Read another one and said that the police's reluctance to use deadly force may be due to fear of getting prosecuted.
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2011-08-09, 02:47 | Link #15556 | |
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2011-08-09, 03:00 | Link #15557 |
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Fürth (GER)
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For over a decade it was good old tradition for anti-authoritarian extremists to riot in a certain area of Berlin (Kreuzberg) every May 1st. The police's water cannons proved to be a very effective riot supression device.
I think Theresa May got the de-escalation tactics a little bit wrong. If it makes the situation escalate and spread like this, then its not a good de-escalation tactic...
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2011-08-09, 03:02 | Link #15558 | ||||
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I am still waiting for China to implode - they have been buying US bonds to keep the yuan low, and that is going to come back to hurt them when the US treasury screws up their bond system. Hyperinflation, or even stagflation, is going to kill alot of people in SEA and China. And I am speaking literally. Quote:
I am waiting for September. Buy a few things, then dump them after the Santa Claus rally. Quote:
It is supposed to work like a natural predator to keep infinite wealth away from the hands of Big Corp. But when the "manufacturers" of these "financial products" screw around with the middle-income population with dreams of "get rich quick" so as to "maximise profits", it becomes a dangerous precedent to break down society - people without money aren't suppose to trade the stock market until they have built up their own capitals; I find it ridiculous that the banks are offering them "margin" on the money they can't earn. What is even more ridiculous is, the "margin" is made up of money these "people without money" deposited into their bank accounts. So technically speaking, it is like lending someone his own money so he can invest. Quote:
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2011-08-09, 04:40 | Link #15559 |
Me, An Intellectual
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-14450248
I can't believe this shit is still going on. It's just baffling how retarded these rioters are.
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