Politics

Let's face it, our world today is flooded by a generation of people that put justice before anything in their lives and are allergic to any sense of normalcy, but the fact of the matter is the 'justice' they seek is an illusion. Justice is an abstract concept conceived by man to judge what is right and what is wrong, however justice in this sense always harms someone somewhere because they did nothing wrong but they are not in accordance of what the group that has the most power in society thinks. This is exactly why the power to make and levy laws based on 'right, and wrong according to justice' needs to be destroyed, and why justice itself needs to be redefined entirely…

In a number of posts male suicide have been cited as a counterargument of sexism and it has even been suggested (ridiculously) that women's right are a potential cause. While there is still a lot of unknowns regarding the recent increase especially in the US, I'd like to lay out some of the things that we know so far. - male suicide rate is higher than female, though attempted suicide rates are higher in women - men tend to act faster on suicidal thoughts and are less likely than women to seek help - men are more likely to be socially isolated, which is a risk factor for suicide - men are more distressed when encountering financial troubles and suicide…

Some will say I am "prophet".. I am not.. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/02/us/politics/trump-tweet-north-korea.html "Trump Tweets 'Mine Is Much Bigger Than Kim Jong-un's'... "

Figured we could start listing any things Trumps policies have done. I mean, we have a thread for "how trump annoys you" so I figured this would be at least related to politics. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-infosys-usa-idUSKBN17Y09Y

Being an identical twin I am in a category that any person who is not an identical twin can identify with or as, or even aspire to be or have a preference for. As such there are people who are identical twins and people who aren't identical twins. Can anybody name any other human classifications, apart from triplets etc, that are also apolitically correct?

"The Trump administration released a dire scientific report Friday calling human activity the dominant driver of global warming, a conclusion at odds with White House decisions to withdraw from a key international climate accord, champion fossil fuels and reverse Obama-era climate policies." https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/11/03/trump-administration-releases-report-finds-no-convincing-alternative-explanation-for-climate-change/?utm_term=.da10d08a57ef " Since 1980, the cost of extreme events for the United States has exceeded $1.1 trillion; therefore, better understanding of the frequency and severity of these events in the context …

This is not the end, it is the beginning of the beginning of the end... Fermi's paradox starts with the whimpering of stupid people who just can't figure out why combining religion and politics will not work. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely... When you are so delusional and ignorant you don't understand why god's people are lying sacks of steaming monkey shit that doesn't taste like chocolate the way religious conservatives said it would if you only had enough faith and too stupid to stop eating the monkey shit because faith and belief is the most powerful things in the universe because the people feeding you the monkey shit said they were... …

So in three days time I have a decision to make. Roy Moore (R) or Doug Jones (D) for Alabama Senate seat. Due to the allegations against RM it is an easy decision (for me) to make. DJ will get my vote. Although there is no evidence against him and these 8 or 9 ladies have been sitting on this for a long time. I will in no way risk casting my vote for a predator. Is this fair to RM? Well if he is innocent (probably never know for sure) it isn't fair at all and that bothers me not in the least. Due to his aspirations he should expect this treatment and accept it gracefully. He should have stepped down. So my question for those who voted for Hillary Rodham Clinton is wh…

Trump's latest tweet. What do you think? "Lightweight Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, a total flunky for Chuck Schumer and someone who would come to my office "begging" for campaign contributions not so long ago (and would do anything for them), is now in the ring fighting against Trump. Very disloyal to Bill & Crooked-USED!" Please help me figure this out. Because Gillibrand called for Trump to resign, so he lashes back with fury, that she is a "lightweight, flunky, would come begging for contributions, and would do anything for them." Even for Trump this is an outrageous, sexist slur, to the extreme. Then press secretary Sanders explains it away that if we…

http://www.kabc.com/2017/11/16/leeann-tweeden-on-senator-al-franken/ Someone should tell Al Franken that the first rule of sexual harassment is no photographs. He does look like he is enjoying himself. The release of this photograph does have perfect comedic timing considering the current plethora of sexual harassment news stories. Just look at the expression on his face. Al is now asking for an ethics investigation on himself. A perfect punch line for the above photo. It should be the shortest ethics investigation in Senate history. Just show everyone on the committee the above photo and let them vote.

Would any one like to discuss this article in terms of their own countries problems. This has been Portugals answer to drugs since the Salazar regime finished. Would it work in America or the rest of the world? https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/dec/05/portugals-radical-drugs-policy-is-working-why-hasnt-the-world-copied-it?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Copy_to_clipboard

The epitome of hypocrisy. By that logic, how can anyone take your narrative seriously or Trump's. Trump makes derogatory statements about people EVERYDAY, yet nary a hint of admonishment. So what is it, derogatory good or derogatory bad? He's an insult to the 1st Amendment with his fake news nonsense and persecutes minorities by denying their right to protest peacefully. You fail constitutional law, horribly.

Not really. The Soviets had great scientists. The Soviets did not go to the moon because their chief-scientist responsible for the Russians' journey to the moon died. The first satellite was the Sputnik of the USSR. The first man that went to space was Yuri Gagarin of the USSR. The biggest atomic bomb on the planet was the Tsar bomb of the USSR. The first efficient supersonic fighter was from the USSR. At the beginning of cold war the Russians knocked over 9 American fighters for 1 Soviet. The first space station was from the USSR. Who overthrew the Berlin Wall was the USSR (Mikhail Gorbachev). What overthrew the USSR was its own economy. The Karl Marx's s…

A Tory MP on the Radio 4 news this morning was fielding questions regarding the size of the UK workforce to fill jobs such as primary school teachers, nursing and care assistant places after Brexit. It is thought that we will loose thousands of 'unskilled' workers from our workforce. He wasn't worried at all when this was pointed out to him as he has a plan.... his plan? - His plan, the Tory plan, and I use plan in a very vague sense here, is to get the mentally ill off of benefits and back to work to cover the problem of loosing 10's of thousands of potential employees. Although individuals suitability to work will be tested (again presumably as they have already gone…

I saw this headline (North Korea Paradox) on the NYT this morning and was reminded of a cartoon about Iran's nuclear program that ran about 10yrs ago. The cartoon was a picture of Uncle Sam wearing a king's crown sitting on a throne made of missiles telling former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who was on his knees before the throne, with Uncle Sam saying "don't make the same mistake I made". If not for the military capability North Korea has built up there is a chance the U.S. would have removed their leadership long ago. Yet, if not for the military build up the U.S. may not have paid North Korea any mind. The pardox is that the very activities which are dr…

Some of Trump's tweets are well... Would we really rather have a president that hides behind closed doors and speaks only via a speech writer or a very strategic press secretary?

Recent news reports tell us of decades of sexual abuse and harassment by Harvey Weinstein. I'm sure the abuse we have heard about is simply the tip of the iceberg. My guess is the list of abused aspiring actresses is much larger. The reports we have heard so far often refer to rumors of abuse swirling around Weinstein throughout his decades of abuse. In addition there are reports that the news media has spiked stories about this subject. What I find absent in all of this is stories questioning the ethics of actresses who remained silent about their abusive and criminal encounters with Harvey Weinstein. How culpable are these women for the abuse of women that followe…

http://reason.com/blog/2017/10/04/black-lives-matter-students-shut-down-th So liberalism is dead. Long live the brownshirts of Black Lives Matter. Who needs that old white man's document, The Constitution of the United States", anyway.

This is not really a question about nuclear arms and their ethics in general but just ICBM's and the risks associated with them as highlighted in the .article. Do you think Russia and the US could agree to this even though N. Korea is developing them as a possible complication? Are they necessary? I think they are militarily pointless really because everybody knows where they are. I'm talking about the ones that are in silos.

part of this, is a what did he know, when did he know it thing, and being such, I am sure he knew something at some point that he pretended he didn't know, but please remember that is like Hilary saying she had nothing to do with the Uranium One deal. It basically means she was either an inept Secretary of State, and didn't know the Russians were getting control of a Canadian country that had control of a fifth of our Uranium. Either way she is wrong. But she has not done anything illegal until she is caught in a lie, made to congress or the FB

One hundred years ago, on the night of the 7-8 November, Bolsheviks stormed the Tsar's winter palace, and began the Russian revolution, which established the world's first communal socialist regime. Thhe death toll, over the last century, that can be directly traced to this event, numbers close to 100 million. More than the two World Wars combined with other major conflicts and murders and genocides of the 20th century. Way more than the deaths attributed to Fascist regimes. A lot of these deaths occurred under Stalin, with his mass starvation of Ukrainians, purges and executions of ethnic minorities, pacts with Hitler, invasion of Eastern Block countries, etc. But m…

http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/02/politics/donna-brazile-dnc-book/index.html I find it interesting that Donna Brazile would burn Hillary down in such a way after admitting to giving Hillary primary debate questions before Hillary's match up with Bernie . Perhaps she didn't know just how deep the Hillary rot ran in the Democratic party when she gave Hillary the questions. Maybe we would have President Sanders now if Hillary had any ethics. Here's Politico's take. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/02/clinton-brazile-hacks-2016-215774

So with the Harvey Weinstein and now other predatory Hollywood stories, I feel like a specific topic rises that has never really been addressed. Hollywood and progressives like to make sex out to be this spur of the moment, no big deal, if it feels good do it routine. This can very easily lead to transactional sex for roles in films etc. If someone objectifies against the person doing this, the person doing the calling out is called a holy roller or preacher and that they're slut-shaming the person involved in this "transaction", because after all, it's just sex, if it feels good, do it. But when allegations like HW's arises, all the sudden transactional se…

The thesis here is that there is and has been only one economic system throughout all of human history, namely: free trade and enterprise. Differences between the various implementations has involved such things as regulation and control of free trade (and the funding of government). Capitalism would be an advanced free trade technology, a collection of free trade strategies, and not a form of government. Communism fails because it would replace free trade with....nothing.

Since the recent poll shows that 46% of all voters believe the media makes-up stories about Trump. Here is where the nearly one half of all voters may post what recent stories about Trump are (sometimes) made-up. Let's hear all about it. The media should not be allowed to get away with "made-up" stories about Trump. Any made-up stories folks? I think these 46% are NOT usually thinking about any specific news story as made-up, but rather a general belief: "Yeah I guess some of the stories are made-up" but only because Trump or his supporters make claims of fake news. Just voicing it or writing it, is enough to sew the seeds of doubt in anyone's mind.