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Saturday, February 13, 2021 1:23 AM
6IXSTRINGJACK
Saturday, February 13, 2021 1:33 AM
1KIKI
Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.
Saturday, February 13, 2021 3:40 AM
SIGNYM
I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: I lucked into the fucking job, but it wasn't given to me. I earned that too. And then I kept it until my salary was shipped to India to pay 6 people a living wage. I got two promotions while I was there and doubled my salary because I was fucking great at it, just like every fucking job I've ever fucking done. I'm the best at whatever I do. I choose not to play the game anymore. I'm able to do that because of what I did and continue to do with that money. That's in many ways more important than making the money in the first place. I can pretty much guaranty that over the course of my life I've made less money than your old dummy friends that don't have a pot to piss in now. I've only had 5 or 6 good years. I've been unemployed more years than I've made good money, and the rest was making damn near minimum wage. They've got nothing because they're old dummies who were dummies over the course of their entire lives with their money. Mindless consumers who couldn't stop consuming. Boo fucking hoo. Capice? -------------------------------------------------- A government is a body of people usually, notably, governed by Mark Zuckerborg and Slack Dorsey.
Saturday, February 13, 2021 3:57 AM
Quote:SIGNYM: I'm always happy to find areas of agreement, but if you won't discuss your opinions I suppose we'll never find out. JO: I'm happy to discuss wen I hav the time. But I dont hav a bunch theze dayz, so cant waste any churning debunks.
Quote:We can't have an election system that regularly puts dangerous incompetents in office.
Quote:We can't have 2 political parties using the government as a boxing ring to bash each other.
Quote: We are already living in a virtual oligarchy and rapidly heading toward a Hunger Games future. As more and more areas of employment become automated or outmoded by technology, the $$$ that used to flow into society simply get passed up to the wealthy individuals and corporations at the top.
Quote: We can't have 80% of the population living as debt slaves till they are senior citizens, then getting shuffled off to nursing homes that drain their meager savings. A government is an organization intended to implement some idea of what civilization should be. Judging by how America's version of civilization is not working for most of us and never has, it is clear that there are fundamental flaws that need to be corrected.
Saturday, February 13, 2021 10:17 AM
JO753
rezident owtsidr
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM:OK, so I went back to your website to find areas of agreement. Skipping the parts in your intro, in which you obsess (IMHO) about Putin, turning him into some cartoonish and unrealistically clever, powerful bad guy...
Quote:Sig: Let's go to areas of agreement, and maybe flesh them out or define them JO: We can't have an election system that regularly puts dangerous incompetents in office. Sig: Agreed. What is your fix?
Quote:JO: We can't have 2 political parties using the government as a boxing ring to bash each other. Sig: Also agreed. I think the two parties are both beholden to money, and make a show out of hating each other, but no real change in policy happens.
Quote:JO: We are already living in a virtual oligarchy and rapidly heading toward a Hunger Games future. As more and more areas of employment become automated or outmoded by technology, the $$$ that used to flow into society simply get passed up to the wealthy individuals and corporations at the top. Sig: Agreed. How do you think this is happening, and what is your fix?
Quote:JO: Judging by how America's version of civilization is not working for most of us and never has, it is clear that there are fundamental flaws that need to be corrected. Sig: Except for the part where you say "never" ("Never say never.") I mosly agree with your statements. How do you think the situation got so clusterfucked, and how can it be fixed?
Saturday, February 13, 2021 4:31 PM
Quote:Originally posted by JO753: Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM:OK, so I went back to your website to find areas of agreement. Skipping the parts in your intro, in which you obsess (IMHO) about Putin, turning him into some cartoonish and unrealistically clever, powerful bad guy... Duznt need to be unusually smart. Just needz to be ruthless. Having sum amazing dirt on Trump coud possibly be ascribed to luk. Quote:Sig: Let's go to areas of agreement, and maybe flesh them out or define them JO: We can't have an election system that regularly puts dangerous incompetents in office. Sig: Agreed. What is your fix? The obvious - get rid uv the electoral collej. No more Jerrymandering. Then, I like the idea uv preferential voting. Mandatory voting with automatic rejistration iz a good idea. The money needz to be taken out uv the system sumhow. Or at least limited to sum sane amount. I'm reading A Promised Land. Just finished the chapterz about Obamaz 2008 campane. An amazing story, but it shoudnt take such a monumental effort to pik sumwun for the job. Quote:JO: We can't have 2 political parties using the government as a boxing ring to bash each other. Sig: Also agreed. I think the two parties are both beholden to money, and make a show out of hating each other, but no real change in policy happens. Reinstating the Fairness Doctrin coud go a long way to improving thingz. The current GoP coud not exist without the freedom to lie. It seemz likely they will sine their DNR form this weekend tho, so we may end up with a defacto single party system eventually. Quote:JO: We are already living in a virtual oligarchy and rapidly heading toward a Hunger Games future. As more and more areas of employment become automated or outmoded by technology, the $$$ that used to flow into society simply get passed up to the wealthy individuals and corporations at the top. Sig: Agreed. How do you think this is happening, and what is your fix? Well, therez 3 pajez about money on the site. Plenty uv ideaz there, sum uv them from you and otherz here. If I had the opportunity to do only 1 thing about it, I woud outlaw interest. (and anything that duz the same thing) Quote:JO: Judging by how America's version of civilization is not working for most of us and never has, it is clear that there are fundamental flaws that need to be corrected. Sig: Except for the part where you say "never" ("Never say never.") I mosly agree with your statements. How do you think the situation got so clusterfucked, and how can it be fixed? Maybe 'most' iz a little bit uv an exajeration, but wen wuz the time wen it did work? Defining 'work' in the case uv sivilization iz complicated. Its alwayz been screwed up. Fundamental flawz in our specie'z thot prosessez make it unlikely that we will ever create a perfect sosiety, but we coud do way better than this mess. Many countryz hav better guvrments than the US. Sorry, out uv time for now. ---------------------------- DUZ XaT SEM RiT TQ YQ? - Jubal Early The real solution: https://fundrazr.com/71jIY1?ref=ab_f9ZUS0
Saturday, February 13, 2021 5:39 PM
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: BTW just OOC what's been keeping you soon busy lately?
Sunday, February 14, 2021 4:16 AM
Quote:Originally posted by JO753: Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: BTW just OOC what's been keeping you soon busy lately? Mostly wocing the impeachment and reading Obama'z book. ---------------------------- DUZ XaT SEM RiT TQ YQ? - Jubal Early The real solution: https://fundrazr.com/71jIY1?ref=ab_f9ZUS0
Sunday, February 14, 2021 4:43 AM
Quote:SIGNY: OK, so I went back to your website to find areas of agreement. Skipping the parts in your intro, in which you obsess (IMHO) about Putin, turning him into some cartoonish and unrealistically clever, powerful bad guy... JO: Duznt need to be unusually smart. Just needz to be ruthless. Having sum amazing dirt on Trump coud possibly be ascribed to luk.
Quote:Sig: Let's go to areas of agreement, and maybe flesh them out or define them JO: We can't have an election system that regularly puts dangerous incompetents in office. Sig: Agreed. What is your fix? JO: The obvious - get rid uv the electoral collej.
Quote: JO: No more Jerrymandering.
Quote:JO: Then, I like the idea uv preferential voting. Mandatory voting with automatic rejistration iz a good idea.
Quote:JO: The money needz to be taken out uv the system sumhow. Or at least limited to sum sane amount.
Quote:JO: I'm reading A Promised Land. Just finished the chapterz about Obamaz 2008 campane. An amazing story, but it shoudnt take such a monumental effort to pik sumwun for the job.
Quote:JO: We can't have 2 political parties using the government as a boxing ring to bash each other. Sig: Also agreed. I think the two parties are both beholden to money, and make a show out of hating each other, but no real change in policy happens. JO: Reinstating the Fairness Doctrin coud go a long way to improving thingz. The current GoP coud not exist without the freedom to lie.
Quote: JO: It seemz likely they will sine their DNR ...
Quote: ... form this weekend tho, so we may end up with a defacto single party system eventually.
Quote:JO: We are already living in a virtual oligarchy and rapidly heading toward a Hunger Games future. As more and more areas of employment become automated or outmoded by technology, the $$$ that used to flow into society simply get passed up to the wealthy individuals and corporations at the top. Sig: Agreed. How do you think this is happening, and what is your fix? JO: Well, therez 3 pajez about money on the site. Plenty uv ideaz there, sum uv them from you and otherz here. If I had the opportunity to do only 1 thing about it, I woud outlaw interest. (and anything that duz the same thing)
Quote:JO: Judging by how America's version of civilization is not working for most of us and never has, it is clear that there are fundamental flaws that need to be corrected. Sig: Except for the part where you say "never" ("Never say never.") I mostly agree with your statements. How do you think the situation got so clusterfucked, and how can it be fixed? JO: Maybe 'most' iz a little bit uv an exajeration, but wen wuz the time wen it did work? Defining 'work' in the case uv sivilization iz complicated.
Quote: JO: Its alwayz been screwed up. Fundamental flawz in our specie'z thot prosessez make it unlikely that we will ever create a perfect sosiety, but we coud do way better than this mess. Many countryz hav better guvrments than the US. Sorry, out uv time for now.
Thursday, February 18, 2021 9:50 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: We're all turning into the villain on 12 Monkeys here.
Thursday, February 18, 2021 11:30 AM
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM:But even if he had dirt on Trump, which I seriously doubt, what has he done with that information that's such a serious threat to us?...Find me a couple of examples where Russia has seriously harmed our interests, bc I'm not seeing it.
Thursday, February 18, 2021 11:53 AM
Quote:Originally posted by JO753: Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: We're all turning into the villain on 12 Monkeys here. Just woct it. A greater movie than I remembered. The C19 pandemic provez the consept - sins our sivilization wuz so eazily bumped off the tracks by a natural virus, a virus enjineered to do az much damaj az possible woud probably be seksesful.
Friday, February 19, 2021 11:03 AM
Quote:SIGNYM: But even if he had dirt on Trump, which I seriously doubt, what has he done with that information that's such a serious threat to us? ...Find me a couple of examples where Russia has seriously harmed our interests, bc I'm not seeing it. JO: First and foremost, he put an incompetent idiot megalomaniac into the Oval Offis. If he did nothing after that, it woud hav been bad enuf. Just look at wut Bush jr did in 2 termz and he wuz merely an incompetent idiot and nowhere near az incompetent and idiotic az Trump.
Quote:JO: I am not sertain about this, but I think Trump only really ran for Prez bekuz Putin ordered him to. Otherwize he woud hav not run at all or maybe did hiz usual teazer publisity stunts. Crooks do not want too much scrutiny! Running for Prez haz been likened to a 2 year colonoscopy. He really just wanted to copy Glen Beck and start a media empire.
Quote:JO: The bad respons to the pandemic in the US iz a direct and undeniable rezult uv having such a person az Prez. It currently seemz like there woudnt need to be a spesific command from Putin to account for Trump's mishandling uv the pandemic.
Quote:JO: He started by eliminating Obama'z pandemic respons team, long befor the pandemic began. That coud be credited az part uv hiz vendeta to undo everything Obama did.
Quote:JO: BUT it duznt eliminate it az a possibilty. All thingz considered, especially internationally, this mite be the greatest accomplishment Trump delivered. Example 2. Hollowing out the State Department. Equivelent to putting noize canselling ear muffs and a sack over Uncle Samz hed. Def and blind and muzzled to the world.
Quote:JO: more later.
Quote: DUZ XaT SEM RiT TQ YQ?
Friday, February 19, 2021 1:52 PM
Monday, February 22, 2021 10:25 AM
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Simply calling Trumps names ("incompetent idiot megalomaniac") does NOT answer the question about WHAT HARM RUSSIA DID TO THE USA. Be specific.
Monday, February 22, 2021 11:03 AM
Quote:Originally posted by JO753: That in itself iz very spesific. The offis uv The Prez uv The United States uv America, being the most powerful pozition on the planet, shoud be respected by the entire free world and feared by all autocrats.
Monday, February 22, 2021 11:08 PM
WISHIMAY
Quote:Originally posted by SignyM: So, please provide A LIST of how Russia has harmed the United States. Or if you want to lay this all at Trump's feet, A LIST of how Trump has harmed the USA.
Monday, February 22, 2021 11:10 PM
Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Your party is trying to destroy compulsive liars and disinformation peddlers now, JO.
Monday, February 22, 2021 11:40 PM
Quote:Originally posted by WISHIMAY: Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Your party is trying to destroy compulsive liars and disinformation peddlers now, JO. FIFY
Tuesday, February 23, 2021 9:21 AM
Quote:SIGNYM: Simply calling Trumps names ("incompetent idiot megalomaniac") does NOT answer the question about WHAT HARM RUSSIA DID TO THE USA. Be specific. JO: That in itself iz very spesific. The offis uv The Prez uv The United States uv America, being the most powerful pozition on the planet, shoud be respected by the entire free world and feared by all autocrats.
Quote: Unfortunately, not many uv the occupierz uv the pozition hav lived up to it, but Putin'z puppet brot it to a new low.
Quote: With a clear purpose to degrade anything and everything that mite be a + mark for America compared to other nationz, Putin showed hiz hand bekuz most uv it wuz beyond Trump's knowlej and mental abilityz.
Quote: Trump worked hard to jenerate divisionz with our alliez. He openly cozied up to autocrats. He took every opportunity to drop hiz pants (and America'z by extension) for Putin in public.
Quote: Disonr, disgust, derision. Any word you can think uv thats in the catagory oppozit uv the category associated with respect.
Quote: He started long before winning the election just by being himself - an embarrassing crude clown. That gi mite bekum prezident?! America! HA!
Quote: And then he winz. FOOEEYY on America! Everybody join me in pissing on America now!
Quote: But the minit he sat down behind the Rezolut Desk iz wen he really went to work. Appointing idiots and anti-purpose criminalz to disable federal ajensiez. (remember Ben Carson? Scott Pruit?)
Quote:Went with nepotizm like he wuz competing for an international title.
Quote:Named Frend uv Russia medalist Rex Tillerson for Secretary uv State.
Quote:The world wuz not thinking 'wow! look how great America iz!' at any point during the last 5 yirz.
Quote: Its been 4 yirz uv apprehension about wuts going to come out uv The White House next. Another deregulatory attack on the envirement? More give-awayz for the rich andor jiant corporationz? Or will it just be the usual streem uv stoopid obvious liez?
Quote:The other day I notist that I hav developed a mental flinch at the mere mention uv 'the Wite House' on the newz. I hav to remind myself that Biden iz Prezident now!
Quote: So, you want more spesifics. In addition to the international loss uv respect,
Quote: herez a few off the top uv my hed: Haf a million ded frum C19 so far, a quarter uv the world total.
Quote: The first attack on The Union sins the Sivil War.
Quote:The divisionz in the sitizenry are wider than ever, nearly haf uv us are off the deep end in a fantasy land where Trump iz the greatest Prez ever.
Quote:At least 2 major seksesful hacks into the intel ajensiez (and all other ajensyz), the amount uv damaj haz yet to be determined.
Quote: Trade warz that gained nothing for anybody exept maybe Russia. (a direct effect on me wuz China halting the resycling biz. I hav about 200 poundz uv aluminum canz backed up here.)
Quote: Thats enuff
Quote: but therez so much more. Keep in mind that I beleev you are Russian,
Quote: so reazonably suspect that you mite be trying to trik me into doing an assessment for you - a sort uv 'here boss! Look wut we've accomplished az testified by the Americanz themselvez!'
Tuesday, February 23, 2021 5:29 PM
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM:WHY should our President be "feared by all autocrats?
Quote:Are you assuming that it is on OUR INTEREST ... that it benefits YOU AND ME in some real way ... for that USA to be "world cop" and to threaten or destroy every "autocratic" rule across the world?
Tuesday, February 23, 2021 6:38 PM
Tuesday, February 23, 2021 6:55 PM
Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Sorry Nilly. Democrats are trying to shred the Constitution and install censorship at every level in the 2020s.
Tuesday, February 23, 2021 7:22 PM
Tuesday, February 23, 2021 7:34 PM
Tuesday, February 23, 2021 9:11 PM
Quote:SIGNYM:WHY should our President be "feared by all autocrats? JO: Worth ansering, even tho it shoud be obvious. Bad gize want to be able to do anything they want. Having a hier power abuv them iz hard to tolerate. Bad gize hoo hav rizen to the near ultimate pozition uv autocrat are naturally the worst, most ruthless and evil. Its thanks to America and the international alliansez it created that theze toxic turdz hav sum fear uv retribution if they start trying to take over nayboring countriez or commit larj scale atrosityz on their own sitizenz.
Quote:Sum fear. Not alot. Thanks to endless examplz uv inaction by us and our alliez after atrositiez came to lite, the limits to wut they can get away with are very hi.
Quote:Are you assuming that it is on OUR INTEREST ... that it benefits YOU AND ME in some real way ... for that USA to be "world cop" and to threaten or destroy every "autocratic" rule across the world? JO: Yes. Agen, it shoud be obvious.
Wednesday, February 24, 2021 1:36 PM
Thursday, February 25, 2021 2:13 AM
Quote: WISHY: 6ix REALLY believes it's ok to wish pandemic deaths on the world but that HE is special and should be exempt from it
Thursday, February 25, 2021 6:31 AM
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote: WISHY: 6ix REALLY believes it's ok to wish pandemic deaths on the world but that HE is special and should be exempt from it Well, I see I miised THIS little gem from our local sociopath/narcissist! 1) In this thread, in any case, killing people off via a pandemic seems to be JO's hooby-horse, and 2) This, from the person who wouldn't mind genociding the entire world "down to the last hundred" to meet it's vision of a "better world". At least a viral pandemic is somewhat passive. WISHY, OTOH, would actively kill billions of people! Sheesh. And it still has no idea how illogical that is.
Thursday, February 25, 2021 11:31 PM
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: At least a viral pandemic is somewhat passive.
Thursday, February 25, 2021 11:51 PM
Friday, February 26, 2021 11:52 AM
Quote: SIGNYM: At least a viral pandemic is somewhat passive. JO: Then I hope wishing all your fascist friends a nice "passive" Covid death makes things easier for you Not gonna address his hypocrisy at all, eh?? Still trying to suck up to the dumbest bottom feeder on the internets??
Quote:"Maybe this is wut we need"
Quote: With the ecosystem collapsing under the wate uv our makanikly augmented oil powered assez, the human rase wuz heded for a harsh painful lesson. It wuz really just a matter uv time befor we got a pandemic going, so maybe this iz it. Like the flu, only with a much hire fatality rate. So wut if it bekumz another annual dezeez? Or if it just persists yir-round? If it bumps off 15 million peepl per yir, it mite be enuf to make a real differens.
Friday, February 26, 2021 11:54 AM
Friday, February 26, 2021 2:36 PM
Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: and it's about .... guess what??? PANDEMIC BENEFITS. you have a god-awful grotch against "wrong-thinkers".
Friday, February 26, 2021 3:24 PM
Friday, February 26, 2021 3:41 PM
Quote: Originally posted by SIGNYM: and it's about .... guess what??? PANDEMIC BENEFITS. You have a god-awful grotch against "wrong-thinkers". TWITCHY: I agree his death would be a distinct benefit of a pandemic. I don't know why HE doesn't think so. Jo is looking for a theoretical benefit for the planet,
Quote: 6ix is looking for a benefit FOR HIM. That's the difference here. More jobs for white guys, more room for white guys....
Quote:WISHY So maybe he should answer to whether the 250 kids who are dead from Covid are such a great thing?? Lets have more dead Covid kids, right 6ix??
Quote: WISHY I treat people as the the malignancy that they represent
Quote:... fascists... fascists...
Friday, February 26, 2021 7:25 PM
Saturday, February 27, 2021 8:12 PM
Sunday, February 28, 2021 12:37 AM
Quote:Originally posted by SignyM:Well, to be completely hard-nosed about this: SO WHAT?
Quote:What makes you think that we have the responsibility, moral authority, or even the military strength to go around trying to "fix" the world and make it conform to our expectations?
Quote: I think the BEST way to improve the world... if you believe that you have a mission from on high to do so... is first of all, not commit atrocities that are as bad or worse than the ones you're supposedly trying to fix.
Quote:Name three nations since 1960 that turned out more prosperous, freer, more developed, after we "intervened", and explain how that "helped us".
Sunday, February 28, 2021 12:43 AM
Sunday, February 28, 2021 11:17 AM
Quote: SIGNY: Well, to be completely hard-nosed about this: SO WHAT? JO:Thats a dim view uv the world. Exactly the view I'd expect from an autocrat.
Quote: JO: Pik the future you want for the world - the human rase a bunch uv violent tribez destined to sap the planets resoursez to conduct their petty squablz, pulverizing the envirement till its ded?
Quote:JO: Or we take the ability to do damaj away frum the bad boyz.
Quote:SIGNY: What makes you think that we have the responsibility, moral authority, or even the military strength to go around trying to "fix" the world and make it conform to our expectations? JO: If not us, hoo?
Quote: JO: Shoud Denmark form an international hit squad and start bumping off bad boyz?
Quote: JO:I say maybe, but they'd be at much greater risk uv retaliation than any uv the nationz with significant militaryz.
Quote:JO: Pik any nation and you can say the same thing to sum degree. Eksept the US. We are the top dog.
Quote: JO: And if we spend 750 billion a yir on our military yet fail to ever stop the bad gize from doing evil, the $$$ are wasted. The top dog hoo ignorez everthing beyond hiz own gain haz no rite to be the top dog. In fact, he stops being the top dog and bekumz a paper tiger. I'm not a war hawk. Diplomasy, shaming, sanctionz and isolation can do wonderz. But they dont alwayz work. Iraq wuz a stoopid mistake for the US at the time, but the world iz a better plase without Sadam and hiz gang. And it woud be even better if we depozed more toxic assholez without waiting for extreem provocationz. We shoud hav made an example uv Assad within a week uv hiz 1st bomming.
Quote:JO: Make it clear and unambiguous that if Uncle Sam iz frowning at you, you are in danjer.
Quote: SIGNY: I think the BEST way to improve the world... if you believe that you have a mission from on high to do so... is first of all, not commit atrocities that are as bad or worse than the ones you're supposedly trying to fix. JO: I agree. America haz earned a big share uv the blame for the inequality and turmoil around the world. Unrestrained capitalizm. Greed. Stoopid polisyz. Most uv it trasing to Republicanz.
Quote:SIGNY: Name three nations since 1960 that turned out more prosperous, freer, more developed, after we "intervened", and explain how that "helped us". JO: Good Q. I havent studied much history, so cant ansr. (aside from Iraq, but thats debatable) But youre implyng that intervening cant work. Do you think America shoud hav stayed out uv WW2?
Quote: JO: Its a good idea to supress autocrats. That shoud be obvious, even to you. It helps us and the rest uv the world to not be forsed to deal with a bunch uv Hitlerz popping up like mushroomz thriving on decay. Its an even better idea to eliminate them.
Sunday, February 28, 2021 11:33 AM
Monday, March 1, 2021 4:03 PM
Monday, March 1, 2021 4:22 PM
Monday, March 1, 2021 4:37 PM
Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: I recommend he watch Demon Knight to cure what ails him.
Monday, March 1, 2021 7:49 PM
Quote:Originally posted by JO753: Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: I recommend he watch Demon Knight to cure what ails him. That looks pretty good! I'll look for it at the library next time i go! ---------------------------- DUZ XaT SEM RiT TQ YQ? - Jubal Early The real solution: https://fundrazr.com/71jIY1?ref=ab_f9ZUS0
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