This whole conflict has been like watching a video from halfway around the world of a child molester mercilessly punch and kick the unconscious body of a second child molester after he hit the first one in the face. And then having a bunch of people ask “which child molester do you support?” who then get really upset and confused when you say neither, that you consider them both to be monsters, and don’t really care if either, or both, of them die.
Well that’s retarded
I would like to see a random person. Put the entire adult population in a lotto and draw a name. Congrats, that person is now president.
The knee-jerk reaction is to be horrified by this prospect, but I want you to stop and really think about this for a sec. I think we can all admit that most of our leaders/politicians are, to put it mildly, fucking monsters. Those positions attract personalities that fall firmly in the Dark Triad (machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy). And those that are capable of getting themselves elected are pretty much guaranteed to have at least one or more of those traits.
But these traits are relatively rare in your average, everyday person. Although the media tries it’s best to warp our view of the world, individual people are, for the most part, good, decent folks who want to help those around them. It’s practically built into our DNA. The problem is it only takes a small handful of selfish jackasses to ruin things, and our society tends to listen to those that are being the loudest.
By this metric, if you take a random person off the street, you have a higher chance of them being a good person; rather than if you selected from a pool of politicians.
Another benefit to this is the person entering office has zero ties to any company or billionaire. Lobbyists spend billions to ensure that anyone elected is already in the pockets of whatever big industry wants to fund them. By the time someone is elected, it’s already too late as they’ve already had their hands greased and have accepted gifts, officially or unofficially. That’s just the way the game is currently played. But a random person? They can’t bribe someone ahead of time if they don’t know who that person is going to be. Oh sure, I suppose they could try to appease the public as a whole so that your average person already has a positive opinion of them; but would that be such a bad thing?
Is it a perfect system? Hell no. Leaving leadership up to the whims of chance is a dangerous move to make. But is it a better system than the one we have now? I say yes. I truly believe we would be better off with a random person as president than any known politician or talking head.
So why is it so rarely prosecuted?
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Just wait until the ballroom is built. It’s like half the size of the fucking white house and will forever taint the iconic view.
I have to wonder, are you and people like you just making a common joke? Or do you really think the US extracted oil from Afghanistan? Because they didn’t. They used the invasion to strong arm OPEC; but they themselves didn’t take oil. It wasn’t about increasing oil supply.
The US grew heroin there instead. And only left when stronger synthetics (fentanyl) made heroin unprofitable.
Look up the group Indecline and see if they have any suggestions for civil disobedience around you.
He drew a swastika next to a AfD candidates name. Not sure what the big deal is, they are straight up Nazi’s. Doesn’t seem like he should feel compelled to resign for calling a spade a spade.
My TI-84 calculator.
The Times of Israel said Iran fired two ballistic missiles and that both were intercepted.
Does this make almost no sense to anyone else? If you’re going to violate the ceasefire, why would you only fire two missiles? Considering Israel’s success rate with shooting down missiles, these were almost guaranteed to be intercepted. Were they hoping Israel would just forget about their missile defense system? Even if that was the case, again, why only two? It’s like the entire goal was just to technically violate the ceasefire with no other gain.
Nation. Sin.
It’s so simple a child could understand it; yet, it’s somehow impossible to many adults.
“Sorry, you must not have heard me; you called me back for an interview and the others didn’t.”
Misleading titles all around and we wonder why media literacy is through the fucking ground.
I keep meaning to make a browser extension that automatically adds some version of “AND WELCOME TO THE JAM” anytime the word slam is used.
The film opening is the best part, and honestly one of the best openings to a movie ever. It’s such a shame the rest of the movie is hindered by the awful writing and casting.
This man will die old and surrounded by family without any regrets related to this. You need to break this infantile view of the world where you think bad people will see consequences for their actions. That is fairy tale nonsense. In the real world, the villains usually win. Karma is bullshit used to make people think that justice is some universal constant. The universe does not care.
You know that Israel MAKES munitions right? They have a pretty sizable weapons industry. Not to mention with Trump in office, there is little slowing down how much they can purchase from the US.
I would take any report of Israel running out of arms with a massive, heaping spoonful of salt.
Only one flaw with your logic… Most of the neighboring countries hate Palestine almost as much as the Israeli’s do. That’s why they haven’t been accepting any refugees and haven’t been putting a lot of pressure on Israel for their actions, Yemen being one of the few exceptions.
Better ban the ocean then. I heard millions of people decide to go swimming in it every day and some of them drown.