Freedom of speech and protest

[wayneL]

Give China another couple decades and they will have downloaded all the tech and brainpower to leap frog ahead though.

All the big tech companies are scrambling into China. Opening up their source codes, secret hash and surveillance tech to please the comrades for promises of a slice of them billion+ people.

Then you have racist, anti-immigrant politics all over the West. That's not going to attract high minded people whether they're black or white.

My brother-in-law's younger brother is considering whether he should take a scholarship to study in the US or in Beijing. A decade ago there's just no question that you'd go to the US... now they're considering which police state is a better deal.

You know what the Chinese says... empire wax and wane. Those that used to ruled the world soon find themselves becoming their former peasants' vassal coolies.

Cultural appropriation, eh?

 

[luutzu]

Cultural appropriation, eh?

The very best.

I still remember my brother and I having a good laugh when we heard Bill Gates was willing to let the Chinese examine its Windows source code a decade or two ago. You know, for security purposes.

Soon we're going to see "WooDows"

But ey, it's not like the West doesn't steal anything and make it their own.

No tea, no coffee... how does anyone start the day or look cultured without them?

And now this....

$675B for the Pentagon [though it's actually $712B give or take a few space force starter pack]

$182B for both Labor, Health & Human Services, Education, and other agencies.

Priorities ey?

BUT there's worst...

Trump threatens to veto it if that damn $182B aren't reduced.

Why the heck are we spending so lavishly on all those other human services, education and stuff when we need every last billion for that $25B wall, more arms to the middle east and everywhere.

Can't make these stuff up.


Senate to consider massive spending bill, faces Trump objections
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. senators agreed on Wednesday to debate and vote in the next few days on more than $850 billion in spending on defense, labor and healthcare programs, as the Trump administration announced its objections to some parts of the bill.

The so-called “minibus” appropriations bill includes nearly $675 billion in spending for the Department of Defense, as well as about $182 billion for an array of domestic programs under the departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and related agencies.

Congressional aides said the Senate combined the two bills in the hope that President Donald Trump would not veto the domestic spending measure.

Trump has threatened to shut down the government if Congress, which is controlled by his fellow Republicans, does not adhere to his spending priorities, especially his desire to spend billions of dollars to build a wall on the border with Mexico.

On Wednesday, his administration announced its position on the bill. While not threatening a veto, the “Statement of Administration Policy” noted that the bill does not include administration proposals to reduce spending in areas such as education and healthcare research...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...ing-bill-faces-trump-objections-idUSKBN1L02CP

 

[wayneL]

I don't mind the appropriation, Grasshopper, such is the way of the world.

It's the gross hypocrisy of your mob on the topic.

 

[luutzu]

I don't mind the appropriation, Grasshopper, such is the way of the world.

It's the gross hypocrisy of your mob on the topic.

What mob? I'm on the good side Sifu.

 

[moXJO]

Social media and search engines are beginning mass culling of accounts they deem too far right.
Apparently Avi yemini was caught up in it as well.
The Southern Poverty Law Center (soros funded) has been blacklisting people. They started of with nazis, which is fair enough. But have now turned more political and banning anyone not with the progressive agenda.

Interesting turn. And heading for disaster imo.

 

[Tisme]

Social media and search engines are beginning mass culling of accounts they deem too far right.
Apparently Avi yemini was caught up in it as well.
The Southern Poverty Law Center (soros funded) has been blacklisting people. They started of with nazis, which is fair enough. But have now turned more political and banning anyone not with the progressive agenda.

Interesting turn. And heading for disaster imo.

Wots so "progressive" about creating herd societies?

 

[wayneL]

Time to go to alternative platforms. I just went over to gab and bitchute.

Freespeech reigns.

 

[basilio]

Time to go to alternative platforms. I just went over to gab and bitchute.

Freespeech reigns.

Excellent!! Delighted to hear you have found a place with like minded souls.

I hope you enjoy their company.

Good luck and Bon Voyage..

 

[wayneL]

Excellent!! Delighted to hear you have found a place with like minded souls.

I hope you enjoy their company.

Good luck and Bon Voyage..

Difference, they won't censor you either bas.

Free speech bro.

 

[cynic]

Excellent!! Delighted to hear you have found a place with like minded souls.

I hope you enjoy their company.

Good luck and Bon Voyage..

You know bas, much as I enjoy being in rapport with the like minded, I do also, at times, actually gain same benefit from having my views challenged by others.

There can be some value in forgoing the indulgence of immersing oneself into an insulated environment, where only one's chosen perspective is allowed.

Consider what happened in pepperland:



Can you see how this may serve as a cautionary tale, with relevance to certain ideologies that have come back into fashion in recent times?

 

[Tisme]

You know bas, much as I enjoy being in rapport with the like minded, I do also, at times, actually gain same benefit from having my views challenged by others.

There can be some value in forgoing the indulgence of immersing oneself into an insulated environment, where only one's chosen perspective is allowed.

Consider what happened in pepperland:


Can you see how this may serve as a cautionary tale, with relevance to certain ideologies that have come back into fashion in recent times?

For the thinking man, views aren't a straight line between polar opposites ... more like a ball of spaghetti between spoon and fork...... one or two individuals do tend to emulate a single thread of capellini.

 

[dutchie]

Facebook Threatened By New Social Network That Will RESTORE Freedom To the Internet

 

[Tisme]

Facebook Threatened By New Social Network That Will RESTORE Freedom To the Internet

minds.com immediately shows "Google Analytics" is trying to monitor, but can't establish it, as seen by my tracker software

 

[wayneL]

Couldn't think of a good place to put this, but, interesting observation

 

[sptrawler]

Europe, like much of the West, and pretty much every nation state and imperial hasbeen and wannabes.. are in decline - if we judge its wealth or decline based on the living standards of its plebs rather than its lords and barons... they're in decline not because of refugees, illegal immigrants and whatever ethnic minority that's currently on the radar.

They are in decline, because of their affluence, same as the reason every other society has declined.
Their affluence breeds laziness, it breeds lack of application and it encourages those from less fortunate areas to aspire to get there.
Pretty simple really, human nature.

 

[dutchie]

Impassioned speech by Jordan Peterson. Especially important at the end.

On the Vital Necessity of Free Speech

 

[Wysiwyg]

luutzu said: ↑
Europe, like much of the West, and pretty much every nation state and imperial hasbeen and wannabes.. are in decline - if we judge its wealth or decline based on the living standards of its plebs rather than its lords and barons... they're in decline not because of refugees, illegal immigrants and whatever ethnic minority that's currently on the radar.

Horsechit.

 

[luutzu]

They are in decline, because of their affluence, same as the reason every other society has declined.
Their affluence breeds laziness, it breeds lack of application and it encourages those from less fortunate areas to aspire to get there.
Pretty simple really, human nature.

A good talk from Bill Black. Former White-Color crime prosecutor; now some professor in the US.

The Best Way to Steal the Bank is to Own One.

• $11 USD Trillion stolen from US taxpayers from bailout.
• 10M jobs lost
• some 10M families lost their home - their largest asset, life's savings.
• How much of people's pensions were lost? Who cares.
• Did anyone went to prison? Did they get bonuses? Free money to keep at it, again?

All the welfare payment, the refugees and other leaners are chump change.

 

[luutzu]

Horsechit.

Lao Tzu says, the highest truth are rarely known.

Well, in this case it's right in front of our eyes but we just can't believe it. I mean, Capitalists are greedy? No way!

 

[sptrawler]

Singapore has a welfare system, just most are too proud to avail themselves of it, apparently.

Jeez what is wrong with them? lol

Come to Australia, you will soon get over that mental block, you will become one of the unfortunates.