phobosdeimos

I hope you drink fair trade coffee.

(I know that stealing from white man is bad, third worlder in a far away land is not bad but I'm too autistic for the hypocrisy our society lives by)

There are a LOT more festivals in my country then there were in the 90s. And its a lot easier to gain some fame and book a concert venue.

The days of snorting cocaine in studios for months and making concept albums are over. Its back to traveling around and entertaining people. Worked for thousands of years.

Thats far too easy. In a democracy YOU are the state.

I wonder what would happen if we could live cast our military deployments so that every voter has access to every war crime committed? Maybe then people wouldn't be so quick to sign up for another war. Or they would at least be honest about it.

The US military studied Vietnam a lot:

No more draft, career soldiers only Control the media One year tour of duty (they broke this one in Iraq because they were running low)

"same deference they treat the road system"

Well that's not saying much. The US highways aren't in optimal condition.

My country is literally one bad storm away from turning into Atlantis. Puerto Rico is not a disaster, hurricanes are a part of the weather over there and every American should be ashamed of what happened. Sing God bless America because it sure as hell isn't going to be saved by its people.

We are running into a problem here: how do you kill a parasite without killing the host? The US is not an export economy, it produces very little tangible goods. Its a very insular economy that because of its superpower history has deeply spread its cancer cells across the global economy. How do you fight it?

Lol you technologists are payed by advertising money. Inconvenient truth.

How about the Second Amendment ;)

Yeah I always laugh when people talk about "the West". Globalization is far, so far away. Truth be told there was more unity in the world when dynastic royal families ruled the world- not democratic nation states.

To be hypocritical is to be human: if the EU can make life miserable for some American based businesses Trump style I won't lose sleep over it.

I do. Banks should only disallow illegal transactions.

Not that I am surprised: PayPal is American.

True, Netflix first got popular in my country by people using VPN to access it. Now that they operate locally and are a part of the establishment they've been diligent in squashing VPNs.

It costs a cool million to throw a kid in jail so the numbers add up.

But dont worry when the economy goes South again the prison industry will be back with their promise to provide jobs.