Also never understood the “they’ll leave if we tax them!” argument

If they stay and we keep tax laws minimal and unenforced or easily evaded … then billionaires don’t pay tax

If they leave … then billionaires don’t pay tax

All the incentive is there to just tax them because no matter what you do with them … they won’t pay tax … so its better to just give them a good excuse to leave because they are just a drain on the economy

A bit concerning that it is propped up on a night table and sitting right next to a doorway. There’s only two of us in the house but I would never place electronic equipment like that near a doorway where I myself could just knock it over (because I’ve done stuff like that in the past). Get it on the floor or on the opposite side of the room where no one including yourself can walk or move around near it.

They should just scribble into the definitions of Genocide in the UN … ‘except for Israel’

Whether or not it’s true … it’s marketing for Google and their AI

How does anyone verify this?

It’s basically one person’s claim and it’s not easy to prove or disprove.

Instead we use a worldwide network of interconnected computers and systems to micromanage everyone’s lives and convince them all that billionaires are good for the economy, infinite money is possible, immigrants are bad, global warming is not real, perpetual war is normal, no one landed on the moon, the earth is flat and nazis are OK.

All that work, all that expertise and equipment just to terrorize a small group of native people and especially women on behalf of corporate interests. Using officers decked out with military style weapons and combat gear.

Indigenous people know what the rcmp is … it’s the attack dog of the government to protect their friends. They’re not meant to protect people, they’re meant to maintain their rule of law.

We’ve always known that because that’s all we’ve ever seen them do.

I’m in Canada … and our government is sending money, arms and support for this stupidity?

The same thing is looking like it’s going to happen in Canada

Current Liberal government is going to hold out all support for a genocidal country doing genocidal things for no apparent obvious reason and any moderate voter out there will avoid them for them it.

It doesn’t matter what your politics are … if your political party openly and wholeheartedly wants to support something that does no benefit to your country, ruins the lives of others and supports a maniacal regime, and does it at the cost of millions and billions of dollars -> why would you want to vote for them?

I don’t get it … sure Israel is pretty important but why would political leaders obviously tank their entire prospects just to save the support of a country that has very little to do with their own other than to cost everyone money.

This will be the template of what is to come for all of us all over the world.

Climate caused catastrophes and instead of working together, having patience with government, trying to figure out solutions, working cooperatively … we’ll all protest, fight, get angry with one another and make the situation worse for one another.

We won’t be working together to deal with the problem or admitting to one another that we are causing the climate catastrophes or doing anything significant to lessen the effects or even change our behaviour … we’ll just protest our governments for not having magical instant solutions to impossible problems.

You are correct but the question was … why should a country prevent another country from being able to freely trade with every other country.

If that same thought or sentiment grows around the world … then why have a UN if its just treated as a play toy by the ones with the biggest guns?

So jungle rules then … ooga booga … just with better vocabulary.

Why is it normalized that one country can block/embargo/complicate/whatever-you-want-to-call-it another country to the point of severely affecting the lives of millions of people … for what? because one country disagrees with the politics of another country?

If countries were able to do that, there would be no trade anywhere in the world.

Yet it’s been completely normalized for the past six decades between the US and Cuba.

It’s not so much that it’s AI generated … it’s also AI influenced.

I know so many professional office workers who once wrote some of the most boring sometimes stupid emails because they didn’t know how to write or get their message across or constantly miscommunicated things because they worded things wrong … now all of a sudden they’ve become professional writers and all their emails look like auto generated messages.

I’m guessing that many writers also take the AI shortcut. They get a bunch of content generated from an AI than just rewrite it for themselves. Some content i see is lazily edited and some is heavily. But I get the feeling that just about everyone is using it because it’s an easy way to get a bunch of work done without having to think too much.

Yes but the amount of trade that happens is so miniscule that it doesn’t do much for their economy.

It’s like having someone pin you to the ground, tie up your hands and feet and rest their knee on your neck and then ask why you’re having a hard time getting up on your own

Call it what you want but the effect is still the same.

Yes Cuba can trade with whoever they want in the world … the US just makes it so difficult and complicated that no one wants to be bothered.

Ukraine hasn’t been crippled by Russian power for 66 years

If any other country like China or Russia blockaded a country to the point where it would cause a collapse … we’d probably start WWIII in defence.

US does it and it’s just taken as a normal part of world politics and perfectly acceptable.

What the hell did Cuba do to deserve this? They had a difference of opinion and they didn’t want to be taken advantage of … they’ve since had to be literally starved to death because of it.

As silly as it sounds … there was a similar argument for the National Socialist Party in Germany in the 1930s. Many people thought they were a joke and weren’t taken seriously at first.

Put enough money, finances and marketing behind a movement no matter how insane it is and it can quickly go out of control.

What people don’t realize is that it is money and finance that make these movements possible. They don’t just appear out of thin air through the force of one personality or the cult following of one person. It takes money to sell an idea and the more money you spend on it, the bigger the idea will become. These nut jobs are being funnelled millions of dollars either directly or indirectly to spread their garbage. Part of the problem is the insane personality that everyone glorifies … the greatest problem are the millionaires and billionaires and corporations that fund these idiots to push their own agenda from the background.

A billionaire might have done something illegal and possibly treasonous?

I wonder if anyone will follow through on this.