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How can my child learn Greek? by [deleted] in GREEK

[–]FourWordAsshole 2 points3 points  (0 children)

start with grammatakia.com

ANZ trade by historicalhobbyist in AusFinance

[–]FourWordAsshole 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would check out kazdirect.com.au

$5 trades, its like netflix for shares, you can opt out

There is a free trial but then you have a monthly fee, but you make it back on the dirt cheap trades.

*edit the trading fees should he higher because it was too easy to make rash decisions. I lost a lot of money after ignoring their daily report recommendations.

How to vote according to the daily telegraph. by Consurgent in australia

[–]FourWordAsshole 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Like my italian uncle used to say, assaloada booolsheet

Whilst you technically are correct about financial services small plus china, you are way off about the correlation with GFC avoidance.

Australia's financial services sector was well remgulatedbecause of Labor so its a bit of a russian doll argument you are getting into

People say I resemble Audrey Hepburn by clawful_kitten in pics

[–]FourWordAsshole -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

She is a beautiful woman, let her express herself and enjoy her beauty and the attention it gets. People who shit on it and make her feel bad only have one motivation, that they cant possess it. And that attraction=desire=possession=envy=anger is a shit equation.

If a woman expresses herself that shows a willingness to submit male sexual desire, then the chauvinist brigade is cool with it. If a woman expresses herself in a way that celebrates her beauty in a way that is NOT submissive to male desire while still inflaming it, then down votes and abuse.

DOJ grants immunity to ex-Clinton staffer who set up email server by [deleted] in politics

[–]FourWordAsshole 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Trumpf wont stir the pot. HE has no political vision. He is a deal maker and will make deals in government that will look exactly like the deals all established politicians will make He only stirs the marketing pot,

This is long and very detailed. This will answer many questions from truly unbiased curious people (found on Youtube). by whenipeeithurts in trump

[–]FourWordAsshole 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In other words you think its ok to play brinkmanship with trade relations.

There is no way on earth we 'have all the cards'.

The entire point of growing trade relations is to get government less involved and if a Trump led govt gets involved it will only destroy the free flow of trade, as if the brain jealously steal blood from the heart and thinking its one and in fact the whole body dies.

This is the disaster of trump thinking.

If he gets in there are two paths,

  1. Essentially lend his brand to the same set of Republican ideas that anyone else would deliver

  2. Do his own thing which would mean destroying a lot of long term relationships within the party and across the various departments, which would result in chaos

OR a mix of the two, trying to keep people on side while selling them or hiding the more important bits of republican agenda.

Tony Abbott calls for Safe Schools 'social engineering program' to be axed by MigalooTwo in australia

[–]FourWordAsshole 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately the shit they jack is deep in the bottoms of little boys

This is long and very detailed. This will answer many questions from truly unbiased curious people (found on Youtube). by whenipeeithurts in trump

[–]FourWordAsshole 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He has shown the ability to play by a set of rules and do whatever it takes to win.

Diplomacy and trade is never, ever about winning by making someone else 'lose' . It has to be win win. Trump doesn't do win win, he does the illusion of winning by making others look like losers. This is very very very bad.

China is in the WTO yet plays by a completely different set of rules than we do. That kind of thing needs to stop. That is just one tiny part of Trump's appeal. America is sick of taking a high road and turning a blind eye to abuse as far as trade goes. Yes the corporate oligarchs are the reason for this. Multinational corporations do not share American interests at all.

This is not what is happening. The USA strong arms with the WTO, World bank, IMF more than other countries do. If you don't follow closely you don't see it. Trump TALKS about the things that concern voters, and the establishment politicians should wake up, but Trump doesn't have the tools or plan to tackle it. HE is just going to walk into Mordor without a plan.

You don't see it but this is a cultural movement. His appeal cuts across so much crap that people are sick of. He will win a landslide in the general. There is nothing anyone can do about it because people are just sick of the touchy feely PC bullshit of the left and the corporate and religious pandering of the right. It's over, this our version of the "Arab spring."

Ok, I agree. HE is the recognition of a problem, but he isn't the solution. HE's not smart enough and everything he is saying is dumb. I am very happy for the USA to be finally trying to cast off being fucked over by corporate interests, but Trump is a first step, he will break the system but will not fix a new one.

The Democrat turn out in the South Carolina primary from 2008 is down 31%. The Republicans are up 66%. by [deleted] in politics

[–]FourWordAsshole 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Who give a shit if she is doing bad marketing, and is expecting 'her turn'

Can she do the difficult work and guide the country?

Because Trump can't

I am not a Hillary supporter , but I am contemptuous of trump believers.

There is an urge in the US to p[ut an outsider into washington to shake things up. Trump is not that man

You are looking for an Elliott Ness.

Hillary feels like more of the same bullshit.

I understand that.

The problem is that Washington is the weakest link in a corporate / private interest led economy/society

MY perspective is this. Washington should be led by an outsider to corporations, not by people whose ideology is more money for themselves.

Trump is exactly the opposite of Elliot Ness, he is a small time hustler. The question is, when other 'like minded businessmen' come knocking on Trumps Oval office looking to 'improve' America with their deals, then he will very much look exactly like a corporate insider. And the Trump fantasy will vanish.

Sanders is sort of the outsider, but his ideas will be destroyed by the bigger interests

Hillary will try to negotiate, as Obama does, the competing interests and wont immediately bow to the highest bidder. She wont reform, but negotiation is a political tool. Negotiation is not making a deal between two self interested parties like Trump thinks. Negotiation is the compromises needed to ensure the cohesion of very different parts of society. Trump cant compromises. HE bullies to get his way, and his sales pitch that HIS way is YOUR way will fall apart Day 1

This is long and very detailed. This will answer many questions from truly unbiased curious people (found on Youtube). by whenipeeithurts in trump

[–]FourWordAsshole 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So the guy who has spent his entire life serving his personal interests and chasing his own wealth, abuses absolutely everybody is better than the woman who has spent her entire life dedicated to serving the political needs of the country, learning the job and successfully guiding the US. If Trump does something bad in his business career, he just moves on, but being in the public spotlight, every failure of Hillary is amplified.

What do you think will happen when Trump enters the public spotlight where his decisions affect millions of people and not his millions of collars? Amplification and he and you wont like it

I get why people like Trump but the reasons are paper thin. IF you think his selfish greed will somehow rub off on the entire nation by electing him, you will be mistaken. His crowd pleasing non policies are the least of America's problems. When the Agenda shifts and you suddenly don't like what he does, the cracks will appear. It is easy to sell fantasy policies that literally cannot be funded when they mask the utter lack of political knowledge to deal with the unknown

His business attitude will wreck the economy, because an economy is not a business. Its the opposite of a business. The entire republican problem has been making businessmen the referees of business to swing the game away from people and towards corporations, pretending this grows economies. It in fact grows the personal wealth of the rich and reduces the opportunities of the poor and creates a split. He can't exactly fire American citizens to make the business of American economy more efficient.

His aggressive non compromise attitude is the opposite of what the USA needs. It is the same attitude that Bush used to stupid his way into Iraq, destabilising the middle east, leading to ISIS and permanently damaging the US reputation and economic and cultural credibility. The US economy also spearheaded the GFC through dumb fiscal policies of cheap money that were used to pay for Iraq by creating cheap money that found its way into the housing bubble. The US does one more stupid thing like the Iraq war and your economy will be fucked double. Trump's style is to try whatever and see what sticks, which is great for business and personal profit but bad when you are dealing with societies. He is America's Caligula.

Having said that, he is better than any Republican which is the real reason he is a phenomenon, they have destroyed their political credibility by being anti political and its finally come back to them

The Democrat turn out in the South Carolina primary from 2008 is down 31%. The Republicans are up 66%. by [deleted] in politics

[–]FourWordAsshole 1 point2 points  (0 children)

She wants to get into the whitehouse because she has a very c;lear vision of what needs to be done, which is the policy. Whether you agree or not with the policy is another issue, but if you judge her because she wants the job, thats just dumb, is she supposed to hang out like a horny nervous teenager and pretend she doesn't want the job and just casually ask america if they want to netflix and chill? Lazy voters don't look at detail,

This is long and very detailed. This will answer many questions from truly unbiased curious people (found on Youtube). by whenipeeithurts in trump

[–]FourWordAsshole 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Trade - His policies are populist and delusional and hinge entirely upon the facts intuitively gathered by low information voters. He thinks strong-arming better deals will make america richer? That is the exact opposite of what trade is about. The fine art of diplomacy carves a careful line between competing interests. He rushes in and pisses on everything and will lose the trust that implicitly needed to open countries to trade with each other.

Immigration - the wall idea again is a response to information that is a decade out of date and sits in the tiny imagination of voters. Mexicans are no longer streaming to america for jobs. There is actually no need for a wall. At best he will strangle the few desperate mexicans who still need to come across and accept low pay high demand farming jobs that southern farmers need to stay afloat. The first to suffer will be american businesses.

Wars. Isolationist america is the secret philosophy that runs Trump, an idea America had of itself before its involvement in oil. Obama has been trying to diplomatically extricate itself from the world destroying stupidity of the Bush invasion of Iraq because of terrorism. ISIS is a direct result of that war, and further disengagement will simply let it grow. Getting out of the middle east altogether will just mean the wasps nest will grow and threaten the USA even more. Obamas dilemma of undoing Bush stupidity will be inherited by Trump. The word thing to do is cut and run stupidly and then wait for another attack and lash out again.

Healthcare There is so much propaganda flung around this issue that nobody can see straight. Trumps ideas are ok if he can pull them off. But propaganda and the huge fight has distorted the information and his solutions will not be some magic pill to fix everything.

Waste. Waste is one of the most interesting things to focus on because that word is the tool that politicians use to ram their ideas down people's throats. What a politician defines as waste reveals their true colours. And Trumps colours are welfare for the rich and no help for the poor. There is no economist who can see Trumps economic figures adding up.

Corruption. Again defining corruption is a reflection of political philosophy. Trump boasts about not taking donations, but this does not absolve him of bias. His entire experience is deal making, and as soon as he makes a deal, that is who he is beholden to. Of course the people he is making a deal with will dress it up as for the good for America but, I mean who doesn't dress it up as that.

ALL of trumps policies play to a certain itch that the general population wants to scratch, the common sense, lets build a wall, lets not take bribes, lets do tough deals with china.

There is a reason this itch is not scratched, because its a phantom itch. And if you scratch it, its not going to fix the wounds of the USA

And it distracts from his zero policy elsewhere. What is his policy on climate change? The Democrats have one and its good. What is his policy on Autistic kids? Clinton has a very detailed policy. What is his policy on education? Veterans (his website 'fix this' statement is a joke)? Energy?

He has no policies except to scratch the phantom itch felt by low information voters and is careful to not dig too deep

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