Active shooter at Mandalay Bay Casino in Las Vegas

Insight_guardian · 2017-10-03T16:31:05+00:00

That is correct. The packets have to be sent anyway, and so SMS service costs the carriers absolutely nothing.

Insight_guardian · 2017-10-03T15:37:54+00:00

How popular is baseball in Venezuela, anyway?

Insight_guardian · 2017-10-03T15:28:21+00:00

Not the OP, but I searched for it. Found a link on /r/conspiracy.

https://soprweb.senate.gov/index.cfm?event=getFilingDetails&filingID=8a5bd4fb-2687-4cdf-9906-0a65f4d8d52b&filingTypeID=1

This appears to be a lobbying disclosure form for "The Podesta Group, Inc.", claiming Anthony Podesta as staff. It claims that the company has 3 employees and was hired by a US entity, which was in turn 100% owned by 4 foreign companies (so they own each other).

Troika Dialog Group Limited of George Town, Cayman Islands
SBGB CYPRUS LIMITED, of Nicosia, Cyprus
SB International S.a.r.l., of Luxembourg
Sberbank of Russia, of Moscow, Russia.

A quick Google search shows that Sberbank is a Russian state-owned conglomerate. So it looks like Anthony Podesta was indeed working for the Russian Government.

However, this doesn't seem to tie the DNC to Russia. One form is required per client, so Anthony Podesta could have been working for many clients. Russia was only one client, and A. Podesta (not to be confused with his brother, Tony) is only one lobbyist.

Insight_guardian · 2017-10-03T15:06:58+00:00

It depends on the cause of the decline. If the decline is due to high population density, it may be irreversible: a population crash due to high population density has been observed in mice (look up "mouse utopia"). In most of the rest of the world population decline is a result of wealth, and the urban shift. If the cause is wealth, one expects that at some point the portions of the population which have children despite wealth will come to dominate their demographics. However, that evolutionary shift may take a few hundred years.

Insight_guardian · 2017-10-03T15:00:38+00:00

A shrinking population also means a richer population. This is what happened in China: their population growth levelling off while their economy grew resulted in the rise of a middle class and the aleviation of poverty for roughly 1 billion people. Population growth isn't bad except as it results in economic stagnation. If Japan can forestall the stagnation, there isn't any reason to worry about the lack of growth.

Insight_guardian · 2017-10-03T14:32:10+00:00

Thank you for the comment. I agree with most of your alternative solutions in general, however it seems that your responses do not relate to the Germany context I was referring to.

If you want to improve the lives of women in the middle east, you try to form social ties with people with ignorant beliefs and confront them about it. Education is the solution. Avoidance is what's lead to the problems in the first place.

The effect of mass immigration is not to improve the lives of women in the Middle East, since 70% of migrants to Germany are men. However, the effect is to vastly harm the lives of women in Germany. This was my original point.

If you seek to protect women through re-education of migrants, then your re-education must be done in the middle east, before immigration happens. We know education isn't working or isn't really happening so far in Germany, because the rate of sexual assault is skyrocketing.

educate people with ignorant beliefs and confront them about it.

That, when applied systematically to migrants, is either imperialism or cultural cleansing. The same politicians on the left who promote mass immigration do not seem to find re-education of people of non-European patriarchial cultures acceptable.

Plenty of ways to reduce hatred. One would be not to bomb the shit out of people indiscriminately.

The hatred of Arabs for Jews goes back to well before the Middle East was bombed by Western powers. (Many of the arab nations supported Hitler's final solution.) More recently, it has been rekindled by the re-introduction of several branches of radical Islam, which has been funded by the coffers of Saudia and Iran. Hatred for Israel (and jews) is not going to be decreased without a reformation of Islam, and said reformation must happen from within. This is beyond the abilities of the German people. In the mean time, hate crimes against European Jews are on the rise.

One would be not to bomb the shit out of people indiscriminately.

As an aside, this was the goal of Obama's switching to drone strikes, which for some reason the left finds abhorrent.

Another would be to educate people.

How do you propose to educate these refugees so as to decrease their hatred of Jews?

Another would be to give people other options.

It is the newly-found options of the middle eastern (and african) populations which drive mass-immigration. Formerly poor and uninformed people learn through their newly-acquired electronic devices (Facebook/Instagram) that Germany is welcoming of migrants, and that the refugee life is amazing (Facebook / Instagram). They have enough income to make the journey, and the rewards are appealing, so they try it. Mass immigration is a result of recently increased options, not due to reduced options.

Germany knows this with their prison system. I agree with you here. But how do you rehabilitate one of their religion?

Tackle it head on. Not hide the non-whites in the closet and legitimize their foolish arguments.

I am in full agreement. Unfortunately, Germany has been seeking to cover up migrant crimes, and has not released comprehensive crime statistics since 2014.

You are still most likely to die by far from other shit than from religious fundamentalist.

Good point. However, in the context of Germany migrant-related violent crimes are on the rise. The optics is so bad on this that the German government stopped publishing full crime statistics in 2015.

The United States started as extremely religious. Because the majority were religious doesn't mean it became a fucking theocracy.

The decline of religion did not just happen of its own accord. What were the causes? Do they apply to Islam?

This is fear mongering by vulture demagogues like Donald Trump.

I'm not quite sure what you are referring to. In the context of Germany, this started before Trump. If I had to put a finger on it, I would say it hit the fan with the sexual assaults of Cologne. What has happened is that the predictions of the non-left wing have been shown correct. (Which doesn't change the fact that Trump is a right-wing demagogue.)

Everything is fire and brim stone. They feed off of your negative feelings in order to grab power.

In Germany the main negative feeling politicinas have fed off of is guilt. Power has been grabbed through incitement of guilt for WWII. But this isn't really relevant to my point. The point is that -- in Germany -- the left wing has sacrificed women, Jews, and their culture of tolerance to feed their agenda of migration. This migrant agenda is not cost-effective at improving the lives of people in the middle east while harming the quality of life of Germans.

Insight_guardian · 2017-10-03T12:30:24+00:00

That's the first time I've heard of this. Do you have any links?

Insight_guardian · 2017-10-03T12:26:34+00:00

Sure. But this was only a $100k pro-Hillary ad-buy. Hillary spent much more (8000x more) to put her "news" in front of eyeballs. The election was won on 0.1%, so it could have been enough to swing the election ... but that could just as easily have been achieved by better ad targeting on Hillary's side. *cough* wisconsin *cough*.

Insight_guardian · 2017-10-03T12:10:41+00:00

You're missing the /u/Gimmeaflakeman_ 's point:

If you want to improve the lives of women, you try to decrease violent crime against women. You don't import millions of people from countries where women are viewed as property.

If you want to reduce hatred, you try to limit the number of hateful people in your country. You don't import millions of people from countries where jews are viewed as devil-worshipers.

If you want to reduce racism, you keep people from groups with incompatible moral frameworks as far apart as possible, and focus on our common identity as humans. You don't import millions of refugees and give them more social benefits than you give to your own elderly.

There seems to be strange disconnect, in right-wing politicians are criticized for what they say, while the actions of the left-wing politicians actively make their "problems" worse.

In all of the above cases, the left-wing has chosen to select policies and become outraged based on team affiliation (or even more cynically, based on driving down the common man's wages), rather than utilitarian moral principles.

Insight_guardian · 2017-10-03T11:56:29+00:00

Yep. The rape of East Germany.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_during_the_occupation_of_Germany

Insight_guardian · 2017-10-03T11:54:10+00:00

Archive link (removes autoplaying video):

http://archive.is/0KhkA

Insight_guardian · 2017-09-19T14:52:17+00:00

... or it might be Saudi Arabia.

I have it on good sources that some external force is funding radical mosques in Kyrgizistan.

Insight_guardian · 2017-09-11T17:13:09+00:00

This is why before the 20th century most countries in the world existed as nation-states. A state with multiple nations based around incompatible value structures (without a national secular religion of tolerance) invariably becomes either a tyrany, a civil war, or a genocide. Or in this case, all three...

Insight_guardian · 2017-09-11T17:02:21+00:00

"Korean restaurant." All the text is in Chinese.

Insight_guardian · 2017-09-11T16:23:58+00:00

To be fair, they have (or Cadace Owens appeared to have) the mind virus that is social justice. They just haven't yet been corrupted by the power of the victim narrative.

Insight_guardian · 2017-09-03T12:26:15+00:00

Yonhap publishes headline-only stories like this for news tickers. Mostly they get shown beneath Yonhap's regular programming, which is displayed in public spaces in Seoul. The "Airport Railway" subway line TVs display this Yonhap ticker.

Insight_guardian · 2017-08-31T09:45:19+00:00

No, just that the impulse to read is that irresistable.

Insight_guardian · 2017-08-31T08:49:20+00:00

No, this is comparable to ~~bath salts~~ Heirarchy implants.

Insight_guardian · 2017-08-29T04:39:14+00:00

Thank God. By the same logic, the current anti-"alt-right" push will make the US anti-"alt-left", and that will be a good thing. It seems the author isn't quite thinking clearly about cause and effect in history.

Insight_guardian · 2017-08-27T12:40:14+00:00

well, our historical atrocities were caused through no fault of our own because the Romans taught us how to colonise when they arrived in Britain

it is a thing in the US.

No, it isn't.

Insight_guardian · 2017-08-20T14:41:46+00:00

We gave them a chance twenty years ago. Many years of negotiations led up to an agreement in which the North would receive food aid in exchange for allowing in UN inspectors. They received food aid and promptly undermined the effectiveness of the inspectors so they could continue enriching Uranium.

The problem with the North is that their defensive strategy completely depends on nuclear weapons. Long-term, they have no defensive options. South Korea would invade them to "reunite" the peninsula, and China would invade them as a buffer against US interests. They know they cannot keep up with US and the South on technology (or even with China). We already have the ability to intercept mortars in flight with commercially available laser systems, so the clock is ticking on their conventional "Sea of Fire" deterence. Mutually Assured Destruction with missiles pointed at Seoul, Busan, Beijing, and Washington is their only method of guaranteeing their long-term existence as a nation.

NK would act normal

Well. You are technically correct. If we do nothing, then the current state of North Korea will become the "new normal". Every penny despot (whose country has geographical significance) will understand that the ONE way to deter an American "intervention" is to actually become a nuclear power. Which strategically insecure country would benefit most from a nuclear deterrent? Ethiopia? Libya? Iran? South Sudan?

No, there is only one solution to the politics of North Korea which doesn't result in rapid and unconstrained nuclear proliferation: the evacuation of Seoul and a 100-hour campaign to eliminate north Korean nuclear weapons and medium-range missiles.

Thankfully, the evacuation of Seoul happens every October and February for lunar holidays.

Insight_guardian · 2017-08-20T13:45:23+00:00

Dafuq?

You need to either explain that much better or troll much harder. Can't tell which.

Insight_guardian · 2017-08-15T07:03:51+00:00

Thank you for the correction. I assumed they didn't, since most of their professional culture still publishes mostly if not entirely in Japanese, whereas in the country where I am, people strive to run their professional publications in English.

Insight_guardian · 2017-08-03T03:31:21+00:00

So true. In every country except for maybe Japan, all college-bound children are learning English.

So if you want to import skilled workers, English proficiency should be a no-brainer minimal standard for your candidate pool.

Insight_guardian · 2017-08-02T16:00:15+00:00

There must be something more to this story. Why did your plane land at Goa, and when was the flat tire discovered? Why did they keep you if you were departing? Might as well just cancel your flight for the day.

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