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i understand it without sd actually, maybe that's not a good thing though

or maybe the ocean/compass analogy is crap since it's not an ocean also Leo says it's only real if i believe in it, and i don't. But maybe i'd need to learn more about it first A lot on this forum seem a bit obsessed with sd

why do we even need a model?

I had a vision that i used to live on different planets too not saying it's true though

I had a bunny too as a kid Used to call him Peter, he would hop around in the apartment, eating cables and living the good life. One morning he had some kind of seizure and died. I was so sad

Yea it seems like a huge problem, if the left doesn't talk about these issues then the right wing and populists will grow and grow and grow. I get it it's hard for left wing people to talk about these issues but i see no other solution.

How about groups like the black israelites. Do they need to be fined 1000$ each time they cross a line? and what's the line? lol what a mess this video is, i can't listen to all these people shouting for more than 2 mins

Was she referring to the recent terror attacks in Europe? Also if she was just talking to a friend and said the same thing. Then it would just be her bigoted opinion. But social media changes everything and if she's 75 she's probably not that well versed in social media etc. I'd say she's probably wrong/too much to post that on social media. It goes in the territory of hate-speech etc., there need to be clear rules to whats allowed and what isn't on social media.

i like that That's not necessarily true. For example Peru, France and Spain had tough lockdowns in place too and also very high death counts. Peru and Spain have higher one's than the US per 1 Millon pop

they'll recount georgia

In some Eastern European countries and also Turkey etc. populist politicians used democracy and freedom of speech to get elected. And now they are dismantling freedom of speech in some ways. For example ban government critical newspapers etc. How do we stop such things from happening?

It's going to be a mess either way "democracy is the worst form of government except for all the others" But he two party system is just very divisive, it's either this or that, black or white. And there isn't even a party which is anti war etc.

Unfortunately a country like the US which is so diverse culturally, religion, ethnics etc. Can be really easily "divided" by outside and inside forces. With all those bubbles, conspiracy theories etc., internet it will be really hard to find a compromise. And the two party system doesn't help.

You look at it too one-sided. Ever heard of nixon, reagan and bush and the war on drugs? How many ( a lot of them black men) went to jail for small amounts of drugs like crack. Do you see the devilry inside yourself?

^ congrats

Another possibility would be that mostly stable, fairly "progressive", mostly peaceful nations build a strong economic alliance with an army to back it up. Like most western, some eastern european countries, canada, nz, australia, japan, s. korea, some latin american countries like uruguay, maybe chile, peru etc. Some african countries, middle eastern? let's see where india, taiwan, the u.s. are at that time. The alliance should have the possiblity to kick countries out if they regress too much though.

So are you. I hope you at least see that.

If it's not substantive enough for you or irritates you, you don't have to enter the topic or participate in it. Why not just enter the "substantive" one's or create them yourself.

Many wars (a lot of them illegal and built on lies) "regime changes" sometimes democratically elected governments turned into dictatorships for selfish reasons Talking about democracy while having Saudi as an important ally etc etc. Bases around the world etc etc. Yea even with that i'd still prefer the US over those other two you mentioned But i'd also like to see what a united E.U. would do at the dominant position on the world stage, I mean many things would still be bad and hypocritical but maybe less so

from your post i'm not really sure if you think the american "empire" is a good thing?

Thats sounds like pretty solid advice, send him to karate class or something like that.

Many European countries don't have that.

it says the same for me.