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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.

You also have to see the positive and good things coming out of India/your subcontinent. The many spiritual texts, ideas, seekers. The food ( i mean it might sound silly but food is very important) There are quite a few Indian restaurants in my city. I'm not sure if there are eastern European one's, i'm in western Europe. And feeling some kind of way for Europeans dominating your country all that time ago isn't worth it. It's a different time now and history is history. Even countries like Israel, Germany and France get a long pretty good. The US used to be a british colony and now they're almost besties etc. And your accent is just fine. Bringing such a huge population out of poverty is such a huge task. China had the great leap forward and the cultural revolution where a lot of innocent people died. And now they have all this surveillance and point system. I don't think you'd really want that. I've visited India when as a a child and had a great time there, stayed mostly in a village there for around 7 weeks. Sure i was shocked by the poverty when we visited Kolkatta but other than that i always generally liked the place. My mother visited India when she was young and said she always felt safe there as a woman. The thing with all those rape cases in the media etc. i'm not sure when that started.

Some things which Trump campaigned on, which at least sounded good and true for a lot of people i guess Bringing manufacturing industry/jobs back from China and other countries Stopping the endless wars Bringing troops home Being tougher on immigration (even though Obama deported a loooot of people) Draining the swamp (i guess it at least sounds good, but obviously not much happened etc.) And now after these four years, Trump and reporters fighting everyday covid etc. i guess people are just kind of confused, in their bubble, fed by their search algorithms Trump voters don't even consume/believe the same information/media as you do, so it's all a mess now basically

They're both kind of flabby and old. If either one doesn't want to leave you just slowly push them out of the door and close it.

Wasn't India by that time a lot of different countries and kingdoms and the brits actually made them one nation? Not totally sure but that's what i've heard. I mean it also contains the second largest population of all countries almost on par with China so i'm not hugely amazed by that. Are you generally happy that you have the English language as a state language or would you wish you were generally speaking an Indian language and didn't really have to learn english? Do you know that many European countries also got looted many times, for example during Napoleons time or first and second WW?

How would we defend ourselves against invaders, foreign powers, infiltration etc.? Would we have an army? Nuclear deterrence? A defence pact with other peaceful nations? None of the above, just hope for the best and be a shining example for humanity?

If we would build a new country and tried to make it as "good" as possible. obviously we wouldn't agree on everything. But if we'd try to adopt the best ideas, policies etc. from other countries. What do we take from which country from all around the world to build our new "utopia" ?