The News Thread

[CiG]

Human filth promotes suffering because of "business":

https://www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-refuses-send-more-195456324.html

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-...n-waives-shipping-restriction-for-puerto-rico

 

[UltimateApathy]

More chaos in the clown circus:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/health-s...-9efb-d522bf6b8dfa&.tsrc=notification-brknews

 

[Nate Skalman]

cheers to the weekend guys ...Prost!

 

[UltimateApathy]

Seriously, just look at this clusterfuck, this is what happens when you expect a non-politician dementia patient to be able to run a country:

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

so when are you planning on resigning?

 

[UltimateApathy]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/poll-majority-wish-obama-were-150337409.html

 

[CiG]

From your link:

But it's not uncommon for a former president to see his popularity jump after he leaves office.
A 2009 Gallup poll showed that only 35 percent of people liked former President George W. Bush, but after he'd left office and the news that he had taken up painting emerged, his approval rating has jumped up to 59 percent.

Bush Jr's post-presidency approval rating was higher than Obama's is right now during the Trump presidency.

From the comment section:

This is the same polling and media reporting which said Hillary had a 98% chance of winning the election. We all know how reliable that was.

 

[Einherjar86]

Well, W.'s paintings are masterworks of parodical postmodern impressionism.

 

[CiG]

Hey look he painted the 2016 election.

 

[rms]

I'm not sure I follow--are you saying that China is looking out for North Korea because of their respective communist values?

i mean, we had a war there and china also fought a war in vietnam over redness. so that's why NK exists and how NVietnam exists

I only ask because I'm skeptical of China's "redness." It isn't really a communist country anymore. It's more like a weird hybrid mix of communist policies dictated by a capitalist imperative.

I know, that's my point. China doesn't blindly protect NK anymore because they are a red-facade now

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Hey look he painted the 2016 election.

View attachment 11871

I've never seen that one, fucking badass. Paolo Girardi better watch his back.

 

[UltimateApathy]

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-...n-waives-shipping-restriction-for-puerto-rico

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...puerto-rico-mayor-carmen-yulin-cruz?CMP=fb_gu

 

[J.]

And youre in Puerto Rico helping, right?

 

[tagradh]

There's still a slim chance that this guy could end up as our PM.

Genuinely like a scene from a mockumentary.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

I love the comments on that video, "If it wasn't for our colonialism and genocide over a 120 year period, the Japanese would have taken you over, you should be grateful". Amazing how Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia are vilified yet Great Britain is viewed with wistful eyes.

 

[Dak]

Great Britain brought some amount of modernization to its colonies, rather than simply extracting resources.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Great Britain brought some amount of modernization to its colonies, rather than simply extracting resources.

So did the Nazis and Soviets. Nazis built roads, infrastructure, etc. It's often glossed-over that many nations annexed by Nazi Germany, e.g. some of the Baltic states, actually didn't particularly mind Nazi occupation relative to what they had before (often corrupt antiquated kingdoms) or what the alternative was (Stalin). Obviously, if you were a Jew, gypsy, communist, etc living in one of those countries, that was another story. The Soviets too did some good, building housing, increasing education, availability of medicine, etc. No empire lasts long purely through subjugation and suffering of their subjects, they always have to bring some nominal positive and a sense of necessity to maintain their dominance.

The one advantage that Great Britain had was in bringing semi-autonomous governance and common law to some of its colonies, though arguably even Soviet Russia post-Stalin made efforts to deliver at least the former. However, in practice there doesn't seem to be a correlation between that and the ability of a country to flourish post-subjugation anyways.

 

[Dak]

However, in practice there doesn't seem to be a correlation between that and the ability of a country to flourish post-subjugation anyways.

Particularly when they weren't flourishing pre-subjugation either. Almost like people matter at least as much as the system.

 

[CiG]

http://www.newsweek.com/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-human-rights-award-674668

Hillary Clinton will receive an award for her work in protecting and advancing humanitarian rights across the globe at a Swansea University ceremony on October 14.

The former secretary of state and 2016 Democratic candidate is being celebrated by the Welsh university, which says "her cause is shared" by its Observatory on the Human Rights of Children and Young People. Clinton will receive an honorary doctorate, and is expected to deliver a speech on humanitarian issues during the event.

Clinton is a figure of "enormous international significance and one synonymous with human rights," the university’s Vice Chancellor professor Richard Davies told the BBC on Friday. "It is tremendous that she has chosen Swansea University for her first public appearance on this visit to the UK."

Hillary Clinton is synonymous with human rights?

Establishment liberals and progressives are the fucking worst. Yeah, I'm sure she takes all her Saudi Arabian donations and uses it to hand out turkeys in the ghetto.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Not to mention boasting about toppling Libya, one of the most developed nations on the continent, with Islamism and slavery filling the void.

Particularly when they weren't flourishing pre-subjugation either. Almost like people matter at least as much as the system.

At least as much geographic as anything though. Technologically sure most of the world was far behind Western Europe's Aryan ubermensch, but once they reached the point of being capable of international trade, many did well without needing Europe explicitly. See South Korea, for example, extremely primitive and insular for most of its life (badass turtle ships aside of course), was colonized not by Europe but by Japan, suffered for a while under the Cold War but embraced free-market democracy on its own volition in the 80s and now it's the biggest success story since that time. We're seeing nations of Western Africa rapidly modernizing as well; Nigeria will probably be a first-world country in a few generations if it keeps up its current pace.