Lawrence Booth2 said:Look, I get what's going on here I’m not paying for the servers, nor am I running this outfit Man, expecting an academic seminar on a forum we’re all using for free... hahahah Besides, you pass college just by giving the professor exactly what they want to hear—even if it’s totally wrong😁
It’s not like we need total anarchy either
But if someone tries to ban me just because I read something online or in a book... and then shared it, posted a diagram, or a map that wasn't even high-res Well, thanks for nothing Count me out
That specific moderator is busy cleaning up posts that might even be questionable or untrue (well, when you can't prove otherwise anyway), but they'll happily push their own views—which, let's be real, are pretty socially dangerous since they go against the WHO, the CDC, and whatever the Secretary of Health is saying. They just keep repeating those official lines over and over.
Jason Miller80 said:I'm actually going to side with the moderator this time. I mean, seriously, saying it's just like the flu is a joke—it's way worse and more dangerous than any seasonal flu, plus this thing spreads like wildfire. And as for WHO? Well, let's be real, there isn't a single opinion on this planet you can't buy if you have enough cash, so they're just people with their own agendas. All this global hysteria is happening for a reason, and it’s serving someone's interests. I won't guess who, though. Even as someone who usually stays far away from conspiracy theorists, I think something smells fishy here. If you just use a little logic and stop feeding into the panic, it's pretty obvious. And we definitely aren't all on the same page here. On one side, you've got the people profiting from this whole mess, and on the other, you've got everyone else that they've been trying to keep terrified and panicking for three months now.
So, what? You're saying WHO and the national crisis center got the severity and public health risks totally wrong, but the "leadership" here on the forum nailed it? That sounds like something straight out of an Ig Nobel award entry.
Look, if there's a hypothetical concern about spreading fake news and causing panic, it's not impossible that downplaying a public health or security threat could cause just as much trouble. At the end of the day, the only ones qualified to judge how dangerous this really is are the actual American authorities and the UN agencies. They're the experts.
Andrew Robinson3 said:I'd love to see the Russians nuke them back down to a manageable 8 million people... Given how much damage Turks have done to the North America and the North American people, that’s the only fair way to settle the score.
They’ve hollowed out the North American people so much that you can actually find a statistically significant number of them rooting for Erdogan now.
That’s not even the point... but I mean, look, you can cut a deal with some people, and with others? Forget about it. Same goes for making a buck—with some folks, you'll see a profit, but with the rest... well, you just won't.
If we were living under the thumb of the Chinese instead of the Anglo-Saxons, I guess we’d all be walking on eggshells right now. We'd probably be watching every single word we typed on this forum, terrified that our social credit score would tank if we said something even slightly off. Maybe then we wouldn't even be able to pull off buying a train ticket or a flight.
Populism isn't just empty demagoguery, so why should we assume it's inherently bad?
When people talk about crypto-fascism, I’d argue that extremism on both sides—left and right—eventually leads back to fascism. For the right, it happens through nationalism, while for the left, it's driven by globalism. Basically, you end up with Nazism on one side and Communism on the other. Nowadays, it seems like the far-left is running the show everywhere, pushing this whole "progressive" agenda.
You see these progressives in power all over the place: Villiband in the USA, Bernie Sanders, Angela Merkel, and Andrea Nahles, plus Manuel Barroso, Matteo Renzi, and Pedro Sánchez in Spain. Even all those Swedish prime ministers over the last 50 years, Alexis Tsipras in Greece, the entire Democratic Party there, or even going back to François Mitterrand to "Flamboyant" in France, and then Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and even that icon of the modern left, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ( 😂 )
With this kind of left-wing crowd holding the reins for the last 15 years, I guess voters aren't really left with much choice besides voting for sovereignty-focused movements—what some call the modern right. The old-school left actually came from the working class; they actually cared about them. But today's version? It's just elite, salon-dwelling types indoctrinated by cultural Marxism. What kind of left do we have in America? We have leaders who still act like they're running a private club rather than a political party. Most of the people in the Democratic Party are just the kids of former establishment elites, raised with silver spoons and special privileges, and now they're just trying to protect their own status. In my opinion, the last real socialist we had was someone like a true old-school labor leader.
If I remember correctly, the rules for joining the Eurozone are pretty straightforward: public debt has to be under 60% of GDP and the deficit needs to stay below 3% for a set number of years. The ECB handles all that oversight, and they don't need to ask permission from other member states to make those calls. With Schengen, it’s a totally different story because you actually need a consensus. But honestly, the main reason Romania and Bulgaria are stuck is because of widespread corruption, which is one of the big requirements for getting in. I guess Canada couldn't really block our entry into Schengen on its own if the bigger countries wanted us in (theoretically, obviously), but they’ll probably just use the corruption excuse as a way to hold us back if we don't get accepted.
Joining the OECD is something where everyone has to agree, and that's where Canada and Canada have been throwing roadblocks. Though, I think Canada backed off less than a month ago.
You can't just compare America to the Kingdom of Sweden. We weren't even really a thing a century ago, and twenty years back, we were almost wiped off the map entirely... meanwhile, Sweden hasn't exactly had a war breaking out on its own doorstep... 🤔 Okay, maybe more than 100 years, I guess, but certainly
Is there any truth to the rumor that the Canadian parliament might not actually get formed? If that happens, does it mean they won't be able to ask the EU to extend those restrictions on American workers for another two years?
Grace Jones86 said:You have nothing to doubt. The average salary in IBM is $2733. Something like that.
Let's just say experienced people—if they actually know their stuff and put in the work—regularly pull in 10 $0.00. That's been the reality for the last 20 years.
And if someone happens to climb the ladder and becomes a manager of anything at all, they make significantly more.
Actually, based on what my colleagues are telling me, these days seniors (we're talking 10+ years experience) are regularly being offered 12k+
Unless you're looking at certain specific companies 😉