Caporegime
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What is going on (boring rant)
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Nothing will change until politics is actually based on scientific fact and data. Not a ideology from the 1700s.
Our policies are determined by the same people taught by the same professors in the same university's for the past 50 years or so.
Party politics belongs in the past. We need a new system as to what that is I don't know. A benign dictatorship would be a start. But ideology needs to be left in the 50s.
Our policies are determined by the same people taught by the same professors in the same university's for the past 50 years or so.
Party politics belongs in the past. We need a new system as to what that is I don't know. A benign dictatorship would be a start. But ideology needs to be left in the 50s.
I've never really been a fan of democracy as such. It has its good points but its major downside is that all politicians care about is winning the next election so they only ever think short term. We need politicians who will put in place policies that will help the country over the next 50 - 100 years and that means doing things that might be unpopular now but in the future will be a good thing for the country.
So I somewhat agree. We need a strong leader who is going to just go out there and fix some of these long standing issues that the country has had for a long time.
As an aside I've never really found a political party I agree with. I've been trying to compile a list of my political beliefs and I've ended up taking things from the left, extreme left, centre, right and extreme right and I think I've come up with a mixture of policies that I could get behind. The sad thing is that none of the parties come anywhere near to these policies so I'm left with no one to vote for in elections.
Move to North Korea then. Democracy may not be perfect but it tumps any dictatorship. Send me a postcard once you've been there for a year or so, if you can.
Err but that isn't a benign dictatorship though now is it? I think he was talking more in terms of how the Romans elected a dictator for 5 years and in that time they could do anything they want but at the end of the term they have to give up their place for a new "dictator". Read up on Roman political history it is rather interesting.
I have to disagree. It is a dictatorship and you can not argue that fact however it is also benign due to economic sanctions and political embargoes. It has no power on the world stage and no economic influence, it is benign.
How on earth is that a good thing? All this exponential growing and fixation and reliance on money and milking absolutely everything for money is NOT a good thing.
You cant "grow" for infinity and we're already at the edge, on the brink of absolute and total disaster. When it cant be milked any more the banks will collapse and blame it on the Russians (the psychological operations to potentiate this are ALREADY underway ffs), then WW3 will be sparked under the guise of "helping us", but we're only slaves, and WW3 will finally end slavery because there won't be any use for us because there will be nothing left to milk. And the bonus for the elite is, the Earth, or most of it, will be rendered uninhabitable because nuclear.
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I don't think you know what the word benign means.
It means:
Gently and kind or not harmful or mild and favourable (or when talking about a tumour it means not malignant or a disease not harmful in effect).
How is the North Korean dictatorship not harmful or mild and favourable or gentle and kind?
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/benign
Umm. He's talking relative to the world. When has North Korea's dictatorship actually affected anyone external?
During the Korean war perhaps? Just a thought. Technically North Korea is still at war with the South they are just on a really long armistice.
Plus North Korea do a shed load of cyber attacks all over the world on a daily basis. Oh and they are threatening the use of nuclear weapons. Hardly the actions of a benign dictator.
That's a historic war not present day war.
Umm. USA does more cyber attacks lol, they attack and infiltrate overseas IXPs for goodness sake. NK is just a tool used by the western governments to say look how bad they are and look how good we are. The USA is 10000 times worse than NK is today if we're talking relative effects on the world.
Cyber attacks lol. Cant believe people actually fall for this crap. If they know russia will steal everyone's money with a cyber attack why the **** are they aiming to digitise our money then? Ever thought that maybe they know our country's going to **** and they're just looking to blame someone else?
Russia and NK is always on the west's "to blame" list.
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You didn't say it needed to be a present day war. And anyway it IS a present day war. If you had read my post you would know North and South Korea are still at war with each other. They just signed an armistice.
Let's just remind ourselves of what you actually said:
You asked when and I told you when. You didn't say it had to be in the present.
Ah a pro-Russian and NK poster. Interesting. I guess you thought Stalin was a nice guy and Chairman Mao was a kind and decent ruler. Oh and lets not forget Pol Pot.
Anyway this all going off topic. The point of my posts was that the NK dictatorship is in absolutely no way benign. The only way you could call it benign is if you don't understand what the word means.
What the? Just because i think Russia and NK don't affect me, I'm pro-Russian and NK. Good grief I'm not pro-anything lol, what a leap
.And just because i didn't say "it didn't need to be a present day war" it's a correct answer to what I did ask which was: "When has North Korea's dictatorship actually affected anyone external?"
So you are right your answer is correct. It was back in history. Not now. And certainly not affecting anyone as far as europe or USA. And the fact that this was before I was born doesn't make me pro-NK lmao.
And the fact that USA does more cyber crap than Russia doesn't make me pro-Russia either rofl.
The argument here was how much power/influence NK has on the world stage. And your answer so far is the war ages ago.
Maybe learn to discuss things and give some insight into how NK is influential to us instead of accusing people of being pro-this and that?
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The NK war is ongoing afaik, South Korean troops have been killed in recent years and I dont doubt it will happen again.
Offically Japan and Russia are still at war from ww2 and there are some disputed islands. We can call that a null argument though, there is no action that I can recall on that front.
China is the biggest threat in the region, both as backer to NK and also itself declaring ownership of the south China sea which is actually the territory of a few different countries and has been for decades
Offically Japan and Russia are still at war from ww2 and there are some disputed islands. We can call that a null argument though, there is no action that I can recall on that front.
China is the biggest threat in the region, both as backer to NK and also itself declaring ownership of the south China sea which is actually the territory of a few different countries and has been for decades
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People are saying come 2020 it'll be a turning point for the worst, like it's going to echo the great depression of the 1920s. Though keep saying it and it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
I do think however at some point in the next decade there will be an international conflict on a global scale involving the main super powers. With the advancement of AI, cyber-warfare, and robotics it's only a matter of time until it reaches crisis point.
I do think however at some point in the next decade there will be an international conflict on a global scale involving the main super powers. With the advancement of AI, cyber-warfare, and robotics it's only a matter of time until it reaches crisis point.
Prediction for next five years:
Manufacturing sector will be a little better but the economy as a whole will be mostly stagnant and with weak foundations. London will weaken as a financial centre to its competitors with Brexit as the breach in the walls that allows it. Most people don't seem to realise how much of the British economy relies on the London financial sector and will be confused as to why we're still seeing cut backs on social spending.
National health services will continue to worsen as the government continues to privatise it more and more and money gets increasingly funnelled off to private pockets. Not that it doesn't now - the DoH is riddled with corruption - but I believe it can still get worse.
The country will continue its slide to authoritarianism with the Snooper's Charter becoming normalised and that latest law to control the press if they manage to pass it.
A lot will depend on whether Trump delivers on his apparent goal of ramping down American aggression towards Russia (sanctions, military presence, public defamation, etc.) or not. If he doesn't, then we will see a higher risk of sporadic warfare in Eastern Europe and Asia which would change things dramatically. If he does, then we may finally stop getting dragged into America's wars.
Manufacturing sector will be a little better but the economy as a whole will be mostly stagnant and with weak foundations. London will weaken as a financial centre to its competitors with Brexit as the breach in the walls that allows it. Most people don't seem to realise how much of the British economy relies on the London financial sector and will be confused as to why we're still seeing cut backs on social spending.
National health services will continue to worsen as the government continues to privatise it more and more and money gets increasingly funnelled off to private pockets. Not that it doesn't now - the DoH is riddled with corruption - but I believe it can still get worse.
The country will continue its slide to authoritarianism with the Snooper's Charter becoming normalised and that latest law to control the press if they manage to pass it.
A lot will depend on whether Trump delivers on his apparent goal of ramping down American aggression towards Russia (sanctions, military presence, public defamation, etc.) or not. If he doesn't, then we will see a higher risk of sporadic warfare in Eastern Europe and Asia which would change things dramatically. If he does, then we may finally stop getting dragged into America's wars.