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kbd512 · 2025-07-16 19:44:06

RobertDyck,

How else do you provide inter-generational prosperity and social mobility to your own people without locally making the things they use every day?

That's not a rhetorical question. It's a serious question that deserves a thoughtful answer. You're the one who has sought political power. I would think you would have answers to this type of question, because people who would vote for you surely would want to know.

What's your counter-proposal?

List alternatives that you think would make a genuine difference in the lives of people living here who are stuck on the bottom 50% to 70% of the rungs of the socioeconomic ladder. I'm not talking about a day, week, month, or even a year. I'm talking about lifetimes. If you've never thought about this before, then maybe you should.

Calliban · 2025-07-18 00:10:41

The Chinese economy is experiencing severe deflation.
https://youtu.be/jrBmFumdjD8

Its domestic market is shrinking due to shrinking consumer demand. Its foreign market is shrinking due to tarrifs.

Void · 2025-07-18 11:40:09

I guess it was inevitable. They expanded their population with the expectation that being to center of reality they could conquer the world as they had conquered their local surroundings. Then as they could not do such a conquest due to the USSR and the USA and others, they had to stifle reproduction or have a very bad social crash due to lack of resources.

As others have pointed out, their demographics are not very good.

My suspicion is that they simply do not have a workable notion of how to deal with the "Other". They could not conceive of anything other than communities that genocide each other. But they do not have the means to do those conquests.

America stretched between the Latin and the China appears to have been able to find a way to weave these things into a social fabric. This involves a federal hierarchy and local communities where a balance of power is maintained.

Canada is struggling with this now, as the East Complex is serving as a top/down dominator by way of excessive hierarchy, and they wish to maintain western Canada as a servant entity. The Latin/True Asian.

I need to define True Asian. It is not so much India to begin with and certainly not Arabs. Iran strangely enough is what I consider "True Asian, as is China, and under certain methods of definition also Russia.

I also include the Amerindians' and Innuit, and perhaps even somehow Polynesians imprints in parts of America. I believe that contact with these peoples helped jolt Latin Europe out of a low state of being. This was intentionally incorporated into the USA formulation as well. The sad nature of the cultural clash was the price for that.

The division in the west now, I fell is that the Latin centered complex in Europe, is feeling the desire to rotate back to feudalism. America wants nothing to do with that. But for the west, perhaps one of these two will succeeded. Therefore, I am not too fervent a missionary to reform the European "Latins". Perhaps neither of these will succeed, or both will or one will.

I will make the point that America seems to be one of the epicenters of our current reality with India on the other side of it, as a counterweight.

I am afraid that it may be that China must endure what it will, due to not being able to work with half of the world.

America has chances at all the parts of the world but needs to provide a "Cell Wall" in order to conduct its internal processes without being damaged too much by outside forces. One thing we must guard against is archaic domination.
Past tense cultures should not be allowed to vandalize western cultures and write their own names over the successful cultures of the west, and also true East Asians, using lies as I believe they have done in the past, taking credit for the inventions of the cultures that they have molested. And yes, I do indicate the Middle East.

I will leave there as some things I might say may tempt dummies to engage in a futile dispute with this situation of order that is developing.

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Calliban · 2025-08-07 02:27:17

Turns out that the Russia collusion scandal was a hoax invented by Obama on behalf of Clinton. Most people suspected this at the time, there is now solid evidence.
https://youtu.be/tJbsz3sbVz4

Presumably, Obama will face criminal charges now. I doubt that Trump will see him executed. But one thing is for sure. Both Obama and Clinton are finished as political players now. There is clear evidence that they misled the public with false information.

Void · 2025-08-07 07:51:34

Brits should not talk about this or perhaps read it: https://www.youtube.com/@PrometheanAction

I also suspect the Swiss. Not most of them, but small numbers of them.

The sabotage of republics and representative government, could be explained by an elite who wish most common people could be killed and birth rates could go down.

The Swiss are so innocent over time. (Or are they?).

Surviving NAZI and Fascist people have often had some sympathy from other Elites.

But this is very dangerous talk.

One thing I saw a time ago, was that the actual NAZI method is to cause groups to clash/kill each other as this will kill off the weak. If what is going on seems like mayhem, it may be because someone likes that, and can hide in their nuclear bunkers.

Such people might think that a nuclear war between the USA and Russia would be wonderful as it would kill off a large number of unworthy people. The NAZI could then hide in their bunkers in the mountains or other safer areas.

America only exists because some Brits had sympathy for its cause. But there have always been some who encouraged the worst things in America and Europe. Such as Getto culture and Slum Lords, Getto Masters.

If you are a Brit or a Canadian, please do not reply.

Rather Sad.

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RobertDyck · Yesterday 11:25:05

YouTube: People Around the World React in Horror to the Fall of American Democracy

This YouTuber covers another YouTube video. The original is 32 minutes 21 seconds long. This one 17:56. The young woman in the original is an immigrant from Germany to the US, who normally has light content comparing culture of the US to Germany. But this one covers the fall of democracy. Her 90 year old father remembers what it was like when Nazis took over Germany. He says what Trump is doing today is exactly the same. In fact, the administration is following "Project 2025" word-for-word. That is turning the US not just authoritarian, but totalitarian. Say goodbye to freedom and democracy. Many Americans don't understand what's happening because it's happening so fast.

Void · Yesterday 12:00:50

The USA is a Constitutional Republic with public representation. Not a democracy.

If the S. Court and the House and Senate wanted to block the president they could.

What the world does not understand is that we are tired of the penetration of democracy into our culture.

It was always inferior, and the party of slavery.

In my opinion the USA is the evolution of the human race to a higher state of being.

The Middle East is among the worst "Fallen" of the human race.

Some parts of the British Empire are evolving forward towards becoming like us.

Others bite the hand that feeds them and kiss the heal that steps on their face. They adore the power of the M.E.

That is my opinion, and according to our culture here, I am entitled to that opinion.

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RobertDyck · Yesterday 12:25:03

"Constitutional Republic" vs "Democracy" is playing with words, pandering to partisan politics. You should rise above that. Look what the US is supposed to be, and what it is becoming.

The US will not be a Constitutional Republic if Trump continues what he is doing now. It is becoming a fascist totalitarian dictatorship. If he can, there will be no more elections. Constitutional separation of powers has already been challenged. Courts have ordered Trump to stop deporting people nabbed by ICE. Courts have ordered individuals who have landed immigrant status, legal residents, to be returned to the US. Trump and his team have refused. Blatant refusal to comply with court orders means the Constitution no longer exists. Trump claimed he has the ability to interpret law. The Constitution says the President does no such thing, the Courts do that. Trump claimed the ability to create tariffs by executive order. The Constitution says only Congress can do that. A ruling by the Appellate Court said all of his tariffs are illegal. They gave him time to appeal to the Supreme Court, but if he doesn't do so within the deadline, Court ruling will repeal all tariffs. Now the question is whether Trump will order Border Services and the IRS to collect it anyway, even though it's illegal.

Your Constitution Republic is being dismantled quickly, as you watch.

Void · Yesterday 13:32:16

It is not unusual that we disagree. We each know the stated position of the other. That is not worthless.

I would give my notions of the undercurrents of reality that compel me to take the position/risk that I do, but that would be to give navigation information to an adversary. Not particularly wise. I feel that this is all unnecessary, but at times all you can do is swim in the conditions mandated by nature.

I think you are not all right but might not be entirely wrong.

Time will tell. We will all pass away in time as well, and I don't know if we will hear the telling.

Good luck with your paths on this if you are right, that you get your reward.

I also will take my chances.

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kbd512 · Today 00:46:15

The US will not be a Constitutional Republic if Trump continues what he is doing now. It is becoming a fascist totalitarian dictatorship. If he can, there will be no more elections.

Our leftist Democrats are now warning us about the fact that they're behaving as real communists / fascists / what's the difference typically behave, because they're tired of waiting to establish a proper dictatorship here in America. Whatever accusations Democrats are making, you can be sure that's what they're actually doing. Thanks for the warning, though. My fellow Republicans have told them, repeatedly, that their dystopian dictatorship fantasy is never going to happen. I've not seen Democrats this agitated since we took their slaves away from them.

Constitutional separation of powers has already been challenged.

Separation of powers is an ongoing issue, one which will never be fully resolved, especially since Congress continuously delegates authority to the President. Whether it was wise for Congress to delegate their authority is another matter entirely.

If he can, there will be no more elections.

One American President you disagree with was elected for four years, so there will be no more elections in America after he's gone? Good to know. I'll file that one away for the next election in 2028. I'm aware of the fact that Democrats want to remove the ability of the electorate to choose who and what to vote for, but President Trump's second election was a giant middle finger to that idea.

Courts have ordered Trump to stop deporting people nabbed by ICE. Courts have ordered individuals who have landed immigrant status, legal residents, to be returned to the US. Trump and his team have refused. Blatant refusal to comply with court orders means the Constitution no longer exists.

When President Obama deported far more illegals than President Trump has thus far, where was your outrage over the constitutionality of his decision making back then? Either show some consistency in your condemnation or admit that you're not consistent because you're prejudiced against President Trump because he's making decisions that show deference to the American people, its own citizens, rather than people from everywhere else.

Trump claimed he has the ability to interpret law. The Constitution says the President does no such thing, the Courts do that. Trump claimed the ability to create tariffs by executive order. The Constitution says only Congress can do that.

All law enforcement requires interpretation of the law. If a person who is not a lawyer or judge isn't allowed to interpret what a law means, then there's no such thing as law enforcement. Lawyers and judges aren't rolling around in squad cars, arresting murderers, thieves, and rapists. The person enforcing the law is effectively "deciding" if/when/how a law has been broken... which sounds an awful lot like they had to make an interpretation of what the law is and how to enforce it.

The United States Congress has delegated their authority to make / adjust tariffs, to the President of the United States, pursuant to codified law, which Congress has passed and previous Presidents have duly signed into law. More specifically, a Democrat President named John F. Kennedy signed much of the basis for the President Trump's congressionally-delegated power to levy and/or increase tariffs, into codified enforceable law. Democrat President Jimmy Carter used this law in 1979. Republican President Reagan used the law in 1982. President Trump is now using that very same law in 2025.

The US Constitution is the litmus test for all laws. It is not now and never has been the law itself. The only thing that's meaningfully changed in 2024 is that President Trump has recognized that the US cannot run a trillion dollar trade deficit indefinitely without affecting the quality of life for the lower and middle classes here in America, so he's using the powers delegated to him, by Congress, to attempt to improve their lives through greater domestic production of all goods and services, which they can capitalize on by supplying their own labor in deference to their own countrymen. If the United States Congress doesn't like President Trump's delegated powers to make or change tariffs, then a 2/3rds majority vote to modify or entirely rescind the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 would remove all previously delegated Executive Branch power to make and adjust tariffs, irrespective of what President Trump thinks about it, which Congress has thus far refused to do.

Until the Supreme Court either reinterprets the President's delegated powers to make or change tariffs, or the United States Congress acts to modify or rescind those powers, President Trump's ability to exercise those delegated powers carries the force of law with it. I do so wish people lecturing Americans about our own laws would inconvenience themselves by actually learning something about the law and how it works, beyond their personal beliefs / desires about it.

About a decade ago, the mainstream left in America ran out of plausible arguments to explain away their increasingly anti-social behavior, which was a manifestation of their radicalization. From the time of President Obama onward, the Democrat Party was hijacked by radicals, people who became the "next-wave" socialists and communists, the ones who were responsible for the majority of the political violence in America between the 1960s and 1970s. Senator Joe McCarthy wasn't wrong about the threat these people represented, but American society was too earnest and polite to deal with them as the clear and present danger to human civilization that they've always been. After more than a century, there hasn't been a single successful implementation of their utopian socialist / communist society, yet they persist in their dogmatic religious beliefs about the proper role of government in society. They've always brought misery and mass death to people dumb enough to fall for their tricks. Those same radicals, who are now of age to hold positions of significant political power, don't even pretend that they want to be Americans anymore.

The rest of us have been forced to suffer through the radical left's endless stream of fake manufactured identity crises and general depravity. The left's indoctrination-from-birth radicalizes their cry-bullies and general purpose street thugs via the educational system, and then leads them around by the nose, from made-up problem to made-up problem. The sky is always falling in their world. That's the only way to unite the left's myriad of fractious opposing-interest factions, who otherwise have little to no common cause to vote for the same people. The near-nonexistent attention span of their rank-and-file membership is all our radical left has left to work with. Any honest classical liberal has already left the Democrat Party, the party of death and destruction, finally realizing to their horror that they don't remotely believe the same things the people around them do. It's an endless attempt to avert attention away from how wicked they've become in their lust for power. The left's now self-evident issue connecting with ordinary Americans is that normal people who have classical liberal tendencies don't want to live in a society based upon wickedness, intimidation, and violence. That "control strategy" has not worked well for them, as of late. More and more people are fed-up with the corrosive nature of the left's policies and their naked communist agenda.

Charlie Kirk was the most recent sacrifice to the violence which is both supported and imposed by the radical left. He dared to voice his opinions in public, one which merely illustrated the results of the radical left's horror show of public policy making and culture, which makes a mockery of the ideals of democracy, so one of them murdered the man who was famous for going to college campuses around the country and debating beliefs and policies with leftists. He exchanged words with people he disagreed with, rather than arrows. Our leftist media and their brainwashed drones immediately posted videos gleefully celebrating his murder. Their total lack of self-awareness is mind-numbing but predictable. They represent the latest incarnation of a failed ideology, one devoid introspection or love or forgiveness.

Anyone person or political party who publicly advocates for your murder and financial destruction, or attempts to silence you until they can murder you, is not one which you can peacefully coexist with, because they won't allow it. I'm done pretending that these people are anything but brainwashed to the point of absurdity and violence. They no longer attempt civil discourse, because they're incapable of it. Every action and utterance of theirs only further reinforces that point.

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