Donald Trump and US politics
" That's terrible. Everyone knows he should have been a community organizer, then given a senate seat based on the strength of his wife's relationship with the people that own Chicago, and then without authoring a single piece of legislation - become president. Making someone a judge like that - it's almost as bad as giving someone a Noble Peace Prize just because they got elected! Good thing world standards are too high to let that happen. PoE Origins - Piety's story http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2081910 Last edited by DalaiLama on Nov 11, 2017, 3:53:57 AM
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" Maybe on a TV show you watch. There are people that believe nations should be interventionalist, and others against that. There are people that believe nations should stand alone and others that are against that. These ideologies have existed for a very long time, and in the US can be seen even at the founding of our country. Whatever new and current faces are attached to Nationalism or Globalism are just the best known power players. Hillary outed herself as an open borders type globalist during her public/private position speech. From the corporate perspective, Globalism is the future. They don't care whether the rules benefit the people, or whether the government runs optimally. What they do care about is having a consistent set of rules to work with (or bend/break/step around) and not having governments that can tell them what to do. Google having to play by China's rules for instance, or Microsoft getting heavily fined by the EU, etc. The big companies want that kind of ability to be subsumed into a board where they can pay people off to rule how they want. It has nothing to do with the nationality of any of the people involved, it is about money. PoE Origins - Piety's story http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2081910
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"Fuck that future. No man nor group of men should be above the democratically controlled rule of law. When Stephen Colbert was killed by HYDRA's Project Insight in 2014, the comedy world lost a hero. Since his life model decoy isn't up to the task, please do not mistake my performance as political discussion. I'm just doing what Steve would have wanted. Last edited by ScrotieMcB on Nov 11, 2017, 10:14:23 AM
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" A trade agreement is sign by all nations involve. People need to agree to these rules before they join. Other countries and people investing would want to make money and want terms beneficial to them. Like I point out, You can't have terms that favor only your own nation. If you don't put something on the plate to make that agreement more favorable to the other nations, why do they want to sign it? US is ridiculous in that aspect. Do you want things like UN, where US get a veto on everything and things are all in their favor. Free Trade has its own benefits and COST. If you want to join you have to follow THE RULES. Most of the time US get the best trade deal compare to everyone. If you get more, you can't call it fair, it is unfair. You want to drop out of trade deal because You aren't winning enough, you want MORE. It isn't good even for you. |
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"Under budget and ahead of schedule. When Stephen Colbert was killed by HYDRA's Project Insight in 2014, the comedy world lost a hero. Since his life model decoy isn't up to the task, please do not mistake my performance as political discussion. I'm just doing what Steve would have wanted.
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" We are under budget too. US is too expensive, We are buying from China. |
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No, Trevor, that isn't karma. Karma is not "the spiritual principle that the universe will reward good actions and punish bad ones." Karma is the sum of choices a person has made combined with the sum of rewards and punishments that person has received. According to the spiritual principles of Buddhism, those with bad karma will be punished by the universe and those with good karma will be rewarded. It is not karma that rewards or punishes based on one's personal choices, it is based on one's personal karma that one is rewarded or punished. (Buddhism further holds that all inequality is the result of meritocracy, and utilizes the concept of reincarnation to explain how accidents of birth are fair based on the karma of the individual prior to rebirth.)
What people usually mean by karma would be better referred to as "karmic justice," that is, justice according to one's karma. You know how Bender Rodriguez is a stickler for proper use of the words "irony" and "ironic?" Well, this is my "ironic" in a a way. Shit pisses me right off. When Stephen Colbert was killed by HYDRA's Project Insight in 2014, the comedy world lost a hero. Since his life model decoy isn't up to the task, please do not mistake my performance as political discussion. I'm just doing what Steve would have wanted. Last edited by ScrotieMcB on Nov 11, 2017, 4:58:23 PM
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https://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/study/kamma.html
Buddhists believe in kamma. Hindus believe in karma. Lazy Americans don't know the difference and call everything karma. |
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