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The Obama Administration: Re-Elected! 332-206 (Probably)
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This is America, we can make anything that is mediocre at best appear to be the greatest thing in the world
The space guys and the tall-ass building guys will both be pleased. And no other country will be able to do the same without an act of war.
How tall is the LEM platform?
Based on the ones I've seen in museums, I think it's ~5 or 6 feet tall.
I think I just solved the economy:
Government encourages building giant buildings by incentivising design competitions for the worlds tallest buildings. This will lead to a growth of construction and architectural firms and theyll need support staff and office space thus filling up some of the unused office space, they'll also need lawyers so theres more people employed, and Im sure people will get hurt so theres insurance and medical professionals and then we'll just keep building taller and taller buildings! Its skyscrapers all the way up!
EDIT: Moonscrapers could work, if you hate America and dont mind giving American jobs to the Moon Men.
Don't you dare fucking do this, Hillary. Don't you dare. The Chinese are not our friends. They aren't happy to see us. They're not going to give anything in return for Mr. Chen and his family being sent to some hellhole out in the Gobi. The Chinese government are a bunch of thugs, lowlifes, and thieves masquerading as politicos, and we should be taking every opportunity to piss in their cheerios as often as possible. This is a great opportunity to do so. And remember, organ harvesting? Death vans? Ethnic cleansing of Tibet? They aren't the good guys, and there is nothing to be admired about the China of today.
One of the more perceptive articles I saw this morning or last night was that the Chinese still have the guy's wife and kids, and have a record of using that fact. If they didn't, I'm pretty sure Obama would have been trying to convince everyone that the activist had somehow fled straight to Taiwan and had never even seen the outside of the US embassy.
Oh definitely. It puts us in a really shit position though. Send the guy back to prison and his family? Or let him go to the U.S. and bargain with China for his family? China'll love that.
edit- especially since they've been bitching about the amount of nukes their two main rivals have (US and Russia). Haha no, China, we're not going to just decrease the amount of nuclear weapons we have just because you say so. You haven't had a good track record on not being jerks lately.
Actually, China would love it if he would leave. Hell, they probably would be more than happy to let him take his family if he agrees to go away:
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2012/05/chen_guangcheng_and_exile_why_china_is_desperate_to_get_him_out_of_the_country_.html
Well to be fair, I'm pretty sure he's never seen the outside of the US embassy. So there's that.
I'm pretty sure he's never seen the outside of anything.
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He's probably been around more Americans than he can shake a stick at, though.
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He was a great president, and a real positive presence for the US on the world stage.
I do wish that they had actually put the worlds tallest building there. While we have no need for it, it just seems absurd that it ISN'T. Even by some absurd contrivance like installing a 700 foot flagpole or something
The past is not a kinder country.
We are all going to hell.
Honestly I give these blind jokes a C average, at best.
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I hate that term. It's basically a way to, in one word, disregard everything the other person says.
He's pretty much won all the good will back though since he left office.
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EDIT: I'm still a free trader, actually, but that's a dumb reason.
Honestly, the second the Soviet Union fell, the globalization cat clawed its way out of the bag. NAFTA was just the icing on the coffin.
EDIT: And for the record, free trade does not stop wars. Just ask the people of Iraq.
it mostly stops wars that the US isn't directly involved in either starting or egging on from the sidelines
Iraq (both times) is one of the few exceptions I can think of to the rule that post-Washington Consensus there've been no wars between states centered around resource aquisition.
That would seem more like correlation than causation, though. Chances are that you aren't going to enter into a free-trade agreement with someone who's militarily hostile (or possibly hostile) towards you.
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If you are trading with a country, it's likely they have something you want, whereas if you do no trade why would you invade? Free trade is better for peace than trade with tough tarifs though because it lowers the incentive to invade and take the resources directly (because they would arguably become more expensive due to the cost of war and rebuilding)
Well this is a step in the right direction but it doesn't seem like a very powerful one.
"Oh btw here is a list of chemicals your water table is now poisoned with."
No, I am not really communist. Yes, it is weird that I use this name.
It's easy to not care if you're being told that there's nothing there go back to sleep.
It would be nice if they gave the list of chemicals before starting their operations so locals could make an informed decision about selling their mineral/resource rights. Its not very helpful when they give you a list of chemicals after the fact that explain why your land is now worthless.
No, I am not really communist. Yes, it is weird that I use this name.
Also, look at all the chemicals that they're giving you for free? They really ought to charge a fee!