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I have the feeling that the whole trade war starts from a pile of nonsense.
Miti:
--- Quote from: technix on June 02, 2019, 11:07:52 am ---Here is a piece of immigration policy news, likely have an impact on the trade issue too: Extreme social media scrutiny for US visa applicants came in force.
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Well, it was just a matter of time for this to happen. Social media is the biggest intelligence agency that ever existed. I quote Edward Snowden:
"Businesses that make money by collecting and selling detailed records of private lives were once plainly described as 'surveillance companies. Their rebranding as 'social media' is the most successful deception since the Department of War became the Department of Defense."
Whoever falls for that deception deserves his fate. The problem is that fakebook collects information even from non members and that bothers me and should bother everyone. But emails? If I open someone's letter, I commit a federal offence. If they open my emails, and google does open all our emails, that's fine. Mail, email and phone conversations should be private, at least in the past were expected to be private.
What shitty times we live!
apis:
--- Quote from: magic on June 02, 2019, 08:22:51 am ---I Half of what he says are memes or random ideas he just throws around to see how people react. I never believed he will build that goddamn wall.
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Populism in other words.
I didn't think so either but he has tried hard to build that wall but the Democrats have stopped him so far. I don't think he cares if it it makes sense or not as long as he gets re-elected and can get through the tax cuts and other reforms (tariffs?) that help his finances. It also looks like it's important for him to hear his fans cheer for him (narcissist) so he tries to please them. Trump's ideology seems to be "do what benefits Trump".
Not sure but maybe he's currently putting on a show for his re-election campaign, after that he will end the trade wars and point out some of the battles he won but failing to realise (or not caring that) he lost the war. Or he will continue and force the world into a global economic depression. It's hard to tell, Trump is Trump. :-\
apis:
--- Quote from: Miti on June 02, 2019, 11:47:06 am ---Whoever falls for that deception deserves his fate.
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No
--- Quote from: Miti on June 02, 2019, 11:47:06 am ---The problem is that fakebook collects information even from non members and that bothers me and should bother everyone. But emails? If I open someone's letter, I commit a federal offence. If they open my emails, and google does open all our emails, that's fine. Mail, email and phone conversations should be private, at least in the past were expected to be private.
What shitty times we live!
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People don't care because they have enormous trust in secret government organisations for some reason, yet they always mistrust their politicians. ???
Of course, if you could trust the government surveillance wouldn't be a problem, but you can't trust the government so it is.
Miti:
--- Quote from: apis on June 02, 2019, 01:12:36 pm ---People don't care because they have enormous trust in secret government organisations for some reason, yet they always mistrust their politicians. ???
Of course, if you could trust the government surveillance wouldn't be a problem, but you can't trust the government so it is.
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Why do you think we keep people poorly educated and indoctrinated? That makes them gullible. ;D
soldar:
--- Quote from: Miti on June 02, 2019, 02:34:41 pm --- Why do you think we keep people poorly educated and indoctrinated? That makes them gullible. ;D
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Who is this "we" that keeps the people poorly educated? Because it seems to me the people themselves do a pretty good job of that by themselves. Most people are lazy thinkers who prefer cheap entertainment and garbage TV than study and improving themselves. Nobody is stopping them but themselves.
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