Thread: The biggest threat to America's way of life

Originally Posted by taxexile

todays obsessed self loathing blinkered and dumb social justice warriors cocooned in their echo chambers can see no further than a temporary aberration of american politics called trump.

You dimwitted old geriatric many of us less aged peoples are capable of something you may not be. It is called multitasking.

Originally Posted by Buckaroo Banzai

IMO , the american way of life is not what exists bu twhat we aspire towards, and so far fall far short of.

Get real. America is a shithole trashed by Corporapists and Oligarchs who have created an alternate right wing media that has effectively dumbed down the entire population that lives outside of the enlightened archipelago.

Originally Posted by taxexile

how strange that whilst thailand imprisons a woman for 80 years for her facebook posts, china imprisons hundreds of thousands in forced labour concentration camps because of their religion, iran publicly executes gays and horrific massacres occur on a regular basis thanks to the despotic regimes in africa, todays obsessed self loathing blinkered and dumb social justice warriors cocooned in their echo chambers can see no further than a temporary aberration of american politics called trump.

Maybe try getting out a bit more.

Originally Posted by bsnub

Odd that Obama presided over the largest economic period of growth in American history. Even more hilarious is that your orange moron basically road his coattails.



Obama’s 2009 Recovery Act Kicked Off Over 10 Years Of Economic Growth



So you do acknowledge that the orange moron is a fraud.

Obama Only President in History to Never Have 3% Growth | RealClearPolitics

It's the Federal reserves fault but...just sayin

Not a fan of Real Queer Politics either

Originally Posted by Backspin

Obama Only President in History to Never Have 3% Growth | RealClearPolitics

It's the Federal reserves fault but...just sayin

Not a fan of Real Queer Politics either

You've got shit for brains, kid. Obama inherited the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression from Dubya.

The biggest threat to the US and the rest of the world has been the economic policy of neo-liberalism of the last 40 years, an economic ideology of the "free market" of deregulation, privatization and unfettered trade to serve the interests of the corporate world. The last 40 years of neo-liberalism has produced a corporatocracy, not a democracy, where the corporate class owns the wealth of the country, the political arena, the economy, the media and the government. In fact, 3 men own more wealth and have more power than 160 million Americans. It declared war on unions, hollowed out the middle class, widened the gap of wealth between the haves and have nots, and brought us to the brink of environmental collapse. It's a bourgeois dream come true, a form of neo-feudalism. Trump and his financiers (as well as his band of useful idiots) are but a symptom of it.

Originally Posted by Backspin

It was the Federal reserves economic crisis and the federal reserves pseudo recovery.

Wrong again. The deregulation of the financial market, not the federal reserve, created the financial collapse of the economy in 2008. The federal reserve only served to support the policy of market economics, in this case a corporate bailout. As economists have pointed out, the bailout was an example of corporate socialism but raw capitalism for the masses.

Originally Posted by bsnub

Get real. America is a shithole trashed by Corporapists and Oligarchs who have created an alternate right wing media that has effectively dumbed down the entire population that lives outside of the enlightened archipelago.

I agree, but as I said "the american way of life is not what exists but what we aspire towards," an aspirational, perhaps a mythological Arcadia, a shining city on a hill too far to attain but close enough to see,
the cherry on top of an ice cream sundae in a very hot room,
Pheww,, I am running out of metaphors. LOL

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

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The USA failed to separate the state and the church.

Sure, the media has a lot to answer for, but while great swathes of the “Bible Belt” continue to influence political will, the country will remain burdened by a populist religious group, living in the past.
Blame media and corporatism all you like but until massive chunks of Americans can be weaned off religious fervour, things will continue to get worse.

Originally Posted by Switch

great swathes of the “Bible Belt” continue to influence political will, the country will remain burdened by a populist religious group, living in the past.

Demographics will deal with them, they are all boomers and dying off...

Thank God, American Churches Are Dying

https://www.wsj.com/articles/thank-god-american-churches-are-dying-11582243546

The American Evangelical Church Is Dying

https://medium.com/interfaith-now/the-american-evangelical-church-is-dying-7ecb71f02c43

Originally Posted by bsnub

Demographics will deal with them, they are all boomers and dying off...

Thank God, American Churches Are Dying

https://www.wsj.com/articles/thank-god-american-churches-are-dying-11582243546

The American Evangelical Church Is Dying

https://medium.com/interfaith-now/the-american-evangelical-church-is-dying-7ecb71f02c43

Everything is dying in Weimerica. Not just churches. As if coastal libtards are out breeding anybody.

4 Reasons the New Atheist Movement is Dying – Mount Carmel

Incidentally, what is meant by America's "way of life"? I presume it must refer to white, middle America. My observation is/was there are many ways of life in America, and they vary greatly according to race, region, urban/ rural divide, climate, and of course wealth- or lack thereof. Actually I think it is more diverse in this regard than just about any western country. But most of America still lives in the suburbs.

Originally Posted by sabang

But most of America still lives in the suburbs.

How does that differ from . . . say . . . Australia?

Originally Posted by sabang

I presume it must refer to white, middle America.

You say so but then go on to talk about how it applies to everyone

Originally Posted by sabang

My observation is/was there are many ways of life in America, and they vary greatly according to race, region, urban/ rural divide, climate, and of course wealth- or lack thereof. Actually I think it is more diverse in this regard than just about any western country.

Having gone to school, Uni and worked in various places throughout the US what I understand the 'American Way of Life' to be is some odd notion of 'freedom', the chance to become rich - the land of opportunity (sadly the US allows the least chance of wealth accumulation) and that everyone can become president, this one seems incredibly important.

Maybe is used to be like this many moons ago - many people did leave repressive or poor countries to arrive in the US and have more freedom, more opportunity etc...
Initially I thought that Europe offers the same, if not more, but there was never a comparison by immigrants. Europe had and has its own 'Way of Life' qualities but lacks the escapist 'Hollywood' to drive home this illusion.

Originally Posted by sabang

Incidentally, what is meant by America's "way of life"? I presume it must refer to white, middle America. My observation is/was there are many ways of life in America, and they vary greatly according to race, region, urban/ rural divide, climate, and of course wealth- or lack thereof. Actually I think it is more diverse in this regard than just about any western country. But most of America still lives in the suburbs.

As I understand it there are many undiscovered tribes, still practicing pagan worship rituals. Are those the “suburbs” to which you are referring?

How does that differ from . . . say . . . Australia?

It doesn't- last I knew Australia was the most urbanised country in the world. But I don't see aussie suburbanites dressing up like, say, croc dundee and bemoaning their lost way of life, or talking about insurrection. Just a few bigots complaining about immigration.

Originally Posted by sabang

But I don't see aussie suburbanites dressing up like, say, croc dundee and bemoaning their lost way of life, or talking about insurrection

That's very true

Originally Posted by sabang

It doesn't- last I knew Australia was the most urbanised country in the world. But I don't see aussie suburbanites dressing up like, say, croc dundee and bemoaning their lost way of life, or talking about insurrection. Just a few bigots complaining about immigration.

The Aussy economy suffers from less disequilibrium than the US economy. Because the Aud isn't a reserve ccy to the same extent as the USD.

Originally Posted by Backspin

The Aussy economy suffers from less disequilibrium than the US economy. Because the Aud isn't a reserve ccy to the same extent as the USD.

Is this due to Weimar, Malthus, Jacobin or beta cuck influences. Please show your working out.

Originally Posted by Backspin

The Aussy economy suffers from less disequilibrium than the US economy. Because the Aud isn't a reserve ccy to the same extent as the USD.

As a university economics major I applaud you for your use of the term 'disequilibrium', though it isn't wholly appropriate i this context but I bow to your seven hours of community college studies on Latvian exchange rate cycles.

Originally Posted by Switch

Is this due to Weimar, Malthus, Jacobin or beta cuck influences. Please show your working out.

Clearly it is a disequilibrium of neo-Malthusian and post-Jacobinism boomer free market discombobulation . . .

Originally Posted by Switch

Is this due to Weimar, Malthus, Jacobin or beta cuck influences. Please show your working out.

Zoroastrian.

Originally Posted by panama hat

As a university economics major I applaud you for your use of the term 'disequilibrium', though it isn't wholly appropriate i this context but I bow to your seven hours of community college studies on Latvian exchange rate cycles.





Clearly it is a disequilibrium of neo-Malthusian and post-Jacobinism boomer free market discombobulation . . .

Definitely Zoroastrian.