Monzanator

30 minutes ago, Grassmarket said:

Hey, let’s show some respect here.  Has Poland ever conquered Mongolia? I think not.  Has Mongolia ever conquered Poland?    Why, yes it has, yes it has.

There's nothing in Mongolia worth conquering, that's the issue. Hence why Mongols were the conquerors themselves. Great Britain applied the same logic during its Empire days However Mongolia, Poland and France are the only three nations that ever conquered Moscow - something that Great Britain, Germany or USA never managed to do

Ah yes, Mongolia, the proverbial butt of jokes even in communist Poland back in the day Does New York Times realize 99,9% Americans probably can't even show Mongolia on the map?

Hojnisz is out of the relay to rest for the European Championships in Duszniki Zdroj (women's individual is on Wednesday).

National Guard soldiers are forced to sleep on the floor and Cortez-Ocasio offers them snacks as consolation

I see Democrats don't have any reasonable ideas now they can't blame Trump for this anymore.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55775517

20 years at the very least. Even the hard-left got upset recently their press speaker focuses too much on the ideological stuff and removed her from office. You could have had hope with Biedron but he got what he wanted - a fat salary as MEP - and doesn't seem to care much about Polish internal politics anymore. He's gone very quiet during the pandemic period compared to his rants before he got elected to European Parliament

1 hour ago, Adriano said:

Yes, this is a big support for LGBT community.  Also there you can have a contact with psychologist. Poland has has a big problem with tolerance recently. 

Big support among the youths - who happen to be the least reliable group of voters. As long as Civic Platform is too scared to upset the conservatives nothing will change - and that's gonna take a loooong time. Besides, EG will happen before the next elections so obviously nobody will give a damn about LGBT. Poland ain't USA or Netherlands after all.

Just now, NearPup said:

I don’t see where you are disagreeing with me?

Biden won't re-discover the Keynes model into US economy because Wall Street will CRUSH him, period.

1 hour ago, NearPup said:

Most people on the left would argue that the issue with how capitalism currently works in the US is precisely that there is a big disconnect between who does the work and who gets the benefit from said work, so I'm not sure banal platitudes are super helpful here.

If the 2008 financial crisis didn't teach you that the rich will always get away with their greed and the poor will always pay the debts I don't know what else will? Just watch The Big Short if anything.

USA and North America in general remains in awe of the "free market controls everything" and if anything goes wrong (which it usually does on a repeated basis) then all the fancy economists from left & right are quick to blame the faceless "market" or "system" clearly forgetting there are specific people behind every system to begin with. It's no coincidence Alan Greenspan - the most powerful US economist of the last 30+ years was a staunch critic of the Keynes theories because he (AG) wants the market to rule everything under every circumstances - including the poor paying off the rich's debts.

Urs Kryenbuhl with torn ACL and a concussion. Out for the season.

Ryan Cochran-Siegle with a neck fracture but not ruled out for the season (wat?)

4 hours ago, phelps said:

and those idiots want to get rid of the 15/20km individual race... 

 

because it doesn't fit the average tv audience, they say...

Obvious horseshit! The classic individuals offer more unpredictability compared to the super sprint crap!

I wonder if Japan didn't leak the news of possible cancellation of the Games to test out the global opinion? If the response would be overwhelmingly negative then they'd have to tough it out and hold the Games at all costs?

USA rejected John Keynes economical theories which probably explains why Olympian1010 is so negative here. It's no wonder Margaret Thatcher is so unpopular to this day because she rejected Keynes as well IIRC. The "free market rules everything" which runs rampant in USA stands in direct opposition to Keynes' ideas as well. And this is why I say repeatedly that capitallism is more important than democracy in USA.

Likud is a right-wing party so it's obvious Democrats hate Netanyahu   They're lucky nobody accuses them of anti-semitism like the Labour Party in UK was but like mentioned above, most US Jews are actually estranged from Israel. I guess zionism isn't doing great these days anymore

Paula Badosa tested positive for COVID while in hotel quarantine already

I told ya some people will be helluva fed up with Japan if the Games get cancelled. They're showing up in this thread already

1 minute ago, intoronto said:

The article literally says they want 2032....

They can WANT it but who says they get the votes? (unless they BUY them).

If Japan cancels these games they will have plenty of backlash and don't stand a chance to host another Games for the next 50 years at least IMO. There will be a LOT of furious people over this.

2 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

Okay, so just so I can be clear what your argument is, you said: Sweden has social stability and hasn’t fought in many modern wars. The US lacks social stability and has fought in basically every modern war. Americans look up to Sweden as a model of a better society. Americans are dumb for doing so.”

 

So your argument is: Sweden has better social stability and is more peaceful than the US, and Americans are dumb for wanting to follow their example, even though the US lacks social stability and struggles to stay out of conflicts.

 

I don’t understand why Americans shouldn’t want our society to be more like Sweden’s then, if they have better social stability and stay out of more conflicts? It seems like Americans should want to be more like Sweden given those two points.

But America always gets involved in war conflicts, the bailed out in Syria because Obama wanted to be peaceful and Russians came marching in instead. And Syria is considered a major tire fire ever since (and nobody cares about that anymore). Not to mention Pentagon would be furious for cutting funds, I know isolationism sounds great on paper but USA has moved themselves into the biggest geopolitical player since 1945 and you can't sustain that position if suddenly you go into isolation. What's the point of NATO existence if USA goes neutral by choice? Besides, China and Russia would LOVE to see USA going neutral and like you've said, whatever makes China and Russia happy is an absolute no-no for American society. Not to mention there is no money like war money. United Kingdom didn't pay the Lend & Lease debts until 2006! - some 60 years after WWII ended (and that's an official account).

Just now, Olympian1010 said:

That literally explains nothing about your original argument, and doesn’t answer my question about your argument!

My argument is clear, Sweden isn't any example why USA should be a sociallist democracy to begin with for the reasons I stated above. Hence there is nothing to learn, period.

2 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

This argument is so confusing. “Sweden is great because they have social stability, and haven’t fought in many recent wars. As where the United States lacks social stability, and has fought in basically every modern war. Americans look up to Sweden as an example, and they’re dumb for that.”

 

So, you’re arguing that Sweden isn’t the better or the two, and that the US shouldn’t attempt to learn from their example?

USA is always the teacher on the global scale, they tell everyone else what to do. They never listen

If you want to learn something then Vietnam War fiasco and Islamic Revolution in Iran should be more than enough to learn a thing or two already?

Just now, Olympian1010 said:

I guess we didn’t fight in WW1 then  (Monroe Doctrine ended with Woodrow Wilson when he got us involved in World War 1, and established the League of Nations)

Yeah, I know Monroe Doctrine was revoked by Wilson but after 1929 and Great Depression USA was getting isolationism vibes again.

93% Americans opposed entering WWII as late as May 1940. Those are facts.

https://exhibitions.ushmm.org/americans-and-the-holocaust/main/us-public-opinion-about-entering-world-war-ii-1940

Sweden is a country that hasn't had any mass protests for like 100 years, never takes part in any wars since Napoleon was fricking alive - it's like a totally opposite country to USA who has mass riots every 5 years and gets involved in every single God damn war since the isolationism policy ended with FD Roosevelt. Yet US liberals bring up Sweden as the golden utopia that should be followed No wonder US society is considered dumb by rest of the world.

27 years old and third hip surgery on the way. Laura Robson has basically done nothing since 2014 due to injuries. I know tennis pays a lot but she should really retire. I suppose she's got nothing else to do or what? It's obvious her body isn't up to pro athlete standards anymore - and hasn't been for the last six years.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/tennis/55749047

34 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

The same Silicon Valley that voted for him over Biden in the primaries?

The very same! Sillicon Valley wants more money poured into their projects than in medical system for the poor and ethinic minorities IMO. Classic rich want to get richer issue.

24 minutes ago, NearPup said:

Scandinavia isn’t a good example of socialism working because none of the Scandinavian countries are socialist...

So, Social Democratic Workers' Party of Sweden has nothing to do with democratic sociallism?