Meshugger

Your grandparents must have a really nice house Yes, I'm for the estate tax and yes, I have had to deal with selling things after people left them but not because of any tax I do not live in the US. Think more of paying 30% for a house hardly worth 100k.

Anyhow, income equality works as long as there is a strong middle class and social mobility also, all while the system works and seems to be justified by the whole.

I wonder if anyone preaching for harder inheritance-tax, death-tax or alike has ever inherited anything dear to them. Like your grandparents house, or some other smaller property, only having to sell it in order to pay for the taxes. Do those people actually stare happily at the sales contract as they realize that they are distributing their means to the state?

...and people are wondering why the right is rising.

Oh my, that inaguration-speech. He completely shat all over Washington. What a time to be alive.

He was commuted, which is a lowering of the penalty. Pardon means forgiveness. Fair enough. No, but maybe saying he would Assange give himself up had something to do with it. Granted he won't do that because clemency =/= sentence commuted. That's what i am more interested in. Some dealings have to be going on in the background.

Is there any official motivation on why he was pardoned?

His restraint from putting boots on the ground in Libya and Syria. That alone made sure that a bad situation didn't escalate into a catastrophe.

I think that he attempted to do suicide a few times.

From the looks of it, it seems like there's some dealings going on in the background about Snowden and Assange.

Perhaps this is the real reason on why there's always protests against Trump. Those organizing these very protests have suddenly realized all that benevolent power granted to the executive branch for their greater good is now in the hands of someon else.

I agree, viewing humans as a mere mean of production is degrading, dehumanising and wrong. But if the refugees boost the economy, that deserves to be mentioned. First you agree with me and then you re-enforce your earlier point which directly contradicts what you agreed upon. You're drunk, go back to bed. Thanks for the laugh though. Look, morality and what is right or wrong is completely arbitrary, and wether taking in refugees is morally right everyone will tell you something different. I think it is right. Other don't. Some say to an extent. And so on. But the economy offers us an objective indication of how the refugees affect us. It's useful in that sense. But you use measurement of economic activity as a base of moral justification, no?

While most sane people would find the idea that refugees inherently "lower meaning and purpose of human development" quite repugnant, but hey, who am I to judge? Not judging is the first step on getting more knowledge and understanding, you're on the right track.

Always found it funny that people actually believe that having a gun would give them a fighting chance in case the government comes for them. It's not the 18th century any more. True, people need to buy more assault rifles, kevlar suits, tanks and rocket launchers.

I agree, viewing humans as a mere mean of production is degrading, dehumanising and wrong. But if the refugees boost the economy, that deserves to be mentioned. First you agree with me and then you re-enforce your earlier point which directly contradicts what you agreed upon. You're drunk, go back to bed. Thanks for the laugh though.

I don't know about you, but i find the idea of lowering meaning and purpose of human development as mere asset capital for economic growth as quite repugnant.

More like non-natives are willing to work for nothing and live in a toolshed while the native kids are brought up by their parents to hate honest blue-collar work, to get a college/university degree so they can be the deciders to tell the native blue-collar class that they are too lazy and that their own societies, the only thing that the blue-collars have and the very thing they hold dear, are not diverse enough. And people wonder why the kids play video games for escapism.

Hey, 67% live in cities in the US the last time i checked, that's a lot of bubbles.

Lets take it to its logical conclusion and import everyone from everywhere, since the economy will then grow even more. People being cultural vessels with different moral and spiritual needs than the host population can be ignored because it has never ever caused any trouble anywhere.

1. Because the left had failed to throw out identity politics and needed to be reinvigorated to what is essential. Now the pendelum swung back nicely instead of a brutal crash later. 2. Kinda 3. Normal people outside the inner city coffe latté-bubble 4. Not entirely, but that's the nature of politics, the more you promise, the more you will underdeliver.

Oh, i forgot: Malta, unique in every way, but the sun will murder you.

Lake Balaton for party, Budapest for the architecture, rivaling Prague and Vienna. The most beautiful women are found there as well.

Avoid Scandoland between october-april as it is different shades of bleak, snow and grey...unless you want to feel trve, kvlt and frostbitten. I would suggest Hungary, Czech republic and Austria in general. The english is so-so, but if you speak german you will go far there, the food is great and everything is cheap. - Avoid London but see the rest of Britain, especially the midlands and the scottish highlands. - Germany is wonderful in the Bavarian area. Think Neuschwanstein castle. - The Dutch understand english the best, but their food is horrible. - The Italians don't understand english that well, but the food is cheap and wonderful. Rent a car and drive. Fast. - For sun, don't expect anything warm until march. Most europeans flee to the Canary islands during November-February. It's a tourist trap for a reason. - Switzerland is ridiculously clean, everything works and on time, but expensive like hell. - Avoid Brussels, it's the Detroit of Europe. Bruges is nice and the countryside likewise. - Croatia can be recommended after march. - Slovenia is a jem stuck in the mountains, think of lake Bled. - Small countries like Luxembourg, San Marino and Lichenstein have that fairy tale-atmosphere around them, but they are expensive tourist traps. - The baltic states like Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are cheap and have nice old buildings from the Hansa time peroid. The younger people speak english, the older.....well not at all. That's all that i can think of for the moment.

I do not think that the author has actually read the books by Dostoyevsky, as the themes contain a critique of rationality and socialism in themselves, not against western europe. I almost get the impression that the author of the article wants Russia to hate the west.

I never seen so much projection in such a short clip.