Rants and WTF are you talking about and Coronavirus!

[Sirioja]

I agree with US and Australia boycotting Chinese Olympics, I wish France will do same when we can t accept China behavior and for Suan Peng.

Also UK and Canada now. Not athletes, but politics boycotting. We want Shuan Peng to be free.

[Pistons]

The news reports that people with two vaccine doses plus a booster supposedly are protected against severe Omicron disease.

How convenient this corresponds with the current impetus to give boosters to all people 16 years of age and older.

Then in three months when the special Omicron booster comes out I predict the studies will show that everyone will need the Omicron booster!

It should go on like this every 6 to 12 months until billions of dollars is given from the government to Pfizer.

Even the propaganda channels doesn't seem to have the same memo these days:

https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-...riant-12489417

[Sirioja]

What does Russia's relation with the Ukraine and Georgia have to do with the US? That certainly is not provoking an attack by the US. Hong Kong and Taiwan, really? US should attack China for that? India killed Chinese soldiers too. I am not supporting any of these countries but they are securing their own borders and not doing anything untoward near the USA.

I agree with US and Australia boycotting Chinese Olympics, I wish France will do same when we can t accept China behavior and for Suan Peng.

[Sirioja]

The news reports that people with two vaccine doses plus a booster supposedly are protected against severe Omicron disease.

How convenient this corresponds with the current impetus to give boosters to all people 16 years of age and older.

Then in three months when the special Omicron booster comes out I predict the studies will show that everyone will need the Omicron booster!

It should go on like this every 6 to 12 months until billions of dollars is given from the government to Pfizer.

Nobody know more for SA omicron than rabbit spreading and there will be many deaths more. New Angelo want to make vaccine compulsory in Germany on beginning of next year.

[Turgid]

According to a poll, 46 percent of Americans believe that a civil war in the future is likely. I could envision violent unrest. Pockets of violence erupting. Two or three days. When I think civil-wars, I imagine state-sponsored warfare where opposing sides each have their own armies (tanks, aircraft etc). You reference "ammunition", so I imagine you are also thinking small-scale?....

I'm thinking small scale initially then escalating eventually. Many people I chat with think civil military strife will happen. Others have views similar to Mursenary that the military will quash any such eventuality. However, there are many white supremacists in the US police which is highly militarized. Also no doubt they are in the military as well.

Furthermore they are much more organized than is portrayed by the media. The people shown as Trumpists brandishing flags are on the fringe, it is much more serious than that. I think there is going to be a violent conflict for the future of America.

[Turgid]

LMFAO! Russia and China sure are "bending over backwards" to avoid war with the US. You really should open your eyes because you must not have a clue what's going on in the World.

Russia occupied Ukraine and went to war in Georgia.

China invaded Hong Kong, killed Indian soldiers at the border, threatens to invade Taiwan and terrorize their neighbors in the South China Sea.

China and Russia are actively looking for war.

What does Russia's relation with the Ukraine and Georgia have to do with the US? That certainly is not provoking an attack by the US. Hong Kong and Taiwan, really? US should attack China for that? India killed Chinese soldiers too. I am not supporting any of these countries but they are securing their own borders and not doing anything untoward near the USA.

[Sirioja]

Mutti will go to sleep now as she wish and Germany which is so fine under covid since 1 month, according to US internet, but plan to make vaccine compulsory soon. Very surprising brothels remain open, when despite 2 G+ but real playfield to spread and bring back at home, not only children at school who spread the most at the moment.

[DrPoon]

The news reports that people with two vaccine doses plus a booster supposedly are protected against severe Omicron disease.

How convenient this corresponds with the current impetus to give boosters to all people 16 years of age and older.

Then in three months when the special Omicron booster comes out I predict the studies will show that everyone will need the Omicron booster!

It should go on like this every 6 to 12 months until billions of dollars is given from the government to Pfizer.

[Mursenary]

You were bragging about lifting 110 kg in benchpress. Enough said.

Shut up and go get my coffee you insignificant social retard.

[Pistons]

I mean, it's already begun, the decline that is. But that's all relative. The power gap has been so large for decades that there was only one direction to go. I personally think the equitable distribution of power and thus responsibility is a great thing. UK, Germany, Japan, and maybe even France are all in the positions to be able and should rise up and take on more global leadership positions. Unilateral American decisions should end. I may be American but I'm a global citizen first.

Nation versus nation wars may be mostly a thing of the past as that is the point of the United Nations and as you mentioned, the threat of nukes. That's probably why wars had to be justified by things like "ending terrorism. " Afghanistan wasn't really a war was it? And Iraq part 2 was really just a month followed by 8 years of occupation. Heck have any other nations engaged in wars outside of the US and our allies in the middle east?

This all depends on how The Great Reset is handled. How automation and the new currency will be used. And the morals of the people in power.

A rich country is never measured by it's GDP alone.

[Pistons]

Communication is about communicating. As in, others need to hear it. And no one gave a damn about your rant on the Vedas.

You're lucky to be even having this interaction with me. In the physical world, our only interaction would be me telling you to go fetch my damn coffee.

You were bragging about lifting 110 kg in benchpress. Enough said.

[ShooBree]

America thrives on war. Even wars that it loses such as Vietnam and Afghanistan. America was stronger than ever after Vietnam and is still the most powerful country on earth after Afghanistan. America will decline big time if there is world peace. Russia and China do not want war with the US for they know the consequences as nukes will be involved, they have been bending over backwards to avoid a confrontation. Furthermore war seems less likely under a Democrat government than under the Republicans.

All signs point to the next big war for the US being a civil war. The war will be white supremacists against the liberals. White supremacists have been arming themselves for decades. The liberal's ammunition have been words. Anyone else in the US seeing things differently? If you are on the ground and hear people talk you would know that something is brewing. In a military conflict it would be hard to see the liberals winning. How ironic it would be if the USA is governed under the same ideology they fought against in world war II.

LMFAO! Russia and China sure are "bending over backwards" to avoid war with the US. You really should open your eyes because you must not have a clue what's going on in the World.

Russia occupied Ukraine and went to war in Georgia.

China invaded Hong Kong, killed Indian soldiers at the border, threatens to invade Taiwan and terrorize their neighbors in the South China Sea.

China and Russia are actively looking for war.

[McAdonis]

During world war II Japan saw east Asia as within their area of control. America had other ideas. Japan attacked Pearl harbor thinking that they could beat the US in the Pacific and attain hegemony over east Asia. They fancied their chances as they had beat Russia in a war in the early part of that century.

Yes, I would agree that Japan thought they could defeat USA in the Pacific theater. But Japan was under no delusion that they could defeat USA in a war.

The day before the death of Sara Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt’s mother, the State Department’s rebuff of Japanese Prime Minister Konoye’s urgent request for a private talk with Roosevelt convinced the Japanese to begin serious plans for an attack.

At a cabinet meeting on September 6, 1941, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto was told to attack unless Konoye somehow achieved peace terms with the United States that would not spark a revolution at home, an uprising in Korea, or the restoration of Chinese morale. Hirohito had been shot at twice, once by a Japanese communist, once by a Korean nationalist. The better men of two cabinets had been murdered or wounded because they were seen as too accommodating to the foreigners who wanted to colonize Japan or reduce the nation that had never lost a war in modern times to a vulnerable third-rate power. Konoye himself had been threatened with assassination if he made too many concessions, and there had been serious attempts to overthrow the emperor in favor of his brother or his son. Hirohito knew that his dynasty itself could be wiped out like the Romanovs or marginalized, as the Japanese themselves had done to the Korean royalty if he bowed to demands that the Japanese saw as not merely insulting but insane..

[McAdonis]

All signs point to the next big war for the US being a civil war. The war will be white supremacists against the liberals. White supremacists have been arming themselves for decades. The liberal's ammunition have been words. Anyone else in the US seeing things differently? If you are on the ground and hear people talk you would know that something is brewing. In a military conflict it would be hard to see the liberals winning.

According to a poll, 46 percent of Americans believe that a civil war in the future is likely. I could envision violent unrest. Pockets of violence erupting. Two or three days. When I think civil-wars, I imagine state-sponsored warfare where opposing sides each have their own armies (tanks, aircraft etc). You reference "ammunition", so I imagine you are also thinking small-scale?

Most of the organizations talking about civil war are private, not public entities: When Southern states seceded in 1860, they had police forces, military organizations, and state-sponsored militias. That varies considerably from today, where the forces who have organized for internal violence are mostly private in nature. They are not sponsored by state or local governments and do not have the powers of government agencies. They are voluntary in nature and cannot compel others to join their causes.

There is no clear regional split: We do not have a North/South schism similar to what existed in the 19th century. There are urban/rural differences within specific states, with progressives dominating the cities while conservatives reside in rural communities. But that is a far different geographic divide than when one region could wage war on another. The lack of a distinctive or uniform geographic division limits the ability to confront other areas, organize supply chains, and mobilize the population. There can be local skirmishes between different forces, but not a situation where one state or region attacks another.

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2021/09/16/is-the-us-headed-for-another-civil-war/

Poverty, youth bulge and other factors are high predictors for violence. USA is the richest nation on earth, and it's population is relatively old.

Between 1970 and 1999, 80 percent of civil conflicts occurred in countries where 60 percent of the population or more were under the age of thirty, according to the PAI report. Today there are sixty-seven counties with youth bulges, of which sixty of them are experiencing social unrest and violence. Demographers are quick to stress that youth bulges do not solely explain these civil conflict, scorruption, ethno-religious tensions, poverty, and poor political institutions also play contributing rolesbut nor do they rule out as coincidence the predilection toward social unrest among states with large youth populations.

https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/effects-youth-bulge-civil-conflicts.

[Mursenary]

America thrives on war. Even wars that it loses such as Vietnam and Afghanistan. America was stronger than ever after Vietnam and is still the most powerful country on earth after Afghanistan. America will decline big time if there is world peace. Russia and China do not want war with the US for they know the consequences as nukes will be involved, they have been bending over backwards to avoid a confrontation. Furthermore war seems less likely under a Democrat government than under the Republicans.

I mean, it's already begun, the decline that is. But that's all relative. The power gap has been so large for decades that there was only one direction to go. I personally think the equitable distribution of power and thus responsibility is a great thing. UK, Germany, Japan, and maybe even France are all in the positions to be able and should rise up and take on more global leadership positions. Unilateral American decisions should end. I may be American but I'm a global citizen first.

Nation versus nation wars may be mostly a thing of the past as that is the point of the United Nations and as you mentioned, the threat of nukes. That's probably why wars had to be justified by things like "ending terrorism. " Afghanistan wasn't really a war was it? And Iraq part 2 was really just a month followed by 8 years of occupation. Heck have any other nations engaged in wars outside of the US and our allies in the middle east?