How does the World view America these days?

yeah i watched it now, they're buddy buddies and she's reading the talking points prearranged for the interview.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oX8cYtSnSGo

We should respect people's faith...

...so for instance if half the world's faith told them that interracial marriage displeased God, we should totally respect that.

i fucking hate the 'respect my faith' shit if y'all hadn't noticed...not only is it just idiotic in itself, but also it would create perverse incentives for racist/homophobic/etc business-owners to pretend to be religious so they could systemize their bigotry with impunity.

  On 9/2/2015 at 1:10 AM, Nebraska said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oX8cYtSnSGo

I don't even know what to say.

Has this been posted already? Worth watching again, fucking fantastic.

  On 9/2/2015 at 1:10 AM, Nebraska said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oX8cYtSnSGo

I believe she is being represented pro bono by a Christian lawyer association, and this is their brilliant legal strategy; deny the court as long as possible, make her into a martyr for the right wing fundamentalist movement. Then she can resign, become a public figurehead traveling the country and collecting speaking fees, during an upcoming election cycle, and someone will undoubtedly set up a gofundme for her, so she can sit back on her ignorant ass and collect hundreds of thousands of dollars of other peoples' money, because she stood up to The Man, and her ignorance and prejudice become her strength. You can't reason with people like this, their faith is what they live by, even if it completely flies in the face of logic, reason, and the law. The people law, that is.

I just wish that religious freedom was across the board... it's really starting to piss me off that the Christian neighbors keep calling the cops on my pagan rituals. They don't even realize they jacked most of their holidays from my ancestors. >:[

cheers for some of these Chen,

a few he looks like that hard-drinking Baldwin chap, after approx 2/3rds of a bottle of Maker's Mark, asked about "yo know, the whole fuckin CHINA thing?"

  On 9/2/2015 at 2:04 AM, chenGOD said:

Has this been posted already? Worth watching again, fucking fantastic.

 

  On 9/2/2015 at 3:35 AM, autopilot said:

I just wish that religious freedom was across the board... it's really starting to piss me off that the Christian neighbors keep calling the cops on my pagan rituals. They don't even realize they jacked most of their holidays from my ancestors. >:[

Can't tell if serious?

Florida residents burn the n-word into neighbor's lawn. I mean, we're a ridiculous nation right? Tell me the watmm members in the rest of the world are laughing at us, because we are a fucking joke, and a sad one at that.

http://news.yahoo.com/n-word-written-florida-family-022401900.html

How does the World view Europe these days?

Migrant 'crisis' mismanagement, the building of anti-refugee walls, the displaced being further tormented by us comfortable lot...

I am Irish, I live in Dublin, I am so far removed from any plight, it is easy to have an opinion and be outraged.

Is helping children from suffering not the right thing to do? Do it so.

Love, peace and harmony, everything else is unpalatable and becomes amplified with age and absolute at deaths door. Looking at you 'the 1%'!!

If I am naive please do not educate me to ever understand how one could allow children suffer, that is a mind-set I never want to consider.

http://www.unicef.org/

  On 9/2/2015 at 3:03 PM, AWW said:

do not educate me to ever understand how one could allow children suffer, that is a mind-set I never want to consider.

do not educate me to ever understand how my fallacies are completely off topic, that is a mind-set i never want to consider.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV927k6PQ_c

story

from feudalism to decadence minus the civilization stages

Arby's restaurant employees refuse service to a police officer bc he's a cop. Yeah but who do they call whe they're in trouble? I hope they're fired.

http://fl-pembrokepines.civicplus.com/ArchiveCenter/ViewFile/Item/333

that dead kid washed up on that idyllic Turkish beach today

question - how many refugees is America taking?

all the south Med nations are passin the buck/blaming bs,

what a disgrace to the human race, i'm forced to act

the xenophobia, the management games

no-one is really talking about 1 of the most challenging human situations since Vietnam or potentially Ethiopia in the mid 80's

has the planet taken a vast narcissism pill? am i too stoned?

  On 9/2/2015 at 2:04 AM, chenGOD said:

Has this been posted already? Worth watching again, fucking fantastic.

 

flol

  On 9/2/2015 at 10:04 PM, cwmbrancity said:

that dead kid washed up on that idyllic Turkish beach today

 

question - how many refugees is America taking?

 

all the south Med nations are passin the buck/blaming bs,

 

what a disgrace to the human race, i'm forced to act

 

the xenophobia, the management games

 

no-one is really talking about 1 of the most challenging human situations since Vietnam or potentially Ethiopia in the mid 80's

 

has the planet taken a vast narcissism pill? am i too stoned?

Are you talking refugees from Syria? As of August, I think the US had taken in around 1,000. Current numbers of refugees from Syria is somewhere around 4.1 million.

The vast majority have gone to Turkey, then Lebanon (whose population really cannot take that kind of influx), and Jordan.

http://data.unhcr.org/syrianrefugees/regional.php

Germany is looking to ramp up numbers.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/02/refugees-welcome-uk-germany-compare-migration

  On 9/2/2015 at 10:56 PM, chenGOD said:

 

  On 9/2/2015 at 10:04 PM, cwmbrancity said:

that dead kid washed up on that idyllic Turkish beach today

 

question - how many refugees is America taking?

 

all the south Med nations are passin the buck/blaming bs,

 

what a disgrace to the human race, i'm forced to act

 

the xenophobia, the management games

 

no-one is really talking about 1 of the most challenging human situations since Vietnam or potentially Ethiopia in the mid 80's

 

has the planet taken a vast narcissism pill? am i too stoned?

 

Are you talking refugees from Syria? As of August, I think the US had taken in around 1,000. Current numbers of refugees from Syria is somewhere around 4.1 million.

The vast majority have gone to Turkey, then Lebanon (whose population really cannot take that kind of influx), and Jordan.

 

http://data.unhcr.org/syrianrefugees/regional.php

 

Germany is looking to ramp up numbers.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/02/refugees-welcome-uk-germany-compare-migration

 

So far the UK has taken in a whopping total of 216 people. No, I did not miss off any zeroes

  On 9/2/2015 at 11:02 PM, Timothy Forward said:

 

  On 9/2/2015 at 10:56 PM, chenGOD said:

 

  On 9/2/2015 at 10:04 PM, cwmbrancity said:

that dead kid washed up on that idyllic Turkish beach today

 

question - how many refugees is America taking?

 

all the south Med nations are passin the buck/blaming bs,

 

what a disgrace to the human race, i'm forced to act

 

the xenophobia, the management games

 

no-one is really talking about 1 of the most challenging human situations since Vietnam or potentially Ethiopia in the mid 80's

 

has the planet taken a vast narcissism pill? am i too stoned?

 

Are you talking refugees from Syria? As of August, I think the US had taken in around 1,000. Current numbers of refugees from Syria is somewhere around 4.1 million.

The vast majority have gone to Turkey, then Lebanon (whose population really cannot take that kind of influx), and Jordan.

 

http://data.unhcr.org/syrianrefugees/regional.php

 

Germany is looking to ramp up numbers.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/02/refugees-welcome-uk-germany-compare-migration

 

 

So far the UK has taken in a whopping total of 216 people. No, I did not miss off any zeroes

 

That's from March 2014 - the new program significantly reduced the number of asylum seekers. UK has taken in about 5,000 Syrian refugees since 2011. Still not a really justifiable number, considering the resources at the country's disposal.

Of course, Canada isn't any better, especially under Harper (who got called the Last Neocon in a recent Foreign Policy article). Shameful shit.

Do you know the statistics for crime committed in Canada, perpetrated by Somalian refugees?

I'm not saying we don't have a duty, but it complicates mine (and probably many other peoples) opinion when refugees come to our country and then commit a high proportion of crime (particularly violent and/or drug related).

  On 9/3/2015 at 12:15 AM, StephenG said:

Do you know the statistics for crime committed in Canada, perpetrated by Somalian refugees?

 

I'm not saying we don't have a duty, but it complicates mine (and probably many other peoples) opinion when refugees come to our country and then commit a high proportion of crime (particularly violent and/or drug related).

No, and you don't either, because while StatCan does collect some fairly detailed statistics on crime, race is not one of those stats (except for aboriginals, we're still racist as shit towards them).

The Somalis (and refugees/migrants from other countries) that come to Canada face systemic challenges you or I could never dream of (that's cause of our stupid as fuck outdated laws on recognizing qualifications from other countries). Also it helps to realize that refugees make up about 1% of the population of Canada. I'll be getting the stats from immigration Canada sometime this month so I'll be able to give that to you in some more detail then if you care. So while some of them might fall into the drug trade (ever done a line of coke? Some Somalis in Alberta deal coke cause they can't find good work - so they meet a different kind of market demand) - their overall numbers of violent crimes is way below what it is for Canadians. It's just a numbers thing.

In the mean, Canada continues to flush its international reputation down the toilet under Harper's watch:

http://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2013/12/23/how_have_refugees_become_canadas_new_boogeyman.html

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/why-so-many-somali-canadians-who-go-west-end-up-dead/article4365992/?page=all

http://www.ucobserver.org/justice/2015/05/somali/

You're not telling me anything I don't know boss.

Even though the problems are largely systemic, more refugees = more crime.

Edit: also my comment RE Somalian's specifically was largely a result of my observations here in Calgary. Several high profile incidents over the last few years. It's largely known that there are huge Somali gangs in Toronto as well.

Sorry, my post probably came across as a bit rude, I did mean it with a bit tongue in cheek.

There is no evidence to back up the assertion that more refugees brings more crime in Canada.

While refugees are only a small part of total immigration, what we do know is that as immigration has increased, crime has gone down.

http://www.cifar.ca/arrival-of-the-fittest-canadas-crime-rate-is-dropping-as-immigration-increases-is-there-a-connection

Canada used to be respected on the world stage - not so much now.

http://www.vancouversun.com/life/Detained+refugees+treated+worse+than+criminals+lawyer/10158286/story.html