its like bro just get guns lmao

But since it's CNN, its all right

Of course.

thats because nobody listens to CNN anymore when it comes to this

Funnily enough, CNN's branch in Indonesia is one of the few most neutral news outlet for us.

lol

They have competent journalists and casts here

Thats totally possible, they probably work more or less independent

brb moving to Indonesia for the fair press coverage

Tbh, press coverage here is somewhat fair (when you're talking about national news networks)

#votePrabowoSubianto

Although the infrastructure in Indonesia is far from good

Not a fan of prabowo tbh.

you don't need much infrastructure for good journalism in current year anyway

New order didn't fancy my taste

better than Joko 👍

Not really, both candidates have their own demerits

A New New Order honestly looks better than a Liberal Democracy given the state of West rn

that's true

Prabowo is not the Hero we need, but the one we Deserve 😂

New new order backed by religious extremists and oligarchs? Thanks, but no thanks

like Russia!!!

Russia is awesome

uhhh

Indonesia will be the Russia of the South

yeap that broke my sarcasm counter

In a couple of years he will annex Malaysia and Brunei

It will be Great

Very unlikely for us to break peace with ASEAN nations, stormtrooper

A man can dream

mostly because i dont think indonesia has the force projection

If you even remotely understand international relations

I just want to see the dream of Indonesia Raya be fulfilled

Lol

lol

Not with that guy

Singapore will get into the mix

Singapore will be the Capital

gotta watch out for those micro nations

they're the small dogos of the international community

Soon, maldives will rule Asia

Lol jk

in that they bark a lot

honestly Putrajaya is a beautiful capital city

Interesting data on global emissions

I've been to Singapore. Lovely place but so expensive.

Nah, solomon island will somehow annex everyone

national review has an interesting bit about sweden

Singapore is expensive because tourists go to all the touristy areas

By lovely, you mean, a surveillance state ruled by an authoritaroan autocrat?

@oprahsminge what's it about??

put it in newsroom

it talks about misconceptions the left and right have about the country

I meant good place to visit not to live

@oprahsminge can you give a gist if you read the whole thing?

i like, at least in theory, the idea behind their version of social security

deregulation

Singapore is a great place to live tbh, just that your voting doesn't really matter

basically it talks about the rather unique circumstances that allow sweden to be sweden in terms of the way it runs

they benefit from being a relatively low population country that has a very deep interpersonal trust

on economic issues they are further right than the american right

in some ways at least

theres a film coming out called "Sweden: Lessons for America?"

I may need to watch this

based on the description there's a few things that simply wont work here

some of these things require trust of government which americans simply don't have

as much as the left pretends they do

Sweden is becoming more America like right now, so they won't work over there either for much longer

thats the problem in most of western EU countries

not the solution

people putting way to much trust in government

@AdorableStormtrooper yes but we have a couple issues that we may be able to glean some ideas from

they reformed their original pension system

they partially privatized it

now ultimately I want that entire system here gone

but as a kind of intermediate step to remove it, that isn't a terrible idea

i agree with that

thats interesting

public pensions are cancer

in addition, they made them variable

it's a ponzi scheme

so the amount paid depends on the state of the economy

they gonna have to do that over here as well i think

the person interviewed say "while it may not be as generous now as it was, at least we know it will survive."

economically, they are rated as a more free and open economy than america

it can be done over a long time so current pension receivers and people who are just about to become eligible aren't affected, people who haven't paid into the system, their shit should be privatised

i mean just imagine being 50+ and suddenly getting told that this pension you worked all your life for, paying huge amounts of taxes for.
Well you gonna get less now AND you gonna have to work longer as well!
Were very sorry 😃

that is what happened here btw

its not a hypothetical

ive accepted that im going to pay into the system and not expect to get anything

though tbh whatever SS can do for me wont really matter since my current retirement plan that is private will pay me several times it

ah so ur one of the smart guys 😛

they privatize over a long time i think don't they? i think they proposed that in NZ, and the proposal was that people who are aged over 40 will not be affected

this is why, the sooner you do it, the lower the blow

@tritrium not really. I mean social security isn't exactly a high pay system as it is

I worked with a guy when I was 22 who was near retirement and he said, "Social Security isn't going to pay me enough to continue living here. So I'm going to supplement it with a part time job"

well thats true pensions arent very high here either

at that point i realized that "if this guy is boned, I'm definitely going to be boned"

so i made some choices

the more rightwing parties here keep bitching about unemployment payouts

and how they need to cut on those

but when u look at the numbers, it barely even shows up in the total budget figures

Welfare needs to go anyway, charity should be a private affair

cutting unemployment is not necessary

he talks about the other EU countries being stupid for trying to mimic sweden

basically they are taxing their populace and businesses to death

and regulating them to death

What is necessary is the formation of public support to tackle longer term issues

what do you mean @Blackhawk342

I mean that parties need to stop focusing on minutia and start having debates about the long term

i wonder how simple the swedish tax system is?

For the left, stop harping on LGBTQQIIAA2SP+ issues

For the right stop nagging people about abortions and unemployment

LGBTQIAAACO-OP

Political Parties in a Democracy will never talk long term because that's not how the incentives are set up

if you're ubisoft

@Timcast can you release videos at 5pm instead of 6pm ? 6pm is midnight here and I often have to postpone watching your videos in order to not be sleep deprived at work 😉 I will understand if you can't.

ah ur talking about the stupid navel gazing

They're only elected and running for the next 5 years and the public doesn't care about the long term

they want shit NOW

Thats because the public doesnt care yes

@Blackhawk342 I will not stop nagging people about abortions when they ask me if I support them

if they don't ask, I wont talk typically

Which is why its necessary to rally public support for those issues

@oprahsminge if its anything close to the belgian one, its ridicilously confusing but dont take the belgian stuff as a standard, everything is confusing here

When I say nagging i dont mean debate or discussions

I mean stop having campaigns about it, stop letting it take up air time

Abort Leftist Babies

that's not going to happen

though I don't control it

obviously

If there's a Will, There's a Way

Hence the need to rally public support for long term not just the short term

short term support is how you end up with flint michigan situations

#AbortLeftistBabies

my dude, democracy doesn't lend itself to long term solutions

tbf if the leftists continue to be single and not produce children, only the right wing will remain

so in a generation, they'll be extinct

not currently it doesnt

not atleast in the public's interests

because the public is in charge and they typically dont think long term

most of them dont think a year ahead and anything beyond four years is unheard of

All the left needs to do is to stop with the negative, destructive message and find something positive and new.

then de-incentivize the federal politics and re-incentivize the state politics

if you want longer term strategy

Local long term political focus will save the world

Not sporadic federal level pushes every 4 years

it has to start local

yup

what works in michigan won't necessarily work in florida

no

How can you promote smaller, more local government while still being in a federal union?

but i still think we shouldn't give up on banning abortions, it's a scourge on the society

@Inquisition ?

great now were back to square one

That's what the country did for practically a hundred years

Your country. 😛

it was that way it was until 1950's

local governments Everywhere matter a lot in most people's lives whether they realize or not

but look, for various reasons people here cant stand our government and think theyre completely disconnected from the public.
But at the same time they seem to think that way bigger much further away government (EU) will solve all our problems.
Its very weird

Muh womens rights muh murder etc

I'm not super up on US political history.

@Inquisition our federal government wasn't built to do most of the shit it does now

allow free abortions and free sterilization procedures for single left leaning women so they can forever be promiscuous and never reproduce

thats because the government is an arcane insitution

how is Belgium still a country

certainly not imo

the average person has no idea how it functions

let France and Netherlands annex you

>netherlands

@Blackhawk342 yeah but the average person in any country doesn't actually understand how their gov works

go reclaim some more water you swamp germans

lol swamp germans

lol

in most Western Countries, US, UK, Germany.. local Govt's matter just as much if not more to most people than the federal government

Municipal local?

in US, if you're able to control city, district level, district Court and school board Politics, you have a lot of power

I don't know about that, in Canada at least.

governors trend Republican don't they?

this is the stuff for what Leftists organize and everybody else doesn't

Once the elections are over, nobody thinks about municipal governments

@AdorableStormtrooper you're in Indonesia, right? Did you felt the earthquake just now?

duh, why do you think they wanted to let illegals vote for school board?

@Der Kommissar I'm in Singapore m8, you good?

@Der Kommissar we keep telling you to stop sitting on the vibrator

From there it becomes "shouldnt they have the right to vote in other district elections?"

Then shortly after "shouldnt they have a voice in the state government?"

^

@AdorableStormtrooper all good in my city, but idk about where the epicenter is

Followed by "they need to be able to have a say in the national government, its the same reason for the american revolution"

@Der Kommissar you in Java?

Yep

The epicenter is in Bali, it seems

I hope my friends there is safe

@Blackhawk342 And this is why federalism is so essential.

When California gives illegal aliens the franchise, it can only be allowed to affect two senate seats.

(and the electoral footprint of California)

This local school board and district judge and city politics is really what dissident movements on the right and center should be focusing on

Californians like to think they're ahead of the country by a decade

I really really dont want to live in california

nobody will care that much about it to focus the national media and call y'all Nazis

theyll do it anyway

Some Californians are ahead of the country by a decade, it's just they don't realize that they are so because the _actual_ progress moved faster than the state could suppress it.

People have been calling the republicans nazis since 2006

it's much harder though

and people don't care as much after a few times

thats the point of the media exhaustion strategy trumps doing

im a pretty great nazi tbh

keep saying and doing outrageous things and eventually no one will care

The state's recent moves imply that they are ready to suppress actual progress (in the economy and private lives of Californians) faster than Californians can make their lives better.

the state of california has been slowly destroying their own economy over years

It is now illegal in California for a man to incorporate a company alone, period.

They'll all move to Texas when Texas goes blue

and, shocker, the only people doing well are executives and celebs

everyone else is getting put below the line to be able to live in even a one bedroom apartment. Of course that depends on where you are in Cali apparently

@AdorableStormtrooper based on latest polling, it aint gonna go blue this time

well eventually

beto fell further behind Cruz

which he fuckin should

@AdorableStormtrooper Texas is somewhat stayed against this kind of nonsense, due to their unique structure.

@AdorableStormtrooper They defer a _lot_ to the counties.

California used to be very Republican too before the Demographic Shift, idk if it will be different with Texas, we can hope i suppose

Voter ID would help a lot.

And a citizenship question on the census.

@xorgy the more i read about texas, the more i love it

Yeah, it's NH or TX for me, when I get around to moving USward.

Possibly both, I guess.

are you european?

not sure why voter id is such a huge fighting point in the US
canada and provincial elections require either the voter card + id (medical/drivers license/passport) or bill with name + id

@oprahsminge I'm Canadian, but I have U.S. citizenship.

oh thank god

@Tornzy It's because the American left is packed with horrible racists, and they'll believe anything if it means they get to think less of blacks without feeling guilty about it or looking bad to their friends.

Voter ID is an issue for the democrats because they want illegals to vote.

Voter ID is a huge fighting point because Fraud Voters/Illegal Voters will be a huge base for the Democratic Party

@Tornzy Combination of soft racism and voter fraud being a big part of certain party action.

That's the whole point of the Amnesty Push that's eventually gonna come again

ugh

pls no

Remove Amnesty

holy fuck man. Yeah fuck amnesty

welp, u damn well know it's coming during a Democrat Administration as "Immigration Reform"

I mean, criminal amnesty would be reasonable (but no voting rights) if something drastic were done, and a commitment were made to reject future entrants aggressively.

they're already asking for abolition of ICE, they will do whatever it takes to get to power, even if they have to import voters

i.e. Amnesty registrations close in Jan. 2019, and bye-bye goes anyone who didn't register.

Completely stop issuing the papers at that point.

Put ads in the newspapers of every major south and central american country

so that nobody can tell you that they didn't know.

it's millions of people who are not getting deported anytime soon, they said no more amnesty last time and here we are

once you have a huge number of people in the country, it's really hard to get them out, especially when one of your major parties craves them as a voter base

@xorgy amnesty is only pertaining to illegals. Not to what I think you're talking about