Random Politics & Religion #00

I don't think Greece was harmed by the EU to be honest.

That's like blaming the ship for the 100 ton weight sinking it.

In other words, it's just easier to make ***up, and pretend reality doesn't exist beyond our own 2 eyes, or that empty space between some people's heads (plural, because in case they be a hydra)

Italian Prime Minster Matteo Renzi, the youngest leader in Europe, faces a national economic morass that, if not decisively addressed in the coming months, could bring down the entire 17-nation eurozone.

Indeed, if he does not tackle the staggering national debt and woeful unemployment numbers, Italians this time next year could find themselves back using the lire – and the Germans marks, French francs, Spanish pesetas and Dutch guilders too.

When the 89-year old president of Italy, Giorgio Napolitano, announced this week that he is stepping down soon because of his age, he urged Italians to embrace something that has always been in short order here: national unity and trust in each other and in Italy’s institutions.

Giannelli, the cartoonist of the Corriere della Sera, could not help but comment on the symbolism of the departure of Napolitano, who it depicted throwing a crown over his head that was caught by a smiling Renzi, who turns just 40 on Jan. 11. “Grazie, Giorgio!” Renzi exclaims in the cartoon.

Napolitano’s looming departure creates an immediate political quandary for Renzi: Can he bring Italy’s famously fractious political factions together to choose an acceptable presidential successor? If he navigates that battle successfully, there may hope for the coming war to remake the Italian economy and reduce its out-of-control debt, which stood at 132.6 percent of GDP in 2013 and is expected to hit 138 percent for 2014. Forcing it off its steady rise is the largest job of the center-left government: and a grinding, horrible, unpopular one it will be.

In a recent press conference, Renzi said that 2015 would be the critical year for Italy. He admitted that there was “a sense of worry, of weariness, of mistrust” but said that “the word for 2015 is the same as that for 2014 — rhythm, to give the idea of change and urgency, to do everything possible so that Italy again plays its proper role in the world.”

The many pessimists grumble that in his 10 months in office, he hasn’t hauled Italy out of the mire. But on the other hand, he’s giving it a good shot.

One of which includes my sister's boyfriends, who openly admits police should have the right to enforce capital punishment without due trial if by some measure, someone calls them guilty.

I do not live under such a grand delusion as to believe I could save all people, particularly with some conspiracy theory ***, that would make even the most extreme conspiracy nuts look sane enough to hold onto the cash register at taco bell.

I've met a few people I've written off as "The Unsaveables".

One of which includes my sister's boyfriends, who openly admits police should have the right to enforce capital punishment without due trial if by some measure, someone calls them guilty.

Was a typo, meant to be singular "boyfriend", not "boyfriends", but she's had a few who've believed that kind of crap.

I've had discussions in which people argue that we should just gas the entire prison population right here and now.

why stop there!?!?

let's just gas everyone, & be done with this shitshow.

Don't make me gas you with cow farts!

why stop there!?!?

let's just gas everyone, & be done with this shitshow.

I don't think Greece was harmed by the EU to be honest.

That's like blaming the ship for the 100 ton weight sinking it.

Austerity was imposed by the EU and the IMF.

Oh wait, you probably think austerity works.

there are a lot of Judge Dredd fans out there...

Judge Dredd is historically real.

In other words, it's just easier to make ***up, and pretend reality doesn't exist beyond our own 2 eyes, or that empty space between some people's heads (plural, because in case they be a hydra)

Sad thing is what i posted was actual facts, it is just pure ignorance to not care about it.

I do not use substance i never said Herbert hoover was a Nazi but i did say he helped support them which is fact.

Henry Ford received Hitlers highest medal of honor to foreigners for helping produce thousands of trucks used in the war.

Prescott Bush helped Hitlers rise to power by being a financial backer here in the U.S as a Directer and shareholder of companies that profited from their involvement with the financial backers of Nazi Germany.

It was so effective that my own government had to seize Prescott Bushes company's assets.

Welcome back Nausi,

How was your ban vacation?

Again, where's your proof? This one should be very easy to prove, and yet, you offer none. Again, opinionated (and conspiracy theory) youtube videos are not proof.

Interview: Ford's Anti-Semitism

Haven't backread all of Lordgrim's statements and assuredly many-to-most are utter nonsense. But Ford was a pretty powerful antisemetic presence in the United States who had connections to Nazi Germany.

Where's the medal of honor? Where are the vehicles (since the majority, if not all, of the vehicles made for German use was BMWs, not Fords)? Where is the picture of Hitler presenting it to Ford?

In certain instances, American managers of both GM and Ford went along with the conversion of their German plants to military production at a time when U.S. government documents show they were still resisting calls by the Roosevelt administration to step up military production in their plants at home.

Henry Ford's connections to Nazi Germany are well known, how did this subject come up and why is even being questioned? Or am I better off knowing?