Over 18, but he was the only one that doesn’t want to be there. He was scared but didn’t want to disappoint his father. That poor kid and his mother. Can’t imagine how she must feel. This is why being a good parent takes more than resources. I would never want a relationship with my kids where they felt pressured into doing something just to make me happy. I’d hope I’d make different decisions as a father if I was in that situation. My son openly tells me about his hesitant feelings towards an objectively dangerous trip, I’m not making him go at the very least. And I’m probably not going myself because me and my son can do something else together.

Texas… The most free state.

I’ll agree that we both are fare from the kind of individuals that would let millions die simply because a political land needed to be navigated.

My position is simply pretending as if those in power are doing everything in their ability to emancipate humanity, is the problem. The very same people who created this mess or sat bye while undue pain was caused are your heros? If you’re old with good and beneficial ideas? Definitely, get in politics! If you’ve been in politics for 40 years and haven’t been anti apartheid/genicide/colonization the whole time, then goodbye.

Lol when a toddler says 2+2=4 I say good job that is correct. But when a middle age man (I’m guessing) jumps on a comment thread and keeps trying to tell me 2+2=5, I call them out more strongly. I would 100% trust a 15 year old over current leadership. At least the 15 year old can hide behind not knowing and can be moved by the plees of the disenfranchised. António Guterres is old enough and powerful enough to lift millions of people up but he doesn’t… Why not? It’s because he’s been brought up in a system that directly benefiting him over others. And yes I 100% would vote younger individuals to be the head. Doesn’t mean they can’t still be advised by people that know the ends and out of the old ways.

No I didnt. Experienced and morally wrong just means they know but don’t care. And you want to talk maturity. A mature person wouldn’t play around with others lives so casually. 18 and right about human rights and equality, is no different than 100 and also right. But young and wrong just means that individual needs guidance and wisdom. A 100/80/60/40 year old and wrong. When we know particular things. We know universal Healthcare is the only reasonable way to keep your population healthy but we don’t because the wealthy political officials don’t care. Universal child care. Renewable energy. Income inequality. On and on. The older generations have proven they don’t care.

This. They honestly don’t care until birth rates declines and they realize there’s not going to be enough poor people around to keep the pyramid scheme going just ~20 more years.

Older generations created the problem. Expecting them to fix the society they built is a fools errand. Even the most progressive older generations aren’t willing to emancipate all of humanity.

I put zero weight in age. Right is right. Wrong is wrong. Age can be a bad thing when older generations got us here.

Honestly want her to be the Secretary General of the UN. Someone needs to push our international government bodies to be more assertive when dealing with human rights.

South China Sea??

Never heard of it… There’s a North Phillipine Sea.

Don’t buy American. Don’t buy Stellantis vehicles no matter what!

Absolutely. There are soooooooo many similarities, just with a futuristic twist. Rome refused to change with the times and other city states that modernized and welcomed new people did swimmingly. You can’t force everyone to conform to your ideology unless your ways are obviously better and easier to incorporate other influences into your own society. Look at the fall of Chinese dynasties. They tried so hard to stay isolated but (right or wrong how it happened) if they opened up and simply took the parts they needed (guns, boats capable of traveling oceans, and trains.) they would have done much better. Kinda like Japan. Japan messed up by picking a fight with the country they were learning from.

They literally have to be more shitty to make money. Side loading allows individuals to choose not to give their money and data to Google. Companies must grow year over year. It doesn’t matter if the growth is unnecessary, imaginary line must go up. So remove standard features and then charge a premium for that feature to return, or cut pay/benefits/hours, or layoffs. Those are what’s left for our corporations to grow. No new ideas. Just shit.

Ya that’s why I said China doesn’t care. Unlike the US which is actively destroying its chances of every having its own production. Taiwan will take its pound of meat on the way out.

China won’t get a damn thing if they invade. Taiwan has bombs strapped to every server, computer, and machine. The moment China steps one foot on the island, everything they are invading for goes up in smoke. It’ll cost them a million fighters lives for a bombed out island. Sadly, China isn’t going to let that stop them. They have 3 years to take the Taiwan while America continues to crumble under Trump. Right now I doubt our military is prepared for any boots on the ground war because Trump just insulted every general and military personnel.

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Optional… When profit is the main goal of society, is it really a option for those without gross amounts capital? Greece is suffering from a huge labor shortage, so this 13 hours bull will seep into every job eventually. Some wealthy person on high crunched the numbers and realized that the imaginary line on the graph won’t keep going up if everyday people don’t break their backs so those in power can have 7 homes and perverted sex island. The global economy is collapsing and all we can think of is to poor more gas in the fire.

If your culture can’t stand up to outside influence was it really that great? Also, the door to the world has been opened. There’s no closing that one it’s been open. So they’d rather crash into civil unrest because ignorant people have a hard on for the old days?

Ya but Greece is wanting 13 hours, 5 days a week, forever. Not the same thing. Even more so when Greece wealth inequality is just as bad as anywhere else.