Rusty Shackleford

Settle down, tough guy.

Citizens and residents of the United States don’t deserve to be exploited by foreign billionaires, to keep in context to the comment you originally responded to.

What you said is implies a justification for the exploitation of the “American poor” (OP’s words) due to or for the “karma for the last century” (your words). If we replace “karma”, with “comeuppance” or “consequences” to keep in line with the “American context”, it still sounds stupid.

So once again, to be clear without sarcasm, an entire nation of millions of people who trace their identities and heritages from every corner of the planet don’t deserve said exploitation from both domestic and foreign billionaires.

As an aside, the “American definition” of karma comes from an incorrect definition from the first British translation of the Bhagavad Gita in 1785 during their colonial occupation of India by Sir Charles Wilkins. I commented about it because of how stupid it sounded to me, given my background and understanding of its concept.

Is this where I say, “NEXT”?

Who needs to pivot?

If we’re playing the game of false equivalencies, my sarcasm said everything that needed to be said about your blithe presumptions about “karma” for entire nation of people.

Also, “karma” doesn’t actually mean “comeuppance”, or “consequences”; it means (roughly) “work”.

Source: I have Northwestern Brahmin Indian blood, and was made to thoroughly study the Vedas, Puranas, Ramayan, Mahabharat (and the Bhagavad Gita contained within it).

Ooooh, I remember this game!

Yes, we average Americans are certainly guilty of the sins of previous generations.

Even first generation Americans, who are children of immigrants, like me, and had no choice in where they were born.

Naturally, we are de facto guilty of everything some rich assholes and our government’s policies have done to the world, and we must pay for it with our lives and livelihoods.

Oh, also, none of the contributions in the sciences, arts, and literature from normal Americans ever made life better for people around the world.

We are a cancer upon the planet and must be exterminated. It’s just “our karma”. We americans are bad and deserve all the bad things in life.

Am I doing it right?

Indian American boomers

I should clarify.

I’m an American not of European descent. I’m not “white”. I’m perfectly aware that I live in a country (one of several) that enslaved my people during the colonial era of western Europe.

When I was growing up in the eighties and nineties, my impression was that Europe’s lower and middle classes had largely evolved past the marriage of conservative economics, might-makes-right, and “fuck-the-brown-people-if-they-get-too-much-money” thinking behind. I’m certainly aware that “god, glory, and gold” did not start in the United States.

When I moved to the EU, in the Netherlands, I was right about my estimation but I was taken aback by some people’s parroting the conservative religious nationalist talking points that’s destroying the US currently. It’s just that it was much more than I expected.

It never stops.

Once the “others” outside of the tribe have been eradicated, the various sub-groups within the tribe will take the place of the “other”, and so on, and so forth.

Conservatism is a cancer.

Like an EMP deployed at ICE staging areas?

And you have full governance of your data.

Daaaaaaaaryl

Nothing will meaningfully change until the wealthy fear for their lives.

In professional wrestling, who was the Undertaker’s manager dude with the makeup and goofy voice?

That’s Bannon.

And then China, Western Europe, and Russia invade the United States after it initiates massive, aggressive wars to bolster its flailing economy?

And then both sides launch nuclear weapons to end it all?

Is this the accelerationist argument?

Eisenhower was a Republican and he used social programs to build the US interstate highway system and the infrastructure necessary for the predecessor to our modern airport infrastructure and space program.

The highest top marginal tax rate during Dwight D. Eisenhower’s presidency (1953-1961) was 91%, which applied to the highest income bracket. (Note: In 1952 and 1953, the top rate was 92%, dropping to 91% for 1954–1963.)

So, upon reading the article, the NTSB concluded the driver was extremely fatigued.

Do truck drivers not get tired where your from? Is this incident really an indictment of the entire United States? Is the rest of the world a tragedy-free paradise?

The first definition of alien is “foreign”, not “extraterrestrial”.