TottsSome of you are too young to remember when we found the 'black gold' in the North Sea ....
Knut 🏳️🌈 🇳🇴🧸@Geri As someone looking to immigrate there, it is really a cool system. The important things the government controls, but there is still a lot of room for fun innovative things. Norwegians are fearless because they can try new things, and if they fail, they fail. It's not the end of the world. It's just money. It's paper. People don't starve because of failure. If they will starve because of failure, then government controls it.
Chris Real"People don't starve because of failure . . ."
Oh, it's the same here in the U.S.—if you're rich to begin with.
Thank you for giving us an example of a good thing that exists and is real. Maga only promises things that they say are GOING to happen, if ONLY we all BELIEVE. In two weeks!!
@_chris_real @Geri There have been some really cool Norwegian companies that have succeeded (Vivaldi, and Jolacloud are two), and some flaming cat turds too. As long as you pay back your creditors, the government is like "hey, Norwegian ingenuity can't win all the time. Better luck next time" and some try again. With the same people. It's not devestating. Progress is iterative, but progress should always be beneficial regardless. Not destructive.
@_chris_real @Geri Yup! Vivaldi is a Norwegian company.
@_chris_real @Geri Just kinda wish we were going through a cool goth phase and not a Nazi skinhead phase though....
Not to be argumentative, but as countries go, we are the oldest DEMOCRACY since the Greeks (who were only democratic to a point).
Upon encountering a nihilist who is simply treating the U.S. as an asset he needs to liquidate to weaken to allow him to make his qetaway, future leaders need to make MASSIVE revisions to the deeply flawed U.S. constitution, or accept the fact that we are a legacy government ripe for raiding.
@_chris_real @Geri I don't think the Constitution is flawed as much as the style of government that it is dictating is. Republicanism is a failed system of government. Parliamentary systems are far better, and have consistently shown to be less corrupt. I think the American experiment of a federal republic is a failure, not necessarily the document guiding it.
My view:
1) the founders were deeply against rule by political parties. Yet here we are.
2) The Electoral College is no longer a solution for anything. We will remain a democratic farce until it is abolished.
3) Gerrymandering is a direct result of clever racists gaming the Electoral College. So . . .
4) Slavery was never REALLY abolished, with that short phrase " . . . EXCEPT as a condition of involuntary servitude" in the amendment purporting to END slavery. So now our slavery is corporate.
Nothing will change until these wrongs have been righted.