Decline of the western society #2

GarryB wrote:

Bill Cosby???

You are correct... not a pedo... just a sex criminal... more like Jimmy Savile....

GarryB wrote:Until the decision is overturned he is a sex criminal.

A problem with fame and money is that everyone will want to take some of that money from you... that is why the rich build such high fences around their gated communities.

higurashihougi wrote:Japan and South Korea have both horrible high level of gender inequality, but these country have negative birth rate. And suddenly the sexism party is dead silent, they don't want to point out the obvious fact that their male supremacy is worthless.

It is Goddamn hilarious.

flamming_python wrote:

Problem is AlfaT8, half of what you write might be true, but your solution is essentially to strip freedom of choice from half of humanity, in order to benefit the other half and prevent that "80% of women compete for 20% of the men" behaviour, that you allege is what's responsible for the drop in fertility rates

I'm sorry but when it comes to sexual dynamics, men and women are equal slaves to it. You might complain that men have it tough competing with each other for the top spots, but look at it from the other side; women are judged more by their physical appearance than their hard work, personalities or other qualities compared to men, and what's more they also have a shorter window during which to find a partner. Men have all the time in the world in comparison; men's attractiveness to women doesn't even peak until about 35 years of age.

flamming_python wrote:
The drop in birth rates is a result of a whole load of complex dynamics and factors, not just dating patterns and the process of actually finding a partner. Although when it comes to that too, even if most women have unrealistic expectations these days - something with which I'd definitely agree - a lot of men are also limp-fisted soyboy weaklings these days too, or have no fantasies whatsoever in life that they are prepared to put in the work towards. Do you think women want to get pregnant from these types of men? No, they'll always be looking for someone better and will put off having kids until then.
So it kind of balances out. Be masculine and you've already got a leg above half the competition. Take care of your physique and show you have a good work-ethic, and you've already got a leg above half the competition. How about putting men into camps in order to teach them some basic principles in life, and not letting them out until they get a passing grade; in addition to robbing women of some of their rights?

AlfaT8 wrote:@flamming_python

I just don't care anymore, i know westerners have made egalitarianism their absolute sacred cow, never to be questioned.

Why Canada decided to steal the Russian An-124, by Alena Zadorozhnaya for VZGLYAD. 06.11.2023.

Experts called the consequences of the arrest by Canada of the Russian An-124 "Ruslan".

The Canadian government has decided to arrest the Russian An-124 Ruslan transport aircraft a year and a half after the arrest. Prior to this, the plane was transporting humanitarian cargo in the form of covid tests from China to Canada. How will such a move by Ottawa affect commercial air travel, and what conclusions will other countries draw from this?

An-124 "Ruslan" was arrested by decision of the authorities, the Canadian Foreign Ministry said . Ottawa also determined the fate of the aircraft - as expected, it will be transferred to Ukraine to "compensate the victims of human rights violations, restore international peace and security, or restore Ukraine," RIA Novosti quotes . It is noteworthy that this decision was announced a few hours earlier by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Kiev, according to Reuters.

Russian Senator Andrey Klimov in his Telegram channel expressed confidence that Trudeau was the main beneficiary of the meeting in Kiev - and for this meeting a decision was made to arrest the aircraft. “Such political tourism gives a visible PR effect among fools who believe that these supposed leaders, traveling to Kiev and posing there against the backdrop of ancient Russian churches, old Soviet tanks with Ukrainian ribbons and slogans like “For Ukraine”, are doing something heroic “in the name of freedom and democracy,” he remarks ironically.

“Yes, Mr. Trudeau nevertheless paid Zelensky for participating in the Kiev political circus - he promised a “confiscated” Russian transport worker, a heavy-duty aircraft brazenly stolen from us,” the senator emphasized. “The plane arrived in Toronto on February 27, 2022, 120 minutes before the pirate authorities of Canada closed the sky for aviation flights from the Russian Federation,” Klimov concluded.

Russian Ambassador to Ottawa Oleg Stepanov also called the incident robbery and theft. According to him, the Trudeau regime has shown that the rule of law does not exist in Canada. Recall that the An-124 was the first Russian asset on which Canada is testing the “arrest and confiscation” sanctions mechanism. A plane carrying a humanitarian cargo of COVID tests from China was chartered by the Government of Canada and arrived in Toronto on February 27, 2022.

Later, the Russian company was forced to pay more than 100 thousand Canadian dollars (4.5 million rubles) for the parking of a cargo plane. It was noted that since the aircraft was detained, fines of more than a thousand Canadian dollars (about 50 thousand rubles) were regularly issued for each day of parking. A spokesman for Transport Canada explained that "an aircraft cannot fly into Canadian territorial airspace as it violates NOTAM [Notice to Aviators]."

An-124 Ruslan is the world's largest serial cargo aircraft. It was developed at the Antonov design bureau, and was produced in Kyiv and Ulyanovsk. A total of 56 such aircraft were produced, 36 of which were produced by the Ulyanovsk Aviation Complex. Since 2003, Russia has stopped producing the An-124, but the existing machines continue to be repaired - these aircraft can be maintained in a state of airworthiness until the end of the 2040s, recalls RT.

As noted in the expert community, a number of international commercial companies involved in air transportation have been monitoring the development of events around the Russian An-124 throughout the year. Now that the Canadian authorities have decided to arrest and transfer the aircraft to Ukraine, this will be a kind of signal for them -
if the host country does not like the policy of the state, their property can simply be confiscated without any compensation.

Moreover, the precedent can serve as an example for NATO countries, which will also be able to resort to similar actions. “The arrest of our An-124 Ruslan can only be regarded as theft of someone else's property. This is a Russian plane, there is nothing in it that would be produced in the West. He shouldn't have been sanctioned either. The ship was initially detained absolutely illegally. And now we are watching the next episode of this series – the seizure and transfer to Ukraine,” said Roman Gusarov, editor-in-chief of Avia.ru.

“This is made even more outrageous by the fact that we are talking about a unique machine. An-124 "Ruslan", of which there are a little more than a dozen left in the commercial sector, was built back in the Soviet Union. And now, in the literal sense of the word, they are trying to take away Russia’s national treasure,” the interlocutor emphasizes.

“I think that in this case it is not enough for us to pay attention only to the problems of a particular Volga-Dnepr company. Our Ministry of Foreign Affairs must react sharply to what has happened. I think the reaction should follow at a higher level. Canadians refer to their own invented restrictions. There are simply no legal grounds for the arrest, and even more so for the transfer of our vessel to Ukraine", the expert exclaims.

Volga-Dnepr is not even a state company, it is a private business. Why suddenly Ottawa violates all the laws that she herself promoted, recited and promised to abide by? But what about the right to private property, the inviolability of the contract, and so on? Are no institutions functioning now?” Gusarov adds rhetorically.
“Canadians are now acting against the humanitarian aspects as well. Let me remind you that the plane was carrying covid tests from China. The way the plane was originally chartered generally deserves special attention. At the time of the introduction of restrictions, the car was literally in the air. And he was forcibly imprisoned in Canada,” recalls the interlocutor: “We need to clearly understand who we are now forced to deal with. When Western countries need it, they can exclude any nation from the norms of international law.

Just as Hermann Goering once excluded Jews from the economic activities of Germany, so today the United States and its allies are trying to exclude Russia from the world economy.

“The decision on the possible transfer of the previously arrested aircraft to Ukraine could become an important precedent. So far, Russian assets and property have been frozen. The same was done earlier with other countries - the precedents of Iran and Iraq are known to us. But now we may face the confiscation of assets, which does not imply either their return to the owner or compensation for their value, ” adds Oleg Panteleev, executive director of the AviaPort agency.

“The demonstrative sanctions policy of the West is precisely based on intimidating those who disagree. Like, if you don’t obey, you will be deprived of many opportunities and get numerous problems,” he concluded, adding that other countries of the world would probably draw appropriate conclusions from this precedent.

https://vz.ru/politics/2023/6/11/1216139.html

GarryB wrote:
AlfaT8, if you think slapping your partner is OK I would be careful if I were you regarding what you ate and drank... some men have a proclivity to solving their problems with violence, well often women solve problems with poison, or getting a new young boyfriend to solve the problem of old husband or partner.

Play stupid games win stupid prizes.  

AlfaT8 wrote:Garry the white knight??

If the B gets into a fight where she knows she's gonna end up on the floor, then she only have herself to blame.

As for your example, there are plenty of women who get themselves into those bad boy relationships, oddly enough they don't use the feminist state to end it, weird?

Anyway, i find the stupid belief that women should never get hurt, utterly ridiculous, get out of line or do stupid sh%t (as you stated) win stupid prizes.    

The Sri Lanka debt nightmare in 2021 culminated in mass protest and the fleeing of the then president from the country.  But the debts remain.  Much has been made of the debt owed to China, claiming that China is the problem by driving poor countries into a ‘debt trap’.  But just 14% of Sri Lanka’s foreign debt is owed to China, while 43% is owed to private bondholders (largely Western vulture funds like BlackRock and banks like Britain’s HSBC and France’s Crédit Agricole). Another 16% is owed to the Asian Development Bank (over which the US has significant influence) and 10% is owed to the World Bank (dominated by the US as well). So “multilateral” debt really means debt owed to US-dominated institutions.

What is to be done?  Clearly, the first immediate measure is to cancel the huge debts built up by these poor countries.  The debts are the result of a weak world capitalist economy; corruption and mismanagement by local governments; and the rapacious squeeze on the resources and revenues by foreign lenders.

There is a significant concentration of holdings by a few major external creditors. Back in the 1990s the top-five external creditors accounted for 60% of total external credit to low-income countries and consisted mainly of multilateral and Paris Club creditors. As of end-2021, the concentration of the top-five external creditors had further increased, accounting for 75% of total external credit to LICs.  And the share of debt owed to the private sector has approximately doubled from 8% to 19%.  So if the IMF, World Bank and just a few key creditor countries agreed, the debts of the poor countries could be removed.  Will the Paris meeting do anything about this?  I doubt it.

Then there is the longer-term issue: the continual exploitation by the imperialist bloc, through their multi-national companies and financial institutions, of the labour of the Global South with the connivance of domestic corporations and governments of the local elite.  Without a total restructuring of the world economy towards collective ownership and planning under workers governments, the debt misery will continue.

higurashihougi wrote:
Stop the victim blaming. If you use violence against others then you are responsible for the damage they receive from such violence. In that case, whether they know or not know you are the violent type does not erase the fact that the damage is done and you are the one who cause it and have to shoulder the responsibility for what you do.

What the court care here is whether you have evidences to prove that your violence against them is justificable. Not about whether they know you are the violent type or not.

AlfaT8 wrote:"victim blaming"...

Women walks at night into dark alley with skimpy outfit, the F is she looking for?... answer, trouble.

AlfaT8 wrote:Read my lips, WOMEN are not above violence.