You were raised right. There is no one who can tell you that you weren't raised the right way. It's not up for discussion.

You improved your lot, thanks to your own efforts & the education you were given.

You appreciate the efforts & all the problems your parents & your grandparents went through for you. You'll probably do the same for your children.

You're a credit to your generation. I salute you, young dude. You're very much deserving of Respect. Keep on representin'.

Just to be clear, because I couldn't tell from your post if you realised I was being sarcastic or not, yes I was.

It *is* mutually beneficial for us to do so. And there's very little we can do as isolated individuals.

Re your last sentence, wealth used to be tied to land, but nowadays people rarely exchange physical commodities, so transactions occur at whatever the current data transfer rate happens to be. We *desperately* need capital controls to protect nations from what has essentially become "economic aggression".

Oops, we're out of sync it seems... you might be looking at my other reply meanwhile, and were probably posting this while I posted that.

I'm not sure why you are following up with nationalism to what I wrote. Seems like a non sequitur to me. I'm cosmopolitan and pro integration and consider nationalism mostly a dead end. I'm one of those lunatics that would want to see United States of Europe in a much more federal model with clearly defined roles and responsibilities. Although for Europe I'd follow the Swiss model rather than the american one actually. Pipedream of course. It's all coming down.

Anyway, will try to answer you. Nationalism is a cause of the EU and EU is a cause of nationalism. But both of those miss the actual relevant causality IMO which as mentioned is the end of the Cold War. When I said the EU took the opportunity to affirm itself as a counter-pole to the US, don't you see how both French and German nationalism was a factor in that need to self affirm? The EU impulse was nationalism sublimated and camouflaged but never destroyed. The tensions and hierarchies between north - south and east - west were obvious if you were looking. And it was very obvious that cultural integration was never really pursued, from refusing to accept the obvious truth that english needed to be THE language (just look at us right now) and how educational standardization was implemented, focusing on form over substance.

So really, people have not become more nationalistic. People are just being more honest about what was always present, under the surface. European Nations took a nap, when they were relaxed, and they are waking up now because it's more and more clear to them that the EU is not doing what they want from it.

Oh, I see that you are still being pants on head retarded.
What exactly Russia wants from EU\Europe?
Capture it to...
-get people to fill our jobs with forced labor? We have own unemployment people.
-To generously give Europe jobs? We have own unemployment people.
-To send resources for free into captured territories? Um, what?
-to get European resources? Which ones Europe have which Russia doesn't?
-just because your people are cool to live with? Even Britain doesn't think so.
If Russia ever would become aggressive, it would be cheaper to wipe EU with nukes than spend time and lives on you. That's written in plain text in Russian defence doctrine. NATO forces in Eastern Europe is just a fertilizer.
The main reason NATO stays is just to divide billions of euros and dollars spending between political elite with the reason "spendings on national security". Spectacular fails like F-35 program just to back it up.

Have you ever questioned yourself - Turkey is NATO member, ISIS - attacks Turkey, just today Stambul bombing... and NATO still doesn't do anything against it. Shouldn't defence alliance protect their member? It's what NATO for.

Unlike Keynes, I view people like Hayek as practitioners of economic science. That's not to say that they're always right -- they aren't -- but I have great respect for the Austrian School's many critiques of crony capitalism, and the sham monetary systems that are it's underpinnings.

Everyones a racist these days, does it make you feel superior or what?
I have no idea what a Roma is but this is a basic, limited observation that you evidently dont like. Grow up.

I'm tired of people and their "Everyone is racist" bullshit! Speak for yourselves.

My motto: "Racism is stupid when there are so many perfectly good reasons to hate people on an individual basis."

And now that I think about it, what if some of you are right, and everyone is racist? How and when did that become an excuse!? WTF!? "Hey everyone is racist so I can just go on being a bigoted piece of shit with no worries and no motivation to educated and better myself!". BULLSHIT. Evolve or get the fuck off the planet.

Heh, this is so true. Why hate people for being black or white when you can hate them for being stupid instead? It's a much better reason, and completely independent of race, gender or religion.

Anyway, I came across this article (well, a comment from some random person on the Guardian apparently) that pretty much sums up exactly how I feel about what's going on right now.
It doesn't really matter how good or bad Brexit is for us in the future, right now it's going to do nothing but hurt us. And whoever is in the driving seat will get blamed. Cameron knew that, he knew how vilified Brown was for being PM when he was, why the hell would he stay in position (despite the Leave campaign begging him to) to oversee that when he never even wanted it?
Who ever becomes the next PM is basically going to commit political suicide.

Yes, and if you must hate, this is the proper way to do it. Otherwise it's just faulty generalization.

Libs gnash their teeth about racism just like religious nutters gnash their teeth about abortion. It's hard to tell them apart.

Nope.

This is more of a "taste your own medicine" kind of thing.

In fact, I'm pretty sure I mentioned how the term "racist" doesn't really mean anything nowadays, in this very thread, but I am too drunk to look for it now, thank heavens for sepll check.

As you can see, it was super effective, or whatever it is the pokémon kids say nowadays.

You see, pyjama skies, or whatever his name is, is one of those people that are full of hatred, so he turned that hatred against the evil du jour, namely the white male, even though he is one himself, under the misapprehension that would automatically make him a good person.

A Roma is a gipsy. Everyone knows what a gipsy is, but people like pyjama skies would never say such a thing because racist, or something.

When you look at his description of what the gipsies did, you have to wonder why he was being so careful with his wording. Anybody else would've called those people assholes, regardless of race, but not pyjama skies. No, a minority in his world can get away with everything, but if a white man sneezes, he should be crucified. After being flogged until the flesh was ripped out of his back.

Is a bit of consistency too much to ask? Aren't we all equal, including us crackas? Positive discrimination IS DISCRIMINATION.

If you don't let a honky off the hook for it, you shouldn't let anyone else, either. Consistency. We's all equal.
That's very racist & bigoted. Not to mention xenophobic.

Not everyone had the same chance to evolve as you did.

Racist.

science, education, not capitalism, is what rose billions of humans out of poverty. and indeed, we're already kind of blurring things, because, without that science and education, those billions would not exist. the last couple hundred years have been different thanks to the men of science, not the men of capitalism. capitalism has been doing the same thing for so many thousands of years.
http://www.andrewritchie.org/groundedlow.jpg

Phooey. An article based on a comment.

21st century, millennial "investigative" journalism at its finest.

I'm more concerned about another article link on that page, about one Kerry Ellis.

Is there a sex tape of some kind?

Does anyone know what the release is going to be tomorrow?