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originally posted by: Semicollegiate
a reply to: pl3bscheese
Only economic growth can reduce poverty.
originally posted by: Cuervo
It's not for the sake of change. It's for the sake of being human and treating others like we give a # about them. Because most of us actually do. Our little cities we live in are not the world.
originally posted by: tsurfer2000h
a reply to: xuenchen
And yet poverty and crime and war keep getting worse with every generation.
You can thank growth for that, but you do know this has happened all throughout human history.
originally posted by: TheLaughingGod
a reply to: Cuervo
Because the progressivism which is pushed is arbitrarily defined by a generally liberal self-organizing consensus that is always moving the goalpost.
Liberals are forever useful tools to any totalitarian, it's in their DNA.
Ted Kaczynski was right about technology, you'd have us being preyed upon by AI or other negative forces. Also, don't you know Earth is a farm? Didn't they teach you that at Hogwarts?
Maybe I teach you the destruction forms, perhaps then you would understand.
Know that you are dealing with Dharmapalas of the three times, lest you forget.
Nice avatar by the way, very witchy.
originally posted by: xuenchen
Something new and fresh is brewing at the United Nations.
Something they are calling Agenda2030.
Big meetings coming in September.
Big changes worldwide on the grill.
There's many goals and objectives, mostly probably UNattainable.
How will they achieve this massive undertaking?
What kind of massive force and authority will be necessary?
In September 2015, Agenda 21 Will Be Transformed Into The 2030 Agenda
Just a few days ago, the core document for the 2030 Agenda was finalized. When what is in this document starts getting out, it is going to create a huge stir among Americans that are concerned about the ambitions of the globalists. The following comes from the preamble of this document…
This Agenda is a plan of action for people, planet and prosperity. It also seeks to strengthen universal peace in larger freedom. We recognise that eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is the greatest global challenge and an indispensable requirement for sustainable development.
originally posted by: xuenchen
Something new and fresh is brewing at the United Nations.
Something they are calling Agenda2030.
Big meetings coming in September.
Big changes worldwide on the grill.
There's many goals and objectives, mostly probably UNattainable.
How will they achieve this massive undertaking?
What kind of massive force and authority will be necessary?
In September 2015, Agenda 21 Will Be Transformed Into The 2030 Agenda
Just a few days ago, the core document for the 2030 Agenda was finalized. When what is in this document starts getting out, it is going to create a huge stir among Americans that are concerned about the ambitions of the globalists. The following comes from the preamble of this document…
This Agenda is a plan of action for people, planet and prosperity. It also seeks to strengthen universal peace in larger freedom. We recognise that eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is the greatest global challenge and an indispensable requirement for sustainable development.
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: darkbake
The problem I have is that we will be governed with a top-down, technocratic approach which means they will look at a bunch of numbers and make decisions based on a bell curve. They'll assume that since most people will fit inside their decision that they will be maximizing happiness across the board.
In that kind of one-size-fits-all situation, if you happen to be an outlier, it sucks to be you. You will find yourself left out.
What if you go to the doctor and the standard, approved treatment for you condition doesn't work for you? Odds are that no other options will be explored unless you fall into a category that makes you elite and highly valuable in some way. Otherwise, sucks to be you.
How about if you are lactose intolerant or gluten intolerant, but you fit outside the approved bell curve, so those choices are not available to you like they are now? Unless you are somehow elite, you'll just have to go through life sick until you wind up being useless to the greater good of the social collective and then they will let you curl up in a corner and die.
This is why it's so sinister to a lot of us. It is governance like we are all so many cogs to be ground down and discarded with new ones bred as needed and only as needed.
The question we ask is...who decides who is able to join the club of the elite, because they certainly are not going to reduce their level and quality of lifestyle and privileged? They will euthanase you before they do that.
However, it is possible to force an equilibrium between countries by lowering the level of lifestyle in Western countries, whilst at the same time, allowing poverty-stricken countries to develop.
originally posted by: xuenchen
a reply to: Quetzalcoatl14
oh that sounds reeeeel cooool.
thanks.