“Afraid of your neighbor’s dog? Never leave your room, add a harness to your bed and strap in, wear plate armor at all times”.
Not exactly practical.
There are ways to improve security without immobilizing yourself.
Blocking the widespread distribution and use of an app that sends personal and national data to a hostile government actively collecting and using that data to conduct digital and electoral attacks is not immobilizing, it’s a simple step with zero downside that safeguards hundreds of millions of people.
Keeping thieves and robbers from entering your house is not, ‘immobilizing yourself.’
The United States has over 3.5 million square miles of land area. Even if the border was completely sealed off with zero ingress or egress, and zero diplomatic or trade relations, with the resources on this land the country wouldn’t even miss a beat. There is enough oil in Texas to last for many centuries. Multiply that by the oil in the marcellus shale regions, the Pennsylvania shale regions, the Gulf, Alaska, the rockies, and there is enough oil to run the United states for several thousand years into the future. There are still megatons of gold and silver in the cascades, especially of California, and millions of acres of the world’s best cropland in the hearthland still sets fallow. There remains enough iron ore across America to cover the country with sky scrapers from coast to coast. The idea that America would be immobilized by taking care of itself instead of carousing around with the rest of the world is just silly.
Canada is in a similar resource situation, except for the arable crop land. They could make do with more livestock, having many millions of acres of graze land that is just laying fallow. Canada could also seal off its borders and in a thousand years from now still be going strong.
International relations is the cause of war, not the solution. The Internationalist aristocracy has access to all of our nations and instututions because of the stupid refusal of nations to secure themselves against economic and political invasion from without.
You’re arguing the international merits of “separate but equal” while ignoring how much the United States and other countries have benefited from open borders.
You are wrong top to bottom here on every short-sighted jingoist allegation.
I’m surprised you haven’t already trotted out the standard reactionary slurs like, ‘fascist’ or ‘Nazi’ or ‘snowflake’ or ‘racist’ or ‘colonizer’ or whatever you two party sewer system is spewing at the moment. Go ahead, get all the mindless reactionary twaddle speak out of the way …
Learn how to discuss a complex issue without trying to attack the character of others. Otherwise you will grow old in your ignorance and arrogant smugness.
“Afraid of your neighbor’s dog? Never leave your room, add a harness to your bed and strap in, wear plate armor at all times”.
Not exactly practical.
There are ways to improve security without immobilizing yourself.
Blocking the widespread distribution and use of an app that sends personal and national data to a hostile government actively collecting and using that data to conduct digital and electoral attacks is not immobilizing, it’s a simple step with zero downside that safeguards hundreds of millions of people.
@Varyk@sh.itjust.works
Keeping thieves and robbers from entering your house is not, ‘immobilizing yourself.’
The United States has over 3.5 million square miles of land area. Even if the border was completely sealed off with zero ingress or egress, and zero diplomatic or trade relations, with the resources on this land the country wouldn’t even miss a beat. There is enough oil in Texas to last for many centuries. Multiply that by the oil in the marcellus shale regions, the Pennsylvania shale regions, the Gulf, Alaska, the rockies, and there is enough oil to run the United states for several thousand years into the future. There are still megatons of gold and silver in the cascades, especially of California, and millions of acres of the world’s best cropland in the hearthland still sets fallow. There remains enough iron ore across America to cover the country with sky scrapers from coast to coast. The idea that America would be immobilized by taking care of itself instead of carousing around with the rest of the world is just silly.
Canada is in a similar resource situation, except for the arable crop land. They could make do with more livestock, having many millions of acres of graze land that is just laying fallow. Canada could also seal off its borders and in a thousand years from now still be going strong.
International relations is the cause of war, not the solution. The Internationalist aristocracy has access to all of our nations and instututions because of the stupid refusal of nations to secure themselves against economic and political invasion from without.
You’re arguing the international merits of “separate but equal” while ignoring how much the United States and other countries have benefited from open borders.
You are wrong top to bottom here on every short-sighted jingoist allegation.
I’m surprised you haven’t already trotted out the standard reactionary slurs like, ‘fascist’ or ‘Nazi’ or ‘snowflake’ or ‘racist’ or ‘colonizer’ or whatever you two party sewer system is spewing at the moment. Go ahead, get all the mindless reactionary twaddle speak out of the way …
Learn how to discuss a complex issue without trying to attack the character of others. Otherwise you will grow old in your ignorance and arrogant smugness.