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@n8nrgim
I don't know exactly where you got this proposal, but a while ago I saw in the news that Andorra was prohibiting the foreigners from buying real state properties because of the high speculation that rose the housing prices in that country. If this is where you got this proposal, I've got to tell you that this ban is just temporal until the andorran government determines the new taxes for foreigners that buy or rent properties in Andorra.
The experience says that real state speculation is the main reason for the home prices rise, specially when some owners leave on purpose entire housing buildings empty just to increase artificially the rental prices. That's why several cities have applied high taxes to empty buildings, and in some cases these buildings are liable to be expropriated if they are left empty more than a year. But even so, it's impossible to stop the rental prices rise, specially in central areas where the supply is short and the demand high. As I said, if you put constraints to the market, you are going to spoil the economy because this is the typical recipe of socialist governments. Socialism has never worked in any part of the world, so please forget about it.
The experience says that real state speculation is the main reason for the home prices rise, specially when some owners leave on purpose entire housing buildings empty just to increase artificially the rental prices. That's why several cities have applied high taxes to empty buildings, and in some cases these buildings are liable to be expropriated if they are left empty more than a year. But even so, it's impossible to stop the rental prices rise, specially in central areas where the supply is short and the demand high. As I said, if you put constraints to the market, you are going to spoil the economy because this is the typical recipe of socialist governments. Socialism has never worked in any part of the world, so please forget about it.
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@n8nrgim
I'm not sure how the rich distort the housing market, I guess it's through the high demand of materials and workforce.
All the same, there is plenty of experience worldwide about how to make more affordable housing. I don’t know how it is in the US, but in other countries the only solution to build low cost houses is by delivering them unfinished so the poor can finish them according to their needs. It also helps the tax exemptions to reduce the house prices.
If you limit the amount of properties a person can buy you're limiting the work demand, then the poor people that work in construction will have less income. Putting limits to the economy is a lefty policy that I don’t suggest at all.
All the same, there is plenty of experience worldwide about how to make more affordable housing. I don’t know how it is in the US, but in other countries the only solution to build low cost houses is by delivering them unfinished so the poor can finish them according to their needs. It also helps the tax exemptions to reduce the house prices.
If you limit the amount of properties a person can buy you're limiting the work demand, then the poor people that work in construction will have less income. Putting limits to the economy is a lefty policy that I don’t suggest at all.
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@Tradesecret
Jesus did show. 2000 years ago. He will show up when he is ready. You want it now. But you are not really ready for him to come back yet? Because when he comes back - it will be too late for you. So don't wish for something you really don't want.
Yeah, all the sinners like us will burn in hell when Jesus the Christ show up in all of his glory to judge the world. Hahaha. But hey, Christians are not the arrogant sob that believe to hold the truth, right? 😁
You know what, deep down what you're really saying when you utter these words is that you wish the evil on us because you cannot put up with the fact that we don’t accept your nonsense, this is how dogmatic people behave. And if you could, you would turn this society back to the medieval times when everyone should obey the fucking dogmas of the church. Right? Now you know why Christians have been persecuted all this time.
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@Tradesecret
That's just bollox and you know that. Life is experience that is true. And Christianity doesn't stop you from enjoying life. It enhances blah, blah, blah...
you didn't address any of the experiences I mentioned. Do christians admit divorce? Remember that you said you are a libertarian, you know what libertarians think about marriage and divorce, I guess. You weren't clear either about swinger clubs or other safe forms of sex entertainment, do christians admit this kind of sexual experiences which is far from being unsafe as you put it? what about jerking off, how do christians of your church take on it? Do you think it's unsafe too? I met some christians that don't allow their wifes to work, how is it in your church? Are homosexuals admitted as christians? Man, so many questions to ask, but as far as I'm concerced christianity is dogmatic and dogmatism doesn't admit freedom to be yourself, so please just admit it and I will avoid to waste my precious time.
Of course you have beliefs. You are entitled to that - as are Christians. You think you have the truth - otherwise you'd think something else. In fact I would suggest that you are militant in your beliefs - you are the fundamentalist. Yet without the integrity to realise what you are doing. you shove your views down people's throats and then get all upset when someone challenges you. Christians do think they have the truth - and they are not ashamed of it. And there is no reason why they ought to be ashamed of it. Yet, what you seem to fail to realise is that tied up in this truth they hold is a very inescapable fact. they know they can't change someone else's views. They can't manipulate to follow Christianity - and more than that - they don't want to. The end is not their justification. And since you fail to grasp this concept - you fail to understand where they are coming from - and hence why you think it is about rules. I doubt that you will understand this - but there you go.
Lol. I don't think I have the truth, but you sure do. That's why I ask for the evidence of your bold assertions, unless you claim right now that yours are just religious beliefs.
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@Critical-Tim
Sometimes I believe you're actually an AI learning to be a human in this forum. 😁
Jokes aside, I think the root of a trauma in a rape is the intrusion in the sexual privacy of a person which is almost sacred in every human being. It's not even necessary a penetration to cause a trauma, I think it suffices an inappropiate touching of intimate parts like the vulva or the breasts. This is mostly traumatizing in children that are molested.
So, if you invade without authorization a sacred area of a person like his sexual privacy you will create either a trauma or a deep sense of humilation if it's the case of a raped man or in general of a strong person. The person might not like it, that's not the problem, hookers usually don't like the sex with their clients, what it's important is the permission and confidence to get into your sacred area.
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@Tradesecret
Do you know any Christians? Any that live a life like Flanders?
Yes, I do. Some of them are easygoing, but others are unbearable because they turn up as hypocrits and extremely bigots.
If you say you didn't meet any Christian like Flanders, I guess these Christians like to party, for example. I also guess that those Christians don’t mind cursing in their conversations which has nothing wrong, right? What about a threesome, did they have such experience? Or maybe a swinging party, that's pretty wild, aint it? What about a divorce? 😁
Life is experiencing and the way christianity keep you from experiencing the many things life is to offer is just as authoritarian as the people that preach such things. But, hey, you're free to choose.
Historically faith has not been at odds with reason. that is a modern view - put out by people who want to make that line. But it is not historical truth. And not everyone agrees with the modern view.
LOL.
You didn't have to come onto this page and put your two cents in. It was your choice. You could have turned the channel. But no - you chose to come here and put in your opinion - because you think you are right. You wanted to make sure you got to impose your views on others - and so you did. You don't like it when people reflect your hypocrisy back into your face. that's ok. but face it. You are as bad as any person you are worried about trying to impose their views on you. you are quite content to do it to everyone else - but the problem is - you have no integrity. that's it. simple.
I'm not imposing anything. You might have noticed that I also have beliefs, but I always clarify that they are just beliefs and not an indisputable truth as you Christians shamelessly do.
If I come in here is because you're claiming over and over again that christianity is the truth, so I can't help but argueing against it because as a libertarian I should fight against the enslaving ideoligies such as religions and some political movements (socialism, comunism, leftism).
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@Best.Korea
One has to wonder why would smart God create such a poorly designed world.
As if you built a game or virtual reality out of nothing, you have to start from a primitive version, then advance according to the results, it's a trial and error process. The "God" Christians depict is not omnipotent, not omniscent, in other words it's an entity that doesn’t exist, it's pure imagination from people that lived in fear.
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The TDS of this guy is fucking serious. 😁
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@Stephen
There is something that is not clear here, Tradesecret is a she or he? 🤔 😁
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@Tradesecret
How is the Christian life boring?
More or less like Flanders' life, you know, from the simpson. 😁
Again, there might be people that like this life but most of us don't, we find it fucking boring and stupid at times.
To end with this discussion that is getting boring, I just want to say that you can't consider a belief a truth because they're diametrically opposed, as well as you can't consider a faith not blind because faith is blind by nature. If you understand this simple concepts, you wouldn't be going around trying to convince people that christianity is the truth. The christianity can be a truth for you and for the zealots that attend your church, but not for the others, so that makes you not have the right to fucking bother us with your nonsense, otherwise we have all the right to argue against your nonsense with the only tool available for reasoning: the logic.
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@Barney
Funny coincidence, I've been talking to one whom I might import...
Be careful!!
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@IwantRooseveltagain
Well, whoever is giving resources to migrants, americans are fed up with this since in the US there are already people in need that don’t receive aid.
By the way, It wouldn't be a surprise that the communist government gives subsidies to businesses. 🤡
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@Tradesecret
The Christian life is not boring.
Hahahahahaha.
But what exactly are you talking about? I personally don't think Christians should impose their dogma on others. And yet, at the same time, others are always trying to impose their dogma on us.
Maybe that is not your approach, good for you. I met a lot of religious people that respect other people's beliefs, which is cool, but there are some of them that don't respect other's beliefs and try by all means to prove we are all wrong about our lifes and that we need to know "the truth" (most of the times they mean Jesus the christ by that), and that this is the only way to "get our lifes together and be saved". Really, there is nothing more disgusting that a person that believes to have the right to point and judge because he is pretty sure of holding the truth. They are defenitely zealots, people that are blind by their religion, and they are quite dangerous for our liberty. Note that these kind of dogmatic people are not only in the religion but also in the politic.
You see that is where you contradict yourself. By exposing others - you are imposing your own value system and dogma on others. At least admit what you are doing. I'm also a libertarian and yet I am a Christian and hold the view that it was Christian values which brought slavery to its knees. I also think that Christian thinking is more about reason and knowledge and truth than a non-christian worldview. And I think that non-Christian thinking is a form of slavery.
In what way exposing religions' contradictions is imposing my own values? I don't even have to bring up my values to the discussion because the lies and contradictions of religions are exposed by means of pure logic.
As to "the reason and the knowledge", they have nothing to do with christianity. Religions are the result of faith which is a blind belief, not reason let alone knowledge.
After all, how do you know that they don't have the truth unless you think you are the holder of the truth?
I've never said I hold the truth. What I say is that through the logic it's possible to know if something is true or not, and religions fail miserably in telling the truth.
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@IwantRooseveltagain
Unemployment is at an all time low. Many jobs in this country don’t pay a living wage. As a result we have the working poor. You for example. Your substitute teaching job does not earn a living wage. Lucky for you, you live in your mother’s house. Not everyone is so lucky and not everyone lives alone like you. Some Poor people have families and a real life.
That's why sleepy Joey allocated so many resources for Venezuelan migrants. GOT IT!! 🤡
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I remember you saying that there were tons of job opportunities in the US. Isn't it better to put these poor people to work so they can fulfill their needs by themselves?
For fuck's sake, you're already a socialism of the 21st century, I understand now why you're importing so many Venezuelans. 🤡
For fuck's sake, you're already a socialism of the 21st century, I understand now why you're importing so many Venezuelans. 🤡
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@Tradesecret
I think I did see your presumption. Living as a Christian is not a bad thing.
Of course it's not. What it's bad is that some Christians pretend to impose their dogma and boring lifestyle on the rest of us that are not christians. I can tell you there are several of these annoying people trying to make us believe their nonsense, and I'm not talking precisely about Jehovah's witnesses.
That's why you'll see me here exposing the countless contradictions of christianity as a way of alerting people about the risks that christianity represents for our freedom. I'm a libertarian and it's my duty to say that christianity is nothing more than slavery, because ignorance makes us slaves of a system, contrary to knowledge and openmindness that give us freedom to evolve as humanity.
I say all this by experience. I had to cut out whole relationships with family and friends because of that. You can't imagine how disgusting is to endure people that believe themselves to be the holder of truth. But the most disgusting to endure from these people is the shameless way they condemn you for the life you have, eventhough your life could be utterly average and far away from being bad. Honestly, fuck these people!!!
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@Tradesecret
It depends on how dogmatic the Christian is. If you feel like a zealot that doesn’t want to be "contaminated" and is really scared to go to hell (LOL), then isolate yourself from the whole secular world, nobody will miss you, but if not just enjoy the life as it is.
I mean, I'm not saying that being a zealot is wrong, there are people that were born to live like this. What is wrong and pitiful to me though is that a person gets a life that doesn’t want to live just because his religion tells him to do so. This is a very nasty way to spoil a person's life, seriously.
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@Greyparrot
Specifically, I want to hear from the major TDS users on this site.
If you specify who the major TDS users are it would be easier to respond... and laugh at too. 😁
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I say let New York learn this lesson so other states that plan to do the same shit see what could happen.
I wonder if the crime rate have raised since then. 🤔 If you open the borders like this you're not just accepting the little good but also the bad and the worst out of a shithole country.
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@Greyparrot
Specially the speeches. They make us believe that a former president's conference is worth some millions of dollars. Who couldnt become rich that way? 😁
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What I dont understand is why in the US the red color refers to the Republicans if we all know that historically the red color has always been the symbol of communism. 😁
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@FLRW
Remember that anyone rich and stupid can become President of the USA. But if you are poor and smart, no way.Isn't that the definition of a Banana Republic?
Well, it's pretty much what I think . Neither Trump nor Biden should have been president of the US.
What I see though is that you're just considering one side of the problem: the Republicans, when the problem is the whole system, including the Democrats which are responsible of the last debacle in the US (because Biden was elected last).
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I've checked on many sources about this topic and most of them agree that it's very unlikely that Trump ends up in prision for this case and for any case against him. He sure will pay a lot of money as indemnification but he won't go to jail.
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@FLRW
Since this was the First Lady, yes.
Yes, I know she is a damn temptation but as far as I know prostitution is still illegal in the US. 😁
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@Mharman
Also the cases of corruption that involves Joe Biden and son. You only see this in third world countries like Latinamerica.
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@Best.Korea
I am not an American, thank God.
South Korea doesn’t fall behind either. Many people agree that South Korea is even worse than the US in terms of social problems.
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These are Trump's words, of course.
But despite this, I can tell that the US has degraded to levels never seen before, socially and economically. So, I ask the american, the yankee, if you agree with the title, but please, try to answer with the hand on your heart, with all honesty, leaving aside your political sympathy.
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Trump is an old fox, he knows the flaws of the justice system. He sure will be declared no guilty.
I would be worried though that Trump becomes president again if I were a democrat. 😁
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@FLRW
I think it's not a matter of age but of health. There are elders that are better than us.
Biden for example is like 100 yo but he shouldn't be president because he is showing signs of Parkinson.
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Be strong, man. We know it's hard but life goes on. This teen is having a good rest after all the suffering he went through but you're still here to help other teens that really need you.
Hope you open your wings and start to fly again.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
Well, I wasn't necessarily refering to a nuclear war despite the US craves for a big scale war to keep its arms economy running.
I remember that the average american used to speak out against their government for the war talking place in Asia (like Vietnam), I mean all the hippies gathering in the 60s to smoke marihuana and demand 'make love not war'. I don't see they do it now. America needs peace not war. China doesn't need wars to grow, for example. The only opportunity you had to change was with Trump but he took himself down.
Is it necessary to drop bombs to grow economically? There are better ways to win a fight, I guess China do it better because they have more experience (an around 2,000 year civilization) and knowledge that are kept in writings like 'the art of war' of Sun Tzu, for example . Maybe the problem of the US is that they don't have that kind of wisdom, maybe the US needs to learn more from their enemies.
I remember that the average american used to speak out against their government for the war talking place in Asia (like Vietnam), I mean all the hippies gathering in the 60s to smoke marihuana and demand 'make love not war'. I don't see they do it now. America needs peace not war. China doesn't need wars to grow, for example. The only opportunity you had to change was with Trump but he took himself down.
Is it necessary to drop bombs to grow economically? There are better ways to win a fight, I guess China do it better because they have more experience (an around 2,000 year civilization) and knowledge that are kept in writings like 'the art of war' of Sun Tzu, for example . Maybe the problem of the US is that they don't have that kind of wisdom, maybe the US needs to learn more from their enemies.
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What does it mean? Are judges able to have political affiliation? Is there separation of powers?
Pay attention to what I'm going to say, based on what have been happening in the last 4 decades, to me the US is starting to get into a deep process of decadence, and I'm not joking.
Be careful, americans, this is something serious.
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@Lemming
Still, I imagine ebuc realizes killing would still exist,They're just of the view that less killing would exist, without Explosive Armaments.
Maybe ebuc thinks explosive armaments are the most dangerous, but that is not so true. Chemical weapons are far more lethal and violent.
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@zedvictor4
Humans don't need explosive armaments to kill each other. They always figure out how to harm the other, like in England where the favourite armament is the knife (thanks to fucking muslims). 😁
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@sadolite
How much do you all weigh, no lying. I am 5'9" and fluctuate between 165 and 175.
I'm 5'11 and the most I used to weigh was 190lbs, I was really big (of muscles). That's why I say it's completely believable that Trump weighs 215lbs, and he's not a muscular person, he has some belly fat only.
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@FLRW
I hope this is what the Afterlife looks like.https://nypost.com/2016/08/01/melania-trumps-girl-on-girl-photos-from-racy-shoot-revealed/
Oh, yeah!! If it were true I would kill myself right now. 😁
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More disgraceful than Biden? I doubt it.
Seriously, it would be surreal if the yankees elect Biden as president again. Lol.
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@IwantRooseveltagain
According to you how much he weighs? For a guy of this height I would say 215lbs is correct.
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@FishChaser
Addiction is about overstimulation. The mind can't handle too much stimulation from one particular thing, it's not worth it to be honest, so I disagree with your statement.
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@Greyparrot
Yes, there are stupid people stirring up fear on us all over again with this new covid variant. Covid is not a big deal to be honest, it's like a flu.
I hope the fucking governments don't place us on lockdown again, that would be terrible for today's recessed economy.
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@WillyB
I've just realized you're a brit, I was wondering how can an american be so knowledgeable and interested in football. 😁
I agree that concacaf doesn’t have a good level of football, that's why they're setting up more tournaments with conmebol. All in all, the MLS has a bright future in football not only because they're doing everything to boost it (in contrast to Mexico that couldnt care less about it) but also because the number of latinos is increasing in the US and so is the interest on football. I really think we'll have the US as the champion of Copa America very soon.
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@WillyB
However, the only problem could be that even the interest in football increases, interest in the MLS doesn’t.
This is completely normal. In South America there is also a low interest in the local tournament and I'm sure the reason is the same as in the US, people prefer to watch European football which is much entertaining given that the best players in the world are playing there.
If the MLS manages to get rid of the salary cap, its tournament can get as good as the european because in the US there is enough money to pay the best players.
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So, Messi is playing ball in the MLS and just came to win the Leagues Cup, no less. That was very quick.
I know the american league is not one of the best in the world, but I see that Messi is changing the way americans appreciate football... I mean, soccer, sorry for that. 😁
How are taking the arrival of the greatest footballer ever to have walked this planet? Are you understanding what soccer is about yet? Do you think the american soccer will take to the next level with Messi?
I know the american league is not one of the best in the world, but I see that Messi is changing the way americans appreciate football... I mean, soccer, sorry for that. 😁
How are taking the arrival of the greatest footballer ever to have walked this planet? Are you understanding what soccer is about yet? Do you think the american soccer will take to the next level with Messi?
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@Best.Korea
Yes, it kind of. That's s why the US had to raise the debt ceiling each time the democrats increase the expenditure in social programs. That's not sustainable though, it should stop at some point.
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@Vegasgiants
Well, I wouldn't say it's socialism. It's something close to it but not entirely socialism, it's called social democracy.
During the Russian Revolution people in Europe were getting enticed by communism which was highly risky so politicians gave people something similar to socialism so that democracy could prevail. That's why European taxes are insanely high so the government can pay all the social programs they need to keep the people satisfied.
I'm not sure if the US should apply socialism, that would go against their values. Look at China, for example, they thrived because they've been doing what the americans did from the very beginning. The only problem of the US, as I see it, is the racial segregation and how their cities are designed. Maybe you can copy what Europe does in those matters.
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@Vegasgiants
Yet millions of Muslims thrive in democracies and reach the highest levels of their profession
Thrive? Fancy word to describe what muslims can accomplish. I don't know of any Muslim that had a relevant work in the western society.
At any rate, I can understand some people stand for them just so to be politically correct (which is the case of europeans), but the true is that muslims are a danger. No wonder why India seperated from Pakistan and other shitty Muslim regions around, not to mention that the indian government doesn't want anything to do with muslims. Same with China in Xinjiang, the most dangerous chinese region.
This is a subject that even goes beyond politics. The phylosopher Sam Harris explains very well the risks of Islam in western society. Is it possible to reform it? I don't know, only time will tell.
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@RationalMadman
You seem to believe that if a place lacks Muslims, it is safer by default.
Yes. Unfortunately islam is not compatible with most of the western values. It's pretty much known that the progress in western society has been mainly due to democracy and liberalism, something that muslims don't like too much because it's against their religion.
I'm afraid Islam doesn't lead to progress and never will because of its authoritarian nature, except in some cases where the country has obscene amounts of oil, but even so those who has oil still fail.
Western society should ban the entrance of muslims, or at least filter adequately.
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Why is there a little girl in that video? Does it have to do with your pedophilia problem?
You're sick!!
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