Indigenous Canadian from northern Ontario. Believe in equality, Indigenous rights, minority rights, LGBTQ+, women’s rights and do not support war of any kind.
As an indigenous person who grew up without running water or modern plumbing for the first ten years of my life in Canada … I always appreciated this quote …
Will Durant Quote: “From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.”
Personality, presence and confidence
Natural self confidence, but NOT an arrogant selfish confidence.
Some people naturally have confidence and presence and some people need to build it as a skill.
I know guys and gals with little to no knowledge or skill build up careers because they just knew how to talk and connect to people.
I also know guys and gals with years of education and degrees but have little to no way of politely or easily getting along with people.
Thank you Mr Sutherland for everything you’ve given us.
I also hate these announcements because it’s a subtle reminder of how old we are all becoming.
Oh, … good … since one of the commandments say you should not kill … then we can get rid of everyone’s guns then.
Isn’t this the origin of the modern name ‘bear’ … which comes from an older word for the colour ‘brown’ … because ancient people in Europe were so fearful of this beast that they didn’t want to call it by its name and instead refer to it as the ‘brown one’ … or just the ‘brown’
Rich people telling poor people they can be put in charge of taking care of everyone’s money
In terms of geologic history over millions of years, this has happened before.
This isn’t bad for the planet or the environment … it’s bad for us humans.
We have to stop thinking that we are destroying the environment. Even if we caused all out nuclear holocaust, the planet and the environment will recover.
We aren’t really negatively affecting the environment in terms of millions of years … we’re making the planet uninhabitable for us all.
It’s like having a couple of chain smokers on the international space station. They don’t want to stop yet no one wants to do anything about their smoking. And there’s a time limit on how long they can keep spewing smoke until the life support system fails and everyone suffocates to death.
My apologies if I exaggerated your response but it is one that I have often come across when I have this same debate with others around me.
My main point is that if we keep doing what we are doing now, then problems will persist.
We need societal change on a global level and although that carries a certain level of risk of whether or not it would make anything better or worse … I believe it is far better than the alternative of certain demise if we keep doing what we are doing now.
I would rather prefer we take the chance at global change … rather than stay where we are with certain future disaster.
That response is also very repetitive and tired at this point. It’s the age old knee jerk reaction that we have to maintain the status quo in order to find an answer.
When all along, it was the status quo that caused the problem in the first place.
I don’t believe in violent revolution in order enact change in how our global society has evolved. But I do believe we need a desperate change in how we organize wealth, money, control and democratic power in our world. The majority of all the wealth in the world is now owned by a very small group of people who hold all the control in how to make our world better yet they choose not to and instead want to maintain the status quo and increase their wealth and power at all cost.
We do have to do something about the economy … mainly discourage and disconnect wealthy elites from engorging themselves any further and help everyone else in gaining an equal share of all the wealth everywhere. It doesn’t mean all out communism, it would be a more practical way of delivering democratic socialism by limiting outrageous wealth that helps no one except small groups of people.
Once enough people everywhere gain a measure of wealth and control and no longer have to worry about fighting one another to find food, water, shelter or a decent life … then we are more likely to sit together and talk about global problems and actually do something about it all.
Otherwise, if we maintain the status quo, we will just keep endlessly fighting one another until our species dies out as our environment makes our world unlivable.
But the most important question our highly enlightened global leadership always asks and concentrates all their efforts into is to ask …
How will it affect the economy and our wealthiest members of society?
I guess that’s what humanity is aiming for … a holocaust we can all accept.
… and again … and again … and again
The only thing we learn from history, is that we don’t learn anything from history.
No one is safe including the rich.
The biggest major effect that global warming will have in the next few years or about 20 to 30 years is … mass migration. Once that starts in earnest, countries will be breaking out in conflicts everywhere. We aren’t cooperating with ourselves within our established borders now, what do you think will happen when millions of people start moving around to avoid the heat and more natural disasters.
Everyone will suffer … the only thing the rich buy themselves is time because we are all headed to the same global environmental apocalypse.
I feel good that I’m middle aged now because I will have lived my younger years when the world was doing relatively OK.
I feel bad for anyone born right now because they’ll either see the beginning of the end or start surviving it.
Saved by the bell
A saying thought to originate from the old custom of safety coffins … where corpses were tied to a string to the surface above them to a bell. So that in case they didn’t die and were still alive, their moving body could pull the string and ring the bell.
If you were buried alive, and you rang the bell and were rescued … you were ‘saved by the bell’
Just stuff the whole thing in a blender, mix for 30 seconds and drink it.
How about we just tax the hell out of the rich people and billionaires in the country and use their money to pay for all our problems?
Then we can talk about national service after if that doesn’t work
Pharmaceuticals are a money making business … their secondary role is medical care … if we allowed them and gave them the patents, they would be happy to sell and distribute cocaine and heroin if it meant they could profit from it.
This is all turning into the Trump Presidential Circus Parade to the National Election
American politics are a joke at this point and the whole world is wondering what’s going on under the Red, White and Blue Big Top Circus Show this week. The tickets are expensive, the chairs are uncomfortable, the food will make you sick, the shows are shitty, it makes children cry, the clowns scare people and it’s all powered by a fundraising Christian preacher just outside the tent.
Meanwhile, they have an orange beanbag presidential hopeful spilling the beans to the whoever around the world and he gets millions of dollars of support, literal legal immunity from anything and 1/3 of the country want him to become their Cheeto leader in Mountain Dew.