Jannah

Where do you find your pictures and face-claims? (NOT anime)

Typically I just do Google searches until I find a pic I feel matches my character. I prefer not to use well-known celebrities too so avoid them.

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Vortex said
And is is why we need to spend more money on science to help find cleaner more renewable energy

Agreed 100%. I'm all for the funding of scientific research. Unfortunately it's lacking. Here in Canada Harper(our evil overlord PM) recently starting repressing scientific research regarding the environment.

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Vortex said
Russia annexed ukraine, so it's too late tore claim it. If they wanted to keep it they should have just kept it

Ukraine wasn't annexed. Crimea wasn't either. It's majority ethnic Russian and actually was Russian territory up until Khrushchev gave it to what was the Ukrainian SSR.

Also, Liechtenstein is a poor example since it's surrounded by one of the most neutral countries in the world, Switzerland.

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Pepperm1nts said
You can believe this if you want, of course. But that's a very unrealistic way to look at things.Just sayin'.

I actually know of many anarchists. It's actually a legit and fairly sound political idea. I think most of its short-comings stem from the fact that a stateless society wouldn't last very long surrounded by countries with actual organized militaries. From my understanding anarchism advocates for militia type things rather than an actual military.

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The Nexerus said

Oh, you're one of those people.

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Dervish said
More than a few decades, but weather patterns are getting worse. It's a combination of human activity and Earth's natural cycles that are causing it. Try as we might, anything short of completely nuking the planet entirely won't be a world-ending event. While it's possible we could kill off humanity, Earth will survive. It's been through worse extinction events than runaway pollution.

Well even if earth itself survives humans won't, which is the point I'm trying to get at. Environmentalism is actually a more important issue than many people think.

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Brovo said
Capitalism doesn't create poverty. Human nature does. Long before there was capitalism, there was poverty. There was poverty in the USSR, there is poverty in China and Cuba, there is poverty no matter which side of the spectrum you are on. With finite resources comes the inevitable: Some will have more, some will have less. Corporations =/= Capitalism. Two people can exchange goods using currency, that's capitalism. Corporatism may be what you're targeting here.As for sweat shops, ask Ukraine all about that. I'm sure they have more than a few stories about what the USSR did to them, and the USSR was extremely left wing.Like it or not, greedy people kill people... Whether that's in the USSR, in a communist state, in the USA, or in a capitalist state. That will never change.

"Human nature" is a social construct, but that's a discussion that is entirely irrelevant to the OP. So back to the OP, which I am yet to actually comment on... Yes, corporations should be held responsible for their pollution. Many don't seem to realize it, but if we continue at this rate we will only have about a few decades before Earth is no longer able to sustain life. I'm more and more convinced that humanity itself will bring about its own extinction.

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Brovo said
tl;dr: So seriously. Capitalism doesn't kill people. Greedy people kill people.

Capitalism creates the poverty that continues to kill millions. Also, the fact that corporations overlook safety regulations in their sweat shops ends up with people killed. That's all I'm going to say on this subject though since I know most of this site is never going to agree anyway.

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mdk said
Giving you things you can afford is....... bad....? You're gonna have to explain the logic on that.

It is bad when it's at the expense of others. I feel like a complete asshole having to buy stuff that is made in sweat shops, which might as well just be slave labour.

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Dervish said
Yeah, that's usually the sad truth of the matter. Somebody's suddenly rocketed to a position of obscene wealth and suddenly, they act like dicks. Justin Bieber, for instance, is the perfect case study of that. He probably wasn't a bad kid before he was suddenly treated like royalty and had more money than he could ever spend. I guess when you have so much wealth that something as basic as affording your utility bills and groceries every month kind of makes it all seem trivial and you kind of get disconnected with the fact that most people aren't lucky enough to have enough money to live comfortably, let alone buy expensive toys and monster houses. And it's especially true in your case, how do you break out of poverty when you're born into it? It's families like yours that deserve a break more than anyone, but people tend to forget that. It's just damn regrettable that the people who are most able to do something about the situation you and countless millions of others face is that when you're so high up, you kind of lose sight of what's down below. It's what makes people like Bill Gates and Warren Buffet so remarkable; they may be unfathomably rich, but they contribute so much back to charity that it's literally painful to try to wrap your head around the amount of money that's being funneled back into communities and towards good causes. As for the small business thing, it's part of the reason I usually try to buy some mom and pop stores when possible, plus you usually get better service there. It's not much, but a few regular customers can make or break a business.

lol omg I could rant about Justin Bieber for ages, but I won't. He's a perfect example of what I'm talking about though and why I instinctively don't trust most wealthy people. Hell, most of my family doesn't even like the rich snob aunts anymore since they look down on us since we're all poor. In the end though everything I've been through in life really shows why I'm so sympathetic to Marxism. Even before becoming Marxist I was rabidly left-wing, along with most of my family. My mother is practically a Marxist too, even if she doesn't call it that.

And yes, I try to shop at small businesses when I can, but unfortunately when you're on a tight budget it's hard since products tend to cost more. That's one reason why places like Wal-Mart are so bad imo, they basically force poor people to shop at them because they're cheaper due to all their products being made with sweat shop labour.