I personally don't see Socialism being inevitable.. I am seeing an economic collapse and society will realize greed and the desire for more money is what brought the destruction.. And hopefully from a few brilliant minds, we execute project Venus and evolve past the need for a currency system.

Over the next few decades, 45% of jobs are high-risk for automation.

Human labour will be made redundant, and private property will cease to be an efficient resource director.

The Venus Project, by the way, is a load of shit.

ook right before 1913.

I'm talking about taxation in general, not just income tax. I'm not a massive fan of income tax, and I think taxes on property and consumption are superior. That being said, I think certain taxes - like transaction, inheritance and corporate income - should be eliminated first.

On the whole, however, I agree that rampant taxation can lead to horrible expenditure problems. Accordingly, I'd probably support any lowering the general tax rate and a relatively strict adherence to no government borrowing.

However, I don't think much of this will be accomplished since the trend of both social and political change runs behind technological change. Human labour will probably be made obsolete and the problem now will be a non-issue, so this is really just a hypothetical exercise for me.

I'm at a loss, so I'll just explain why all are annoying.

Liberals - tend to be really whiny and wishy-washy, appealing to emotion and concepts like "fairness" and "equality" over proportionality and justice. They seem to completely lack a sense of scale as a result, and have no idea how to properly construct a liberal value-system in relation to rampant dogmatism.

Socialists - socialism is inevitable and I look forward to it (I think I'll see it at least begin in my lifetime). The problem with people who readily identify as socialists is that they're either I) revolutionaries who want to force class conflict or II) centre-right social democrats who aren't really socialists. So they're either idiots or liars.

Feminists - anybody in the Western world who identifies as a feminist has priority issues.

Libertarians/anarchists - retarded appeals to deontic morality like "taxation is theft" and other such bollocks. An absolute hard-on for the free-market and an inability to concede that the unaccountable corporation can be a nightmare in a situation where the State isn't properly equipped.

Conspiracists/doomsdayers - just fracking dumb. Greatest examples of confirmation bias.

Conservatives - usually the vocal ones are social conservatives and they appeal to tired old notions of family values and anti-abortion sentiments; inexorably linked to religion. Absolutely have no appreciation for more abstract and diffuse notions like civic nationalism, parochial loyalty and preservation of order, thus turning conservatism into an ideology instead of a philosophy and dogmatising it.

Religious people - liars, charlatans or people who don't understand science on the whole. Liars because they can't know if God exists, even as some claim; charlatans due to faith-healers, hoaxers and tricksters; scientifically illiterate because the vocal ones think scripture and Thomas Aquinas's bollocks have any intellectual authority.

Homophobes/Islamaphobes - while I take issue with the use of the latter word, bigotry is simply a social cancer; no explanation needed.

1. We could increase global GDP by 67pc to 147pc. This means we could more than double global wealth.

2. Immigrants create jobs, they don't steal them, because there is not a fixed pool of employment.

3. They contribute more in taxes than they cost in services or welfare. In the U.K., they contribute more than natives.

4. They'll also be vital to the future, as immigration has massive potential to help offset government debt.

5. Immigrants are incredibly entrepreneurial, with more than half of the silicon valley tech businesses having an immigrant as a key founder, and in the U.K. 17pc of immigrants set up their own businesses.

6. Immigrants send home more money to the developing world than we do in aid. (About 3x as much).

7. A seasonal migration programme in New Zealand was more effective at alleviating poverty in developing countries - by giving entrepreneurs experience - than any other method.

8. Since the year 2000, 40,000 people have died trying to migrate in unsafe conditions due to criminalisation.

9. The public wildly underestimates, at least in the U.K., the extent of immigration we already have. The public thinks immigrants make up 31pc of the population, when it is really 13pc. They also think Muslims make up 25pc, but the reality is that Muslims comprise about 5pc.

Why am I supposed to care about what's going on in the world?

Jesus.

You been reading Ayn Rand?

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Good riddance.

Bas7ard.

Your trial date for inciting a revolution is October 31st.

I could just pay ridiculous amounts of reparations and sign a godawful treaty, so that in about 15 years somebody far worse than me comes around and commits the greatest atrocity in history?

I'm sorry, brothers. I have failed. The Metanation will never be as one in this great land. The Promised Land won't be ours. But do not despair, the march of progress will continue on. Remove the Meta from your name; let us continue as one people.



I also compiled an album for all the propaganda which came out of that, if anybody feels like taking a gander. If anybody wants to contribute to it, too, post the posters and I'll add them for the sake of art.

Well, that was more fun than it should've been. It's over now, though. Return to your families.

There's no need for the Emberians to resist the Metanites.

We have extended our friendship to the Weeaboos, and would be willing to grant you suffrage. The Metakorps has need of young soldierly men in its ranks, and you'd be welcome.

Our true enemies are the Sep7anite 7ascists.

Stay the course!

Funny. We said the same thing about you.

I demand to speak to Cheat.

The Metanites will not be contained. We will have our Metareignty!

taste defeat meta

FOOL.

You've merely served to push all the Metanation into one place at one time.

That merger was relatively painless.

Well done to the Sep7ianite authorities.

-snip-

Purge may be incoming.

You threaten us, Sep7ianite?

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When I get frustrated, I often "let off steam" by blowing my top.

Is blowing your top some kind of euphemism I'm not familiar with?

Shouting, getting aggressive, et cetera.