Certainly not democracy because then you wouldn't see the same development in some dictator-run countries and you'd also not see slower increases of standards in some democracies.
I suppose that questioning which genocides have been carried out by Western countries against their own enfranchised populations will not receive a helpful response.
Well, for example in Sweden we started to allow a lot more advertising in the late 80s and early 90s and deregulating markets and as a result, since 1995 the amount of overweight people have increased with 86%, many of them likely to die premature deaths due to the decisions made by the Swedish government. Just to mention one example. Obviously our government also made a lot of decisions increasing the amounts of suicides, overdoses and so forth, because we'll gladly kill people (the chewing gum way) in order to make foreign investors happy so that our oligarch family can go stronger and richer.
And now stupidest paragraph of the day too. Chapeau.
Time for these genocidal murdering maniacs to ban obesity causing pizza, mental health problem causing vodka and crack down on the paranoia inducing weed dealers.
Nah. De-regulating markets and allowing more advertising will not, in and of itself, result in obesity. The adverts or de-regulated markets won't force unhealthy food down your throat nor stop you from taking some form of exercise. That's a daft argument.
Ha!
Of course it will. There is nothing that indicates that the brain isn't a computer made out of meat, and computers can be programmed. The fat fucker watching a commercial for McDonalds and who then goes to get a burger isn't making a choice, the person is going being manipulated on a level from where it can not defend itself. The primary purpose with marketing is to create compulsive desires, a kind of psychological torture which eventually often leads to premature death.
Well, perhaps you should go tell the people in the gambling thread then that their mates who committed suicide were not in any way impacted by the betting industry being all over them 24/7.Ha!
I can see why mental health and anxiety might be on the rise. People reading all sorts on the internet, getting worked up. Also it’s a convenience to blame governments and “other influences” for one’s lack of motivation/achievement.
For some it’s far easier to cry conspiracy, tyranny and run and hide in one’s room rather than face the world and make a fist of achieving something.
Truth is, the vast majority of people in the first world can make a better life for themselves. The government isn’t stopping you. Jus easier to stay in, smoke weed and order pizza, innit!
And some people think they aren’t being played
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But not apparently if they’re in China - I mean what do Chinese people have to complain about, they’ve been lifted out of extreme poverty, lucky bustards.
To be fair, a lot of the stuff he writes about football is actually interesting and worthwhile.
