Avirosb posted:

Counterpoint: Sharks love to eat the rich.

Lpzie posted:

God bless America!!!

TheKingslayer posted:

This sounds as dumb as smashing Keurigs to me.

TheKingslayer posted:

This sounds as dumb as smashing Keurigs to me.

nooneofconsequence posted:

people like sharks

Outrail posted:

Can we petition the Australian government to send Trump an aquarium full of sharks as a white house pet?

Kumo posted:

The Bourgeoisie will always require Technocrats, class traitors, and the Proletariat to some degree. They need members of the underclasses to protect, cook, clean and serve them. Some C Suite exec is not going to do janitorial duty and robots cannot, as yet, do everything a person can.

Kumo posted:

The push into automation is going to displace a lot of people, who will then be blamed for being lazy and the Republicans will cut federal and state food, housing & medical aid in response to the increased demand. If no reforms are enacted to address the crisis, then in despair & desperation, our people will turn on one another, be seduced by charlatans and mislead to blame people weaker than themselves, or simply give up and turn to substance abuse to cope and out of necessity.

Kumo posted:

Power Khan posted:

Basically Elysium with rising sea levels, several hundred million people being displaced and no happy ending.

Kumo posted:

Basically yes, but probably some Children of Men thrown in the mix too.

If you take the premise that hundreds of millions of people may be displaced by rising sea levels along the seashores (or just global climate change in general), then it follows that they will be probably be forced to move inland or to other countries. So you have transplant populations emigrating/immigrating and probably without adequate food, fuel, water, medical care, money, jobs, shelter, etc. The inland communities or foreign countries might even start out being understanding, but they have a saturation limit of their ability to provide for the newcomers and their own, like say Germany's agreement to set limits for refugees last year or evinced by this Depression era photograph:



It then might provide fertile ground for natavism & nationalism to take root, some sort of "strong borders" policies, and perhaps even ceding into totalitarian control as a means of controlling the influx of foreign populations. Citizens might even go so far as to tolerate giving away their rights out of fears of competition, disease, xenophobia and a diminution of the intangible ideas of what it means to be a particular citizen of that particular place.

There *might be* an eventual happy ending though.

Spectral Debt posted:

...and MEXICO will pay for it!!! )

quote:

Mexico reports highest murder rate on record

(CNN) - Soaring levels of drug-related violence made 2017 Mexico's most murderous year on record, according to government statistics released Sunday.

There were 25,339 homicides in Mexico last year, a 23% jump from 2016 and the highest number since at least 1997, the year the government began tracking the data. Overall, murders in Mexico had been declining in recent years, reaching a low of 15,520 in 2014. But officials say a surge in drug-related crime reversed that trend.

Many parts of western Mexico, including the states of Guerrero, Jalisco, Sinaloa and Baja California Sur, have been caught up in violence between competing drug cartels.

The country has also become -- outside of the world's war zones -- one of the most dangerous places for journalists.

Last year six journalists were killed in Mexico, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, a US nonprofit. That was the highest number since at least 1992. Since that year more than 40 journalists have been killed in the country.

Security and crime hot election issues

In Guerrero -- the state where Acapulco is located -- murders rose to 2,316 last year, about the same as 2016, but up from 1,514 in 2014. In Sinaloa, the former turf of notorious, imprisoned drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, homicides in 2017 soared 39% over last year to 1,332.

In Baja California Sur, an area filled with popular tourist destinations such as Cabo San Lucas, the number of murders nearly tripled last year to 560.

Security and crime look set to be among the top issues in Mexico's presidential campaign season, which officially begins in March.

The election is July 1. President Enrique Peña Nieto can't run again due to term limits. He and his political party have been heavily criticized for their inability to tame drug-related crime.

His administration has also called on the United States to help more, arguing that Americans' demand for drugs is partly fueling the crime.

ruddiger posted:

They've been paying for it ever since the drug war was a thing.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/22/americas/mexico-murders-2017/index.html