Brain Escape

Oh...I thought it was the babel fish.

This is what happens every time i have to remember something inportent

@BadgeOfBall brain: what did I have to do again? Well crap. Eject!

I imagine all greek philosopher thinking about greece's crisis... Probably plato has a solution...

@Zuperkrunch
*In the Elysium Fields*
Socrates: Got any ideas?
Plato: We’re dead!

@JTTWloverchinese lol..

@JTTWloverchinese are everyone in spain do the siesta?

@Zuperkrunch Nope, not all people.

@JTTWloverchinese thanx for the info. btw, i still confused with chinese, mandarin, and cantonese... both mandarin and cantonese are chinese right? But they're different? Do u speak spanish?

@Zuperkrunch Cantonese is a dialect that it’s considered another language because it’s so different. Mandarin it’s like British English.
Si, hablo español.

@JTTWloverchinese wow.. U speak many languages.. do u speak mandarin or cantonese? Or both?

@Zuperkrunch Mandarin

@Zuperkrunch It's okay, that's why we say hail malthus! Or not, if you value your rights...

@Finn456 i know your old username was fin123.. Am i Right? Yes..

@Zuperkrunch Yes, that's correct.

@Finn456 i agree with this comment #9764908

@Zuperkrunch Pretty much a good way for anybody to not get banned is to avoid that stuff. I don't think I had that much hate speech but that's just my opinion.

@Finn456 well they banned u a lot of times for many reasons #9764206

@Finn456 @Zuperkrunch He is not! I give this little thing about Karlic Dawn Cultist: Culture is led by Karlmarx (Possibly) and they believe in Malthus, god Which we don't have much knowledge yet.

It is Quite interesting to knowing about this.

@Mixu it was 6 months ago, before i read eric's comment that he was that weird "karlmarx".. That's why when he answered " yes" turns out "no" and when i asked mormonD if he was zinhaubthetexan who the same person as that weird "karlmarx" his answeared "no" but turns out "yes", so.. "No" is "yes", "yes" is "no".. Or " yes" is the new "no", and " no" is the new "yes", but now just ignoring him, when i ignored that Mr_AxLark then he bored by himself and gone... He just want some attentions..

@Zuperkrunch Yeah

Just a little something for all the socialist comments below; the current Greek goverment is socialist only by name. Tsipras won not because our people wanted socialism, but simply because everything else had failed, and they wanted something new- something that he promised. After the election, Tsipras has converted to a pretty standard-issue right-wind goverment; which is basically what we already had, if not worse, but at least it's not the trainwreck I expected it to have.

I think; the brain leaving thing happens to me in every single math lesson

@freia and before every test :/

@freia And me when it snows where I live, which is not very often.
After seeing pictures from Canada, I'm glad.

Brain drain

No, brain! Greece needs you!

Canada has this issue too, with the USA. We call it "the brain drain".

Their population is roughly 10x ours, and their economy much larger also. The greater competition between businesses results in higher wages to skilled workers, and lower costs of living. The local Canadian economy just can't match the same salary offers for doctors, lawyers, computer techs, and similarly highly educated professionals.

The same thing happens with our entertainment talent too, come to think of it. Again, the population difference is 1:10, but about 1 in 5 of actors, musicians, and comedians working in the USA are Canadian-born. This doesn't usually create the same problems as shortages of qualified doctors, of course. Usually local entertainers start their careers in Canada, then as they begin to get more famous, start expanding into the US, eventually emigrating once they can afford a house in Beverly Hills or similar. Also a lot of entertainers are touring all over the place anyway, living out of hotels, whereas the professionals usually have to live near the company they work for and stay in one spot.

@Hinoron Wait, one in *five*? I knew it was big but never thought it was that much.

@IdentityCrisis

Consider that nearly ALL Canadian entertainers (to use a catch-all term) once they're sufficiently successful, expand their careers into the US market. Think of it as rolling downhill... into a big pool of money. :P

I am Greek and I live in Greece even though I will be moving to the USA in about ten months. I agree with this comic too much XD things here literally suck and everyone leaves for America or usually other European countries

@SatwAndHetalia Listen... America has a lot of its own issues. If you are moving here... I really recommend NOT moving to the south. Trust me. Unless open racism and religious dogma shoved down your throat bordering on levels of that of an islamic country is your thing...

But if you (and, since you are 16, I presume, your family) needs some help getting started, send me a message! Welcome to America!

One tip: Don't be surprised by the amount of guns you see here. It's an American thing, and you probably will never understand it, good bad or otherwise.

@txag70 Hey that not what the south is about and that is an old stereotype. The North is now far more racist and segregated than the South.

@Thorin Bullshit.

I live in Texas. Racism is alive and kicking. I used to live in MD, OH, and NE. Never had a big issue with it in those states.



It's not really an old stereotype if it's still massively prevalent.

@txag70 In San Francisco we care more about your cuisine than your religion. We're a city of foodies. We're not so racist, though it's on the rise thanks to Trump. Racists figure if he can do it with impunity, so can they. SF is still nice and we don't tolerate racism.

@FreyjaRN You're telling me...

There was a white-supremacist speaker here a few days ago. Luckily the people there were dwarfed by protestors -- myself included -- but it is crazy how many of these lunatics are crawling out of the woodwork. Disgusting.

I'd like SF if it weren't ungodly expensive to live there. As long as I end up somewhere other than the South for a full time job I'll be happy. (Which is looking good, I found some work in Idaho )

@txag70 New York City and SF change places as to which is the most expensive to live in the US. It depends on if you're single or married, whether you have kids, how much traveling you do, and other things. Milwaukee is cheaper by far, but the weather is worse and there are more Republicans interfering in stuff. I still love it - it's my home town. There's so much to do, and I still remember how to make an amazing snow fort.

@FreyjaRN Milwaukee is not a bad town, I've been through it on the way to a Packers game once. Gotta have respect for the beer capital of America! (Fuck off, St. Louis)

Wisconsin liberalism is a different type than NYC or SF liberalism anyway. It's more based in workers rights and labor unions.

@txag70 Racism, you say? Religious dogma? Looks like we'll fit right in!
Unfortunately, this is only a joke as far as @SatwAndHetalia is concerned. I'm afraid it stands as fact for a large percentage of the previous generation.

@TheVillageFool Well, regardless, welcome to America!

I was unaware that racism was an issue in Greece. I mean I know you do not get on well with Turks, but hey, send me a message if you need help adapting to the USA in any way!

What really irritates me is the stereotype of the lazy Greek. Considering Greeks work among the most hours in the EU, it may be more a case of unproductivity or systemic inefficiency within the Greek system.

@txag70 sadly it's still very alive here despite all we've tried to become an equal country we still have people like Steve Hofmeyer and everyone that lives in Orania (a practically all white town)

@Bhekizizwe South Africa has some seriously unique challenges when it comes to overcoming racism.

Personally I think the best way to defeat racism is to kill it through helping classes and not races. It is an unfortunate reality that the poorest parts of both the US and I would imagine South Africa are black. People can claim that it is racist but it is true. Helping the poor in a non-racial manner though prevents poor whites from being suckered by rich whites to buy into racism.

There's an old political cartoon where a white dog (representing white labor) and a black dog (representing black labor) are fighting over a bone, while a rat (capital/management) sneaks in and steals the ham.

@ dinaarumor
Just because you do not see the cracks does not mean they are not there. Plymouth colony, the French revelation, the USSR, Khmer Rouge...

@Slowburn
@dinaarumor

And just because you expect to see cracks, it does not mean they are there. Any definition of "socialism" that covers those four examples and Sweden, too, is so broad as to be completely meaningless. By the classical definition of socialism, the only workable definition I've ever seen, only two of the five are actually socialist (USSR and Khmer Rouge). Of course, even if you reduce the incredible complexities of political economy to only the one axis of capitalism/socialism, even that is a spectrum, not a dichotomy. Clearly where Sweden is on that spectrum is a far preferable place than where the US is. Sweden has outperformed the US economically, despite lacking the enormous advantages that the US has. And that is a pattern that holds true beyond those two cases. Whether you compare across countries, American states, or time, the closer one is to the Social Democratic model (which is emphatically not actual socialism, much less the bogey man version that the American right has attributed to the concept, which adds every negative facet that any country which has had any elements of socialism had, while ignoring any positive facets), the better an economy, on average, performs. Obviously, there are many other factors, which can outweigh that one element, but the correlation is very strong, and one can easily go past correlation to actual causation.

In the three of your examples that actually have failed, Slowburn (the Plymouth country did not, or the US wouldn't be here, and despite the ridiculous revisionist history propagated by Rush Limbaugh, it never was socialist, and there never was a sudden improvement due to a change in economic policies, the reality was complicated and messy, but it was a moderate success story that adapted over time, but always merged ideas we would now consider liberal with ones we would identify as conservative, in a weird amalgamation, that grew slowly and steadily over time, primarily due to enough influx in colonists to survive long enough to be established, ideology was of relatively minor importance), the real problem was that the political rule was totalitarian. Totalitarian governments, whether they are socialist, laissez faire capitalist, or any other stripe, do always show cracks, eventually, especially when they governed by insane, murderous megalomaniacs like Stalin or Pol Pot. Even a cursory study will show that socialism does not cause totalitarianism, although it is at least possible that totalitarianism does tend to go more towards socialism. But one cannot blame the effect for the cause, that's backwards. Also, in none of your four examples was the initial situation conducive to a successful regime. A colony in the wilderness with often hostile natives, a brutal civil war, and two backwards nations, are not exactly places where one has a right to expect a success story. That the colony managed to survive, and even eventually thrive, and that arguably at least one of the two backwards nations rose from being a minor power to one of the two most powerful nations on the planet, actually means that they outperformed the expected outcome. I don't know much about Cambodia prior to Pol Pot, but I do know very much about Russia before the revolutions (yes, multiple) of 1917. It was one of the most economically backwards nations in Europe with an agrarian economy, and almost no civil society under the Tsars. It was only considered a European power at all because of its enormous size and population. When your army has nearly unlimited cannon fodder, and your geography makes your country nearly impregnable, you're going to be a force to be reckoned with, even in today's world where modern technology has made spending far more important than it ever was before. It's amazing that it took 40 years before they had to admit that they couldn't compete with the US in an arms race. Imagine what they could have done if Stalin hadn't been so paranoid that he killed more people than any leader in history, including some of the most capable people the country had. Or if they hadn't wasted enormous amounts of resources propping up any country that was (or pretended to be) their ideological bedfellow (one reason why psychotic despots in the 20th Century often implemented, or at least feigned an interest in socialism, although we propped up our share of tyrants, too, although we kept a slightly tighter rein on their murderous tendencies, so their evils were a little less spectacular, although if anything, we allowed far more blatant thievery in our puppets than the Soviets did). Or if they hadn't been so intent on proving that they could match us tank for tank, nuke for nuke, that they grossly overextended themselves in what ultimately was a pointless exercise (how many times can you destroy the world? after the human race is extinct, isn't any remaining armaments just wasteful overkill?). Still, in the early 1900s, they couldn't even compete with France or Japan without home court advantage (as I mentioned, the best home court military advantage ever). Yet throughout the mid to late 1900s, the most powerful and rich nation on the planet was scared of them and worried that the outcome of a conflict was in doubt. Undeniably it was a miserable place to live, but given their external goals, they could hardly be considered an abject failure...

Yeah, I know this was long, but I'm hamstrung by unwillingness to just make up facts to fit my theories or ridiculously oversimplify reality until it's unrecognizable...