I bow to your superior inability to use mod points correctly, sire.

How is this a troll?

"I own a taxi company and don't want anything to change as I'm raking it in" != "this post is a troll."

The Phillippines don't have an incumbent, protectionist taxi industry and easily-bribable politicians? Shame on them - that's not very democratic/free/American, is it?

For example, you'll notice the [Navy's new railguns have BAE logos on them](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygHN-vplJZg)

They've got a lot of work to do on miniaturization, compared to the reference design: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

At least by moving it offshores, the NSA actually has to resort to actions that have a good chance of causing a bit of egg on the government's face if they're caught.

The government's face has zero adhesive attraction to additional egg - they need to wash the face first to remove the existing dried egg.

That might explain why the murder rate is so high in Brazil. "In most cities, the vast majority of violence takes place on just a few street corners, at certain times of the day, and AMONG SPECIFIC PEOPLE."

Every year, Brazil hosts the world donut festival which attracts significant numbers of American pOlice officers. Shootings of black people from behind increase according to the inverse square law - by diminishing distance from the closest donut eatery.

In the U.S., the cities with the largest population of blacks have the most crime and the cities with the lowest number of blacks have the least amount of crime

If there are fewer black people, the pOlice find it harder to track them down and murder them from behind. Duh! Not exactly rocket science.

this kind of attitude isn't going to allow musicians to snort coke off've hookers, is it. what's wrong with you.

What is wrong with you people (no, not you brain-dead basement dwellers - you, the majority of your countrymen and the policymakers).

You need to be prevented from travelling overseas or having any influence on world events until you've achieved civilization according to a modern definition of the word. Warning: this probably means getting decent healthcare too. ie.Healthcare with a primary goal of *drumroll* providing health (omg!) to your population rather than as a secondary but necessary expense of profiting from them.

Really, I'm so sick of hearing USA USA USA trumpeted from every fucking orifice. Fix your shit. Fix the imbalances in your society and maybe things will start to heal.

More openness ("Here's more detail on all the immoral stuff we do") ? Nope.

Which mimics massive and creepy privacy invasion - for profit.

Will there be no end to the protectionists' backlash?

Because! Get over it. If things were meant to make sense, scientists would run the world.

You could hide in a US consulate if someone retaliated at the US government's foreign policy via you. It seems fair that the citizens should pay for this as foreign policy is created on their behalf..

You forgot to mention that visitors may have their laptops and other electronics stolen on entry or when straying close to the border; that they can then be legally molested; that when driving around, anyone may be stopped by the police and have their money and valuables stolen without recourse; that when they arrive home their house may have been taken by the state without their being accused of a crime - likewise their bank accounts may be frozen; that should they actually be accused of a crime, there's a high chance that additional charges will be levelled so-as to encourage an out-of-court settlement; that people in other countries have had their freedoms removed as a result of pressure via your government from your entertainment cartels.