There is absolutely nothing that the USA offers that can not be found elsewhere for purchase. If we abuse our trading partners, why would they continue to trade with us? At some point, the rest of the world is going to say, "fine, keep your tariffs, we will not participate, there is nothing more to negotiate"

There are over 7 billion people on the planet and the USA doesn't even have half a billion people. The USA occupies a relatively small piece of land compared to the rest of the world. What happens to the USA when the rest of the world says, "fuck you, we won't negotiate anymore"?

Apparently, both yourself and Trump have something in common: you both think that the USA is the center of the world, not merely the wealthiest and most powerful.

Let's see how dedicated to your morals you really are: Do you support the Cherokee Nation killing every single man woman and child in the Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, and North Carolina geographical area? Or how about the Navajo Nation killing every single man, woman and child in Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona? We could do the same for Europe, including Ukraine which were originally another people that were displaced through agrression.

If I am a terrorist sympathizing scumbag, then you are a bootlicking genocidal maniac. The only difference is that I do not support violence as a method of acquiring the things that I desire. Apparently, you do. Even against children. How are you any better than the Ruzzians and Palestinians that you so clearly hate?

And even that can be destroyed by a conspiracy amongst the professionals as we have seen numerous times. Especially when someone powerful, say the petrol industries, is wanting a different result.

Which results in people only trusting themselves. The fools don't realize that they even trick themselves, but the Universe does not have to stay a permanent mystery if people are truly dedicated to finding out what state the Universe is actually in. After all, it is how we have seen a human walking on a gravitationally separated body.

You sound like a creditor calling the child of a recently deceased person asking to paid for the chocolate pudding you delivered to the recently deceased a month before they died. They are dead, let it go. That is a risk of commerce and 'credit'.

It very much could be; however, I have seen this in action first hand. The manager of the restaurant walked out to the parking lot to invite us in. He asked my friend how he was doing and asked about his children and while walking inside, discussed some of my friends interests. Obviously, he could not ask anything about me. :)

This type of service is absolutely NOT desirable to me; however, it made my friend feel somewhat important and "cared" about. It made his meal MUCH more enjoyable for him.

To me, and apparently, you, we see the abuses inherent in the system; however, that is not why the system was designed.

While I am not necessarily disagreeing with your conclusion, how you arrived there is suspect: Do you not recall plague blankets being given to the Native Americans? Granted, those were not given by Christopher Columbus, but, they were within his time.

I do not know what country you are talking about but it is NOT the USA. I have been homeless and starving and the only help I was able to find was a middle finger. Which programs, please specify EXACTLY, are being used to feed illegal immigrants? Where does their funding come from? Which Congressional bills authorized it? If it is not government funded, why should anyone give a fuck?

You read a tweet and believe. I read a tweet and demand proof.

So prejudice is back on the menu and all it took was the murder of one completely innocent child in Ukraine. Why didn't the killing of absolutely innocent children in Gaza or Sudan or half the fucking world make you prejudiced? Why is it specifically a child from Ukraine that disturbs you?

Disappointing.

Unsurprisingly, that is exactly what I did... however, most people don't care about the same things that I care about, so it doesn't matter.

You are on the right track here with that analysis. Imagine a person that had no weaknesses (even kryptonite). What does it really mean to be a force for good? What is good? Saving an old lady crossing the street and about to be run over? That appears to unambiguously good; however, now let's say that she is the owner of an evil corporation that is using children as mulch for lawns... is it still good to save her?

Obviously contrived example is obviously contrived. Obviously; however, the question still remains: What is good? Having the examination hampered by weakness clouds the analysis.

Wikipedia is a weird resource. I did some volunteer work in the forests of New Mexico back in the 80s and we discussed how "the plague" was active even then and was carried by small mammals. Wikipedia is like a guy with dementia. Sure, they can prove that that plague was acknowledged in the 90s; however, it is then pretended like nobody knew of the plague out in the wild prior to that... which is absurd.

Heh. Not good enough. Some people want to take others with them to demonstrate exactly how unhappy they are.

Physically, it should be impossible, but, is it possible for an automated system to have activated the switches?

Is there something wrong with acknowledging the truth? We are constantly bombarded with the message that society cares and that if you don't care you are a piece of shit... and yet somehow or another, the reality of the situation is that, as a society, we really do not care about an individual unless they have lots of money. We pretend we care about children more than the adults in the society, and yet, somehow or another, a kid just died in a car because a mother had to work and couldn't afford day care. A bunch of children just drowned in the middle of Texas because "the libs" offered money for an early warning system and was rejected on that basis.

The truth is, society only cares about money regardless of anything else that is said or done. Truth? Justice? Those are not The American Way.

In theory, this is true. In Reality, it is a maze of paperwork and exceptions that are so difficult to navigate that the only real care that you will receive will be some checkups and ER visits... although, due to navigation difficulties, an ER visit can rob the senior of their home/living situation.