Is the USA a Banana republic?

[red_elk]

The only mistake in calculation is that banana volume doesn't matter. A total mass of a million of them anyway will have to fit in volume of one liter. (Though it doesn't change the end result much)
10^17 is average density of the star, the outer layers are less dense.

 

[Borachio]

Oops. I lost my original post and then found it again and deleted it, after I posted the post you now see above.

You're quite right about the volume of the banana not mattering.

 

[Kyriakos]

Bananas are among the very few fruit i find tasty

 

[Synobun]

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[Mechanicalsalvation]

Washington Post having 600 mil.$ deal with the CIA? That would explain a lot. The level of "banana" has just increased by a new dimension:

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[Mechanicalsalvation]

Pentagon wants to build up its military. I dont want to rewrite this awesome short video word for word so here it is:

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[Mechanicalsalvation]

Apparently the war on drugs was never about drugs but about way to control people/communities.

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[Hrothbern]

Apparently the war on drugs was never about drugs but about way to control people/communities.

Similar you could say: "Apparently the war on terrorism was never about terrorism but about a way to control ...... whatever".

I think you get all this manipulation opprtunities primarily from overcooked and simplified enemy thinking.

 

[Borachio]

It's like chimpanzees and their grooming habits: it's not necessarily all about the ticks.

 

[Mechanicalsalvation]

Similar you could say: "Apparently the war on terrorism was never about terrorism but about a way to control ...... whatever".

I think you get all this manipulation opprtunities primarily from overcooked and simplified enemy thinking.

So you dont find the admition in that video revealing or adding anything to your knowledge? Is it just business as usual to you?

 

[Hrothbern]

So you dont find the admition in that video revealing or adding anything to your knowledge

It did for me not contain new eyeopeners, new possible angles to look upon things.
The info of the vid is not really shown as proof, building up a solid case for any of the items mentioned, it is too busy with mentioning many things. So... in that sense it did also not add to my knowledge, to confirm in a solid way some of the insights I already had.
Sorry

Is it just business as usual to you?

No, I am not a cynical person.
I see it more as conventional wisdom that using violence or repression against something has two sides !

From Publius Vergilius Maro, in English known as Virgil,
Aegrescit medendo.
Literally: The disease worsens with the treatment.
Mostly known as: "The remedy (cure) is worse than the disease."

Having said that all, to avoid possible misunderstandings, I do not disagree with you posting that vid. My analogon with the war on terrorism confirming the principle of the danger

 

[Borachio]

Apparently the war on drugs was never about drugs but about way to control people/communities.

Okaaaay.

I watched it all the way through.

So, the war on drugs is a way to control people. Yeah. Got it.

But hang on just a minute.

What happens if you don't take drugs?

Or would that be something so totally inconceivable that it's never going to happen?

 

[Mechanicalsalvation]

It's like chimpanzees and their grooming habits: it's not necessarily all about the ticks.

Somehow my expectations of the actions of government of the greatest democracy in the world strech out beyond the level of social habits of chimpanzees...

Okaaaay.

I watched it all the way through.

So, the war on drugs is a way to control people. Yeah. Got it.

But hang on just a minute.

What happens if you don't take drugs?

Or would that be something so totally inconceivable that it's never going to happen?

Do you think that for people stop taking drugs is more likely with goverment which honestly tries to take measures against drugs or with one who does so only in name and covertly cooperates with drug mafia plus is using the war on drugs in its schemes for suppressing and controlling the population?

 

[Borachio]

Do you think that for people stop taking drugs is more likely with goverment which honestly tries to take measures against drugs or with one who does so only in name and covertly cooperates with drug mafia plus is using the war on drugs in its schemes for suppressing and controlling the population?

Well, in my opinion, neither is more likely.

Taking drugs or not is a matter of personal choice. Nothing to do with the government at all.

But if you're a person who doesn't like the way you think the government is covertly cooperating with drug gangs while simultaneously claiming to wage war on drugs...

....don't take drugs. And thereby spit in their eye.