“Obliterating Everything”: 30 Of The Most Monumental Mistakes In History

We need to tax the hell out of religion

Prosperity Gospel my @** God loves me and wants me to be rich? Two private 737s so you don't have to fly with demons? Can we say scammers? Tax them. Tax them all

I've been a Christian almost my whole life and give liberally to my church. I STILL think they should be taxed!

In Germany you have to pay church tax if you were baptized as baby. But you can write a letter to the church and tax authority that you are not member of one of the two christian churches (protestant/catholic) any more. No tax, and no marriage at the church

TAX THE PAEDOS

Our politicians are for sale - everyone knows this. Any wealthy person can purchase the favors of a member of Congress, Senate, or president for that matter, and no democracy can thrive or work effectively within those circumstances. When elected officials are enacting the will of the wealthy few rather than the will of the voters, then that country is f****d.

1) The supreme court did not say corporations are people. It said since a corporation is a group of people (the shareholders), any restrictions would violate those shareholders speech. If they had ruled otherwise, all labor unions would have faced the same restrictions on speech, and of the top 10 spenders on campaigns, 8 are labor unions. Unions would have been destroyed by any other ruling. As to corporate personhood, that is a ruling from the british empire in the 1700s that is grandfathered into our legal system. It means for legal liability and lawsuits a corporation is considered as a "person", otherwise you would need to list every single shareholder by name in a lawsuit (even if they own 1 stock), etc.

"These simple assertions have guided America toward more greed and more war than any other decision in history." Seriously? That was only ruled in 2013. Talk about hyperbole.

I'll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one .

One of the worst and nonsensical rulings ever. Gaslighting America. Get money out of politics, religion, medical necessity, and retirement

The uneasy part for me is that I really don't see a way out of this. The people capable of and responsible for redressing this horrible decision are the same people who are directly benefitting from it. I think this is going to require a French-level type of revolution, and I just don't think a highly divided nation of 330 million people are willing to do that. Yet.

The Government was never intended to be what it is today. The mistake of allowing politicians to profit from their positions was the biggest downfall. They should not make more than the average wage of their constituents, and should not be allowed to make book deals, or any other "deals" until they are out of office. Politicians were meant to be the voice of the people, not the voice of their own pockets.

*The second amendment.

Could somebody explain this "Supreme Court's Citizens United decision" for a non-American in very few words? I know I could Google it, but I feel lazy.

That is the truest statement

in 1994 a VP at Sears wanted to make their website more than just a PDF of their catalog, and create a online credit card purchase system, and full online shopping. He was fired for his suggestion because it would have been expensive and the other execs thought the internet would be more just the basic primitive it was then and that people wouldnt want to shop that way.

Sears was quite the institution during my youth - 60s / 70s. We didn't have internet, very few big box stores (K-mart) and several places I lived did not have a mall. But we had Sears and their catalog. It was sort of sad to watch them wither and die. I could see it coming long before it became public. Selection shrinking, more and more of the sales staff looked like they were young / maybe first job as the older more experienced people bailed out for greener pastures and stuff like that.

RIP

The gift that keeps on giving!

A joke I heard from some Brits on Nov 9 2016. "We thought no country could mess up as bad as the UK did with Brexit. Then America threw in its Trump card"

We warned them multiple times but they listen? Noooooo.

No words for this self-inflicted wound. So many people bought it, hook, line, and sinker

Well, you bloodthirsty bun murderer, now look what you've done.

in a similar vein: introducing grey squirrels to the UK. now they're everywhere and the lovely little red squirrels are much more scarce

Unintended consequences. So many invasive species were brought to places and then they destroyed the native critters and habitat. Frustrating

Cane Toads also deserve a mention... introduced to fight sugar cane beetle...1/3 of Australia invaded ... so far. Poisonous to native animals and reptiles.

Some genius way back thought bringing Canada geese to Sweden was a good idea, so now we too get to enjoy the devils own birds!

Don’t mess with the horse people

The Wrath of Khan! the made a whole movie about it.

If re-elected, trump could do that too !

Don't mess with Temujin!!

Like the Mongols weren't going to invade anyway. Peaceful my a*s. They probably would have simply wrapped up the Jin war first.

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