US Politics Mega-thread - Page 4600

On August 01 2016 08:10 Gorsameth wrote:

Are you ok with Trump ordering you to commit war crimes?
Would you purposefully seek to kill women and children if ordered to do so by your commander in chief Donald Trump?

On August 01 2016 08:12 GGTeMpLaR wrote:


That's not how it works lol

On August 01 2016 08:12 GGTeMpLaR wrote:


That's not how it works lol

On August 01 2016 08:17 m4ini wrote:


Let me ask you, because i'm actually interested.

Did you serve, at all?

On August 01 2016 08:21 Gorsameth wrote:

We Dutch barely have a military to speak off, No i didn't serve.

I also don't see how it is relevant to the point that Trump has stated he wishes to have the US army commit war crimes by targeting civilians.

The deep waters off the coast of California could become home to the country’s largest offshore wind energy project and a test case for a technology that is still in its infancy.

The 765-megawatt project, proposed by Seattle-based Trident Winds, would sit about 25 miles off California’s central coast, near the town of Cambria. If built, it will be larger than the 630-megawatt London Array off the coast of Kent, – the world’s largest working offshore wind farm that began operating in 2013.

The Trident project, which could power more than 200,000 homes, reflects an interest by the US to embrace offshore wind energy as part of a broader strategy to develop low-carbon electricity sources. The country has no offshore wind farms, though a number of projects are in the research phase to determine their profitability. The very first project to come online in the US is under construction off the coast of Rhode Island: the 30-megawatt Block Island wind farm that is expected to begin operating later this year.

Offshore wind development already has taken off in Europe and other parts of the world. The UK, for example, has installed more than 5 gigawatts of offshore wind power plants, meeting 10% of its total energy demand.

“It’s just another very valuable resource that not only will be benefiting energy generation, but will create a new industry in the state of California,” says Alla Weinstein, CEO of Trident Winds.

Trident is proposing an unprecedented project in a state that has frowned on coastal energy development ever since a 1969 blowout at an offshore oil drilling platform near Santa Barbara, which released more than 3m gallons of crude oil into the waters. The resulting images of soiled beaches and oily seabirds were splashed around the world and helped launch the modern environmental movement.

Recent attempts to build machines to harness the power of ocean currents off the state’s coast also drowned in failure as they ran into technical and financial problems and protests from local communities.

California has some of the world’s toughest coastal development regulations. The state’s first large seawater desalination project, for example, took more than six years to win government approval and survived 14 lawsuits before construction started.

On August 01 2016 08:23 m4ini wrote:


Because he can wish whatever he wants. It won't be done. Like, what do people like you actually think what soldiers do? Mindless drones? What if he orders every liberal soldier to commit suicide, you think suddenly they drop like flies?

No soldier, and no commander, will run head first into being prosecuted as a war criminal. And that decision is not up to trump, but military courts.

edit:

And i don't think i'll lean myself too far out of the window if i tell you that Templar, as much as i constantly disagree with him, will not "hunt down women and children". Even if ordered.

On August 01 2016 08:26 Gorsameth wrote:

My point was that Templar states he trusts Trump more as his boss then Hillary.

I am indeed no soldier but I sure would not trust my commander if he has publicly advocated for war crimes, regardless of how likely he is to give that order (or have it followed).

On August 01 2016 08:34 Nevuk wrote:
I think HRC is probably more likely to start an excessive level of small-scale conflicts. I think Trump is more likely to launch a nuke randomly.

On August 01 2016 08:00 Plansix wrote:

Why do you assume every comment about voting for Trump is about you?

On August 01 2016 08:45 Nyxisto wrote:
Trump's completely chaotic course on anything goes pretty much against the Washington dogma of being predictable above anything else as far as foreign policy is concerned. I remember the kind of criticism Obama received for not following through on his 'red line'. Compared to this Trump is pure entropy. There's not even any point to argue about what he's potentially going to do because it's all conjecture.

On August 01 2016 08:24 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:
How are people complaining of an offshore site 40 miles out in the ocean?



Source

On August 01 2016 08:57 biology]major wrote:


Our foreign policy up to this point has been awful, and your country especially has seen the aftermath via refugee influx due to all of the power vacuums that the USA helped create. Isolationist conjecture is actually an improvement over what we have currently.

On a side note the EU needs to restrict immigration completely from a lot of the high risk countries in the middle east for Trump's immigration ban to be effective. Otherwise they will just abuse the open border policy of the EU before infiltrating the US. Either way this vetting process needs to be improved, and I am curious on how we can accomplish that. Just like the wall, Trump's ban on immigration at the moment is going to be marginally effective and more symbolic than anything. However I'd say it's at least the right direction.

On August 01 2016 07:58 GGTeMpLaR wrote:


I'm currently deployed right now and believe I'm more likely to have to deploy again under Clinton than Trump.

On August 01 2016 08:12 GGTeMpLaR wrote:


That's not how it works lol

On August 01 2016 08:57 biology]major wrote:


Our foreign policy up to this point has been awful, and your country especially has seen the aftermath via refugee influx due to all of the power vacuums that the USA helped create. Isolationist conjecture is actually an improvement over what we have currently.

On a side note the EU needs to restrict immigration completely from a lot of the high risk countries in the middle east for Trump's immigration ban to be effective. Otherwise they will just abuse the open border policy of the EU before infiltrating the US. Either way this vetting process needs to be improved, and I am curious on how we can accomplish that. Just like the wall, Trump's ban on immigration at the moment is going to be marginally effective and more symbolic than anything. However I'd say it's at least the right direction.