In 1990, more than 60% of people in East Asia were in extreme poverty. Now only 3.5% are.

x11x2 · 2016-10-03T12:32:55+00:00

If you need to occasionally move a couch you could easily rent a truck, moving van. Ive seen them go for $30 a day in the US. It makes no sense to have a truck if you need to only occasionally use the bed. Even once a month.

Unless you are using the truck for towing/hp or need the bed at least once a week it is complete waste and something Americans buy for ego/image.

x11x2 · 2016-10-03T12:28:37+00:00

the damage they could is in the past, Farc cant do anything anymore. They were were slowly dying and they got a sweet deal to quit early before getting defeated, they will just negotiate a deal less favorable to Farc, the Farc has no choice but to accept.

x11x2 · 2016-10-03T12:26:21+00:00

The article is also about how Assad is hated even by Alawhites and Christians.

x11x2 · 2016-10-03T04:23:04+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_natural_gas_proven_reserves

Nothing in Syria. The gas is from Egypt. It doesnt need to go through Syria.

x11x2 · 2016-10-03T04:08:59+00:00

I am just curious to who you think bombed it. Can you give me your theory? I promise not to criticize it, I just want to hear it.

x11x2 · 2016-10-03T04:07:44+00:00

it doesnt need an /s

I didnt mean to type the / it was typo

I dont believe in announcing it ruins the sarcasm.

x11x2 · 2016-10-03T04:07:32+00:00

Syria doesnt have enough resources to fight over, it has some oil but not much.

x11x2 · 2016-10-03T03:48:05+00:00

Im not people like that, I wouldnt personally partake in Syria death tourism. I am just pointing out how Syria could get tourism. You need to play off the strenghts of the location, you dont market Canada as a tropical getaway for instance.

The people that would pay to go to a country in the middle of a brutal civil war displacing millions and killing hundreds of thousands are going to be your customer...

x11x2 · 2016-10-03T03:46:29+00:00

I was being sarcastic...

I wonder if you are dumb now for not spotting obvious sarcasm.

x11x2 · 2016-10-03T03:44:16+00:00

His regime is popular, Assad himself not so much.

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/04/how-bashar-al-assad-became-so-hated/275058/

If he gets lucky and wins this conflict in 10 more years, it is likely his own side will get rid of him. It isnt like he is Putin and the people are personally united under him, he is seen as arrogant, cruel, and incompetent by pretty much everyone in Syria. He pretty much personally turned a small protest into a civil war with his stupidity and had to be bailed out by foreign countries twice to save him from collapse. His regime isnt even that hated, just him, he is like a shit magnet due to his actions. Just a civil war is not best time for a leadership change.

x11x2 · 2016-10-03T03:41:05+00:00

Not really.

Adventure tourism. Join a militia kill IS. You get these rich people who pay millions to hunt deadly game in Africa imagine what you could do with human hunting in Syria, especially if you target terrorist.

Also Syria has torture prisons Assad uses, you could full on hostel. Torture and kill someone. With all those displaced refugees you could have thriving sex tourism industry, and Arab women can be exotic. Also I am sure drugs are pretty rampant, Hezbollah who is ally of Assad sell lots of drugs.

The main issue is they are marketing Syria, as a traditional holiday whereas they need to play off the strengths of Syria like carnage, anarchy, human suffering, hopelessness, desperation, mass murder, etc.

x11x2 · 2016-10-03T03:38:20+00:00

You are one exception. Maybe there is 3-4 more but I am sure the millions of other people are the same./

x11x2 · 2016-10-03T03:34:54+00:00

Actually Chinese are doing better than Americans. They consume less, waste less, and pollute less. They invest far more in public transit and green energy.

I think America is improving in this regard, but it has a long way to go, even to catch up to China.

China pollutes a lot because it has over a billion people, not that the people pollute alot. America pollutes a lot because truly the people are wasteful. When I visit America they have AC for the whole fucking house, and not room by room. They leave lights on. They let water run while they brush, and take long showers. They eat lots of beef, etc. You see these giant stores that have their temperature at 20 degrees, how much energy does that take. You see people driving massive 4 door trucks, where I am from you have truck if you do construction type work and need the bed, lawyers drive trucks in America.

x11x2 · 2016-10-03T03:29:42+00:00

Maybe, but increasingly automation is replacing cheap labor, and the West has advantages in that. Manufacturing is returning to US/Europe but there arent a lot of jobs returning with it since it is all automated. If you are engineer or programmer you get the job, the blue collar worker is just there to watch the machines.

x11x2 · 2016-10-03T03:18:34+00:00

Rip apart?

Not really. At this point Farc is down 7000 fighters, from 20000, and lost much of their territory. In the past sympathetic left wing governments would help them, but none can really afford to do so.

x11x2 · 2016-10-03T03:15:49+00:00

The war could resume but the Farc cant do much more. They are down to the last few, have no real leftist governments backing them.

x11x2 · 2016-10-03T03:11:43+00:00

IDK on Reddit we complain when governments make these decisions without consulting public, direct democracy. Espcially when the government makes bad decisions. At least they give the people an option. I would have voted for the peace treaty, but it is their country and their conflict they should be able to decide.

x11x2 · 2016-10-03T03:02:27+00:00

Curious,who do you think bombed it?

x11x2 · 2016-10-02T22:08:06+00:00

Iran supplies weapons to all of its proxies. Credit where credit is due.

It is not a Yemeni war it is a proxy war for Iran. Iran has proxies war all over ME, their main rival are gulf countries who fight Iran with less effective proxies.

x11x2 · 2016-10-02T22:07:03+00:00

They are doing the same thing, interfering in affairs when they shouldnt. They are making same mistake and the results will be disaster. Maybe mind your own business

x11x2 · 2016-10-02T21:49:19+00:00

My government wasnt involved with iraq...

As a non-American and non-russian, what Russia is doing in Syria is exactly what America did except they are fighting to keep a dictator in power instead of overthrowing and are more brutal to civilians than even US. If you support US in iraq but not Russia in Syria, or vice versa you are hypocrite.

x11x2 · 2016-10-02T21:48:11+00:00

lol, Iran has been caught all the time trying to supply them with weapons. Like every other day they find a ship with Iranian bound arms. And Iran does control Shia militias. This is no secret, it isnt offensive. If anything I give Iran respect for how much they can control Shia groups, much better than the Sunnis. That is why Iran's shia proxies do so well despite being outnumbered by Sunnis.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-yemen-security-idUSKCN0RU0R220150930

x11x2 · 2016-10-02T21:10:04+00:00

It isnt a secret they are a proxy force of Iran, why play coy? I am not criticizing Iran. It is normal for the region, everyone has proxy forces and arms other people. If anything Iran has the most control of its proxies and thus is able to equip them the best, Saudis cant do this because they could easily be their enemies the next day. It is what it is.

Iran hands out advanced weapons to Shia groups like candy at Halloween.

x11x2 · 2016-10-02T15:12:59+00:00

lol, sure.

200,000 dead and and a million civilians displaced in Syria, literally whole cities just rubble. Talk about ignorance.

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