Robin Williams rant

What can we do to change the minds of decision makers and people in general to actually do something about preparing for the forthcoming economic/energy crises (the ones after this one!)?

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Robin Williams rant

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Some delusional thinking going around on Facebook which I haven't shared. I wouldn't like to propagate it in any way in a public forum that wouldn't have the overall sense to see what rubbish he is spouting. I don't doubt that there will be a few here who would agree with it though.
ROBIN WILLLIANS (sic) MADE THIS SPEECH IN NEW YORK .

The Plan!

Robin Williams, wearing a shirt that says 'I love New York ' in Arabic.

Robin Williams' plan...(Hard to argue with this logic!)

"I see a lot of people yelling for peace but I have not heard of a plan for peace. So, here's one plan":

1) 'The US, UK , CANADA and AUSTRALIA will apologize to the world for our 'interference' in their affairs, past & present. You know, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Tojo, Noriega, Milosevic, Hussein, and the rest of those 'good 'ole' boys', we will never 'interfere' again.

2) We will withdraw our troops from all over the world, starting withGermany , South Korea , the Middle East, and the Philippines . They don't want us there. We would station troops at our borders. No one allowed sneaking through holes in the fence.

3) All illegal aliens have 90 days to get their affairs together and leave. We'll give them a free trip home. After 90 days the remainder will be gathered up and deported immediately, regardless of whom or where they are from. They're illegal!!! France will welcome them.

4) All future visitors will be thoroughly checked and limited to 90 days unless given a special permit!!!! No one from a terrorist nation will be allowed in. If you don't like it there, change it yourself and don't hide here. Asylum would never be available to anyone. We don't need any more cab drivers or 7-11 cashiers.

5) No foreign 'students' over age 21. The older ones are the bombers. If they don't att end classes, they get a 'D' and it's back home baby.

6) The US, UK , CANADA and AUSTRALIA will make a strong effort to become self-sufficient energy wise. This will include developing non-polluting sources of energy but will require a temporary drilling of oil in the Alaskan wilderness. The caribou will have to cope for a while.



7) Offer Saudi Arabia and other oil producing countries $10 a barrel for their oil. If they don't like it, we go someplace else. They can go somewhere else to sell their production. (About a week of the wells filling up the storage sites would be enough.)



If there is a famine or other natural catastrophe in the world, we will not 'interfere..' They can pray to Allah or whomever, for seeds, rain, cement or whatever they need. Besides most of what we give them is stolen or given to the army.. The people who need it most get very little, if anything.

9) Ship the UN Headquarters to an isolated island someplace. We don't need the spies and fair weather friends here. Besides, the building would make a good homeless shelter or lockup for illegal aliens.

10) All Americans must go to charm and beauty school. That way, no one can call us 'Ugly Americans' any longer. The Language we speak is ENGLISH...learn it...or LEAVE. Now, isn't that a winner of a plan?
The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying 'Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and she's yelling, 'you want a piece of me?' '
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Are we going to repay the trillions of dollars that we owe the rest of the world? Are we suddenly going to reduce our profligate use of Saudi oil and plunge our countries into recession, because that is what a sudden reduction in oil use will mean? Are we going to get on our bikes instead of driving our cars? Are we going to freeze this winter when the gas gets cut off or are we going to wear three jumpers and two pairs of trousers indoors while we sit around a candle and read a book because we don't have enough electricity?

The Saudis will tell us to stick our $10 a barrel and go sell their oil to the Chinese or the Japanese or the Indians or the Malaysians or the Koreans or even the Africans all of whom will be all to willing to gobble it up at $90 per barrel. The rest of the world will rejoice at the loss of the Monsantos, Syngentas and Bayers of this world who are poisoning their food supplies with the connivance of the so called "World Bank" and the IMF and heir trade agreements which are designed to bolster the US empire.

The rest of the world will find another reserve currency and the US will have to live on what it earns instead of pillaging the world to live way beyond its means. If you think that Cameron is making cuts now you ain't seen nothing when we have to pay our own way and live without a deficit.

The only losers with that plan would be us. Robin obviously doesn't realise what a pampered existence the US dollar being the world reserve currency brings to the average rich US citizen like him.
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kenneal - lagger wrote:............... are we going to wear three jumpers and two pairs of trousers indoors .............
I did last winter, I can do it this winter. It's just personal insulation. Couldn't you offer it as one of your energy saving solutions? :wink:
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Who is Robin Williams?
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So, isolationism grips the American psyche once again.

I listened to a Republican congressman being interviewed on the radio this morning,about the US Government shutdown. The interviewer was challenging him about the impact of the fracas on US reputation overseas. His response was that maybe they should stop worrying about that and concentrate on what's right for the US for a change.

The thing is, the US is one country that could probably handle self-sufficiency if it were to make a few fairly significant behaviour changes:

- Stop trying to maintain cities in places that were never going to be suited to human habitation (e.g. las Vegas).
- reestablish coastal and inland waterways, and rail, as major transport links
- Invest / reinvest in location-appropriate renewables (solar in the south, wind on the coast, hydro in the north)
- Rethink the farming system along more sustainable lines
- Increase energy prices and start an energy-efficiency drive
- Drive less

Of course, all this requires a certain political and social will, but the basics equation of land/resources per head does work in their favour.
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American isolationism might not be so bad if only they stopped using the rest of the planet as their trash dump.
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Well it seems to be isolationism with a few selected english speaking places, a step in the right direction but a bit too late, but the wave of the future .

I read a thread on here and people were going on about how we needed to get falling western living standards as part of "global justice" well thats just crazy talk, the mass of the people here dont want that and its unnatural, the whole we are the world brotherhood of man stuff is unnatural.
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Global warming is unnatural.
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biffvernon wrote:American isolationism might not be so bad if only they stopped using the rest of the planet as their trash dump.
You mean like the UK uses Nigeria for electronics scrap, and India for rusting ships?
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biffvernon wrote:Global warming is unnatural.
Of course it's natural. If it isn't, who were the culprits on the previous occasions when the globe warmed? Come on, we need to know.
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woodburner wrote:
biffvernon wrote:American isolationism might not be so bad if only they stopped using the rest of the planet as their trash dump.
You mean like the UK uses Nigeria for electronics scrap, and India for rusting ships?
Yep, just like that, but it is CO2 dumped in the air that is the global, rather than a local, issue.

Do stop trying to be an AGW denier. It does not befit a rational, sentient being.
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biffvernon wrote:Who is Robin Williams?
I thought he was very good in Awakenings.
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biffvernon wrote:
woodburner wrote:
biffvernon wrote:American isolationism might not be so bad if only they stopped using the rest of the planet as their trash dump.
You mean like the UK uses Nigeria for electronics scrap, and India for rusting ships?
Yep, just like that, but it is CO2 dumped in the air that is the global, rather than a local, issue.

Do stop trying to be an AGW denier. It does not befit a rational, sentient being.
I'm not, I'm just questioning your questionable statements.
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woodburner wrote:
biffvernon wrote:Global warming is unnatural.
Of course it's natural. If it isn't, who were the culprits on the previous occasions when the globe warmed? Come on, we need to know.
If it swims like a denialist and quacks like a denialist...

And what's so questionable about American isolationism might not be so bad if only they stopped using the rest of the planet as their trash dump.
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biffvernon wrote:
woodburner wrote:
biffvernon wrote:Global warming is unnatural.
Of course it's natural. If it isn't, who were the culprits on the previous occasions when the globe warmed? Come on, we need to know.
If it swims like a denialist and quacks like a denialist...

And what's so questionable about American isolationism might not be so bad if only they stopped using the rest of the planet as their trash dump.
Bit like a PS forum then.
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Post by JavaScriptDonkey »

Climatic stasis is unnatural.

Hardly relevant though.

As I read it Robin Williams was just trying to be funny although it does sound like he's trapped in the 80s.

Still.
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