Author Topic: [NEWS] Mexican border wall to be paid by US taxpayers, agency cuts; not Mexico  (Read 9693 times)

Badspot why are you suddenly more active

Can you not leave your house or something
i asked nicely

hes tied to a bed to make torque games for an obsessed fan.
(yes his legs are broken)

hes tied to a bed to make torque games for an obsessed fan.
(yes his legs are broken)
blockland 2: the search for more money is being created as we speak


huh, didn't know he was into that
Hmm...

human sacrifice, cats and dogs living together,
I'm sorry, but do you have something against Human Sacrifices?

Badspot why are you suddenly more active

Can you not leave your house or something
He's lost control of his life

Badspot why are you suddenly more active

Can you not leave your house or something
its the prophecy

The CIA/NSA black project budget is over $50 billion per year.  We could stop hacking phones and assassinating journalists for just one year and have enough cash to build the wall twice as high.  It's a win-win.
How can you be competent at basic engineering principles and still think this is a good idea?

How can you be competent at basic engineering principles and still think this is a good idea?

Because we're America goddamnit and we build tall stuff for a living

Because we're America goddamnit and we build tall stuff for a living
I know, but the whole appeal of building a wall is purely psychological. Armies of experts and skeptics have poked a million holes in it, and there has been absolutely no response or comment from the Annoying Orange team on how their wall will avoid problems like tunnels, ladders, and vandalism.

If you want me to give Annoying Orange credit, I'd like to think that the whole 'wall' is actually more-or-less an economic move. He's trying to stimulate the economy by throwing more money into infrastructure (whether that's necessary or not is debatable since we aren't in a recession anymore). But the problem is that there are huge areas of infrastructure that could be improved with that money.

Like Flint's corroded water pipes for instance.

like tunnels, ladders, and vandalism.

How many people would actually try to attempt this, and how many would actually succeed

How many people would actually try to attempt this, and how many would actually succeed
People already do, just on a miniature version of what the wall will be
It's not hard to get a slightly bigger ladder and a towel to cover barbed wire

How many people would actually try to attempt this, and how many would actually succeed
Maybe all the people in Mexico who make a living trafficking humans and drugs into the United States? They're gonna have to choose between bankruptcy or altering the way that they smuggle stuff, and they're obviously gonna go with the second option.

It doesn't even seem terribly difficult to smuggle over a wall either. The only real disadvantage posed by Annoying Orange's wall is that the border is no longer permeable to large motor vehicles, but you can work around that by just having two trucks meet up in the same spot and throwing the contraband over the wall. Perhaps using an air cannon?

As an example you can look at police strikes.  With no police on duty, many people take the opportunity to commit crimes and it can literally collapse civilization within a short period of time.  Let's say it's 0.5% of people who decide to descend into lawlessness.  Typical police numbers are around one officer for every 500-1000 people or 0.1% to 0.2% - so even if the police were on duty they would be overwhelmed by 0.5% of people committing crimes all at once.  It's not actually the lack of police that presents the danger, it's the idea of the lack of police.  If people are convinced they won't get caught, then they'll come out in such numbers that they won't.  It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, driven solely by an idea. 

Hideo Kojima was right

How can you be competent at basic engineering principles and still think this is a good idea?
i thought it was pretty clear his point is that the money taken from those black projects wouldnt be missed by anyone not in the upper echelons of the NSA/CIA.

there's still some physical downsides to the wall and its construction; as ipquarx mentioned it can end up affecting the environment along the border, and as phantos and kingdaro mentioned it can end up being a funnel to send more money to mr dj and/or his supporters.

also i strongly agree with badspot and the idea that we shouldn't laugh off "meme warfare" as something that wouldn't really affect society. if the internet can already effectively ruin the lives of individuals through slander and circlejerking (cecil the lion, parents of the child who harambe killed, basically any mainstream-media-reported internet crusade ever), what makes it improbable for it to be used for malicious means?
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