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Iommic Pope wrote:What, and deal with the inbred descendents of the Bounty mutineers telling us what to do, as opposed to a penis with ears and DTs?
Fuck Norfolk. It'd be the same deal on a smaller scale.
To be honest, our cozying up to China leaves a lot to be desired as well. You should see all the rhetoric in the National Curriculum about our relationship with "Asia" (read China), that shit starts in the Prep year. It makes me sound like a racist xenophobe I know, but I just don't believe in catering to the whims of a government like theirs just because we want them to keep buying shit we pulled out of the ground. This country needs its own fucking identity and industries ASAfuckingP.
Instead of selling everything to multinationals and sending everyone who isn't white to be detained in countries who have no concept of human rights.
More to the point, we need to stop electing fuckwits.
Cause, you know, coal is the mother fucking future.
Apparently.
Lobstrosity wrote:Dad-a-chum? Dod-a-chock?
snipelfritz wrote:
While our government is an ineffective mess right now, I think we need to be very careful in our reforms. When you abandon one system or ideology it will be replaced by a preexisting one and I think the current tea-party/libertarian waves would do far more harm than good.
I could go on but I need to get back to work now.
aen wrote:Or I'll just use fuzz. Then Ill sound cool regardless.
Achtane wrote:Well, volcanoes are pretty fuckin' cool. Like I guess lava flows are doomy. Slow and still able to to melt your eardrums.
rfurtkamp wrote:The only transparent thing I own is a set of drinking glasses.
Chankgeez wrote:A.K.A. I'm sick and tired of our two party system.
(Non-Americans welcome to chime in on how your system of government is better/worse.)
rfurtkamp wrote:The only transparent thing I own is a set of drinking glasses.
Derelict78 wrote:snipelfritz wrote:
While our government is an ineffective mess right now, I think we need to be very careful in our reforms. When you abandon one system or ideology it will be replaced by a preexisting one and I think the current tea-party/libertarian waves would do far more harm than good.
I could go on but I need to get back to work now.
Please don't lump us Libertarians in with the tea party.
Iommic Pope wrote:Skip, you rule. You hate people so much, you're willing to discredit all human progress, its awesome.
Derelict78 wrote:snipelfritz wrote:
While our government is an ineffective mess right now, I think we need to be very careful in our reforms. When you abandon one system or ideology it will be replaced by a preexisting one and I think the current tea-party/libertarian waves would do far more harm than good.
I could go on but I need to get back to work now.
Please don't lump us Libertarians in with the tea party.
rustywire wrote:Ultimately? Yes. The makeup of the Supreme Court matters.
The far right wing, is intrinsically fear-based in the majority of its ideology and how it sells agenda to the public.
Conservatism by definition seeks to preserve a myopic view of what is, and often times a romanticized view of what was; wearing rose colored glasses while speaking in black & white terms. It also means stripping down mechanisms and systems designed to protect the public from the greed of the powerful, and entrenching interests through privatization. On financial and social issues, the belief is that minority should rule and make the important decisions about the lives of other people. Only their beliefs are sacred, yet even those can be exploited to make money, and justified.
The far left, is intrinsically as power hungry, invasive and self-righteous. Fear mongering isn't the issue here....it's arguably a darker shade of sinister; they engage in political witchhunts in a new type of McCarthyism. The PC cops are some of the most grating people you will ever meet, browbeating and fingerwagging at everyone who doesn't talk and think and act like them. Seen the movie Demolition Man? That "new order" society is the stuff those elite liberals dream of, with themselves as the "saviors" and benefactors. They can provide all the answers through government programs, funded by the public but employing only approved, like-minded individuals.
Both seek to maintain the status quo, meaning the rich should get richer and everyone else should remain poor and grateful to have the opportunity to serve. Both are big fans of the police state...but only when they're in power. Both are easily offended, the right when their beliefs are challenged, the left...being accused of anything that's "beneath them". Sentiment trumps fact, people spend so much time suppressing emotion that it erupts into overreaction when the right trigger is pressed.
And in a 2-party dominated system...everyone gets screwed. Even the elite, which they fail to realize or simply don't care. They could be reaping huge rewards through the collective colonization of the solar system...but humans, in this present state of arrogance and entitlement, do not deserve other worlds to ruin in pursuit of creature comforts and petty pleasures of the flesh. A "me-first" mentality is not how to take that next step.
This is where I say "IDK, I'm full of shit" because I just typed a bunch of negative nancy political crap. I'd rather not talk or think about this stuff, it only makes everyone angry/angrier.
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Derelict78 wrote:snipelfritz wrote:
While our government is an ineffective mess right now, I think we need to be very careful in our reforms. When you abandon one system or ideology it will be replaced by a preexisting one and I think the current tea-party/libertarian waves would do far more harm than good.
I could go on but I need to get back to work now.
Please don't lump us Libertarians in with the tea party.
Behndy wrote:i don't like people with "talent" and "skills" that don't feel the need to cover their inadequacies under good time happy sounds.
dase wrote:... vote to keep the worst of them out.
…...........................…psychic vampire. wrote:The important take away from this thread: Taoism and Ring Modulators go together?
aen wrote:Or I'll just use fuzz. Then Ill sound cool regardless.
Achtane wrote:Well, volcanoes are pretty fuckin' cool. Like I guess lava flows are doomy. Slow and still able to to melt your eardrums.
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