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All you've ever heard is all there is to it; there is no good argument against it. It's bigotry, plain and simple. There is no slippery slope, there's no erosion to the 'sanctity of marriage' ( :1orglaugh )...it will be very clear when the history of the time is settled who was on the wrong...

Pro-tip: proper paragraphs and quotations are good. So is personal commentary - otherwise, what the hell's the point of posting it?

The unfortunate reality is that the 10th Amendment seems to mean fuck-all. Just take a look at balance of power between the States and the Federal government these days. I think I've only heard one politician ever mention the 10th Amendment in some sort of context (but hey, I'm hardly up on...

If only it were actually the case.

About fucking time, indeed! This is a fantastic step to catching up with the times' social progress.

I used to be in favor of the death penalty. Not as a punishment, but as a protection. After all, some people are really broken, right? No hope of rehabilitation, right? Right...? There are two problems with it that have caused me to lose support. The first is the fallibility of our (or any)...

There's always been a paradigm of the the repressed turning to an even 'lower class' to repress in order to raise themselves up, unfortunately. Just look at the history of immigration to New England. "We may not be as good as X, but we're so much better than Z! Stupid Z!" This seems to take the...

I don't know about Finland's situation, but unless you've done/seen all the proper statistics in context, I'd be very wary about believing that. Immigrant populations have always been easy targets for politicians and the media to dump their country's problems on and score easy points. Don't get...

Agreed. It's an inevitable development of equal rights, a no-brainer issue, and, frankly, a marring stain on America's moral credibility. There simply aren't any good arguments against same-sex marriage. None.

I suppose it's better. I dunno; I pretty much only participate in threads of political/philosophical 'debates' and random current event-type stuff. The 'debates' in the Politics section resembles something of a kindergarten class taking out their differences by throwing their own **** at each...

I wonder what the difference is between 'most sexually active' and 'most promiscuous'. Or if things just changed a lot from 2008: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1090612/Now-Britain-leading-world--promiscuity.html

If elections weren't such a circus in the US, I'd be all for that! That said, after voting in the last US presidential election and the last UK general election, I decided I won't vote for either side of a two-party monopoly ever again. Well, you might say: 'That seems dogmatic! What if they...

Or you could do something useful and vote for somebody else. It always astounds me that we all seem to **** the whole two party system, yet adamantly refuse to do anything to change it. Most just stay home because their 'team' didn't field somebody they liked. Vote for a third party. It...

Re: Point / Counter Point to xfire's post, concerning spending. This really belongs in the other thread. Can somebody merge it?

You know this thread contains a graph that supports xfire's position, right? I imagine the one you wanted us to focus on was the one with no context and is brought to us by an out-and-out conservative who throws 'liberal' around like an insult on his (many) websites (clearly a credible, unbiased...

Why would there be fighting then? Or is this an academic 'what if'? I must confess I didn't pay any attention to past conflicts while I was living in the UK. Sure, but a quick look down most British high streets will show you mostly foreign-owned (mostly American) businesses. I even found an...

As an American Brit, I think the US needs to stay out. And if Argentina has a legitimate claim, I think the UK needs to let go. National imperialism is over. The UK needs to get over itself and realize the new corporate imperialism is the new trend and it's pretty far behind.

...I think a better response would have been simply that anecdotal evidence is pretty much meaningless. There are, of course, people just as Bloodshot has described. They exist, of course. Some are certainly better people than me. I do not feel they are anywhere near a majority or...

I see unfortunate and potentially dangerous trends of nationalism throughout Europe as most of the governments slide to the right. Doesn't bode well.

And that's a bad thing? :facepalm: The EU's a bit of a toughy; no individual country likes losing its power to some other government (States' rights, anyone?). At the same time, the EU - as the EU - holds considerable power. The power of the individual countries hasn't held a candle to that...

The decline of 4 and 6 are fantastic. The one for **** is purely American; most Europeans I've talked to wonder what the hell's wrong with people for ******** any of the big commercial 'beers' here. So as joilover said: advertising. 5, 7 and 8 are simply obsolete. Desktops are simply too...

As I dig chicks who can talk politics (does that rhyme? I want it to), you have been getting my votes each day. Just like the last two years! :thumbsup:

You've been getting a vote from me each day. I've thoroughly enjoyed your very threads on rather different (and seemingly random - but in a good way) stuff since you got here. Plus, how could I not vote for someone with a Star Wars reference in their name (that is a Star Wars reference, right...

Americans haven't the foggiest clue. Not sure why the Frenchman doesn't; most of the French (or any Europeans, really) I've met have a much better understanding of the different terms and forms of government. Here, they say pictures are a thousand words...compare these two back to back...

Some of that is spot on (emphasis added): Key. Seems pretty straightforward to me. Of course, when we talk about the USA, there are exceptions - many, in fact. There are large rural areas and vast distances between places as of yet unbridged by useful alternatives. Some cities don't have...

Me too. I'm going to attempt to segue this disappointing and pointless back-and-forth flaming back to the topic with this on-both-topics quote by Albert Einstein:

It's too painfully, frequently true... You know, I'm not pro-Democrat. I am anti-Republican (anybody who sees a contradiction in that is part of the problem with voting in this country). They really aren't out for the good of...well, any kind of majority. Pretty much ever. At least the...

Boothbabe posted the first tool back in 2010. I think it's been reposted a few times since, though this post is at least the second tool...still, I can't complain about repeat threads about this. It's something that people should be interested in, even just in passing. I don't think it's at all...

I've had the first Scale of the Universe tool set as my home page for ages. Gotta love the chilled out background music! This one, in comparison, seems incredibly slow to load and a lot...clunkier, in application. Perhaps that's just the .swf deliver. This second tool seems to have more stuff...

BART'll get you into the city and after that, honestly, you can pretty easily walk everywhere. San Francisco's a tiny square as far as cities go (under 50 square miles. For reference, LA is just under 500 square miles, Denver just over 150 though neither boasts such a neat geometric shape as San...

I love this man.

If you're referring to the strip searching, that's the problem - there no longer has to be any kind of cause. If you're arrested - for any reason, whatsoever, including erroneously (as the man who brought all this up in court was) - they can strip search you. At will. If you get transferred...

Here's the Wiki article which is a little more clear: Majority: Kennedy, Roberts, Scalia, Alito and Thomas Dissent: Breyer, Ginsburg, Sotomayor and Kagan

Apologies if someone has already posted something about this (though they must've had some creative title for it!). http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/florence-v-board-of-chosen-freeholders-of-the-county-of-burlington/...

Ha ha ha ha.

Agreed. Scares the hell out of me!

...as I'm potentially moving to Germany in the Fall, I'm really sad to hear this. :(

For the topic's question, 'why do men cheat?' I was going to say something similar to: My answer would have been: the biological urge to ***** with as many partners as possible being constrained into the extreme opposite of the relatively new concept of monogamy. I.e., there's a natural drive...

I'm curious if anybody knows this (I certainly don't, which is why I'm asking), but is there any particular legal reason why an individual state couldn't adopt a universal healthcare system like Canada's or like some European countries? I suppose that's the direction Romney took Massachusetts...

This topic's been pretty well beat to death on this board; just give the Talk section a search for 'piracy' or 'file sharing' and you'll get a few repeat discussions already.

Ha ha ha... Just for some contrast, here's the UK a couple winters ago: http://www.*******-munch.com/images/UkSnow_7thJan2010.jpg

Sadly, once you get people's personal enjoyment aside, the unusually dry and sunny weather in some parts are messing with all sorts of plant growth cycles like trees and such that simply aren't doing their usual thing. Got some relatives near the Welsh border who told me they haven't seen...

This thread is hilarious. I would just like to have it be known that no one here can credibly complain about trolls. Because you lot love to fucking feed them.

I would really, really like those in doubt to have a look at the linked PDF study in that article, here. You don't even have to go beyond the abstract: To summarize: those who believe in fucked up **** (logically speaking) tend to be fucked up. Makes pretty good sense, really. And as for guns...

I've worked in a bar here in the UK for the last two years, and I'd say...at least three out of four times, if a gal's in with a guy and she's either: a) smoking hot b) really cute (you know what I mean by the distinction) or c) actually nice to talk to then the fella's she's with is a dick...

Has anyone read The Ethical Slut? It has a lot to say about polyamory in contrast to monogamy (actually, that's what the book is about). Worth a flip through, if you're interested on the subject.

I think I might be visiting Ontario this summer. Any recommendations?

How many options do you get for a poll? This sort of question might be better represented by an open poll to get a good look at members' heights all at once. I'm 185 cm tall, m'self.

I wouldn't be surprised if he ends up with violent anti-social behaviors later on in life.