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With a few exceptions, 'military pressure' has almost always been about sending men to die to line some rich folks' pockets. The military industrial complex is one hell of a money-making machine, and all it needs is fresh meat and an insane (at least in the US) portion of our taxes to keep it going.

meester, I'm only going to address you this once because I don't like wasting my time: you're so slanted I'm surprised you can stand upright. I tell you this because I give you more credit than, say, Will or Sam, who I simply ignore as a sociopath and troll respectively. :facepalm: I don't...

I'm still not sure why more states haven't adopted Vote by Mail. It's incredibly convenient.

Pffft. I voted weeks ago. Absentee ballots FTW!

I really don't like the rep system; I know it's the way it is to prevent *****, but I find it hard to 'spread it around' when there's only a few rep-worthy postings to spread it too. I couldn't find any good numbers, but I'd be curious to see how many viewers were watching the third debate...

Positively brilliant. I'd love to see crowd/'net comments on that. You know, I think I've finally figured you out. You're a sociopath. I just did some reading on some of the common traits, and your behavior makes a lot more sense now.

Vote for Johnson. I've heard insanity defined many times as doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different outcome - it makes perfect sense in politics. I'm voting Green, myself. Sure, they're not going to win, but at least I'm voting for change, and not supporting the...

On the off chance you haven't been been told this already, every time you say 'Nobama' you come off as a moronic partisan hack. This is not to justify or even recognize what Obama said or may or may not have meant, but the only - only only only - factor that encouraged lower energy consumption...

Dawkins the Angry Athiest; it's the most-often used counter that I've heard to The God Delusion (it's the entire premise of The Dawkins Delusion), though it misses actually calling him wrong. That said, I once heard the best explanation for this sort of behavior on behalf of atheists, and I wish...

I must say, jumping on the odd typo doesn't make a very good point. That said... You have repeatedly shown yourself to be a partisan hack, and with this an un-American one to boot. You don't do Republicans any favors in credibility when you post. I'm hardly in the 'conservative' group, nor am...

There was some interesting statistics for 'Solid Liberal': And: I know from having perused government statistics that some 68% of Americans don't have a passport (I can find the stats again if there is any dispute) - a stat that for me is quite telling of many attitudes toward 'the rest of the...

To ridicule that he has the right to those views may be un-American, but to ridicule his views is very much American.

Anybody watch it? ...can anybody point me to where I might be able to watch it? Trying to watch it in five-minute Youtube clips isn't at all worthwhile. In the meantime, for those who did: thoughts?

I run the risk of erroneously transposing certain aspects I see from the US onto Europe with this post, but I usually find people are more similar than they are different... While it's true that bipartisanism is the norm, at least with many of the European governments this can be buffered by...

Some would say that being a third party in the US means by definition it isn't a serious political party. But I digress... In my commitment to avoid either main two parties, I'm actually voting Green this election. I don't agree with their whole platform, naturally - the adamant opposition to...

Another step toward equality. :thumbsup: Absolutely. :clap:

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I just received my overseas ballot from Oregon and was quite surprised to find Measure 80, which for all intent and purpose legalizes ********* and hemp in Oregon. I was surprised in that during my summer back in Oregon I heard nothing about it, while I heard plenty about Washington's Measure...

:cool: I feel like Romney's tax returns wouldn't change much. That is to say, I don't think they'll paint him any worse than he's already been painting himself throughout the campaign. Like many have already commented in the forum, I've still yet to see anybody bring up a reason to vote for...

Unfortunately. It would be far more useful if those on the list for all intent and purpose stopped existing. Instead I get a post that has probably about as much point to it as what the (same two on Sup's list) individuals posted telling me I've got them on ignore. Yes, I know this. You make it...

I heartily agree with this, and I did the same thing and even with the terrible results, will probably do the same thing again: vote Lib-Dem. My first national office vote went to Obama, but after that I'd decided I wouldn't vote for either countries' main two parties again. And I won't. Not...

Ha ha ha...it's sad, but true. That's why I opted for 'education' in that other thread that listed priorities. An educated populace knows how to avoid war (or more importantly, leaders who will take them to war). An educated populace will pick leaders who will pick policies that won't give the...

...yeah. I'm still seeing threads started by him with replies from people not him. We can do better.

I'll give a +1 to this. I'm a fair bit of an environmentalist myself, but I understand that our (especially the American) way of life is based on excessive waste and you cannot be environmentally friendly with it...as you say with your iPad and yoga pants examples (or their Prius, which while...

Fair warning - the water is super chalky here in Mannheim. No telling what that does to one's jizz!

I would like to direct you to my award-winning (nyuk nyuk) post, A Short Guide to the Internet Troll. To paraphrase: basically every response you give to Sam is giving him what he wants. No matter how clever you think you're being, no matter how much smarter you feel you are, he is winning the...

I was about to say the same thing... I honestly think it's folks like these - over the many decades of this country's life - that have poisoned culture enough to create the US' seeming monopoly on 'greatest number of violent psychopaths'. People point to our *** crime as a argument to get rid...

Ditto, though I'd go one further - an educated, critically-thinking population is key to all of the above.

To be fair...in the history of energy consumption, only one cause has prompted energy usage to go down: Higher prices. Not efficiency, better technology, etc (every advance in energy efficiency/savings/etc has been met with an increase in demand to make it a zero-sum gain). Higher prices...

Yeah, yeah, just caught that. ...this is what I get for staying out of the States for so long. My bad!

What brought this up, Bloodshot?

I'm surprised - well, not in this current light, but before - that more States haven't tried to go with the vote-by-mail system Oregon uses. I can't really think of an easier system for voters. And apparently there have been only 9 legitimate cases of voter fraud within the system since 2000...

It's not Republican behavior that surprises me, this blatant disregard for the democratic process. It's dirty, it's underhanded, but it's not surprising. What is - and this is but another reason why I'm glad my summer back in the country is brief - is that the courts aren't striking them down...

Nevermind that these campaigns cost a great deal of money. Where's that fiscal responsibility they harp about...? I would say that the Republicans have very little chance of winning the White House this election, except with these tactics in play. Which I would not think are legal...

Considering unwanted and supported ******** are more likely to grow up to be on welfare or be criminals or any other number of above-average stresses and ills to society, abortions save a lot more than just taxpayer money. I see nothing wrong with the statement in the topic title. ****** is...

I was about to say...maybe 86% of his coverage is negative because he's an awful candidate? I mean, just sayin'.

Oy, you two. The power play to out-word-wit each other makes you both look bad. Remember one of the universal truths of the internet argument: It's like the Special Olympics. Even if you win... And in this instance of easy hypocrisy, I'll concede, with two caveats: the first being that...

Yet, both and happen to also come from Leviticus yet people have no qualms preaching those as current and absolute biblical law.

That's good news.

:thumbsup: When you do the same thing over and over again and expect different results, we call this ______________ .

I definitely support getting rid of the penny. I know when I've visited Netherlands (perhaps the guys that live there could confirm this is normal?), all prices ended in .x5 or .x0. No .99 BS. It was refreshing...and not at all inconvenient.

Vote for someone else. Seriously.

This is very true and shows us the limitations of what we can imagine. I would say the natural, observable laws of science can be treated as evidence against things they show cannot be (the law of conservation of energy, for example). As I mentioned perhaps less than articulately on the last...

Re: Want to win a FREE iPad3 from Gamelink and FreeOnes? Then you'll want to look ins All right, I'll bite... I spent my '10' (5) free minutes watching Angelina Valentine in Mandingo Massacre 4. And it was the best five minutes of my day.

I'm not one to normally say this, but I'm always highly entertained by dirk shooting down Will in spectacular fashions (which Will makes incredibly easy to do, to be fair). I wonder if any of it will sink in? I also wonder what it's like to have a worldview that finds reality irrelevant. Is it...

I'm really happy to see this. I'm hope it makes an impact outside of these mayors' cities though, considering all those listed as 'leading sponsors' are from States that are pretty pro-choice anyway (and I'm happy to say I voted for one of those named mayors!). Bloomberg, though. Ha ha...

I'm not talking about effects on the over all climate when I talk about certain aspects of pollution. I'm talking about the more specific instances - we dump something in a river, half the river ecosystem dies and people get sick from swimming in it. Loads of specific instances where pollution...

Ah, global warming. Let me ask you (all) this: we know we consume far more than we need to, and that consumption has very real, very bad effects on our environment. Air quality, water quality, landfills, etc. These are not debatable. Then there's also this very good chance that it's fucking...

Ehhh... Self-satisfying damning: 1 A search for solutions: 0

This brings up a good discussion on society's level of responsibility for ********. While I fully agree with the sentiment, it's quite likely he's unable to pay for his ********. Which leaves us in a spot, doesn't it? It might seem righteous and justified to simply leave him to the wind, but of...