Fiery_penguin_of_doom Posts

Somehow, "insert your disk" just doesn't fit the mood as well as "insert your cartridge". Also lacks touchscreen lulz.

I'm not pro-choice. I'm pro-abortion, plain and simple. No sugarcoating.

Anyway, while you may think that, I get this impression that your paranoia is getting the better of you, and you are overreacting. I'm not one for ignoring problems and hoping they go away, but I don't see our domestic spying issues escalating into Orwellian levels any time soon. I, probably overly optimistically, predict that once the Internet generation enters the political field proper, issues like Net Neutrality will cease to be an issue. The other problems won't be solved merely by arguing about then on the net, so I can't comment. I am not evading the issue. I'd like to plead the fifth, for fear my lack of knowledge will make me add something stupid(er) to the spiel.

Besides, it's not like we live in an Orwellian society, where Big Bro' is watching you at every hour. Even if we "lose" freedoms, it doesn't mean we have to give them up.

And, if big brother does decide to take a keen interest in my life, then I think I'd either leave, or failing that, fight.

There are many others as well, but things like the right privacy doesn’t bother me I don’t do anything illegal so no worries.

Of course a big deal should be price’s and wages, if let out of control prices would be too high and wages to low.

That is a good point, a college's credibility has gone downhill in the recent years. A well-versed high school graduate can probably be more knowledgeable than the an average college grad. Its for that reason that I don't often care which candidate gets more votes from college graduates, because they aren't much better than the rest of us.

I do agree, though. FOr a test such as the one I envisioned to be effective, there would have to be and even more accessible way to learn of the candidates. Question is if people would actually care enough to learn. As you said, Penguin, more people have voted for American Idol than the presidency.

At this rate, though, I may have to make a new thread (as suggested). I feel that I, for one, indeed am drifting off topic to more of an internal affairs argument than foreign.

Sorry 'bout that, guys.

Your soul decays in your immortal body

I wish you guys didn't ignore my post...

When you try to count past 28 you lose count and start again.

I wish I had the world's biggest burito!

Some suggest requiring knowledge or intelligence to vote, but frankly that goes against the whole point of the freedoms that the US constitution specifies, as well as one of the things I love about the US.

True, but everyone's desires will never be fulfilled or else there would have to be millions of parties. The system we have can potentially work, IF the government would actually do as the people say rather than force shit down our throats and tell us it's what we want.

hate my home country? definitely...moving out fast... it's a country that the majority have special privileges (quite illogical)

hate the US? no.. it's because of their culture/ideology that we have so much "fun" debating around ... on the net at least..

what is confusing to me (i ain't American)is why (in US) is there always the fight for a right to do something e.g. have weapons, have same- sex marriage etc. as oppose to u can do anything u like as long as it doesn't threaten the public interest aka not a criminal activity?

hmmm must be the difference in the way the constitution was written.. care to explain??

The arrogant Americans are the bigots that don't take time to look into the system on government in which they live. What especially pisses me off, however, are people that THINK they are educated and dump all of America's shit on the Republican party.

Now, I myself am no too left or right wing. I just find it sad how when something goes badly in this country, the Republican Party takes the blame and even has the decency to not say anything. For instance, this housing crisis (which led to our national economic crisis) is the direst result of sub-prime mortgages brought on by the Clinton Administration because Clinton wanted to be a straight-up Democrat and say "Hey, you should all have houses you can't afford." and the stupid Americans went for it. Sure it worked, for a time, but when the economy started to collapse under Bush and election times came around, Obama blamed it all on him and Bush didn't say a word. (Not that Bush wasn't free of flaws)

I think that what makes Americans bad is the extreme idiocy in trying to always appear progressive while being a bigot. I, personally, know the system of government in which I live, and yes I do look down on some people's system of government in foreign nations, but not because I believe that they should have democracy, but just because I believe they should have some kind of stable government that doesn't prosecute someone. If we tried to change that, though, what else would we install but democracy, the only governmental system we know? Once we try this, however, we're called arrogant for trying to help people. I know back-room politics muck up good intentions, but I believe that if we try to do something to improve the lives of others, we should continue with it even if our appearance diminishes in the world view. I've fought in Iraq and I've seen how life was pre and post Saddam, and the public loved us when Saddam fell. The only mistake we made, if you can call it that, was being tied down by insurgent activity and staying there too long.

Fast-forward 6 years, and we're nosy, fat, dumb, and stupid because we tried to help a people under a dictator.

This makes me feel old... and awesome.