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04-07-2011, 04:58 AM | #26 | |||
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America is in decline. The country is bankrupt. Hyperinflation is coming. Compared to the people from 1776, people have no backbone today. The citizens back in the 1760s and early 1770s went ballistic when Parliament tried to tax a few pennies on their tea. Contrast that to today when government tries to force people to buy health insurance and the vast majority of people go back to listening to their ipods. The founders and citizens back in 1776 would have fought this government that now occupies Washington DC to the death. I would argue that the nation that was created 235 years ago no longer exists. The "New World" has come to have most of the trappings of the old one. And the people across this "fruited plain" no longer have the zeal for economic and personal liberty that made them special. So, I once thought the US was a force for good but no longer. We're never going to be a force for good again until we go back to our roots and rediscover what made the nation great in the first place. Last edited by Liberty4eva; 04-07-2011 at 05:02 AM. |
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04-07-2011, 05:28 AM | #27 | |||
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You sound like the Tea Party.
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04-07-2011, 05:31 AM | #28 | |||
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America is a work in progress, like all nations, and more importantly all human beings. Every year of these past 235 years has been better than the year before.
The world is most definitely getting better every day not worse, and America has a lot to do with that progress. If you could go back in time 50 years, 100 years, 200 years... meet the people of those time periods, i doubt you'd want to trade places with any of them. Name any time in history that was better than now. I'd be interested in knowing which time in history you believe is better than now. Which period of history had less poverty? which period had less disease? which period had more equality? which period has less violence, less rape, less crime? I can't think of any.
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04-07-2011, 05:43 AM | #29 | |||
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I guess you don't watch Mad Men.
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04-07-2011, 06:34 AM | #31 | |||
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Before I respond to your latest post, let me ask out of idle curiousity: are a "dude or a dudette"? (I'm a dude, btw) It's good that women want to work, I suppose, because that's what must happen if they are to support a family. However, the child will grow up to be smarter and more emotionally healthy when the mother is around. I view it as a perogative when the woman doesn't have to work and has the option of staying at home and raising the family. I'm a man and I must work. There's no way around that. And right now I'm determined and working towards getting a great job in the Actuarial field. You have to have some skills in mathematics (which I do ) but there is a lot of money making potential. I want to get a job where the pay is so great that when I get married and have kids I want my wife to have the perogative of staying at home. Of course I would never forcefully push her to stay at home or even strongly push the idea but I trust that once she has a kid mother nature will kick in and she'll want to spend less time working and spend more time raising kids. That's how it was when my mother had me (she quit her business) and that's how it is right now with my older sister. My older sister had some very passionate feminist views when she was younger but now that she has a kid, she wants to quit her job as a lawyer (even though it is part time). She is still working, ironically enough, because her husband doesn't want her to quit. Basically females are hard-wired to want to be close to and raise their kids. That's how it is and that's how it should be if we want to survive as a species. You can want to work and I believe you want to work but, at least my experience shows, once you have a kid, biology, hormones, whatever you call it, kick in. So I view it as a perogative when the woman has the option to stay at home and not work (which I'd love to give any wife of mine). |
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04-07-2011, 07:16 AM | #32 | |||
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i can't even begin to respond to this overwhelmingly sexist post. First you assume that women arn't around if they are working mothers, and then the subtext is that it's okay for a child to grow up with a father not around as much as the mother??
Please provide us with this amazing new data you have that shows that a child needs a mother more than a father, cause you seem to be saying that it's more important for a mother to be around than a father.. I don't even know where to go with this, i feel like i'm talking to someone that's been in a coma for 50 years. Wake up dude. and to respond to your first question, i am a gay male. (though i'm not sure why that matters) A child needs two happy healthy STRONG parents. of any gender, of any race, of any age. I mentioned the Tea Party in jest earlier, but now i'm beginning to realize you actually are a neo-con.
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04-07-2011, 08:15 AM | #33 | |||
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04-07-2011, 08:54 AM | #34 | |||
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sorry dude, but if you listen to old white men as your source for information about all women in the world, then NO, you are not awake.
You know they used to teach that the world is flat in school? sounds amazing right? they actually did. If everyone just believed what they were taught in schools by old white men, then we would never have made any progress. The whole point of progress is that you don't always believe what you've been told by old people.
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05-07-2011, 08:02 PM | #35 | |||
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In both Yugoslavia and Libya, NATO took sides on a civil war which didn't concern them. The side they is the one which represents the interests of Western imperialism. Quote:
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No matter that they act like senile 12-year-olds on the Today programme website - smoking illegal fags to look tough and cool. No matter that Amis coins truly abominable terms like 'the age of horrorism' and when criticised tells people to 'fuck off'. Surely we all chuckle at the strenuous ennui of his salon drawl. Didn't he once accidentally sneer his face off? - Chris Morris - The Absurd World of Martin Amis Last edited by BB_Eye; 05-07-2011 at 08:03 PM. |
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