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Question:
Why is Democracy bad? Many of my leftist friends go on tirades about how its "evil" and yet won't tell me why...
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Question:
Why is Democracy bad? Many of my leftist friends go on tirades about how its "evil" and yet won't tell me why...
LOL. So I guess they would prefer a monarchy where the king has divine right and can do whatever the fuck he wants to you or anyone else he pleases. Or maybe a "socialist" society because you know those have been proven to be wonderful (USSR, NK, et. al.).
Tell your hippie friends to shut the fuck up and go back to the bong.
Drug useage over here even with decriminalisation of marihuana is lower then it is in the US.Quote:
Originally Posted by diffusionx
Im not a Belgian, im still a Turk, cant get my Belgian citizenship as long as I refuse to pledge elegiance to the king, something I need to do on order to get my Belgian citizenship.
Socialist policies can exist in democracies. I don't see the point of seperating the two.
Almaci... I was talking to Zerodash, you know? I didnt compare Belgium's marijuana usage to America's or anything.
And okay, I gotcha on the citizenship thing. Sucks that you have to pledge allegiance to the king, though. We don't have to do that sort of crap around these parts, obviously.
Socialism sucks, it's communism with votiing.
When I looked at the thread title, I thought this was a new Bemani game...
HAR!
"Socialism sucks, it's communism with voting"
Please visit the UK, the Netherlands, France etc before making such absurd remarks. People are living just fine in many places that don't use the USA's specific brand of democracy. Does anyone here think that it would really "suck" to live under the "socialist" auspices of say... Holland? LOL, I'd be quite surprised if the standard of living in that country was the slightest fraction lower than what we consider is so wonderful in this country.
We tend to think we're the best because we like where we live. It's pretty simple. An American who loves America is pretty standard. It's a crying shame that anyone who would like to cut through the bullshit is labelled unamerican or a hippie or any other term that will keep the namecaller from actually having to think about the aforementiuoned bullshit or put himself in anyone else's shoes, while those that buy into said bullshit say clever things like "might makes right so get used to it".
Pa
A recent US sponsored United Nations study found belgium and holland to have a higher standard of living then the US.Quote:
Originally Posted by PaCrappa
The study took into account literacy levels, life expectancy, availability and quality of healthcare, relative comparative wealth etcetera.
So urm, its pretty much given fact that quality of life and standards of living in belgium, Holland and especialy the nordic countries is and remains well above those in the US.
Literacy? LOL, I don't think the USA can even compete with other free nations on the literacy test. And as far as individual wealth of the average citizen, I'd bet we don't compare to many places either. The best part of all this is that many (most) who express this whole "love it or leave it" mentality have not gone further from the USA than Tijuana.
There are many perfectly acceptable places to live in the world and they're not all doing it like we do.
And if might does in fact make right, why not let such horrendous bullies as Saddam Hussein kill who they please? He was after all mightier than those he kilt. Does that make sense? I thought not, just as I don't think it makes sense as applied to the ever benevolent (LOL) USA.
Pa