Global Democratic Revolution

[PaCrappa]

LOL, Stone, could you take anyone in a fight? I mean you do talk that might makes right stuff, so one would figure that you're quite the badass. Wouldn't you have to be if you actually lived by what you say on the internet?

Also, how do you suppose that you'd fare in combat in Iraq and what's kept you from going there?

Pa

[Melf]

I think college taught me to say that and not "My country can kick your country's ass." It's insensitive patriotic arrogance, but it's not ignorant.



Go fuck yourself. The spirit of the above quotation is the spirit of the Union crushing the Rebels ("you've got less influence, less money, and fewer guns."). It's anti-slavery and anti-government - same thing in a lot of cases.

Riiiiight, because every time someone in our government says something like that, he's saying it in exactly that context, all the time.

[Spent]

Weapons may help you win, but the opressed will only listen to you as long as your fingers on the trigger. Slip up and its a rock to the face. hows that for a flower loving hippie. just because I dont believe in war doesnt mean I cant fight. Infact diffx, judging by your comments in the highschool thread, you weren't exactly mr tough guy running the school now, were ya? Ideals and strength are very, VERY different.

[Diff-chan]

Infact diffx, judging by your comments in the highschool thread, you weren't exactly mr tough guy running the school now, were ya? Ideals and strength are very, VERY different.

Yea... and people change, dipshit. High school was a while back, four years back in fact.

[Spent]

So you're a tough guy now?

[ChaoofNee]

The liberal slant of college campuses is well know and quite well documented. I can point to many many examples of such things on this campus. My roommate last year would get frequent emails from his professors urging him to go to anti-war protests/dont sign the recall petition/who the fuck knows what else. And these are theatre classes. Goddammit you pay your professors to teach the subject you sign up for, not to ram their politicial "ideas" down your throat. If that happened to me I would file a complaint with the school immediately. Thankfully since I am a student of mathematics I do not have to deal with this bullshit.

Hell, I got this shit all the time when I was in a tech school. Liberal teachers don't keep their mouths shut. Ever.
Now that I fucked up and changed schools, I see that the air is similar around my new one. Posters that advertise tons of "Iraq: Where Did We Go Wrong?" talks are all over the place. There has only been one "Iraq: Victory or Mistake?" kind of talk so far, and it was hosted by Newsday. Blech.

Colleges are churning out brainless male-haters/liberals every single year, and the only reason you're not seeing more of them as you get older is because it takes life experience to weed such nonsense out of your brain. Was it Churchill who said that thing about being a liberal at age 20 versus age 40?

Thankfully my parents instilled in me well-defined ideas like the uselessness of government beyond a limited scope (no I dont want any of the general government benefits provided for in Europe) and the power of a military versus the 'make love not war' idiots so I am more or less immune to that trash. I dont want the police to protect me, give me a goddamn gun so I can do it myself.

Amen.

[Fe 26]

for proof of this look at the pharmaceutical industry in the US, no regulations so you guys pay three times what canadians are charged by the damn same companies, companies wich still make a profit at the Canadian prices.

I'm sorry Ali, as much as I like you dude, you are talking out your ass now. The pharmaceutical industry in the U.S. is heavily regulated. That is part of where the heavy price of U.S. meds come from. They regulate virtually every step in the research, study, and proedcution of medications. It is so regulated I wouldn't be suprised if they even had requirements on the type of toilet paper they can wipe their ass with. They pass on the cost of meeting those regulations to the buyer. You add in passing on ever law suit they pay to the buyers, and you get some pricey pills.

Ofcorse when you said regulation, you probably ment forcing set prices.

[Diff-chan]

It is so regulated I wouldn't be suprised if they even had requirements on the type of toilet paper they can wipe their ass with.

I worked for a pharm company one summer IronPlant (actually I was involved in the regulatory red tape side of things)... you're not too far off the mark.

So you're a tough guy now?

Sure, why not? Nah I wouldnt say Im a tough guy. But you know I am joining the Army once I finish this noise (college) up.

[Matt]

What if something they demand are nice shiny trains? A company comes around, tries to make a buck, builds the trains, demand is fulfilled, even more jobs are created, and we're good, progress.

What if people don't want the trains enough to pay for it? We don't need them, no one builds them, we're done - we get our social progress spending our money on the things we actually want.

The free-market economy is an unstoppable ass kicking machine.

Stuff like public transit, although it's very necessary, isn't profitable enough to be handled by the private sector. That's the sort of are where the government needs to take control - even though the beaurocracy doesn't operate very efficiently, the fact that they're willing to operate with little to no profit margin more than makes up the difference as far as consumers are concerned. The free market doesn't have solutions for all of our problems.

It's obvious that a nationwide rail system would never work like it does in Europe - we're just too spread out. But smaller local versions would be very useful on the East and West coasts, for all the reasons Tracer and DiffX have mentioned. Airlines are too expensive and wasteful, and often taking a car to another city is more trouble than it's worth.

Would a good rail system be good for the economy? Maybe - I think it would but I'm not an expert in these things. What is certain is that it would improve life for millions of people. Given that the European and Japanese economies are ahead of ours at the moment, I wouldn't infer that it'd run the economy into the ground, defense budget or no.

[Calliander]

Anyways, I figure the "might is right" people could take the "might is icky, I like flowers" people in a straight-up fight.

Except me. I'm tricky.

Actually, I don't especially like flowers, either. So I dunno; I think I'm more of a "might is might, but I'd rather be having some fun and let my leaders handle it" kind of guy. So sue me for lack of ambition. Hehe.