Profits of the Here and Now
POSTED BY: RiveR6213
UPDATED: Tuesday, May 2, 2006 15:51
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Originally posted by nuclearday:
Don't look at me, I voted for Kerry :) (Not that I liked him overmuch, either, come to think of it...)
Same here.
At last.
We can retire and give up
this life of crime.
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Originally posted by EvilDinosaur:
About half the country is wondering the same thing. though I think the 2 biggest reasons are: 1) People didn't want to change presidents in the middle of a war, and 2) the democrats picked a bad candidate to go up against him.
"Haha, mine is an evil laugh."
I like your name! LOL!!!
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If only we could have voted for Mal.... Bush reminds me of a person that is unable to recover from a head injury (perpetually concussed?). His administration is akin to the evil Alliance in my book 
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Originally posted by Tholo:
when the hurricanes hit new orleans did any cjounrty that we helped come and help us??? no.
I think that's due to the help being refused. At least Fidel offered to send some medics and such over. Don't know if it was accepted but I doubt it.
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Frog blast the vent core!
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Well for one thing, strictly speaking, American's didn't elect him this time around either.
The vote rigging made a little news, but not as much as it should have. In several places, enough to turn at least one state, democratic votes were counted as libertarian votes, meaning that even though more votes went to Kerry than to Bush more votes were counted for Bush.
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Of course that only made a difference because the votes were so close, and for that I have no answer.
Some people say that it had to do with gay marriage, but those who were against it said that they wanted to make sure that nothing happened to church marriages, which is something that has nothing to do with Bush or Kerry.
Some people say that it was because Kerry was a flip-flopper, ignoring the fact that Bush changes stances just as often, if not more so.
Those are the things I heard most often. There was also the fact that Kerry voted ninety something times to raise taxes once, which one would think would go against the flipping charge, after all how many of you have actively avoided changing your stance on a single thing more than ninety times?
There was also a question of Kerry leaving Vietnam when he did, which I never understood because it would have been illegal for him to stay longer, I suppose he could have gone AWOL in order to keep fighting.
Actually as I make this list I don’t remember there being any reasons FOR Bush, so I guess it wasn’t so much that people were voting for Bush as it was they were voting against Kerry.
There was also a lack of honesty in the debates, the one that stands out in my mind was actually in the Vice Presidential Debate. Cheney said that he had never met Edwards before that day when they’d been eating dinner together on national television just a little while before.
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Originally posted by Tholo:
when the hurricanes hit new orleans did any cjounrty that we helped come and help us??? no.
Actually they did. Countries all over the world came to help us, and Bush turned them all away. Were you not watching the news?
In spite of the fact that Bush refused their help many of those countries went through alternate channels to give us aid.
Don't criticize others because you don’t know what you’re talking about. They did come to help us and anyone who cared enough about the people in New Orleans take an interest for more than 15 minutes would have known it.
Where were you when the hurricane hit? Playing video games? Writing hate speech? You obviously weren’t trying to help anyone otherwise you would have known about the others who were doing the same thing.
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Originally posted by Tholo:
when the hurricanes hit new orleans did any cjounrty that we helped come and help us??? no.
The "richest" country in the world (national debt doesn't really seem to matter anymore), the country that can afford to spend almost a billion dollars a day in an illegal war, a war it went into almost single-handedly, needs help from other countries when a disaster strikes home? I'm not saying "let the Americans sort out their own problems", but when America sends help to other countries, it's because those countries don't have the resources to help themselves. America does, in theory at least, have the resources.
Besides, your point is invalid since other countries did send help: http://hnn.us/articles/22136.html. Try doing a bit of research next time.
EDIT: Lol ChrisTheCynic, seems like the same thing peeved us off and provoked a response at the same time.
Other people can occasionally be useful, especially as minions. I want lots of minions.
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Originally posted by RolandReynolds:
FF fans around here are pretty good at talking politics, as far as talking politics goes, and they do it over on that board pretty frequently.
Pretty frequently? We never stop!
Other people can occasionally be useful, especially as minions. I want lots of minions.
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Knowing what we know about our current administration we should be rioting and protesting in the streets, but we are not. We don't want any interruption to our beer and television sets. We are taking all of this on our collective backs like the good, docile little sheep’s we are.
Why do we not do anything about our own government? Whatever happened to "We the People?" This current administration is playing us, and treating us like we are children, and now there are talks about going into Iran. When will we put the brakes on our own government?
In the end we are going to get what we deserve.
River sticks another needle into the voodoo doll she made to look like The Citizen.
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Originally posted by RolandReynolds:
Hi there,
I think you will find that you will receive more, and probably better responses to this kind of a topic in this board's Real World Discussion thread. I'll paste the URL:
http://www.fireflyfans.net/threadlist.asp?b=18
FF fans around here are pretty good at talking politics, as far as talking politics goes, and they do it over on that board pretty frequently.
Hope that helps :)
“When peace comes to mean the absence of conflict on the one hand, and when conflict with an unjust and racist political order is a moral imperative on the other, then it is not difficult to understand that the better class of human beings are, in fact, deeply committed to disturbing the peace and creating conflict.”
~Farid Esack
If I brought this topic up in the Real World Discussion room, it would have quickly dissolve into a massive dogfight of words, and then when you think things can't get any worse, PirateNews would join the fray, so I decided to start this topic in the General Discussion room where its safe.
River gives Bush a quick kick to the crotch...
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