Atlas Shrugged
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UPDATED: Thursday, May 19, 2011 23:22
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Originally posted by Storymark:
Anyone wanna bet this is the point at which Rappy bitches out of the thread?
How old are you. 12 ?
" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "
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Originally posted by AURaptor:
Or, as Mal puts it... " So me and mine got to lie down and die so you can live in your better world?"
SHAME ! Sorry folks, NOT GONNA HAPPEN.
On War: "the internal affairs of other countries are not the responsibility of the United States"
On WWI+II: “World War I led, not to [Wilson’s] ‘democracy,’ but to the creation of three dictatorships: Soviet Russia, Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany. World War II led, not to [Roosevelt’s] ‘Four Freedoms,’ but to the surrender of one-third of the world’s population into communist slavery.”
On Vietnam: "The same intellectuals ... denounce any patriotic opponent of America’s self-immolation – the same groups who screamed that it was our duty to save the world when our enemy was Germany"
So, she's consistent, and I agree with her. WWII didn't end Hitler or stop the holocaust, in fact, it may have caused it.
So, can we revisit this idea about the US in the middle east?
Is it our responsibility that Saddam Hussein had WMDs? (Okay, we sold them to him, so we're responsible) but this isn't our problem, right?
What about Afghanistan? The Taliban pose no threat to the United States and never have. They were hardly supporters of Osama, who complained a fair amount about the Taliban. Guilty or not, he and his ragtag band of cave dwellers that could no more topple America than palestinians with stones could topple Israel.
If it's not our responsibility then can we get our asses out of these and admit it was a mistake?
Not just snarking, just trying to get this clear.
That's what a ship is, you know - it's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that's what a ship needs.
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Quote:The study will need to be repeated many places elsewhere before it is a confirmed fact. The results for the group tested in University College London might not hold in the USA.
Originally posted by dreamtrove:
Two,
That's just plain silly. I've known a lot of people who have switched sides, myself included, I doubt that a change in brain structure was involved.
Many years ago, I noticed that liberals were educated, and the educated were liberal. Later I figured out that was because the education was loaded with biased content. It could just as easily have been loaded the other way, and in religious institutions, it usually is. If there's a difference, I would say that conservatives are more skeptical of their fellow humans, and in time, I've become more skeptical. When you are skeptical enough, concepts like "social programs" cease to make sense because you no longer trust anyone with the management of anyone else's life. Similarly, "education" ceases to make sense on the same grounds, and "taxes" on a similar one: that you don't trust anyone with that much money. I think this goes hand in hand with the other thing I identify as a conservative trait: Cautious. If you're skeptical and cautious, you tend to be averse to change, and spend less, keep more, and try to hold to the values and structures that you have, and are probably just less impulsive as human beings. For a lot of people, this is probably a matter of personal experience: Has change generally treated you well? Or would you have been better off without most of the changes that have occurred?
My general assumption lately has been that any political or economic change happening now is being enacted by an elite group of thugs to steal as much as possible in money and power by squashing the masses, and so I'm skeptical of all of it.
Republican is no more likely to be conservative than democrat, IMHO. Republicans voice half a dozen conservative positions, but they rarely act on them. Conversely, Democrats voice about half a dozen liberal positions, but they rarely act on them.
That's what a ship is, you know - it's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that's what a ship needs.
Political Orientations Are Correlated with Brain Structure in Young Adults, Current Biology 21, 677–680, April 26, 2011
PDF: http://bit.ly/lqLQn9 or Summary: www.cell.com/current-biology/retrieve/pii/S0960982211002892
I doubt that political evils in the USA are due to bad men of some sort and curable by the substitution of good men with better brains.
The Joss Whedon script for "Serenity," where Wash lives, is
Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by AURaptor:Quote:
Originally posted by Storymark:
Anyone wanna bet this is the point at which Rappy bitches out of the thread?
How old are you. 12 ?
" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "
Just figured you'd repeat your usual behavior.
"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."
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So tell us all: Is Bill Ayers running for office? Saul Alinsky? Che Guevara? Are any of them running for office?
Great examples. A violent terrorist, one calling for all out personal attacks on anyone who opposes collectivism, and a mass murderer.
So, once again you prove what a hypocritical doucehbag you are.
It's okay for you to judge people by the company they kept, but as soon as someone does the same to one of your sad little right wing heroes, and it totally different.
"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."
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Originally posted by AURaptor:Quote:
So tell us all: Is Bill Ayers running for office? Saul Alinsky? Che Guevara? Are any of them running for office?
Great examples. A violent terrorist, one calling for all out personal attacks on anyone who opposes collectivism, and a mass murderer.
So, once again you prove what a hypocritical doucehbag you are.
It's okay for you to judge people by the company they kept, but as soon as someone does the same to one of your sad little right wing heroes, and it totally different.
Exactly - In a thread where Rappy will quickly dismiss ANY argument against Randian philosophy as a "personal attack" on her, he'll also quickly attack any other person on a personal basis for their political beliefs and philosophies.
And of course he never bothered to address the question. How very typical of him.
"Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservatives." - John Stuart Mill
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That's because he's a right wing zealot.... and rather unintelligent.
For a long time I thought it was an act, but now, I really do think he is that tiny minded.
"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."
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Originally posted by Storymark:
That's because he's a right wing zealot.... and rather unintelligent.
For a long time I thought it was an act, but now, I really do think he is that tiny minded.
"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."
Thanks for trying turn the cinema forum into RWED, complete w/ petty name calling and needless insults.
Bravo.
" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "
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Yeeeeah.... Because that wasn't happening before I posted.
And you NEVER do that kinda thing.
Right, I forgot - it's always okay when you do it. Tool.
Go ahead and whine. I know you think playing the victim means you won't have to answer questions, or back your bullshit, or deal with your own hypocrisy.
We don't expect any better from you. We just sit back and watch the idiot implode, over and over.
"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."
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Anyway, as I said...
Not the greatest flick, quite average, if even that.
Liked seeing some familiar faces, and if part 2 is made, I'll certainly go see that as well.
" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "
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