Topic: Am I the only one that doesn't stand for the pledge and the national anthem? - page 2. (Read 3949 times)

Is it your position that you want the US worker to be as poor as the 10 year old? 

The question is why should we force 10 year old children in developing countries to subsistence farming and prostitution because American manufacturing workers want 6-figure pension?

Politics is about making life better than it is now.  How does reducing the living standards of Americans to that of Indians make life better for Americans? 

I'll tell you what's slavery:

Forcing innovators to pay absurd wages for people who demand a wasteful cost-of-living. Most of the world can live off less than $50 a month. What first-world welfare queens demand -- far beyond that -- is absurd and has created an overpriced marketplace. We have created an extremely wasteful society and the first-world is suffering as a result. Manufacturers and innovation are leaving for better and more sensible places: Places with actual wealth creation.

lol that is brilliant.

oooo i get so tired of the


"am I the only one with brains on the planet" posts. You hear it a lot from libertarians.


our country may not be perfect, but lets just say we disagree on weather a country can be made up of 300 million people. Plus we tried it your way back before the great D and before the fed, with low taxes, nearly no regulations, states were powerful... and you want to know something? IT SUCKED FUCKING BALLS FOR MOST OF US. I dont want to be paid in corporate script while I fight with a ten year old for a job.

It's called Devil's advocate, and I'm glad someone finally understands that about me. I put it in my profile for the Satoshi Superstar competition as well that I am one of the most annoying Devil's Advocates on these forums.

I did

interlagos, you must devote your life to youtube. 

I think Matthew is playing with you guys, i.e. expressing the opinion he really doesn't stand for.
I do that sometimes as well just to see where the conversation is going.

Every sane person would understand by now that all the crap that we've been through and have been taught in the school is a delusion.
It felt different when we were younger, but I always had this gut feeling that something was wrong.
Things are changing now. Here is set of must see videos for those who are still asleep to start bootstrapping the Big Picture:

Judge Napolitano:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zyo10lusCY
George Carlin:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acLW1vFO-2Q
Onion Network:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojmOESqVeak
Alex Jones:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAztH_mkGwo
The American Dream:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPWH5TlbloU
End Of Liberty:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQv-sdMCClQ

I you haven't woken up by now, you are in real trouble...

Ive done the same thing, i even had a bunch of  douche bag military doods (clearly privates fresh outta boot) come upto me after the game to try and start something. When it came to intellectual conversation, i left them at the gate. With my words and my trusty butterfly knife, i got out of that situation in one piece. All that did was re-enforce the idea that United States citizens are mindless sheep, who group up together to rag-tag the "unpatriotic terrorist funder who refused to bow down to the flag."

Edit: just finished reading the thread, that "They gave you the right to vote" shit just doesnt cut it any more. Yes our forefathers and a few generations above that take that claim, but the shit that our military is responsible for these days is just horrendous. For fuck sake, Iran Contra/Oliver North, need i continue? Parts of our military were responsible for smuggling coke into this country. These days its the heroin, and thats admitted that our troops are being used to help the farmers in the area continue to harvest the opium, which eventually makes it to the streets of this "great nation..."

That flag has been used to drape the backs of some of the sickest individual we call our leaders. Its like when i was watching cspan, and this senator was supporting legislation that would have gotten any other person a charge of treason. Yet because he had TWO, COUNT EM, 2 flags lapel pins on that day, he was counted as a "man of the year" type person that ends up on times magazine.

When did this happen?

rofl. Creepy.



Of course he's Atlas. He's been banned by Theymos and keeps coming back because he thinks we need him here or else we just won't function be able to function. 

I think Boss is atlas (sorry if wrong boss). Anyway, I hold many similar opinions (flag worship behavior is creepy, going to church is creepy, etc)... but it is important to understand the value of an opinion. Opinions are like assholes right??

Do something and show you are productive, then people will take you seriously. If you haven't (or fail to succeed at) proving your worth, expect to be treated like an asshole.

In fact before WWII, US schools used to do the Pledge with a Nazi-looking Roman salute

I'd also like to point out that the type of business directly affects the tome required to register. Ask Zhou Tong if he can get a permit for Bitcoinica in a day. We all know its more like 6 months.


I've mentioned numerous times on these forums that I do not agree with the way America is being run into the ground in recent years. My reasons for being in South Korea though are entirely superficial. I'm an oppurtunist with yellow fever. I was destined for Asia.

If America is that great why are you in South Korea?

Do you know how small Hong Kong is? You can do the same in most small countries.

It's interesting you think Hong Kong is mildly fair or nice in comparison to the USA. Did you not know that people regularly clip their toenails on the subways, that the pollution is unbearable and that you are fined HK$1500 for spitting?

Like I said, the only way your points ever work for you is when you redefine things the way you want or selectively choose supporting points only. This is a true sign of someone without any understanding of society.

In Hong Kong, you can get a business permit in less than one day. America is a different story.

As ridiculous as the concept may seem, many Americans regardless of their reasoning, feel proud to be a part of a country that has single handedly proven that freedoms and democracy are possible. There is no country like America on earth, for the good or the bad.