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August 13, 2013, 11:08:08 AM
#94
Hi American here I just wanted to clear some stuff up,

5.) Education is totally overrated. For the most part it's not necessary. Get rid of all publicly funded education and let the free market market decide what kind of education is needed. Could be more, could be less. I don't particularly care if we're #1, or #543.


Other American here, most of us do believe in education. I do care if we're #1 or #543, because there are only 196 countries.

Lmao awesome.

I would just have my wife stand behind the tv stand and put them on top of it. Does that count?
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August 13, 2013, 11:05:29 AM
#93
Oh wow, no boobies on TV?! I will never visit America!
I just draw boobies on the screen...
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August 13, 2013, 11:03:32 AM
#92
Oh wow, no boobies on TV?! I will never visit America!
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August 13, 2013, 11:02:10 AM
#91
Holy crap, he's on to me, I just made up that number. Welp, it's time go into hiding.
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August 13, 2013, 10:58:17 AM
#90
Hi American here I just wanted to clear some stuff up,

5.) Education is totally overrated. For the most part it's not necessary. Get rid of all publicly funded education and let the free market market decide what kind of education is needed. Could be more, could be less. I don't particularly care if we're #1, or #543.


Other American here, most of us do believe in education. I do care if we're #1 or #543, because there are only 196 countries.
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August 13, 2013, 10:54:31 AM
#89
Hi American here I just wanted to clear some stuff up,

1.) Most people here are not religious fundamentalists. Most people claim to believe in "a god", but their god's traits and personality conveniently happen to form fit to the bearer of said beliefs.
This is how it goes down pretty much; One person argues his bible says this and such, the other disagrees, takes a black pen, and blacks out that line from the bible, and the other one does likewise until they both have a bible they're comfortable with. Which ends up being a few lines like,
"“You shall not commit adultery [if your marriage isn't working out. I mean, who are we to judge?]." Exodus 20:14
 
"You shall not [can] lie with a male as with a woman. It is an abomination [no big deal]." Leviticus 18:22

“'Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?'” -Pharisee's

 “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners. [And what's wrong with eating with tax collectors? They're totally cool with me.]” -Jesus
Mark 2:13-17

2.) I didn't have any fluoride in my water, and I'm... An anarcho-capitalist... on bitcointalk... Totally unrelated, SHUT YOUR FACE HOLE.

3.) No one can stop anyone from marrying anybody or anything anywhere for whatever reason. The real debate, though nobody realizes it, is whether or not people should get tax breaks for their personal relationships.
On the one hand less taxes for the government is awesome, on the other hand, is it really ok for the government to sanction certain relationships over others?

I say either let everybody put their spouse down whether it's a man(s), woman(s), or goat, or else get rid of government endorsed marriage altogether. (Against straight marriage!!!)

4.) Your government sucks too. You're seriously delusional if you think you're government has all of your best interests at heart and isn't intrinsically a morally bankrupt institution like every other government (including the US government.)

5.) Education is totally overrated. For the most part it's not necessary. Get rid of all publicly funded education and let the free market market decide what kind of education is needed. Could be more, could be less. I don't particularly care if we're #1, or #543.

6.) Attrition is the best way to beat any larger force. When you have a gigantic army that you move into a hostile environment you have to maintain supply lines. Fuel, ammunition, tanks, helicopters, jets, and bombs. That's expensive! A cleverly run guerrilla warfare at home can make it so economically costly and demoralizing that an invading army just can't keep it going for more than a few years unless they just want to out and out commit genocide on the entire United States.
Look at how Che Guevara took Cuba, or the Vietnam war, or the revolutionary war.

That said, having an armed populace is very very important. People always say civilian weapon's are useless against an army, but it's just. not. true. There's a reason why Mao, Hitler, and Stalin all favored a disarmed general population (Particularly targeting political opponents.), and it's not hard to see why!


http://www.mercyseat.net/gun_genocide.html
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August 13, 2013, 10:36:43 AM
#88
What terrorist group does the US sponsor?

The Republican Party Cheesy


. FBI

. NSA

. CIA

. IRS

. Airport Security

By the way, government intelligence agencies are essentially legalised terrorist organisations and if you really believe they aren't after all the leaks lately you've got to get help.
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August 13, 2013, 10:12:02 AM
#87
What terrorist group does the US sponsor?

The Republican Party Cheesy
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August 13, 2013, 10:06:27 AM
#86

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Sponsors_of_Terrorism

Blue stands for the most dangerous ones.

Explain to me how Cuba (who supports FARC), Iran (who supports Hamas among others), and Syria (who murders its own people) are not sponsors of terrorism.

What terrorist group does the US sponsor?
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August 13, 2013, 10:01:48 AM
#85

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Sponsors_of_Terrorism

Blue stands for the most dangerous ones.
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August 13, 2013, 09:40:55 AM
#84
the only thing you hear about now in America is legalize weed, gay rights, and news about celebrities and how they got their new haircut today.

Sad

Yeah why would civil rights be in the news? Who cares about such an insignificant thing as equality?

It's like when MLK was in the news. Why's he so famous?
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August 11, 2013, 07:43:08 PM
#83
the only thing you hear about now in America is legalize weed, gay rights, and news about celebrities and how they got their new haircut today.

Sad
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August 10, 2013, 01:27:08 PM
#82
no boobies on tv
This is actually the most important point and will lead to the downfall of the system. Smiley

Indeed. No boobs on TV, but people are allowed to have guns = civil war!
You must not be watching the right TV.  Please fix this Very Important Problem and then return to this sick fuck of a conversation.
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August 10, 2013, 01:23:31 PM
#81
I feel stupid, because I forgot that the magical place called USA only came into existence because batshit crazy folk started shooting their tax men.

Technically speaking, I think it was the king of England's tax men who were the target of irritated citizens ire.

But ascribing ownership where it does not fit is a common rhetorical trick which is fairly effective.  Like why is Snowden 'giving away our secrets' for instance.  I commonly hear that from people who I know with complete certainty are not the connected insiders who held the secret that there existed a truly extraordinary amount of domestic surveillance.

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August 10, 2013, 11:04:23 AM
#80

There's a magical place where people do own small arms.   
It's called USA.
The lucky folks who live there don't shoot their tax men. 
Why not?
Because they mostly aren't batshit crazy is why.
Not even Walla Walla Washingtonians shoot their tax men.
Go figure.


Humptulips Washington on the other hand...not so sure about those guys.



I feel stupid, because I forgot that the magical place called USA only came into existence because batshit crazy folk started shooting their tax men.
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August 10, 2013, 01:55:55 AM
#79

There's a magical place where people do own small arms.   
It's called USA.
The lucky folks who live there don't shoot their tax men. 
Why not?
Because they mostly aren't batshit crazy is why.
Not even Walla Walla Washingtonians shoot their tax men.
Go figure.


Humptulips Washington on the other hand...not so sure about those guys.

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August 09, 2013, 05:01:23 PM
#78
There's a magical place where people do own small arms.    
It's called USA.
The lucky folks who live there don't shoot their tax men.  
Why not?
Because they mostly aren't batshit crazy is why.

Huh... and here I thought it was because the folks who live there are not at war with their government. Silly me.
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August 09, 2013, 04:52:44 PM
#77
All you guys completely forgot one extremely important point: military stuff costs a shitton of money.

Even if it's just one guy who is able to operate a drone or a war machine, that drone/machine and the muscles and amp they fire cost a lot. That money has to come from somewhere.

A war requires the following cycle:

People have money > Government collects money through taxes > Money is given to soldiers and manufacturers of weapons/ammo > Repeat

If the government collecting money step is broken because people have small arms and shoot money collectors, the military will only be able to wage a war of vastly superior fire power until they run out of missiles and money to pay their soldiers. And no amount of tanks, drones, or nukes will be able to extract or create the wealth to fund them. All those things can do is destroy.

There's a magical place where people do own small arms.   
It's called USA.
The lucky folks who live there don't shoot their tax men. 
Why not?
Because they mostly aren't batshit crazy is why.
Not even Walla Walla Washingtonians shoot their tax men.
Go figure.
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August 09, 2013, 04:08:31 PM
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August 09, 2013, 04:04:56 PM
#75
All you guys completely forgot one extremely important point: military stuff costs a shitton of money.

Even if it's just one guy who is able to operate a drone or a war machine, that drone/machine and the muscles and amp they fire cost a lot. That money has to come from somewhere.

A war requires the following cycle:

People have money > Government collects money through taxes > Money is given to soldiers and manufacturers of weapons/ammo > Repeat

If the government collecting money step is broken because people have small arms and shoot money collectors, the military will only be able to wage a war of vastly superior fire power until they run out of missiles and money to pay their soldiers. And no amount of tanks, drones, or nukes will be able to extract or create the wealth to fund them. All those things can do is destroy.
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