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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
edited 12th Oct '12 2:30:59 PM by rmctagg09
Hugging a Vanillite will give you frostbite.Well, that is consistent if your worldview is that everyone IS out to get everyone else and it's a dog-eat-dog world. You want to be the top dog.
Problem is when the real world doesn't work like that. Alternatively, problem is when your worldview is no longer relevant when someone changes the way the world works and says "hey, we can actually get along with each other."
Then you get those people who are like, "NO WE CAN'T GET ALONG WE ARE A DOG EAT DOG WORLD AND YOU ARE SHOWING WEAKNESS" and desperately try to keep good solutions off the table because they feel uncomfortable about it.
edited 12th Oct '12 2:39:10 PM by GlennMagusHarvey
It probably doesn't help much when large swaths of the nation seem to be pretty moronic - their vote is counted just as much as those who we could deem more deserving and more intelligent, and then you get what we have here today.
I could possibly be counted in the moronic camp, as I'm fairly conservative in a number of views, but Good Lord, you don't just kill Education, since that's how you're going to train up doctors, engineers, teachers, scientists and business majors - the very people that would further along an economic recovery. In contrast, Service Sector jobs aren't going to go very far in that regard, but that's all you'll be able to do, if education goes into the toilet.
GMH nailed it. We can afford to be polite from time to time, and doing that more oftem might actually help.
edited 12th Oct '12 2:44:40 PM by pvtnum11
Happiness is zero-gee with a sinus cold.The Nixon Madman Theory, which Republicans are still clinging to.
Remember, even Colin Powell declared that he wanted to 'scare the hell out of the world'. This is standard policy and we never deviate from it. We literally want to seem ready to vaporize anyone at any moment.
I'm a skeptical squirrelI'm more of the mindset that the Government doesn't need to be in everything, but there are some matters where it absolutely needs to be. Stuff like international trade and commerce, setting standards and guidelines, defense, infrastructure and being a safety net of sorts. I'd like smaller government, but not to the point in which we start to lose quality of service. I'd imagine that smaller would be easier to run and simpler to administer.
...but that's just me and my view.
Happiness is zero-gee with a sinus cold.@pvtnum
There's a huge difference between being moronic and being conservative.
Until you prove me otherwise, you aren't moronic.
Heck, there are moronic liberals as well. The kind that legitimite criticism of the president (such as being soft on Wall Street) is done by racists who hate having a black president. Even when color has nothing to do with that criticism. So idiots are spread all across the spectrum.

Didn't the Founding Fathers actually cherish education?
Burn the land and boil the sea, you can't take the sky from me.