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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
This reminds me of a Ronald Reagan Quote:
Regressive fucktardism in the US began in the 70s/80s, so yes, you're too young to remember it. Besides, you're British, and no matter how bad Thatcher/Post-Thatcher was/is, the US still holds claim to the biggest pile of political bullshit in any 1st world country.
edited 27th Nov '12 3:19:12 PM by Ekuran
Great... so I must have slept through '86, then.
Funny, I remember that year quite well. I was living in South Africa at the time.
You want idiotic conservatism... I give you: apartheid on a plate.
It's comparable to some of the crap spewed out these days in the States, but was by far and away worse than the stuff you found around then. Trust me: by '92, when I started with the web (with what with finally getting access to what I thought at the time was a decent dial-up modem: ha ha ha ha), chatting to American conservatives wasn't as painful as these days. -.- And, I can remember Reagan quite well, thanks.
South Africa tried often enough to suck up to him in preference to Thatcher. <.< Anti-English and Commonwealth sentiment is something to behold in South African politics, even today.
edited 27th Nov '12 3:34:40 PM by Euodiachloris
Well, I assumed you lived in Britain all your life, so my bad. And yes, South Africa somehow sucked more then the US. But still, conservatives in the US have been fucktarded for the past 30-40 years, even if the fucktardism wasn't as bad as now.
And now I realize we're trying to one-up each other on which of our countries have worse politicians. It's kind of sad, actually.
Republicans Counter Immigration DREAM Act with Achieve Act
Rice: We didn't intend to mislead on Benghazi
'Little Progress' on Budget as Fiscal Cliff Looms Ahead
That's politics kids. If you ain't a winner then be prepared to get thrown under the bus.
I say Italy should get the gold metal. I mean say what you will about Bush, Blair, Harper, Sarkozy, Aznar, or Netanyahu compared to Berlusconi they are all competent politicians.
edited 27th Nov '12 6:59:36 PM by DeviantBraeburn
Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016![]()
Greece wants a word with you I think. Although Greece's problem mostly come from tax frauding if I understand their situation correctly, so not totally the politicians' fault. We should stop these Olympics here, not related and can turn wrong.
Also, loosely related to the articles: I'm curious to know, what do you guys think of immigration? Are you okay with welcoming different people into your country? Would you rather kick them all out?
edited 27th Nov '12 7:03:00 PM by QuestionMarc
I think we should make immigration and emigration as easy as possible. We should also make dual citizenship easy as possible, rather than having to renounce your old citizenship when you get an American citizenship, then reapply for your old one, which is how I think it works now. We should also encourage cultural diversity.
I don't think it's in America's best interest to have a rapidly growing immigrant group that doesn't consider themselves to be culturally American. And dual citizenship is proven to impede assimilation, so obviously I'm not for it.
edited 27th Nov '12 7:22:14 PM by DeviantBraeburn
Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016There can be diversity and unity at the same time. Plus, do we really need more nationalism?
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Well sure, but I'd rather America's citizens feel some bond to there country. If your origin country's culture is so important to you, then you should probably just stay there.
I mean look at the Anglo parts of Canada and Quebec's relationship. Sure there unified but their is a lot animosity between the two groups. I don't want a similar relationship developing in America.
And Europeans have nationalism, Americans have patriotism.
And patriotism isn't necessarily a bad thing.
edited 27th Nov '12 7:36:04 PM by DeviantBraeburn
Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016

also, at one point, the republican party was the champions of smart conservative policy. which would have included not allowing corporations to run roughshod over the populace.