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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Which Butts though? I've heard some women like it as well
As for the homeless, well, where do you think mystery meat comes from?
But seriously, what people do in the bedroom/locker room/car is kinda trivial compared to, oh I don't know: ISIS, our nations massive debt, lack of jobs, that sort of thing.
edited 11th Sep '15 11:17:54 AM by Skycobra51
Look upon my privilege ye mighty and despair.If you ask me, but you did not, then the most important things in the U.S would be: Affordable healthcare NOW
Yes. I apologize for the "baitclicky" source but it is a well known fact that the most common cause for bankruptcy in people is sudden healthcare costs. This means that you people in the U.S cannot afford being sick because then you will be poor. And the poor getting sick quickly become homeless and deprived of pretty much anything.
Health is a basic fucking service people.
The other is education in general. Higher expenses with lower income is not sustainable. People just do not know how credit cards work.
But yeah. China? ISIS? Debt? A flu is more likely to kill you than ISIS.
It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothesLightning from a cloudless sky while you are inside a coal mine is more likely to kill you than ISIS.
Far more important than even healthcare is climate change. If we want human civilization to exist 200 years from now, we'd better get on that.
edited 11th Sep '15 12:14:44 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"![]()
I know but I butted in with my unrequested opinions because I am an asshole
edited 11th Sep '15 12:20:07 PM by Aszur
It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothesSo much for the war on poverty, the war's over, we already lost.
The unfortunate constant of reality, is that poverty will always exsist regardless of what's attempted to relieve it.
In other words, some poor scmuck will always get the short end of the stick, such is life.
edited 11th Sep '15 12:40:57 PM by Skycobra51
Look upon my privilege ye mighty and despair.Skycobra, I know you think that's an insightful and wise thing to say, but really all contexts I've heard it in it's been used an excuse to not care or try to alleviate the problem.
There's stuff that's been tried and that works. And it's likely this stuff would work on a wider, government supported scale. If our politicians would develop the political will to try.
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I wasn't trying to be wise or insightful either. Just my own bitter thoughts on the matter.
To be frank, I'm a very cynical person.
If Socialism works then it works, but I'm not gonna be holding my breath anytime soon.
edited 11th Sep '15 1:21:55 PM by Skycobra51
Look upon my privilege ye mighty and despair.Not a big fan of socialism, to be honest.
edited 11th Sep '15 1:39:28 PM by Protagonist506
Leviticus 19:34Protagonist, having a national military the way we do is technically socialist. And the countries that are openly socialist are far from falling apart or considering their freedoms curtailed.
Frankly, most countries these days that are functional are varying mixes of socialism and capitalism. Having a veteran's fund is socialist. Having a national post office is socialist, even though Republicans are forcing it to do ridiculous things. Local municipalities that are trying to get up their own internet infrastructure is technically socialist. There are a lot of things that the US does that falls under the socialist model, and this stuff usually works if we let it do what they're supposed to do instead of defunding them constantly.
Is Bernie Sanders not actually a Socialist I assume, but merely agrees with some of their ideas? Because I honestly believe that any governmental concept, taken to its total extreme, is a disaster waiting to happen.
- Communism: government gets everything, you get nothing, and you get punished for not working hard enough.
- Democracy: people get bogged down voting on tons of little issues they know little about, plus there's the whole "tyranny of the majority" problem, along with stupid people directly influencing public policy.
- Republican: elected representatives that no longer represent the people, and don't do what their voters want.
edited 11th Sep '15 1:52:04 PM by BonsaiForest

But penises are going inside butts
And That's Terrible
Who cares about starving and homeless people
It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes