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Leader of the G4 purists
If you are friends with someone that you can’t say some things to or you won’t be friends anymore.
 
That means you probably aren’t very good friends.  
Or they have issues and are overly sensitive.  
Or they are just an awful person.
 
Such friendships ought to be avoided, they’re just not worth the risk. Unless you found out too late and already became friends with them, in which case, good luck. I mean, I guess you might be able to work at it and fix the problem until you can talk freely with them. That’d be nice.
Prismwind
The End wasn't The End - Found a new home after the great exodus of 2012

Not to mention “Anything that is against America is Communism”… that immediately bumps this from troll logic to insane troll logic.
Prismwind
The End wasn't The End - Found a new home after the great exodus of 2012

Freedom of speech is the freedom to say things you want to. That doesn’t mean you want to say some things, it just means you could.
 
It also does not mean you can say anything and be protected from all consequences. I have the freedom to do what I want with my possessions, but chances are I’m not entitled to a new monitor if I put my fist through the one I have already.
cb5
Thread Starter - The time wasting thread

@igotnopicks  
No single economic theory is “the best” the most economically stable countries use a hybrid system. Having a pureblood communist/socialist/capitalist economy is just asking for trouble.
 
Personally I think trickle out economics doesn’t get enough attention in the news or in politics and the only politicians that talk about it tend to be . . err on the crazy side.
 
What I would personally do is reduce the tax on certain industries that would benefit in the long run and not the short run. The current biggest problem with our economic theory is we focus on the short run instead of long term fixes.
 
Such as no taxes on school equipment, school supplies, no taxes on college or such to cut down costs on education so as to encourage mroe people to go to college. Also increase minimum wage to a living wage, I don’t mean increase it by a dollar, I mean increase it by like four or five dollars. Also no taxes on medicine or anything related to health or such.
Trickquestion
The End wasn't The End - Found a new home after the great exodus of 2012

@cb5  
Oh, well that’s even better.
 
You see, the more difficult something is, the more effort you have to put into it. If massacring your enemies and destroying nations was easy, do you think we would have created such amazing technology to do it with? If any old sod could just tear down a city with his bare hands, would we have discovered nuclear power? If folks could just pick up burning flames and drop them on people, would we have flamethrowers? If the ground just naturally gave us enough places to hurl bombs at people at from, would we have developed planes so sophisticated that a city bus is more likely to kill you? (As a result of operating failure, or course.)
 
The greater the challenge, the better.
Ripple_Shine
The End wasn't The End - Found a new home after the great exodus of 2012

False. Freedom of speech means that the government cannot pass laws against something someone says, obviously there are exceptions, like speech meant to incite violence, but all in all, private citizens can block (or blurt) out whatever the hell they want.
cb5
Thread Starter - The time wasting thread

@Trickquestion  
Oh you mean like the star wars program?
 
The problem with space wars is that all it takes to destroy a satellite is a spare bolt or something travelling about. We have had several satellites wind up going out of commission cause space debris hit it. If there was a space war there would be so much debris floating about in space we would never be able to travel safely of world for hundreds of years. If there was a space war say goodbye to cellphones or any space program or satellite for the next couple hundred years until all the debris’ orbit decayed and fell.
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In Vino Veritas
@cb5
 
The Koch Bros’ Lapdogs were a clever little trick to unify the republican base, and to provide a major source of resistance to the Dem’s. It worked at first, but the problem is they didn’t leash them well enough, and they started to get too incendiary too quickly. Instead of unifying the base, they started to drive away moderates and independents. When more centrist Republicans started to try and curb this, we say the Tea Party bite it’s masters hand and start to try and unseat what they considered ‘weak republicans’. Their plan utterly back-fired, but I will give them credit as it wasn’t really their fault that it did. They just underestimated what they had created. Political Dr Frankenstein.
cb5
Thread Starter - The time wasting thread

@Zincy  
I’m neither republican, democrat or tea party.
 
The tea party probably isn’t going to go away, however they are probably going to cost the republican party seats in 2014 and 2016. The reason being is that our system isn’t designed to have three parties at once. That’s why you saw the republicans lose seats in 2012 is because republicans not only had to run against democrats they also had to run against tea party. Think of it as having to run two elections before getting elected, if you have to go through two elections it’s not looking good. Think of it this way, imagine in a 50/50 election with democrats constituting 50% of the vote, whereas republicans and tea party constitute a combine 25% total each that means a republican or tea party member has a 1 in four chance of winning whereas a democrat has a 50% chance.
 
The bare minimum predicted by political forecasters for the 2014 election is republicans lose 10 seats in the house and republicans lose control. If that’s the bare minimum probability then it’s not looking good for their chances.
 
That’s not even going into 2016 either. Look at hillary, her chances would curb stomp anyone else looking to be president. She would even win texas. If a democrat is so popular that they would realistically win texas of all places then you had better use a t-virus to reanimate lincoln cause it’s not looking good for you.
Trickquestion
The End wasn't The End - Found a new home after the great exodus of 2012

See, people need to be kept occupied, or else they start coming up with stupid ideas, like the entirety of the American political/economic system. Nations gotta be kept busy. Once enslaving the entirety of the world is no longer an option, we can tackle space travel.