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Meshugger

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  1. If this reaches the supreme court, what section of the constitution will be contested then? As what is missing from the order or what is the Executive Order in direct violation of?
  2. Not even an option of a neo-feudalistic empire led by the ideals of Charlemagne? Pfffft.
  3. So Deus Vult then? Oh mai :3Hominem non deus vult. Heck, I'm not even a Christian. I'm just pointing out a contradiction. lol
  4. True, The Gulags and The Red Terror warrants its own merit. Instead of mere black lists, are you suggesting Pinochetian free helicopter rides?
  5. Indeed, we shouldn't allow another Lenin, Mao or Stalin to get to power, that would be a mistake. Are you suggesting a new Monroe doctrine perhaps?
  6. Sorry, I don't catch the meaning. People thinking the same for Bush? ...Course, others thought the same for Obama, and others still thought and even planned worse than that still for both of them, and I'm sure the same will be true for Trump. Oh, there were quite a lot of hoping for Bush to die to downright assassination-fantasies on other gaming-forums i frequented back in the day. Point being that things haven't changed much.
  7. As several people already pointed out, the kid is dead because of the open borders policy. The family would've been relatively safe in a refugee camp in Turkey instead of risking their lives in the Aegean sea. That being said, funds should be allocated to those camps in order to maintain refugees of such magnitude.
  8. Well, the guy was the creation of a woman's right to choose though.
  9. Welp, i thought that cooperative ownership was quite common in the world. I guess i was wrong based on the responses.
  10. This made me laugh quite a lot. And I thought I over interpreted things. The author seems pissed that they in the end go into an expensive Audi and drive away. He sees this as representative of the upper class and they're tight grip on the lower class. Had this been simply a video clip, he would be right. But this is an ad, and thus I find it perfectly reasonable for Audi to show off. And I mean you have to give it to them, the car does look great. But again.... no message aside from "we make good looking cars BUY OUR STUFF PLEASE". The over interpretation of this ad also suffers from a logical error: if Audi beliefs that the upper class should always have the edge over the lower class, then why would they use that as an advertisement strategy? I'm no PR expert, but this does seem like a big middle finger towards many potential soon-to-be customers. So I don't see why they'd actually try to convey that message in an ad. The author of this article seems to be te kind of person who also would think that hard right winged billionaires who lie in bed with Wall Street would be a tremendous representative for the working class. It doesn't make all to much sense when you think about it. Bennie please summarize your view on what you think should be the most effective system of government, do you believe in Socialism or Communism? Can you give me an example of a country you think the West should emulate around ideology if at all ? I think that he is secretly a Trump supporter, because as a true marxist, he wants to grab them by the p***y seize the means of (re)production.
  11. That's the point. That's why environmentalism is a thing. They really need to work on their PR department.
  12. The earth is fine and will be fine, it's humanity that is ****ed with overpopulation in Asia and the looming demographic explosion in Africa. If mother gaia has enough of humans, she will just sneeze us out with a virus that affects our immune system, turning it to ourselves.....oh.
  13. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/02/03/pentagon-strikes-new-f-35-deal-with-lockheed-after-trump-involvement.html Great that the tax-payers are saved their money, but on the other hand, i haven't really heard anything good about the F-35 to begin with.
  14. When you see everything as Hitler no one will care when one such as him finally takes power. When it comes to Der Spiegel I would not say that is fair statement. But question is from what you known that somebody like Hitler has taken the power? If you look how he rose to power you will have hard time to differentiate him from lot of politicians. He campaigned with German first platform, protectionism, national security, jobs for Germans, resign from "unfair" international agreements, stopping terrorizing minorities, stopping minorities stealing German jobs, Christian and family values, and so on. Lots of people have campaigned on similar promises as you stated without being Hitler, but suddenly Trump is. Oh well, at least this paper dropped any pretense on what they want:
  15. When you see everything as Hitler no one will care when one such as him finally takes power.
  16. No one likes Mitch McConnell. That being said, Obama's pick should atleast been given a hearing.
  17. From my experience in being in Slovenia, i got the impression that they do not care much about the rest of the Balkans as much as themselves. They remind me about the Swiss in a way.
  18. Morgan continues being a sensible person. A quite a rare sight in Hollywood.
  19. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DuafAqAHrc
  20. I was in the same situation, so utterly bored at school. I learned more by reading the books found in the bookshelves back home than in school. I do not remember doing any home work at all in junior high school but still aced through most of the classes thanks to the said home library. I didn't start doing home work until before the final exams in upper seconday school (senior high for you yanks).
  21. As someone who went to public school in Texas, I have to agree with this. In my senior year I took a class called College Algebra that doubled as a credit for College, Math 1308 or 1314 I think. Anyways most of the class consisted of getting worksheets with simplistic problems and childlike puzzles like "what did the farmer say to the pig". I think I got a C in the class, because I would never did the classwork or homework and would only wake up t take a quiz or a test, which I would make an 85 as my lowest score. And that class wasn't unique in its simplicity. Admittedly I didn't do very well in high school, did way too many drugs and rarely did homework or classwork. Almost failed in English because I didn't do a paper and a project. Always did very well on tests and my SAT score was impressive, or at least some advisors I talked to said as much, but not doing half the work tends to negatively impact your score. I blame boredom more than anything, all of my teachers were ****, I got less out of classes listening to them than I did skimming wikipedia articles or reading the textbook, classes consisted of reviewing information to take tests or dumb worksheets, and there was no challenge or learning involved. I don't have any concrete solutions to fire off the hip and blanket statements like "we need to encourage imagination" are meaningless tripe that don't add anything to the discussion. But there is a major problem with the US public education system and judging by what 'tep has said it's only gotten worse. I'm gonna go back to work now, have fun. The bold part sounds eerily familiar.
  22. http://nypost.com/2017/01/28/after-years-of-liberal-hate-george-w-bush-is-getting-the-respect-he-deserves/ Compare and contrast: https://www.businessinsider.com/george-w-bush-poncho-inauguration-2017-1/?international=true&r=US Once a joke of a president and a symbol of stupidity, always a yadda yadda. It's unfair though. Clearly he never wanted to be President, he was forced into it. He just wants to paint. The guy sure has that boyish smile that makes most think: "dawww, not the sharpest tool in the shed, but he sure means well atleast".
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