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But I will!

Ha! Not if you count affirmative action!

Brianna gets my vote! She's the only one you get to convert by wrestling half-naked.

Though you are clearly the slave of the flying menace. Btw, Mao didn't kill millions during the Communist Revolution. (His Red Army was fighting the Japanese occupational forces first and then the very corrupt nationalists party. I don't think the causalties his army inflicted accounted to millions since he barely had one million soldiers at the start of the Chinese Civil War.) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yes. You'll note that I was careful to say those who were killed "under Mao" instead of "by Mao". I'm aware that Mao did not personally order all those millions of deaths, which number somewhere in the 70+million. Poverty being a big reason, as sometimes it was so bad people were forced to eat their own children. But my point is that you could say he was a great man because he may have had a desire to help his country, but at what cost does it become unacceptable? Technically we are a "democratic republic". The people don't decide on everything, but we do have some say in the government aside from who's elected and who's not. And last time I checked, speaking out against the government does not get one shot, nor do protests get dispersed by tanks, as in Tiananmen Square. Um, unless you didn't even read my post, I was referring to more than just Stalin. And the collapse of the Berlin Wall, which I'm hoping you knew, did not occur during Stalin's time. But okay, how about Vladimir Lenin, the man you seem to hold so highly? Or Leon Trotsky, his right hand man, or Fidel Castro, or Kim Jong Il or his father Kim Il Sung? Both of whom are regarded as two of the worst dictators of recent times? I'm still waiting to hear how your father heard them speaking Hindi in the Soviet Union.

I'm not my government's slave. We are a DEMOCRACY. We have freedoms. We are allowed to think for ourselves, unlike the Soviet Union where having a different opinion could get you killed. We don't get shot or sent to prison camps for speaking out against our government. We aren't like North Korea, where one could get punished for a crime his or her parents committed. See, over here we do have freedom, contrary to what your media might spoonfeed you over there. As for your father's visit to the USSR, the Soviet Union was a colossal collection of countries, so you can't judge it all by one personal experience. And if he went to it during the 1980's, then it was during its revolutionary years where the peoples of the USSR were just experiencing new freedoms. I'd also like to know where exactly he went, seeing as Hindi is spoken in India, not Russia or the USSR. And even if it wasn't during the 1980's, people under brutal governments live in fear. The Iraqis did the same thing before the fall of Saddam Hussein - supporting and celebrating him in front of cameras. But deep down, they all hated him. But they did not publicly denounce him because they feared for their lives. And maybe if it was such a bastion of happiness, then there wouldn't have been a flood of people leaving it after the fall of the Berlin wall. Or maybe there wouldn't have been a flood of writers denouncing Communism and the government after freedom of speech and the press was finally allowed! Maybe you should talk to a relative of someone who was killed under Stalin's rule or one of the millions killed under Mao Tse Tung during China's communist revolution. You've basically defended Communism and the USSR to the point of ignoring facts, or just plain denying them! You haven't even been able to back up a single one of your claims. The best you've done is "well my daddy told me..." and "well, there was this one time, I can't remember, but there was this one law..." Honestly, if you're going to argue your point, you'll have to do a lot better than that. *end rant mode*

Or maybe she wrote what she actually experienced. Or maybe you should stop living in your own naive fantasy world where the USSR was the bastion of enlightenment and fair treatment and Communism is the answer to all of life's problems. Kill a Commy for mommy, children! Not really, that's murder and is frowned upon in many cultures.

The C0cktails - Even Time The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema

I would strongly recommend any books by Edgar Rice Burroughs. I'm surprised nobody's mentioned him yet. His Martian, Venus, and Earth's Core series are all great sci-fi literature. And no series would be complete without Jules Verne, either. I'd take a look at his books as well.

The subject of this report is Hades One, aka Judge Hades, aka Visceris, aka Giant Pink Bunny "So what if I bought Neverwinter Knight's twice?" "I am an empirical rationalist. So of course I believe God exists."

Aerosmith - Monkey on My Back But "Dream On" is still their greatest song. Ever.

It was a decent anime. I think the ending could have been better.

Frank Sinatra - Somewhere Beyond the Sea :D

Finished Hamlet. Good play. Probably the best of his I've read so far. Once I have time, I fully intend to start Macbeth. :D I'm also reading The Wastelands: the Dark Tower part III by Stephen King on and off.

The max I heard was six. Not sure if Toby's gonna be able to stick with it that long. As for the black suit, I admit I am surprised they decided to incorporate the symbiote so soon. But as Venom is my favorite Spidey villain, I'm not complaining.

I rest my case. Please excuse me while I spam your RPG threads now.

Well, one of us has got to do it, godangit!

Gabs, you and Hades really should date sometime.

Apparently, more than 10. Will a dev just come out and say whether Kreia was Kae or not, already? This entire debate has just been worn out to the point of being annoying. <_<

Oh gee, another alt. We can't get enough of those around here.

maybe Launch can clarify for us with a pic? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> That was her pic. Oops, wrong identity. Sorry.

Curses, I should have retitled my thread this instead! It might still be alive now. <_<

Ugh...I think something in the goat blood didn't agree with me.

Raw goat. Mm-mm. Sorry, I had to do it.

No fair. Alts are people, too!

B. :ph34r: