Valsuelm

No, it is not.

Yep.... and that's when my severe dislike for Google began. The RIAA and MPAA have been doing a job on usenet as well in recent years. It's still out there and strong though, but a lot harder for a lot of people to get good access to. I currently access it through a server in the Netherlands. Most 4channers probably have no idea what usenet even is.

You give 4chan far more credit than it deserves. While it's made it's mark like a great many other sites, it's hardly shaped much of anything 'for ages', or was or is an 'enormous factor in why internet culture is what it is now.' It's where a bunch of mostly immature people hang out. It's like the nerd emo kid table in the jr high cafeteria on a large scale. And yea.. for the people who are sitting at that table day after day, it's been memorable, perhaps even life shaping, but for the vast majority that make up the rest out there 4chan is either something totally irrelevant to them or they hope the people sitting at that table 'grow out of it'. It seems the guy who started it and runs it finally did to an extent. Good for him, but other than that, so what or who cares?

It's interesting yet not surprising that nearly every, if not every one who lives outside of the U.S. on this forum thinks Obama is better than the Republican alternatives...

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Wasn't it a president that started that whole Federal Reserve stuff? No... A President may have signed it in to law, but that President was not at all one of it's architects (I suggest this documentary or the work of Bill Still (most of it is sadly not freely available on youtube anymore) in general for some enlightenment on who was behind it). That President happens to be one of the few I think that is very arguably worse than Obama (at least as of now... Obama has ~2 more years to gain the #1 spot on the worst presidents list, I think he has potential, but I hope he doesn't because that would mean really bad stuff).

Whether he said it or not doesn't really matter. Whoever said it said it for political effect. Truth doesn't matter when you're a politician trying to illicit fear of X in those who are listening to you while spouting the message that you will protect them from X. Whether X is real of imagined doesn't matter, and the majority of the time it's imagined. Obama is just as guilty of saying nonsensical things to galvanize those he's aiming his message at (evidence of that is in this thread). At the national level, in pretty much every western nation, you are hard pressed to find candidates that are not guilty of such things. There has been no Democrat or Republican nominee for President in my lifetime that is not guilty of such things (though some are worse than others and I'd put Obama and all of the other major party nominees for President in the last 3 elections near the top of the list of the worst).

Yeah but as usual with politics is one step forward and two steps back, this presidency thing is game of beautiful corpse that means that the next guy will have to deal with the fallout of decisions made on this presidency. It was like that with Clinton and it will be like this with Obama and he did some really bad things as a president, man would make Nixon look good in comparison. If there was an election tomorrow where Obama ran against any of the Presidents that were in office in the last 50 years, the only one I think he might have a chance of beating would be Bush Jr.. Maybe. All of the others would win by a wide to very wide margin, even Nixon, Ford, or Carter. (this of course assumes they were all still alive, though I'm sure many would rather have a rotting corpse as President than Obama. )

So bombing buildings with journalists in it is ok if a government sanctions it then, but not ok when no government officially sanctions it? That's what makes it legitimate in your eyes?

LOL. What 'irrefutable positive developments'? If you walked down Main Street USA and interviewed a bunch of random Americans, you'll be hard pressed to find many people, even democrats, that would say something like that. Also. Obama aside, the State of the Union has sadly become little more than an opportunity for the president to campaign or propagandize. It's been many many many years since any President gave a State of the Union address that wasn't mostly or totally full of hot air. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jan/20/obama-has-worst-state-union-record-ford-study-show/ https://grabien.com/story.php?id=20735

How is the intentional bombing of the Serbian state television station a 'legitimate target', but Charlie Hebdo isn't? Please explain the difference, and try to not use the subjective words like 'terrorist'.

Chomsky is as much on the 'left' as he is on the 'right'. Like pretty much everyone that mostly thinks outside of boxes, he doesn't fit into any of the cookie cutter manufactured paradigms of thinking that make up the imagined left/right paradigm. Hence, you'll find people who identify themselves as being on the 'left' call Chomsky 'right wing' just as you'll have people such as yourself call Chomsky 'left wing'. The reason being is Chomsky tears apart many ideas held dear by people who identify themselves as being on both sides of that false paradigm, so he must be the other side of that spectrum in their eyes. In many ways Chomsky is essentially an anarchist, and that's something that generally does not fit into that two dimensional left/right spectrum.

Noam is usually a good read. Along the lines of that article, I highly recommend this: http://youtu.be/bjMRU75M_AI http://youtu.be/27sN6IhIMxo

It just about never is even close to half that number. A million sounds like a nice big number though, and most people rarely fact check. The mainstream media and many that get their news from it are so petty though that if numbers were more accurately recorded we'd have idiotic talking heads downplaying one march that only had, say ~120,000 people vs another march that had, say ~230,000 people. Many idiots would somehow see the second march's issue(s) as more legit, or use the first march's smaller numbers to discount the legitimacy (if there is any) of their issue(s).

Seagal > Reeves > Kermit the Frog > Neeson Reeves take a lot of undeserved flak I think. He just does what most A-list Hollywood actors do most of the time, plays himself.

Probably quite well considering who and what his films generally focus on, as well as his political views.

Go for it. If you are so massively misinterpreting what I write as vitriol, or actually find it annoying, what I write is likely lost on you anyways. Something I've found to be true that applies to pretty much everyone at various times: The mood in which you are when you read what someone else writes can very much influence how you interpret their words. There is zero vitriol in anything I've ever written on this forum. What I write might be blunt and a little rough for some to swallow as a result, but there's zero animosity or anger behind it.

Who is being punished for being good and how?

You have a cartoony idea of what evil is. There is good and evil in everyone.

These Final Hours 6.5/10

That's got about as much credibility and substance as the average idiot who says 'let's nuke all dem towelheads and be done with it!'. Yea.. you could say that idiot is a potential genocidal maniac as well, and unfortunately there's no shortage of such idiots out there. I could hop in my car right now, travel to almost any bar with people in it out there, bring up Muslims and the middle east, and it would be almost guaranteed that some idiot would say that or something like it, of course not even realizing that most Muslims in the middle east don't wear turbans. But that guy doesn't realize much. I'm about as worried that ISIS will accomplish such a genocidal goal as the aforementioned average idiot will accomplish his. You shouldn't be any more worried either.

You managed to watch all four seasons of A Game of Thrones twice and are on your third watch and you think that "Anyone who thinks Jon Snow is anything but good or Tywin is anything but evil just aren't paying attention."???? Do you watch it drugged? Were you only half paying attention? Those are serious questions. Granted, it's more fleshed out in the books but the TV show has still done a good job of demonstrating that Jon Snow isn't the embodiment of an Angel or Tywin the embodiment of a Devil. Far from it really, especially in regards to Tywin. He wouldn't even make my top ten 'bad' (as in evil) characters list from A Song of Ice and Fire.

Serious reading comprehension fail going on...

You really think that just because the U.S. is the leader in oil production at the moment that it will just stop it's efforts on behalf of big oil to corner the oil market elsewhere? Seriously? The oil game is global in scope and the people who play it play are playing the long game. They aren't subject to short attention spans, like so many who swallow up their garbage are. That said, as I already mentioned, there are possibly reasons other than oil that we might be sending troops to West Africa. Two things for sure, guns aren't very effective vs. viruses, and 3,000 isn't a small number of troops.