BUY NOTHING DAY!

I'm pretty sure that supilot and those other faggots are honest to god retartds. I can't believe the ignorant shit that comes out of your mouth. If you pulled your head out of your ass you would probably know that the notion of socialism has changed quite a bit since the days of marx. And how you think it isn't going to hurt you wake the fuck up. 9 11's will become more frequent. The tensions in your own country are heating up. If mumia goes to the chair some crackers are gonna die,and you and your family could be among those. If you think capitalism is really that great reagan and george bush obviously own your brain. The only things capitalism brings are inequality and material possesions. If you really love shit that much it obviously doesn't matter what you think because 1) your not happy and 2) your joining the ranks of brainwashed mtv youths. Watch your back honkeys

 
trueness c_lo. The fact of the matter is that any form of social protest will be recognized by companies that go into Haiti and charge below hatian minimum wage. getting a total of $1.40 for a days work. That extra 5 cents per t-shirt can easily come out of the corp. fat cats pockets and into the sweat shop worker. Capitalism and free trade are good in theory, but people that think like some of you guys ('it doesn't effect me so it doesn't matter') makes everything go sour.

-Mike

'Isn't 14 legal for everyone?' - Dave Pauls
 
usage of racial slurs, cliche speech, and failing to back up your argument does not make your economic veiw any more valid than mine. i swear if i hear one more kid try to sound intelligent by calling someone igonrant i will seriously freak out. the psuedo intelectualism needs to come to a halt. i know that it is en vouge to be a socialist nowa days, but a central economy has failed everywhere it has been tried. and by failed i mean that the country was left in economic ruins at best. quick c lo- name a country with a purely socialist economy that has made it... fact is there arnt any. socialist states fail to try an entirely centralized economy, because it is just implausible that it could work. countries like canada and the scandanavian nations are not what you would call strait socilist. they like trade and commerce as much as americans do. on this same note, the american economy is obviously not soley capitalist. everyone knows this. and to say that anyone in favor of a free market economy is brainwashed by bush or reagan is sheer idiocy at its highest level. brainwashed by adam smith, maybe... but if i have been a victim of brainwashing by the president of my time, then surely you must grant that you have been brainwashed equally well by trudeau or chretien, or whomever you came up listening to. if you arnt canadian, my apologies. but if you are then you know what i mean. we all draw our ideas from those who have gone before us, so dont try to sound original. because your spin on economic theory means as little, or less than mine. dont bother trying to respond to this, because it will sound silly. surely.

-thespinstopshere-
 
i would also wager that c lo learned 95 per cent of all he knows about politics and economics from zach de la rocha... FREE MUMIA!!!! shut up.

-thespinstopshere-
 
anewmorning is totally right on this one and the rest of you skeptics are having a hard time backing your ass spluging statements with facts. give me a break. the only thing you seem to know about marx is that his first name was karl. when you talk about being brainwashed by bush i really hope you are joking cause that makes no sense at all. if it wasnt for capitalism then you wouldn't be sitting in your house typing shit in the NS forum on your cpu. i bet you are all those freaks that think capitalism makes the rich richer and the poor poorer...leaving some people without oppurtunities that others have. you feel that with socialism everything will be happy and everyone will be touchy and feely. when infact capitalism is the one system that leaves everyone free to rise by his own efforts. The history of capitalism provides countless instances of people who improved their lives through work and ability. There are the millions of immigrants who came to America and worked their way up to the middle class or higher. One of the great historical examples was andrew carnegie, who rose from a penniless sweeper at a steel mill to revolutionize the steel industry and make one of the largest fortunes of his day. It is no coincidence that 19th century America the most purely capitalist era in the nation's history brought us the phrase 'from rags to riches.' the reason why capitalism allows people to rise by their own efforts is that capitalism is driven by only one fundamental consideration: profit. But profit comes from an increase in the production of wealth: it comes from inventing a new product, producing a good more efficiently, promoting it to a wider market, etc. it comes from doing things better, faster, and smarter than before. this means that capitalism offer an open field to anyone who works hard to improve his skills and it offers riches to anyone who thinks hard and comes up with new and better ideas. It is under capitalism, for example, that a company like microsoft creates scores of millionaires out of individuals whose qualification is not inherited wealth or social connections, but only the ability to create and sell computer programs.

 
I thought this thread was about BND. The fact of the matter, that day is already over and most of you cared missed not to understand the whole point of the day.

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Its obvious you really aren't very intelligent. Know do me a favor, think about all the times someone intelligent has called you 'a fucking moron'. Yeah thats right i got all this from rage you fucking homo. Mumia is simply a symbol of inequality and modernday racism. Ever hear of a social democracy shit for brains?? Yeah they exist and they work. Of course its impossible for any country to be pure socialist because the Amerikkkans would undoubtly cause economic hardship for the country. I really hope that you can afford to travel and go to Brazil, Chiapas (just joking but I know you got mad at that one), NE africa India etc. Also I'm assuming your logic is ohh we give aid we're doing our parts. The fact is the western world and aid is bullshit. The 'aid' goes to line the pocets of promenant politicians and their supporters, it is simply a political tool. People are simply being left to die and starve every day. In theory in a capitalist system you should be free to determine your standing. However, if you read more than smith and the globe and mail perhaps you may have heard of someone named maslow and his hierarchy. How the fuck is anyone supposed to move up when 50 percent of their population has HIV and 85 perent of their population isn't getting enough to eat?? You don't know about poverty and until you do I think you should not talk about capitalism because you sound really ignorant. I hear alot of white kids saying they wouldn't have owned slaves back in the day, or how they can'

t believe we stole people from africa. In 100 years we will look back at this system and say the same thing

 
first off, i'm not saying that socialism is the answer - but mass consumerism is also NOT the answer. and yes, there is a difference between consumerism and capitalism.

we can go back 50 years and live in a capitalistic society, and to tell you the truth, i think i would be happier. why? because i wouldn't know about all the exploitation that happens across the world. through our new inventions, specifically the internet and wireless communication it is possible to know right now what is happening in indonesia, right now! and through this comes the constant feeling of inequality. everything i do to further my being stops any number of people in other 'worlds' from furthering theirs.

to whoever was saying that no socialist state has lasted, i pose this question - what capitalist society has lasted? we're in the present, and it's quite apparent that sooner or later our capitalistic hierarchy will be overthrown.. by what, i don't know, but the model is there for our eventual decline. the roman empire collapsed on itself, the british empire experienced decline, there is no system of government that has lasted a significant period in human existence.

why is this?

 
what makes u think that america will be overthrown, the american government does not allow itself to be overthrown because of the way our government was created. It is a an evolving government that adapts to the times and changes with the people. Americanism is also a major factor, our way of life will work as long as we want it too, america is way to proud of itself to every be thrown over, the government is elected by the people so if they feel that something is going the way they dont want it to there is always the oppurtunity to have their view heard, that is exactly what is going on here in this post, so saying that america will be over thrown is rediculous, i dont care what happened to the roman empire or any other place in history, that is because they were either conquered by someone else or a dictator took over, that cannot happen here... Americans wouldnt allow it, there would be no way to do that and actually keep control of the states before that person was ousted...

Team Sofa King Amazing

Being Irish, I guess I should resent the Notre Dame nickname 'The Fighting Irish.' After all, how long do you think nicknames like 'The Bargaining Jews' or 'The Murdering Italians' would last? Only the Ironic Irish could be so naively honset. I get the feeling that Notre Dame came real close to naming itself 'The Fuckin Drunken, Thick-Skulled, Brawling, Short-Dicked Irish'
 
LONG LIVE AMERICA

and by the way: Switzerland is a socialist country and they are doing fine, so i cant agree by saying socialism is the wrong way, i cant say capitalism is the right way either, the true way is somewhere in between which is the direction that america is heading in... america is becoming more socialist every year, while still being a capitalist country

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Being Irish, I guess I should resent the Notre Dame nickname 'The Fighting Irish.' After all, how long do you think nicknames like 'The Bargaining Jews' or 'The Murdering Italians' would last? Only the Ironic Irish could be so naively honset. I get the feeling that Notre Dame came real close to naming itself 'The Fuckin Drunken, Thick-Skulled, Brawling, Short-Dicked Irish'
 
whoa whoa whoa! did u just say that it's impossible for america to be overthrown?! do u actually believe that?!! do u realize how close the US was to becoming a state of germany? do u realize just how close all of us came to being taken over by hitler? had the germans focused their efforts on splitting the atom, like the manhattan project did, chances are we'd all live completely different lives now. i'm not saying that we'd live a better life, i'm just saying that it is completely possible for the US to be invaded and overthrown. how many people died in the 911 attacks? that happened in the matter of what, 20 minutes? oh, but it's impossible for the US to be invaded.

what about the american populus that chose not to vote in the last election? one day, isn't it wholly possible for them to rise up and do something to their opressors?

open your eyes, world history hasn't been created in the 20th and 21st centuries. america the great WILL collapse.. it's only a matter of when, and at the hands of what.

 
sure ive heard of maslow... amyone whos taken first year psych has heard of maslow. and perhaps youve got a point in the fact that residents of africa and such places have a hard time implementing a stable economic system when the first thing on their minds is where the next meal will come from etc... fact is, sonny jim, that i have seen and lived in countries with both types of economic systems, i.e. u.s., canada, and china, and i can say from first hand experience that it has been a lot easier to find employment and a decent wage in california than in the case of the strugling b.c. economy a year and a half ago, or in china. i dont think that this is disputeable. as for a social democracy.. ive heard of one, and its called america. this too, is indisputable. fact is that youre confusing the argument. are you trying to say that a more socilist democracy is a good way to o, or are you preahing pure socialism? pleas, for the love of all thats holy, know what youre talking about before you speak, and please, again, dont make assumptions that everyone besides yourself is uncultured or unintelligent, because youre wrong. like i have said before, you get to have your opinion, but that doesnt make it right, and it surely doesnt make me wrong. and i do think it is hard to accept anything you say as legitimate when you are incapable of typing a response without using multiple swear words, due to the fact that you have a seven word vocabulary... whos unintelligent?

p.s. for the record ive never been called an idiot by an intelligent person. ever. but you can cout this one for you... you are an idiot.

-thespinstopshere-
 
sweetcoz....sorry bud but its not possible for us to be overthrown by anyone else (perhaps aliens could i suppose if they exist). duh about germany....we'er not talking about something that happened 70 years ago. put away your dusty history books and start talking present day son. of course we could have been overthrown back then cause we were nearly as strong as we were today....back then we were still in the making and we were a nation struggling to find its own history and identity. now that has been done. who do you think would overthrow americans...and enough with the speculation and dont use your old history book to answer this one either.

 
yeah not only that, i never said anything about us being invaded, that is quite possibly, its just that american pride would flair up and make it very difficult to rule us because we are fiercly independent. And if u want to us 911 as and example look what happened right after it u moron! The whole nation came together against a common enemy and began sending aid to NY, so thats just a bad example. Im only saying that the American Government will never be overthrown because of the way the voting system works. And as for people who dont vote making up a big enough majority to overthrow the government, non-voting is not a sign of distaste of the government. if anything it is saying that everything is running satisfactory and i dont need to vote because there is no sense in changing anything. also the majority of people who dont vote are uneducated and thus should not be voting anyway because they just fill out whatever name sounds more irish, or italian, or whatever....

Being Irish, I guess I should resent the Notre Dame nickname 'The Fighting Irish.' After all, how long do you think nicknames like 'The Bargaining Jews' or 'The Murdering Italians' would last? Only the Ironic Irish could be so naively honset. I get the feeling that Notre Dame came real close to naming itself 'The Fuckin Drunken, Thick-Skulled, Brawling, Short-Dicked Irish'

Go play with a toaster in your bathtub you fucking moron.- Andy
 
right on bibskis....people that dont vote shouldnt bitch cause they arent giving themselves any leverage to speak out if they dont even vote. people that dont see themselves as americans and people that dont have pride in their country and in their governing body should be shot, because the people are the ones that make up what our gov't has become. people that dont vote are lazy fat fucks with anarchy tats on their backs...they should be shot too.

 
ok, i don't know if this has been brought up, but i think the whole point of buy nothing day is being overlooked. obviously, if you are without necessities to live, you should buy it. buy nothing day is just supposed to raise awareness of how excessive our society is. and it's one day because you can't have buy-nothing-forever. you should really practice buy nothing day everyday. ask yourself whether or not you NEED five pairs of skis or whatever. but i also agree that we wouldn't have this 'quality of life' we all enjoy if people didn't spend and throw money into the economy. all that i, and everyone else that TRULY participated in buy nothing day, want to do is to regulate the imbalance in overspending and exploitation. because, afterall, it's about the yin and the yang living in harmony. haha. i thought this was an interesting point of view risen by David Suzuki... it goes something like, we know that the world and our resources are finite, but we produce and expect our economy to grow infinitely... makes you think, don't it?

 
there are plenty of days where i will buy nothing, so i think the concept behind it is stupid, u shouldnt have to be told to buy nothing because u want to 'rebel against commercialism'

but i understand what u are saying, and u are the first person that has acutally come up with a valid arguement, instead of just blowing smoke

Being Irish, I guess I should resent the Notre Dame nickname 'The Fighting Irish.' After all, how long do you think nicknames like 'The Bargaining Jews' or 'The Murdering Italians' would last? Only the Ironic Irish could be so naively honset. I get the feeling that Notre Dame came real close to naming itself 'The Fuckin Drunken, Thick-Skulled, Brawling, Short-Dicked Irish'

Go play with a toaster in your bathtub you fucking moron.- Andy
 
but saying that people dont need 5 pairs of skis is different, cause skiing should be more important that our environment anyway...h

haha

Being Irish, I guess I should resent the Notre Dame nickname 'The Fighting Irish.' After all, how long do you think nicknames like 'The Bargaining Jews' or 'The Murdering Italians' would last? Only the Ironic Irish could be so naively honset. I get the feeling that Notre Dame came real close to naming itself 'The Fuckin Drunken, Thick-Skulled, Brawling, Short-Dicked Irish'

Go play with a toaster in your bathtub you fucking moron.- Andy
 
umm i was fine with the buy noting day thing... i just wanted to chip in my 2 cents when people started slingin econ in here...

-thespinstopshere-
 
Yeah thats exactly the kind of arrogance that is going to lead to your countries decline. America is not a social democracy, when you have 51% of a race living in the 'inner city' it is obvious that there is no socialism aspect. Your healthcare is privitized and your education system is coming closer. Your utilities are also being sold off. Saying the us is a social democracy is like saying the mayor of New York is a rastafarian because he smoked weed once. (exagerated a bit). I'm saying that socialism can work but in a modified context, hence social democracies or controlled capitalism. The united states has absoulutly no control over capitalism thanks mostly to reagan. The news, movies and most media is all about corperate intrests. We don't here about alot of the bullshit disneys involved in because of the ABC merger. Pharamcutical companies are begining to own the rights to the research done on their products. Large exploitive corperations like Nike are beginning to control our educational systems. I really don't think you can say that the United States is a social democracy. It will only be a matter of time until Americas weak antitrust laws can no longer control Barnes and Noble from contolling distribution and corperations will have complete control over our doctronal system. Your government will be overthrown eventually. Perhaps by the people it fucks over internally or externally the fact is it will happen. The united states and its economic system fucks over all minorities, blacks, latinos natives, homos, women etc. together these groups make up the majority and to quote Bob Marley 'you can't fool all the people all the time'. The truth may get by the majority for another year, another ten years another century but eventually the majority will rise. Geurilla tactics are changing and the Americans are useless in Geurilla warfare, you got spanked by the Cubans, i'm talking about your ground invasion after Castro took power that isn't published too widely. Face it Castro made you look stupid and thats why you don't own Cuba and that why theres an embargo. New groups with new startigies such as the EZLN are emerging (and Zach Da Le Rocha is not the only american supporter/sympathizer) which, in my eyes are the beggining of the end of this bullshit. You can say that you've seen china canada and the u.s. and thats great but I really don't think thats enough. Canada and the U.S. are becoming closer and closer and China, I'd give you that but I'm not sure you actually went anywhere important like monistaries, or the site of the three georges damn. Everyone I've talked to who has travelled rejects capitalism and that is no coincidence. You need to leave your narrow world view behind you. You can convince yourslef that your system is invincible and good and people just need to 'work more harder' but in the end its obvious you haven't seen experienced or read anything. I mean you waste your time arguing with bored highschool kids (myself) and calling in marijuana plants to the po po. I know what I'm about.Whats your life about?

 
ummm the invansion of cuba is widely published so ur wrong on that point, and as far as the united states not being a social democracy, nobody said it was. i said it was going in the direction of a social democracy, it is not even close to being there yet. it is not becoming more capitalist either though. If you knew anything about American politics u would know this. And for saying that the majority of people are being oppressed that would mean that they side with the liberals. this is not the case. a majority of americans describe themselves as being conservative. Latinos are shit on by everyone included blacks, their social status in America will improve as time goes on. Obviously people here are going to be against letting in immigrants because all it gives them less of a chance of getting a job, even if they dont realize that the people who are coming in are not taking the jobs that everyone wants, they are taking the jobs that NOBODY wants, they are our janitors and street cleaners and our delivery boys. and as far as minorities not being able to get ahead, that is changing, these things take time. there is racism in every single nation in the world. people are always and will always be put down, it is part of human nature.

Being Irish, I guess I should resent the Notre Dame nickname 'The Fighting Irish.' After all, how long do you think nicknames like 'The Bargaining Jews' or 'The Murdering Italians' would last? Only the Ironic Irish could be so naively honset. I get the feeling that Notre Dame came real close to naming itself 'The Fuckin Drunken, Thick-Skulled, Brawling, Short-Dicked Irish'

Go play with a toaster in your bathtub you fucking moron.- Andy
 
haha

Being Irish, I guess I should resent the Notre Dame nickname 'The Fighting Irish.' After all, how long do you think nicknames like 'The Bargaining Jews' or 'The Murdering Italians' would last? Only the Ironic Irish could be so naively honset. I get the feeling that Notre Dame came real close to naming itself 'The Fuckin Drunken, Thick-Skulled, Brawling, Short-Dicked Irish'

Go play with a toaster in your bathtub you fucking moron.- Andy
 
'How the fuck is anyone supposed to move up when 50 percent of their population has HIV and 85 perent of their population isn't getting enough to eat??'

c_lo, you're making these countries sound retarded and it's capitalisms fault. This isn't entirely true. Take a country like India for example. They have a ridiculous amount of AIDS in their population (25 million), but there are smart people coming out of this country. India produces the most mathematics and computer science phd's of any nation per capita (I'm not saying the problem can be fixed by mathematicians and programmers, I'm saying their are intelligent people over there not subjected to the whim of mighty America). The problem is these smart people aren't helping out the problem in their own area, they get away from the problem, I don't really blame them. Look at the AIDS problem. Those countries, instead of employing sexual education, they have just increased production on generic pharmaceuticals that combat the AIDS symptoms, they simply mass produce them. A wide range of the AIDS epidemic spreads because people in countries over there believe that having sex with a virgin cures AIDS... yea that's reeeeeealy going to help. Capitalism hurts this huh? I'm sure Bill Gates pledging 100 million dollars to fight AIDS over there is really making their AIDS problem worse?

And what is this crap, the capitalist system screws over ALL minorities. You explain to me how prestigious universities such as MIT, Caltech, and UC Berkeley are over 50% asian? And that financial aid is even higher for minorities? Ohhh and where does that come from, government subsidies... yes that totally wicked and infamous government Just try your odds versus a minority if your white and trying to get into Duke. How do you explain some minorities making it out of the ghetto? They obviously found a way to not be screwed. One of the problems w/ the ghetto isn't capitalism, it is a socialist element, welfare! Look at the animal kingdom. Animals are out there to sustain themselves, they do this by maximizing their intake of needs and minimizing their output, the work they need to do to achieve this. Welfare is the same damn thing, people get their welfare checks and don't work jobs and blame the system, when in fact they are taking advantage of this socialist aspect and actually maximizing their intake w/ minimal output. And don't think I'm calling minorities animals, and that makes me a cracka ass racist... fuck that, plenty of white people are doing the same thing on welfare. The problem w/ a substantial amount of people on welfare is that they are doing this minimization of output, can you explained to me how more socialist elements would help, when we have the current ones employed, and we we have unemployed and impoverished OVERWEIGHT people... that's never happened in the history of the world. I forget where I was going all this, but I'm sure my cracka ass will be reminded of my ignorance and of my inherent racism.

 
(clap) (clap) i applaud that

Being Irish, I guess I should resent the Notre Dame nickname 'The Fighting Irish.' After all, how long do you think nicknames like 'The Bargaining Jews' or 'The Murdering Italians' would last? Only the Ironic Irish could be so naively honset. I get the feeling that Notre Dame came real close to naming itself 'The Fuckin Drunken, Thick-Skulled, Brawling, Short-Dicked Irish'

Go play with a toaster in your bathtub you fucking moron.- Andy
 
amen to that

this was actually a pretty good post though, i mean it was good intelligent argument most of the time

Being Irish, I guess I should resent the Notre Dame nickname 'The Fighting Irish.' After all, how long do you think nicknames like 'The Bargaining Jews' or 'The Murdering Italians' would last? Only the Ironic Irish could be so naively honset. I get the feeling that Notre Dame came real close to naming itself 'The Fuckin Drunken, Thick-Skulled, Brawling, Short-Dicked Irish'

Go play with a toaster in your bathtub you fucking moron.- Andy
 
haha... bibskis and SUpilot. are you guys serious? 'the united states will never fall' that is the most egotistical comment ever. 'we're more powerful today than back then' - you know what so is everyone. Any country in the world can buy atomic technology and bomb any other country. the relaity is that US was more powerful back then because they had technology that others didn't.

Capitalism can do good things for other places but why would the US as a whole (the most powerful, everlasting country that it is) choose to pay the people that are working in sweat shops enough to at least help their situation when they could have the money?

Do you think everyone can be rich? Money has to be made off of others.

-Mike

'Isn't 14 legal for everyone?' - Dave Pauls
 
no one said that the us would never fall, but the us government would never as long as this country was still around, if we were to be destroyed thats one thing, but it oculdnt be overthrown

Being Irish, I guess I should resent the Notre Dame nickname 'The Fighting Irish.' After all, how long do you think nicknames like 'The Bargaining Jews' or 'The Murdering Italians' would last? Only the Ironic Irish could be so naively honset. I get the feeling that Notre Dame came real close to naming itself 'The Fuckin Drunken, Thick-Skulled, Brawling, Short-Dicked Irish'

Go play with a toaster in your bathtub you fucking moron.- Andy
 
i do have to give ol c lo a bit of credit on his last post.. not a lot, but some. im suprised you know what the three gorges dam is son, but good work. and as far as the US being a social democracy, sorry kid, but thats what it is.. i said it before and i stick by my story. a pure democracy, as any high schooler knows existed primarily in the helenist world.. the states were designed as a social democracy in the way that the people do have a say in policy makeing, but the state has the power once theyre elected. theres increadible government subsidization for everything from health care to the greatest recipiant of govnt aid, the agrarian aspect of the economy. so to say we are not a social democracy is foolish... just so you know, heres a lttle backgound on my family... since my grandparents on either side, both of my parents and all their siblings save one have masters degrees, my dads parents spent seven years living in mali, and two in somolia durring the 1970's working for the BLM (buereau of land managment) my other grandfather recently retired form a career working for the education system in the department of defence. he was involved with all overseas schooling on military bases. i already listed some places ive lived. i think i have a better idea about whats going on in the world than the majority of people, and i would assume a better understanding of it than you, c lo. to qutoe charles barkley, 'i might be wrong, but i doubt it.'

-thespinstopshere-
 
resorting to the 3rd grade style 'i know more than you so shut up argument!' eh... pretty weak...

Being Irish, I guess I should resent the Notre Dame nickname 'The Fighting Irish.' After all, how long do you think nicknames like 'The Bargaining Jews' or 'The Murdering Italians' would last? Only the Ironic Irish could be so naively honset. I get the feeling that Notre Dame came real close to naming itself 'The Fuckin Drunken, Thick-Skulled, Brawling, Short-Dicked Irish'

i cant ski im always depressed im 12 yrs old and 274lbs. somebody help me

-Crazedskier1080
 
I'm happy to say that I bought nothing last friday, and I actually do have some money to spend. I'm not just getting lucky because I didn't have money to spend anyways. I feel that we don't need to buy something just because it is there (look at infomercials, how much of that stuff is pure crap?) I'm responding to some previous things said that I think are completely ignorant, such as 'only poor people don't like capitalism' no shit!!! most of the world is poor. They will always be poor as long as we(rich countries) continue to step all over them. only a few countries can be considered rich, and only a small percentage of the people in these countries are rich. most, if not all of us live in one of those countries, considering where this discusion is taking place. If we continue to consume the amount of resources that we currently are. we will burn the earth out. what then?

and about not being able to help africa because of dictators taking all the money. why is 'the most powerful country in the world' allowing dictators to do this. you are ok with this? the money needs to be given to the right people. and get those dictators out of power. The USA does give some money to the underdeveloped countries, but how much more does it spend on its armies, and so on. and what about the poor people living within the states? who is helping them? oh wait they are not important enough. we need to spend that money on million dollar bombs, so we can continue to bomb iraq.

and about it being imposible to take over the US. get over yourself, and your country. nobody is invinsible. The US may be strong now, but things change.the only way that the us won't be overthrown someday is if they become a happy, self-contained bubble. I think that the gov't has already bee partially taken over already. take a look at the power a drug cartel has in the states, or even walmart . this is only one company. here in canada it controls the market of many small towns. nobody can compete with them, so they go out of business. once they have their virtual monopoly, they can decide what will be brought in, how many, the price, everything. walmart has more control over the government than most people think. they have, and spend more money, than some small governments do.

open your eyes people. we do not live in that perfect bubble.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What ya doin?

diggen.

Why?

make a hole.

What for?

more diggen.
 
naw bib... i wasnt tyin to say that at all... the kid was trying to call me stupid, and call my upbringing uninformed, and unaware. i was just trying to clue him in on the fact that that isnt the case... he should shut up cause he sounds silly.

-thespinstopshere-
 
the strongest survive. i love capitalism. fuck buy nothing day. we should shop like people do the day after thanksgiving everyday.

 
there is a major misunderstanding going on, i did not say that america cannot be taken over because i think we are invincible or something, there is a real reason why it cannot be taken over.

'Live free or die'

when it comes down to it, to take over america, u would have to kill damn near every person here, house by house, town by town, city by city, state by state. It would never happen any other way. americans are fiercly independent. time and time again, whenever our way of life has been threatened, americans band together to fight a common enemy. no one is trying to say that america is a perfect place, cause this is not the case, no where on earth could ever be perfect so u all are just asking the impossible if u think so. improvements are being made in the quality of life here everyday. americans do not believe necessarily in everything being equal in the end, but what does matter is that everyone has equal OPPURTUNITY, this is what we are working towards, not guarenteeing everyone a perfect way of life, although it is our constititutional right to pursue happiness, equal oppurtunity is the basis of our way of capitalism. its sink or swim once this oppurtunity has been given to u, for it can only be what u make of it. this is what we are working for, this is what the government is trying to do, contrary to what many of u may believe, and if u dont believe it, then go to polls and vote against it, or write ur congressman or start a petition. there are many ways in which to influence our political culture, anyone who is not doing so has no right to complain at all because by not doing anything, u are only saying that u approve of what is going on.

Being Irish, I guess I should resent the Notre Dame nickname 'The Fighting Irish.' After all, how long do you think nicknames like 'The Bargaining Jews' or 'The Murdering Italians' would last? Only the Ironic Irish could be so naively honset. I get the feeling that Notre Dame came real close to naming itself 'The Fuckin Drunken, Thick-Skulled, Brawling, Short-Dicked Irish'

i cant ski im always depressed im 12 yrs old and 274lbs. somebody help me

-Crazedskier1080
 
once again your right bibskis...we would fight to the death. accept for the liberals....they would smoke a joint and lube up their assholes.

 
haha, liberal on some things is ok though, like smoking joints...

Being Irish, I guess I should resent the Notre Dame nickname 'The Fighting Irish.' After all, how long do you think nicknames like 'The Bargaining Jews' or 'The Murdering Italians' would last? Only the Ironic Irish could be so naively honset. I get the feeling that Notre Dame came real close to naming itself 'The Fuckin Drunken, Thick-Skulled, Brawling, Short-Dicked Irish'

i cant ski im always depressed im 12 yrs old and 274lbs. somebody help me

-Crazedskier1080
 
b'uhhh --- america sponsors and executes as much terror as any other nation in the world. if u can't see that, u better wake up.

bibskis, i think it was you that was telling me to not use my textbooks to talk about things (it may be in another thread, but it's still relevant) - just think for one second about the world. what has your political system been made out of? jefferson saw the way that natives lived, so he adopted some aspects of their system of government. every day that passes, history is made... so why the fuck can't i use it to argue a point??

you say that every day there are improvements being made to the american way of life -> but what are these improvements? increased GDP? wow, so more is bought, more is sold, more is burned, more is eventually left for later generations to deal with - ie - LANDFILLS. what other improvements? congress passing bills increasing military spending by billions of dollars? how does that help anybody in the world? from every side of the coin, people will die because of it.

ok, so equal opportunities are given to your citizens? in the states, i'll accept that as a somewhat valid argument, but what about foreign workers that are exploited to the extreme every single day at the hands of american multinationals? not very equal once it's outta the scope of your neighbourhood, is it?

and the last, most ridiculous point i would like to bring up is your notion of not voting, and how this portrays an accepting attitude. it couldn't be further from the truth. millions of people realize that their vote does absolutely nothing. the people that don't vote, are excercising their right to show some civil disobedience; it's just really a shame that american democracy has come to this point.

 
I think some peopel on this site need a bit of education. A lot of ideas are being thrown around and it doesn't sound like anyone understands what they're talking about. Yes inequality exists in the world - why don't you find out WHY it exists. What is capitalism anyway? And what's wrong with poor people not liking it? Maybe doing some reading will help your arguments out. Learn before you attempt to educate others.

 
Why don't You Educate us then. A lot of people DO know what they are talking about. They might have conflicting views, but these views came from reading up on facts, and reading other peoples views.

-Andy

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PPP... yes

'When you say 'I wrote a program that crashed Windows', people just stare at you blankly and say 'Hey, I got those with the system, *for free*'.' -- Linus Torvalds
 
sweetcoz: the exploitation of foreign workers on the multinational standpoint is kind of a moot point. The reason it's moot is because of the reasons these people have to work in the factories. Most of these families are in debt to someone of higher status than them because their system over there is already messed up. These families need to come up w/ the money somehow so they send their kids and whoever else to go work in the factories. It's basically indentured servitude. The companies aren't MAKING these people work for them, they are just capitlizing on people who are subject to a government or vernacular authority that doesn't have their shit together. Now... this doesn't mean it's right to exploit this, but even without the factories these people would be doing shitty and having to do things just as bad to help their families. A lot of inequality on the multinational scale is due to greedy people in other countries who have the power to deny their respective governmental authority, or simply create their own. Greedy people in other countries create a lot of those countries problems... it's not just the bane of western capitalism holding these people down.

 
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