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pulseclock
from Downtown 81 on 2009-04-02 19:14 [#02283907]
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This statement is true, but America is not designed in our constitution to be an Empire, so those who are making America appear as an empire, will ultimately fall, we are just along for the ride.
Peace be with you in your future recombination of energy, fellow doomed-Americans
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TroutMask
from New York City (United States) on 2009-04-03 08:02 [#02283959]
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America doesn't "appear" to be an empire - it IS an empire.
We may be along for the ride, but the American people also elected representatives that decided eroding our Constitution for personal gain and political goals was more important than remaining a true and balanced federal republic with a capitalist economic system and freedom for all.
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freqy
on 2009-04-03 08:54 [#02283986]
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multi national companies are the leaders , only virtual reality can save us now.
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mohamed
from the turtle business on 2009-04-03 12:20 [#02284058]
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pussy3000
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Monoid
from one source all things depend on 2009-04-03 13:07 [#02284063]
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Trillion dollar budget deficits.
- Skyrocketing national debt.
- Unaffordable social security & medicare obligations.
- Wasting tax dollars to bailout the worst companies and most irresponsible home borrowers.
- Americans addicted to debt, and thinking they can borrow their way out of debt.
- USA consuming far more than we produce, and relying on China & Japan lending us money to sustain that trend. When we max out that credit line, the US government will have to print shitloads of dollars to cover deficits and debt, leading to crushing hyperinflation.
- Idiotic suburban living arrangement reliant on cars & oil, which will destroy America when we hit peak oil.
- Fattest country in the world, full of diabetic fatasses.
- American college kids focused more on beer & football, while our PhD engineering programs are primarily filled by foreign students.
- Highest murder rate of any industrialized nation.
- Highest prison population in the world, both on a raw numbers basis and per capita basis.
- 50% divorce rate.
- 40% bastard rate.
- Cunning psycho Americunts in pantsuits brainwashed by feminism, sucking down anti-depressants, and highly trained at divorce court ass-raping.
- Rampant illegal immigration
- The dumbest, poorest demographics are the ones shitting out the most babies.
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mohamed
from the turtle business on 2009-04-03 13:15 [#02284066]
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- rampant immigrants killing 13
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melack
from barcielwave on 2009-04-04 07:46 [#02284166]
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today's empires tomorrow's ashes
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diamondtron
on 2009-04-04 08:04 [#02284168]
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americans
should have left it to the indigenous people
or left the british in charge to take the blame for this
america - a welshman?
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AMPI MAX
from United Kingdom on 2009-04-04 10:55 [#02284175]
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so xltronic
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fleetmouse
from Horny for Truth on 2009-04-04 12:20 [#02284183]
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Americans think it's the end of the world if they have to walk to the store. Calm the fuck down, stop listening to Glen Beck, cooperate with each other. Make friends with your neighbors. Share meals.
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mohamed
from the turtle business on 2009-04-06 07:31 [#02284391]
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Americans think it's the end of the world if they have to walk to the store
ha
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TroutMask
from New York City (United States) on 2009-04-06 12:27 [#02284440]
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This advice should have been taken by the American government itself while it still had a chance to recover.
I'm ashamed of my country. My country, and its people, will suffer. They should have listened to us when it still was worth anything.
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Raz0rBlade_uk
on 2009-04-06 12:45 [#02284443]
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we're pretty much all fucked from here on out
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Barcode
from United Kingdom on 2009-04-06 13:47 [#02284464]
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Sure a dispraportionate percentage of America is vile and ignorant compared to, say, Europe - but greed is a human thing. Most other countries and cultures have never possessed the humungous power or wealth of America, and have therefore never been enabled to display their outrageous greed. Given the chance, I'm sure they would behave in exactly the same way.
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TroutMask
from New York City (United States) on 2009-04-06 13:52 [#02284468]
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Very true consideration.
However, I purport that Europe is pretty similar to the United States politically. Their people are generally more open-minded on a cultural level, but, like the US, you're all still butt-munching socialists and theocrats like us.
Greed is not the problem facing the United States - at least, not the country's citizens' greed. Greed is an excellent way to stimulate growth, opportunities, and expansion. However, when that greed is used to rob people of their hard-earned money (income tax), remain elected into public office (the Federal Reserve system), start useless and immoral wars (the Federal Reserve again, the military industrial complex as a whole), silence free speech (unconstitutional departments like the FCC), and violate peoples' privacy and their tenth amendment rights (government spying programs, the war on drugs, etc.)...... then it becomes an issue of greed.
People who say freedom, lack of regulation, and capitalism are the cause of any of the USA's problems, has no fucking clue.
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revpersona
from Plainfield (United States) on 2009-04-06 14:41 [#02284489]
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I knew this thread wouldn't need me. Well done.
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fleetmouse
from Horny for Truth on 2009-04-06 14:53 [#02284492]
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We should all strive to be more altruistic, and government can help with that by redistributing wealth.
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Bill Burroughs
from Colombia on 2009-04-07 00:37 [#02284554]
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I liked the bit about the "Cunning psycho Americunts in pantsuits".
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Quaristice
on 2009-04-07 01:21 [#02284557]
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Demon-crazy (democracy) has failed us all. We all need strong leadership. A king. A good tyrant.
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