I just don't hold any credence in most parties manifestos. America claims to be a free and democratic country but it's very easy to argue they aren't. I care more about what the candidates say and do, not what they claim to stand for.
DrGatineau wrote:Please tell that to everyone on here that luvs ripping on the US
M8 seriously. No one could take it seriously or take offense, if people took the piss out of all of Europe at the same time. Because nobody is really that european.
It's unfair imo to say that all Texans are *this* but it's not unfair to think that the sum of two opinions can't make up a 'democracy'. That cold war logic is not on.
We're supposed to meet up where your influence in international politics is considered the opinion of your citizens (democratic), but it isn't.
It's essentially two market ideals that independantly from politics and in part because of the size of your own market, has some of the biggest input on trade on the globe. These ideals are now mirrored by industries all over the globe in a response to either agree with their own government or appeal to the US and seperate from their government because the US is number one in most exports, at the same time. And arguably a better partner for investment.
You have essentially bought out what is politics globally, in that there's always a trade option or the threat of a looming embargo. The only time this role was really questioned was during the backlash of the vietnam war. Not even when moving in on a made up basis in the second bit in Iraq.
You don't like the police either do you?
I have honestly no idea what you're talking about, from that first paragraph to the thing about the police. Nobody is really even that European... What does that even mean? And how is any of this relevant or connected to what I said?
DrGatineau wrote:Interesting. Cause I don't consider myself a citizen of my state ahead of being an American right? Or maybe the media gave you the wrong impression.
And Americans are the only thing that's bad in the world? Wow, that's a truly amazing, ignorant, and bigoted thing to say.
(You're welcome mason )
No everyone is bad. Nationality is bad too. Anyway I probably shouldn't have quoted you. And no offence intended.
ehbes wrote:Must be nice having more that 2 (one) options
do they really though?
I'd say more so than the US does. It's essentially two parties that behave like one party because they're too polarised with no go between.
Potential difference is healthy in any system
leyenda wrote:Though they are well intentioned, the problem with the Greens is that unless other countries undertake the same radical reforms it's going to majorly fuck us over. Kind of like trying to do communism on a countrywide scale rather than a national scale
If your concerns are Economic, I imagine that could be dissuaded by opening the country to foreign activism.
soronery wrote:Too easy to sit behind a keyboard with a playlist of dubstep tunes on, arguing about the defintion of a word in relation to a sound.
All that melts away when the lights are down and the bass is up.
soronery wrote:Too easy to sit behind a keyboard with a playlist of dubstep tunes on, arguing about the defintion of a word in relation to a sound.
All that melts away when the lights are down and the bass is up.
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