I must admit I do not fully understand the electoral college. Are there super delegates in the general election? The primaries are run by the parties. People didn't use to get to vote for who their parties candidate would be at all, so we have actually come a long way since then. Though with the way things have been going, I'm not so sure things wouldn't be better if we went back to just letting the party leaders pick the candidates. Could the candidates really get any worse/corrupt?
How would you like to have your child's legs blown off by a foreign soldiers hand grenade, or your wife or daughter raped by an invading force. You do not have the vaguest notion of the humiliation that the average Iraqi has had to suffer because of assholes like you. You think occurrences of rape are up since the US invaded Iraq?
I agree with you 100%.
But as the weaponry of the military continues to grow well beyond what the civilian population is allowed to own, the possibility of fighting back against a tyrannical government decreases.
So when the government has robot soldiers, robot factories staffed by robots, and satellite death rays, and all I have is an M4, there will be trouble.
Obviously a country that can send robots instead of soldiers to fight is way more likely to become 'war happy' Of equal concern to me is the fact that a country with a robot army can use them against their own citizens with no chance of mass mutiny.
Okay, again, I have to point out that a police state is not dependent on the number of laws. A police state is one where the police, or executive branch, can lock people up without charge outside of the law for undetermined amounts of time. When you have so many laws that every citizen is a criminal, you can lock up whoever you want for as long as you want. It is effectively the same thing.
The issue is where the adults in question don't supervise their children especially closely, and generally assume they are keeping out of trouble as long as they are not making too much noise. I'm not a parent, but as a former child, isn't it when the children are not making too much noise that they are most likely getting in to trouble?
Well, considering there are so many people out there that like to buy votes, these people would just be supplying a product that is very much in demand.
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That wasn't a very skillful troll. Anybody can start a Ron Paul flamewar.
I must admit I do not fully understand the electoral college. Are there super delegates in the general election? The primaries are run by the parties. People didn't use to get to vote for who their parties candidate would be at all, so we have actually come a long way since then. Though with the way things have been going, I'm not so sure things wouldn't be better if we went back to just letting the party leaders pick the candidates. Could the candidates really get any worse/corrupt?
People starving in the streets is not an economic problem; it is a mental health problem.
I was referring to the use of rape as a political tool by Saddam's people.
I agree with you 100%. But as the weaponry of the military continues to grow well beyond what the civilian population is allowed to own, the possibility of fighting back against a tyrannical government decreases. So when the government has robot soldiers, robot factories staffed by robots, and satellite death rays, and all I have is an M4, there will be trouble.
Well, considering there are so many people out there that like to buy votes, these people would just be supplying a product that is very much in demand.
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Yeah, my lap is exactly where I want to put something radioactive.