We need to put tariffs on anything NOT made here and tell the rest of the world to fuck itself and deal with trade like the war it is.
Of course we will have to march every politician in Washington out into the street and shoot them in the fucking head first, because they are all whores in bed with multinational corporations, all on the payroll of probably China too. They had a President of our bought and paid for, why not Congress as well?
Fuck Apple for making their products there. They can burn in hell.
We can thank Bill ChiComm Clinton for this shit. I have always said we would never live to see the end of the repercussions of the things he betrayed us on.
Then this company engaged in fraud against it's investors then. This bullshit about lawsuits is just smoke and mirrors then, trying to cast blame elsewhere? At what point does everyone figure out they were full of shit from the start and hold them accountable.
It's a police state. We aren't free, we are surfs sucking the dicks of our corporate masters.
Crimes? If we had our 2nd Amendment RIGHTS which have been fucked out of us, we wouldn't have hardly any crime? Why? Because when idiots come robbing or murdering, or car jacking, we shoot them dead. Bullets are cheaper than prisons.
Drugs? This one is quite the scam. They don't give two fucks about you and your health. This is the perfect vehicle for crushing civil rights and creating a police state. They create the black market effect with their prohibition, then thrive on the crime created. You don't understand our system, we GROW CRIMINALS so that we have them to put in our prisons.
Sure we have asshole criminal elements, but our system has grown this environment. Like violent gangs. Our system protects them when they should be gunned down in the streets by citizens. People set prisoner in their own communities while criminals run about, and the police will haul you off to prison if you stand up for yourself or your community. It's THEIR JOB they say, and if you stick your nose in it, you will go to their prison.
This exact kind of thinking is what happened in feudal times. The Lords of the land were the only ones to fight criminals or invaders. If you fought back, you were considered a danger to the Lords of the land. You were thought CAPABLE of being dangerous and hence were culled out before you could be. Does it sound familiar? Welcome to 2012, where we have digressed back to 1812.
Giving these fascist fuckers more power and prisons is NOT the answer. Us growing some balls and taking responsibility for our world and taking it back from big fat cats and the bad people is what we need.
American elections: Beg, bribe, steal, kill, your way to getting elected; once there, fuck over EVERYONE for the big paycheck from those who bribe you.
America is the product of decades of brainwashing and a shitty education system. Corporations at the start of them were never intended to develop like this. They were initially kept in check, but time has proven that our system fails to protect itself from monetary corruption, and money has corrupted our hold on corporations. It's all went bad.
Our population is very brainwashed and ignorant, dangerously so. I have come to understand why people hate us. We by our ignorance, and lack of participation, let very evil people screw with the world. As long as we have our cheeseburger and get to look at Facebook, we don't care.
What we should be doing is blatantly obvious, but frankly I'm afraid to say it, lest I end up in Gitmo.
The Internet was founded for the free exchange of information amongst mankind. It has to defend against tyrannical governments seeking to silence it, and it has to thwart off various other powers seeking to limit or control it. Greed nor the incompetence of fools shall hinder it. It has a higher purpose and we will gladly lay upon the alter and sacrifice industries and technologies that have waxed past their time of relevance. Should they prove to be a hindrance they shall be ground to dust as an example.
This is yet another example of how we need to produce more than Bull Shit and Bullets.
You have a point, but when have I ever met an atheist that wasn't a prick about religion to someone who believes in it? Two wrongs make a right? Oh, that's right, because you think you are right, you have license to rip on people? The atheist vs christian argument is stale anyway.
What I imagine happened with the OP was some kid probably got into the system and did some real life trolling. I seriously doubt anyone has a serious hate going, the dangerous kind of loathing that sets simmering for years. It's probably another disenfranchised youth pissing in the face of conformity. Getting up in arms only feeds the trolls.
"A crime of bias" has me curious though. How can it be a crime to be bias? Yes, I understand this was on a public community center's server, but being insulting is now a crime? I understand how it could be trespassing or vandalism, and even falling under some local profanity ordinances, but "bias"? That's a bit "thought police" isn't it?
Just think about all those little evil treaties that get signed in that supersede the laws of the land where you live. Sovereignty is just another word for nothing left for them to take.
I look at this as a flexing of their powers. They are saying "We don't care if you don't like SOPA, we will do what we want anyway." Seriously, how else are we to take this?
Which one though? Selective targeting is best for maximum desired results.
If they think snatching up one person and calling him a spy and threatening to kill him is going to make us leave the Middle East, they are very high. All it's going to do is piss us off, giving our propaganda machines more to work with. Seriously, the American war machine is desperate for a hot war to perpetuate it. By all means be stupid enough to put your balls out there so it can shoot them off.
I guess it's really handy for them then that they can throw you in some hidden prison forever for just saying that now. By saying that, you could probably be considered by them, a "terrorist". It was no accident they passed that. Nor is it an accident that they plug their ears and want to establish as much control as possible over the Internet or even destroy it by unleashing these thugs loose on it with the ability to destroy it.
This is all about domination and control by the rulers of this country. They watched the Arab Spring and the riots in London and it has them scared. But they are dangerous when they are scared. They are now taking the steps they need to take to preserve their way of life and control over us all. This is no accident, they aren't playing dumb, they are doing as they are told to do by those who control them.
Now here is where it gets interesting. What do we the people do about this? Absolutely nothing, is what we will do. Collectively, we are dumb, fat and happy. We will not for such a puny concept as "freedom" risk our comfortable lives. Sure there are a few disgruntled people, but this isn't 1776, and we aren't going to have a Revolution.
Your lone gunman theory isn't going to work. They will simply just cover it up. They have proven themselves quite capable of controlling the media in this country. The Internet is the only leak they need to plug, and this SOPA bullshit, is just the excuse they need to stick their foot in the door, and then turn off the mechanisms. Once they destroy the free flow of information, they survive. It's desperate, and destructive to humanity, but once you understand that this is indeed a war on us the people, versus those who wish to dominate us, you will understand that sacrificing the Internet means nothing to them.
I will stop here before I end up in a cell next to you. It's a God damned sad day in America when I have to ponder what I am about to post because I fear I might end up in a prison with no rights, or ability to defend myself. Make no mistake, we have cross a line recently. It's official, we are the evil empire. We are the modern Nazis.
What it boils down to is this, once laws become so far gone, twisted and evil, one has not only the moral right to ignore them, but they have the moral duty to resist them to the death. We are talking about pussy Americans though. We've let so much slide, that we have proven to be a collective bunch of dumb pussies. If our founding fathers could see us now, they would cut their own ball sacks off so that they didn't sire descendants this cowardly.
Think about it, we have this "Tea Party", which is a laughing joke at the original Boston Tea Party. Our founding fathers did "terrorist" acts in Boston harbor on tea shipments because they had a tax on them. It was violence over Taxation without Representation, and it's our history of how we carved our freedoms out in blood from the British. Do you think we would get off our asses now over Taxation without Representation? We don't get off our asses when our Constitution is systematically shredded before our eyes.
We are too dumb to see it happening, and even if we do see it, we are a big bunch of pussy cowards and just let it happen. To me this defines us as a people who are collectively a bunch of pussies. And I am not talking about violence, hell, I am talking about how half of us don't even FUCKING VOTE. You talked about the boxes, well damn it, why fuck with the last one, when the other 3 have hardly been touched? Do you seriously think you will have support on the 4th when these pussies will not even lift up a bleat with the other three?
Just whine about it all at the kitchen table, forget the Internet, it's fucked. Go about your life, enjoy what comforts you have while you have them. You are in the Matrix and there is no escape.
It's almost here. 2012 and I feel this year, sans any end of the world scenario playing out, it's going to be one of the most exciting years in recent history. Strap in folks, it's going to be a wild ride.
Isn't one aircraft carrier group the equivalent to any 3rd world country in military power?
Oh well, it's not Iran that concerns me, it's China. Iran and China are classic bed buddies. Didn't China load up Iran on Silkworm missiles that can smoke our jets out of the air? Interesting enough though, China has switched into a Capitalistic mode and both us and them are locked in some grim fandango of economics. Will they back our play or Iran's is the question of the day.
China should, if they were smart, disarm all of their little buddies around them, leaving the US with no excuse to continue it's military spending. Then it all goes to Wal-Mart and then into their pockets, thus defeating the US at Capitalism. Oh the irony!
If we follow this hypothesis, we will not hear China say a peep when we decide to obliterate the Iranian military. Yes, we can do it. People forget how quickly we rolled in on Iraq. We were completely awesome about it. We are like that, we win wars, but lose the peace. The 10 years that followed overshadowed that stunning victory.
What we are looking at here from Iran I think is just more of their ballsy sabre rattling. Their people have discovered they can posture, bluster and sabre rattle thus putting up quite a show for the "rube Westerners." When this happens, we tend to just throw money at them and tell them to shut up. It's the classic "the mouse that roared" situation.
Iran is proving to be a bit retarded though it seems. The American war machine is facing being geared down. The war machine hates this and wants to keep munching on someone's ass. It gets fed well, gets to sleep in a warm bed at night and on the weekends it goes out partying. It really wants Iran to give it an excuse to chew them up into little bitty bits. If Iran doesn't think it's capable, then Iran is smoking some really good weed, and should share it with the rest of the world instead of just its oil.
Can't you imagine them dancing around with each other in glee, like the merry wee people in some film, down at the Pentagon? "Wooohoo!" They all cried in chorus. "The Iranians are going to give us a war!" There is a band with lutes and flutes in the corner, a bag pipe as well. From somewhere a big wooden keg of ale appears, and serving wenches carrying frothing mugs, bustle about. They end it all with a crescendo, singing like a choir "Oh Happy Day."
Then they all run off to their offices to pour over their list of war toys they want to play with. They have had a decade of a big trough of money to buy oodles of war toys, but nobody to play with. Fist fights break out at the water coolers as arguments over who gets to blow up the Iranians with what toy happen.
Hey Iran, posturing around the US during one of their crazy election years is seriously jumping the shark. Hilary will be on the phone soon to tell you what a collective bunch of retards you are, and you are going to have to take it. She's a woman. How do you like dealing with our female Secretary of State? Don't you love having a WOMAN come spell it out for you what you are going to do or else get crushed? Yeah, we did that on purpose. Think about it.
But then again, they might be a bit turned on by it.
It does take time. And that is hard considering how conditioned we are for instant gratification.
The system is well crafted and had decades to program the populace not only to embrace their chains be to defend them. You have to admire the elegance of this propaganda system that's been established. It's resilient to change, it harnesses the intellect of it's victims to perpetuate it, to defend it and to propagate it. This is nothing new, I have traced it back when I was presenting work regarding psychological warfare, as far back as we have had written history. Controlling the masses has always been a top tier priority in regards to "governing". It's rare that we see it when we are experiencing it. Mostly we have been only able to study it after the fact and from afar. If it runs contrary to our current programing it never sees the light of day just due to the natural defenses it has.
For example we look at how the Nazis rose to power and how Stalin rose to power and how the mindsets there were cultivated and come to a fruition that allowed malevolent elements to come to power. It's easy to see their faults, but we fail to learn from these lessons because we don't apply objective reasoning and observation to our own climes.
What I find interesting is how it harnesses the intellect of it's victims. Look at how the Nazis harnessed the brilliance of it's technically minded people. Those Germans were brilliant, but on the whole, ironically, they were political morons. You have to wonder how such intelligent people can be duped. If you can't see the brilliance in German engineering of weapons at the time, you are historically ignorant. German equipment was frankly awesome. Their tanks were something to rightfully fear, we managed to beat them out of sheer numbers. We zerged them with cheaper tanks frankly.
Though intelligent, they were still manipulated, so intelligence isn't a safeguard against it. This is a disturbing thought, because naturally one would think an intelligent population would have immunity to it. It doesn't. In fact, as I read comments here, I see many intelligent people remarking, but to my dismay I can see the influences upon them. What I see is an emotional subset mentality that is bound to people's inner personality core. This is engaged at a subconscious level as they evaluate the situation, not formulating their intellectual responses, but it's the driving force behind their responses.
What we are dealing with is emotional (for a lack of a better term) programing at a low level of consciousnesses. This has always been the case in the past, and it's worked in situations where it's needed to provoke people to do something that is contrary to their own good health. For example, it's often used to rally a population to war. Without this, it would be nigh impossible to get people to go fight for something that frankly has no effect upon them except in some abstract reason that effects them at some base emotion, hence steering their intellect into not only excusing it, but putting the full blunt of their being behind it.
Granted, this is a needed thing when it comes to the overall good of a large entity of people, but when it's used to further the gains of a few, it's classically been the downfall of whatever group of people that its effected. Democracy was a fragile experiment, a seemingly vain attempt in face of this powerful influence to give the average person an objectivity and ability to rise above this kind of mindset. It succeeded to some extent because it's founding fathers were brilliant deep thinkers, hailing from a time in our country when we had the best and the brightest from Europe, here on our soil, seeking to expand not only their freedoms but their minds.
The frontier atmosphere that allowed that kind of mindset to blossom has been smothered. There are no frontiers where the free thinking can roam now. Control has been established.
My challenge to anyone who fancies themselves as a free thinker to try this mental exercise if you are capable
Hey, dickheads, yeah you, Mr Shakedown Artist politician. You and your dipshit friends jumped the shark tank with this one.
GoDaddy is just a precursor of what is going to happen to your political careers. It's a snack for us, a little bit of blood to tithe us over until we can mash the vote button for the other guy so hard it breaks. You can tell the other bums huddling around the burn barrel keeping warm. "I was a rich Congressman until I got fucking stupid and greedy. GOD DAMN YOU SOPA....I had a life!"
To be honest I didn't take literature out that far in meaning. My exposure to it has been at the undergraduate level and with classic short stories and certain authors. I am all for the enriching experience of eduction. I am the guy who feels that philosophy is something we should be required to take. The liberal arts are essential to human growth and development, it shouldn't all be meat and potatoes of math and science. My literature classes have been exercises in critical thinking mostly, interpreting subjectively the authors intent if any.
Here's a question for you as a lit major, I proposed to my professor that "A Rose for Emily" by Faulkner was inspired by the life of Emily Dickinson. I wonder if it was his subtle way of expressing his impression she was a bit of a weirdo. I know she is held in high esteem, and I get the whole ordeal about how women suffered in those days. But frankly, I don't know how else a person can look at her as being anything but one very odd bird. My professor didn't have an answer for that question.
Of course I think that I was that person who talked about "gearing down" to talk to customers. I stand by that and here is why. I.E. Telling a customer that in order for them to get email they need to go set up their POP3 account, isn't going to cut it, especially if you work the help desk, which contrary to some belief is an IT job and part of that industry. I can't count how many times, I have had to walk customers through it, "click on Start, go to Control panel...." and it's an act of patience that if you don't have the right mental make up for it, it will drive you insane after a while.
When I did it, I took my time and tried to understand what my customer understood. I had customers that would haunt me for years wanting me to do more work for them because I was easy to talk to. They would complain about other IT people around and how they talked down to them and it annoyed them. I understood, the ones they complained about still to this day are egomaniacs. I am immune to IT arrogance though, especially to those guys in particular. I know them personally and its more of a defensive reaction they have around me, being I have been in IT before them, and they can remember when they had to come to me for help. Not to mention, I can flip the coin over from being nice and charming to a weapons grade asshole at will. Let's all just get alone, I say and we do.
Sorry to come off guns firing on the engineer thingy. I switched majors and am working towards a degree in a sub field of engineering, doing mechanical engineering technology...or better known to older folks like myself as a "drafter". I can remember doing drafting in high school with the old pencils, straight edges, compass...etc. Now it's all 3D software and there are engineering concepts that we have to learn along with just drawing parts. Our professors tell us that companies like to come hire students from where I am going because they can get two of us for the price of one engineer. We do engineering work and a real engineer signs off on our work or not.
Frankly, I am not crazy about being some engineer's lackey. I picked this "drafting" degree as a start. I look at it as a way to understand how to put my ideas into motion. We work on a lot of product design which is what I want to understand. I plan on stuffing as much hard science into my brain as well along with the "practical application of technology". It's simple and down right exciting, the more I know, the more my imagination has to play with in terms of finding solutions and innovations. Now if I had only started 30 years ago....lol
I have one product already and I really want to get it into production before I am a two year student. My goal is by the time I am done with this program, to have a successful product out, paying my bills and off of the government tit. I want to further my education and pursue projects, but money is a problem that needs solved. No big deal, just another problem to conquer. Besides, there is nothing sweeter tha
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My advice to Brazil is to burn their factories down, chase them down in the street and cap them. Every.last.one.of.them.
We need to put tariffs on anything NOT made here and tell the rest of the world to fuck itself and deal with trade like the war it is.
Of course we will have to march every politician in Washington out into the street and shoot them in the fucking head first, because they are all whores in bed with multinational corporations, all on the payroll of probably China too. They had a President of our bought and paid for, why not Congress as well?
Fuck Apple for making their products there. They can burn in hell.
Yet we don't take them to task over it. But we will fine the living shit out of teenaged girls for downloading some MP3. What a bunch of pussies.
We can thank Bill ChiComm Clinton for this shit. I have always said we would never live to see the end of the repercussions of the things he betrayed us on.
Fuck China and anyone who deals with them.
It's the same here, we just sprinkle enough perfume to cover up the bullshit.
Then this company engaged in fraud against it's investors then. This bullshit about lawsuits is just smoke and mirrors then, trying to cast blame elsewhere? At what point does everyone figure out they were full of shit from the start and hold them accountable.
It's a police state. We aren't free, we are surfs sucking the dicks of our corporate masters.
Crimes? If we had our 2nd Amendment RIGHTS which have been fucked out of us, we wouldn't have hardly any crime? Why? Because when idiots come robbing or murdering, or car jacking, we shoot them dead. Bullets are cheaper than prisons.
Drugs? This one is quite the scam. They don't give two fucks about you and your health. This is the perfect vehicle for crushing civil rights and creating a police state. They create the black market effect with their prohibition, then thrive on the crime created. You don't understand our system, we GROW CRIMINALS so that we have them to put in our prisons.
Sure we have asshole criminal elements, but our system has grown this environment. Like violent gangs. Our system protects them when they should be gunned down in the streets by citizens. People set prisoner in their own communities while criminals run about, and the police will haul you off to prison if you stand up for yourself or your community. It's THEIR JOB they say, and if you stick your nose in it, you will go to their prison.
This exact kind of thinking is what happened in feudal times. The Lords of the land were the only ones to fight criminals or invaders. If you fought back, you were considered a danger to the Lords of the land. You were thought CAPABLE of being dangerous and hence were culled out before you could be. Does it sound familiar? Welcome to 2012, where we have digressed back to 1812.
Giving these fascist fuckers more power and prisons is NOT the answer. Us growing some balls and taking responsibility for our world and taking it back from big fat cats and the bad people is what we need.
You guys should lynch him. It would strike fear in the dark hearts of politicians everywhere.
Ha! Good point, and America, where we have more people in prison that the rest of the world combined and want to put more in.
American elections: Beg, bribe, steal, kill, your way to getting elected; once there, fuck over EVERYONE for the big paycheck from those who bribe you.
Here's food for thought: A government of the people, by the people, for the people...
What if the "people" are a big collective of ignorant arrogant assholes?
It reminds me of our jury system: Judged by 12 people too stupid to get out of jury duty.
America is the product of decades of brainwashing and a shitty education system. Corporations at the start of them were never intended to develop like this. They were initially kept in check, but time has proven that our system fails to protect itself from monetary corruption, and money has corrupted our hold on corporations. It's all went bad.
Our population is very brainwashed and ignorant, dangerously so. I have come to understand why people hate us. We by our ignorance, and lack of participation, let very evil people screw with the world. As long as we have our cheeseburger and get to look at Facebook, we don't care.
What we should be doing is blatantly obvious, but frankly I'm afraid to say it, lest I end up in Gitmo.
Hey! It was Christmas, they needed to shake down the industry for some big Christmas bonuses.
Congress: the other white collar crime.
The Internet was founded for the free exchange of information amongst mankind. It has to defend against tyrannical governments seeking to silence it, and it has to thwart off various other powers seeking to limit or control it. Greed nor the incompetence of fools shall hinder it. It has a higher purpose and we will gladly lay upon the alter and sacrifice industries and technologies that have waxed past their time of relevance. Should they prove to be a hindrance they shall be ground to dust as an example.
This is yet another example of how we need to produce more than Bull Shit and Bullets.
You have a point, but when have I ever met an atheist that wasn't a prick about religion to someone who believes in it? Two wrongs make a right? Oh, that's right, because you think you are right, you have license to rip on people? The atheist vs christian argument is stale anyway.
What I imagine happened with the OP was some kid probably got into the system and did some real life trolling. I seriously doubt anyone has a serious hate going, the dangerous kind of loathing that sets simmering for years. It's probably another disenfranchised youth pissing in the face of conformity. Getting up in arms only feeds the trolls.
"A crime of bias" has me curious though. How can it be a crime to be bias? Yes, I understand this was on a public community center's server, but being insulting is now a crime? I understand how it could be trespassing or vandalism, and even falling under some local profanity ordinances, but "bias"? That's a bit "thought police" isn't it?
Just think about all those little evil treaties that get signed in that supersede the laws of the land where you live. Sovereignty is just another word for nothing left for them to take.
I look at this as a flexing of their powers. They are saying "We don't care if you don't like SOPA, we will do what we want anyway." Seriously, how else are we to take this?
For the children.
Which one though? Selective targeting is best for maximum desired results.
If they think snatching up one person and calling him a spy and threatening to kill him is going to make us leave the Middle East, they are very high. All it's going to do is piss us off, giving our propaganda machines more to work with. Seriously, the American war machine is desperate for a hot war to perpetuate it. By all means be stupid enough to put your balls out there so it can shoot them off.
I guess it's really handy for them then that they can throw you in some hidden prison forever for just saying that now. By saying that, you could probably be considered by them, a "terrorist". It was no accident they passed that. Nor is it an accident that they plug their ears and want to establish as much control as possible over the Internet or even destroy it by unleashing these thugs loose on it with the ability to destroy it.
This is all about domination and control by the rulers of this country. They watched the Arab Spring and the riots in London and it has them scared. But they are dangerous when they are scared. They are now taking the steps they need to take to preserve their way of life and control over us all. This is no accident, they aren't playing dumb, they are doing as they are told to do by those who control them.
Now here is where it gets interesting. What do we the people do about this? Absolutely nothing, is what we will do. Collectively, we are dumb, fat and happy. We will not for such a puny concept as "freedom" risk our comfortable lives. Sure there are a few disgruntled people, but this isn't 1776, and we aren't going to have a Revolution.
Your lone gunman theory isn't going to work. They will simply just cover it up. They have proven themselves quite capable of controlling the media in this country. The Internet is the only leak they need to plug, and this SOPA bullshit, is just the excuse they need to stick their foot in the door, and then turn off the mechanisms. Once they destroy the free flow of information, they survive. It's desperate, and destructive to humanity, but once you understand that this is indeed a war on us the people, versus those who wish to dominate us, you will understand that sacrificing the Internet means nothing to them.
I will stop here before I end up in a cell next to you. It's a God damned sad day in America when I have to ponder what I am about to post because I fear I might end up in a prison with no rights, or ability to defend myself. Make no mistake, we have cross a line recently. It's official, we are the evil empire. We are the modern Nazis.
What it boils down to is this, once laws become so far gone, twisted and evil, one has not only the moral right to ignore them, but they have the moral duty to resist them to the death. We are talking about pussy Americans though. We've let so much slide, that we have proven to be a collective bunch of dumb pussies. If our founding fathers could see us now, they would cut their own ball sacks off so that they didn't sire descendants this cowardly.
Think about it, we have this "Tea Party", which is a laughing joke at the original Boston Tea Party. Our founding fathers did "terrorist" acts in Boston harbor on tea shipments because they had a tax on them. It was violence over Taxation without Representation, and it's our history of how we carved our freedoms out in blood from the British. Do you think we would get off our asses now over Taxation without Representation? We don't get off our asses when our Constitution is systematically shredded before our eyes.
We are too dumb to see it happening, and even if we do see it, we are a big bunch of pussy cowards and just let it happen. To me this defines us as a people who are collectively a bunch of pussies. And I am not talking about violence, hell, I am talking about how half of us don't even FUCKING VOTE. You talked about the boxes, well damn it, why fuck with the last one, when the other 3 have hardly been touched? Do you seriously think you will have support on the 4th when these pussies will not even lift up a bleat with the other three?
Just whine about it all at the kitchen table, forget the Internet, it's fucked. Go about your life, enjoy what comforts you have while you have them. You are in the Matrix and there is no escape.
It's almost here. 2012 and I feel this year, sans any end of the world scenario playing out, it's going to be one of the most exciting years in recent history. Strap in folks, it's going to be a wild ride.
Isn't one aircraft carrier group the equivalent to any 3rd world country in military power?
Oh well, it's not Iran that concerns me, it's China. Iran and China are classic bed buddies. Didn't China load up Iran on Silkworm missiles that can smoke our jets out of the air? Interesting enough though, China has switched into a Capitalistic mode and both us and them are locked in some grim fandango of economics. Will they back our play or Iran's is the question of the day.
China should, if they were smart, disarm all of their little buddies around them, leaving the US with no excuse to continue it's military spending. Then it all goes to Wal-Mart and then into their pockets, thus defeating the US at Capitalism. Oh the irony!
If we follow this hypothesis, we will not hear China say a peep when we decide to obliterate the Iranian military. Yes, we can do it. People forget how quickly we rolled in on Iraq. We were completely awesome about it. We are like that, we win wars, but lose the peace. The 10 years that followed overshadowed that stunning victory.
What we are looking at here from Iran I think is just more of their ballsy sabre rattling. Their people have discovered they can posture, bluster and sabre rattle thus putting up quite a show for the "rube Westerners." When this happens, we tend to just throw money at them and tell them to shut up. It's the classic "the mouse that roared" situation.
Iran is proving to be a bit retarded though it seems. The American war machine is facing being geared down. The war machine hates this and wants to keep munching on someone's ass. It gets fed well, gets to sleep in a warm bed at night and on the weekends it goes out partying. It really wants Iran to give it an excuse to chew them up into little bitty bits. If Iran doesn't think it's capable, then Iran is smoking some really good weed, and should share it with the rest of the world instead of just its oil.
Can't you imagine them dancing around with each other in glee, like the merry wee people in some film, down at the Pentagon? "Wooohoo!" They all cried in chorus. "The Iranians are going to give us a war!" There is a band with lutes and flutes in the corner, a bag pipe as well. From somewhere a big wooden keg of ale appears, and serving wenches carrying frothing mugs, bustle about. They end it all with a crescendo, singing like a choir "Oh Happy Day."
Then they all run off to their offices to pour over their list of war toys they want to play with. They have had a decade of a big trough of money to buy oodles of war toys, but nobody to play with. Fist fights break out at the water coolers as arguments over who gets to blow up the Iranians with what toy happen.
Hey Iran, posturing around the US during one of their crazy election years is seriously jumping the shark. Hilary will be on the phone soon to tell you what a collective bunch of retards you are, and you are going to have to take it. She's a woman. How do you like dealing with our female Secretary of State? Don't you love having a WOMAN come spell it out for you what you are going to do or else get crushed? Yeah, we did that on purpose. Think about it.
But then again, they might be a bit turned on by it.
It does take time. And that is hard considering how conditioned we are for instant gratification.
The system is well crafted and had decades to program the populace not only to embrace their chains be to defend them. You have to admire the elegance of this propaganda system that's been established. It's resilient to change, it harnesses the intellect of it's victims to perpetuate it, to defend it and to propagate it. This is nothing new, I have traced it back when I was presenting work regarding psychological warfare, as far back as we have had written history. Controlling the masses has always been a top tier priority in regards to "governing". It's rare that we see it when we are experiencing it. Mostly we have been only able to study it after the fact and from afar. If it runs contrary to our current programing it never sees the light of day just due to the natural defenses it has.
For example we look at how the Nazis rose to power and how Stalin rose to power and how the mindsets there were cultivated and come to a fruition that allowed malevolent elements to come to power. It's easy to see their faults, but we fail to learn from these lessons because we don't apply objective reasoning and observation to our own climes.
What I find interesting is how it harnesses the intellect of it's victims. Look at how the Nazis harnessed the brilliance of it's technically minded people. Those Germans were brilliant, but on the whole, ironically, they were political morons. You have to wonder how such intelligent people can be duped. If you can't see the brilliance in German engineering of weapons at the time, you are historically ignorant. German equipment was frankly awesome. Their tanks were something to rightfully fear, we managed to beat them out of sheer numbers. We zerged them with cheaper tanks frankly.
Though intelligent, they were still manipulated, so intelligence isn't a safeguard against it. This is a disturbing thought, because naturally one would think an intelligent population would have immunity to it. It doesn't. In fact, as I read comments here, I see many intelligent people remarking, but to my dismay I can see the influences upon them. What I see is an emotional subset mentality that is bound to people's inner personality core. This is engaged at a subconscious level as they evaluate the situation, not formulating their intellectual responses, but it's the driving force behind their responses.
What we are dealing with is emotional (for a lack of a better term) programing at a low level of consciousnesses. This has always been the case in the past, and it's worked in situations where it's needed to provoke people to do something that is contrary to their own good health. For example, it's often used to rally a population to war. Without this, it would be nigh impossible to get people to go fight for something that frankly has no effect upon them except in some abstract reason that effects them at some base emotion, hence steering their intellect into not only excusing it, but putting the full blunt of their being behind it.
Granted, this is a needed thing when it comes to the overall good of a large entity of people, but when it's used to further the gains of a few, it's classically been the downfall of whatever group of people that its effected. Democracy was a fragile experiment, a seemingly vain attempt in face of this powerful influence to give the average person an objectivity and ability to rise above this kind of mindset. It succeeded to some extent because it's founding fathers were brilliant deep thinkers, hailing from a time in our country when we had the best and the brightest from Europe, here on our soil, seeking to expand not only their freedoms but their minds.
The frontier atmosphere that allowed that kind of mindset to blossom has been smothered. There are no frontiers where the free thinking can roam now. Control has been established.
My challenge to anyone who fancies themselves as a free thinker to try this mental exercise if you are capable
Hey, dickheads, yeah you, Mr Shakedown Artist politician. You and your dipshit friends jumped the shark tank with this one.
GoDaddy is just a precursor of what is going to happen to your political careers. It's a snack for us, a little bit of blood to tithe us over until we can mash the vote button for the other guy so hard it breaks. You can tell the other bums huddling around the burn barrel keeping warm. "I was a rich Congressman until I got fucking stupid and greedy. GOD DAMN YOU SOPA....I had a life!"
Yeah, it's going to be like that.
To be honest I didn't take literature out that far in meaning. My exposure to it has been at the undergraduate level and with classic short stories and certain authors. I am all for the enriching experience of eduction. I am the guy who feels that philosophy is something we should be required to take. The liberal arts are essential to human growth and development, it shouldn't all be meat and potatoes of math and science. My literature classes have been exercises in critical thinking mostly, interpreting subjectively the authors intent if any.
Here's a question for you as a lit major, I proposed to my professor that "A Rose for Emily" by Faulkner was inspired by the life of Emily Dickinson. I wonder if it was his subtle way of expressing his impression she was a bit of a weirdo. I know she is held in high esteem, and I get the whole ordeal about how women suffered in those days. But frankly, I don't know how else a person can look at her as being anything but one very odd bird. My professor didn't have an answer for that question.
Of course I think that I was that person who talked about "gearing down" to talk to customers. I stand by that and here is why. I.E. Telling a customer that in order for them to get email they need to go set up their POP3 account, isn't going to cut it, especially if you work the help desk, which contrary to some belief is an IT job and part of that industry. I can't count how many times, I have had to walk customers through it, "click on Start, go to Control panel...." and it's an act of patience that if you don't have the right mental make up for it, it will drive you insane after a while.
When I did it, I took my time and tried to understand what my customer understood. I had customers that would haunt me for years wanting me to do more work for them because I was easy to talk to. They would complain about other IT people around and how they talked down to them and it annoyed them. I understood, the ones they complained about still to this day are egomaniacs. I am immune to IT arrogance though, especially to those guys in particular. I know them personally and its more of a defensive reaction they have around me, being I have been in IT before them, and they can remember when they had to come to me for help. Not to mention, I can flip the coin over from being nice and charming to a weapons grade asshole at will. Let's all just get alone, I say and we do.
Sorry to come off guns firing on the engineer thingy. I switched majors and am working towards a degree in a sub field of engineering, doing mechanical engineering technology...or better known to older folks like myself as a "drafter". I can remember doing drafting in high school with the old pencils, straight edges, compass...etc. Now it's all 3D software and there are engineering concepts that we have to learn along with just drawing parts. Our professors tell us that companies like to come hire students from where I am going because they can get two of us for the price of one engineer. We do engineering work and a real engineer signs off on our work or not.
Frankly, I am not crazy about being some engineer's lackey. I picked this "drafting" degree as a start. I look at it as a way to understand how to put my ideas into motion. We work on a lot of product design which is what I want to understand. I plan on stuffing as much hard science into my brain as well along with the "practical application of technology". It's simple and down right exciting, the more I know, the more my imagination has to play with in terms of finding solutions and innovations. Now if I had only started 30 years ago....lol
I have one product already and I really want to get it into production before I am a two year student. My goal is by the time I am done with this program, to have a successful product out, paying my bills and off of the government tit. I want to further my education and pursue projects, but money is a problem that needs solved. No big deal, just another problem to conquer. Besides, there is nothing sweeter tha
+1 Interesting