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Totally agree, too much of one thing has always been bad. Too many republicans, too many democrats, too much sex, too much weed... moderation in everything is key. Sam Harris mentions how dangerous it can be for any one group of people, in his case fanatical religious people, in this case government, to get together and talk about important things without any criticism or opposition to their ideas, exact same goes for political ideas.
Of most of the presidents, he'd probably be one of the ones I respect the most, I've got a positive opinion of the guy.
The same pretty much goes for Washington in my book. Both those guys did their share of great things, but they both also did bad things. Much like most of the humans throughout history. I bet even Ghandi did some things you and I would consider pretty bad by today's standards.
　
What do you mean by that? How would he do that?
I think that's what we need, a guy with good ideas, not just a guy whose willing to run the same old fucked up system the same way till it fails. We need someone who is willing to say ''fuck being comfortable with shit that doesn't work how it's supposed to, we need to fix this, find a new way to do it better, faster and cheaper and then we need to teach it to our kids so they can do it and find better ways to improve it", we need a guy who knows how these complicated systems work so that when things go wrong, they'll know exactly what to do to fix them, or atleast have a guy who knows when he's not smart enough to deal with the problem, put someone in charge who is.
His military stance is "don't fuck around and cause trouble in other countries and we won't be forced to come in and show you why it was a big mistake" - a philosophy I completely agree with.
Show me ONE SOURCE that Ron Paul smokes pot. Total accusation, I demand proof.
Democrat, Republican, they all have the "ME" mentality. Republicans get it through starting wars then giving our taxes to their buddies in no bid government contracts, Democrats get it through taxing us up front disguised as some new form of protection or defense, and the majority of us willfully give it up, in both instances, as if there's no other option... I've been beginning to have the "why the hell should I give them my money if they're just going to keep doing this bullshit with it" mentality personally... but that's just me, I'm just one person and since Paul didn't win, the IRS still exists, and in this wonderful world, our government can force any of us into an institution for years for not paying them the racket. Modern day mob boss's n shit.
Sounds like what the GOP is supposed to be...
You can't accomplish that through intimidation. We need other countries to look at us as an ally, an important force in the world, not a force to be feared or fear opposing them. Just like TBT mentioned, and Sam Harris agrees with, as do I, too many people agreeing on the same shit with no opposition is dangerous, if your only other opposition is afraid to even oppose what you propose, only what you propose happens. Essentially any other opposition doesn't even matter.
It's sort of stupid I have to mention this in any post I defend Obama, and I'm not saying that's because of you FF, that's not the case at all, just that if I don't mention it, someone will pull that shit and say I'm only defending him because he's black or because he's a Democrat.. or whatever the fuck other reason... That's not the case, I just say this because the way he's presenting himself around the world to other world leaders is better than the old way, the way Bush did, the fear way. People arent intimidated by him, they don't feel threatened, like if they don't agree with the policies he'll bomb their country... The entire world agree's, every single poll I've seen agrees, he's presenting himself the way the rest of the world thinks an American president should, people respect that. It's confident, he looks dignified, that makes him look like a strong president. Doing the shit Bush did doesn't make you look strong, it makes you look weak, like a guy who buys a Ferrari to compensate for his small penis, Bush flexed his military power to compensate for other political weaknesses.
What do you suggest? Be realistic now... You can't go and round up all the illegals and send em back to Mexico, so what do you think we should do about the situation?
Wow, terrible ideas man, both of them. Let me explain why I think that would be a huge problem. Border barriers, who builds them? How much do they cost? Who manns them? Do we build them along the Canadian border too? What's the protocal if someone jumps the border barrier? Shoot to kill? As for the clone, robot education system... you went through the American public education system right? I was just thinking the other night how much more of a daycare center the entire body of the K-12 system is compared to how much more I've learned being out on my own for 4 years! Treating every single student exactly the same and not building each individuals primary educational advancements limits their abilities. I can't evene express how much of a mistake that is. Could you imagine a world where individuals were treated as that and we had tons of people who were great at a ton of different things, instead of a lot of people who were OK at a few things...
Agreed.
