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Real parallels with history, not invented ones.

The state of our country right now really is an insight into the nature of human beings, I believe. Instead of everyone coming together in hard times, we're more divided than ever.

Granted, most of it is orchestrated by corporate interests and the ultra rich, and one of their primary goals is to keep us fighting with each other so we don't unite and right the balance of power the hard way.

But one of the reasons Glenn Beck is so popular right now, despite him being proven a liar of the most despicable nature over and over again, is because desperation causes anger and irrationality. I read a really good article in Playboy called "The Rise of the Conservative," and the picture for it was very chilling. It shows what looks like an ex-military conservative with an automatic rifle laid out before him, and a picture of Obama as the Joker on his wall.

I'm an optimist, and the farthest thing from a person that believes that America is going to change for the worst going forward...but I do think there will be a few major incidents with those kind of people. Poor schleps that aren't very bright, that have been manipulated by fear mongering wastes of life like Beck, and pushed to the breaking point by the economy and who knows what else in their life. They could even organize into a militia of some kind.

Again, I am not saying it's going to happen, or that it's even likely to happen. But the truth of the matter is, the Nazis never would have came to power if not for the Great Depression. And that is a cold, hard fact that no one who is remotely familiar with history can deny.

Do you think it's dangerous to be manufacturing this kind of anger and outrage during such desperate times? What, if anything, should be done about it?

- Asked by vabyss, An Intellectual Guy, Male, 29-35, Who Cares?

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Should I become a Buddhist monk?

Then completely devout my life to the Bodhidharma.

What would I really be giving up?

- Asked by Male, 22-25

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There is a question in the top ten that I didnt want to pop as it would have made this long.

Basically it is asking should Bin Laden be tried in a civilian court? I wonder why noone asnwered, why try him at all, could he not just be shot trying to escape? That would be a legal defense..

p.s is that how you spell try and tried if your referring to legal matters?

- Asked by glasgowbelle, A Thinker, Female, 46-55, Glasgow, Retired

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Why do black folks think they've got it bad?????

The wealtheist woman in the world is black. the most powerful man in the world is black. Pretty good considering they both live in a majority white country. Tides have turned folks....can we all just get along now????

- Asked by girldownunder, A Career Woman, Female, 29-35, Sydney

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OBAMA BOWS, MAYAN CALENDAR BULLSHIT, GLENN BECK'S EMOTIONAL COLITIS, ILLEGAL ALIENS FROM MARS...

it's all the same to me. i just don't care. can you dig it?

Update: November 19, 2009.
sorry,... i just don't care, and that's that! punto y finale', dominos and woebiskets, fuggit', i just don't care. so there!

- Asked by two469, An Intellectual Guy, Male, Who Cares?, Consulting

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Whats my age again??????

Just wondering,
Does it bother you that the age brackets on A*ology get much larger as you get older?
Compare: 18-21, 22-25 with 36-45.
If I was 36 I'd be weirded out that I'm placed prematurely in the 40's bracket.
How do you feel about it?

- Asked by mstoronto2, A Thinker, Female, 22-25, Toronto

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This guy blocked me, so just to point out ...

If America broke up into two different nations, liberalism would die an ugly death. This is not an arguable point.

First of all, liberal America is ROUGHLY equivalent in terms of population. But liberal America is basically concentrated in the top four or five urban metropolitan areas. Look at a voting map and it's basically 90% "red" by size.

So "blue" America is in all of the major urban areas. And guess what? Those places are large areas of suckitude. No surprise. Places like New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia are awash in debt, the focuses of homelessness and poverty, murder capitals, and tax holes. Good luck with that.

Throw in the fact that liberals constitute areas like government and other unionized industries that are unaccustomed (and against, actually) competition and free market capitalism and it would be like watching the French fight. Liberals don't know how to live without people to tax, namely conservatives (i.e., people who work).

On the other hand, if liberals left, what would we have? Um ...let's see. A place where you could say a woman looks hot without getting sued. A place where people who do the crime do the time, unless we decide to shoot them in the head (that's called time off for good behavior). A place where people compete for jobs, instead of being "the best minority we could find for your quota."

I don't mind liberals saying they'll be "super smart." After all, they do that right now and basically look like retarded hippos. It would be even more hilarious for them to do that while they were sitting around in poverty, shivering in the cold, and sucking ass. I'm down with breaking up the U.S.

Update: November 19, 2009.
Don't forget, joybird, the "native liberals" that you're loving so much also were quite repressive towards their women, practiced slavery, believed in human sacrifice, and also were taken down by like two Spanish conquistadors and a handful of beads. Bravo, native liberals!

- POP'd by istillhatescreennames, A Mr. Nice Guy, Male, 66 or older

Should the U.S break into two different nations?

The Liberal Democratic northern blue states will join with Canada and become the 'United States of Liberty and Education'.

While the southern conservative, Republican, Bible-belt red states will form a new nation called 'Jesusland'.

Then everyone will be much happier.

- Asked by Male, 22-25

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Do foreign countries "respect strength"?

A lot of repubs, conservatives and others love to claim that the Obama administration displays weakness and that this encourages our enemies. They argue that "showing strength" is the way to achieve our foreign-policy goals. Where do they get this ludicrous idea? First of all the people who push this idea, and those who agree with it, are generally, lets face it, NOT the sort of people who know that much about foreign cultures to begin with! I mean I know I am stereotyping, but generally speaking the kind of person who loves to travel and explore the world and learn about other cultures, that person sounds more like your typical touchy-feely liberal than your average strong-on-defense hawkish repub/conservative.

Yet despite this, these right wing hawks keep telling us what other cultures believe! As if they know!

What other cultures respect is FAIRNESS. What they despise is ARROGANCE. Those people who hate us think we are too arrogant, they think we have one standard of behavior for us, and a different standard for them. By behaving in a way that repubs call "showing strength" we are behaving PRECISELY in the kind of way other cultures consider arrogant and hypocritical. For example we used to support civil rights and we opposed torture around the world and we would tell foreign countries that just because they are facing problems from terrorists they should still stick to the law - and then as soon as we face terrorism, we say torture is OK and civil rights are not important.

Other countries think that is hypocritical. But to repubs and conservatives, behaving in completely the opposite way we told those countries to behave before WE faced terrorism, is a sign of strength and countries will respect us for that? What are right wingers smoking?

Why are we even listening to repubs/conservatives when it comes to foreign policy issues? They have proved to be so consistently wrong they have forfeited ANY right to be taken seriously, IMHO.

Fire away...

Update: November 19, 2009.
Where are all the repub/conservative hawks? No responses from any of them?

- Asked by xerxes, An Intellectual Guy, Male, 36-45, Washington, DC, Lawyer

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WAR, good God...what it is good for? ABSOLUTELY NUTHIN', say it again!

What does war mean as far as the ol' Constitution goes. Y'all know about the ol' Constitution right?

Who in our government must act to place US in a condition of being at WAR with another COUNTRY?

Please vote now.

- Asked by llafsroh, An Intellectual Guy, Male, 36-45, Boston, Science / Engineering

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